War Party
Set in the contemporary West, it addresses racial tensions as a group of young Blackfoot Indians clash with belligerent whites in the Montana foothills, sparked by a historic battle re-enactment that turns horrifyingly real. Mr. Wirth, whose mother is part Indian, campaigned to be cast in the role- in part because it elevated American Indians above cliché."I liked the action, but I also liked the way it portrayed Indians, showing them as people with emotions and real feelings, "the actor says." You know, the kind of life that they have, rather than (seeing) a lot of running around in war paint."
The movie has its share of that, too, but it's presented as ironic and it's balanced by a racial message. "Unless different people come to understand each other," Mr. Wirth says, "the inevitable result is a bad scene." We've got to understand that we're all the same. We've got to lean to work together."
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