‘The Searchers’ presented American culture as being entirely hypocritical and evil? Was John Wayne aware of this?
‘Dances With Wolves’ is a load of leftwing propaganda in beautiful packaging. Oliver Stone would blush at the one-sidedness of it. All whites are evil, Western Civilization is evil, Christianity is empty and evil, etc ... We should all live a pastoral and communal life. The noble savage goes back to the 18th century, Hollywood leftism does not.
Heart of Darkness does not present the natives as paragons of virtue, civilization and morality, while presenting all whites and their culture as inherently evil. It might actually tilt the other direction. I’m sorry that Little Big Man has these leftwing themes, but it’s still a good movie.
Ronald Reagan liked ‘Dances with Wolves’. Was he unaware of those themes? The Searchers depicts a racist white guy (played by Wayne) who learns that Indians are as awful as he thinks they are. That DWW simplifies and whitewashes Indian culture is beyond a doubt - that it regards Western Civilization as evil is quite an overstatement. And yes, HOD has taken flack from certain quarters as being anti-Western. I don’t buy it either.