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Rosamund Pike and Xavier Horsechief as Little Bear in Hostiles (2017). Xavi's only other acting credit is a 2018 short.

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'HOSTILES' (2017). Otra gran película del Oeste. Ésta la vi anoche. Gran interpretación de los actores Nativos Americanos que trabajan en la película: - Wes Studi, actor Cherokee. Magistral en el papel del Jefe de Guerra Cheyenne 'Halcón Amarillo'. - Adam Beach, actor Anishinaabe. Hace el papel de 'Halcón Negro', hijo del Jefe Cheyenne 'Halcón Amarillo'. - Tanaya Beatty, cuya madre es descendiente de la Nación Awaetlatla y su padre descendiente Himalaya. En la película interpreta el papel de 'Mujer Viviente', hermana de Halcón Negro'. - Xavier Horsechief, jovencísimo actor Navajo. Maravillosa realización del papel de 'Pequeño Oso', hijo de 'Halcón Negro' y 'Mujer Ciervo'. - Q'orianka Kilcher.- Su padre es de origen Quechua – Huachipaeri de Perú, mientras que su madre, Saskia Kilcher, es de origen suizo-alemán. En la película interpreta magníficamente el papel de 'Mujer Ciervo', esposa de 'Halcón Negro'. Yo creo que debemos reconocer la importancia de los actores Nativos Americanos en el mundo del cine, porque además de ser auténticos, saben lo que hacen y cómo deben hacerlo. Mejor que ellos, NO hay nadie que pueda conocer su historia y su cultura. Por supuesto que el resto de los actores y actrices también trabajan muy bien en la película y NO es de extrañar que recibiera críticas generalmente positivas en su momento. Es un Western, sí, pero con una historia de categoría detrás. Es preferible ver esta obra maestra antes de que alguien te pueda contar algo. A veces las palabras sobran o se quedan cortas ante tan gran maravilla. (Miguel Marín “El Chorla”).

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‘Hostiles’: Christian Bale And Rosamund Pike Can’t Save Overstuffed And Problematic Western [Telluride]

TELLURIDE – Where do we even start with Scott Cooper’s “Hostiles”? Well, let’s get the specifics out of the way first.

The independently financed western, which premiered at the 44th Telluride Film Festival, is set in 1892 toward the end of the American government’s systematic decimation of the Native American people. “Hostiles” follows Joseph Blocker (Christian Bale), a retiring Army captain who is ordered to accompany, along with a number of other soldiers under his command, a dying Cheyenne chief (Wes Studi) and his family (Adam Beach, Q’orianka Kilcher and Xavier Horsechief) from New Mexico to Montana.

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Hostiles

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FILM REVIEW Today I am reviewing the film, Hostiles. An Adventure, Drama, Western starring Christian Bale, Scott Shepherd, Rosamund Pike, Rory Cochrane, Jonathan Majors, John Benjamin Hickey, Stafford Douglas, Stephen Lang, Bill Camp, Wes Studi, Jesse Plemons, Timothée Chalamet, Adam Beach, Xavier Horsechief, Q’orianka Kilcher, Tanaya Beatty, Peter Mullan, Austin Rising, Robyn Malcolm, Ryan…

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Peter Travers: 'Hostiles' Revitalizes the Brutal, Graceful Western

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Peter Travers: 'Hostiles' Revitalizes the Brutal, Graceful Western

The continuously astounding Christian Bale is one of our best film actors, and he’s at his peak in Hostiles, a powderkeg of a western, written and directed in a soulful fever by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Out of the Furnace, Black Mass). Working from an unpublished manuscript by the late Donald Stewart, the filmmaker echoes The Searchers – John Ford’s 1956 classic starring John Wayne as a vengeful cowboy – in tackling the way racism and violence seem to be hardwired into the American character.

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Bale plays Captain Joseph Blocker, whose life up till now in the Arizona territory of 1892 has been occupied with the systematic slaughter of Native Americans. This tortured man wears his racial hatred like a badge of honor, having witnessed friends and soldiers massacred by so-called savages. Now with the Indian wars waning and himself on the verge of retirement, Blocker is knocked sideways by the news that President Benjamin Harrison has issued a last command: escort his hated enemy Yellow Hawk (the excellent Wes Studi), a terminally ill Cheyenne chief, to his home in Montana. There, he can die in peace surrounded by family members, played by Q’orianka Kilcher, Adam Beach, Xavier Horsechief and Tanaya Beatty. 

Blocker is a voracious reader (Julius Caesar is a favorite), but he’s not a man of words. So he doesn’t shout, “That’ll be the day” when he gets his orders to start on the 1500-mile trek. But you can read the simmering resentment in the captian’s steely gaze and tightly-set jaw. (Bale can say more with one look than another actor can do with a dozen pages of dialogue.) Despite his rancor, this loyal soldier leads his men, played by Jesse Plemons, Jonathan Majors, Timothée Chalamet and Rory Cochrane, on a mission to deliver the chief as promised, safely and without incident.

That’s not the way things work out. Along the way, their party picks up a straggler. She’s Rosalie Quaid (Rosamund Pike), a white settler who has watched her husband and children butchered by attacking Apaches – a scene which Cooper stages with unflinching brutality. Crazed with grief, she can barely acknowledge her tragedy, holding her dead baby in her arms as if her determination alone could bring the infant back to life. The sight of the calvary’s Indian prisoners drive her to thoughts of retaliation, and then of suicide. Both Rosalie and Blocker form a bond that opens their eyes to the qualities they have in common with a people they once found it easier to demonize. 

Cooper takes his time (133 minutes) to allow the bruises on both sides to the racial divide to heal instead of fester. After a Comanche attack, it’s Yellow Hawk who tells Blocker to unshackle his people so they can unite in battle, “one for one.” There is no sermonizing. Cooper lets us read his story on the faces of his characters. His trust pays off, even when a wild card enters the scene in the person of Philip Wills (a stellar Ben Foster) as a criminal the men need to escort to justice.

Hostiles is crowded with casualties and a hatred that dies hard. But Cooper lets in a glimmer of hope. In the midst of unbridled ugliness, the beauty of the landscape – shot with a poet’s eye by the gifted Masanobu Takayanagi – suggests a path ahead. Cooper sometimes lets solemnity drag down his film’s narrative drive and the Native characters are developed less fully than their white counterparts, a common failing in the western genre. But Bale, in a piercing, quietly devastating performance, holds the film’s center with commanding authority. It’s a film whose brute force tempered with contemplative grace. It’s a potent and prodigious achievement. 

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