LITTLE BIG MAN

What a life!!! Jack Crabb's parents were killed by the Pawnee Indians. He himself and his sister were saved by the Cheyenne tribe. Jack, as the white boy was raised among indians at the age of 10. The chief of "human beings" Old Lodge Skins who he calls "grandfather" adopted him. He learned to speak the language and hunt like any other boys.

The movie is pretty much about indians whom were disturbed and killed by the whites and of course the white being raised by the Indians. This may perhaps explains why there were less and less Indians? Later, Jack saved Younger Bear's life and was then named Little Big Man by his grandfather. Little Big Man was re-adopted and moved to the city. He learned how to read and write or even sing! He then followed another man and worked for him. There's been ups and downs for him which he later got caught by his long lost sister! He then went away and became a gunfighter - know as "Soda Pop Kid" but he didn't really have the guts to shoot people.

He got married with a Swedish girl named Olga who spoke weird English. He opened business with his partner but didn't go well. He got caught by his partner's action and was advised to move to the "WEST" by General Custer. Yes again he was ribbed off by the Indians and they took his wife. He searched everywhere to get his wife back but it was an impossibility.

Now that he was working for the General and pretended to be whatever General Custer said. He had to survive. Somehow he saw Sunshine who was trying to give birth in the woods and escape from General Custer's people (including him at that time) Her father and husband were killed by the whites so he decided to take her as his wife. He met his grandfather who was now blind. I remember he asked his grandfather and that he felt very sad for him. It turned out that his grandfather answered "My eyes still see but my heart no longer receives" That's a very good line! On top of that he even mentioned that he dreamed of Little Big Man having 3-4 wives. Little Big Man laughed at first and later found out that 3 sisters of Sunshine were left widows and he was asked to take them. This is when he started to believe in old man's dreams and predictions. He even found that Olga has become Younger Bear's wife but it was no use for him to tell her who he was.

Later the Indians were given lands to stay by the US government which I thought this was a good sign at first. Then came the problems. General Custer and his followers were killing the other Indians and later to Little Big Man's tribe. He told his wives to stay in the teepee and he was trying to protect his grandfather but his grandfather said that "It is a good day to die, my son" which gives the feeling of being proud oneself as a "human being" - I like that! Both of them were walking in between the whites killing indians surprisingly without being noticed or harmed. The grandfather is going up the mountain to die! Unfortunately, it wasn't time to die! Now that he was back to take his wife away but he bitterly was watching her being killed with the babies.

He turned to crazy man and went back to town.... becoming a drunk man and meeting old people he met before including Mrs. Pendrake who re-adopted him when he was a young boy. From then his life was nothing much interesting except for the past who was trying to survive all he could.

As in this movie... I see and learn many things from it especially the Indians. Their ways of life, how they make their livings and that they fight to show their courage! The whites would do anything in their power to take over the land from the Indians. Many Indians were killed back then. I think that was why "Little Big Man" hated the "whites" so much. His grandfather said that the Indians see and believe that everything is alive... water, animals, trees, etc. but the whites don't think that way - they think that everything is dead except for themselves.

I also see selfishness in Little Big Man who was trying to survive when he was about to be killed by another white man. "God bless America!" he cried out loud to show that he wasn't an Indian. I think he totally forgot about himself being raised by Indians just to survive - at that moment. Well.. his grandfather wouldn't do that. He took good pride of who he was and not afraid to die on his own land. "It is a good day to die!"