edwagreen Dame Judith Anderson must have been a Cow Head or in her dotage to accept such a parent in such a pathetic movie.I don't want to hear that the Richard Harris character eventually accepts humility after he is captured by a ferocious Indian tribe and subjected to all kinds of torture.In the meantime, his two aides were killed by the tribe and that is quickly conveniently forgotten.Anderson adopts to some sort of Indian dialect in this farce. She is as brutal as they come in her treatment of the captured Harris at the beginning of his captivity.This was nothing more than a liberal propaganda like film teaching to love your enemies.

Luke Marshall In the movie a man called horse, the contents of it dictated what made it being a rated R movie when it was released in 1970. This is debatable if it was released today, because of the overall lack of "believable" violence because it's special effects are not very graphic by today's standards. A example of this is during the sun vow scene, as the main actor is being strung up by eagle talons in his upper chest. If you looked closely enough you could see that his skin around where it should be punctured, is stretching to a point where if it were real flesh would rip clean off. That & there was no blood coming out from his wounds. Granted while this was easily cringe worthy. It would not be as bad as other current movie scenes where which there are more effects available to make the pain believable. Overall the depictions in the movie that are gruesome are still not considerable to be adult even if they had today's movie magic. So if this movie was released today I believe it would not be R rated because the current generations numbness to gore & the movies lack of true intent to make the audience feel for the characters.

dominiquewhite In the movie A Man Called Horse the special effects in the story were lame. They looked unreal and I guess they wasn't really planned out. When the Horse cut himself below his chest the blood didn't really bleed out like an actual cut should. The cut didn't really look like a cut, it looked like a line drawn with a sharpie. Then it looked like it disappeared. Also when he got hung by his chest muscles as an actor he didn't really show pain, like it was barely any emotion. The part where the horse got hung by his chest muscles I thought it was really funny. The whole scene was funny like the people and the music and what they had on. The music got intense during the part when he was getting pulled up and it made me laugh. The way he was making his face during it made me smile.

siggy_4844 I have not seen this movie since it first came out in the 70s and just caught it again on TV yesterday (with the first sequel right after it). After all these years it still holds up well. Many have compared Dances with Wolves to this movie for good reason, even Richard Harris himself accused Kevin Costner of blatantly using scenes from it for his lengthy blockbuster epic. I dare say that the depiction of the Sioux way of life was even more realistic in A Man Called Horse than it is in the more romanticized Dances With Wolves. While some of the earlier westerns using so called "hollywood indians" have no doubt great entertainment value I do welcome movies that don't portray the native Americans as barbaric savages. Using native American actors speaking their native tongue instead of painted white actors wearing oh so obvious wigs and speaking in a made-up language was not common back then and A Man Called Horse was one of the earliest movies to do so, way ahead of it's time. The cinematography of the wide open prairie was breathtaking and the scenes portraying the suspension in the sun vow ritual were extremely realistic, making me wonder if Richard Harris actually did have his skin pierced. Interesting that so many young people are now trying suspension as a means of getting an adrenaline rush, although in a more modern setting using surgical steel hooks, the principal is still the same.