In this special bonus episode of THE LAST (12 minutes) OF THE MOHICANS, Matt Prigge and I discuss dwelling on the details and nuances of Wes Studi’s incredible performance as Magua.

ABOUT MATT PRIGGE:

Film writer and academic. Nights and weekends editor at Uproxx. Former editor at Metro US. Bylines at Village Voice, The Guardian, Filmmaker Magazine, AM New York, NBC.com and Philadelphia Weekly. Adjunct professor at NYU.

TWITTER: @mattprigge

OUTLETS: Village Voice (RIP), Vulture, Uproxx, Guardian, Filmmaker, Metro, AMNY, Philadelphia Weekly (RIP).

WEBSITE: prigge.tumblr.com

About the show:

THE LAST (12 minutes) OF THE MOHICANS is a twelve-episode limited podcast series focusing on the climax of the Michael Mann’s 1992 epic The Last of the Mohicans. The format of the podcast, which slightly differs from ONE HEAT MINUTE, utilises the entire final twelve-minute climax of Mohicans as a portal to explore the themes of the movie, the cross-section of political apparatuses, colonial superpower wrangling, and Mr Mann’s riff on the “great American hero.” With an Academy Award-winning score from Randy Edelman and Trevor Jones, iconic performances, stunning cinematography from Dante Spinotti, a relentlessly paced script from Mann and co-writer Christopher Crowe and masterful orchestration from Mann; the film’s extended finale - triggered by the delivery of tribal justice until the credits roll - is arguably one of the greatest endings to almost any movie ever.

About the movie:

The Last of the Mohicansis adapted (and significantly altered from) James Fenimore Cooper novel, set in 1757, Mohicans follows three trappers who are inadvertently drawn into the French and Indian War when they rescue the daughters of British Colonel and their British Captain escort from an ambush. It stars Academy Award Winner Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Academy Award Winner* Wes Studi, Russell Means, Eric Schweig, Jodhi May and Steven Waddington.