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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 1361817" data-attributes="member: 505">But, aren't they all holy men in movies?  I'm just pointing out the fact that most Native Americans that show up in film tend to be like Mani, even movies set in modern times.  If you see a Native American on screen, chances are he's going to be say something about visions or spirit animals.  The one in this film happened to be named "Mani".All I know is that I've never held a conversation with a tree.  Perhaps that's because I'm only part Native American.  Maybe if I wasn't, white wolves would come down from the mountains and reveal the secrets of the universe to me.  As it stands, the closest I've gotten to that are the deer and occasional bear which run through my yard.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> IIRC, Ebert described the movie as is a genre factory exploded; there are bits and pieces of all sorts of different films mixed in here.  He actually enjoyed it, I didn't.  It's okay to combine genres, but, to me, BotW was like a bad Hong Kong film; lots of things were tossed in together because they were "cool" (kung-fu Xena French villagers), but done poorly.</blockquote>