I saw this as a teenager. Now I'm 47 years old. It is a testimony to fine film making that I'd want to watch it again and that I'm researching how it had been filmed and by whom.
Some movies stick with you. In this case, the story is so strong, if simple, and the setting is so scenic and visually distinctive that images and fragments of storyline are still in my mind...more than 30 years later. It's weird how movies sometimes haunt us.
One of the best attributes here is that 'Eagle's Wing; was so unconventional. It basically stars a beautiful horse (which would have been both a practical animal and a status symbol in the Wild West), one of the main characters does not speak at all, and the quest portrayed here has little to do with "normal' Westerns that usually focus on bandits, gold, gunslingers and colorful characters on the frontier. To my eyes, it attempted to convey the clash of worldviews and cultures, before the southwestern deserts in the US would have been properly "colonized' and overrun by white people.
A British director made this, a fact often brought up by North Americans...it is a different vision, for sure, and the result is more of an art film than a straightforward morality tale. Sometimes, you have to be more distant to portray a historical subject in imaginative ways.
Some movies stick with you. In this case, the story is so strong, if simple, and the setting is so scenic and visually distinctive that images and fragments of storyline are still in my mind...more than 30 years later. It's weird how movies sometimes haunt us.
One of the best attributes here is that 'Eagle's Wing; was so unconventional. It basically stars a beautiful horse (which would have been both a practical animal and a status symbol in the Wild West), one of the main characters does not speak at all, and the quest portrayed here has little to do with "normal' Westerns that usually focus on bandits, gold, gunslingers and colorful characters on the frontier. To my eyes, it attempted to convey the clash of worldviews and cultures, before the southwestern deserts in the US would have been properly "colonized' and overrun by white people.
A British director made this, a fact often brought up by North Americans...it is a different vision, for sure, and the result is more of an art film than a straightforward morality tale. Sometimes, you have to be more distant to portray a historical subject in imaginative ways.