Post by Totems4jt on Jul 4, 2008 16:55:41 GMT -5
Hey All,
I haven't seen Pathfinder yet, but from the looks of the comments posted here -- those who have seen it have enjoyed it. Anyways, I found a couple of reviews where Jay is mentioned as playing the role of Blackwing. Even a positive "mention" is a good thing, right? Wink
Although "Pathfinder" is not 100% factual, it is loosely based on some actual historical discoveres and I like that these reviews acknowledge that.
In Wikipedia it says that it is probable that the natives described by the Norsemen as skraelings were Beothuk inhabitants of Labrador and Newfoundland. The first conflicts between Europeans and native peoples may have occurred around 1006 at L'Anse aux Meadows when parties of Norsemen attempted to establish permanent settlements along the coast of Newfoundland. According to Norse sagas, the native skraelings responded so ferociously that the newcomers eventually withdrew and apparently gave up their original intentions to settle.
ign.com says:
Ghost is like Tarzan, a relatively non-verbal physical force at one in the wild. His love interest, Starfire (Moon Bloodgood, who has an even cooler name than her character), is tough yet tender. Nathaniel Arcand's Wind in Tree is the village idiot who pals around with Ghost, while Jay Tavare's Blackwing is the jock vying for Starfire's affections. Indian activist-turned-actor Russell Means seems to be replaying his role as Chingachgook in The Last of the Mohicans, bringing gravitas to the title role of the Pathfinder, a wise old sage in search of a successor.
For all its flaws, Pathfinder is a unique little action film. If one can table whatever reservations they have about the film's historical claims -- although the Vikings clearly did visit North America long before Columbus (there are ruins to prove it) -- and enjoy Pathfinder as a gritty survival-revenge yarn then they should have a fun time.
metromix.com says:
In the midst of its nearly non-stop carnage, uninterrupted by ordinary life or common sense, we see the tormented figure of Ghost, a blue-eyed Nordic orphan, adopted by the Native American Wampanoag tribe. Aware of his Viking relatives' propensity for butchery, he leaps in to protect the wise old shaman Pathfinder (played by the famed Sioux activist Russell Means) and Pathfinder's beauteous, two-fisted daughter Starfire (Moon Bloodgood) from these sadistic invaders, supplanting the would-be Wampanoag hero Blackwing (Jay Tavare).
Keep 'em comin Jay, CONGRATS and the best to you always. I'm sure I'll have more to say after I have seen the magnificent film presence of Mr. Tavare in "Pathfinder". Smile
Peace,
~Singlemom~
I haven't seen Pathfinder yet, but from the looks of the comments posted here -- those who have seen it have enjoyed it. Anyways, I found a couple of reviews where Jay is mentioned as playing the role of Blackwing. Even a positive "mention" is a good thing, right? Wink
Although "Pathfinder" is not 100% factual, it is loosely based on some actual historical discoveres and I like that these reviews acknowledge that.
In Wikipedia it says that it is probable that the natives described by the Norsemen as skraelings were Beothuk inhabitants of Labrador and Newfoundland. The first conflicts between Europeans and native peoples may have occurred around 1006 at L'Anse aux Meadows when parties of Norsemen attempted to establish permanent settlements along the coast of Newfoundland. According to Norse sagas, the native skraelings responded so ferociously that the newcomers eventually withdrew and apparently gave up their original intentions to settle.
ign.com says:
Ghost is like Tarzan, a relatively non-verbal physical force at one in the wild. His love interest, Starfire (Moon Bloodgood, who has an even cooler name than her character), is tough yet tender. Nathaniel Arcand's Wind in Tree is the village idiot who pals around with Ghost, while Jay Tavare's Blackwing is the jock vying for Starfire's affections. Indian activist-turned-actor Russell Means seems to be replaying his role as Chingachgook in The Last of the Mohicans, bringing gravitas to the title role of the Pathfinder, a wise old sage in search of a successor.
For all its flaws, Pathfinder is a unique little action film. If one can table whatever reservations they have about the film's historical claims -- although the Vikings clearly did visit North America long before Columbus (there are ruins to prove it) -- and enjoy Pathfinder as a gritty survival-revenge yarn then they should have a fun time.
metromix.com says:
In the midst of its nearly non-stop carnage, uninterrupted by ordinary life or common sense, we see the tormented figure of Ghost, a blue-eyed Nordic orphan, adopted by the Native American Wampanoag tribe. Aware of his Viking relatives' propensity for butchery, he leaps in to protect the wise old shaman Pathfinder (played by the famed Sioux activist Russell Means) and Pathfinder's beauteous, two-fisted daughter Starfire (Moon Bloodgood) from these sadistic invaders, supplanting the would-be Wampanoag hero Blackwing (Jay Tavare).
Keep 'em comin Jay, CONGRATS and the best to you always. I'm sure I'll have more to say after I have seen the magnificent film presence of Mr. Tavare in "Pathfinder". Smile
Peace,
~Singlemom~