the last of the mohicans

PRATIQUE DE LA LANGUE
Assignment #1
Movie: The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper, 1826.
Novel: The Last of the Mohicans by Michael Mann, 1992.
Main Characters, actors portraying the characters and family connections:
 Daniel Day-Lewis as Hawkeye: The hero of the story, he is the adoptive son of Chingachgook, a frontiersman, falls in love with Cora.
 Wes Studi as Magua: The villain of the story, a Huron, he wants to avenge the wrong done to him by the Englishmen.
 Steven Waddington as Major Duncan Heyward:
 Eric Schweig as Uncas:
 Russell Means as Chingachgook:
 David Gamut not in the fim
 Madeleine Stowe as Cora Munro:
 Jodhi May as Alice Munro:
 Maurice Roëves as Colonel Edmund Munro:
 Patrice Chéreau as General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm :
 Mike Phillips as Sachem: a paramount chief among the Indians
 Mac Andrews as General Daniel Webb:
Although Cooper was a popular American writer whose books are still dissected in schools and university courses, his prose is very difficult to read due to elaborate descriptions and slow action. Mark Twain tackles these issues (and many more) in his famous essay, Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses, in which he claims that “Cooper has scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115.”
• Daniel Day-Lewis as Hawkeye/Nathaniel Poe
• Madeleine Stowe as Cora Munro
• Russell Means as Chingachgook
• Eric Schweig as Uncas
• Jodhi May as Alice Munro
• Steven Waddington as Maj. Duncan Heyward
• Wes Studi as Magua
• Maurice Roëves as Col. Edmund Munro
• Patrice Chéreau as Gen. Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
• Edward Blatchford as Jack Winthrop
• Tracey Ellis as Alexandra Cameron
• Terry Kinney as John Cameron
• Sebastian Roché as Martin
• Justin M. Rice as James Cameron
• Dennis Banks as Ongewasgone
• Pete Postlethwaite as Capt. Beams
• Colm Meaney as Maj. Ambrose
• Mac Andrews as Gen. Daniel Webb
• Benton Jennings as Scottish Officer
• Jared Harris as British Lieutenant