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May 11, 2011 · To set aside its many other accomplishments, "Meek's Cutoff" is the first film I've seen that evokes what must have been the reality of wagon trains to the West. They were grueling, dirty, thirsty, burning and freezing ordeals. Attacks by Indians were not the greatest danger; accidents and disease were. Over the years from watching movie Westerns, I've developed a composite image of wagon ...
Set in the 1840s, Kelly Reichardt’s film concerns a small party of families led by a hired guide named Stephen Meek (Bruce Greenwood), who has promised to take them on a time-saving “cutoff” to the end of the Oregon Trail. Low on water, surrounded by vast empty stretches of eastern Oregon desert and terrified of Indian attack, the party ...
Meek’s Cutoff Ending Explained: Unraveling the Mystery of the Frontier. Released in 2010, “Meek’s Cutoff” is a thought-provoking Western film directed by Kelly Reichardt. Set in the year 1845, during the early days of the Oregon Trail, the movie explores the challenges faced by a group of pioneers as they navigate the treacherous ...
Meek's Cutoff is a 2010 American Western film directed by Kelly Reichardt.The film was shown in competition at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. The story is loosely based on a historical incident on the Oregon Trail in 1845, in which frontier guide Stephen Meek led a wagon train on an ill-fated journey through the Oregon desert along the route later known as the Meek Cutoff in the ...
Apr 19, 2011 · In the script Parr translated, one of the Cayuse’s early lines reads: “I know you, Boston. You’ve skinned all the beaver. You’ll be skinned one day! You’ll be skinned forever!” (It’s ...
Apr 7, 2011 · April 7, 2011. The first thing you see in “Meek’s Cutoff,” after a hand-scrawled title card placing the action in the Oregon Territory in 1845, is a small group of settlers fording a river ...
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For Meek's Cutoff is not about these people's lives or deaths; not even about their suffering. It's about the brutal contrast between nature and the human; the main character of the film is neither Emily nor Meek, but the Oregon desert, a plane of scrub and dried mudflats. Reichardt and cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt (shooting his first ...
