The Native Americans Plight

The Native Americans who stood on long held land, were once asked to leave.

The Native Americans, aghast at the Europeans request politely refused.

It was their right to refuse.

However their greatest mistake was to trust the Europeans word.

In order to take from the Native Americans they had to rationalize their request.

The Native Americans of course do not really need their land and besides we can convert them to.

So the forced removal began with the Native Americans fighting to hold onto their homes.

It was for naught, the Europeans could easily destroy the Native Americans with unseen weapons.

Disease, an invisible force that cannot be fought decimated the Native American tribes.

The Europeans in all their false righteousness eventually won out.

The European Monopoly

Europeans seems to have established a monopoly on the principal roles in American superhero films.

In recent years, the most popular superhero movie characters are primarily European, often of the British persuasion.

Batman Begins (2005) starred 5 prominent European actors.

Christian Bale took the title role with Sir Michael Caine and Gary Oldman as his allies. Liam Neeson and Cillian Murphy portrayed the main antagonists Henri Ducard/Ra’s al Ghul and Dr. Jonathan Crane/the Scarecrow.

Bale, Oldman, Neeson and Murphy spoke with American accents in the film, disguising their English and Irish accents respectively.

Bale, Caine, Murphy, and Oldman reprised their roles in The Dark Knight (2008).Read More »