| Wes Studi aka Magua |
| WS: Wes Studi MP: Mohican Press |
| note: Mohican Press has given me premission to use this interview. It is from MohicanPress.com |
| WS: Okay, what happened is I kill a guy..look over and there's this baby..I think of my daughter..I have a daughter about the same age..I think of my daughter and I look up and at first it's "here's another enemy." Then I see that it's only a child, and a female child at that. So I think, "well maybe I should take it and raise it."..in terms what Magua was thinking. The it looks at my frightened and jumps and it comes back to me that " oh, this os one of those people. One of those people and I don't understand how they think anyways. It's just as well." And he walks off. MP: That was a great scene, why do you think Alice jumps off the cliff? WS: I think she was terrified. MP: The reason we ask this is that there has been a lot of discussion regarding Alice's motives. Some say it was fear, some that it was defiance, string act, weak act. WS: I don't think she had the time to look down and see that her lover had.. he was supposed to be her lover. In cutting, i don't know if that came through. She was supposed to have been in love with Uncas... Whether it was jump to join her dead lover, as in a Romeo & Juliet kind of thing or out of fright in vain. I think it would have been the latter. It WOULD have been that latter. That's my understanding of it. |
| Why he thinks Magua thinks Alice.... (if you haven't seen LOTM, this will tell you the end) |
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