![]() Younger Bear: I'm an important person now. Always Someone Better: Done completely by accident to Younger Bear through parts of the movie, including Jack saving Young Bear's life.Hoffman and the two younger actors who play the character are neither of those things. Adaptation Dye-Job: Jack Crabb is a redhead and freckled in Berger's novel.Action Survivor: Jack's primary motivation is always personal survival in part because he's caught between two cultures and torn between his loyalties to both sides but mostly because he doesn't particularly want to kill anybody, which is why he also failed as a would-be gunfighter.But there's more to his life story than that: life as an adopted Cheyenne, a Snake Oil Salesman, an amateur gunslinger, and an attempt to go straight before he gets embroiled in the mad dreams of a general named George Armstrong Custer. ![]() It's in some ways a parody of the Western genre, in some ways a Deconstruction.ĭustin Hoffman stars as Jack Crabb, a 121-year-old survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The screenplay is by Calder Willingham, adapted from the 1964 novel of the same name by Thomas Berger. Little Big Man is a 1970 film directed by Arthur Penn.
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