Concerning the 2012 film “Crooked Arrows” and its use of natives and native culture, the film features an unexpected yet flawed representation of the natives role in the modern world and the noble savage archetype. The film achieves these representations through the use of music, shot selection, and editing. The film “Crooked Arrows” presents natives as a people that are more than able to survive and live in modern society, however it also chooses to embrace the noble savage archetype and the idea that natives are in tune with nature. The native lacrosse team featured in the film are presented in a way that is unexpected. During practice sequences and montages, the film chooses to use modern pop rock music. It chooses to not use music that would be considered by most audiences to be native, …show more content…
The team itself are presented as regular teens, meaning that they tell jokes, differ in personality and engage in horseplay. The film chooses not to embrace the idea that natives are stoic, humorless, or violent in nature. It instead decides to place them in the modern world and present them as equals to the modern teen of white society. Additionally, there is an edited sequence that showcases the use of social media by natives. The sequence itself represents the modern native as not an artifact of the past. In this sequence, the natives defy expectations that they are unable to comprehend modern technology. The use of technology in this sequence mirrors the use of cars by early natives to communicate and travel across large tracks of land, similarly the natives in the