L'éducation de Little Tree

Titre original : The Education of Little Tree

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Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy who loses his parents during The Great Depression and begins living with his Indian grandparents and learning the Cherokee way of life.

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James Cromwell (Babe) est présent dans cette adaptation du livre du même nom qui fait chaud au cœur qui raconte l'histoire d'un enfant cherokee de 8 ans qui vit dans les Smoky Mountains du T... Tout lireJames Cromwell (Babe) est présent dans cette adaptation du livre du même nom qui fait chaud au cœur qui raconte l'histoire d'un enfant cherokee de 8 ans qui vit dans les Smoky Mountains du Tennessee des années 30.James Cromwell (Babe) est présent dans cette adaptation du livre du même nom qui fait chaud au cœur qui raconte l'histoire d'un enfant cherokee de 8 ans qui vit dans les Smoky Mountains du Tennessee des années 30.

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Récompenses
- 4 victoires et 2 nominations au total

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Anecdotes
The book on which this movie was based was originally published in 1977 under the title and subtitle "The Education of Little Tree: A True Story," with the author's name given as "Forrest Carter." However, after the publication, it was revealed that the book was not really a true story, the author was not really Native American, and "Forrest Carter" was actually a pseudonym for Asa Earl Carter. Asa Carter was a Ku Klux Klansman and the alleged author of George Wallace's 1963 "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" speech. He is widely understood to have been the leader of a Klan lynch mob that nearly killed the Black musician Nat King Cole during a 1956 concert in Birmingham, Alabama. Even aside from the author's white supremacist past and his total falsification of any personal Native American heritage, his representation of Cherokee life, lore, and culture was also invented out of whole cloth. In a 2012 NPR interview, historian Dan T. Carter says that "the Cherokee words that [Asa Carter] used in the memoir weren't Cherokee - they were just made up." The fact that the author was a vicious racist and a known grifter had been revealed multiple times by various historians and journalists before this adaptation was in production.

Gaffes
The film takes place in the 1930s. At that time The Pledge of Allegiance did not include the words "Under God" . It wasn't until 1956 that those words were added to the Pledge of Allegiance.

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[first lines]
Older Little Tree: [narrating] It began at the Jericho Mine, Jericho City, Tennessee, in the year 1935, the day after Ma died. She'd lasted only a year after Pa was killed in the army. And that's how I came to live with Granma and Granpa when I was eight.
Older Little Tree: One time, Granma told me that when you come on something good, first thing to do is stare it with whosoever you can find. That way, the good spreads out, we're no telling how far it'll go. Which is right. So I'm telling the story of them days, and how Granma and Granpa got me away from Aunt Martha, and took me to live in their mountains, where they'd raised my pa before me, and which I know now was the secret heart of the world.

Connexions
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Postman/Mr. Magoo/Jackie Brown/An American Werewolf in Paris/Afterglow/The Education of Little Tree (1997)

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7/10

Fine acting in nice story

It is 1935 in the mining town of Jericho City, Tennessee. Little Tree (Joseph Ashton) lost his mother a year after his father died in the Army. His grandparents (James Cromwell, Tantoo Cardinal) take him away from his white trash Aunt Martha into their mountain home. They live an Indian life. He makes moonshine whiskey with his good friend Cherokee Willow John (Graham Greene). Little Tree befriends a little girl (Mika Boorem). They face discrimination from the powerful and racism from everybody. Eventually the authorities force Little Tree into a residential school where they rename him Joshua.

It is a little distressing to find out the authorship of the book. However I can't actually find any deliberate racism in the movie. It's a fine little movie but not that compelling. The little kid is fine. Cromwell is great as always. It's about their relationship and it's a nice little story about that.