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119. Werowocomoco, December 1608


Thanks Nora & Amy for help with #118!

I stayed a while in the new colony of Jamestown. I have to say these colonists may be intrepid, but they were clearly unprepared for the challenges of their new life. If it wasn't for the help received from this man and his people, Jamestown would have ended up like Roanoke.

(The film version premiered on Christmas Day in 2005--I do have a time machine, ya know!)


| posted by John, 1:35 PM

7 Comments:

Hmm ... so this is a mini-series or a tv show ? May be Into the West Proabably not.

In any case, he looks like Graham Greene, the veteran American Indian actor.
Blogger DesiLinguist, at 2:21 PM  
No, it's a full-fledged movie. No doubt complete with historical inaccuracies I'll be happy to point out after it's released. :-P

This actor is a veteran--he's been in the business since I was born. Not Greene, though.
Blogger John, at 2:45 PM  
August Schellenberg plays Powhatan in the upcoming The New World, a story of Jamestown. Colin Farrell plays John Rolfe.
Blogger Jim, at 3:06 PM  
Jim's right!

Not to stay on a negative bent, but am I the only one tired of seeing pretty-boys Orlando Bloom and Colin Ferrell in all these historic movies?
Blogger John, at 3:35 PM  
I still cannot bring myself to understand what possessed Oliver Stone to cast Farrell in a part where he was clearly in over his head ? *grumble*
*grumble*
Blogger DesiLinguist, at 11:32 PM  
He needed someone to help draw a box office crowd....
Blogger A Girl From Texas, at 12:53 AM  
Hi GFT! I wondered where you'd gone off to.
Blogger John, at 7:19 AM  

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