# Little Big Man **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 31, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-big-man/151796 "2003-01-31T03:34:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-big-man/151796/1 "2003-01-31T03:34:50Z")
_Little Big Man_ will _finally_ be released on DVD on April 29th. I’ve got my pre-order in. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cholo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Cholo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cholo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-big-man/151796/2 "2003-01-31T04:09:29Z")
Cool! Great movie. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-big-man/151796/3 "2003-01-31T05:15:17Z")
If you haven’t read the book, check it out too. I’m a big fan of both versions. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-big-man/151796/4 "2003-01-31T05:32:07Z")
“Snake eyes…” ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-big-man/151796/5 "2003-01-31T05:48:13Z")
**"Your name’s not LulaBelle, you’re Louise Pendrake!"** ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-big-man/151796/6 "2003-01-31T07:15:42Z")
I hope for good extras. I love that movie. Today is a good day to die. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-big-man/151796/7 "2003-01-31T07:27:52Z")
(not really!) ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-big-man/151796/8 "2003-01-31T08:59:38Z")
**Louise Pendrake: "Well, Jack. Now you know. This is a house of ill fame. And I’m a fallen flower. This life is not only wicked and sinful, it isn’t even any fun."** **Old Lodge Skins: "I’ve never been invisible before!"** **Allardyce T. Merriwhether: "Licked?! I’m not licked. I’m tarred and feathered, that’s all."** I LOVE THIS MOVIE! Thanks for the great news! ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-big-man/151796/9 "2003-01-31T11:14:45Z")
“Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn’t.” “That was the end of my religion period.” “We can’t have a man like you in the White House!” Book and movie are both personal favorites of mine. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-big-man/151796/10 "2003-01-31T12:41:34Z")
This is wonderful news. Have introduced both book and movie to my kids, can’t wait to get the DVD. I remember this film as one of (if not _the_) first movies I saw in which Native Americans are indeed portrayed as ‘human beings.’ ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-big-man/151796/11 "2003-01-31T13:03:52Z")
“God bless George Washington, now what kind of fool Injun would say ‘God Bless George Washington?’” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-big-man/151796/12 "2003-01-31T13:40:07Z")
“That was the best bath I ever had.” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-big-man/151796/13 "2003-01-31T14:03:56Z")
“I have a wife and four horses!” “I have a horse and four wives.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-big-man/151796/14 "2003-01-31T15:39:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > \*\*“That was the best bath I ever had.” \*\* “Ain’t that boy clean yet?” I haven’t read the sequel, but I’ve heard it’s just as good. When I was little, one of my favorite toys was a General Custer action figure (Best of the West toy series- if you’re under 35 you won’t remember them). LITTLE BIG MAN was what first made him stop being my hero… then the miniseries Centennial sort of cemented the “soldiers weren’t necessarily the good guys…” notion. The other big memory: the really affected “Aw gross! Jeez!” lines of the guys in my 6th grade class at the “would you like to come into my tipi and sleep on soft furs?” line from LittleDog. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-big-man/151796/15 "2003-01-31T16:19:01Z")
> [@](#): > > The other big memory: the really affected “Aw gross! Jeez!” lines of the guys in my 6th grade class at the “would you like to come into my tipi and sleep on soft furs?” line from LittleDog. Yeah, you know 6th grade is about the time boys start getting the poison. “Poison. From the _goo_nads.” ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-big-man/151796/16 "2003-01-31T16:55:43Z")
**"Every business has a particle of risk."** _- Allardyce T. Meriweather_ ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-big-man/151796/17 "2003-02-02T05:59:23Z")
The movie was just far too long. And I suppose it was/ is favourable to make Custer look like a moron. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-big-man/151796/18 "2003-02-02T06:19:27Z")
I didn’t think he looked like a moron so much as he looked like a megalomaniac, which he was. One of the coldest lines in movie history: “Your miserable life is not worth the reversal of a Custer decision.” A less cold line: “Olga never did learn much English, but she had sure as hell picked up Cheyenne.”