Think how many movies and entertainment devices could be produced, through highlighting these characteristics. Indians in the Movies Little Big Man, originally a novel by Thomas Berger, screen played by Arthur Penn, is a historical novel and film, dramatizing the conflict between savagery and civilization which was enacted on the American Plains. Jack Crabb is a man who sees himself split between loyalties to both the Indian and the white world. The main contrast in the film is the measure of time. Indians measure time in terms of the cycle of nature and believes that change is as much an appearance as a reality.
White man believe in history and linear events to measure progress.
In the movie Penn cast Indian actors to play the roles of the Cheyenne. When Jack first stays with the Indians, Penn brings the conventional Hollywood Indian stereotype to the film. In a quick secession Jack is shown shooting a bow an arrow, stalking a buffalo, and learning how to follow a trail. These skills are distinct characteristics of Indian life, not only for the skill level in which they hunt or follow a trail, but the reasons behind the actions. This section of the movie draws little or no differences between the two cultures.