Hello,

Hello, dear listeners of what welcome back to another episode of What Went Wrong,

your favorite podcast, Full Stop, that just so happens to be about movies,

and how it is nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one,

let alone a sweeping, sprawling 18th century set American romance that is, I would argue,

somewhat more nuanced, perhaps much more nuanced than its more, arguably more popular counterpart

from the early 1990s.

Oh, we're going to talk about that, too.

Yes, as always, I am Chris Winterbauer, joined by my Intrepid co-host, Lizzie Bassett.

Lizzie, what do you have for us this evening?

Well, Chris, we have the Last of the Mohicans, but we don't just have the Last of the Mohicans

because we're doing a double dose of Michael Mann this month. We're doing

mono-a-mono, if you will. This week we are covering the last of the Mohicans. Next week we

will be covering heat. So you're going to get a lot of Michael Mann. And I, for one, am happy about it.

I love Michael Mann. And I actually love this movie. It was interesting to rewatch it. But, Chris, I'm

curious to hear from you. Did you grow up with this movie? Had you seen it before? And what was it

like watching it again for this episode? I'd seen it. I did not grow up with it. Again, I'd seen it

at some point in high school, I think. It's a poster that I was very familiar with or a movie box

cover that I was very familiar with. D.DL running towards the camera. And he doesn't even look that much

like DDL in that particular photo. Like it could be a stunt double running towards the camera. It's a little blurry.

It is a little blurry. There are certain images

from the film, specifically the third act on the cliffs that, you know, remained with me for the

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