The Taking Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Amy Renner

May. 4, 2023

The Taking

Release Date: Friday, May 5, 2023 Limited

Robert M. Bednar, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Liza Black, Sir Christopher Frayling, John Bucher

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Plot

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This illuminating documentary uses film scenes to tell of the cultural appropriation of a world-famous landscape. Monument Valley is one of the most recognizable landscapes in the world. Its iconographic use in Westerns has had a lasting influence on stock photography, advertising, and tourism. The valley has been given mythical significance as an image of a “primitive West” firmly in the hands of white people and meant to be protected from intruders. The fact that Monument Valley is traditional Navajo territory has been obscured in the process. A radical examination of Monument Valley’s representation in cinema and advertising since John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939), The Taking scrutinizes how a site located on sovereign Navajo land came to embody the fantasy of the “Old West,” replete with self-perpetuating falsehoods, and why it continues to hold mythic significance in the global psyche.

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Studio: Dekanalog
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MPA Rating: N/A Not available
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Language: English

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Release Dates

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The Taking was released in limited movie theaters on Friday, May 5, 2023. There were 10 other movies released on the same date, including Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Love Again and Land of Gold. As a limited release, The Taking was shown in select movie theaters in major markets.

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