The harrowing depiction of the U.S. Army attacking Native villages was a direct cinematic parallel to the real-world My Lai Massacre .
The movie is based on the 1964 novel by Thomas Berger , a satirical picaresque that helped establish the "Revisionist Western" genre in literature. Little Big Man
Released during the height of the Vietnam War, the film is widely viewed as a protest piece. The harrowing depiction of the U
Rather than a martyr, General Custer is portrayed as a vainglorious, "raving lunatic," a shocking reversal of the historical narrative at the time. The Technical Feat Little Big Man