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To play the ancient Jack Crabb, Dustin Hoffman wore a prosthetic mask that took five hours a day to apply. To achieve the rasping, aged voice, Hoffman reportedly spent hours screaming in his dressing room before filming to "trash" his vocal cords.

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

Unlike the faceless "savages" of previous decades, the film portrayed Native Americans as a complex society—what the Cheyenne call the "Human Beings". To play the ancient Jack Crabb, Dustin Hoffman

Chief Dan George, who played Old Lodge Skins, became the first Indigenous North American actor to receive an Academy Award nomination. The Technical Feat Unlike the faceless "savages" of

Released during the height of the Vietnam War, the film is widely viewed as a protest piece.