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An All American Classic!
This movie has everything (wait a minute, of course it does. it won 7 acadamy awards...)you could ever want in a film. Comedy, history, romance, tragedy, EVERYTHING!!! The story is all about John Dunbar, who enlists in the Union in the Civil War, and is stationed out in the middle of nowhere in one of the plain states (I'm not sure which one). He mets a gentle wolf, and he mets an even gentler Sioux tribe who soon befriend him. He falls in love with an English woman who belongs to the tribe because when she was little, A Pawnee tribe killed the rest of her family. The Sioux somewhat addopted her, & she learned to speak the language. They soon fall in love and get married. But all kinds of tragedies befall the tribe - The ongoing war against the Pawnee, The Union army capturing John (Dances with Wolves is his Sioux name), More pioneers taking the Indian's land, not enough buffalo to eat, etc. This movie is SO excellent! If you haven't seen Dances With Wolves, you are missing out on a great American Classic!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Costner's Finest Moment
This is a stunning motion picture and worthy of all the accolades and awards (7 academy awards..!!) it received.

It's ironic that Costner had difficulty finding financial backing for this film as it belonged to a genre that was considered out of "cinematic fashion". Not only did this film dispel such nonsense, but a year later, Clint Eastwood's brilliant "Unforgiven" also garnered the Oscar for Best Motion Picture.

Dances with Wolves tells the story of John Dunbar, a dissillusioned Civil War "hero" who wants to see the frontier "before it disappears.

Dunbar quickly makes a home for himself in a deserted and forgotten fort on a quiet sandy area on the plains, where he prefers the company of his horse and nature to the harshness of the civil war, which is continuing to rage back east.

In time, Dunbar meets his "neighbours" - the plains tribe, the Sioux - and it is the interaction and relationships which develop between this soldier and the Sioux, which propels this movie to greatness. It is interesting to see the difference in the relationship between Dundar and Winds-In-His-Hair, the warrior, who wants nothing to do with the "white intruders" on his land. However, the "holy man" of the tribe, Kicking Bird, looks at Dunbar with a sense of curiousity and "sadness (he understands that more white men will eventually come to settle their land) and over time, establishes a very special relationship with him.

Dances With Wolves works on so many levels that it's not at all surprising that the film was both an artistic and commercial success.

You have a rousing adventure film with battles and a buffalo hunt that is absolutely breathtaking in its realism. The scenes are so well depicted that you almost have the sensation of riding at a breakneck pace along side the thundering herd.

Of course, there's a romance element as Dunbar falls in love with Stands-With-Fist, the adopted daughter of Kicking Bird, who has recently lost her husband.

You have to admire the integrity and guts that Costner showed in making a film in a genre that was essentially dead. It's doubtful that he would have found the money if this film hadn't come on the heels of The Untouchables and Field of Dreams, for example, which had secured his reputation in Hollywood at the time as a major bankable star.

This film was made at the height of Costner's popularity and turkeys like Waterworld, 3000 Miles To Graceland and The Postman were still far off in the future.

However, notwithstanding the above, if Costner never did another thing in Hollywood, he can look back on this epic film that he was primarily responsible for and be very, very proud.

A Heartbreaking Journey into the Wilds of The Dakotas.
Kevin Costner may have made some movie duds, but he makes of for it in sensational movies. Dances with Wolves is one of my most favorite films of all time. It is so sad. It makes you feel bad for settling in America. The film has great perfomances throughout the entire film. The plot takes you into another world. The cinematography is also some of the most beautiful I have ever seen. The realism of the indian tribe and the way people lived in the 1800s is wonderful. Everyone should see this movie at some time in their lifetime, I highly reccomend it.

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