Wind in His Hair shouting at Dances with Wolves, saying, "Do you know you are my friend?" over and over again (in direct contrast to the first words he yelled at him - "Do you know I'm not afraid of you") makes me cry and cry every damn time. It's so moving. That ending is so beautiful yet so heartbreaking.
“What was wrong with that dude?” Back then there was no cure for syphillis and was a fairly common infection . People would essentially fall apart mentally and very aggressively
He possibly was just losing it without having syphilis. Stress, isolation, whatever. The point being no one knew Dunbar was being sent to that post except the man who then killed himself. In the book it describes the lack of food and illnesses from the soldiers having to live in the caves causing them to finally leave and go back to the fort. Due to the terrain they passed Dunbar and Timmons and didn't realize it. Two socks was captured as a pup and had a leather collar that was too tight for him to be able to eat so when Dunbar fed him small pieces of meat he became friendly. It was filmed in South Dakota and Wyoming.
My late grandmother had the funniest reaction to this movie you’ll ever hear about: We talked her into watching it with us, & after we’d seen about 75% of it, she - the most docile woman I’ve ever known - angrily stands up and asks, “I’ve been watching this for 2 hours now - when am I gonna see some dancing?” She thought it was a musical! 😂😂😂😂😂 R.I.P. GG ❤
They couldn't get the musical talent from the Blues Brothers to contribute to the movie. Although, that would have made it a very weird movie if they had.
Obviously she must have been raised on a good movies, Singing in the Rain, West Side Story, and even Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Yeah she saw the dancing in the title, why not? Rest in peace to your GG, peace to you, thank you.
The scene were the wolf gets shot was like a gut punch when I first saw it. Also, the ending with Wind in His Hair saying goodbye to his friend still makes me tear up.
(NaVVy was a squirrel, I am NOT a Navy Mom) I saw this movie with a friend who is very . . . let's just say world-weary and cynical about a lot of things. We were near the front, and she had to use the bathroom part of the way through. 🙄 She never came back, but it was because she didn't want to disrupt it for people so just slipped into a seat farther back, she explained after. So after it ended I stood up looking for her. She eventually appeared, and shocked me by sobbingly choking out "They shot the wolf!"
the start where he was telling him he wasn't afraid to the end where he was telling him he would always be a friend just encapsulates about what the movie was about.
@@B0R0M1Ryes he does! This movie, the Untouchables and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves were all mega hits. It wasn’t until later on in the 90s when he started making huge flops such as Waterworld and Postman… Those movies trashed
There's even a funny Far Side comic featuring an international meeting of the DLDWWS (Didn't Like Dances With Wolves Society) and there's only three people present.
@@nsasupporter7557 Even his flops are entertaining movies. I liked both Waterworld and The Postman. I do think there is jealousy against him in Hollywood. He's more of an All-American type, and he isn't always well-received by the more pretentious among their number. But he's made some great films.
Did anyone mention that Dances With Wolves begins to ride bareback, truly he was one of the Sioux. I have been to this part of South Dakota many times and it is awe inspiring to see that landscape. Everyone should learn about this sad chapter in our history.
Good thing when we get educated very well we know that the native Americans also took over this land from a culture before them is called conquering... It happens all over the Earth all throughout human history .. unfortunately the kindest Nation to any invasion has been the United States.... Yet has to feel the most guilt... No other Nation would give the invaded their own land and Casinos... And so much more... We have to look at the good not just the ugly of takeovers and conquering which again happened all throughout human history even BY NATIVES
I'm 100% Native American from the southwest (Zuni and Cochiti tribes), and this movie was a staple on the reservation (we even watched it in school). Our customs are much different than that of the plains tribes depicted in the movie, but our overall values of family and community are the same. So glad you both loved this movie! I highly recommend the Hulu series, "Reservation Dogs" to get an even better glimpse in to the modern native world, this show is one of the best out right now and is gaining a steady following (season 3 comes out next year). Other great "native" movies to watch would be "the last of the Mohicans", "thunderheart", "smoke signals", "whale rider" and "pow wow highway". Thank you for allowing us on your journey, can't wait to see what you both react to next! (I've been a long time follower of your music reactions, so glad you shifted to moves as well!).
Doris Leader Charge of Parmelee, the Lakota language educator, was the consultant and instructor for the movie. She portrayed Pretty Shield, wife of Ten Bears. Leader Charge was an amazing, highly respected tribal elder and cultural leader. She passed away in 2001. The movie was filmed in western South Dakota.
Over the years the movie has received some criticism for its "white savior" storyline but when it was made there was such a huge uptick in First Nations peoples learning their language and culture. Problematic or not, the movie was such a great opportunity for those like Leader Charge and others to push for re-learning what had been lost through the residential school and reservation systems. I remember the time well because shortly after the movie came out and interest was still high a White Buffalo calf was born here in Wisconsin which was hugely significant.
@@sandman_says_runrunner4701 That has been recent criticism from some looking at the movie from today's sensibilities. At the time it was made and for a long time afterwards it has been praised for how well it depicted the Natives. Other than totally indefensible movies like Birth of a Nation we need to stop applying the standards of today to old movies.
I also suggest Last of the Mohicans. My brother actually was in the movie as an extra (they used military reenactors) and he took pictures while on the set. He has a picture of the Native reenactors in their war paint and he said it was intimidating just seeing them ready to shoot a scene! Wes Studi is wonderful in his role!
I detested James Fenimore Cooper's book. It was horribly-written, cliché and historically inaccurate. I could never screw myself up to watch the movie. Maybe this is a case of the movie being better than the book?
Amazing. The story behind the guy who wrote this is just as epic. He was a friend of Kevin’s who wasn’t making it in Hollywood. Kevin gave him some tough love and sent him away. After a couple months he comes back to Kevin with the script for DWW in his hand.
Actually, Kevin Costner told Michael Blake not to write a script and to write a novel instead. Once the novel became a best seller, then he wrote the script.
@@DeusExMachina50 yes…per the account on Graham Norton, he told him to go write anything but a script. I was trying to make the story easily digestible.
@@poolhall9632 Yeah, the guy was failing as a screenwriter and whining about how it was everybody else's fault but his while crashing in Costner's house, and Kevin Costner got fed up and told him that since he sucked as a a screenwriter he should write something else instead, mabye a novel, a some time later kicked him out. So he went back to his hometown and got a regular job while he finished the novel "Dances With Wolvers." Later, he got Costner to read it and he liked it so much that he made it his personal project to bring it to the big screen, and he got the guy to adapt it to a screenplay.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with Paul Newman and Robert Redford is one of the all time favorite outlaw Westerns ever made. Action, humor, swagger, amazing scenery...classic Western outlaw movie.
The kids that stole his horse weren't just rotten kids. Within many native cultures a greater victory than killing an opponent was "counting coup". It was when you snuck right into the heart of the enemy and just did a "prank": stole a simple, but identifiable item, even just touching the other person with a feather while they slept. So the kids were also counting coup.
Quite true... The old Mafia families would sneak onto the estate of a rival family just to steal the flowers from their gardens. It was considered symbolic of high disrespect and irreverence.
Just a movie classic and as a Native American I appreciate the story of it, thank you for your reaction. I very much recommend "Smoke Signals" which is the story of a Native family in today's world, written and directly by a Native man...I know you will both enjoy it
Anyone see Dance me outside,a good movie also,Graham Green is a great Actor who should have got an Oscar for that movie but who needs awards when you go the peoples recognition,thats more appréciative n humbling
I am part Cherokee American Indian and 76 years old. At the age of 16 I met a Lumbee Indian who was 16 also. He is also 76 now. We became blood Brothers and we still are blood Brothers to this day. Cut the palms of our hand and held our hands together so our bloods could mix with each other's. To this day he is my only true friend. If you have a Native American Indian for a friend then you are very fortunate. Most loyal friend I have ever had.
The speech from wind in his hair is incredible. This was my favorite movie as a child and I was young enough to where I couldn't read. My parents love to tell the story. I'd watch it daily. This movie gets blasted by alot of people and I'll never understand why. It's a masterpiece
Never heard much negative said about this film. It came widely acclaimed. Plenty of historical inaccuracy, but that could be said of most films, and to be fair, how much realism is required in a fictional story? While it could be fair to say movies like this give people a false idea of the realities of the time due to the story told from a certain point of view, but the same could be said for the history books, and those don't have the constraints of a film production. In short, the worst things that can be said about the film can not be the fault of the film itself in so much as the mindset of the cultures that produced and enjoyed it. This movie was HUGE when it came out, and it still hits after all these years. Masterpiece indeed.
I am Canadian, and we watched this movie in History class and you could hear a pin drop in the classroom the entire time....This movie has stuck with me all those years and still gets me every time I watch it.
As a Native American, myself, I thank you guys for reacting to this movie. I wish more reaction channels would react to more movies about Native Americans. Some suggestions might be War Party starring Kevin Dillon, Hostiles starring Christian Bale or Dance Me Outside starring Adam Beach. This channel is one of my favorite reaction channels. Keep it up. This is an edit: I can't believe some asshole question me about being native or indigenous or whatever word you feel comfortable using. First of all: What would it benefit me to pretend to be Indigenous? Seriously. What positive outcome could I possibly gain by doing that? Bottom line? I am Cree. I am proud to be Cree. There are over 300 replies to this comment. All of them have been great and I thank you all for your positive responses and suggestions for further movies about native people. And of course, there has to be that one hater, that one jackass who feels so entitled that he questions my authenticity. I would delete this comment because of that but I think it's important in this day and age to allow ideas and realities as the acknowledgement of native culture in this predominantly white and black culture and society. So I'll leave this comment. Fuck the haters.🖕 Second edit: I think that person has since deleted that comment questioning my ethnicity but I'm not changing anything about this comment. I'm so sick of racist assholes. I don't want anyone to ever think that I'm gonna back down because that will never happen.
I would recommend Wind Talkers, but I'm waiting for them to remake it without the white savior plot point. It's a great story. They should do it right.
The Outlaw Josey Wales is another great movie about Native Americans. Chief Dan George stole every scene he was in and the meeting between Chief Ten Bears and Josey Wales is one of the best ever.
It’s important to note that the only people who knew John Dunbar was assigned to that post were the mentally ill officer who killed himself right after giving him the “orders” and the guide/trapper who was later killed. No one else knew John Dunbar was there or existed, so if it hadn’t been for his diary (and going back for it), Dances With Wolves could have melted away and stayed with the People forever. 😢
@@singingwolf3929 Home base back East didn't know he made it to the town and they didn't know the mentally ill officer assigned him to the post. The only 2 non-Sioux with any of that information died before they could tell anyone else.
@@roywalley8879 Fair. He told the people back East that he wanted to see "The Frontier" before it was gone. They sent him to Major Fambrough for assignment. Who subsequently sent him to Fort Sedgwick and then deleted himself from the census. I will admit that I should have re-run the dialog in my head before stating that the others back East should know he was supposed to be at that SPECIFIC location. I appreciate the correction.
The scene of the officer killing himself at the last outpost on the frontier was meant to show how long he’d been out there, and how being just that isolated from society can make you go crazy. Dunbar was going out even farther, and even more isolated. Mules vs horses is like an off-road vehicle vs a Porsche. Torque vs speed. Mules are a lot more hardy.
One of my favorite movies, both for the story and the beautiful scenery! It's made me want to move from my home in Maryland to South Dakota. Graham Greene (Kicking Bird) is one of my favorite movie characters of all time. How can anyone not love that guy?
I didn’t have enough tissues with this movie Cisco and two socks then with wind in his hair I was absolutely sobbing. Definitely worth the seven Oscars this movie got.
Same here, my late Brother used to call me when he saw it was being telivised even though i kept repeating I have the DVD I can watch it every day. His answer to that Oh no need to be cocky about it 😂
This film holds a special place in my heart. Some scenes were shot on the ranch across the road from my grandmas house. She was able to meet some of the people making the film and recieved a photo of Two Socks that was signed by the trainer. She still has in hung up in her bedroom.
So now you know why your dad loves this movie! And yes, the little girl was played by Kevin's daughter Annie. It was filmed predominantly in the Badlands, South Dakota. Kevin also directed it. It won the academy award for best picture and best director that year.
I really enjoyed this movie when I watched it. 3 decades later I now live in South Dakota and am sad for the once proud and warrior Lakota Nation. There are so many drug addicts, alcoholics, homeless Lakota now.
Seeing this movie in the cinema as a kid was was a magical experience. It's when you watch movies like this one that you realise how Hollywood has totally collapsed in quality in recent years.
I saw it as a kid as well with my parents when I was around 8 years old in theaters and I've always loved this movie since then. It definitely became more enjoyable the older I've gotten. The buffalo hunt sequence alone is something that has to be seen on a big screen to fully appreciate it.
@@alucard624 This might be my favorite movie ever, perhaps tied with a couple other films. I own it on DVD (and VHS!!), and I've seen it at least 5 or 6 times over the years. Sadly, this is one I never got to see in the theater, which is just a tragedy, really. But even with the limitation of the (then) 26" tube TV I had at the time, it was still magical and majestic and a masterpiece! It was film-making that important truly is a "thing of the past".
This is easily one of the greatest epic films ever made. I strongly suggest you get yourself the extended version. It adds another hour of amazing footage in a movie you don't want to end. The music, backdrops, casting and script are amazing.
I agree after seeing the US theatrical version which was the edited 3 hour version when it originally opened in theaters I did have some questions regarding some of story line and years later I was finally able to see the extended or UK release which answered my questions and shed more light on the storyline. Still one of the best movies ever.
I love this movie so much. I got to see it in the theater when it first came out and also when it was re-released for the 20th and 30th anniversary. There would not be a dry eye in the place every time I saw it.
(NaVVy was a squirrel, I am NOT a Navy Mom) Yes! Rodney Grant (Wind in His Hair) said something about the rush when filming that scene. I can't remember exactly what he said though.
This is, in my own opinion, the greatest western film ever made. I have had the expanded edition, with an additional hour of footage, on laserdisc since it was released. This film is spectacular. I was a projectionist for Cinemark theaters when this film was released. I'll never forget it because the film came in ten reels, and barely fit on our projector platters.
So glad you reacted to this film! I saw it the week it opened in Washington, DC at the Uptown Theater which had a huge screen made up of 6 panels. It was amazing to see and so moving. Kevin spent much of his own money to get the movie made. Hollywood executives said no one would go see a 3 hour movie, let alone a western. They were wrong of course. One thing I love about Kevin is he always insists on age appropriate co-stars (love interest). The casting person/studio kept bringing in young girls for this film and he told them he wanted a 'woman' to play this role. He insisted until they brought in Mary McDonnell, who is perfect in the role. My favorite, and the saddest, part to me is when he answers the chiefs question of how many white people will come..."Many, like the stars". Another good western with Kevin Costner is Open Range. Kevin funded a documentary about Native Americans too.
Yes indeed, Open Range IS a brilliant movie! In my view it is THE best Western. Story aside, the cinematics, interaction between lead characters, minimalist and precise dialogue and the the best ever shoot-out scene puts this in a league of its own.
Dances is a good film, but it too often traffics in familiar clichés and revisionist history. The Lakota, for instance, hadn't been living on that land for millennia, as you would be left to believe, but rather took it from other tribes that had been there before them. And while it is true that American Indians attached spiritual significance to all life, it is also true that whenever it became economically advantageous, they slaughtered wildlife with the same reckless abandon as whites did. One thing that is notable about the movie's spin is how Dunbar is the only white character (not including Stands with a Fist, who was essentially native) who is portrayed positively. There had to be some bad Indians, so the Pawnee became evil incarnate while the Lakota get fitted with halos. One other thing to note is the horse thievery: in almost all American Indian cultures, gain through theft or trickery was greatly admired, so those boys were seeking the approval of their elders when they stole Dunbar's horse. Last comment: This was not simply a matter of two groups of people "misunderstanding" one another. Every square inch of inhabitable land in the world has been fought over many, many times. The coming of European-Americans was just another long line in that chain, people doing what is needed for survival. The Indians were not wrong for defending their land, but neither was the loss of their land some unique travesty. The Americas were conquered, not stolen.
@@btgiv6009 A lot of what you say is correct. Especially your overall message that the tribes warred with each other and the Lakota conquered other tribes to control the land they held up until the whites fought for it. I also agree that the Americas were conquered and not stolen. But you said the film uses familiar cliches whereas I think it was rare to show the Indians as normal humans instead of as enemies for the cowboys. I may be wrong but the bulk of Indian portrayal onscreen was not positive. You said only Dunbar and Stands With a Fist are positive whites but the general at the beginning (who rewards Dunbar) and the lieutenant at the end in charge of the group who capture Dunbar are both men of honour. Dunbar even stops his friends from scalping that lieutenant. The Pawnee are not set up as 'evil incarnate'. They just have an angry warmonger among them played brilliantly by Wes Studi. The other Pawnee do not like his ways but go along with him. The main Lakota tribe are not 'fitted with halos' either. They attack Dunbar a few times. They even beat him up - after getting to know him - just because he interrupted their pow wow one night. We also see them mass slaughtering buffalo (though not with reckless abandon) and in the extended version they scalp an entire group of white hunters. For the most part, I think the film is aiming to be well-rounded.
What a joy watching my favorite movie with you two reacting. I'm an Apache from New Mexico, who also lived 11 years in Oklahoma. I saw this movie in Germany, when it first came out. I saw it in the theater at Ramstein Air Base in Germany during Desert Storm. I saw it twice in the American theater. Then a German friend of mine took me to see it in a German theater in Kaiserslautern. It German it is called Der Mit Dem Wolf Tantz. I loved it EVERY time. Watching it with you guys was another pleasure. You were talking about the buffalo in Oklahoma. I was a survival instructor for the Air Force, stationed as Altus AFB. I would take my crew members to Ft. Sill for training. Of course, Ft. Sill is in Lawton. The training area we used bordered Medicine Park, right outside of Cache, Okla. Medicine Park has a large herd of buffalo. When I returned to the states after being in Germany, a German friend I had made there came to America and hooked up with me. I took him to a 13 nation pow wow in Apache, Okla. Then I took him to medicine park to see the buffalo. He, my son and I saw buffalo up on the side of a hill. We drove around behind the hill and walked up to the top, with the hopes of seeing them from the top of the hill. When we reached the top of hill, we saw the heads of the buffalo as they were walking toward us. We jumped up on a huge rock and just watched as this huge herd of buffalo passed on all sides of us. It was amazing and beautiful!! I love those memories.
I just read your comment and just wanted to tell you ..... nice comment , I was also in military when this movie came out on the Nimitz ..... Do you still use your survival skills training these days ? I live on a small ranch in Texas and go out by myself for a few days every once in a while just to be in complete silence of nature ...... ☮
thank you for this reaction. I'm a full blooded zuni (ho Shiwi) native american for pueblo of zuni (zuni, New Mexico) and its always honor to get reactions about our people and the history. We as the first nation which right now, U.S.A. has over 500 Native American Tribes that exist from the east coast to the west coast, are always dealing with Native Americans classified as extinct and only exist in the past history of early Northern America. imagine that there were more tribes before first contact of Europeans and have got wiped out more then Half but we still exist in our lands that we have been for centuries. movies like this just scratch the surface of the history of our people. one movie that I also love is Thunderheart actor Val Kilmer did a great justice and Graham Greene who is Kicking Bird in this movie
Graham Greene is a national treasure. He's such a great character actor, and all around good person. I love when he gets to be sarcastic and humorous in films because he does it so well.
Bruh, I hate to be the one to break it to you but nobody is 100% of anything. Those commercialized DNA tests duped people into thinking that's real but in the small print they admit it's just for fun. In reality we are all actually made up of many things, including different species of now extinct hominids. The heavy duty DNA tests can actually break it down, and we know Native/first nations originate from Asia, so you see how you wouldn't be 100% Native. Anyway, I have Abenaki and Nipissing blood from grandmothers from a few hundred years back, but I'm not claiming it or living the culture, so it's just becomes a bit of what makes me up. Much like your white DNA, which you most certainly have, is a part of what makes you up.
Graham Greene is amazing in Thunderheart. Quite a character in that one. - And the old man is amazing too. And the TV movie "The Last Of His Tribe" with Jon Voight. Mr. Greene excels in that one too. Another sad story based on real persons and events.
This is one of my all-time favorite movies. I saw it in the theater a few times and just loved it so much. Christine's family was portrayed by Kevin's then wife and their 3 kids, with his oldest playing Christine. The buffalo scene was amazing and incredible to watch, especially knowing how hard it was to get it done. Riding within the stampede were actual buffalo handlers and Kevin made the decision that he wasn't going to miss being part of it. In fact, during it, he fell off his horse and they brought in his 2nd horse immediately, so he jumped on and continued riding. You can sorta tell when it's a different horse he's riding...slightly different body type. Of course, when the star and director of the movie falls off his horse during a buffalo stampede, lots of people were freaking out...except him. Also, the buffalo that was going to attack Smiles A Lot, was Neil Young's "pet" buffalo. The way they got him to run towards someone was for them to hold up some Oreo's...his favorite treat...LOL!
Thank You so much for a little inside info. Coloradan, I had Brothers/schoolmates that went back home to the res in Arizona every summer, always came back with great stories of the "fight", the struggle to keep the old ways, and especially the stories, alive, through the peoples.
This was filmed in the Badlands of South Dakota. There are still wide open expanses just as beautiful. If you want to see a lot of bison up close & personal, go to Custer State Park in the Black Hills. Drive the wildlife loop and bison will walk right past your car. Every year at the end of September they do a Buffalo Roundup of the Custer herd (the purest herd in the US) to cull it & vaccinate the ones that remain. The"culled" bison are then auctioned off to private herds. I went just this year - it was incredible!
One of my favorite movies. While I was in the Army, I became great friends with a full blooded Navajo who came from the reservation in New Mexico. You realize we all have much in common and that we're not races but people trying to live our lives. Great reaction as usual, you 2 are great!
This movie is amazing and it has one of the most beautiful musical scores ever written! In high school, I was in the band and we played this for a band concert. I have loved it ever since I first heard it.
Hi Jay and Amber. This is one of my all time favs. The ending with "The Fierce One" makes me cry every single time. I never get tired of watching it. So glad you liked it.
This was my Mom's favorite movie. She went to see it in the theaters THREE times and watch it countless times over the years on dvd and such.... this movie always makes me tear up, every single time.
Like your mom, I watched it multiple times in the theatre. It was just a transformative experience. I would leave the theatre feeling a renewed view of the world around me each time and I had to buy it on DVD to relive those feelings whenever I could. I finally got to show it to my own children a few months ago during a family movie night at home. They loved it.
The Directors cut version of this is one of my all time favorite movies. The imagery, the music, the performance, the authentic language. It all just comes together perfectly.
@@leighkeane7770 the international version or extended version is just as good as the Director's Cut but just a little shorter but not much shorter lol
It explains a lot more-like Captain Cargill and his me starving while they wait for a supply wagon. They agreed to go back to Fort Hayes-screw the consequences of abandoning their post. It also explains why nobody knew Dunbar was there-between Corporal Farnsworth’s suicide and Timmons death…
I have seen this movie so many times, and I still (and will probably always) sob over Cisco and Two Socks. 😫 I'm so glad you guys watched this beautiful movie and enjoyed it, ty for the great reaction as always.
(NaVVy was a squirrel, I am NOT a Navy Mom) My family and I agree that the trick to watching this movie after the first time is to just pretend they lived happily ever after and stop it after the wedding. The downside is missing Wind in His Hair's epic speech at the end though, but it also means not having to see Cisco and Two Socks die.
This was one of the best movie epics ever made. The story line, the cinematography and musical score by John Barry make this an unforgettable cinematic masterpiece.
Hey fellow Okies - glad you took this on for a reaction. I'm glad you are getting into the westerns and other genres. Costner was adamant that the Native Americans speak the proper language, so they spent hours learning the words and proper inflection. You may be interested to know the leader of the Pawnee who killed the Teamster and attacked the tribe is Wes Studi. He is a Cherokee born in eastern Oklahoma and didn't learn English until starting elementary school. He is also a producer and has won many awards. If you review the 1992 movie "The Last of the Mohicans" he's a bad guy in it as well. You should add that movie to your list; it's based upon the 1826 book by James Fenimore Cooper and set before the U.S. was an independent country.
I just recently(4 months ago) had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Studhi as he was driving through my town. First time I ever had a fan boy moment with a celeb.
I think Costner helped write screen play and directed it as well ... He really understands the art of movie making...... very underrated today ............
Mules can walk all day pulling heavy loads, horses get blown quickly . Also the general at the outpost had gone insane through the stress of being on the frontier.... with him gone nobody knew that the outpost was now manned
Thank you for your wonderful reaction to Kevin Costner’s masterpiece. This film won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and Best Director for Costner. In my top ten favorite movies of all time. Heart-breaking, yes, but absolutely beautiful.
Such a brilliant movie. I would argue that it’s a western in that the story of the west wasn’t just about gun slingers and cowboys. This story broadens the scope of the western historical narrative. A real masterpiece of a movie.
I really loved " Last of the Dogman" too. A tracker/ bounty hunter was looking for convicts when they are suddenly killed and only an arrow is found. He gets a professor who speaks the language to come with him as they look for the answers. It is just as beautiful. Tom Bereger
The four wheeler trails we use in the foothills of the Ozark mountains, were once the wagon trails used by our pioneering great great grandfather's. Have found brass wagon parts over the years. I am still impressed when I go over rough ground. Thinking at one time folks did the same with a wagon and mules, on wooden wheels.
This was a very important film to me growing up. I grew up Metis (a mixture of indigenous and other heritage). In my case I was Cree and Scottish-Ukrainian. When I saw this when I was 13 there was no "representation" of the real way of life of Native peoples. The films portrayal of a man caught between two worlds I found to be extremely relatable. As a kid growing up of mixed heritage those themes really spoke to me. My mother also went to school with one of the actresses in the film. Her name is Tantoo Cardinal. Finally the closing scene with Wind in His Hair yelling "sunkmanitu Tanka Ob Waci"...you will always be my friend. It get's me every time. This is a very important film to me and glad you took the time to watch it.
You guys were asking where this was filmed. While the Pawnee are from the Kansas and Nebraska area, I lived in Kansas and knew many in the Shawnee tribe which is actually based in Oklahoma. They travel a lot! That being said, Dances With Wolves was actually filmed in South Dakota. Most of the movie was filmed on location in South Dakota, mainly on private ranches near Pierre and Rapid City, with a few scenes filmed in Wyoming. Specific locations included the Badlands National Park, the Black Hills, the Sage Creek Wilderness Area, and the Belle Fourche River area. I love the Native Americans! (They give me Bepsi) I'm happy to have the pleasure of knowing members of the Shawnee, Pawnee, Navajo, and Ute tribes. ❤ My cousin even married a great young man who is a Ute.
So many great things in this movie, but my favorite has to be watching the relationship evolve between John Dunbar and Wind in His Hair. With Wind in His Hair up on the mountain at the end, shouting for the world to hear. “Can you see that I am your friend? Can you see that I will always be your friend?“ All these years later, that one moment still tears me up…
Many years ago, as a boy, I lived on a large horse farm bordered by a massive state nature preserve. I spent a lot of time riding fences and kept running into a large stray dog. It just seemed interested and would watch patiently. I gave him no mind, even though my horse, usually comfortable with dogs, was pretty focused on this dog while I repaired fence. Over time, the dog would approach me near the barns if I was working on something (tractor, implements, car, etc.). I would toss him something to eat, each time a bit closer. I usually had beef jerky with me and finally, she would take it from my hand. We had a fly-in veterinarian and once he & I had a horse down for gelding. I was sitting across his hind legs (in case he twitched) while the Doc worked. He looks over at me, then over my shoulder, and says, "DON'T LOOK!" So of course I do and 8-10 feet away is the dog. "Oh, she's alright, I call her Annie." So he asks how is it that I have a pet wolf? Long silence. "You know that is a wolf, right?" Sure. Of course. Inside: "HOLY SH%T!" This went on for another year and I went off to college. Never saw her again for sure. Thanks Annie.
Used to live in Ponca and Bartlesville. I'd often go over to Tallgrass Prairie Preserve just north of Pawhuska to photograph the bison herd there. Seeing bison in their natural habitat with no fences and the wind gently playing with your hair is beyond imagining. BTW, watching the director's cut will fill some of the blanks. Also, regarding knowledge of others, between these 2 tribes: Lakota and Pawnee, they got them reversed. The Lakota, by far, were the more deadly, vicious, and feared.
Even more beautiful than the film, was watching how moved you two were by watching it. It is a profound and thoughtful film...very historically accurate. So glad y'all liked it! Thank you for sharing😍😍😍
❤’d your reaction to this great film. Kevin Costner not only did a great job acting in it but also directing it. The movie was shot mostly in South Dakota with a few scenes shot in Wyoming. It’s considered a western because it took place in the American Frontier. Can you please react to “Legends of the Fall” and “Apocalypto”
I'm so happy you guys reacted to this, especially since it was a favorite of Amber's Dad. This is really a great movie and I agree, everyone should watch it at least once. Kevin Costner also stars in The Bodyguard with Whitney Houston, and he stars in Hidden Figures, a true story of the important contributions of black women in the space program to get the first American into space. Both of those are great movies. For a Christmas movie, our family on Thanksgiving night always watches The Homecoming: A Christmas Story. It's from 1971 and was the pilot movie for The Waltons tv series. If you like archery, The Hunger Games. There are 4 movies to tell the full story so you have to watch all 4.
But of course the guy is too stupid to know the guns aren’t accurate back in those days.. I would’ve won The lottery with guessing with what he would say and he actually did. I swear they said they are teachers before I would pull my kid right out of the school they were teaching in right away..
12:55 My cousin's great great great grandmother was scalped as a baby and left for dead in the year 1826. Indians in the area of SW Wisconsin had killed her father over an argument and the mother (who was half-Sioux) ran out of the house with her 2-yr-old boy. They later found the father and one of his friends dead in the house, and the baby's body scalped and kicked under a bed. When they started to clean the baby for burial, they discovered that she still lived. She went on to have a family and lived into her sixties.
One of my favorites. I remember being blown away seeing this on the big screen in the theatre. Kevin deserved his Oscar for director of this. If you loved this kind of drama and story, you will love “braveheart” starring Mel Gibson. Another fantastic fave!
@@momminator98 My bad... you're totally correct. I had spent 20 minutes discussing "Thunderheart" and had it on my brain. The fact that I typed "Braveheart" and it didn't click... lol Thanks for the heads-up. (Deleted it)
This is great to see you two react to this. This movie marked a pivotal big step in better representation of Native images on film. Dances with Wolves was also hugely appreciated by the Native community for specifically that. Being a Native myself seeing this when I was younger it was a revelation; seeing the First Nations culture given humanity than simple minded brigands, thieves, drunks, savages, or primitives who only speak in monosyllabic grunts and noises. It would be great if you both were/are willing to look into the Native culture, people of the area in which you live. Thank you again.
This movie was a great representation of native culture and one of the most authentic. They really did their homework for this movie and I’m glad y’all reacted to it!
They messed up with the language though. Sioux men speak in a slightly different dialect than the women, but they got a woman linguist to translate. They were all supposed to speak this language. Lots of laughs from Sioux men!
In my top ten for many reasons. This film is a masterpiece in my opinion. The respect I have for Costner is cemented in this epic. From the beautiful & genteel way he depicts the people with such dignity, to the portrayals, score, sets, filming locations etc...fantastic. So much depth to this in character development, the relationships of both cultural & personal is brilliant. To me...its all on one man, Kicking Bird. It only takes one to make a difference. The best & worst of man is in this movie. So glad y'all watched this. I have concerns over those who have have no emotional reaction to this or "Saving Private Ryan", etc. Perceptions & blind ignorance is deadly...but all it takes to diffuse is sincere communication & respect.
Dances with wolves is an all time favorite of mine as well. This movie is a masterpiece for many reasons. Too many to list them all but I’ll rattle off a few. The plot, the beautiful scenery, the cinematography, the dialog and use of the Sioux language to name a few. Very emotional and brought out real feelings like, happiness, sadness, anger, pride, love, shame, and gratefulness etc.. Also, every time I rewatch it, it brings me back to those same feelings and memories of when I saw it for the first time. Kind of like great a song that makes you feel a certain way and brings back memories of a time frame or event in your life . Like the junior high party where you had a crush on a girl and you ended up hanging out for the first time at that party and a particular song was playing in your brains’s version of the memory. The first time I saw Dances With Wolves. I begrudgingly agreed to go to the movie theatre and see the movie because my wife wanted to see it. I had heard it was a three hour movie and I thought I would be bored. Three hours flew by like the snap of your fingers and I remember how disappointed I was that it was over. Everything about this movie is fantastic. On a side note, anybody else feel like feel like Avatar is the CGI, sci-fi version of Dances with Wolves. Kinda feels like they ripped off the plot at the very least.
Kevin Costner was made an honorary Sioux by the Tribes for making this movie, and showing them in an honest, non-prejudicial way. The movie won many Oscars and the Buffalo hunt scene was filmed for real and Costner did his own riding. To this day, it is considered one of the masterpieces of cinematography. I remember seeing it at the theater when it came out, and the hunt was overwhelming on the big screen. It was fun watching this with you.
I remember the day my Mom and I went to go see this. It was pouring rain and our mood was reflecting that rain, but we ran for the cinema doors and sat down and watched one of the most amazing films ever! I went over 5 times to see this movie at the theaters! Though I still hate losing Cisco and Two Socks, I think of what an amazing journey and friendships and love were born through the simple act of being curious and compassionate enough to see through ANY barriers. I'm not on Patreon, so I kind of like not knowing what you're going to watch because it's always a great surprise. Also, was probably a difficult movie to edit for you. FYI...the bad guy Indian would played the Pawnee is the actor Wes Studi. He is also in another one my fav movies "The Last of the Mohicans" staring Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeline Stowe. I've already mentioned the movie "Young Guns" which I know you will enjoy (more like the western you are used to). And I also love "Silverado" (another 80's western) which also has a younger Kevin Costner as well as a huge cast! And another one is "Glory" which stars Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman which is a story about the first black regiment to fight in the Civil War.
"Glory" was an awesome film with a fantastic cast. Denzel Washington was outstanding as always and Morgan Freeman was rightly cast. But I thought Matthew Broderick as Col. Robert Gould Shaw was miscast; I know Matthew was playing a stoic character, but he still always seemed emotionless in his expressions. I think Matthew should stick to comedy, like Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
@@SweetThing Yes. Definitely a fair assessment of Matthew Broderick. I can think of even worst "miscasting" would be Keanu Reeves (and I love the guy!) in "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and when he was in "Dangerous Liasons". I kept waiting for him to say something like he would as Bill and Ted..."Bogus!"...lol!
I'm so glad you got around to this movie, and so glad it hit a chord with you both. Even 30 years later, "I am Wind in his Hair, Can you not see that I am your Friend?" ... always gets me., along with one or two other moments in the film.
My understanding is that the scene with the insane officer giving John his orders, then committing suicide immediately after explains part of the plot. John is left at his post on his own because the only people who know he's there are the insane officer, who makes no record of the assignment before he kills himself, and the wagon driver, who is killed soon after as well.
John Barry's musical score for this film is still one of the finest ever made. Weirdly when you watch 'Avatar' its amazing how much of Dances with Wolves and Pocahontas find their way into the plot of Cameron's sci-fi epic. For me this is Costner's finest role, with 'A Perfect World' being tied with 'Field of Dreams' for second.
Dances with Wolves and The Postman are two of my favorite movies. I can see why him being in with Yellowstone makes so much sense. This movie along with growing up in MI and visiting a lot of Ojibwe land really shaped a lot of my thinking at a young age. history is shitty but needs to be learned so we can make a better day for those who follow us. I loved seeing your reaction to this film as it was one in my youth that I feel shaped my early mind.
This is one of those movies that you can watch over and over again regardless of the fact that it’s a three hour movie. The music and cinematography alone are incredibly done. Now you know why it won the Academy award for Best Motion Picture. “Hostiles” is an equally incredible movie that captivates you with the spirit of the Native American Indian and what took place after the civil war. You will be moved with a heavy heart when you watch it. I believe this is, perhaps, Christian Bale’s best performance. Finally, you have to make time for “The Revenant” with Leonardo DiCaprio. This movie takes place at or around the same time. You will be amazed at this movie’s cinematography.
The Revenant was good but could have been better if it hadn't lingered on so many shots of nature. Felt like I was watching a documentary half the time.
One of the most iconic movies ever made, and what a wonderful story, I remember reading the book before I saw this film, the book is quite good as well, I am very glad y'all reacted to this and enjoyed this one!! Loved your emotional investment with these characters, as far as the shooting of 2 socks, if you notice, the soldiers wounded him, they didn't kill him, i like to think the suiox that were(wind in his hair, smiles alot) they put 2 socks out of his misery, again, thank you so much for reacting to this one, you guys are to wonderful, take care...👍👍👍👍👍
Ewww... Can't wait! One of the best all-time movies to me. Kevin Costner directed, produced, and starred in this amazing film. It won 7 Oscars. I saw it at least 3 times when it was released in the theatre. I think the run time is closing in on 4 hours. Worth every second of it🎉
I just found your channel and love it! This was filmed where I live, the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota. I also went to high school with Smiles A Lot, and that man is not the boy he once was.
Fun fact, this movie was so well received by Native Americans that Kevin Costner became an honorary member of the Sioux nation.
really.
even though it showed good and bad people in both races???????
@@zeller3228 yes
@@gunnarnorris4138 i was being sarcastic sorry lol. all good.
@@zeller3228 Yeah... you pretty much have to spell it out on the internet... people are so uptight. I liked it though. 😁
Wind in His Hair shouting at Dances with Wolves, saying, "Do you know you are my friend?" over and over again (in direct contrast to the first words he yelled at him - "Do you know I'm not afraid of you") makes me cry and cry every damn time. It's so moving. That ending is so beautiful yet so heartbreaking.
One of the most moving and poignant and sad, emotional scenes in all of cinema as far as I'm concerned.
Oh I get that.. I sob my heart out when he calls to him 😭😭😭
Me too. 😭
....and when the horse and wolf get shot....
My favorite scene ever from any movie!
“What was wrong with that dude?”
Back then there was no cure for syphillis and was a fairly common infection . People would essentially fall apart mentally and very aggressively
He possibly was just losing it without having syphilis. Stress, isolation, whatever.
The point being no one knew Dunbar was being sent to that post except the man who then killed himself.
In the book it describes the lack of food and illnesses from the soldiers having to live in the caves causing them to finally leave and go back to the fort. Due to the terrain they passed Dunbar and Timmons and didn't realize it.
Two socks was captured as a pup and had a leather collar that was too tight for him to be able to eat so when Dunbar fed him small pieces of meat he became friendly.
It was filmed in South Dakota and Wyoming.
My late grandmother had the funniest reaction to this movie you’ll ever hear about: We talked her into watching it with us, & after we’d seen about 75% of it, she - the most docile woman I’ve ever known - angrily stands up and asks, “I’ve been watching this for 2 hours now - when am I gonna see some dancing?” She thought it was a musical! 😂😂😂😂😂
R.I.P. GG ❤
They couldn't get the musical talent from the Blues Brothers to contribute to the movie. Although, that would have made it a very weird movie if they had.
@@matthewteague623 at least if would have given them the opportunity to sing Rawhide again 😂
That is SO Funny.... Thanks for sharing...
dawwww lol thats so adorable :3
Obviously she must have been raised on a good movies, Singing in the Rain, West Side Story, and even Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Yeah she saw the dancing in the title, why not? Rest in peace to your GG, peace to you, thank you.
The scene were the wolf gets shot was like a gut punch when I first saw it. Also, the ending with Wind in His Hair saying goodbye to his friend still makes me tear up.
I’m crying just thinking about it.
(NaVVy was a squirrel, I am NOT a Navy Mom)
I saw this movie with a friend who is very . . . let's just say world-weary and cynical about a lot of things. We were near the front, and she had to use the bathroom part of the way through. 🙄
She never came back, but it was because she didn't want to disrupt it for people so just slipped into a seat farther back, she explained after. So after it ended I stood up looking for her. She eventually appeared, and shocked me by sobbingly choking out "They shot the wolf!"
@@NavvyMom That is so sweet to hear Navvy.
the start where he was telling him he wasn't afraid to the end where he was telling him he would always be a friend just encapsulates about what the movie was about.
I remember as a kid crying so much when that happened. This is truly a great movie. Loved your reactions guys 💙
"Put that in your book" I've said that ever time I've farted since 1990
I thought I was the only one!
No surprise that this film won Best Picture that year. A true masterpiece.
Yes. Kevin Costner doesn’t get enough credit for his work. Open Range is also a masterpiece
@@B0R0M1Ryes he does! This movie, the Untouchables and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves were all mega hits.
It wasn’t until later on in the 90s when he started making huge flops such as Waterworld and Postman… Those movies trashed
masterpiece with costner?
There's even a funny Far Side comic featuring an international meeting of the DLDWWS (Didn't Like Dances With Wolves Society) and there's only three people present.
@@nsasupporter7557 Even his flops are entertaining movies. I liked both Waterworld and The Postman. I do think there is jealousy against him in Hollywood. He's more of an All-American type, and he isn't always well-received by the more pretentious among their number. But he's made some great films.
The friendship between John and Wind in his Hair is what gets me. And, Wind in his Hair's speech at the end, just gets my heart, it's so pure.
Did anyone mention that Dances With Wolves begins to ride bareback, truly he was one of the Sioux. I have been to this part of South Dakota many times and it is awe inspiring to see that landscape. Everyone should learn about this sad chapter in our history.
Good thing when we get educated very well we know that the native Americans also took over this land from a culture before them is called conquering... It happens all over the Earth all throughout human history .. unfortunately the kindest Nation to any invasion has been the United States.... Yet has to feel the most guilt... No other Nation would give the invaded their own land and Casinos... And so much more... We have to look at the good not just the ugly of takeovers and conquering which again happened all throughout human history even BY NATIVES
I'm 100% Native American from the southwest (Zuni and Cochiti tribes), and this movie was a staple on the reservation (we even watched it in school). Our customs are much different than that of the plains tribes depicted in the movie, but our overall values of family and community are the same. So glad you both loved this movie! I highly recommend the Hulu series, "Reservation Dogs" to get an even better glimpse in to the modern native world, this show is one of the best out right now and is gaining a steady following (season 3 comes out next year). Other great "native" movies to watch would be "the last of the Mohicans", "thunderheart", "smoke signals", "whale rider" and "pow wow highway". Thank you for allowing us on your journey, can't wait to see what you both react to next! (I've been a long time follower of your music reactions, so glad you shifted to moves as well!).
This film absolutely undid so many of us white people--it shattered the myths and showed us what we really are. I am so, so sorry, my friend.
Pow wow highway and smoke signals was the shit
Wow u rarely meet 100% native Americans. Yeah ur tribe was in south Dakota right?
@@silentagenda887 the southwest of united states.
@@EricEustace really? I could have sworn the ponie in the souix tribe was in North and South Dakota
Doris Leader Charge of Parmelee, the Lakota language educator, was the consultant and instructor for the movie. She portrayed Pretty Shield, wife of Ten Bears. Leader Charge was an amazing, highly respected tribal elder and cultural leader. She passed away in 2001.
The movie was filmed in western South Dakota.
Part of this film was done on my aunt's boyfriends ranch in SD.
Over the years the movie has received some criticism for its "white savior" storyline but when it was made there was such a huge uptick in First Nations peoples learning their language and culture. Problematic or not, the movie was such a great opportunity for those like Leader Charge and others to push for re-learning what had been lost through the residential school and reservation systems. I remember the time well because shortly after the movie came out and interest was still high a White Buffalo calf was born here in Wisconsin which was hugely significant.
@@hectorsmommy1717 White savior storyline? Didn't see that, if anything they saved each other or more leaning to him being saved.
@@sandman_says_runrunner4701 That has been recent criticism from some looking at the movie from today's sensibilities. At the time it was made and for a long time afterwards it has been praised for how well it depicted the Natives. Other than totally indefensible movies like Birth of a Nation we need to stop applying the standards of today to old movies.
I also suggest Last of the Mohicans. My brother actually was in the movie as an extra (they used military reenactors) and he took pictures while on the set. He has a picture of the Native reenactors in their war paint and he said it was intimidating just seeing them ready to shoot a scene! Wes Studi is wonderful in his role!
They should react to "I Will Find You" by Clannad. It'd be a whole new thing for them, a good introduction to Celtic music.
I detested James Fenimore Cooper's book. It was horribly-written, cliché and historically inaccurate. I could never screw myself up to watch the movie. Maybe this is a case of the movie being better than the book?
opposite to the book, love that movie
@@LadyhawksLairDotComthe movie has little to do with the book and is one of the best films of all time.
Amazing.
The story behind the guy who wrote this is just as epic.
He was a friend of Kevin’s who wasn’t making it in Hollywood.
Kevin gave him some tough love and sent him away.
After a couple months he comes back to Kevin with the script for DWW in his hand.
Actually, Kevin Costner told Michael Blake not to write a script and to write a novel instead. Once the novel became a best seller, then he wrote the script.
@@DeusExMachina50 yes…per the account on Graham Norton, he told him to go write anything but a script.
I was trying to make the story easily digestible.
@@poolhall9632 Yeah, the guy was failing as a screenwriter and whining about how it was everybody else's fault but his while crashing in Costner's house, and Kevin Costner got fed up and told him that since he sucked as a a screenwriter he should write something else instead, mabye a novel, a some time later kicked him out. So he went back to his hometown and got a regular job while he finished the novel "Dances With Wolvers." Later, he got Costner to read it and he liked it so much that he made it his personal project to bring it to the big screen, and he got the guy to adapt it to a screenplay.
@@poolhall9632 Costner told it the way you did when he was on The Actor's Studio.
Whites killed the buffalo for mainly fur.
The racism was extreme and there was no willingness to understand the other side.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with Paul Newman and Robert Redford is one of the all time favorite outlaw Westerns ever made. Action, humor, swagger, amazing scenery...classic Western outlaw movie.
Another great movie they did (non western) was The Sting. Great acting team 👍
and Little Big Man.
@@yepimheretoo2270 Yes, another great movie by Newman and Redford. They're perfect together.
👍❤
Jeremiah Johnson is great, too.
Little trivia fact: some of the buffalo were furnished for the film by Neil Young, who kept them on his ranch.
The kids that stole his horse weren't just rotten kids. Within many native cultures a greater victory than killing an opponent was "counting coup". It was when you snuck right into the heart of the enemy and just did a "prank": stole a simple, but identifiable item, even just touching the other person with a feather while they slept. So the kids were also counting coup.
Quite true... The old Mafia families would sneak onto the estate of a rival family just to steal the flowers from their gardens. It was considered symbolic of high disrespect and irreverence.
if they had been successful their families would be singing songs of them and that's what it is to be *famous* in native tribal lands lolol...
Just a movie classic and as a Native American I appreciate the story of it, thank you for your reaction. I very much recommend "Smoke Signals" which is the story of a Native family in today's world, written and directly by a Native man...I know you will both enjoy it
Oh good, I was thinking of Smoke Signals, saw a few people mention it, but was wondering what Native Americans thought of it.
The lady who plays Kicking Birds's wife is the mom in Smoke Signals.
@@pica6888 Tantoo Cardinal? I forgot. Been ages since I saw Smoke Signals. I just remember liking it.
Anyone see Dance me outside,a good movie also,Graham Green is a great Actor who should have got an Oscar for that movie but who needs awards when you go the peoples recognition,thats more appréciative n humbling
@@K.Boat7744 Graham Greene was fantastic in Thunderheart with Val Kilmer..
I am part Cherokee American Indian and 76 years old. At the age of 16 I met a Lumbee Indian who was 16 also. He is also 76 now. We became blood Brothers and we still are blood Brothers to this day. Cut the palms of our hand and held our hands together so our bloods could mix with each other's. To this day he is my only true friend. If you have a Native American Indian for a friend then you are very fortunate. Most loyal friend I have ever had.
Awesome to know your story
This movie is inducted into the National Film Archives as being culturally significant & rightly so. An absolute beauty of a movie
The speech from wind in his hair is incredible. This was my favorite movie as a child and I was young enough to where I couldn't read. My parents love to tell the story. I'd watch it daily. This movie gets blasted by alot of people and I'll never understand why. It's a masterpiece
(NaVVy was a squirrel, I am NOT a Navy Mom)
Wow, really? I've never heard ANYONE blast this movie.
Never heard much negative said about this film. It came widely acclaimed. Plenty of historical inaccuracy, but that could be said of most films, and to be fair, how much realism is required in a fictional story? While it could be fair to say movies like this give people a false idea of the realities of the time due to the story told from a certain point of view, but the same could be said for the history books, and those don't have the constraints of a film production.
In short, the worst things that can be said about the film can not be the fault of the film itself in so much as the mindset of the cultures that produced and enjoyed it.
This movie was HUGE when it came out, and it still hits after all these years.
Masterpiece indeed.
@@autonomouspublishingincorp8241 The criticism is more modern. Being from these days, you can guess what they say about it.
I am Canadian, and we watched this movie in History class and you could hear a pin drop in the classroom the entire time....This movie has stuck with me all those years and still gets me every time I watch it.
As a Native American, myself, I thank you guys for reacting to this movie. I wish more reaction channels would react to more movies about Native Americans. Some suggestions might be War Party starring Kevin Dillon, Hostiles starring Christian Bale or Dance Me Outside starring Adam Beach. This channel is one of my favorite reaction channels. Keep it up.
This is an edit: I can't believe some asshole question me about being native or indigenous or whatever word you feel comfortable using. First of all: What would it benefit me to pretend to be Indigenous? Seriously. What positive outcome could I possibly gain by doing that?
Bottom line? I am Cree. I am proud to be Cree.
There are over 300 replies to this comment. All of them have been great and I thank you all for your positive responses and suggestions for further movies about native people. And of course, there has to be that one hater, that one jackass who feels so entitled that he questions my authenticity. I would delete this comment because of that but I think it's important in this day and age to allow ideas and realities as the acknowledgement of native culture in this predominantly white and black culture and society. So I'll leave this comment. Fuck the haters.🖕
Second edit: I think that person has since deleted that comment questioning my ethnicity but I'm not changing anything about this comment. I'm so sick of racist assholes. I don't want anyone to ever think that I'm gonna back down because that will never happen.
I would recommend Wind Talkers, but I'm waiting for them to remake it without the white savior plot point. It's a great story. They should do it right.
The Outlaw Josey Wales is another great movie about Native Americans. Chief Dan George stole every scene he was in and the meeting between Chief Ten Bears and Josey Wales is one of the best ever.
I stumbled across Hostiles completely by accident, and I was so impressed! I loved it!
@@MavenCree YES!!! Thank you!!! Code Talkers saved the US and a white guy gets all the credit in the movie? I DO NOT THINK SO!!
This movie introduced me to several great actors, Graham Greene being one of them. The Last of His Tribe is one of my favorite movies starring Greene.
The ending with Wind in His Hair shouting his farewell to Dunbar still gets me and it's been some 30 years since I first watched it
Same here tears flow every time 😢
It’s important to note that the only people who knew John Dunbar was assigned to that post were the mentally ill officer who killed himself right after giving him the “orders” and the guide/trapper who was later killed. No one else knew John Dunbar was there or existed, so if it hadn’t been for his diary (and going back for it), Dances With Wolves could have melted away and stayed with the People forever. 😢
Home base way back east knew as well. But they're too far away to care.
@@singingwolf3929 Home base back East didn't know he made it to the town and they didn't know the mentally ill officer assigned him to the post. The only 2 non-Sioux with any of that information died before they could tell anyone else.
@@roywalley8879 Fair. He told the people back East that he wanted to see "The Frontier" before it was gone. They sent him to Major Fambrough for assignment. Who subsequently sent him to Fort Sedgwick and then deleted himself from the census.
I will admit that I should have re-run the dialog in my head before stating that the others back East should know he was supposed to be at that SPECIFIC location. I appreciate the correction.
The scene of the officer killing himself at the last outpost on the frontier was meant to show how long he’d been out there, and how being just that isolated from society can make you go crazy. Dunbar was going out even farther, and even more isolated.
Mules vs horses is like an off-road vehicle vs a Porsche. Torque vs speed. Mules are a lot more hardy.
Mules are my choice of equine!!! Love horses, but mules have my whole heart!
Plus a mule won't work itself to death like a horse will. Once they're done working for the day, they are done. Oxen are that way too.
In the book it goes into more detail about the crazy guy who sent him to the outpost
And oxen even more so, especially into the mountains with heavy loads.
I always thought the guy shot himself because of being sick and pissing himself helplessly. Some disease.
One of my favorite movies, both for the story and the beautiful scenery! It's made me want to move from my home in Maryland to South Dakota.
Graham Greene (Kicking Bird) is one of my favorite movie characters of all time. How can anyone not love that guy?
I didn’t have enough tissues with this movie Cisco and two socks then with wind in his hair I was absolutely sobbing.
Definitely worth the seven Oscars this movie got.
I saw this in the theater when it first came out and people were crying over Two Socks:(
Same here, my late Brother used to call me when he saw it was being telivised even though i kept repeating I have the DVD I can watch it every day. His answer to that Oh no need to be cocky about it 😂
This film holds a special place in my heart. Some scenes were shot on the ranch across the road from my grandmas house. She was able to meet some of the people making the film and recieved a photo of Two Socks that was signed by the trainer. She still has in hung up in her bedroom.
My aunts boyfriend said part of it was filmed on his and his brothers ranch in SD
@@siouxgirl2703 Awesome! My grandma said that she knew the people who owned the ranch lol She still lives in that area
So now you know why your dad loves this movie! And yes, the little girl was played by Kevin's daughter Annie. It was filmed predominantly in the Badlands, South Dakota. Kevin also directed it. It won the academy award for best picture and best director that year.
I really enjoyed this movie when I watched it. 3 decades later I now live in South Dakota and am sad for the once proud and warrior Lakota Nation. There are so many drug addicts, alcoholics, homeless Lakota now.
Seeing this movie in the cinema as a kid was was a magical experience.
It's when you watch movies like this one that you realise how Hollywood has totally collapsed in quality in recent years.
yeah. now we get remake x4 and social justice woven into the script. boo.
I saw it as a kid as well with my parents when I was around 8 years old in theaters and I've always loved this movie since then. It definitely became more enjoyable the older I've gotten. The buffalo hunt sequence alone is something that has to be seen on a big screen to fully appreciate it.
@@alucard624 This might be my favorite movie ever, perhaps tied with a couple other films. I own it on DVD (and VHS!!), and I've seen it at least 5 or 6 times over the years. Sadly, this is one I never got to see in the theater, which is just a tragedy, really.
But even with the limitation of the (then) 26" tube TV I had at the time, it was still magical and majestic and a masterpiece! It was film-making that important truly is a "thing of the past".
This is easily one of the greatest epic films ever made. I strongly suggest you get yourself the extended version. It adds another hour of amazing footage in a movie you don't want to end. The music, backdrops, casting and script are amazing.
I concur. How many four hours movies fly by and you STILL want more... One of the greatest movies ever.
I agree after seeing the US theatrical version which was the edited 3 hour version when it originally opened in theaters I did have some questions regarding some of story line and years later I was finally able to see the extended or UK release which answered my questions and shed more light on the storyline. Still one of the best movies ever.
I love this movie so much. I got to see it in the theater when it first came out and also when it was re-released for the 20th and 30th anniversary. There would not be a dry eye in the place every time I saw it.
This movie deserved every award it got.I love watching these with you two xx
That Buffalo Hunting scene might be the greatest outdoor action sequence in film history. Just amazing
(NaVVy was a squirrel, I am NOT a Navy Mom)
Yes! Rodney Grant (Wind in His Hair) said something about the rush when filming that scene. I can't remember exactly what he said though.
The bareback riding is bloody epic!
Musical score: Have you ever heard a musical score so eloquently capture the spirit of the great west!!!!!
John Barry's soundtrack for this movie is the best ever! :) Also for me, this is the best movie ever :)
This is, in my own opinion, the greatest western film ever made. I have had the expanded edition, with an additional hour of footage, on laserdisc since it was released. This film is spectacular. I was a projectionist for Cinemark theaters when this film was released. I'll never forget it because the film came in ten reels, and barely fit on our projector platters.
I too worked in theaters (AMC) when this cane out. Thus was the movie my husband and saw on our first date, so this is special to us.
So glad you reacted to this film! I saw it the week it opened in Washington, DC at the Uptown Theater which had a huge screen made up of 6 panels. It was amazing to see and so moving. Kevin spent much of his own money to get the movie made. Hollywood executives said no one would go see a 3 hour movie, let alone a western. They were wrong of course. One thing I love about Kevin is he always insists on age appropriate co-stars (love interest). The casting person/studio kept bringing in young girls for this film and he told them he wanted a 'woman' to play this role. He insisted until they brought in Mary McDonnell, who is perfect in the role. My favorite, and the saddest, part to me is when he answers the chiefs question of how many white people will come..."Many, like the stars". Another good western with Kevin Costner is Open Range. Kevin funded a documentary about Native Americans too.
Open Range is brilliant! Such an enthralling drama with great characters and the action doesn't hit until the end but what an ending!
Yes indeed, Open Range IS a brilliant movie! In my view it is THE best Western. Story aside, the cinematics, interaction between lead characters, minimalist and precise dialogue and the the best ever shoot-out scene puts this in a league of its own.
Dances is a good film, but it too often traffics in familiar clichés and revisionist history. The Lakota, for instance, hadn't been living on that land for millennia, as you would be left to believe, but rather took it from other tribes that had been there before them. And while it is true that American Indians attached spiritual significance to all life, it is also true that whenever it became economically advantageous, they slaughtered wildlife with the same reckless abandon as whites did. One thing that is notable about the movie's spin is how Dunbar is the only white character (not including Stands with a Fist, who was essentially native) who is portrayed positively. There had to be some bad Indians, so the Pawnee became evil incarnate while the Lakota get fitted with halos. One other thing to note is the horse thievery: in almost all American Indian cultures, gain through theft or trickery was greatly admired, so those boys were seeking the approval of their elders when they stole Dunbar's horse. Last comment: This was not simply a matter of two groups of people "misunderstanding" one another. Every square inch of inhabitable land in the world has been fought over many, many times. The coming of European-Americans was just another long line in that chain, people doing what is needed for survival. The Indians were not wrong for defending their land, but neither was the loss of their land some unique travesty. The Americas were conquered, not stolen.
@@btgiv6009 A lot of what you say is correct. Especially your overall message that the tribes warred with each other and the Lakota conquered other tribes to control the land they held up until the whites fought for it. I also agree that the Americas were conquered and not stolen.
But you said the film uses familiar cliches whereas I think it was rare to show the Indians as normal humans instead of as enemies for the cowboys. I may be wrong but the bulk of Indian portrayal onscreen was not positive. You said only Dunbar and Stands With a Fist are positive whites but the general at the beginning (who rewards Dunbar) and the lieutenant at the end in charge of the group who capture Dunbar are both men of honour. Dunbar even stops his friends from scalping that lieutenant. The Pawnee are not set up as 'evil incarnate'. They just have an angry warmonger among them played brilliantly by Wes Studi. The other Pawnee do not like his ways but go along with him. The main Lakota tribe are not 'fitted with halos' either. They attack Dunbar a few times. They even beat him up - after getting to know him - just because he interrupted their pow wow one night. We also see them mass slaughtering buffalo (though not with reckless abandon) and in the extended version they scalp an entire group of white hunters. For the most part, I think the film is aiming to be well-rounded.
What a joy watching my favorite movie with you two reacting. I'm an Apache from New Mexico, who also lived 11 years in Oklahoma. I saw this movie in Germany, when it first came out. I saw it in the theater at Ramstein Air Base in Germany during Desert Storm. I saw it twice in the American theater. Then a German friend of mine took me to see it in a German theater in Kaiserslautern. It German it is called Der Mit Dem Wolf Tantz. I loved it EVERY time. Watching it with you guys was another pleasure. You were talking about the buffalo in Oklahoma. I was a survival instructor for the Air Force, stationed as Altus AFB. I would take my crew members to Ft. Sill for training. Of course, Ft. Sill is in Lawton. The training area we used bordered Medicine Park, right outside of Cache, Okla.
Medicine Park has a large herd of buffalo. When I returned to the states after being in Germany, a German friend I had made there came to America and hooked up with me. I took him to a 13 nation pow wow in Apache, Okla. Then I took him to medicine park to see the buffalo. He, my son and I saw buffalo up on the side of a hill. We drove around behind the hill and walked up to the top, with the hopes of seeing them from the top of the hill. When we reached the top of hill, we saw the heads of the buffalo as they were walking toward us. We jumped up on a huge rock and just watched as this huge herd of buffalo passed on all sides of us. It was amazing and beautiful!! I love those memories.
Thank you for your service and for your story that was great to hear
I just read your comment and just wanted to tell you ..... nice comment , I was also in military when this movie came out on the Nimitz ..... Do you still use your survival skills training these days ? I live on a small ranch in Texas and go out by myself for a few days every once in a while just to be in complete silence of nature ...... ☮
thank you for this reaction. I'm a full blooded zuni (ho Shiwi) native american for pueblo of zuni (zuni, New Mexico) and its always honor to get reactions about our people and the history. We as the first nation which right now, U.S.A. has over 500 Native American Tribes that exist from the east coast to the west coast, are always dealing with Native Americans classified as extinct and only exist in the past history of early Northern America. imagine that there were more tribes before first contact of Europeans and have got wiped out more then Half but we still exist in our lands that we have been for centuries. movies like this just scratch the surface of the history of our people. one movie that I also love is Thunderheart actor Val Kilmer did a great justice and Graham Greene who is Kicking Bird in this movie
Graham Greene is a national treasure. He's such a great character actor, and all around good person. I love when he gets to be sarcastic and humorous in films because he does it so well.
Bruh, I hate to be the one to break it to you but nobody is 100% of anything. Those commercialized DNA tests duped people into thinking that's real but in the small print they admit it's just for fun. In reality we are all actually made up of many things, including different species of now extinct hominids. The heavy duty DNA tests can actually break it down, and we know Native/first nations originate from Asia, so you see how you wouldn't be 100% Native.
Anyway, I have Abenaki and Nipissing blood from grandmothers from a few hundred years back, but I'm not claiming it or living the culture, so it's just becomes a bit of what makes me up. Much like your white DNA, which you most certainly have, is a part of what makes you up.
Graham Greene is amazing in Thunderheart. Quite a character in that one. - And the old man is amazing too. And the TV movie "The Last Of His Tribe" with Jon Voight. Mr. Greene excels in that one too. Another sad story based on real persons and events.
This is one of my all-time favorite movies. I saw it in the theater a few times and just loved it so much. Christine's family was portrayed by Kevin's then wife and their 3 kids, with his oldest playing Christine. The buffalo scene was amazing and incredible to watch, especially knowing how hard it was to get it done. Riding within the stampede were actual buffalo handlers and Kevin made the decision that he wasn't going to miss being part of it. In fact, during it, he fell off his horse and they brought in his 2nd horse immediately, so he jumped on and continued riding. You can sorta tell when it's a different horse he's riding...slightly different body type. Of course, when the star and director of the movie falls off his horse during a buffalo stampede, lots of people were freaking out...except him. Also, the buffalo that was going to attack Smiles A Lot, was Neil Young's "pet" buffalo. The way they got him to run towards someone was for them to hold up some Oreo's...his favorite treat...LOL!
Thanks for sharing! I was so impressed to see him shooting off horseback while riding at that speed. I'm not surprised he fell off!
Is it Buffalo Springfield?
Thank You so much for a little inside info. Coloradan, I had Brothers/schoolmates that went back home to the res in Arizona every summer, always came back with great stories of the "fight", the struggle to keep the old ways, and especially the stories, alive, through the peoples.
This was filmed in the Badlands of South Dakota. There are still wide open expanses just as beautiful. If you want to see a lot of bison up close & personal, go to Custer State Park in the Black Hills. Drive the wildlife loop and bison will walk right past your car. Every year at the end of September they do a Buffalo Roundup of the Custer herd (the purest herd in the US) to cull it & vaccinate the ones that remain. The"culled" bison are then auctioned off to private herds. I went just this year - it was incredible!
One of my favorite movies. While I was in the Army, I became great friends with a full blooded Navajo who came from the reservation in New Mexico. You realize we all have much in common and that we're not races but people trying to live our lives. Great reaction as usual, you 2 are great!
This movie is amazing and it has one of the most beautiful musical scores ever written! In high school, I was in the band and we played this for a band concert. I have loved it ever since I first heard it.
Yes. I bought the CD after I saw the movie. Jon Barry's music score was a gem in the film.
I bought the movie soundtrack CD, too. Beautiful music.
Well said! I had it too and still love to this day. :)
I love the music in the film too Jennifer and I love John Barry's music in general.
The skinny kid Smiles a lot, his daughter grew to be the first native American Supermodel. Quannah Chasinghorse
Yeah, and he grew up and sexually abused a bunch of indigenous minors along the way.
Hi Jay and Amber. This is one of my all time favs. The ending with "The Fierce One" makes me cry every single time. I never get tired of watching it. So glad you liked it.
This was my Mom's favorite movie. She went to see it in the theaters THREE times and watch it countless times over the years on dvd and such.... this movie always makes me tear up, every single time.
Like your mom, I watched it multiple times in the theatre. It was just a transformative experience. I would leave the theatre feeling a renewed view of the world around me each time and I had to buy it on DVD to relive those feelings whenever I could. I finally got to show it to my own children a few months ago during a family movie night at home. They loved it.
Wind In His Hair yelling at the end never fails to make me cry!
The Directors cut version of this is one of my all time favorite movies. The imagery, the music, the performance, the authentic language. It all just comes together perfectly.
Yes! Everyone should watch the directors cut.
@@HadassaMoon144 Almost 4 hours version
I only ever watch the director's cut, couldn't go back to the theatrical cut now. Director's cut is so much better
@@leighkeane7770 the international version or extended version is just as good as the Director's Cut but just a little shorter but not much shorter lol
It explains a lot more-like Captain Cargill and his me starving while they wait for a supply wagon. They agreed to go back to Fort Hayes-screw the consequences of abandoning their post.
It also explains why nobody knew Dunbar was there-between Corporal Farnsworth’s suicide and Timmons death…
I have seen this movie so many times, and I still (and will probably always) sob over Cisco and Two Socks. 😫 I'm so glad you guys watched this beautiful movie and enjoyed it, ty for the great reaction as always.
(NaVVy was a squirrel, I am NOT a Navy Mom)
My family and I agree that the trick to watching this movie after the first time is to just pretend they lived happily ever after and stop it after the wedding. The downside is missing Wind in His Hair's epic speech at the end though, but it also means not having to see Cisco and Two Socks die.
This was one of the best movie epics ever made. The story line, the cinematography and musical score by John Barry make this an unforgettable cinematic masterpiece.
One of, if not THE, most beautiful films ever shot. Just breathtaking and the story is so important and sticks with you.
IS the most beautiful movie EVER made...I love it so much;)
Hey fellow Okies - glad you took this on for a reaction. I'm glad you are getting into the westerns and other genres. Costner was adamant that the Native Americans speak the proper language, so they spent hours learning the words and proper inflection. You may be interested to know the leader of the Pawnee who killed the Teamster and attacked the tribe is Wes Studi. He is a Cherokee born in eastern Oklahoma and didn't learn English until starting elementary school. He is also a producer and has won many awards. If you review the 1992 movie "The Last of the Mohicans" he's a bad guy in it as well. You should add that movie to your list; it's based upon the 1826 book by James Fenimore Cooper and set before the U.S. was an independent country.
He's also in the new show, "Reservation Dogs". Iconic actor 🙌
And don't forget his role as the Spinx in Mystery Men!
Heat as well.
Also the Na'vi chieftain Eytukan in Avatar.
I just recently(4 months ago) had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Studhi as he was driving through my town. First time I ever had a fan boy moment with a celeb.
This horse was at Fort Cody in South Dakota after the filming. I got to meet the horse in person.
Awesome I'm jealous
Winner of 7 Oscars including Best Picture!
I think Costner helped write screen play and directed it as well ... He really understands the art of movie making...... very underrated today ............
Mules can walk all day pulling heavy loads, horses get blown quickly . Also the general at the outpost had gone insane through the stress of being on the frontier.... with him gone nobody knew that the outpost was now manned
One of my all-time favorite movies that always brings out so many emotions.
Thank you for your wonderful reaction to Kevin Costner’s masterpiece. This film won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and Best Director for Costner. In my top ten favorite movies of all time. Heart-breaking, yes, but absolutely beautiful.
I love this movie so much!!!
I remember watching this in the theater with my Dad. It was the first time I had ever seen him tear up at a movie.
Ive seen it six times, and i cry every time. It's a roller-coaster. Costner's direction and the locations and photography are exceptional.
Such a brilliant movie. I would argue that it’s a western in that the story of the west wasn’t just about gun slingers and cowboys. This story broadens the scope of the western historical narrative. A real masterpiece of a movie.
I really loved " Last of the Dogman" too. A tracker/ bounty hunter was looking for convicts when they are suddenly killed and only an arrow is found. He gets a professor who speaks the language to come with him as they look for the answers. It is just as beautiful. Tom Bereger
The four wheeler trails we use in the foothills of the Ozark mountains, were once the wagon trails used by our pioneering great great grandfather's. Have found brass wagon parts over the years. I am still impressed when I go over rough ground. Thinking at one time folks did the same with a wagon and mules, on wooden wheels.
She already lost one husband. I imagine she was frantic for him to return home safe. You can feel her relief and happiness. It’s palpable emotion.
This was a very important film to me growing up. I grew up Metis (a mixture of indigenous and other heritage). In my case I was Cree and Scottish-Ukrainian. When I saw this when I was 13 there was no "representation" of the real way of life of Native peoples. The films portrayal of a man caught between two worlds I found to be extremely relatable. As a kid growing up of mixed heritage those themes really spoke to me. My mother also went to school with one of the actresses in the film. Her name is Tantoo Cardinal. Finally the closing scene with Wind in His Hair yelling "sunkmanitu Tanka Ob Waci"...you will always be my friend. It get's me every time. This is a very important film to me and glad you took the time to watch it.
You guys were asking where this was filmed. While the Pawnee are from the Kansas and Nebraska area, I lived in Kansas and knew many in the Shawnee tribe which is actually based in Oklahoma. They travel a lot!
That being said, Dances With Wolves was actually filmed in South Dakota.
Most of the movie was filmed on location in South Dakota, mainly on private ranches near Pierre and Rapid City, with a few scenes filmed in Wyoming. Specific locations included the Badlands National Park, the Black Hills, the Sage Creek Wilderness Area, and the Belle Fourche River area.
I love the Native Americans! (They give me Bepsi) I'm happy to have the pleasure of knowing members of the Shawnee, Pawnee, Navajo, and Ute tribes. ❤ My cousin even married a great young man who is a Ute.
So many great things in this movie, but my favorite has to be watching the relationship evolve between John Dunbar and Wind in His Hair. With Wind in His Hair up on the mountain at the end, shouting for the world to hear. “Can you see that I am your friend? Can you see that I will always be your friend?“ All these years later, that one moment still tears me up…
Many years ago, as a boy, I lived on a large horse farm bordered by a massive state nature preserve. I spent a lot of time riding fences and kept running into a large stray dog. It just seemed interested and would watch patiently. I gave him no mind, even though my horse, usually comfortable with dogs, was pretty focused on this dog while I repaired fence. Over time, the dog would approach me near the barns if I was working on something (tractor, implements, car, etc.). I would toss him something to eat, each time a bit closer. I usually had beef jerky with me and finally, she would take it from my hand.
We had a fly-in veterinarian and once he & I had a horse down for gelding. I was sitting across his hind legs (in case he twitched) while the Doc worked. He looks over at me, then over my shoulder, and says, "DON'T LOOK!" So of course I do and 8-10 feet away is the dog. "Oh, she's alright, I call her Annie." So he asks how is it that I have a pet wolf? Long silence. "You know that is a wolf, right?" Sure. Of course. Inside: "HOLY SH%T!" This went on for another year and I went off to college. Never saw her again for sure. Thanks Annie.
That is another great story thank you for sharing
Used to live in Ponca and Bartlesville. I'd often go over to Tallgrass Prairie Preserve just north of Pawhuska to photograph the bison herd there. Seeing bison in their natural habitat with no fences and the wind gently playing with your hair is beyond imagining. BTW, watching the director's cut will fill some of the blanks. Also, regarding knowledge of others, between these 2 tribes: Lakota and Pawnee, they got them reversed. The Lakota, by far, were the more deadly, vicious, and feared.
Such an underrated movie by many people. So many great character arcs. And you couldn't have said it any better. We are taught to fear.
Underrated? It won the Best Picture Oscar over Goodfellas.
Even more beautiful than the film, was watching how moved you two were by watching it.
It is a profound and thoughtful film...very historically accurate.
So glad y'all liked it! Thank you for sharing😍😍😍
❤’d your reaction to this great film. Kevin Costner not only did a great job acting in it but also directing it. The movie was shot mostly in South Dakota with a few scenes shot in Wyoming. It’s considered a western because it took place in the American Frontier. Can you please react to “Legends of the Fall” and “Apocalypto”
Apocalpto is f....g great. Gibson's best by far.
LOVE Legends of the Fall. It's deeper than I think a lot of people realized at the time.
Yes…..legends of the fall.
YES those two movies are GREAT!!
@@myplan8166 a masterpiece
I'm so happy you guys reacted to this, especially since it was a favorite of Amber's Dad. This is really a great movie and I agree, everyone should watch it at least once. Kevin Costner also stars in The Bodyguard with Whitney Houston, and he stars in Hidden Figures, a true story of the important contributions of black women in the space program to get the first American into space. Both of those are great movies. For a Christmas movie, our family on Thanksgiving night always watches The Homecoming: A Christmas Story. It's from 1971 and was the pilot movie for The Waltons tv series. If you like archery, The Hunger Games. There are 4 movies to tell the full story so you have to watch all 4.
But of course the guy is too stupid to know the guns aren’t accurate back in those days.. I would’ve won The lottery with guessing with what he would say and he actually did. I swear they said they are teachers before I would pull my kid right out of the school they were teaching in right away..
I do believe that the Sioux Indians made Kevin Costner an honorary member of the tribe after this movie was made.
12:55 My cousin's great great great grandmother was scalped as a baby and left for dead in the year 1826. Indians in the area of SW Wisconsin had killed her father over an argument and the mother (who was half-Sioux) ran out of the house with her 2-yr-old boy. They later found the father and one of his friends dead in the house, and the baby's body scalped and kicked under a bed. When they started to clean the baby for burial, they discovered that she still lived. She went on to have a family and lived into her sixties.
One of my favorites. I remember being blown away seeing this on the big screen in the theatre. Kevin deserved his Oscar for director of this. If you loved this kind of drama and story, you will love “braveheart” starring Mel Gibson. Another fantastic fave!
compared to this one, braveheart is just waaaaaaay too melodramatic for my taste
@Sandman_says_run, Runner no it is Mel Gibson. You're thinking of Thunderheart.
@@momminator98 My bad... you're totally correct. I had spent 20 minutes discussing "Thunderheart" and had it on my brain. The fact that I typed "Braveheart" and it didn't click... lol
Thanks for the heads-up.
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This is great to see you two react to this. This movie marked a pivotal big step in better representation of Native images on film. Dances with Wolves was also hugely appreciated by the Native community for specifically that. Being a Native myself seeing this when I was younger it was a revelation; seeing the First Nations culture given humanity than simple minded brigands, thieves, drunks, savages, or primitives who only speak in monosyllabic grunts and noises. It would be great if you both were/are willing to look into the Native culture, people of the area in which you live. Thank you again.
Love y'all's reactions. Y'all just beautiful people. Thanks for keeping me positive. ❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍
This movie was a great representation of native culture and one of the most authentic. They really did their homework for this movie and I’m glad y’all reacted to it!
Which native culture? There are over 1100 tribes in North America, most are distinct from one another.
@@tiffaniterris2886 Sioux, in this case.
They messed up with the language though. Sioux men speak in a slightly different dialect than the women, but they got a woman linguist to translate. They were all supposed to speak this language. Lots of laughs from Sioux men!
@@downhomesunset interesting,like Japanese men's and women's language.
Women taped in secret used the men's language among themselves.
In my top ten for many reasons. This film is a masterpiece in my opinion. The respect I have for Costner is cemented in this epic. From the beautiful & genteel way he depicts the people with such dignity, to the portrayals, score, sets, filming locations etc...fantastic. So much depth to this in character development, the relationships of both cultural & personal is brilliant. To me...its all on one man, Kicking Bird. It only takes one to make a difference. The best & worst of man is in this movie. So glad y'all watched this. I have concerns over those who have have no emotional reaction to this or "Saving Private Ryan", etc. Perceptions & blind ignorance is deadly...but all it takes to diffuse is sincere communication & respect.
Graham Greene is a great actor- he was in Northern Exposure as Leonard the Shaman.
Dances with wolves is an all time favorite of mine as well. This movie is a masterpiece for many reasons. Too many to list them all but I’ll rattle off a few. The plot, the beautiful scenery, the cinematography, the dialog and use of the Sioux language to name a few. Very emotional and brought out real feelings like, happiness, sadness, anger, pride, love, shame, and gratefulness etc.. Also, every time I rewatch it, it brings me back to those same feelings and memories of when I saw it for the first time. Kind of like great a song that makes you feel a certain way and brings back memories of a time frame or event in your life . Like the junior high party where you had a crush on a girl and you ended up hanging out for the first time at that party and a particular song was playing in your brains’s version of the memory.
The first time I saw Dances With Wolves. I begrudgingly agreed to go to the movie theatre and see the movie because my wife wanted to see it. I had heard it was a three hour movie and I thought I would be bored. Three hours flew by like the snap of your fingers and I remember how disappointed I was that it was over. Everything about this movie is fantastic.
On a side note, anybody else feel like feel like Avatar is the CGI, sci-fi version of Dances with Wolves. Kinda feels like they ripped off the plot at the very least.
Kevin Costner was made an honorary Sioux by the Tribes for making this movie, and showing them in an honest, non-prejudicial way. The movie won many Oscars and the Buffalo hunt scene was filmed for real and Costner did his own riding. To this day, it is considered one of the masterpieces of cinematography. I remember seeing it at the theater when it came out, and the hunt was overwhelming on the big screen. It was fun watching this with you.
This is one of my all time favorite movies and for sure my favorite performance by Kevin Costner. I’m glad you both enjoyed it so much.
Isnt " smiles alot" the best name ever ? Says so much
I remember the day my Mom and I went to go see this. It was pouring rain and our mood was reflecting that rain, but we ran for the cinema doors and sat down and watched one of the most amazing films ever! I went over 5 times to see this movie at the theaters! Though I still hate losing Cisco and Two Socks, I think of what an amazing journey and friendships and love were born through the simple act of being curious and compassionate enough to see through ANY barriers. I'm not on Patreon, so I kind of like not knowing what you're going to watch because it's always a great surprise. Also, was probably a difficult movie to edit for you. FYI...the bad guy Indian would played the Pawnee is the actor Wes Studi. He is also in another one my fav movies "The Last of the Mohicans" staring Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeline Stowe. I've already mentioned the movie "Young Guns" which I know you will enjoy (more like the western you are used to). And I also love "Silverado" (another 80's western) which also has a younger Kevin Costner as well as a huge cast! And another one is "Glory" which stars Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman which is a story about the first black regiment to fight in the Civil War.
"Glory" was an awesome film with a fantastic cast. Denzel Washington was outstanding as always and Morgan Freeman was rightly cast. But I thought Matthew Broderick as Col. Robert Gould Shaw was miscast; I know Matthew was playing a stoic character, but he still always seemed emotionless in his expressions. I think Matthew should stick to comedy, like Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
@@SweetThing Yes. Definitely a fair assessment of Matthew Broderick. I can think of even worst "miscasting" would be Keanu Reeves (and I love the guy!) in "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and when he was in "Dangerous Liasons". I kept waiting for him to say something like he would as Bill and Ted..."Bogus!"...lol!
I'm so glad you got around to this movie, and so glad it hit a chord with you both. Even 30 years later, "I am Wind in his Hair, Can you not see that I am your Friend?" ... always gets me., along with one or two other moments in the film.
The insane officer who shoots himself is one of the more intriguing characters in the movie because we aren't told why. Brilliantly acted.
My understanding is that the scene with the insane officer giving John his orders, then committing suicide immediately after explains part of the plot. John is left at his post on his own because the only people who know he's there are the insane officer, who makes no record of the assignment before he kills himself, and the wagon driver, who is killed soon after as well.
John Barry's musical score for this film is still one of the finest ever made. Weirdly when you watch 'Avatar' its amazing how much of Dances with Wolves and Pocahontas find their way into the plot of Cameron's sci-fi epic. For me this is Costner's finest role, with 'A Perfect World' being tied with 'Field of Dreams' for second.
One of my favorites. Saw this in the movies when I was 10.
Dances with Wolves and The Postman are two of my favorite movies. I can see why him being in with Yellowstone makes so much sense.
This movie along with growing up in MI and visiting a lot of Ojibwe land really shaped a lot of my thinking at a young age. history is shitty but needs to be learned so we can make a better day for those who follow us. I loved seeing your reaction to this film as it was one in my youth that I feel shaped my early mind.
I LOVE this movie!! Such an epic journey of courage, respect, and tolerance. We need a lot more John Dunbars and Kicking Birds in the world!!!
OMGOMGOMG!!! I asked you to request this one in the comments one time, and I’m SOO SOOOO excited to have you watch this.
This is one of those movies that you can watch over and over again regardless of the fact that it’s a three hour movie. The music and cinematography alone are incredibly done. Now you know why it won the Academy award for Best Motion Picture.
“Hostiles” is an equally incredible movie that captivates you with the spirit of the Native American Indian and what took place after the civil war. You will be moved with a heavy heart when you watch it. I believe this is, perhaps, Christian Bale’s best performance.
Finally, you have to make time for “The Revenant” with Leonardo DiCaprio. This movie takes place at or around the same time. You will be amazed at this movie’s cinematography.
The Revenant was good but could have been better if it hadn't lingered on so many shots of nature. Felt like I was watching a documentary half the time.
That final scene where he is calling out that Dunbar is his brother, gets me every time.
19:09 that is an absolute portrait!
One of the most iconic movies ever made, and what a wonderful story, I remember reading the book before I saw this film, the book is quite good as well, I am very glad y'all reacted to this and enjoyed this one!! Loved your emotional investment with these characters, as far as the shooting of 2 socks, if you notice, the soldiers wounded him, they didn't kill him, i like to think the suiox that were(wind in his hair, smiles alot) they put 2 socks out of his misery, again, thank you so much for reacting to this one, you guys are to wonderful, take care...👍👍👍👍👍
Ewww... Can't wait! One of the best all-time movies to me. Kevin Costner directed, produced, and starred in this amazing film. It won 7 Oscars. I saw it at least 3 times when it was released in the theatre. I think the run time is closing in on 4 hours. Worth every second of it🎉
I just found your channel and love it! This was filmed where I live, the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota. I also went to high school with Smiles A Lot, and that man is not the boy he once was.
This is possibly one of the greatest, most beautifully told films of all time!
36:45 "Many times I'd felt alone, but until this afternoon I'd never felt completely lonely." That is one of my favourite lines of all the movies. :)