DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990) | MOVIE REACTION! | FIRST TIME WATCHING
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Honestly the scene at the end when Wind In His Hair is shouting is one that is like instant tears every time. Such a great arc for the character and you feel his love for Dunbar so much. This movie is one that meant a lot to my family. It was a big film for including Native people AS native people. My Dad's side of my family are Cherokee and I recall it being meaningful to them, several of the actors are from Oklahoma, which is where we are from.
Kickapoo here (lower indiana and parts of kentucky). Also, before anyone makes a joke, yes i know it's a weird name.
@@aaronburdon221 There's a town called Kickapoo up the road in Missouri. Played them in basketball a lot as a kid.
Me too friend. Instant tears every time
Ditto, that final scene has me in tears. The fact that the native language is spoken, and subtitles used, really adds authenticity to the story. As much as I would like the story to be true, it is fiction, but it certainly does expose the tragic and barbaric way the native people were treated. I think as a society, it is a shame the new Americans weren't more aware of the value of the culture and knowledge and history of the native people and that more wasn't done to try to preserve it and establish some form of status quo, as difficult as that is.
Sadly the same has happened to the Aboriginals of Australia, the Amazonian tribes, and others. Even the North Sentinal islands have been contacted on several occasions despite governments imposing a ban on disturbing those that live there.
Agree100
Thank you Mary for going in BLIND, I think it adds to the authenticity of your reactions.
What?
Actually the Bison herd is very small for the time. When Lewis and Clark's Expedition encountered a Bison Herd, it was so large it took four days for the Herd to pass, it is estimated that there was around 60 million Bison roaming North America in the year 1800.
Believe it or not, back before then the bison range extended all the way to the Hudson River. At first glance this would seem impossible, but the natives used a "more distant" form of husbandry than we are accustomed to. They'd select a small number of food-bearing trees and protect them, and then prevent any other trees from growing by periodically burning the undergrowth. So there was food in all the trees but still enough space underneath for herds of bison to roam.
When the Europeans arrived, they found a land that "miraculously" bore unlimited food, while also observing the natives "infernal barbarian practice" of "needlessly igniting the undergrowth wherever he goes."
So then when they landed at Plymouth and tried to start a town, they almost died the first winter - largely because they had chopped down all the trees they could find... so they could make a fort... to protect themselves from the natives...
The Indians would use every part of the Bison
@@DeltaAssaultGaming And the white man almost exterminated the buffalo by shooting them for sport. Pictures of MOUNTAINS of buffalo skulls document this, and leave the carcasses on the plains.
@@DeltaAssaultGaming I believe that's true of most indigenous people. The "civilized" people more often than not seem to be the wasteful ones ;-)
When Daniel Boone first came to Kentucky he wrote about seeing the path where buffalo had traveled. He said it was a path 100 yards wide that went on for miles and miles.
Watching a kind and thoughtful person fall in love with a good movie is as distinct a pleasure as the film itself.
It's like watching it for the first time all over again.
This film is really what I call an "experience".
Absolutely!
I have watched this movie several times at least. It's a great movie in all respects. There is another as good as this which you should cover. It's Little Big Man.
That moment near the end when Wind In His Hair shouts to Dances With Wolves... one of my favorite moments in any movie ever. Leaves me wrecked every time (and I've seen this movie at least a dozen times). Great choice.
This movie reminds me that word: “Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.”
careful.... you go speaking that word out loud, and try giving people things for free, and the world will think you're a communist.
@@bcn1gh7h4wk it’s an Indian proverb. I think they were complaining about white men greed.
23:10 The "Taking a bite of the animals Raw Organ" is a hunting tradition. Very few still do this. It is to show Respect for the animal's sacrifice for your sustenance. The entire animal would be used for different things. Food, housing, clothing, weapons.
Lonesome Dove is an amazing mini series set in the west, totally worth watching.
Mary, it's perfectly okay to say "Indian." On the reservation most of the native tribes call themselves Indians. It's not technically correct, but the people getting their knickers in a twist about the term are almost all White. The various tribes have adopted the term for themselves and are (mostly) not offended.
Especially in Dutch where there's a different word for people from India and American natives. Even though it's derived from the East Indies. We say Indiaan vs Indier. There's also no disrespect towards native Americans in Belgium, on the contrary, always huge respect, even admiration. Well, at least for the last 40-50 years, before that there was quite a bit of ignorance from a colonial point of view.
Depends where you are. In Canada "Indian" is used historically but it has a legal definition rather than an ethnic or cultural one. First Nations or Inuit or Métis are the terms used since at least the 1970s.
In Oklahoma I never heard them referring to themselves as that. They do have names for items that include the term such as 'Indian Taco'. If you ask them what they are they'll usually say Creek or Cherokee or identify as a member of their tribe or if they're speaking generally I've heard them identify as native, native American. I've never ever heard a native American say "I'm Indian" I've never even heard anybody refer to themselves as American Indian and I had many friends who were members of the Creek, Choctaw and Cherokee nations.
@@zammmerjammer We sometimes say "First Nations" around here too.
The way I had it explained to me by the Choctaw is: "Native American" is really no better than "Indian" because the very word America is just as foreign as the word Indian. The Choctaw obvious prefer to be called the Choctaw but failing that, Indian is OK.
3:02 -- they don't really explain it in the non-director's-cut version of the movie but that officer had syphillis. So he was slowly going crazy and knew enough to take himself out before it got worse.
Thank you for reviewing this. It doesn't get enough attention.
Lt. Dunbar (Costner) kept his foot because he was given attention from his commanding officer's personal physician. Enlisted men and lower-level officers like Dunbar would normally just get a limb amputated and then be sent home.
Dunbar wants to see the frontier/prairie before it's all gone... meaning that he knows what the future holds. When the United States first *obtained* (we'll forget about how, for the moment) additional territory from Spain, France, Britain and Mexico and had an open door all the way to the Pacific Coast, settlers initially passed right through the Great Plains as being a less-important area and settled the Coast first. But eventually they'd focus in on the Dakotas, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming..., and convert as much of it as possible into farmland or fenced-in grazing land, plus a few mines. And kill off the buffalo, the passenger pigeon, and anything else that was in their way. Thus, the prairie would disappear.
Stands With a Fist was alone on the prairie and bloody (from cutting herself) because her husband had been killed. That means one of two things. One, the band she belonged to could have the custom of erasing a warrior after he dies, meaning other tribe members take his dwelling and possessions and the widow is turned out with nothing, to die of exposure. Cutting herself would hurry up the process. Two, it could be that she's just in ordinary temporary mourning, and is expressing it through cutting. In any case, Dunbar interferes, so she's returned to her adoptive father Kicking Bird's lodge. The movie doesn't really explain the situation. Thus the Sioux stay somewhat sympathetic in the viewers' eyes. An alternate movie could have been made about the Pawnee, showing them in detail and emphasizing their positive customs, and making the Sioux the antagonists in the wars between the two tribes. That's the power of movies. By selective display, any person or group can be made the heroes. Wes Studi, who is actually Cherokee, plays the Pawnee raiding party leader in this film and the vengeful Huron leader Magua in "Last of the Mohicans." He's probably cast in roles like that because he has a "mean" look.
The Sioux were very conservative in how they used natural resources. (As were many other Indigenous tribes.) If they killed a game animal, they were sorry about it and tried to honor the animal. They'd use every last part of the carcass, no waste. So seeing those buffalo killed just for their hides and tongues was a shock. But the whites who did that weren't just being thoughtless. It was probably a part of the plan to eliminate the Plains tribes by destroying their food supply.
Read somewhere about pioneer accounts of buffalo herds taking 4 days to pass! And that herds could number as high as 20 million.
Two Socks death is very necessary as it is the symbolism for the main theme of the movie. Beautiful is the best adjective for this movie. I loved it ever since i was a child.
It's interesting you noticed how the Sioux would meet at speak as equals all having a voice. A native American term borrowed into the English language is "having a powwow" which means to come together for a frank and open discussion.
It's always entertaining to re-experience a great movie through your eyes. This time it was also very touching. Thank you Mary.
This film was not simply a well-made production, it was actually an event in the history of cinema! At the time of its release, the 'western genre' of film was almost nonexistent. On its own, 'Dance with Wolves' revived the genre and 'westerns' gained a new life! Also 'Dances with Wolves' is one of the first motion pictures to portray native Americans as protagonists and the "white man" as antagonists.
I wanted to mention for anyone that's interested, there is a part 2, they never made it into a movie though so you can only get the book. It's called "The Holy Road" by Michael Blake. It's very good and pretty much picks up right where this story left off.
Extended version of this definitely adds context to some scenes. And some more absolutely fantastic scenery. I like that the film turns the white savior trope on its head. Because really Dunbar is the one being saved.
You know I've always thought it was written well and the cinematography was top notch, but for a long time I did think it was another savior trope type movie. But years later I think I saw a documentary about the movie, or a series of interviews, with cast members, then looked into it more. I didn't realize that the Sioux community embraced the project for its fair and genuine treatment of its heritage and actually had a huge hand it's production. According to many indigenous groups, one of the few honest portrayals of Native Americans losing their culture and identity to the white man. This is a quote I found from Costner from when it was first released, pretty admirable comment....
"𝙉𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙬𝙖𝙮. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙡𝙮 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙, 𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙡 𝙞𝙩, 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚. 𝘼𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙖𝙡𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚, 𝙬𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙣, 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨. 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙙𝙤 𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙚'𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙖 𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙘𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙤𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣.....𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙧."
The inversion of the White savior is often just the noble savage trope, so... That said? The extended is better, exactly because it shows some of the truth of both ends of things - like the scene where Dunbar sees the aftermath, the stolen property, the scalps, of Whites the Indians, his friends, had attacked, killed and robbed.
In point of fact, I find the theatrical version rather frustrating, in that instead of being the more-truthful examination of two people in conflict the extended comes off as at times, it comes across as more of a noble savage trope film, and those are just as played-out as White savior at this point.
@@no-xr8wv Except this film just portrayed them who they were flaws and strengths. From raiding, to willing to fight white soldiers when they needed, to the fact that the beginning of their end was coming. Along with the cooperation with the Sioux to get the portrayal right.
Great to see you react to this. I'm part Sioux, and I am from south Dakota so this movie has always been special to me, glad you enjoyed it.
I loved this reaction !
I'm still laughing about " I like their wedding planning better than ours".
Most of this was filmed in central and western South Dakota, and being from South Dakota, this movie holds a place close to my heart.
Thank you for reacting to this movie! For some reason not many reactors watch it, though it was truly Kevin Costner’s masterpiece. It was also the first movie he starred in, directed, and co-produced. I absolutely love it, but I CANNOT get through it without crying. Seeing the soldiers kill both Cisco and Two Socks is heartbreaking to watch every single time.
Costner has so many great movies. I suggest “Bull Durham”, with Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon - his best baseball movie, imo.
Winner of 7 Oscars including Best Picture! I saw this film on CBS Sunday Night Movie in 2000. I didn't get to see the rest of the movie as it was 4 hours long, on TV that is.
The buffalo sequence is my favorite part of the movie as it when sweeping camera shots that you don't see anymore.
I lived out on the North Dakota, Montana line years ago and my children are one quarter Lakota Sioux. If I had a Native American name I would be called "Dances with Difficulty" 🙂 The sunsets there were gorgeous, the winters were brutal...
This was one of the most beautifully filmed movies I'd ever seen, and this film will always remind me of my father as he and I enjoyed seeing this in the theater together very much. Thank you for reacting to this.
My top 3 movie. So beautifully shot and the use of Sioux language and their society was so authentic. It deserved to win the OSCAR. Goodfellas was great too, but this was original and epic.
This is one of my 10 ten movies of all time. I am so happy that this film gets the recognition here on UA-cam more and more. I enjoyed your reaction very much, Mary. Thanks for sharing your journey with us.
Great movie. On my list of films i had to show my kids before they went out in the world. Costner is a surprisingly powerful film-maker.
This is a very good movie. I agree with you're observation that the length was necessary to give time for the relationships between the characters to develop without feeling rushed.
There used to be millions upon millions of Buffalo in America throughout much of the country. They migrated in such huge herds over such long periods of time that they created permanent tracks in the landscape that early roads followed. Many major roads today still follow those old paths.
A quick note about the massacred buffalo. There were men, contracted by the U.S. government, to go out and kill as many buffalo as possible and let them rot. The purpose was to destroy the tribe's main food supply. You can't fight if you can't eat. This isn't an original idea and has been used by various armies throughout history.
This was during the American Civil War (1860-1865). Whenever you hear of "The Wild West", it located in the American West and was after the Civil War. Most "Wild West Movies" were during the 1880's when most of the wilderness was gone. This film took place just 10-15 year prior to that. The commanding officer who shot himself had contracted syphilis and "gone mad" from the disease. He started thinking he served a king and thought of Dunbar as a Knight on a holy quest. This film is a masterpiece.
That part at the end with Wind in His Hair always gets me.
You should watch History Buffs - Dances with wolves after this. It's an amazing episode about the history of the native people.
Seconded. I think that's their best episode.
One of my top-10 movies of 90th. Possibly one of the best films for me to help in case of depression.
Really appreciated your reaction to this epic movie. You had me cracking up many times. Good job!
This movie was filmed in my home state of South Dakota, also the home state of the Lakota people. If you ever have an opportunity to visit, I urge you to do so. The Black Hills are a wonderful tourist destination. Kevin Costner also fell in love with it and bought a place there. I haven't lived in SoDak for 20 years and whenever I get homesick I watch this movie.
Kicking Bird is played by the wonderful Graham Greene. Been in a TON of stuff, and a Canadian national treasure in my eyes.
Loved him in Maverick 😀
My dads side of our family is Oglala Lakota, and live on the Pine Ridge reservation near where a lot of this movie was filmed. It was a HUGE deal when this movie was made, as so many locals were cast as extras. Even though it follows the old “White Savior” Hollywood trope, I think it was fairly respectfully made. And the soundtrack by John Barry is stunning.
Thanks, Mary! 🐺 I absolutely love this one... and was fortunate enough to see it on the big screen.
An interesting (and quite underrated) movie that has some similar themes to this one is Quigley Down Under.
Oh, and I like pretty much all movies I've seen with Kevin Costner though some of them are considered flops... Waterworld and Postman come to mind, in both he tried to recapture the magic of Dances with Wolves (which is likely his best movie) and fell short but I'd say they're still worth watching.
The funny thing is, I actually like both of those movies (Waterworld and Postman). They're not amazing, but I was entertained when I saw them in theaters. I think it might just be due to my weird fascination with post-apocalyptic worlds.
Waterworld was ok. I really liked Postman. I believe the Postman would of been more popular if it didn't come out when Titanic did.
I haven't seen a Quigley down under reaction yet,I hope she sees that one too
I loved the postman, but it was a little long. Waterworld was meeeeh
@@aaronburdon221 Fun fact, Waterworld, Postman and Dances all have cca. 3 hours duration (within a few minutes), it goes to show how important it is to use the time wisely.
Also, just to let you know, Dunbar is at a US Army post out on the frontier. Back then posts that far out in the frontier were very primitive.
11 miles down the road from me is the biggest her if buffalo I’ve ever seen alive and mostly free. The Indian reservation in El Reno, Oklahoma. They are a sight to see.
And I shall call you "Laughs Alot." Great movie and great reaction. One of my favorites of yours so far. Thank you.
One of the most beautifully shot movies ever.
If you enjoyed Dances With Wolves, I would strongly recommend The Last Samurai. It’s a different story in a different setting, with some very similar themes and tone.
Actually is basically the same story with different location.
Copy & paste (in poor resolution)
Even though it's not a similar movie, Last of the Mohicans is also a good one. It takes place 150 or so years before this movie does but there's still Native Americans and Colonials that interact. It sadly doesn't go into so much depth giving the Native Americans such a grand personality, but it's still a good movie.
@@evelynne2846 Killer soundtrack, too.
@@evelynne2846 Shockingly enough, the music wasn't done by a composer I'd heard of. I thought it would have been Zimmer or Horner or something but it was two guys named Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman. I was surprised I'd never heard of them before or since really.
2022...and it still makes me cry..thank you for your reaction Mareeeeeeh. Love the channel.
As a Canadian Aboriginal I'm glad you like and understood the film. Cheers Mary
At the age of 19, i saw this in the movie theater by myself just to see what all the fuss was about.
It was the first time in my life, I cried in at a movie ("Do you see that I am your friend"). I was so surprised at myself.
I consider this a cinematic coming of age for me. I started to experience movies different afterwards. I saw Rambo First Blood before Dances with Wolves and didnt cry. After Dances with Wolves, the last 10 minutes of First Blood makes me cry every single time i rewatch it.
It's still inexplicable to me, how I changed how i view movies.
One of my all-time favorite films. I highly recommend watching the 4 hour cut when you have the time.
Hi Mary! Being a SW American Indian this movie was required watching in our tribe(Navajo) even though it was no near us but the idea and pride of showing a story that involves Natives and it being a very good one at that is the best. There are few like this type of genre and this is one of the very top. Great reaction to a great video, this Injun approves. Keep it up!!
There is an extended version of this movie, which explains why the fort was unmanned when Dunbar first arrived. I recommend watching it once. When the film was first assembled it ran far too long, Orion wanted a movie running 2h20 but compromised at 3 hours after major cuts were made
3:30 "The Frontier" was the nickname for the ever shrinking border towards "the great, unconquered wild lands" that was not yet influenced by non-native settlers and explorers. Already during The American Civil War (1861-1865), people were realizing that the unconquered wild lands would not remain as such for very long. By 1880-1900, it was pretty much all gone.
My horses always find their way home when they escape.
Wind In His Hair, when he rode up and stated his name, and said he wasn't afraid, was doing something called "Counting Coup." From Wikipedia: Among the Plains Indians of North America, counting coup is the warrior tradition of winning prestige against an enemy in battle. It is one of the traditional ways of showing bravery in the face of an enemy and involves intimidating him, and, it is hoped, persuading him to admit defeat, without having to kill him. These victories may then be remembered, recorded, and recounted as part of the community's oral, written, or pictorial histories.
Kevin Costner in Open Range is also a worthwhile movie to check out.
I love your wholesome reaction to this wholesome movie. 🥰
Thank You for your reaction to this film. Your perspective on my country has made you one of my favorite Reaction Channels. Our history, although fantastic, is nothing to be completely proud of. The beauty of our people is one that we will always hold in our hearts.
I hope that you and your partner are doing well. Best Wishes to you both.
One of my all-time favorite movies. It touches on almost every aspectof the human condition. Despair, fear, ignorance, love, hate, anger, wonder, discovery, hope...it's all there.
Actor Graham Greene does both epic dramas as well as comedy. He stars in Maverick, Green Mile, Wind River, and many TV programs.
Your intelligence, your heart, that why I keep coming back. This is not just a film, it's an experience. As am American, with a last name traced back to the Dutch, transferred to the western US through the Cherokee to Texas, this movie has always spoken to me at a visceral level. In the end, we must all find those ways to listen.
Yes to the Horse finding his way back... remember when Aragorn let Bill go before they entered the mine and he told Sam he knows the way home? 😉 it's true. Horses are herd animals and cover great distances by nature. I could give 100 examples of horses taking the lead and "getting back"... 🥰 love your pick this week!
I just got back from a trip to North Dakota and Wyoming. I got to see huge herds of Tatanka (pics under my community tab). I also ate some Tatanka stew. So good!
one of my fave movies! ♥ Some great actors in this!
The only intro I'll ever need from you is "Welcome back" and "Let's go!"
I’m so glad you got to see this movie. So much history in this really too much to dive into. The music and this is phenomenal. The plains of the United States are vast. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles. I live here in Kentucky and Many frontiersman that settled from Kentucky westward remarked that the Buffalo Herds were so large that a person could walk from one County to another on the backs of the buffalo and never touch the ground. Many of our roads today were once buffalo trails. Some have said this movie was a love letter to the Native Americans.The end When wind in his hair is yelling at dances with wolves I will always be your friend, I lose it every time. One of my favorite movies.!!
I LOVE your reactions, Mary. As soon as you started speaking, I got a big smile on my face and happy feelings washed over me. Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your reactions with us.
🎯 At 2:44 the tragic irony of the two characters. The commander had aspirations of being a living hero but was the cause of his own death. Whereas, Costner's character in trying to cause his own death became a living hero. Based on the commander's articulate speech and vocabulary, he was likely a military academy graduate and appointed as an officer directly after graduation. The largest military conflict in American history, to that point (The Civil War) was raging, and yet, he is assigned an outpost far away from the war. This was not what he aspired to do and be while in the military academy. That's why he was surprised that Costner's character volunteered for the outpost he chose. Therefore, he long felt his life was useless, his military career over, and the only other frontier ahead of him was the afterlife. Thus, he drinks to Costner's journey, and to his own before firing the fatal shot. So much going on in that very short scene, but it's full of layers. P.S. The pissing of his pants antic, was his last grasp at self determination before death. His life had been under the control of the military since he enlisted, and it ended as horribly for himself as he could have feared. But pissing himself he said, "...and no one can do anything about it." Meaning, I'm in control of my life from here on out, and nobody can stop me from ending my life just moments away.
This is one of my favorite movies of all time and somehow reminds me of the movie 'Dersu Uzala' (1975) by Akira Kurosawa, a great movie about the growth of respect and deep friendship between two men of profoundly different backgrounds. The film won the 1976 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and I think you will really appreciate that movie.
Our civil war reenacting club, the National Civil War Assn. and 2 other clubs did the battle scenes for this movie. Also Gettysburg, Gods and Generals and Glory. It was fun but tiring!
That's awesome! The battle scene at the beginning is really well done. Gettysburg and Glory are fantastic Civil War films. Gods and Generals not as much, though there is still a lot to like in it.
17:45 - Very carefully. Those were real buffalo, they really shot those sequences.
33:06 - I find this moment very poignant, because I believe it implies the first time that Smiles A Lot, did something that doesn't make him smile. It's like he lost a little bit of his innocence in that moment.
It's a decent movie despite some of the historical liberties taken. For more fun with Indians check out:
Geronimo: An American Legend
Hostiles
Powwow Highway
Last of the Mohicans
Thunderheart
This movie is about my tribe the Lakota I am ((Oglala Lakota Sioux and rosebud Sioux tribe)) the Buffalo are very sacred to us and we use everything on the Buffalo
Colonel Richard Dodge said in 1867 “Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone.” And also “Tiyóspaye” In Lakota means circle of relatives and it Also means family
Don't worry so much about looking up the movie posters and stuff. Remember, before the movie comes out, we see trailers for the movie months in advance so we already have an idea about what the movie will be about.
No, no, no. It's perfectly fine to say Indian. I'm Choctaw and most others of "tribal heritage" use the term "Indian" when talking amongst ourselves. We also say Native, or American Indian, or we refer to ourselves by tribe. The term we don't usually use when we get together is Native American. I don't know who decided that we found the word Indian to be offensive, but they must not have polled the general population.
Another movie in a similar vein, but dealing with white man, wolves, and native Inuit--Never Cry Wolf--is a brilliant and overlooked movie. The scenery is even more epic, it has a brilliant score, and is a great modern man meets nature and is introduced to a culture stretching back thousands of years through native mythology and communion with a pack of wolves. Even if you don't watch it for your stream: watch it for yourself. It's a Disney production but when it came out it wasn't widely promoted (because it wasn't your typical Disney cartoon type of movie I suppose) so people just didn't know about it. Has one of the best scores and amazing cinematography of any movie I have ever watched--and I've seen thousands.
I've made this same suggestion to many reactors... :)
Your comment, how beautiful is this. The American West is beautiful!!!!!!
Yes, Finally this got a reaction. Kevin Costner is a phenomenal actor always great performances. Thank you Mary.
I can't say I'm a fan of Kevin Costner, but I thought he was very good in this amazing film.
The point of the officer's suicide near the beginning ("I've pissed in my pants") is that he killed himself right after talking to Dunbar, and never made any record of the interaction. Timmons was the only person who knew Dunbar was at the fort.
This is a beautiful and yet tragic movie all rolled into one
Years ago when I upgraded to a HD tv and blueray player, this is the movie I chose to watch. I wanted this beautiful movie to be my first experience.
This movie being on the list of the best movies ever is well deserved, it has moments that truly transcend the medium and give much to think about even today.
Loved your reaction to this in particular, one of the most sympathetic portraits of Indian culture in cinema. “Smiles a Lot” would be a splendid name for you, as well as your alternate suggestion, because tears and smiles often go together. They are a tribute to your depth of feeling.
Super stoked u finally watched this film. It is definitely in my top three movies of all time.
I'm happy you liked it, this is my all time favorite movie.
"Stand with her First" is a composite character of two real life anglo captives abducted by the Comanche in Texas in 1836. Cynthia Ann Parker (age 11) and Rachel Parker Plummer (Cynthia's cousin age 18). Cynthia eventually married Peta Nocona a Comanche Chief. One of her sons Quanah Parker eventually became chief too. Cynthia was "rescued" 20 years later. She was never able to reassimilate into the white culture. She assimilated once into another culture as a child but she could not do it again as an adult. Quanah, her son later had a vision and led his people to the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache reservation to be assimilated in 1875. He later became a successful rancher in Oklahoma. Rachel Parker Plummer (Cynthia's cousin) after being captured was given to family in the tribe to be their helper. The wife and older daughter of the family beat her often. One day, Rachel had enough, fought back and beat the daughter senseless. The Comanche gathered to see the fight. While beating the girl on the ground she expected to be stabbed with a spear in the back. It did not happen. When the beating was done, people just walked away and nobody helped the girl. She helped the girl. Then the mother came running and was furious. She began attacking Rachel. Again, she defended self and in the process knocked down a teepee. Again she beat her attacker down. She was brought to council and was told it was good she stood up for herself but she had to rebuild the destroyed teepee. She protested saying the council had to make the other two women help her since they were the ones who started the fights. The council agreed. From that point on, nobody bothered her. She was traded away after 20 months in captivity and reunited with her husband. She wrote her memoir and died shortly (2 years?) After during child birth.
There is another fantastic movie with a similar theme starring Robert Redford, "Jeremia Johnson". I think it's about the same time period and Redford, like Dunbar, wants to find himself and becomes a solitary mountain man.
I could be wrong, but I think JJ was set in the 1830's.
...or 1840's? :-D
This movie is so beautiful and special ❤️
I enjoyed watching your reaction as much as you enjoyed watching the movie, so thank you! You may like another movie dealing with native American's called "Last of the Dogmen"
I like to think that Two Socks led the Lakota to where Dunbar was being transported. What a good boy. This reminds me that I'd love to see you please check out "Alpha", an amazing "what if?" fable about the first domestication of wolves/dogs. As an animal lover, you will be in (mostly happy) tears.
A fantastic movie no doubt. I've seen this a dozen times and still tear up every single time Two-Socks is killed and when Wind-In-His-Hair declares his friendship from the top of the cliff. Great reaction Mary! Love to see when things really touch you.
Movie suggestion: Shutter Island (Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Kingsley among others).
Series Suggestion: True Detective (Season I only. The seasons are independent from each other and while the other two are enjoyable, Season I is the one that everyone raves about.)
Kevin Costner is a great cowboy! He has made some great westerns!, Silverado, Open Range, Wyatt Earp, he has a movie on Netflix called, The Highwaymen, where he and Woody Harrelson is chasing Bonnie and clyde, and has a tv show on now, a modern day western called, Yellowstone, its awesome! He was also supermans father in man of steel!
Fun fact, people have been performing surgery since 6500BC. And anesthesia wasn't available until the 20th century... First recorded account written on an Egyptian papyrus leaf, described the removal of a breast tumor using something called a "fire drill". They could save your life by giving you a double mastectomy, but the "anesthesia" was just a few people holding you down while you bite on a leather strap, and the surgeon just cuts as fast as he can.
Or get you drunk af. the problem with drinking that they didn't know at the time is that it lowers body temperature and thins your blood. Later opiates were used (and still are but much more refined methods)
@@aaronburdon221 alcohol makes you bleed out, and opiates suppress your respiratory system, there was no anesthesia until the 20th century.
@@st0n3p0ny That's what I said. It thins your blood and lowers your body temperature and makes you bleed faster.
Dances with Wolves won an oscar for best picture and best director by Kevin Costner
The "Pissed in my pants" scene was originally more clear in the script. The guy had been passed over for promotion so much that he ended up killing himself. The comment about seeing the frontier before it's gone wasn't because they were losing it in a war or anything, what he meant was before it was settled and turned into farms and cities. There's always been a reverence for the natural unsettled land in the US. Despite what you might gather from the movie, Native Americans have always been revered, respected but also feared. Many tribes were very hostile and warlike, so expansion into the interior was so deadly for settlers and the raids on farmers sparked military intervention by the government. There were also many friendly tribes, the original colonists would have starved to death if it hadn't been for peaceful Indians.
The way the US was originally settled was all along the east coast, the Spanish settled the west coast in places like California but a lot of the interior of the country was the unsettled frontier, or at least unsettled by White people. Then they began to settle places along the northwestern coast and eventually the interior itself. The Natives were forced into smaller and smaller, less valuable pieces of land reserved for them.
It's a sad truth that the land was essentially stolen but at the same time, the Indians themselves did the same thing to each other. There were people in all corners of the world so any kind of serious migration was bound to be violent.
Something I thought Id mention later on in the film we're introduced to a white woman who was adopted into the tribe. That might sound far-fetched but it happened quite a lot. Often these tribes would raid farms and kill the adults, or take the women as slaves but they would also take the young children and adopt them. They always had issues with low population so they were sort of forced to. Often when these people were adopted into a tribe they would become full-fledged members.
The Native Americans during this period are a complex topic, they were very diverse. Some tribes were very peaceful and some tribes were very hostile and barbaric and didn't hesitate to rape, torture, and kill even women and children. I think the film does a pretty good job of depicting this.
I can’t agree with your statement that Indigenous people were always revered and respected. They were revered and respected by SOME Americans, but unfortunately those people were in the minority for centuries. Even today Native people are not fully respected. That’s not to say that the overall tide of public opinion has not turned more in favor of them these days; in many respects it has. But the ways of life for Indigenous peoples was, and in some ways still is, so fundamentally different from that of us colonizers (and there’s no malice in that label; it’s what we are and have been for centuries, unfortunately), that conflict was inevitable in many cases. The ways that European settlers and the US Government have treated Indigenous people from the very beginning has been absolutely atrocious. We have dehumanized them routinely for ages. Their mistreatment is one of the United States’ two original sins (the other being the enslavement of African peoples), and we have still not fully reconciled with those facts, nor have we redeemed ourselves for that ugly history. So much is owed to both groups of people. We can start by honoring the treaties. Every single treaty signed by the government with Indigenous nations has been broken, not by Indigenous people but by the government. We have to make that right.
The officer pussing his pants could've also been prairie madness.
@@RetroClassic66 Well you're wrong, there are a lot of books from the time period romanticizing the Natives and their way of life. There were a lot of people who were against the mistreatment of at least the "Civilised tribes" like the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, and Choctaw. People were even more fascinated with them back then, than we are today.
The Idea that everyone hated the Indians is a very modern idea. Yes, the government took the lands of even the civil tribes and forced them onto reservations but that was actually potested against. A lot of that was driven by greed, the land they gave them might have been discovered to have precious resources or they wanted the land to build railroads. It was the price of progress and the Indians were in the way(I mean thats how they justified it), not unlike how the south justified slavery with the argument that it would cripple the souths economy if they freed the slaves. Sure some dehumanizing propaganda helps as well but in the case of the natives It wasn't like the Nazis exterminating jews(not the civilized tribes at least, the treatment of the hostile indian nations was pretty damn brutal at times)
A large portion of the US still have Native American names including a great many states. Theres no reason why they couldn't have renamed these places, rivers and lakes but they didnt because like I said, the Native American was generally revered in the US, but also feared. A lot of the major hostilities happened during the expansion into the interior that sparked the indian wars because of tribes like the Comanche, the Apache, and the Kiowa who were very hostile and killed anyone who tried to settle in the great plains. Not only kill, but they would torture them first.
Sure there was lots of prejudice, there were a lot of ignorant people who didn't understand or care about the differences between the Comanche or the Cherokee, but overall there was a reverence in the same way you might rever a dangerous predator like a lion. They're hostile and deadly but have a certain majesty and intrigue to them at the same time.
The American Indians were an integral part of the identity of the new world, but they got in the way of modernization. Its not like im trying to suggest that the Americans of the 19th century liked the Indians as much as they liked each other, but there was always something mysterious and fascinating about them to the vast majority of America, much like Dunbar's fascination with the frontier.
Also about the treaties being broken, the Indians broke treaties as well. People seem to think that because the US was in wrong that they were the sole bad actor, its more complicated than that. Also there is no "making it right". It happened and nothing can change it. The perpetrators and the victims are long gone.
@@RetroClassic66 it's an interesting topic and one I find usually occurs without actual Native Americans participating, which always seems odd. The truth is that there is no way to suddenly enforce treaties from hundreds of years ago. The sociological and economic reasons have long since past into memory so their agreements would be pretty useless in most cases. On the other hand the US is probably the only country that has large swaths of it given over to others and technically not considered US property. One reservation in the south is bigger than Rhode Island. These places have their own governments and in some cases have foreign dignitaries and such. Not to mention the monopoly on gambling in many places creates a hell of a lever.
I guess in my mind the past can't be undone. One can only move forward.
Have you heard the term-MANIFEST DESTINY ?? Americans felt they were driven by it,to possess the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. The treatment of the indians is another sad chapter in american history. America has never been TOLERANT of those different from their norm,whether skin color,religion,speaking different,etc,etc,,. The US was supposed to be a MELTING pot,but,more like a BOILING,SMOLDERING,on FIRE kettle with gasoline thrown into it. The different races settling here were meet with a slap in the face and a kick in the balls !!!!! LOL. You had to EARN your stripes,nothing was given to you. Except a HARD time.
This movie was amazing to watch on the big screen back when it first came out. So beautiful, and the shots of the prairie on a large theater screen made you feel very small. Combine that with John Barry's sweeping score and it would have been a successful movie even without the script and actors.
This is the short version. The long one shows a lot of events which explains some misunderstandings you noticed. For me, it is the best western ever made.
I'm plainly stoked that you're doing this. I'm happy that you loved it - it is a wonderful film. Here are a few other films starring Kevin Costner which i think you would like:
JFK (1991) with Gary Oldman
THE BODYGUARD (1992) Whitney Houston
A PERFECT WORLD (1993) Clint Eastwood
OPEN RANGE (2003) Robert Duvall, Annette Bening
There are many more but these are favorites for me.
For a minute I couldn't place Gary Oldman in JFK... until it struck me like a smack to the head :-D
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No reason to feel dumb -
The guy is a chameleon. Who else can pull off roles as diverse;
Lee Harvey Oswald one moment, Count Dracula the next. Winston Churchill, Ludwig van Beethoven, drug dealer Drexl Spivey, Rosencrantz, and Sid Vicious to name a few.
@@Blue-qr7qe I guess my sense of humor is an acquired taste 🙂
Just for your information -- When he and they refer to the "frontier" they are referring to the American West. West of present day St. Louis, MO. Back at the end of the American Civil War (1865) the United States was only as far West as the Mississippi River, except for Texas. Anything West of that was referred to as the "frontier". It was occupied by American Indians and the white race had not settled there. It was uncharted land.
That's not accurate. Of states bordering the Mississippi River to the west: Louisiana became a state in 1812, Missouri in 1821, Arkansas in 1836, Iowa in 1846, Minnesota in 1858. On the Pacific coast, California (1850) and Oregon (1859) would both enter the union before the Civil War began.
The truth is far more interesting. Because slavery's legality was decided on a per-state basis at the time of each state's admittance to the union, settlement of the frontier and conflict over slavery went hand in hand. Basically, everybody knew from the very beginning of the country that slavery was A Big Problem. There was eventually going to be A Big Fight about it, and white settlement of new areas would have A Lot to Do with It.