Dances With Wolves, 7 Academy Awards, Now On Netflix

[appalachiablue]

- Clip, 'Wind In His Hair' director's cut. 1990, Kevin Costner, multiple awards.

Dances with Wolves is a 1990 American epic Western film starring, directed, & produced by Kevin Costner in his feature directorial debut. It is a film adaptation of the 1988 book by Michael Blake that tells the story of Union Army lieutenant John J. Dunbar (Costner), who travels to the American frontier to find a military post, & of his dealings with a group of Lakota. Costner developed the film with an initial budget of $15 Mill. Much of the dialogue is spoken in Lakota with English subtitles. It was shot from July to Nov. 1989 in South Dakota & Wyoming.

The film earned favorable reviews from critics & audiences, who praised Costner's directing, the performances, screenplay, & production values. It was a box-office hit, grossing $424.2 Mill worldwide, making it the 4th-highest-grossing film of 1990. The film was nominated for 12 Academy Awards at the 63rd Academy Awards & won 7, including Best Picture, Best Director for Costner, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, & Best Sound Mixing. The film also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.

DWW is credited as a leading influence for the revitalization of the Western genre of filmmaking in Hollywood. In 2007, Dances with Wolves was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dances_with_Wolves

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099348/

- Dances With Wolves, Clip 'Suicide Attempt,' Civil War conflict scene.

[cilla4progress]

1. One

of our favorites. We own the DVD.

[appalachiablue]

2. Same, and a CD of the wonderful music

soundtrack by John Barry. An exceptional American film.

[Irish_Dem]

3. I can't believe I never saw this movie.

Will watch it next when I am done with BritBox.

[appalachiablue]

5. And John Barry's music score is sublime.

- John Dunbar's theme. Dances with wolves - On Bagpipes (Spirit of the Glen Album).

[Irish_Dem]

6. I love a great musical score.

[BigmanPigman]

4. I hate it when the soldiers and white people kill the animals.

Buffalo, his horse and his friend the wolf were all killed. The Indians respected animals, the white men did not. That sums up a lot about the two different cultures.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Oh I get really upset when animals are killed. I am not sure I can watch this movie.

Too distressing for me.

It is odd, I am not that squeamish but I just cannot stand to see an animal killed or in captivity of any sort.

[appalachiablue]

8. Evil cannibalism, 'wetiko' Native American term

.. Native American mythologies portray the mythical figure of wetiko as a cannibalistic spirit who embodies greed and excess and can possess human beings. The wetiko was once a human being, but its greed and selfishness have transformed it into a predatory monster. Thus in indigenous mythology, indulgent, self-destructive habits are thought to be inspired by wetiko.

In the Native American view, those who have become wetikos are individuals who have "lost their wits," a phrase that connotes not only being out of one's right mind, but also not knowing what one is doing (acting 'unwittingly'). Native Americans have often portrayed the wetiko as having a frigid, icy heart, devoid of mercy. Like cannibals, those taken over by wetiko consume the life force of others—human and nonhuman—for private purpose or profit, and do so without giving back anything of real value from their own lives.

The Ojibwa word for wetiko, windigo or weendigo, seems to have been derived from ween dagoh, which means "solely for self," or from weenin igooh, which means "excess." According to Native American lore, the wetiko monster can only prey on human beings who, like itself, have indulged in excess. Thus human beings' propensity for excess makes them vulnerable to possession by, and transformation into, a wetiko...

https://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/3472-dispelling-wetiko-breaking-the-curse-of-evil

[BigmanPigman]

9. Wetiko could be applied today to the greedy, GQP.

They seem to fit the description to a "T".

[appalachiablue]

10. Absolutely, wetiko GQP