Dances with Wolves - DTS

Buy This Item Dances with Wolves - DTS by Image Entertainment  Available from Amazon  $34.99  on 11-26-2008     Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. John Dunbar wants to see the American frontier before it is gone. He is assigned to an abandoned fort, where a Sioux tribe is his only neighbor. Overcoming the language barrier and their mutual fear and distrust, Dunbar and the proud Indians gradually become friends. Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, Kevin Costner. Reader Reviews Spectacularly filmed with breathtaking action sequences. A smart, clever, warm-hearted script that pushes all the right buttons. The buffalo hunt scene is alone worth the price of a rental. I enjoy it every time. As storytelling, Dances W/ Wolves is arguably the high-water mark of late 20th century political correctness. Minorities good, whites bad. That's not necessarily a bad thing, after hundreds of movies portraying native americans as savages, would it absolutely kill Hollywood to turn the other cheek just for once? Apparently not. Hugely successful both in box office and awards, DWW set the standard for epics for the next two decades. Who knows, John Ford might have actually approved. John Wayne would not have. Once again, for the people in the back row who didn't hear the first thousand times: if you are looking to Hollywood for history lessons, you are fools. Sorry for the name calling but it is what it is. By now, any adult in North America has no excuse for not knowing better than trying to get educated through movie watching. Alas, many reviewers seem to persist in the understanding that the Old West was really like it is portrayed in entertainment. Even the basic premise that an Indian tribe would be so foolhardy as to take a white man, a professional soldier no less, into its community is absurd. Can you say, "begging for trouble?" Conversely, the idea that a white american man of a sound mind from the east in the mid 1800's would be so openminded as to want to "go native" is similarly absurd. Racial harmony was not taught in the classroom in the 1800's. It's a STORY. Enjoy the STORY.

Dances with Wolves - DTS Available from Amazon Price: $34.99 Updated on 11-26-2008.

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