Dances With Wolves (DVD)
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Based on the classic novel by Michael Blake, Dances With Wolves was one of the seminal movies of the 1990s, a defining moment in the career of director and star Kevin Costner, and an important film in the neo-Western cinema movement that shied away from the traditional stereotypes of vicious blood-thirsty Indians out to kill the hardworking white frontier men and the cavalry coming to the rescue. Indeed, here we get the complete reverse.
During the American Civil War, Lt. John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) is wounded in the leg. Refusing to have the limb removed, he returns to the frontlines to commit suicide at the hands of the enemy. However, his suicide attempt provides encouragement for the Union soldiers to rise up from cowering behind their emplacements and win the battle. For his act of bravery, Dunbar is given his choice of transfer and is granted an outpost on the Indian frontier.
When Dunbar arrives, he finds the place deserted. But instead of returning to civilisation, he chooses to man the fort himself, attracting the curiosity of the local Sioux Indian tribe. When Dunbar tries to make contact with this tribe, he comes across a white woman who has been raised as an Indian after her parents were killed by a rival tribe. This woman, Stands With A Fist (Mary McDowell), reluctantly agrees to the requests by the tribal elders for her to be a bridge between the tribe and the white man. But as Dunbar comes to know these people more, they awaken something in his spirit and piece by piece he becomes enchanted by their native way of life.
Dances With Wolves is a powerful epic journey, well told and fabulously constructed. It is as much a spiritual and personal journey as well as a journey of communities and cultures, the clashing of the old and the new and the advancement of technology and industry paving over the old ways. There is an awful lot of subtext here if you are willing to sit down and spend some time reading between the lines, and I guarantee you that the journey is worth it.
Moreover, for the first time on DVD we are getting not merely the director's cut, which was broadcast on TV and has also been available on VHS for many years, but a special extended edition.
If you were ever a fan of this film I recommend going out and picking this up. You will not be sorry.
EXTRA FEATURES
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Audio Commentary-Kevin Costner (Director/Actor) And Jim Wilson (Producer)
Audio Commentary-Dean Semler (Dir. Of Photography) And Neil Travis (Editor)
Dances With Wolves (DVD)
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Based on the classic novel by Michael Blake, Dances With Wolves was one of the seminal movies of the 1990s, a defining moment in the career of director and star Kevin Costner, and an important film in the neo-Western cinema movement that shied away from the traditional stereotypes of vicious blood-thirsty Indians out to kill the hardworking white frontier men and the cavalry coming to the rescue. Indeed, here we get the complete reverse.
During the American Civil War, Lt. John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) is wounded in the leg. Refusing to have the limb removed, he returns to the frontlines to commit suicide at the hands of the enemy. However, his suicide attempt provides encouragement for the Union soldiers to rise up from cowering behind their emplacements and win the battle. For his act of bravery, Dunbar is given his choice of transfer and is granted an outpost on the Indian frontier.
When Dunbar arrives, he finds the place deserted. But instead of returning to civilisation, he chooses to man the fort himself, attracting the curiosity of the local Sioux Indian tribe. When Dunbar tries to make contact with this tribe, he comes across a white woman who has been raised as an Indian after her parents were killed by a rival tribe. This woman, Stands With A Fist (Mary McDowell), reluctantly agrees to the requests by the tribal elders for her to be a bridge between the tribe and the white man. But as Dunbar comes to know these people more, they awaken something in his spirit and piece by piece he becomes enchanted by their native way of life.
Dances With Wolves is a powerful epic journey, well told and fabulously constructed. It is as much a spiritual and personal journey as well as a journey of communities and cultures, the clashing of the old and the new and the advancement of technology and industry paving over the old ways. There is an awful lot of subtext here if you are willing to sit down and spend some time reading between the lines, and I guarantee you that the journey is worth it.
Moreover, for the first time on DVD we are getting not merely the director's cut, which was broadcast on TV and has also been available on VHS for many years, but a special extended edition.
If you were ever a fan of this film I recommend going out and picking this up. You will not be sorry.
EXTRA FEATURES
Additional scenes
Audio Commentary-Kevin Costner (Director/Actor) And Jim Wilson (Producer)
Audio Commentary-Dean Semler (Dir. Of Photography) And Neil Travis (Editor)