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Concurso Cine TV: Danza con Lobos (la lealtad de un lobo) [ENG/ESP]@carminasalazarte993d

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Hello to everyone in the Cine TV community! Today I join the contest #81 with this my participation. This time the theme to take into account is that of wild animals and their role in the film, so I immediately thought of one of the most emblematic and iconic films for having the participation of a wild animal, it is "Dances with Wolves", where one of our protagonists is precisely a beautiful wolf that acquires the name of "Socks". This film is especially dear to me because it happens to be one of the first films I saw with my partner.

To put a little in context I make a brief summary of the film. From 1990, directed by and starring Kevin Costner, the story takes place during the U.S. Civil War (1961-1965), when Lieutenant John Dunbar is sent to a post located on the border of the Indians (Sioux, Cheyenne and Pawnee) for surveillance and patrolling. There, in that residence where solitude apparently reigns, he meets "Socks" the wolf who will become his best friend and companion. Although the film is set in a warlike climate, it shows us a different perspective of this conflict; the union, respect, understanding and love that can arise between two apparent enemies. Here we are obviously talking about human relationships, but animal relationships are also included.

¡Hola a todos en la comunidad de Cine TV! El día de hoy me uno al concurso #81 con esta que es mi participación. En esta oportunidad el tema a tomar en cuenta es el de los animales salvajes y su protagonismo en la película, así que inmediatamente pensé en una de las películas más emblemáticas e icónicas por contar con la participación de un animal salvaje, se trata de "Danza con Lobos", dónde uno de nuestro protagonistas es precisamente un precioso lobo que adquiere el nombre de "Calcetines". Esta película adquiere especial cariño para mí pues resulta ser una de las primeras películas que ví con mí pareja.

Para poner un poco en contexto hago un breve resumen de la película. Del año 1990, dirigido y protagonizado por Kevin Costner, la historia transcurre durante la Guerra Civil de Estados Unidos (1961-1965), cuando el Teniente John Dunbar es enviado a un puesto ubicado en la frontera de los indios (los Sioux, los Cheyennes y los Pawnees) para hacer vigilancia y patrullaje. Allí, en esa residencia dónde aparentemente reina la soledad, conoce a "Calcetines" el lobo que se convertirá en su mejor amigo y compañía. La película, aunque está ambientada en un clima bélico, se encarga de enseñarnos una perspectiva diferente de este conflicto; la unión, el respeto, la comprensión y el amor que pueden surgir entre dos aparentes enemigos. Aquí obviamente hablamos de las relaciones humanas, pero la de los animales también va incluida.

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The presence of "Socks" is comforting in the face of so much adversity. In the story John manages to win his friendship little by little and although the wolf seems to be attracted to him, he doesn't give himself up completely. He is distrustful. Trust is something John will gradually earn and the affection we see on screen between the two is adorable. With John talking to the animal as if they've known each other all their lives and as if he truly understands everything he says. Even when John alludes to how his white-stained paws make him look like he's wearing socks. Hence the name. And thanks to "Socks", he also earns a great nickname which is "Dances with Wolves", a name coined by one of the members of the Sioux upon noticing how John has managed to penetrate the heart of the wolf.

This act of trust and friendship (that he has with the wolf), makes him have a first approach to the Native Americans. He doubts about his mission. Little by little, he realizes that his motives in this war are not the right ones. And no, it's not all about the wolf but he does play a role in all this. So it can't be left out how much "Socks" affected John's outlook on life. Even if its ending was a bit tragic, for me it's one of those few movies where a wild animal makes sense. And then, although I forgot to mention, there is also another animal not so wild but important in John's life, Cisco, his loyal horse.

La presencia de "Calcetines" resulta consoladora frente tanta adversidad. En la historia John consigue hacerse de su amistad poco a poco y aunque el lobo parece atraerle su estado, tampoco se entrega del todo. Es desconfiado. La confianza es algo que John se irá ganando y el afecto que vemos en pantalla entre ambos, es adorable. Con un John hablando con el animal cómo si se conocieran de toda la vida y cómo si él de verdad le entendiera todo lo que comenta. Incluso cuando John hace alusión a qué sus patas manchadas de blanco lo hacen lucir cómo si llevara calcetines. De allí el nombre. Y gracias a "Calcetines", el también se gana un grandioso apodo el cual es "Danza con Lobos", nombre que le acuña uno de los miembros de los Sioux al notar cómo John a logrado penetrar en el corazón del lobo.

Ese acto de confianza y de relacion de amistad (que tiene con el lobo), le hace tener un primer acercamiento hacia los nativos americanos. Duda sobre su misión. Comprendiendo poco a poco que sus motivos dentro de esta guerra no son los correctos. Y no, no todo es por el lobo pero sí que juega un papel en todo esto. Por lo que no se puede dejar de lado lo mucho que "Calcetines" afecto la perspectiva de vida de John. Aunque su final haya sido un poco trágico, para mí es una de esas pocas películas donde un animal salvaje cobra sentido. Y además, aunque se me olvidaba mencionar, también está otro animal no tan salvaje pero importante en la vida de John, Cisco, su leal caballo.

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Finally my friends, "Dances with Wolves" is a beautiful movie and worth seeing and knowing. So if you like movies where animals also play an important role, this is the one. It is hard not to be fond of the little prairie wolf and feel anguished every time they are in danger, as well as laugh with their antics and small moments of contact. And without leaving behind the scene that stayed in the memory of many of us, the Fire Dance that John performs and Socks contemplates. Without further ado, thank you very much for stopping by and reading my publication. I send you a big hug and see you next time.

Finalmente amigos míos, "Danza con Lobos" es una película preciosa y que vale la pena ver y conocer. Así que si te gustan las películas donde los animales también cumple un rol importante, esta es la indicada. Es difícil no cobrar cariño al pequeño lobo de pradera y sentirnos angustiados cada que ellos están en peligro, así cómo reír con sus travesuras y pequeños instantes de contacto. Y sin dejar atrás la escena que quedó en la memoria de muchos de nosotros, la Danza de Fuego que John realiza y Calcetines contempla. Sin más que decir, muchas gracias por pasar por aquí y leer mí publicación. Les envío un fuerte abrazo y nos vemos en la próxima oportunidad.

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›Dances with Wolves an epic film@petercurator997d
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Dances with Wolves is an American film directed by Kevin Costner and released in 1990.

The story is set during the American Civil War and follows Lieutenant John Dunbar, played by Costner, in the aftermath of the Civil War (1861-1865) and in the midst of settling the West (1785-1890), who makes his way to a distant frontier outpost that has been abandoned by the soldiers.
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As he adjusts to his new life in the solitude of the prairie, Dunbar befriends the Native Americans, particularly the Sioux tribe, learning their culture and way of life, Dunbar is accepted by them and is given the name "Dances with Wolves".

This is how he meets "Stand with your fist in the air", a white woman who was adopted by the tribe as a child.

The film explores the themes of cross-cultural communication, mutual respect and man's relationship with nature.
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Dunbar is torn between his loyalty to his own people and his growing connection to Native Americans.

The cast includes Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant, Maury Chaykin, Tantoo Cardinal, Wes Studi, Robert Pastorelli, Steve Reevis and Steve Reevis.

"Dances with Wolves" was acclaimed for its realistic and respectful portrayal of Native American culture, as well as for its beautiful cinematography.
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The film received numerous awards, including seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Kevin Costner.
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›My opinion about the movie "Dances with Wolves"@ismaca1117d
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The western is my favorite genre, and contrary to many who praise the "great" classics (those of the fascist John Wayne and company), to me, understanding that they are products of their time, that cinema seems to me vomitous, stereotyped, and totally propagandist.

Because of course, the Indians were troglodytes all the time, and the white man the "civilized" one, and casually and in total convenience they always omitted the massacres and robberies they had perpetuated in their "conquest" of the west.
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The 80's were the worst decade for the genre, the western was in decline, but the great Kevin Costner arrived, and with the help of Michael Blake they adapted his novel into a wonderful film.

A first time director, Costner makes the most of the almost four hours of footage to make a mix of epic cinema, adventure films, romance and westerns.

He fills the screen with fantastic landscapes, quite correct dialogue, much of it in the Dakota language, with unforgettable characters.
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For works like this, for me, Costner is an icon of the genre, with much more merit than other stale old facistoids with their "classics".

Dances with Wolves is a hymn, praise or whatever you want to call it, to nature and the importance of animals (the horse, the wolf, the buffalo).

It is not a "pro-Indian" film or a film that wants to sell you ideology. They don't sell you the idea of the good native, they kill animals and even kill each other.
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It is a story of survival, of adventure, of a man who arrives in a world he did not know and realizes that he had been filled with lies, a world that makes him find his humanity and fall in love with that environment.

It is also a love story. And it is a film that fights against those stereotypes imposed on the western.

It is a film that revived a genre, that moved us and made us enjoy every minute of it. A gem.
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›Film Review: Dances With Wolves (1990)@drax1377d

Western has been pronounced dead many times, but mostly in 1980s, after the catastrophic flop of Michael Cimino’s bloated 1980 epic Heaven’s Gate. The same decade, however, had a number of commercially successful western. Yet, it took ten years after Cimino’s fiasco for western to be finally recognised as alive a well thanks to Dance With Wolves, another epic which ended not only as celebrated directorial debut of Kevin Costner, but also most commercially successful western of all times and one of only three films of such genres to win an Oscar for Best Picture.

The film is based on the novel by Michael Blake. Plot begins in Tennessee 1863, during US Civil War when a protagonist, Lieutenant John J. Dunbar, Union officer gets wounded in the leg and, faced with prospect of amputation and remaining cripple for life, choses alternative in form of heroic death. His suicidal horse charge doesn’t get him killed and instead inspires his men to overtake Confederate position and win the battle. For this feat Dunbar, who ultimately managed to fully recover, gets reward by having new assignment by his own choosing. He decides to go to Indian Frontier in the West, sparked by desire to see it before he is ultimately changed by inevitable white settlement. Major Farmbrough (played by Maury Chaykin), mentally unbalanced commander of Fort Hayes, orders Dunbar to bring supplies and take new post in remote US Army outpost called Fort Sedgwick. When he arrives there, Dunbar finds the outpost abandoned and surrounded by nothing but endless prairie. Dunbar nevertheless decides to take his mission seriously, works his best to repair facility and makes studious note about his surrounding. His loneliness is first interrupted by lone wolf he befriends and starts calling Two Socks. But he is also met by group of Lakota Indians who are at first fascinated by strange white man. While warrior Wind in His Hair (played by Roy A. Grant) wants to kill or at least chase away intruder, holy man Kicking Birds (played by Graham Greene). Dunbar is even more curious and he gradually wins Indians’ trust, learns of their custom and the language, the latter with the help of Stands with the Fist (played by Mary McDonnel), white woman who had been adopted by tribe as a child. As time goes by and Dunbar loses touch with his mission and old life, he begins to consider himself Lakota and adopts name Dances With Wolves. But his happy life is interrupted with Lakotas having to defend themselves from rival Pawnee tribe and, later, by US Army that took over Fort Sedgwick and considers Dunbar a traitor.

Success of Dances With Wolves can be best explained by Michael Blake’s script embracing something that would become major force in Hollywood in decades to come – political correctness. While Hollywood westerns have taken Indians’ side while depicting Old West, few did with such passion and conviction as Kevin Costner’s debut film. World of Lakotas is presented as near-utopian and their community, led by wise sage Ten Bears (played by Floyd Red Crow Westerman) as in almost perfect harmony with nature. Portrayal of Indians and noble and, consequently, white settlers and soldiers as barbaric intruders, corresponded well with environmentalism which began to fill ideological void created in America and Western world with the end of Cold War. Dances With Wolves was one of the first film to suggest that ecological disaster created by white men’s near-extermination of the buffalo played crucial part in disappearance or subjugation of Indians but depriving them of food and wrecking their traditional way of life. Dances With Wolves signals its strong pro-Indian stance also by striving for as much authenticity as possible; all Native American roles are played by Native American actors and the characters even speak authentic Lakota or Pawnee dialogues (subtitled for English speakers in the audience).

Yet, despite clear political message, Dances With Wolves functions well as a western and also represents a good epic. Kevin Costner handles action scenes with great confidence, but the most attractive segment of the film is in beautiful vistas of untamed nature in South Dakota and Wyoming, captured well by cinematography of Dean Semler. Those images are accompanied by music score by John Barry, one of the finest work of that talented and prolific composer whose theme adds both epic dimension and melancholic atmosphere to film. Costner is also good as an actor, convincingly showing transformation of protagonist from merely curious professional soldier into someone willing to fully embrace his new community. Costner, who was among top Hollywood stars at the time, was wise enough to admit that some of his acting abilities might not be in the first league and cleverly decided to show Dunbar’s inner thoughts through narration via character’s diary. The rest of the cast is also very good, especially Graham Greene with his regal presence of wise and resourceful man. Mary McDonnell was also chosen well for the role of obligatory white woman; somewhat cliched and potentially thankless role is made realistic by McDonnell being in her late 30s and having more experience to convincingly portray character of white woman who all but forgot her past life.

Despite countless accolades and truly impressive box office, Dances With Wolves isn’t without its flaws and many argue that the Oscar should have gone to Scorsese’s Goodfellas instead. While Costner did admirable job in his directorial debut, he was at times too much in love with his work. The beginning, in which he plays heroic figure, is drenched in unnecessary pathos. The bizarre character of Major Farmbrough appears not to belong to the film. While character of Stands of the Fist is well-played, its introduction looks like too much of a concession to Hollywood conventions and need to have some sort of romantic subplot in this kind of film. The ending is somewhat underwhelming and requires too much on end titles to put the story in broader historical context. Dances With Wolves also suffers from slow pace, although not as severe in original three-hour version than in 1991 special edition that added extra hour of material. Yet, despite that it is still impressive work that would entertain not only fans of the western but those yearning for old school larger-than-life epics Hollywood doesn’t make any more.

RATING: 7/10 (++)

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