Dances With Wolves
This is an excerpt from the paper...
The film Dances With Wolves, directed by and starring Kevin Costner from a script by the author of the novel, Kevin Blake, is an attempt to rewrite history from the perspective of the Native Americans who were basically exterminated by the onslaught of white settlers pushing into the Western frontier in the name of Manifest Destiny. Costner plays Lieutenant Dunbar, and the film is narrated from his perspective. Dunbar miraculously survives a suicide charge and is rewarded with a post on the frontier, a place he wishes to see “before it’s all gone.” What Dunbar discovers is a deserted post where he remains, writing in his journal and experiencing the natural awe and beauty of the landscape. He also encounters the Sioux Indians, whom he has the ability to get to know from a non-racist perspective. This is because Dunbar, rare among whites, is able to look the Sioux in the eye and see the man as opposed to his preconceived attitudes about him. The film does an amazing job of revealing the American West landscape as well as the soul of the Sioux with visual imagery, body language and native Sioux dialogue comprising nearly a third of the film’s dialogue. The virgin paradise is revealed through expressive and splendorous images that makes us feel we, too, are see the landscape with Dunbar for the first time. The film’s message is that a civilized man is one whose curiosity is stronger than his prejudices and both Dunbar and the Sioux ar
. . .
Some common words found in the essay are:
Sioux Pawnee, Kicking Bird, Fist English, Native Americans, American West, Dances Wolves, Lieutenant Dunbar, Ten Bears, Dunbar Sioux, Sioux Indians, dances wolves, native americans, dances wolves film, buffalo hunt, west landscape, sioux pawnee, american west, perspective dunbar, stands fist, american west landscape, wolves film, wind hair,
Approximate Word count = 1011
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page)
|
Customer Service
to Over
32,000 Professionally Written Papers!!!
