Micheal Blake "Dances With Wolves Author"
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- čas přidán 5. 05. 2017
- Michael was encouraged by his friend, Kevin Costner to write Dances With Wolves. He won an Academy Award and Golden Globe for the screenplay. He went on to write several other novels but the success of Dances With Wolves would be his greatest. Michael died in 2015 at age 69.
The Graham Norton Show bought me here
Yep, me too.
@@yokie52 ditto
Me too
Same here. He was the guy who fought with racoons in a Chinese restaurant
dubstup12 Same.
This lady is a wonderful interviewer: warm, detailed, respectful, empathetic, great voice projection, great lead-in to the next questions, and most of all helping the interviewee open up and flow... Very rare to see this quality these days.
RIP Michael Blake (July 5, 1945 - May 2, 2015), aged 69
You will always be remembered as a legend.
RIP Michael. You will always be remembered
Incredibly smart man and what a beautiful story he wrote - thank you for posting - cheers from Canada
Great interviewer
Great film that expose more people to native American culture
I have not read the book, but the movie was unusually beautiful, portraying a poignant moment not just in the history of the US, but more importantly, for mankind. For it is at this conjuncture that the final battles in the old west are being fought, and we quickly see the demise of the native way of life that was surrounded by an abundance of nature, and deeply connected to spiritual ways that are overseen by the Great Spirit, the maker of our lives, and giver of the very breath of life itself. I know, for I was there during this pivotal and critical period, for the wheel of reincarnation always seeks the right development for the human spirit, so as to awaken us, and propel and urge us on, even through experiences of deepest suffering. And I grieve and suffer when I see this movie, or even hear the Lakota language, which still sounds noble, natural and beautiful to me, akin to the cold winds from the north that kiss our prairie lands in the south, and sing their tunes of freedom, to which we would joyfully dance, alongside the flowers of the meadow and flowing brooks that gleefully meandered across our lands.
Thus, the film is deeply sorrowful, how could it not be, for it conveys the lunacy of the modern man, in those days particularly the white man, who through his sudden gift of technical advancements he attempts to set himself above the Creator and His Laws. But this cannot be, for then man becomes a rapacious beast, who makes a sty of the earth and destroys many of the earth's animals and their habitats, and this is what has happened, for money, land, power, gold and oil mostly. And now as many native prophecies foretold, man must reap what he hath sown, and most of his seeds and ensuing fruits are evil, it is sad to say. Suffering then will set forth among mankind, and ravage the world, until he can bear no more, and maybe then, when he is filled with both tears of bitterness and great gladness, through his desolation of spirit, he will at last fall down onto his knees, and with open heart, take his fill from the mighty pulse and rhythm of Creation, for we must all once more learn to live by the ways of the Great Spirit! Blessed be the Lakota, and all the nature being whom we entrusted our lives to... may we meet again in happier times!!!
what a beautiful thought, thanks a lot for kindly share it with us !
"The native way of life" was a raiding culture involving constant rape, torture, murder, slavery and theft. That's why you never evolved and got rolled over when someone came along with medicine and multiple shot guns. You didn't even know how to ride horses until the Spanish showed you.
Reading and writing? Got it, Michael thanks. RIP
Libraries are the best gift our countries can give us.
Dances with Wolves was a great Hollywood movie.
I think the film was great inspired by the book and the federal holiday of Thanksgiving explained more for our history about Indians between the good and the bad
It was a great inspiration story what had followed the movie 2 storytelling
The author of the book done a great job adapting the film helping with the film directors inspired a movie I think it was very good film of the year.
Dances with Wolves is one of the greatest Oscar award-winning film Smash Hit Blockbuster smash films.
Wonderful story
This guy is cool af
Rip Michael Black 🙁
And also Michael Blake 😂
A great American. He had to fight racoons in a Chinese restaurant.
you know he killed the raccoons for the chinese restaurant
He really look like Kevin..
he does
Well, that's one take on his reality.
He could literally be Costner's brother :P
Yes, I do see a resemblance.
Soul family
Haha...I don't know about that whole, "Kevin is very grateful for his friendship with me" part. Costner did an interview on the Graham Norton show and the story was a BIT different!
The Film had a lot of Historical inaccuracies , but was still enjoyable tho
It would have been good for Michael to acknowledge the role that Kevin played in his life and how "Dances With Wolves" came about.
See czcams.com/video/XT2S1OkSld4/video.html
How does he feel about Avatar ripping off his story?
Did they ?
I never heard of this but if it's true how horrendous , my God ... I'm going to have to look this up
All he did was make the pawnee tribe the barbarous villains rather than the traditional sioux, brought on by their defeat of custer.
Actually in the book it’s a Comanche tribe not Sioux
This is not even close to the Kevin Costner version czcams.com/video/XT2S1OkSld4/video.html
I thought the exact same thing!
I think it's close enough, he didn't have to elaborate that they fought or that Costner had issues with the studios and was mocked making the film, etc. His story was just more reserved and not as elaborate but it's similar, except it's from his pov
How so?
He did say he was homeless and stayed with friends - one of whom was Costner by his own admission.
Costner told him to either write a play (88 pages) or a book (888 pages) and not some 120-page script which will be rejected by Hollywood, and he corroborated same here.
Costner didn't read the novel for the longest time which he also corroborated here.
Rather than expecting their POVs to be exact, one simply fills the spaces of the other thus giving us a much broader picture.
Seems reasonably close from an alternative perspective
Kevin Costner should be grateful to him? Hmmmm.... I can see why this guy irritated a lot of people.
Ahahaha, yeahh i caught that as well and was thinking the same thing.