DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION
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I'm a Native American. I brought my family to go watch this movie in a theatre.
It diffinitely changed my life.
I told everyone that Mr Kevin Costner can make the worst movies the rest of career and I would still love him for making this film.
Nobody .film industry did not want to help him. Mr Costner. Hollywood laughed at him because he told them he wanted to do a western and that the Indians ( Native Americans) Be the good guy's.
Eighteen months later he was in Los Angeles at the Oscars with his film " Dances with Wolves" nominated for 11 Academy Awards.
Other movie producer's wanted Mr Costner to star in other films. The hunt for the Red October. And others .But Mr .Costner dedicated his time, money, and energy to make sure this film got produced.
To this day, it's my favorite film of all Time.
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@@Novastar.SaberCombat me too.
It's definitely his best movie.
I may be "white", but there is a reason for my name. I am sorry for what has happened to your people.
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Please don't be sorry.
I think world history repeating itself some one is always taking without asking.
"I am Wind in His Hair. Do you see that I am your friend? Can you see that you will always be my friend?" So powerful - with John Barry's epic score. I cry tears every single time. This is a timeless classic.
Agreed. If you watch that scene and don't tear up, you have no soul... and I'm an atheist...
That actor name is Rodney Grant.
That's the part that makes men well up. That kind of "brothers in arms" stuff always gets me, where they're tough and not emotional but then you see they would die for each other.
Yup. Same here.
Man tears every damn time! 🧅😪😪
I am not of the nation of the Sioux. I am Cherokee. Our struggles in history are different, but this movie seriously pushed to drive home one important detail.
Regardless of nation, tribe, clan or family. We are humans.
Man we need to think like this more than ever today. I believe in the goodness of people. People let feudal political and nationalistic reasons rule their world view but we're more than that.
Dakota, Lakota and Nakota. Nor Sioux. That’s the term used by their enemies, then pushed by the whites…
I am Dakota (Sioux) and this movie was very good in telling the story of what happened to our people ... The end of the way we lived, the beginning of the way the USA treated us ... yeah
Pidamaya!
The first words Wind In His Hair says to John Dunbar are "I am Wind In His Hair. Can you see that I am not afraid of you?“. The last he says to him are "I am Wind In His Hair. Can you see that I will always be your friend?“. Absolutely beautiful writing.
Absolutely. That scene made me cry.
Imagine the man who wrote ..did it while living at Kevin’s house
That is a man talking for all to see and all to hear . No matter what you do in life if you speak your words and own them you are a brave man , not afraid to speak the truth for all to see and hear . It's a very Human thing to do .
@@AmbassadorScorpio ehhh.....actually he didn't write that part.......listen to the Commentary with Kevin Costner for the back story on how they had wrapped up filming and weren't happy with how they concluded their storyline.......it took them about 4 months to come up with what they did......that's why that part of the film even looks different........it's even different filmstock it took them so long to come up with that ending.
Correct sir!
Fun fact: Kevin Costner's spreading out of his arms while doing his suicide run at the start of the film was a completely spontaneous gesture that took his stunt coordinator by surprise.
2nd Fun fact: The union soldier, who saves Kevin Costner's character by shooting another soldier in the forehead who is about to kill him, is played by Kevin's father Bill Costner. Kevin Costner asked his father to play the role in this movie and said, "You wanna be in the movie? You wanna save me? And his dad said, "Yeah!""
Final fun fact: During the scene where the buffalo is charging at Smiles a Lot, the buffalo is actually charging at a pile of its favorite treat: Oreo cookies.
I might charge for Oreos too!
Could never get me to charge at a pile of Oreos. A pile of carne asada burritos, on the other hand...
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 💝
Found myself tearing up watching this movie again through your eyes. The moment that gets me going more than any other in this movie is when Wind In His Hair talks to Dances With Wolves at his wedding. Stands With A Fist's dead husband was his best friend. He says, "He was a good man. It has been hard for me to like you. I am not the thinker Kicking Bird is. I always feel anger first. There were no answers to my questions. But now I think he went away because you were coming. That is how I see it."
I wonder,... perhaps the spirit of Stands With a Fist's dead husband somehow joined with Two Socks. The wolf who would give Dances With Wolves his Sioux name.
Yes, that scene is simply amazing. ❤
As a Native American, Dances With Wolves has a bittersweet ending for me. Yes it's a good story, and seeing how him and the Lakota tribe grow to like each other, then how they accept him as one of their own, is a beautiful journey. The buffalo hunt is especially exciting for me. But then the movie ends, and knowing the way things turned out for the Lakota and every tribe across the Americas. It's a bittersweet ending, because after that comes the Long Walk, the Massacre at Wounded Knee, the Trail of Tears and so much more. I actually know a few Lakota people, they come to the Navajo Reservation a lot and have their ceremonies, and dances. They are a great people, who have endured centuries of hardship, wars, tragedy, sickness, and dehumanization. Despite all that they still endure, we still endure, and we're not going away, no matter what the federal government does to us.
Deep respect. From Brazil
Sitting Bull was one of the greatest leaders that ever lived. The Sioux will rise again!
Being native American I love this film..
it truly breaks my heart every time I watch it...Great reaction ladies!
Which tribe are you from & where sir? I have an important question I would like to ask you.
I'm Yankton Sioux (located in South Dakota) & White. This movie along with several others, will always have a special place in my heart.
@@IChooseJesus9091 Oglala/Hunkpapa/mnicoujou of the Big Foot clan here, the moment he rode his horse and was shot at by the south and wasnt hit. That was Crazy Horses vision, Kevin Cosnor did his research and i love that moment.
There's also a game called "this land is my land" where you play the native American guy for once 😉
Another to watch is "Last of the dogmen" from 1995.
My extended family in South Dakota owned the wolves that were used in this movie and I actually got to play with them and pet them when I was little
OK, that is totally cool.
Did they behave any differently than dogs?
@@solvingpolitics3172 I was only 9 years old when I got to meet them and I remember that we couldn't go into the kennel with them and they brought them out to us and if you started to make howling noises all the wolves would start hollowing
@@solvingpolitics3172 I don't know about full-bred wolves, but a family member of mine had a cross-bred dog/wolf. It did behave differently from a dog. It was super-attentive to social hierarchy and would start to lower itself and even go on its back around people, all while keying on its owner for cues. It was also super quick in its movements, and it did not seem to relax at all around strangers. The body language was different from a dog's basically. it was a bit un-nerving.
@@johnalden5821 as a genetics type of guy, I am curious as to what genes were bred-out or modified to make our domestic dog so tame and trusting in comparison to wild wolves. If they haven't started a project like that, they should.
Recently I informed my 70 year old cousin she was 1/8th Sioux. That her great grandmother
was full. Her was surprised as no one had told her that her grand mother who we knew was born in Montana and raised on the Reservation. I also informed her that my father was part Cherokee from Tennessee. My father did not know this until just before he died because my grand mother hid it as she was ashamed. On my and my cousin's mothers line we were descended from several of the passengers on the Mayflower. We are Americans.
As the family genealogist, I understand this completely. I've looked and hope for Native American blood in my lines. Finally found it -- WAY, WAY back; for far back I probably shouldn't have even mentioned it. And, yes, I have several lines from the Mayflower. It is so cool to learn of the lives that went before out own, of whom we are a tiny part.
This is one of my favorite movies. I'm a native of South Dakota where it was filmed. When I'm missing home I watch this.
I know a lot of people who worked on this movie. They all say it was a great experience. Kevin Costner fell in love with South Dakota and bought a ranch there and invested in some businesses. I actually got to meet him.
When Wind In His Hair cries out to Dances With Wolves at the end to proclaim his love and friendship... Chills, man.
One of my saddest moments in movies
Every. Single. Time.
Not gonna lie. This last scene with Wind In His Hair is a tear jerker. I clearly remember watching this in the theatre silently crying.
I mean it's all fake. Nothing like this ever happened with Indians. This is not how Stone age hunter-gatherers behaved. But don't let that get in the way of your good cry.
@@miketaylor7471 I guess some of us are still in the stone age ... :D
@@miketaylor7471 I didn’t know the Stone Age was a few hundred years ago
@@northernpunx1978 For those who don't know: Columbus discovered the Americas when he travelled West, hoping to find the East Indies. He defenitely had a brain but indeed no map. So when he arrived in the Caribeans he hoped he had reached the East Indies and therefore the natives were named Indians.
I'm tearing up remembering it. This movie was an incredible, moving classic.
Cassie and Carly make all movies worth watching over and over again 🤣
Facts!
One of the best Westerns ever created. The view of the Dakota, using their language is masterful. Amazing picture.
"Don't you hurt my mule." And with one final line, a hated character, gets so much sympathy before his death from the audience. Always found that line so sad.
Yeah that was sad. I wouldn't classify timmons as hated. More of a rough ignorant slob that you can tell had a good heart all along.
@@MrAitraining Yeah, Spivey is - hands down - the most hated character. Lying about the journal then wiping his butt with it, then gleefully shooting Two Socks? Yeah, he's the worst.
I think it would be extreme to say he was hated. Although he was annoying, he was harmless enough to begin with.
@@MrAitraining "Put that in your book" was my favorite line in the movie.
Hated? I liked Timmins from the first moment. Great character and yes.. his death was heartbreaking.
"Many times I had felt alone, but until this afternoon I had never felt completely lonely."
That is the line I remember the most about this movie after first time watching it. :)
" my Sioux name being called over and over, I knew for the first time who I really was."
I am native american who has loved watching all your reactions. I am from the ojibwe tribe. Its sad so much history has been rewritten so many times. Yet of all the genocides that happen throughout history, the one against native americans is the least ever talked about and swept under the rug
@Advocate for common sense thanks. I am not mad about the past. I just get mad when the present sweeps it under the rug or doesnt acknowledge what had happened or whats worse when we as a human race doesnt learn and oppress people in the present day
I suspect that it is the one least brought up because it is the one we are most ashamed of. I wonder how cautiously the Germans tread around the Holocaust, or the British around the Tasmanian extirpation.
Perhaps it will take one generation more, or two. But as always happens, things will come full round again one day, and the USA will have matured enough to look this terrible thing in the eyes. Then the First Nations will at last truly have a way to reclaim what is theirs. 🙂
@@goldenager59 i dont see it changing. We are talking about 1492 until now. Over 500 years and yet its still forgotten but you look at the the holocaust less than a 100 years ago. Did they justify and make up for the atrocities no, but at least people know and wont allow it to be forgotten, i dont think the government will ever make peace of it, because i think they will consider it a needed genocide and as yoy said something they are ashamed of more than most.
@@mr.niceguy7940
Thus far two generations of whites have come to maturity in this land expressing sincere concern for the Earth that is their mother and the plants and animals that are their siblings. That must count as a change in the right direction - even if it's not the straight-and-fast direction. 😕
@@goldenager59 im not saying their isnt change for the betterment of nature and humanity in ways. The discussion is how the genocide of the Natives is looked upon or i should say 'is forgotten' overall in schooling. Im not saying schools dont take a day to talk it over but overall its a part of history no one wants brought up is all im saying
It brought a tear to my eye when Kicking Bird conversed in English with Dunbar. You know they’d been communing on a very deep level to impart knowledge between each other.
At 19:35 The older woman riding in the background was actually the Lakota coach. She taught Lakota at the local community college. They asked her if she wanted to have a bit part in the movie. She was very happy to have the opportunity because with the money she and her husband could buy a new refrigerator.
I believe this is one of the greatest films ever. Costner was made an honorary Sioux for his honest depiction of them for the first time. The buffalo hunt was done without any CGI or any altering of the speed of the film, and was, and still is, considered one of the great moments in film cinematography (among the likes of Ben Hur).
This was not an honest movie. It was pure liberal fairy tale. Please grow up. This is not how Indians behaved.
@@miketaylor7471 Oh, how did they behave genius? Like crazy savages? Please let us know the truth.
@@northernpunx1978 We have archaeological evidence. We have evidence from hunter-gatherer societies all over the planet. We have eyewitness reports from both Indians and white people. There was never a time in history when peaceful "Noble savages" walked the earth. You'd know this if you'd stop and reflect for a moment. Stop thinking of it like it was a cartoon.
@@miketaylor7471 I'm as conservative as they come. You sound ignorant. You think there were no Indians that tried to get along with the white man? Really?
@@williambroer5258 the huron got along just fine with the french
I have loved this movie since it was being filmed in South Dakota. I knew many of the people in the movie and I went to university with Kevin Costner. We were in the same Physical Education Baseball class. The people in this movie had to learn Lakota, one of the Siouan languages unless they were among the few who actually did speak this. I was impressed at how many spoke it so well. All the kids in this movie were kids from the local area and also from the Pine Ridge Reservation as were many of the adults. I had so many good friends who were and are Lakota. They are as kind and peaceful as any people I have ever known. I am very pleased that you enjoyed the movie!!
If I ever learn French and Spanish, Lakota would be the third language I would love to learn.
I believe the instructor who taught them Lakota was a Sioux descendent named Doris Leader Charge. She not only teaches the Lakota language (I forget where), but did her part to make sure the language remain immortalized by her participation in this film, not only as instructor, but in the film as well with a few spoken lines of her own. Thus a native Sioux, speaking true Lakota in its original form.
So many Native American Nations have unfortunately disappeared into history with little remaining but their name and basic details. But this film ensures that a piece of the Lakota Sioux will forever remain, so long as the film medium continues to exist.
Having said that,... it does give me a moment of pause. Carved relief, stone sculpture, and even paint on canvas can transcend centuries, if not even millennia. But... what of film? The medium itself is only about a century and a half old,... and films as we understand them for maybe 75% of that time. Would these films still exist in another 200, 300, 500, or thousand years? Would they survive in the same way that carvings, sculpture, and paintings have? And if they do not,... then could the legacy these films have sought to preserve end up dying with them?
We feel so sure of the technological advances we as a nation, and even species have made in the last century,... but what of it will still live on? In our conquest of the American landscape, from sea to shining sea,... has our expansion and subsequent eradication of the many cultures that previously lived here made their own histories doomed to be forgotten, should all the things we have created turn out to not remain, come the year 3000?
I'm sorry if this is a bit melancholic. But its the kind of things that film like this makes me think of. Not only past cultures lost, but wondering if ours would even be remembered at all.
@k1productions87 that's pretty deep.
Such a good film, which, despite its long running time, never feels like it is over long or drags. One of the best westerns ever made alongside Unforgiven and Open Range.
I saw this in theatres in 1990 when I was 12. It was one of the greatest cinema experiences of my life. They truly just don't make story/character based epic films like this any more.
I was eleven when I saw that movie in the theaters I couldn't read very fast so my dad had to whisper the words to me while the movie was playing
It's one of the best memories I have of my late father
Our entire schools 2nd form (12 year olds) got taken to the local cinema to watch it... lets just say in some scenes you could tell the teachers where a little 'opps'
I was the same age- I was expecting to be bored, but I wasn't, at all. I'll never forget that experience.
@@NZBigfoot opps? What year were you not educated correctly?
"They truly just don't make story/character based epic films like this anymore."
I take it that you never saw The Lord of the Rings trilogy?
The actor who plays the "toughest Pawnee" is Wes Studi. He is probably the greatest Native American actor of all time. He served honorably in Vietnam, and this movie was his breakthrough role. It let to numerous other films in which he had a lead role, including Last of the Mohicans, Geronimo, The New World, and the PBS series based on the novels of Tony Hillerman, in which he plays a Native American detective.
Greatest or not he's certainly the most well known NA actor of all time.
He's also in the monster film Deep Rising as the mercenary leader and in the film Heat as one of the Major Crimes unit cops working with Hanna.
There are no "native americans". These people came from Siberia.
He's so intense. Great actor.
@@tommiller1520 If you go back far enough, everyone came from Africa. What's your point ?
You did a wonderful job of editing a 3 hour movie into less than 40 minutes. Thank you for this.
Our editor Mike is a superstar!! :)
@@PopcornInBed Three Cheers for Mike.......
Movie is actually four hours
@@cxdion Alex, No, the movie, as released in theaters, is actually 3 hours and 1 minute.
@@PopcornInBed yes Thanks Mike .. great work! I have watched my film editor daughter working and I would describe it as... Sleep deprived 😴😴😴
The extended cut *is* important because it makes SO much more sense. There are little scenes that they had to cut out in order to trim down the run time. Believe me, the extended cut exists not because Costner prefers the theatrical cut, but because they HAD to make it shorter. The idea that people would sit in a theater and watch a 3-hr in 1990 was considered foolish, no one would do that. The extended cut shows so much more of a relationship between John and Stands with a Fist, more with the wolf, more with the Lakota, and little things that change the tone of certain scenes. It does extend the movie to almost 4 hours, and then it requires an intermission to get through it, but it's SO worth it.
Kevin Kostner (sp?) said filming this changed his life more than anything he’s ever experienced. Great movie and a great positive way to help this single dad though missing my daughters💔💓 today. Thanks for posting.
Costner.
That's why he still likes to shoot western movies/tv shows. Like Open Range, Yellowstone etc
@@MacCheekz1990 Yellowstone is great and feels like Sons Of Anarchy/Vikings but with a western vibe. Open Range almost kinda feels like a culmination of True Frit and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. This movie, while being made first, feels a lot like The Last Samurai.
I still to own the 2 tape, Deluxe Edition, Director's Cut, Box Edition of this movie. I took it to school for a Class called Reading the Movies. Needless to say, there were a lot of things to be said during the discussion afterwards. Gods, that was 21 years ago now. I will say, the extended edition is virtually unnecessary. It kinda tells what happens at Fort Sedgewick, but primarily enforces the isolation and loneliness of John/Dances.
By the time 'Dances with Wolves' arrived as a motion picture the Western genre of films or movies about the west were in rapid decline and almost non-existent. On its own 'Dances with Wolves' resurrected the Western genre and at the same time elevated native Americans as protagonists/heroes and not as the usual antagonists/villians! In short this motion picture was a landmark in the history of cinema!
Great Indian movie.
The most moving soundtrack of all time. I adore "John Dunbar's Theme."
Two Socks/The Wolf Theme is also just amazing. In fact, the whole soundtrack is a masterclass as you say.
All composed by John Barry. THIS is the film that got me into music.
The "Love Theme" is tied with the "John Dunbar Theme." John Barry's epic score that deservedly won an Oscar and one of my top 10 favorite original scores. Also adore his 1985 "Out of Africa" score which was nominated and won(?). You can hear clear thematic musical overlaps between the two soundtracks...they were only 5 years apart.
My absolute favorite. It checks all the boxes.....Writing, Directing, Cinematography, Music
Additionally, y'all make me smile.
You two are the sweetest things. It's great when you have your sister with you. You can tell you bond well with each other and play off of each other well during the movie.
As an adolescent, I saw this film in the theater with my dad and it had a huge impact on me. A seminal experience in my journey as a movie-lover. I suspect you will love it.
Oh, and the Native American actor with the friendly face: his name is Graham Greene. You will see him again in MAVERICK.
Maverick is a fun and good movie. :)
And he's in 'The Green Mile'.....but she may have already seen that one.
He's hilarious in Maverick!
He’s also in Thunderheart, with Val Kilmer. A great and underrated movie.
@@minnesotajones261 yeah he was..lol
I never thought I would enjoy watching people watch a movie. But seeing you two watch a movie I love is fun. You guys are adorable.
Cassie and Carly......walking the Medicine Path while healing thousands by watching a movie.
Keep up the GOOD VIBES!!
19:38 By Lewis and Clark's estimates in 1804, there were upwards of 60 million buffalo on the Great Plains. By 1890, there were less than 700 specimens left.
Because the US government exterminated them as part of a campaign to exterminate the native peoples.
Sad but true :(
Their numbers are growing again. Ted Turner has more than 40,000, just on his ranch.
Yeah they nearly went extinct.
@@ITPalGame .....wtf is your actual damage. Anyone with a modicum of education knows that the Indigenous Americans were not perfect people who never did a single ugly thing. However, they did not systematically commit genocide on every other tribe in the country, as our US govt. did. They did not attempt to 'reeducate' thousands of children, killing many in the process, scaring them for life as 'missionary schools' did. And they did not ruin and despoil the land they lived on, as we continue to do.
Just as incredible as the film, is how it got made. Nobody wanted to invest in a western movie since they were losing their popularity, and they laughed when they heard Kevin Costner was stuck in the wild and using a couple of fake mechanical Buffalos. They also laughed that he was having the Indians talk in their own language. He used his own money (22 million) along with close associates for the music and the cinematography. They went back to the potential investors and let them watch the finished project. The investors were shocked at how well the movie was produced. Costner had never directed a movie before. But after $424 million worldwide box office gross, 12 Oscar nominations, 7 Oscar wins including Best Picture, Best Director, sound, music, cinematography, and editing, and many other awards such as Golden Globes, we have "Dances with Wolves" The look of the film and the real buffalo as supporting cast, helped revive the western movies. And finally: Only three non-modern-day westerns have won "Best Picture" Cimarron 1931 Unforgiven 1992, and Dances with Wolves 1990.
I would love it if Cassie watched "Unforgiven" at some point, it's a great movie
Stop calling Aboriginals/First Nations, Indians. We're NOT from India for gods sake! Stop being willfully ignorant.
Kevin Costner tells the story on Graham Norton show on how he first got the story Dances with Wolves, won't spoil it because its a great story, but I'll pass you the link. czcams.com/video/XT2S1OkSld4/video.html
I met the Oscar winning editor Neil Travis before he died. He wasn't the warmest man
@@horrorcide13 must be a Canadian thing... American natives call THEMSELVES "Indians"
I'm almost 50 years old. This is my favorite movie. Brings me to tears every time. Very beautiful reaction. Thanks ladies.
Same here man. Movie gets me every time. So does the music. I was a senior in high school when it was released.
See this movie 10 + times as a teenager. Still have the DVD
Being a man, I'm not ashamed to say that two films made me cry balls of tears.. This amazing film! The other, Forest Gump, when he finds out he has a son. Hey, I'm man enough to admit it. 'I am wind in his hair!'
I hadn't seen this in decades. I forgot how emotionally powerful it is.
I kept telling my wife how professional your channel is and how great it is when it is the two of interacting. She wound up subscribing and she does not even watch reaction channels. Thanks for another great one.
Cassie, you are the best thing on CZcams. My 8 y.o. son & I adore your reactions. I couldn't ask for a better example of a genuine heart. Thank you.
This movie broke my heart but also restored my humanity at the same time. I saw it 5 times at the theater.
The end, when Wind in His Hair is chanting about being his friend, makes me cry every time.
This is a great movie. Kevin's friend wrote this script when was staying with him and his young family while he was hard on his luck. All time great. I love how even though it's such a great historical piece, and cultural piece, ultimately the human story shines trough and transcends it all.
“Stop killing everyone we love.” That cracked me up. Also the comment about the number of head injuries… you two are adorable. 😂
not sure why that's funny
The actor who played Kicking Bird is Graham Greene, a First Nations Canadian: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Greene_(actor)
'He's cute!'
'Cassie this is war!'
'Oh ok.' 😆😂🤣
This was one of my mom's favorite movies. So she knew it pretty well. So whenever something crazy or stupid happened around us or if a family member farted, I would say, "Put that in your book." every time and she would bust out laughing real hard. Fart jokes are always funny.
I bet pull my finger was the first joke.
The cinematography and soundtrack to this movie is beyond magnificent!!!! Such a beautiful movie !!!
John Barry's Score is so damn beautiful, it is almost unreal.
I'm so glad you watched the theatrical version. You are so right. Everyone watched the theatrical cut the first time, which is made it so good. Extended versions are for 2nd watches for sure. Great reaction. In your spare time you should watch the making of this.. it's incredible everything that happened..
You're so right! The theatrical cut is the finished film done the way the director wants it to be. The director's cut is actually UN-cut and usually has unneeded scenes that bog down the movie. Since pacing is incredibly important, the theatrical cut will be tighter and more direct, whereas the director's cut can be meandering and destroy the flow of the film. I wish reactor's would realize this! Director's cuts are for after you've seen the real film.
@@cynthianavarro4316 Not always. Blade Runner being a prime example.
@@jp3813 Exactly. Directions Cut of BR is superior, by far. Another great film and soundtrack.
@@jp3813 There are exceptions to every rule
@@cynthianavarro4316 What are you talking about? If the theatrical release is what the director wants released, why is there a director's cut at all. You better realize that the theatrical cut is what a production company wants released and not a director. But hey... not everyone thinks as you do or likes to do things the way you do.... how horrible.
Another very good western with Costner, and Robert Duvall, is "Open Range".
It's a great story, with great actors, and the cinematography might just be as good as it gets in this genre. You can't go wrong with Robert Duvall in a western. Lonesome Dove is still one of my favorites.
I believe Kevin Costner does not get enough credit for the work he's done in western films he is truly a gifted actor
Silverado was another great one. Everyone's probably already seen it, though.
That role was perfect for Costner.
That shootout at the end is epic
Fun fact, some of the locations of this film was on my Great Aunts property. And she actually got to meet Kevin Costner. I absolutely adore this film, and knowing that my distant relative agreed for the movie to be filmed on her land. Also, The Civil War is (one) of the greatest yet bloodiest War of America to date.
I loved the reactions of both you and Carly, I remember when this movie first came out, it's a great movie and it shows the truly human side of Native Americans that is rarely seen in theaters. They are not the "bloodthirsty savages" they've always been depicted as. I haven't watched one of your uploads in awhile, you and Carly are the best, keep reacting
Oh, boy... 1:48 and I'm already trying to tear up over a man on a cliffside, shouting his friendship to the world.
My favorite part is when the warrior tastes the sugar and the smile slowly creeps in and he throws fists full into the leader's cup. I love it.
Oh that face at 35:56. I felt that same emotion at the end as well when he said “can you see that you will always be my friend” 🥺😢😭
Love Kevin Costner. He's one of my favorite actors ever. Great movie here. It's not always popular opinion... but I also love his movies Waterworld & The Postman
One of the greatest of all time. 2 Socks dying gets me every time. He wasn’t hurting anyone and those assholes killed him for fun. I’m Native American too so I love this movie.
Yep, made me leave the theater for a few long seconds it felt like, and when I opened the door, they were still shooting at 2 Socks. Why the slow wait. I left without looking back. I hate seeing an animal dying in movies but that prolonged shooting made seeing any animal in a movie a no way I'm watching anymore movies with an animal. Cases in point, The Babaduk, I Am Legend, the Evil Dead remake. Seems like there has to be a pet in horror movies. Is Kevin Costner's Open Range even gave me wearies. Yes the animal dies but no prolong shooting that messed it up with me.
@@scottjo63 speaking of animals I’m glad the part where the Pawnee killed the 2 dogs. I get sad every time I hear those poor yelps as they’re hit with arrows. I always fast forward that part.
Have you ever watched Last of the dogmen from 1995
@@nielsjosefsen431 nope
This the first thing I remember seeing Wes Studi in. He plays the Pawnee leader who was killed by the circle of Lakota and Dunbar. He is one of my favorite character actors, and I love it when he’s in something I’m watching!
As a fellow Oklahoman, I always like to see Wes Studi's appearances and follow his work. He is a Cherokee who spoke only that language until he started attending school. He's also played another tough character as Magua in Last of the Mohicans, and Geronimo in the movie by that name, and dozens of other movie appearances. He has given of his time to helping train other Native American actors as well as working to preserve the Cherokee language. Wes Studi is in the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's Hall of Great Western Performers - a true professional!
@@ranger-1214 along with being a Vietnam vet as well
Hello from Finland! I stumbled on your channel by accident and just completely loved your genuine feels and powerful emotions you shared with all of us! I binge-cried/laughed away all your videos in one sitting, and developed a serious internet crush on you as well🤦🏼 Not the creepy kind, but serious still😁 I’m sure you get like stupid amounts of recommendations for movies to watch, and adding up to that pile: Leon! You got to watch it, if you haven’t already!❤️
I hope nothing but love and good things in your life☺️
Welcome Wellu! Cassie is hosting a livestream on January 29th, It will be around 1:00 am your time, though. Would love to have you there! -Jon
A buckskin is the best horse, an a really good friend. A horse and a person with a bond is something like nothing. Not many know that bond, it's truly amazing....
Hell yeah finally we getting dances with wolves. Thank you for reacting to it! Really hope more films like this get watches.
- tombstone
- open range
- hostiles
- the patriot
Many many others
Tombstone! "I'm your Huckleberry!"
Three Amigos... Nobody said I couldn't throw in a subgenre :P
I would love to see an Open Range reaction.
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"it's a mail plane. How can you tell?"
"I'm still here El Guapo!"
"(Bang!) That was a good trick too!"
Geronimo..Broken Trail..The Missing
My wife and I watched this in the theater when it first came out. There was a talkative older couple in the seats behind us. They commented to each other during the whole movie. It was kind of annoying until in the scene where Stands With Fist takes off her dress in front of John, the older woman said to her husband, "I think she likes him." To this day, if we're watching a romantic scene in any show, either my wife or I will say, "I think she likes him." Great movie. And I truly love your reaction.
Very cool memory.
Too funny! Can't stop giggling.
This film has always spoken to me. It has an almost spiritual quality at times as we watch his personal growth and transition.
I saw this movie in the theaters in 1990. It has stuck with me and often comes to mind when engaged in inter- and intra- cultural conflict. As well as respecting the land.
Great choice for a movie. I remember seeing this when it came out. Such a powerful film. First Western I remember seeing where the Native Americans are the protagonists.
YOU NEED to watch Last of the dogmen from 1995
If you haven't seen Ladyhawke, you should check it out. It's a love story and has a happy ending so you should like it.
One of my favorites!
I’ve watched two movies with you and you guys made me cry both times. Yet here I am again
If you two ladies ever get the chance, go to South Dakota, because 1 it’s a beautiful state, but 2, you should go see the Tatanka museum that they have.
The bows that they would create are incredibly strong poundage and a couple of arrows could bring down a Buffalo especially if shot in a vital spot.
Your quotes, “we know how this all ends and we took without asking.” Really puts movies like this into perspective. If only reality didn’t get in the way with our fantasies.
Every great culture in history has "taken without asking." Strength and power are all that matters in the end. It's the way of the warrior, the law of the jungle, and the native tribes were engaged in constant, brutal warfare for territory amongst themselves before the white man came and conquered them all. White people get a lot of grief for kicking so much ass over the course of history, not because they did anything that was morally different from anyone else, but because they were more successful at it. Criticisms of white history are not motivated by any legitimate sense of moral indignation, but only by the envy and resentment of history's losers. But hey, don't let reality get in the way of your self-righteous fantasies, snowflake.
Your comment is great, don't pay attention to the reply of the racist guys. As a Lakota myself, we understand the hardships and it was already understood in the past. That if the US had come to us with true intentions, things would have been better. If you're actually curious. Look up the treaties or the court cases of the John Marshall trilogies. But hopefully our reality gets better with time. Thanks @Chriss Gaines
Another very good western with Kevin Costner (another one directed by him) is 'Open Range' from 2003. Also stars Robert Duvall and Annette Bening.
I always have a great time watching Robert Duvall in anything he's in. he made Days of Thunder way better than it had any right to be.
AND it has a great love story, too. Always a selling point for Cassie and Carly.
Open Range is quite good. You won't like the violence in it, part of what makes it good is it portrays the cost of violence.
Also Silverado.
@@daltonmoore8971 well Silverado in 1986? more or less revived the Western in Hollywood. I am not a big fan of Costner personally but he was perfect as Jake. The cast of Silverado as a whole is pretty close to perfect.
Heartbreaking this movie, yet so beautiful. I've watched it a number of times over many years now. I started to cry towards the end, knowing what was to come, even though there are only snippets of the film here. Costner's best, from which we can all learn so much. Peace :)
That’s actually his horse in real life, the relationship and bond that they had was amazing and he knew it would be the perfect horse for him to ride
For the last scene "is that a pawnee helping them?"
There were a number of tribes used as scouts to help hunt down other tribes or even their own. For my tribe for instance, they were Navajo scouts used to hunt down other navajos or look for Geromino's band of fighters.
Those were Crow scouts. They worked with the U.S. Cavalry a lot, including being with Custer at Little Bighorn. The Crow were enemies of the Sioux.
The Pawnees were unfortunate to be cast as the "bad indians" because they attacked the Lakotas. In reality the native tribes attack/raid each other on a regular basis for food, horse or captives for labor or to be traded. Every native tribe know what a Pawnee raid is like. It is like a Lakota, Apache, Kiowa or Cheyenne raid. The Pawnee scouts at the end are like other tribes too. The Crows threw their lot with the US Army not because of their great love of the USA but because the Lakota-Cheyenne alliance were decimating them. There are no "good" or "bad" Indian.
It's Pawnee scouts..further west other scouts ..Crow ..Shoshone .Arikarra
I needed to cry today.. apparently.. this is one of my favorite movies, and you sharing this with us is golden!
You have the best movie reviews of all..... guaranteed. Thanks!
When Wind in His Hair is yelling “…can’t you see that you are my friend?” Is a flashback to when they first met trying to steal Cisco. He yelled”…can’t you see I am not afraid of you?”
Yes, finally! IMO, Dances with Wolves is a modern epic film, almost on par with Ben-Hur, and The Ten Commandments. Whether it will stand the test of time, remains to be seen, however. This movie's strengths are, the cast (Had to learn an actual Native American language), the wide-angle shots showing the beauty of the rolling plains, and the poignant storyline.
+John Barry ;)
both the human and the animal cast were amazing in this...
Titanic
But it's amazing that Kevin pulled this epic off on such a low budget
32 years isn't enough time?
It went up against Goodfellas in Oscars. I think both are legitimately are great movies. I liked Wolves better as a kid but I like Goodfellas more as an adult.
Haven’t watched this film since it was first released on vhs back in the day! Another western directed by Costner, I’d heartily recommend, is ‘Open Range’.
I'll definitely second Open Range. Not going to lie, I actually prefer it to Dances With Wolves.
@@robertcampbell8070 I much prefer Open Range….it’s actually become one of my all time favourite westerns. I like Costner as an actor but I freakin love Robert Duvall :-).
The problem is that open range is mindnumbling boring until the last 45 minutes or so.
These girls are are so genuine and entertaining to watch! This is one of my all time favorite movies, and they responded to it the same way I did! Thanks!
You're Canadians, I'm from California, how have we all not been touched by the wisdom and beauty of Native-American culture? In my area it is the Hupa, Yurok, Wiyot, Wintu, and I could go on... From my childhood, I remember Peaches... He was a Hupa Elder, and a master basket weaver. He was very much a homosexual, but he was an Elder, and very much respected. He was a very nice man, and I have nothing but fond memories of him! I am proud of my European heritage, but I am ever more proud of being raised around the native peoples of Northern California! Much love... 😄
Beautiful film, where watching it feels like reading a really great book
Feels like a lesson in history.
Very good analogy.
Beautiful cinematography and music, great story, marvelous performances, Oscars won & deserved!
Did you recognize Dunbar's best friend (Graham Greene) as the first man executed in The Green Mile? Or his wife (Mary McDonnell) as the First Lady in Independence Day?
The Pawnee warrior (Wes Studi) is also prominent in The Last of the Mohicans.
This guy got home from a trip and his wife asked, "Did you miss me?"
He answers, "Well, yea. You wouldn't stand still."
You are definitely my inspiration to convince my wife to expand her movie horizons! There are so many good stories out there and there is nothing better than getting to see somebody else experience all of those great parts of the stories for the first time.
I laughed when you said so many people said this was their dad’s favorite movie because that’s true for me haha he loved this movie so much. Also, I got to pet Kevin Costner’s horse from this movie and he kept trying to eat the scrunchie off my wrist 😂
🇨🇦❤️Graham Greene should have won the Oscar that year. Joe Pesci’s acting in Goodfellas was ok as best supporting actor but Graham Greene was much better.
The Bodyguard was not critically acclaimed, but Kevin Costner was great in that one as well.
I think most people are going to strongly disagree with you on that. Joe Pescis performance in that movie is legendary and iconic and still talked about to this day. Graham greene was half asleep in this film.
Great job as always. Thank you and your sister. This cannot be said about many people, but the world is actually better off for the two of you. Genuineness and Joy are in very small supply as of late. Thank you for providing them in great quantity for us.
Awesome choice. I love this movie since I watched it years ago. The translation of the German title is "The one, who dances with the wolf" btw :)
17:00 Pawnee killed her family and she is with the Sioux. These are different tribes.
As an animal lover, Dances With Wolves will break your heart. And then, the ending will make you cry too
How did they film all these majesic scenes. I mean everybody knows filming animal scenes is super hard, almost like a lottery win to get ONE good scene. But the wolve, the horse...? Like pivotal scenes of the movie are animal scenes. How did they do it so well?....
I've seen this back in high school on a field trip when it first came out in theaters. The saddest part is at the ending when wind in his hair was yelling for dancing with wolves on the top of the hill. Great reaction. LOVE it. Bye
One of my all time favorites. I always wonder how different thr past could have been in so many ways. Especially natives point of view. I'm Navajo, so most of us from I'm told were mainly farmers. Some resisted the expansion into the west from foreigners, but could not hold out. The Long Walk occurred, and young natives were told to forget heritage and be put in boarding schools. Even in the Civil War natives were used on both sides of the conflict with promise of given their lands back if one side won. Movies like this always get me thinking, but in all I must do my best to learn all I am able before my linage is gone. Most of all, pass the knowledge, and adapt to new ways of progression.
Winner of 7 Oscars including Best Picture. The last epic western to ever win an Oscar. The Buffalo sequence is my favorite part of the movie! Those were real buffalo!
Cough cough Unforgiven (1992) cough cough. Know your history. 😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@JamesASharp lol! Cimarron was the first western to win Best Picture.
@@shainewhite2781 And yet, you forgot about Unforgiven. It's okay if you believe that Dances With Wolves is a better film. We're all different. 👍
**Cassie adjusts camera with hand**
"...and the last thing I remember, this giant hand reaches through the screen and I woke up after that with a fat lip!"
1970 - before Dances With Wolves there was the movie "Little Big Man". As a misguided 20th-century historian listens, 121-year-old Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) narrates the story of being adopted by the Cheyenne, renamed "Little Big Man," and raised in the ways of the "Human Beings" by paternal mentor Old Lodge Skins (Chief Dan George), accepting non-conformity and living peacefully with nature, he is later violently thrust into the white world. Staring Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam, Richard Mulligan. It's on my top 10 list... you will love it.
I was a 'Wind in His Hair' once when I sent off my childhood friend of British origin at a rural airfield. As the small plane moved for take-off, I remembered running along the fence, tears streaming down my cheek. My parents let me be.
I've read a lot of Western history: here are a few facts to help you... according to writer Francis Parkman, the power of a bow & arrow was such that in some cases the arrow, which was shot just behind the buffalo's front leg in a downward angle to hit the heart, would sometimes pass entirely through the animal's body!
In the 1840s, an Army captain & his company was sent out to survey areas of the Plains, when they encountered the spring migration of one of the main herds... he reported that he & his men rode South for an entire week, & they spent the ENTIRE TIME riding past the northbound herd on its migration!
Research has determined that there were three discreet herds on the plains: the Northern herd, which inhabited southern Canada & down into Idaho, Montana, & the Dakotas; the Central herd in Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas & Nebraska, & the Southern herd, in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, & Mexico itself... estimates are that each herd was approximately TWENTY MILLION animals, or a total of around 60 MILLION BUFFALO!!
Hide hunting became a major employment for many hunters (as you saw)... a crew could kill & skin several dozen a day, & the hides were tanned & sold in the East for robes, rugs, & blankets. Of course, scavengers ate the carcasses & over the decades the bones were collected & ground up for fertilizer. The government sanctioned such business, knowing that the tribes subsisted on the buffalo, & the intent was to starve & subjugate the First Nations tribes. At the dawn of the 20th Century, there were so few buffalo that they were difficult to find; most of the survivors (a scant few dozen) were found along the Canada- Montana border, I've read.
When Dunbar found her, she was bleeding; these were self-inflicted-wounds- it's their traditional way of expressing loss/grief...
Replaced them with cattle. Not being a rancher I wouldn't know the difference why you'd need a cow vs buffalo, except easier to control? Big boi could probably fly over a fence, and I've heard a .50 to the head might just bounce off a bull with all the dirt and mud and skull. So two birds with one stone type military action. You got 20 tons of caravan with the cavalry/military just marching to get anywhere before they can even do anything. So they wont ever be able to catch people that can up and move along with a herd. Just remove the herd, simple and effective solution. Bringing over the horse and the cow you got a movable food supply that can be guided to the trains and the cities.
@@jayeisenhardt1337 Good idea~ So... after we've taken away the main food supply for an entire civilization ( who also used nearly every part of the buffalo to serve their various needs, BTW), we decided they needed 'civilizing'. So we put them on reservations, taught them Jesus, tried making them farm on land that no white farmer wanted, & fed them on spoiled beef, weevily flour, too little of everything else, & jailed or killed them if they left 'the rez' trying to hunt for food. Your simplistic solution would no doubt make former-Trump-adviser proud. Carry on...
Sorry but no. Primitive bows like those used by the indians were absolutely not capable of that. And spears were actually what were primarily used to kill buffalo.
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The indians had already hunted buffalo into near extinction before white people ever came along. Stop repeating myths.
@@Rowgue51 My only response is to offer my opinion that you've been misinformed; how a few tens of thousands (at most) of 1st Nations peoples could possibly hunt 60 million buffalo into 'near extinction' is simply a foolish assertion on the part of your source... any competent history of the West would include, from the historical record, how hide hunters would kill dozens of bison per day, for days on end, & that there were hundreds of such crews doing this. Likewise, train passengers were encouraged to shoot at herds as they passed. The government allowed this to happen, being well aware that if you decimated the herds the Native tribes would starve, thus eliminating 'the Indian problem'! Further reading on your part will, offer further clarification. Anyway, regards, & be well!