It is like reading a book backwards. I saw the 1990 movie
Dances with the Wolves two years after I had seen the 2009 movie Avatar. Both
are based on a similar theme, a soldier going native amongst the natives, in
wild country. In 2009 space is the final frontier, in 1990 they were doing a
period piece set in the 1800s when the unconquered West was the edge of the
known civil world.
It is an impressive directorial debut by Kevin Costener,
though it is sad to note that none of his later outings as a director lived up
to the promise this first one held. It is Hollywood, yet Costener has shown self-control,
letting the Indians speak in their own native language instead of
tribal-accented English. I do not, but it could very well be that this was the
first mass market movie which portrayed Indians in a favorable light.
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