"Dances with Wolves"

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The writer of this paper details the historical filled plot of the 1990 film "Dances with Wolves." This paper also examines the daily life of the Indians as seen in the film who are depicted as living a peaceful existence with no real threat of attack from the white man. While the film portrays many conventional elements of the western genre, at the same time it obliterates the requisite stereotypes which generally permeate these types of films.

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"As the film sends us back and forth through time, and switches between the Indians and the searching soldiers, we are able to learn John's story at the exact pace that director and star Kevin Costner wants us to. The beginning of the film immediately shows the soldiers involved in what seems to be a meaningless confrontation that no one is able to resolve until John Dunbar, out of sheer anxiety, sets off the action. The commanding officer at Fort Hayes is the stereotypical power hungry official we've become so accustomed to seeing in westerns and war movies, and it is from this point that we begin to understand just what John Dunbar is facing at Fort Sedgewick."

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