No one could have played the part of Stands with Fist better than Mary McDonnell. Her husky voice and country girl looks, and her body language on screen made her perfect for the role. Too bad she didn't receive the awards for best actress.
I agree, she was perfect for the role, but I was always mystified with her hairstyle. A layered hairdo with no braids or ties was surprising. It never looked authentic Native American.
@@candesbradbury8339 She was mourning her dead husband. If I recall correctly, cutting one's hair was part of the mourning. If she grabbed locks and sawed them off with a knife, it could look like that as it was growing back, couldn't it? She was mourning when Dances with Wolves found her. She was off by herself cutting a finger as part of the mourning process.
@@candesbradbury8339 I hated her hair ! What a ugly layered rats nest ! She was married to a warrior so that should have gained her some respect. Who kept her hair all hacked up ?!
The farewell and gift giving scene with John and Kicking Bird was a tear jerker. The hunting scene and the chariot race scene in Ben Hur are 2 of the best scenes in movie history.
Only problem with the gift scene is that the pipe, an instrument of prayer, is not assembled unless it's intended to be smoked. Assembling the two halves, the male and female parts if you will, awakens it for the intended spiritual purpose. That's what I was taught.
Dances with Wolves is one of my favorite movies, though i don't see many movies. The music is also a big part of the attachment i feel toward Dances with Wolves.
This is still my favorite movie. Even 30+ years after it's release. I watched it three times in the theater in 1990 and have watched it dozens of times at home since!
I saw the movie for the first time while I was stationed at Camp Humphrey in Korea I remember walking back to the barracks in a very emotional state, I just couldn’t stop thinking about all those buffalo that were slaughtered.
I had the honor of meeting Michael Blake before he passed. I have dances with wolves the Holy Road and three other of his other books all autographed. Dances with wolves was one of my favorite movies and still is. 💕
I like that too. The best part was that he had to stop by there just to do that, and show how badass he was because his kids had made the Sioux look like fools (which I doubt Dunbar had even thought about). I also liked his statements about how Kicking Bird was "the thinker", and his own solution was simply to get mad about everything. His mediation during the lost hat incident was great too. Probably my favorite character in it and a perfect sideman to Kicking Bird. He's got that Conan thing happening. 😄
The Far Side cartoon pretty much summed up how much it affected people If you are not familiar with it, the cartoon shows the meeting of the World Did Not Like Dances With Wolves Society-there are 5 people at the meeting
@@oldhippie6072 Can't think of any other Westerns that actually showed that the native American was actually a human being. Dances with Wolves is a masterpiece!!
@7:00 Cynthia Ann Parker - the mother of Quanah Parker, son of a Comanche chief who also became chief; Quanah Parker did eventually make a treaty with the U.S. government and received a ranch in Oklahoma where he lived with his wives; several of his white relatives moved to his ranch from Texas and operated the ranch for him.
Some directors cuts are a waste of time, some are essential to filling in huge blanks. Don't bother with The Kingdom of Heaven unless it's the director's cut.
@@Holden-McGroin I grew up in Catholic schools where we learned zero about the Crusades. No single movie could ever tell the whole story but Saladin was the real deal. The movie flopped because the "good guys" didn't win, on par with the Spanish Inquisition and Noah's Ark. Watching the trebuchets do there thing was accurate, the long range artillery of the middle ages. I got my DC from Amazon, Blu-ray for less than $20
Watched this movie on a first date in college. The girl I took on that date is now my wife of 30 years. Still one of my favorite movies. Kevin Costner is a great actor and producer.
As a former history graduate student at the University of Illinois, where Dee Brown worked as a librarian, that line almost brought me up out of my seat. Bury My Heart is a lot of things, and does contain errors (as almost every history book more than 50 years old is going to do), but a work of fiction it ain't and never was. We actually used it as a text in one of my undergraduate history courses.
One of my all time favorite films. Behind the scenes chaos is normal, especially when working with animals. Over all, I think it was a great movie and honor that it did it's best to employ Lakota people and attempt to use language that had been considered dying. Thanks for this.
I'm English and saw the movie in Holland whilst visiting my Dutch brother-in-law. This wasn't a problem as most people in Holland speak English and the film was shown with the original (English) sound track. However, the problem came when the Indians spoke in their native tongue, the captions at the bottom of the screen were in Dutch! To this day I have no idea what the Indians were saying.
Did anyone ever reveal what it was Wind in His Hair made Costner eat in that scene? I'd assume it wasn't actually a buffalo heart, but he sure did a convincing "trying not to puke" face if he was acting.
I love this movie. I've been interested in Native American culture for a long time, I have been to a Pow Wow. Very interesting and eye-opening. I love the way that Costner's character interacted with the Lakotas. They were intrigued with each other. They came to love each other the way human beings should!
The real star of the movie “Dances With Wolves” was the same as in the movie “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee”, and she wasn’t an actor. Rene Haynes was a casting director on both movies, as she was in “Killers of the Flower Moon”. Rene Haynes has done casting in several Hollywood movies including casting work on part of the “Twilight” movie franchise. And Rene Haynes happens to be my best friends older sister. Which is my favorite role of hers.
Fist's blow wave hair style, spoiled the movie for me. The photo of the woman whose character Fist's character is based on clearly shows the traditional parted in the middle long hair typical of native American women in period photos.
I like the statement when they come across the dead man and the guy says something along the line of "I bet someone back home is saying, now why won't he write?"
@Roy-gi5ul I was being sarcastic. I know history. The White man put a bounty on the scalps of Native California people $100 for men $75 women and $25 for children. Then came Sand Creek where White man played ball with the breasts of women and made tobacco pouches out of men's testicles
This movie still brings tears to my eyes this many years later. I have the 5-hour DVD version and even though we all know it is entertainment, the soul inside of me feels all of the love between the story, the actors, & the snapshot of time past & present. This movie gave us the 30,000 foot view of paradigms & prejudices of the time. It also represented the hopes & dreams of everyone involved in the movie, past & present which was totally unique to each individual representing themselves in the universe. It also opened up a floodgate of other movies that tried to paint more open-minded viewpoints. Someday when we invent the 4-D Holidecks, I know what movie I will be immersing myself into!
This was a truly great movie. The only gripe I have is Mary Mcdonnell's modern, layered hair cut. I'm amazed no one caught that glaring error. It really looked out of place.
Nice video, Mary McDonnell has always been one of the most enduring beauties of Hollywood, and one of my pet peeves, at 3:51 you said, "He was always ready to get back up when one went array", the word you wanted is 'awry', not array. Awry means 'in error' or thereabouts, array is technically a grid. Sorry, the old man in me shows up in these cases. Continue on, enjoy the video.....
Mary McDonnell was the perfect choice for Stands With A Fist. Some of the other actors were also perfect for their roles; Wes Studi and Graham Greene in particular. I was very pleased to see Graham Greene in Taylor Sheridan's "1883" series many years later. I've liked him as an actor ever since "The Green Mile". Dances With Wolves will always be one of my all-time favorite films of any genre.
Mary's acting is very good, but what spoiled her role for me was the ridiculous non native american blow wave hair style. Not one period photo of native american women shows this hair style nor anything close to it.
I used to live near Mission Ridge on the north side of the Triple U buffalo ranch. It’s a shame the movie wasn’t filmed the very next year as we had a nice, wet spring, and the prairie grass was much more lush and quite beautiful. P.S. ‘Dances with Himself’ was the name my wife gave me after I called her ‘Stands with Difficulty’. 😅
When I was at the Horse Shoe bar in the S.D. badlands, a paint horse from the movie was tied outside and the bar tender brought it in the bar because it was too hot outside.
That's nice. Something that always bothers me in movies is when a horse is tied to a hitching post, usually by its bridle. That's something only a child would do, and only once. The horse will pull back, panic to find it's head and mouth caught, and break the bridle and run off scared. Tied with a halter to a rail the horse will pull back and the rail will pull off the posts and the horse will run panicking dragging the wood post, knocking its legs. Don't do that. Tie a horse to a metal ring in a wall, the side of a barn or building. Or tie it with a halter to a tree branch, not the tree trunk. It can spook, and run around the tree trunk tightening the lead rope until it strangles. That is not a sight you ever forget. A branch will give a little and the horse won't panic. Movies are not instructional in how to handle horses.
When I returned my rental of the remake of True Grit I mentioned to the clerk that it was closer to the book and I though better than the John Wayne version.The twit behind the counter not only knew nothing about the book (or any books for that matter) but had never seen the John Wayne version. Sorry but I enjoyed Wyatt Earp more than Tombstone. Dennis Quaid's best work ever!
I love this movie. As a child I was sick of seeing the Native Indians portrayed as ' the bad guys' .Their beautiful hair,feather headdresses,tepees and right to their land always struck a note of right living in nature and respect of only taking what was needed . I think this was Kevin's best role.The respect and sensitivity seems authentic. ONE OF MY TOP TEN MOVIES.
Kevin Costner strives for perfection in his projects and it shows. Dances with wolves is one of my favorites as was Water World. They may seem like long movies, but the story they tell is worth every minute.
Dances with Wolves one of the best Kevin Costner films .I watched this film initially when I was in the USA and again in England UK. An Emotional and sad film but not slushy . Brilliant told view of Indian Natives their ways of living and their culture .. I have always liked / loved Kevin Costner.
Kudos for Kevin Costner giving audiences a feel of Classic Hollywood with a modern sensibility. It paid off big time and shot him into the stratosphere, only the two-punch Waterworld/The Postman could bring him down.
Not a fan of modern movies, but I enjoy this one. Well done. I don't mind bloopers as all movies typically have them due to restarting scenes. Many times, I've pointed out the one with the wolf and the meat.
The music and scenery are epic! I always cry during the ending scene. So powerful! “The essence of life is the harmonization of diversity” I believe that wars are a symptom of a great injustice. Slaughtering another people goes against a cosmic axiom of interconnectedness.
Amazing movie production facts! Dances With Wolves is one of my top 5 movies and I’m glad to hear about the efforts to make it as authentic as possible. There was a short documentary Kevin made afterwards regarding this movie and our Native American brothers and sisters. I can’t find it anywhere now. Thank you🦅
It always cracked me up how Stands with a fist had such great hair and looked so good all the time while living out in the wild in a tepee. Give me a break. Try camping for a few days.
All and All ❤❤❤❤ The movie was beautiful 🤩 I am an indigenous woman ✌️ and movie is all time great!!!! Thank you Kevin Costner!!!! If there were mistakes no one noticed!!! So get over it 😠 Kevin opened the door for other movies like Yellowstone and other westerns !!!!!l
I stayed at Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in 1988 for 4½ months, attending classes at Sinte Gleska College and living with Doris Leader Charge and her family. She and a group of young dancers were on a promotion tour to Denmark a few years later, and here she told me about the scene with the boys stealing Costner's horse. The young rider was thrown off the horse, landed hard on his butt and said: Oh, that really hurts. Another boy: Not as much as when your father hears of this!!! That dialogue was not in the manus, but made up by the Lakotas themselves! Very human, very boy-ish and yes ... down to earth, haha. He lila waste!
The film was a joke historically. Cosner up there self-importantly intoning "I want to see the frontier. . .before it's gone." What a load of crap. In 1863, there was NO sense the frontier was being LOST! That would come much later.
Everyone is griping about the "Stands With A Fist"s hairdo. In the Lakota tribal tradition, when a close relative dies, one expresses their deep mourning by chopping their hair off and slashing their limbs. She was in the process of mourning her dead husband when Lt. Dunbar happened ride up on her.
I learned much later from other “real Indian” actors who were not in DWWs who laughed at the Lakota Language, because it was all spoken in the feminine sound used by women. Of course, I would have never known, but still enjoyed the film immensely! I haven’t read the other comments, but you can check it out.
What I found totally ridiculous in this wonderful movie is that Mary McDonnell as Stands With A Fist, has supposedly been with the indians since a young child. Why then would she have a layered haircut and not long hair; either hanging free or in plaits? In that era there was no such thing as a layered haircut for women & definitely not a tribal indian member. Why wasn't that picked up by historians working on the movie....very odd in my opinion & was the bug in the works for me. However, It's still one of my favourite movies.
And when Stands With a Fist falls in love with John Dunbar, her Native American parents discuss the relationship. The 'mother' says something like "they belong together...they are both white". Umm, The plains Indians took adoption of children very seriously. If adopted, their tribe then believes that Indian blood runs through their veins...not white! Saying they are meant for each other because 'both were white'. That never ever would have been said.
Ironic that in a 'bloopers' video 'Dances with Wolves', which as I recall was the name the Sioux gave to Kostner's character is referred to as 'Dancing With Wolves' during the video.
Was there a reason you showed a photo of Quanah Parker? When speaking about the female lead? Cynthia Parker was his mother and there are photos of her.
Noticed that too, and I doubt the white female character was based on Parker specifically. The plot of the movie ‘The Searchers’ was, I believe was very loosely based on her story.
@@FactsVerse It's a different native Indian tribe in the book and the ending is different. Kevin Costner was given 6 different endings to choose from (offered by the author) and he chose that Dances With Wolves & Stands With A Fist leave the tribe so the white men won't harass the tribe looking for them. In the book, the two of them continue to live within the tribe.
The Indians in the book were Comanches and not Sioux. There is a scene with Kevin and the chief talking where the chief takes out a conquistador helmet. The Spanish never got that far north. So it is an error but was left in the film.
I didn't even know it did well at the box office but I do know that I watched it five times. It's always considered it a great cowboy movie. I didn't even know it did well.
While in Deadwood, we stopped at the Lakota Museum. They have costumes displayedfrom Dancing with Wolves. I understood from the docent, Costner was instrumental in the buildinig of the museum. Recommend anyone in the area attend simply to see the remarkable bigger then life sculptures of the Indians chasing buffalos over a cliff.
We have heard lots of stories by now of what needs to be done to create the necessary illusions in a movie, so nothing was surprising, but always interesting! I have heard the story of how the script came to be written - Kevin told the tale on Graham Norton’s talk show, great story! What I loved about the movie was how the tribe was portrayed in a very human way, a group of people just living their lives as best they can according to their traditions - like every other group of humans around the world. Hollywood is getting better at this at last!
Loved the movie! But saw that she wore a brown turtle neck shirt in the winter in mountains scenes. I don’t think the Lakota had that type of shirt. But no worries, we all understand it was pretty cold when filming!
The only thing that drives me crazy in DWW is Stands With a Fist's haircut. It does not look like long hair cut off for mourning and is so out of places it pulls me out of the movie over and over. What was he thinking?
I noticed Mary McDonnell has layered hair, thats a huge mistake. And yes, I know she cut some of it while greiving but all of it is a layered cut, crazy!
I've seen this film many, many times, one of my favorites and always wondered how they accomplished the scene where the wolf was shot and injured by the union army soldiers. If someone reads this and has the answer, I would like to know..
Good length of this informative video, only 7 min. Sometimes the film is referred to as Dancing w/ Wolves, but it was Dances w/ Wolves. Amazing details, still love this movie!
I loved 🥰 this movie, I cried my eyes out, a lot at the man’s inhumanity to man. Fell in love with Graham and Rodney, Keven was awesome in the role, I have always felt that this movie should be shown in every high school!
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We didn't notice it becuz it wasn't shown!!! Duh.
Why would anyone subscribe to a ahole
"Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee" is not a novel and it is not fiction. Maybe your "documentary" has some mistakes as well.
Costner is a surprise. Three of his movies make my top 25 list: Dances, Field of Dreams & Open Range. He is really a great actor!
I'll ad Silverado, Water World and The Postman.
Don't forget Bull Durham!
Field of Dreams. Excellent movie.
Come on, what about Tin Cup?
I find him self-centered and quite boring.
Agood plot with Indian Natives acting their part. Very real and emotional. Thank you Kevin.
You're welcome.
So unreal to be a hilarious farce to any historian. DEI all the way, so woke it's like drinking double expresso.
No one could have played the part of Stands with Fist better than Mary McDonnell. Her husky voice and country girl looks, and her body language on screen made her perfect for the role. Too bad she didn't receive the awards for best actress.
I agree, she was perfect for the role, but I was always mystified with her hairstyle. A layered hairdo with no braids or ties was surprising. It never looked authentic Native American.
I agree, I found it distracting@@candesbradbury8339
Oh my 😂, I have to politely disagree. I couldn't stand her in this film. 😅
@@candesbradbury8339 She was mourning her dead husband. If I recall correctly, cutting one's hair was part of the mourning. If she grabbed locks and sawed them off with a knife, it could look like that as it was growing back, couldn't it? She was mourning when Dances with Wolves found her. She was off by herself cutting a finger as part of the mourning process.
@@candesbradbury8339 I hated her hair ! What a ugly layered rats nest ! She was married to a warrior so that should have gained her some respect. Who kept her hair all hacked up ?!
Dances with Wolves is not based on Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee. It is the adaptation of Michael Blake’s book Dances with Wolves.
Thank you. He didn't even do basic research before he made this video. That is laziness.
Yeah, I noticed that too!
That was such a stupid mistake! I couldn't believe that they could make such a basic error.
Didn't say that Dances With Wolves was based on Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee... Listen to it again...
The narrator did not say it was based on wounded knee. Try watching the video again
The farewell and gift giving scene with John and Kicking Bird was a tear jerker. The hunting scene and the chariot race scene in Ben Hur are 2 of the best scenes in movie history.
Only problem with the gift scene is that the pipe, an instrument of prayer, is not assembled unless it's intended to be smoked. Assembling the two halves, the male and female parts if you will, awakens it for the intended spiritual purpose. That's what I was taught.
@@reggieboyd5444 That's interesting. Thanks for the info.
Dances with Wolves is one of my favorite movies, though i don't see many movies. The music is also a big part of the attachment i feel toward Dances with Wolves.
This is still my favorite movie. Even 30+ years after it's release. I watched it three times in the theater in 1990 and have watched it dozens of times at home since!
Glad to know that you're a fan of Dances with Wolves. We love it too!
30 years ago? It seems just a few years ago, I watched that!
@@littleme3597 I agree! Tempus fugit!
I do that with movies. Like visiting an old friend.
I saw the movie for the first time while I was stationed at Camp Humphrey in Korea I remember walking back to the barracks in a very emotional state, I just couldn’t stop thinking about all those buffalo that were slaughtered.
This is my favourite Kevin movie, can watch it over and over.
Open Range with Robert Duvall is best to me.
Nonsense! I've only watched it seven times!
I had the honor of meeting Michael Blake before he passed. I have dances with wolves the Holy Road and three other of his other books all autographed.
Dances with wolves was one of my favorite movies and still is. 💕
I like how you point out their mistakes while at the same time calling the film "Dancing" With Wolves
Yes, that is SO annoying! A lot of other mistakes, too.
Yes, and referring to Bison as Buffalo. Face palm emoji.
Or that filming temperatures got to 212 degrees. Facts Verse puts out the most error filled videos on RUclips.
Exactly. There are plenty of mistakes in this video supposedly pointing out mistakes.
@@BobRiedel : It said 100 -- which in the U.S. means Fahrenheit.
I'd almost forgotten how quietly beautiful Mary McDonnell is. I'm not into glamour or OnlyFans, she's the real deal.
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I kind of got that, too. Just something about her, and I liked her voice and unusual inflections.
Her role in Battlestar Galactica made me a big fan.
She played the part of First Lady and wife of Thomas J. Whitmore. He was the President in the movie 'Independence Day'.
I didn’t understand why she had her hair done like a that when the women had their hair braided
It's one of the most beautiful, amazing, emotional, sad movies ever made. The best movies have all the emotions and this one did. ❤
My favorite scene is: ''I am Wind in his Hair, and I am not afraid of you!''
I like that too. The best part was that he had to stop by there just to do that, and show how badass he was because his kids had made the Sioux look like fools (which I doubt Dunbar had even thought about). I also liked his statements about how Kicking Bird was "the thinker", and his own solution was simply to get mad about everything. His mediation during the lost hat incident was great too. Probably my favorite character in it and a perfect sideman to Kicking Bird. He's got that Conan thing happening. 😄
Of course.........so u are afraid of soon have no hair left to be blowin in the wind...........
Mine TOO ! ! I friggin' LOVED his whole attitude ! A TRUE WARRIOR !
"I bet that damn fool is lost!"
My fav? When Kevin was being interrogated by the Army, & he responds:”Chumoni tatanka owachii!” & then goes on to say they’re not worth talking to.
This film not only pushed the boundaries of its genre but also set a high standard for storytelling and cultural representation in Hollywood.
The Far Side cartoon pretty much summed up how much it affected people If you are not familiar with it, the cartoon shows the meeting of the World Did Not Like Dances With Wolves Society-there are 5 people at the meeting
@@MrRaulstrnad I remember that, just looked it up, there were three of them in an otherwise empty auditorium 😄
It fell short, but was a step forward.
Great film. It is one of the greatest Westerns of all time!
We absolutely agree! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts. Be safe and have a great evening!☺
I wouldn't go that far.
@@oldhippie6072
Can't think of any other Westerns that actually showed that the native American was actually a human being.
Dances with Wolves is a masterpiece!!
@7:00 Cynthia Ann Parker - the mother of Quanah Parker, son of a Comanche chief who also became chief; Quanah Parker did eventually make a treaty with the U.S. government and received a ranch in Oklahoma where he lived with his wives; several of his white relatives moved to his ranch from Texas and operated the ranch for him.
Anyone who appreciates the 3 hour theatrical film absolutely MUST watch the 4 hour director’s cut.
Thanks for the tip!
Some directors cuts are a waste of time, some are essential to filling in huge blanks. Don't bother with The Kingdom of Heaven unless it's the director's cut.
@@dicksonfranssen Appreciate that. I thought it was good, but could have been great. I’ll try to find the DC.
@@Holden-McGroin I grew up in Catholic schools where we learned zero about the Crusades. No single movie could ever tell the whole story but Saladin was the real deal. The movie flopped because the "good guys" didn't win, on par with the Spanish Inquisition and Noah's Ark. Watching the trebuchets do there thing was accurate, the long range artillery of the middle ages. I got my DC from Amazon, Blu-ray for less than $20
Watched this movie on a first date in college. The girl I took on that date is now my wife of 30 years. Still one of my favorite movies. Kevin Costner is a great actor and producer.
congratulations 30 years
Hey! Snap! First date. Except my husband and I were 35...but it's been 33 years!
Bury my heart is not a novel, it's a very well researched history book
Uh, no it's not.
@@northwestprof60 how is it not
Its what you call: A non fiction book.
As a former history graduate student at the University of Illinois, where Dee Brown worked as a librarian, that line almost brought me up out of my seat. Bury My Heart is a lot of things, and does contain errors (as almost every history book more than 50 years old is going to do), but a work of fiction it ain't and never was. We actually used it as a text in one of my undergraduate history courses.
Good point. well said.
Dances with wolves is definitely my favorite all time movie
....... and Last of the Mohicans
One of my all time favorite films. Behind the scenes chaos is normal, especially when working with animals. Over all, I think it was a great movie and honor that it did it's best to employ Lakota people and attempt to use language that had been considered dying. Thanks for this.
Many people don't realize that the wolves made their own costumes for the film. My cat told me that.
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I love dance’s with wolves I’ve seen it over 50times !💜
Great film! I've seen it countless times and know every word in the movie. 👍
You're a true fan! Who is your favorite cast?
This is a piece of rock candy. It’s not for eatin’ though, but feeeeer lookin’ through.
@@citrus1973 Outlaw Josey Wales one of my all time favorites!!!! 💯
@@suryadas6987 oh… lol
I'm English and saw the movie in Holland whilst visiting my Dutch brother-in-law.
This wasn't a problem as most people in Holland speak English and the film was shown with the original (English) sound track.
However, the problem came when the Indians spoke in their native tongue, the captions at the bottom of the screen were in Dutch!
To this day I have no idea what the Indians were saying.
So you never saw it after that? Why not, I have seen it four times and am always impressed and entertained.
I never get tired of watching this movie❤ I was surprised to hear that the dead buffaloes were made out of sponge. Thanks for the information.😊
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Real Heads, replaced often?
Did anyone ever reveal what it was Wind in His Hair made Costner eat in that scene? I'd assume it wasn't actually a buffalo heart, but he sure did a convincing "trying not to puke" face if he was acting.
It was Jello 😊
@@josephineahelle5094 Thanks! I figured it was something like that. It looked like canned cranberry sauce.
One of my favorite films of all time. Kevin is a genius and a pure hearted Man with a warm heart. Love that Man. I would like to be an Actor like him.
I love this movie. I've been interested in Native American culture for a long time, I have been to a Pow Wow. Very interesting and eye-opening. I love the way that Costner's character interacted with the Lakotas. They were intrigued with each other. They came to love each other the way human beings should!
I always wanted to know about the making of Dances With Wolves. I enjoy watching it from beginning to end. Thanks for sharing it. 👍
There are documentaries on RUclips about the making of the movie…..
The real star of the movie “Dances With Wolves” was the same as in the movie “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee”, and she wasn’t an actor. Rene Haynes was a casting director on both movies, as she was in “Killers of the Flower Moon”.
Rene Haynes has done casting in several Hollywood movies including casting work on part of the “Twilight” movie franchise.
And Rene Haynes happens to be my best friends older sister. Which is my favorite role of hers.
I’m disappointed that you didn’t mention the name of Stands With a Fist’s hairdresser… a century ahead of its time!
Fist's blow wave hair style, spoiled the movie for me. The photo of the woman whose character Fist's character is based on clearly shows the traditional parted in the middle long hair typical of native American women in period photos.
Stands With a Fist had a great hairdresser. Great cut, nicely fluffed. Truly native American in every way.
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@@keithad6485 I was being facetious
They should have changed her name to "Now you too can have great hair even when you go camping". I know hotels have blow-dryers but tepees?
I recently just found out there was a 4 hour uncut Dances with Wolves . Wow what a different feeling from the story
That whole scenario of the men at Fort Sedgwick fills in so much that is missing from the first released movie.
Mary McDonnell’s puffy bangs and clean, blow-dried hair looked were truly anachronistic in this movie.
Kevin's hairpieces were unusually full, fluffy & clean too, as I remember!
Native Americans used animal fat in their hair in those days.
I thought the coffee scene was pretty funny. And when one of the Lakota tasted sugar for the first time.
Us too! Thank you so much for the trip down memory lane. What other types of video would you like to see?
@@FactsVerse how about sequels that were disappointing?
That was Wind in his Hair.
I like the statement when they come across the dead man and the guy says something along the line of "I bet someone back home is saying, now why won't he write?"
Dances With Wolves was the most realistic depiction of the way life was back in this era and it was the best film of this genre that I have seen.
You mean the White man saving the day scenario
@@nelliethursday1812the white man, sadly, did not dave the day. What a chip you carry on your shoulder.
@Roy-gi5ul I was being sarcastic. I know history. The White man put a bounty on the scalps of Native California people $100 for men $75 women and $25 for children. Then came Sand Creek where White man played ball with the breasts of women and made tobacco pouches out of men's testicles
This movie still brings tears to my eyes this many years later. I have the 5-hour DVD version and even though we all know it is entertainment, the soul inside of me feels all of the love between the story, the actors, & the snapshot of time past & present. This movie gave us the 30,000 foot view of paradigms & prejudices of the time. It also represented the hopes & dreams of everyone involved in the movie, past & present which was totally unique to each individual representing themselves in the universe. It also opened up a floodgate of other movies that tried to paint more open-minded viewpoints. Someday when we invent the 4-D Holidecks, I know what movie I will be immersing myself into!
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This was a truly great movie. The only gripe I have is Mary Mcdonnell's modern, layered hair cut. I'm amazed no one caught that glaring error. It really looked out of place.
Exactly! That hair has always gotten on my nerves when I watched the movie.
I agree
Could have had Tina Turner, belt out a tune.
Well said, I agree, it looked awful.
It never bothered me. I assumed it was how it grew out, after she had sawed off her hair in grief over losing her first husband.
Love this movie. They showed it in my kids’ high school in history class.
Incredible movie..I love it..Anything Kevin is in is the best!
Nice video, Mary McDonnell has always been one of the most enduring beauties of Hollywood, and one of my pet peeves, at 3:51 you said, "He was always ready to get back up when one went array", the word you wanted is 'awry', not array. Awry means 'in error' or thereabouts, array is technically a grid. Sorry, the old man in me shows up in these cases. Continue on, enjoy the video.....
I noticed that, too. One of many errors.
Mary McDonnell was the perfect choice for Stands With A Fist. Some of the other actors were also perfect for their roles; Wes Studi and Graham Greene in particular. I was very pleased to see Graham Greene in Taylor Sheridan's "1883" series many years later. I've liked him as an actor ever since "The Green Mile". Dances With Wolves will always be one of my all-time favorite films of any genre.
Mary's acting is very good, but what spoiled her role for me was the ridiculous non native american blow wave hair style. Not one period photo of native american women shows this hair style nor anything close to it.
I used to live near Mission Ridge on the north side of the Triple U buffalo ranch. It’s a shame the movie wasn’t filmed the very next year as we had a nice, wet spring, and the prairie grass was much more lush and quite beautiful.
P.S. ‘Dances with Himself’ was the name my wife gave me after I called her ‘Stands with Difficulty’. 😅
Almost embarrassed for having watched it at least 10 times over the years, Costner definitely went the extra mile bringing this classic to the screen.
When I was at the Horse Shoe bar in the S.D. badlands, a paint horse from the movie was tied outside and the bar tender brought it in the bar because it was too hot outside.
That's nice. Something that always bothers me in movies is when a horse is tied to a hitching post, usually by its bridle. That's something only a child would do, and only once. The horse will pull back, panic to find it's head and mouth caught, and break the bridle and run off scared. Tied with a halter to a rail the horse will pull back and the rail will pull off the posts and the horse will run panicking dragging the wood post, knocking its legs. Don't do that. Tie a horse to a metal ring in a wall, the side of a barn or building. Or tie it with a halter to a tree branch, not the tree trunk. It can spook, and run around the tree trunk tightening the lead rope until it strangles. That is not a sight you ever forget. A branch will give a little and the horse won't panic. Movies are not instructional in how to handle horses.
Far and away the best western ever made, better than Once Upon A Time In The West, Tombstone or the remake of the classic, Rooster Cogburn
When I returned my rental of the remake of True Grit I mentioned to the clerk that it was closer to the book and I though better than the John Wayne version.The twit behind the counter not only knew nothing about the book (or any books for that matter) but had never seen the John Wayne version. Sorry but I enjoyed Wyatt Earp more than Tombstone. Dennis Quaid's best work ever!
Mary McDonald's hair was the only mistake in her character
That has always bugged me. Wrong hair!
She looked too modern and that hair was so wrong.
I love this movie. As a child I was sick of seeing the Native Indians portrayed as ' the bad guys' .Their beautiful hair,feather headdresses,tepees and right to their land always struck a note of right living in nature and respect of only taking what was needed .
I think this was Kevin's best role.The respect and sensitivity seems authentic.
ONE OF MY TOP TEN MOVIES.
Always wanted to be the Indian? Great PR move Kevin
I wondered how true that was. I note he did not say why he always wanted to be the indian.
The best cowboy movie ever is Open Range. Check it out if you havnt seen it.
It was a fabulous movie. I need to watch it again.
Kevin Costner strives for perfection in his projects and it shows. Dances with wolves is one of my favorites as was Water World. They may seem like long movies, but the story they tell is worth every minute.
Dances with Wolves one of the best Kevin Costner films .I watched this film initially when I was in the USA and again in England UK. An Emotional and sad film but not slushy . Brilliant told view of Indian Natives their ways of living and their culture .. I have always liked / loved Kevin Costner.
Kudos for Kevin Costner giving audiences a feel of Classic Hollywood with a modern sensibility. It paid off big time and shot him into the stratosphere, only the two-punch Waterworld/The Postman could bring him down.
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One of the best movies ever. Passion of the Christ another. I can watch them over and over. Peace!
Not a fan of modern movies, but I enjoy this one. Well done. I don't mind bloopers as all movies typically have them due to restarting scenes. Many times, I've pointed out the one with the wolf and the meat.
Dances with Wolves is a very good book. Good enough to acknowledge as the actual inspiration.
Absolutely amazing movie , one of those you never tire of watching .
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Always wondered why the main female character had ‘80’s hair’ - having grown up with the tribe since age 9 - that’s all.
The music and scenery are epic! I always cry during the ending scene. So powerful!
“The essence of life is the harmonization of diversity”
I believe that wars are a symptom of a great injustice. Slaughtering another people goes against a cosmic axiom of interconnectedness.
somehow the native americans survived wars against each other for decades before white man....
Great movie, well done !! I revisit once in awhile ;) fun to know the little details !
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Amazing movie production facts! Dances With Wolves is one of my top 5 movies and I’m glad to hear about the efforts to make it as authentic as possible. There was a short documentary Kevin made afterwards regarding this movie and our Native American brothers and sisters. I can’t find it anywhere now. Thank you🦅
I loved this movie have watched it many times.the whole cast was amazing,❤❤❤❤
It always cracked me up how Stands with a fist had such great hair and looked so good all the time while living out in the wild in a tepee. Give me a break. Try camping for a few days.
Great hair? Looked like she hadn't brushed it days.
Must have had a blow wave hair stylist living in the tribe with one customer!
All and All ❤❤❤❤ The movie was beautiful 🤩 I am an indigenous woman ✌️ and movie is all time great!!!! Thank you Kevin Costner!!!! If there were mistakes no one noticed!!! So get over it 😠 Kevin opened the door for other movies like Yellowstone and other westerns !!!!!l
I enjoy the movie very much! Not biased and informational also!❤
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@@FactsVerse The Original High Noon Movie with Gary Cooper. It is a good character study.
I stayed at Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in 1988 for 4½ months, attending classes at Sinte Gleska College and living with Doris Leader Charge and her family. She and a group of young dancers were on a promotion tour to Denmark a few years later, and here she told me about the scene with the boys stealing Costner's horse.
The young rider was thrown off the horse, landed hard on his butt and said: Oh, that really hurts.
Another boy: Not as much as when your father hears of this!!!
That dialogue was not in the manus, but made up by the Lakotas themselves!
Very human, very boy-ish and yes ... down to earth, haha.
He lila waste!
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An absolute wonderful movie,im glad they went the distance.
definitely Kostner's best work
The film was a joke historically. Cosner up there self-importantly intoning "I want to see the frontier. . .before it's gone." What a load of crap. In 1863, there was NO sense the frontier was being LOST! That would come much later.
Mary McDonnell is a great actress. She was a perfect in this movie.
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@@FactsVerse ''The African Queen."
'Scept for that silly hair style she was no doubt forced to endure I guess at the orders of the director. Ruined it for me.
Everyone is griping about the "Stands With A Fist"s hairdo. In the Lakota tribal tradition, when a close relative dies, one expresses their deep mourning by chopping their hair off and slashing their limbs. She was in the process of mourning her dead husband when Lt. Dunbar happened ride up on her.
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Cutting off long braids does not leave that kind of layered look.
I learned much later from other “real Indian” actors who were not in DWWs who laughed at the Lakota Language, because it was all spoken in the feminine sound used by women. Of course, I would have never known, but still enjoyed the film immensely! I haven’t read the other comments, but you can check it out.
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What I found totally ridiculous in this wonderful movie is that Mary McDonnell as Stands With A Fist, has supposedly been with the indians since a young child. Why then would she have a layered haircut and not long hair; either hanging free or in plaits? In that era there was no such thing as a layered haircut for women & definitely not a tribal indian member. Why wasn't that picked up by historians working on the movie....very odd in my opinion & was the bug in the works for me.
However, It's still one of my favourite movies.
I guess you missed that she had hacked off her hair in mourning. It was then not long enough to braid.
And when Stands With a Fist falls in love with John Dunbar, her Native American parents discuss the relationship. The 'mother' says something like "they belong together...they are both white". Umm, The plains Indians took adoption of children very seriously. If adopted, their tribe then believes that Indian blood runs through their veins...not white! Saying they are meant for each other because 'both were white'. That never ever would have been said.
Ironic that in a 'bloopers' video 'Dances with Wolves', which as I recall was the name the Sioux gave to Kostner's character is referred to as 'Dancing With Wolves' during the video.
Was there a reason you showed a photo of Quanah Parker? When speaking about the female lead? Cynthia Parker was his mother and there are photos of her.
Noticed that too, and I doubt the white female character was based on Parker specifically. The plot of the movie ‘The Searchers’ was, I believe was very loosely based on her story.
I read the book, as well, and enjoyed noticing the differences between the book & the movie
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@@FactsVerse It's a different native Indian tribe in the book and the ending is different. Kevin Costner was given 6 different endings to choose from (offered by the author) and he chose that Dances With Wolves & Stands With A Fist leave the tribe so the white men won't harass the tribe looking for them. In the book, the two of them continue to live within the tribe.
@@FactsVerse For me the biggest difference was the book is about the Comanche, the movie is the Lakota
The Indians in the book were Comanches and not Sioux. There is a scene with Kevin and the chief talking where the chief takes out a conquistador helmet. The Spanish never got that far north. So it is an error but was left in the film.
I didn't even know it did well at the box office but I do know that I watched it five times. It's always considered it a great cowboy movie. I didn't even know it did well.
While in Deadwood, we stopped at the Lakota Museum. They have costumes displayedfrom Dancing with Wolves.
I understood from the docent, Costner was instrumental in the buildinig of the museum. Recommend anyone in the area attend simply to see the remarkable bigger then life sculptures of the Indians chasing buffalos over a cliff.
its an awesome movie and the message it conveys
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I always played an indian as a child [in the 60/70's] and my brother the cowboy.
it's a marvelous movie. 🌺🌹
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Amazing movie one of my favorites. Very nice video u made here thanks for that.
To this day, ever since first seeing it in an actual theatre (yup, back in the day), it's basically still my favorite film of all time.
We have heard lots of stories by now of what needs to be done to create the necessary illusions in a movie, so nothing was surprising, but always interesting! I have heard the story of how the script came to be written - Kevin told the tale on Graham Norton’s talk show, great story! What I loved about the movie was how the tribe was portrayed in a very human way, a group of people just living their lives as best they can according to their traditions - like every other group of humans around the world. Hollywood is getting better at this at last!
Loved the movie! But saw that she wore a brown turtle neck shirt in the winter in mountains scenes. I don’t think the Lakota had that type of shirt. But no worries, we all understand it was pretty cold when filming!
I like this movie a lot, the sequels are pretty good too. The Last Samurai and Avatar
The only thing that drives me crazy in DWW is Stands With a Fist's haircut. It does not look like long hair cut off for mourning and is so out of places it pulls me out of the movie over and over. What was he thinking?
I agree, really detracts from her fine performance. Spoils it for me
What about the permed blow dried hair ??
I watch this movie at least every other month. ♥️♥️♥️
I noticed Mary McDonnell has layered hair, thats a huge mistake. And yes, I know she cut some of it while greiving but all of it is a layered cut, crazy!
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I can't imagine the challenge of owning a wild herd let alone a huge herd of buffalo.
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I've seen this film many, many times, one of my favorites and always wondered how they accomplished the scene where the wolf was shot and injured by the union army soldiers. If someone reads this and has the answer, I would like to know..
I loved that movie 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Good length of this informative video, only 7 min. Sometimes the film is referred to as Dancing w/ Wolves, but it was Dances w/ Wolves. Amazing details, still love this movie!
I loved 🥰 this movie, I cried my eyes out, a lot at the man’s inhumanity to man. Fell in love with Graham and Rodney, Keven was awesome in the role, I have always felt that this movie should be shown in every high school!
Good piece! Thank you. Is is that Kevin Reynolds directed much of the buffalo hunt?
I loved this film and have seen it many times.
This is my favorite movie. 💜
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