1. Review on the movie Dances with Wolves
This movie is about an American army lieutenant and his
journey from an American to becoming a Lakota Indian. The
name of the lieutenant is john j. Dunbar. He is a very brave and
generous man. This quality of john can be observed many times
in movie.
His bravery can known in the start of the movie when he
alone went to the base of enemy, with a horse only and this
brings an inspiration to his fellow soldier. This brings an
inspiration to the victory to American army.
As a reward for the bravery his general gives him a horse
and asks him to choose a place for a posting. At this moment
the bravery of john j. Dunbar can be again observed when he
chose a frontier posting, where there is a dispute between local
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2. people (Lakota Indian) and American army. His senior officer
makes fun of him when he heard of his desire to go frontier.
But he still stays on his desire. We can see his determination
towards the work.
After arriving to the base he sees no man at the place. But
he still decides to leave there. He not only stays there but also
cleans the base and makes it a livable place. He also started to
make the notation of his observation about the place. He also
makes a friend who is a wolf. He named him as two socks.
One day a Lakota Indian come to the base3 of American. Johan
hide himself behind bush. But when the Lakota Indian try to
steal his horse Johan get out of his hiding place and go near to
the Lakota Indian. This make the Indian very frightened and
they ran away. This is the first encounter of John with a Lakota
Indian and is not seems to be very impressive.
After some day john decides to go on patrols and this is
the turning point of the movie. He finds a Lakota Indian woman
who was injured. John decides to bring her to the village of
Lakota Indian. This shows john is a philanthropist and brave
person. John decides to go in the village of person who might
kill him. But he doesn’t fear to go in the village and as expected
the villages don’t welcome him. John handover’s the women to
the villagers. The villagers try to attack him, but one of them
stops them to do this. This shows if we help someone it can
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3. change their mindset about us even if they are our enemy. This
creates a good impression of Johan in the Lakota Indians. So
they decide to meet him.
After some days Lakota Indians come to the base of Johan
to meet him. They try to communicate with each other, but
they could understand only one word “buffalo” at this part of
movie john create a good relationship with Lakota Indian. Next
day Lakota Indian brings fur of buffalo for john and john also
invites them to coffee. John creates a good bond with the
Lakota Indians specially the kicking bird.
The Lakota Indians also invite john to their village which is
the most important part of the movie. This made the relation
between the villagers and john stronger. John spends a lot of
time with the Lakota Indians and also learns their language.
One day the Lakota Indians saw him playing with the wolf so
they give him the name “dances with wolves”.
One day while sleeping at the night john hear sound of
buffalo heard passing. He informs that to the Lakota Indians
and also participates with them to hunt them down. During this
he also saves life of boy. This increases the respect of john in
the Lakota Indians. He also marries with a woman called as
“stands with a fist” whose life he saved with earlier.
After few days because danger from other tribe called
“Pawnee” and increasing influence of American the Lakota
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4. Indian decide to more their village to other place. At this part of
movie we can see the loyalty of john when he also decides to
go with villagers of Lakota Indians.
But then he remembers about his journal in which he has
noted all the observation about the place and Lakota Indian. He
returns to the base of American. But at this time he saw there
are more soldiers at the base. Because of his Lakota Indian
dress they attack him. They kill his horse and capture him. They
ask him about the Lakota Indian but john doesn’t tell them
anything. This shows the honesty and affection of john toward
Lakota Indians.
Americans decide to transport him to other base and to
hang him. But then Lakota Indian comes to rescue him and they
kill all the Americans. They bring john again to the tribe.
John tells his friend that the American will try to find and
kill them all. So for the safety of everybody he says that he will
leave the tribe with his wife. After few days john and his wife
leave the tribe for the safety of everyone. But after 13 year the
American find the Lakota Indian and kill them all.
Written by: Vishal Narvekar (bfm,123)
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