[nathanbedford]

Dances with Wolves had good music, good cinematography, some charming scenes but a premise that only a leftist could stomach.

A much better movie, Black Robe, has a much more sophisticated and realistic view of the relationship between whites and Indians and a much more realistic view of Indians. At least it does not betray whites as wolf killers, horse killers, and buffalo killers. White men: bad red man: good (except for those pesky Pawnees). Indeed, when the whites weren't busy killing Indians, wolves, horses, and buffalo they were mindlessly killing each other in a civil war and also mindlessly killing themselves by suicide.

Black Robe is Dancing with Wolves for grown-ups and it has better music too.

[VA_Gentleman]

One of my in-laws hand sewed all of the costumes in the movie... by himself. Here’s a recent article on some of the other things he has done.

https://www.ourstate.com/civil-war-costumer/

[JAKraig]

Dances with Wolves had good music, good cinematography, some charming scenes but a premise that only a leftist could stomach.

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Sometimes you have to look past the leftist cynicism and just try to enjoy the story. The movies are full of fantasies, stories that were never true but fun to see anyway.

Yes many stories are based on a true story the vast majority are just silliness. “Dances With Wolves” was full of silliness, it certainly was damming of white man, but the two heroes, actually hero and heroine were white people. They were kind and gracious which means that other white people could be kind and gracious. The evil villains were the Pawnee Indians who killed without remorse for fun.

Yes there were good earth loving Indians and there were evil Indians. Yes there were no-good white stupid queer men but there were also good white people.

Sometimes you just have to sit back and not listen to the message and just enjoy the story.