[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.

[Pirate Ragnar]

Yes. Movies are entertainment. If not a documentary, one can enjoy the film for what it is. Dances With Wolves was not supposed to be an accurate portrayal of Whites or Indians, but was fiction. Stories can be fun.

[nathanbedford]

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

This is after all a political forum and that which touches on politics is grist for our mill. Those people who spent $440 million to watch the movie and accept the premise of the movie are very likely to vote. I have already conceded the movie has charming scenes good music and good cinematography, I am quite capable of enjoying the movie but I am also capable of being wary of the political implications of propaganda. It is not for nothing that we spend $1 billion in advertising to elect the president, is not for nothing that Madison Avenue spends billions every year to sell soap etc.

These images change minds and alter votes.

Take a look at how The Frankfurt School has gone about undermining every basic assumption that carried America to greatness and ask yourself whether Democrats could succeed in their agenda without Hollywood, the publishing industry, the television industry, journalism, academia? If your answer is that these institutions, Hollywood clearly among them, affects our politics then you might reconsider your rather cavalier attitude toward propaganda like Dances with Wolves.

Finally, the "good" white people were "good" only because they went native-or at least that is how their "goodness" was manifested by turning away from the white world, actually fleeing it for their lives.