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A film made in 1990 set in the 1860s, directed by and starring [[Kevin Costner]], '''''Dances with Wolves''''' is about a United States Army lieutenant who gets positioned in a fort on the expanding western frontier. Due to unfortunate circumstances, the lieutenant becomes the only person occupying the fort and befriends a wild wolf while waiting for replacements to come. After some brief hostilities, he also comes into good terms with a neighboring Sioux Tribe who nickname him "Dances With Wolves" for his relationship with the wolf that hangs around the fort, whom he names "Two Socks". ▼
▲A film made in 1990 set in the 1860s, directed by and starring [[Kevin Costner]], about a United States Army lieutenant who gets positioned in a fort on the expanding western frontier. Due to unfortunate circumstances, the lieutenant becomes the only person occupying the fort and befriends a wild wolf while waiting for replacements to come. After some brief hostilities, he also comes into good terms with a neighboring Sioux Tribe who nickname him "Dances With Wolves" for his relationship with the wolf that hangs around the fort, whom he names "Two Socks".
Since this movie is a classic it shouldn't be too hard to find a longer description that spoils the whole story. If seven Academy Awards don't tell you, it's worth a view. And one testament to the movie's excellent balance of fiction and cultural accuracy is the fact that Kevin Costner has been adopted as an honorary member in the Sioux Nation.
''Dances with Wolves'' was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2007.
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* [[Field Promotion]]: John receives one after his suicidal charge/heroism.
* [[Going Native]]: John Dunbar, who later becomes Dances With Wolves of the Lakota Sioux.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Kevin Costner falls in love with [[Battlestar Galactica
** Working both ways, of course; a popular [[Fan Nickname]] for McDonnell's character in ''Battlestar Galactica'' was "Stands-with-an-Airlock".
** Don't forget [[Street Fighter (film)|Sagat!]]
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* [[Indian Maiden]]: Played with because Stands With A Fist is a white woman who was taken by the Pawnee as a small child and has lived with the Indians (first the Pawnee, then the Lakota) most of her life.
* [[Injun Country]]: Featuring the Sioux and Pawnee tribes, deconstructs a good number of [[Cowboys and Indians]] and other [[Western]] Indian tropes while pursuing realism.
* [[Jerkass]]: Corporal Spivey lies about finding John's/Daces With Wolves' journal, and then later [[Crosses the Line Twice|uses it to help out at the
* [[Kick the Dog]]: The Pawnee shoot dogs with arrows, and the Union soldiers shoot wolves with rifles.
** And it's completely ignored that the [[Magical Native American|magical]] Sioux ate dogs in religious festivals.
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{{Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time}}
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