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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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* [[The American Civil War]]: Shown in the beginning of the film, shown to be authentically as cruel and barbaric as it actually was.
** And surprisingly more balanced than most modern depictions of the war. The sides are almost indistinguishable in both looks and behavior. Aside from the uniforms, you can hardly tell it.
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* [[Dress Hits Floor]]/[[Toplessness From the Back]]: Mary McDonnell shows off a damn good combo trope.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: John in the beginning, after learning he's going to have his foot amputated. The Confederates manage to miss him even though he charges right past them.
* [[Dub Text]]: The censors removed a scene where Dances with Wolves and Wind in his Hair debate the size of a buffalo, because they thought it was referring to the former's penis. This probably also adds to the [[Ho Yay]]. Also, the Lakotah language coach was a woman, and nobody seemed to have realized that there are male and female Lakotah pronunciations and
** Actually, the decision to include only one gender in the language was intentional, to reduce the complexity of what the actors needed to learn/memorize for the roles.
* [[Either World Domination or Something About Bananas]]: Happens a couple of times as John attempts to learn the Sioux language.
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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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** Some of the Pawnee are also shown to be, at the least, not quite as battle-crazed as their leader, with one of them grumbling to the other "He will not stop until we're all dead." This hints that the Pawnee are not somehow just inherently more violent and evil than the Sioux, but more that they feel beholden to follow their [[Blood Knight]] leader.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Major Fambrough, the crazy (possibly from either Syphilis or Lead Poisoning) military officer that gives Dunbar his orders, and thinks that it's the time of [[King Arthur]].
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* [[One Sided Battle]]: After John's seeming heroics (actually attempted suicide), the Union troops attack and rout the Confederates.
** Also apparent when the Sioux defeat the Pawnee, using the guns [[Mighty Whitey|John]] had.
* [[Oscar Bait]]
* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]]: A realistic and in-universe case. Dunbar and the Sioux are neighbors, friends, eventually family. It's not exactly surprising that he chooses to side with them against anyone that wants to harm them, as opposed to sitting back and pondering the wider moral issues as the audience has the benefit of doing.
* [[Raised by Natives]]: Stands With A Fist.
* [[Reunion Kiss]]: More like Reunion Epic Makeout. She ''literally'' tackles him to the ground.
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