Injured in a battle in Tennessee during the Civil War, Lt. John J. Dunbar was not ready to loose his foot. He gets out of the hospital bed and goes back into the battle. By taking a horse and riding up to enemy lines, hoping to die in battle rather than in the hospital bed, he inadvertently distracts the Confederate soldiers while and the Union Army is able to win the battle. Being hailed as a hero he is able to get proper medical care and is able to pick where he would like to be posted at next. He chooses the western frontier at Fort Hays. After some interesting encounters with the Sioux Tribe he starts the process to no only making friends with them but becoming apart of their culture. In that he get the name Dances with Wolves.
Michael Blake, the writer, originally tried to sell the script in the 1980s. No one was really that interested in the story. However, Kevin Costner told Blake that he should make the script into a novel and if the novel was successful he would have a better shot at making it into a film. After several failed attempts to sell the book someone finally bought it. It was made into a paperback and Kevin Costner actually bought the rights to the book so he can try to get it made into a movie so he could direct it. It worked out in both of their favors. Costner was able to sell Orion on the movie and it was made later that year. Orion took home the Best Picture that year over: Paramount's Ghost and The Godfather III; Columbia's Awakenings; and Warner Brothers' Goodfellas.
I have to say that I liked the film. The film was a little slow for me at first and it made me not interested in keeping up with what is going on. By the time I got to the end of the film I was really wishing I had paid more attention. I will say that I will be willing to watch this film again just so I can understand it more and maybe actually enjoy it. It really was very good at the end of them film however!
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