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on Jul 23 2007 03:12 PM Never heard of this guy before but he sounds like an idiot! (Reply to this) |
on Jul 05 2008 06:55 PM word (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 31 2008 07:10 AM What in the blue hell are you talking about "politically correct?" At the time it was made, NOBODY told anything from the side of Native people! NOBODY. The first movie of it's kind, that actually tells a Native story that actually shows things from more of a Native perspective and you rip it for it? That's pathetic Jardine! (Reply to this) |
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on Feb 13 2009 02:27 AM In the Competition for Overstated empty rhetoric, our own Critic, Dan Jardine, wins over film maker Kevin Costner and his Scriptwriter, Michael Blake. Look, Dan-or do you prefer I call you Danny? (I don't want to be politically, socially, incorrect); I think your point regarding the film's Idealization of Native American Culture and its juxtaposition /demonizing of Western, Manifest Destiny-Driven Expansionist, is somewhat valid at a general, social level. But I think you have to realize that 1. While this is a movie about societies, cultural clashes, it's also a story about one man's experience in search for solace, enlightenment; and more generally, the communion with nature, respect for simple things. The which, is found by this man out in an isolated, abandoned piece of earth, and through interactions with a Group of Individuals whose culture, language, society, is by most standards, radically different from his own. It's not an attempt to merely laud the Natives or even the old Lakota/Sioux culture. It's about a sort of ascetic enlightenment, finding oneself by giving up oneself. So don't shorthand the movie by calling it simply a "[politically Correct conscience appeaser]" 2. Several scenes, both the "Stands-With a Fist" Flashback, the cooking scene with Timmons, show Natives acting out violently and without provocation towards Innocent/benign white Westerners. The ambush scene on the River, to rescue Dunbar, i.e., Dances with Wolves, is not, in my opinion, a glorification of the Sioux either. Moreover, in the Full-Length Directors cut, in the evening after the Buffalo Hunt began, it reveals that the Sioux did in fact, catch up with the White Hunters and kill them. While this issue isn't totally resolved in the film, it shows that the old Sioux was not as peace-seeking or benevolent as the ideal Politically Correct Picture painted by Northwestern Society of Today depicts. So back off. I don%u2019t think the movies targeted to belittle white Westerners, Promote a demeaning Politically Corrected Revisionist History of Western Expansionism, nor to make the Natives, the Sioux or otherwise, out to be the Heroes in all this. It%u2019s a movie about love, self-discovery, and the tragedies and violence brought on by pride and misunderstanding. At least, that%u2019s my take. (Reply to this) |
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on May 21 2009 11:35 PM Well, that was not a very good review--and I'm one of those who hated the movie. (Reply to this) |
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