Day 36: Dances With Wolves

Dances with Wolves 1990: Winner of the 63rd Academy Award

Starring:

Kevin Costner as Lt. John J. Dunbar / Dances with Wolves / Narrator

Mary McDonnell as Stands With A Fist

Graham Greene as Kicking Bird

Rodney A. Grant as Wind In His Hair

Floyd Red Crow Westerman as Chief Ten Bears

Tantoo Cardinal as Black Shawl

Jimmy Herman as Stone Calf

Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse as Smiles A Lot

Michael Spears as Otter

Jason R. Lone Hill as Worm

Charles Rocket as Lt. Elgin

Robert Pastorelli as Timmons

Larry Joshua as Sgt. Bauer

Tony Pierce as Spivey

Kirk Baltz as Edwards

This movie was surprisingly funny. Ok so this one guy gets sent to the prairie, but he is a retard and he then shots himself but of course this guy never figures to go and check why. The guy was fucking loony. Anyway so this dude gets sent out to some flat land where the Sioux Indians inhabit and therehe is alone in the hinterlands until some Indians decide to mess with him. Blah blah blah later they are best friends and he gets captured by the US Army. I expected this movie to be like Brave Heart but it was a unlikely and very welcomed surprise. It was funny when it needed to be it was heartbreaking, dramatic, romantic and violent. All in its due time and course. Even though I wished with all my heart that Dances with Wolves and Stands with a Fist stayed with the Sioux, I understood why he had to leave. Plus, I totally loved Two Socks! He was pretty awesome. Even if he was a wolf, I so cried when he died. I also wanted to watch this movie because all of my friends had watched it. Even my cousin who is soo not a movie buff.  However rest assured it was pretty awesome. 

It also won awards for:

Best Director – Kevin Costner

Best Adapted Screenplay – Michael Blake

Best Cinematography – Dean Semler

Best Film Editing – Neil Travis

Best Sound – Russell Williams II, Jeffrey Perkins, Bill W. Benton and Gregory H. Watkins

Best Original Score – John Barry

Day 34: Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind:1938: Winner of the 12th Academy Award

Starring:

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara

Clark Gable as Rhett Butler

Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes

Olivia de Havilland as Melanie Hamilton

Hattie McDaniel as Mammy

Thomas Mitchell as Gerald O'Hara

Barbara O'Neil as Ellen O'Hara

Evelyn Keyes as Suellen O'Hara

Ann Rutherford as Carreen O'Hara

George Reeves as Stuart Tarleton

Fred Crane as Brent Tarleton

Oscar Polk as Pork

Butterfly McQueen as Prissy

Victor Jory as Jonas Wilkerson

Howard Hickman as John Wilkes

Alicia Rhett as India Wilkes

You will at one point in your life watch this movie. Guaranteed, if you don’t watch it at school then you shall watch it on AMC. If you don’t have cable you will most surely see it on Netflix. And if you don’t have that you may watch it on some other movie. Maybe not all of it but enough to strike your fancy and so then you shall watch it in entirety. I watched it when I was 13 after I read “Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.” The movie was so riveting and so new for its  time no wonder it won a bajillion awards. Although true “The Wizard of Oz” was also nominated for the Best Picture award it lost. There was no competition for this.  This movie not only sweeps in awards it sweeps in time. It also provided America with it’s exit line. “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”  Rhett Butler don’t we all want him, nobody wanted that pansy of an Ashley! Scarlett was out of her damn jealous mind. And Milly that kind hearted soul.  The story of how the civil war riveted the south how it changed it people and the struggle of one beautiful girl who with determination and a helping of ugly prevailed and got to keep her land.

It also won awards for:

Best Director: Victor Fleming

Best Actress :Vivien Leigh

Best Adapted Screenplay: Sidney Howard

Awarded posthumously

Best Supporting Actress: Hattie McDaniel

Received a miniature "Oscar" statuette on a plaque

Best Cinematography, Color: Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan

Best Film Editing :Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom

Received a miniature "Oscar" statuette on a plaque, replaced with a regular statuette in 1962

Best Art Directiion : Lyle Wheeler