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 26: Cimarron

Cimarron: 1931: Winner of the 4th Academy Award

Starring:
Richard Dix as Yancey Cravat

Irene Dunne as Sabra Cravat

Estelle Taylor as Dixie Lee

Nance O'Neil as Felice Venable

William Collier Jr. as The Kid

Roscoe Ates as Jesse Rickey

George E. Stone as Sol Levy

Stanley Fields as Lon Yountis

Robert McWade as Louis Hefner

Edna May Oliver as Mrs Tracy Wyatt

Judith Barrett as Donna Cravat

Eugene Jackson as Isaiah


This was a fucking western! I suffered through this movie like I have never suffered through a movie before. Set in the late 1880's rate to attain land. The Cravat's led by fearless Yancey are all in Oklahomy.. ok ok Oklahoma but I like how Issiah said it better. Anyway they have a rollercoaster kind of life and blah blah blah... then they get old and die and have one ungrateful daughter, one very nice son Cim, and throughout this process I still have no idea where they got the name for the movie! It was very long and tedious. Even though I liked some parts I really didn't feel others were necessary. Furthermore it was a WESTERN. I just can't deal, the end was kind of sad but I was glad it was finally over. This was kind of like a western version of “How Green was my Valley” but the latter movie was definitely better. There is no reason why any one should watch this movie, maybe torture?

It also won awards for:

Best Writing, Adaptation: Howard Estabrook


Best Art Direction :Max Rée