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Dances With Wolves: Film Analysis
To conclude, the novel Dances With Wolves was rejected over 30 times when being written. After being published and turned into a movie in 1990, it was nominated for several awards, including best director, best film editing, and best picture. Overall, the movie Dances With Wolves was historically accurate in the way they showed the Natives lifestyle, the Natives culture, and how fearful the Natives were of their land being taken. This is a very important film to Americans to show Native Americans and how they actually lived, and not showing what Hollywood viewers want to see. This was based on issues during the 1860s and not only did they make it accurate for a majority of the film, they based it on a touching story of two unlikely friends.
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