Movie - Heavy History "Dances with Wolves"

The heaviness of history may not only come from a few heavy objects, but also from blood and crime. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info looking back at the historical movie "Dances with Wolves", this feeling is profound, if you want to expand further, you can watch "The Last Mohican" and "Son of the Morning Star".

Columbus' discovery of the New World on October 12, 1492 is legendary. Columbus believed in the theory of the circle of the earth, and thus began that great voyage. Of course, there were twists and turns in the crossing of the Atlantic, and if it wasn't for Columbus's explanation of the magnetic declination, the crew might have mutinied. It is difficult to sail on the sea, and people are stable. Just as there are still concerns about the magnetic poles inverting or disappearing. Columbus named the area the West Indies, and the natives called it the Indians, and the suffering of the Native Americans began. Needless to say, Columbus himself was followed by a frenzy of European powers slaughtering Indians for gold and resources. Historically, the contributions of the Indians to the world in the New World include not only land resources, but also things such as corn (corn), potatoes (potatoes), sweet potatoes, peanuts, tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, zucchini, peppers, pineapples, avocados, strawberries, cocoa, tobacco, quinine, and so on (it is said that the introduction of sweet potatoes in China solved the basic food security, which made the population of the Qing Dynasty begin to skyrocket by hundreds of millions; Grains contain oils, proteins, and starches, and sweet potatoes have sufficient starch). But this did not buy the mercy of the colonists, on the contrary, the missionaries who accompanied the army burned a large number of Indian documents, and the Indian population was also declining.

Fast forward to "Dances with Wolves," directed and starring Kevin Costner, and reflects the story of the Westward Expansion of the United States. Since independence, the United States has expanded eastward from the thirteen coastal states of North America, in addition to disputes with Britain, France, and Mexico, and has been a constant westward drive of Native Americans. Britain has often been a twinboy since the War of Independence; France did not gain advantage from the war of independence, but lost the king's head after learning freedom and independence and democracy for its own people, so Napoleon simply sold Louisiana for money; Mexicans are more nutritious, and they are used as a training ground by the United States all year round. The Indians fought fiercely with the Americans because of the battle for their homeland, but the level of civilization was too backward.

In this way, it is easy to understand the performance of Indians and Americans in the film. The Indians were tired of war and wanted to live a quiet and simple life; The Americans are ambitious and only want to plunder more land wealth, which is why the protagonist, Lieutenant John Dunbar, is so rude and savage. Dunbar was wounded in the Civil War and should have seen his legs to save his life, and in his sadness, he broke into the two armies to seek to die on the battlefield, not wanting to miss a bullet if God helped, but instead inspired his comrades to defeat the Southern army, and he was also treated, and the war Masisco became his constant friend. After the war, Dunbar, who wanted to find a new life, came to the west, and the commander, Major Van Bruw, heard that he was looking at the west "before it disappeared" and had no idea of the Indians at all, so he decided to send him to the outpost of Fort Saidgwick; As soon as Dunbar and Tiemons, the coachman who delivered supplies, left the station, Major Van Bruw hanged himself with bullets and bullets, probably because he was suffering from illness; The royalist ideology was shattered; Or foresaw something, anyway, he inexplicably shouted "the king is dead" and went. Dunbar begins to recognize the clues to the stories that take place in the land while admiring the stunning scenery of the West: the skeleton of the corpse; empty camps; polluted rivers; A cave on the slope for defense, he was a trained soldier who would have lived for decades if he didn't understand something. For the Americans, the war with the Indians was also a war of attrition, and Major Van Burough and these people were somewhat like cannon fodder for consumption, but the Americans had a clear advantage.

In addition to the war masisco at the outpost, a lone wolf named "Two Socks" also became Dunbar's friend. On this day, the Sioux Indian chieftain Kick Hopping Bird came to the camp unintentionally, and when he saw that the flag was planted in a place that should have been empty, he came in to check it out, and when he saw Sisko, he wanted to take it away, because horses were important cattle in the steppe; Dunbar, who was bathing, desperately rushed naked to the Kicking Bird, causing him to flee; The result of the discussion with the tribe turned out that the white man might have mana, and in order to test them to get the horse back; As a result, both times, including the tribal warriors, they failed, and Sisko knew who the master was, and had already recognized the road and ran back when Dunbar was constantly patrolling the defense area. The contact between the two parties, who should have been fighting each other, became a farce.

At this time, the battle between the tribe and the Boni was lost, and the husband of the Caucasian Indian woman, who stood with his fists clenched, was killed. Dunbar decided not to wait any longer, and after burying the excess equipment, he decided to go and meet the Indians. He dusted off his uniform, polished his saber and riding boots, dressed up like an ambassador, and held the battle flag to meet the Indians who harassed him. As a result, halfway Dunbar met a fist that had slit his wrists because of her husband's departure, and when he rescued someone, he already looked like a Red Cross member, and when he went to the Indian camp, he was driven away by the wind. The next day, the Indians officially returned to Dunbar, and the first word of communication between the two sides of the language barrier was the important preparation of the grain "Tathangka" bison; Dunbar entertained his guests with coffee, made the Indians realize the sweetness with sugar, and Kicking Bird rewarded Dunbar with a bear skin, giving him an understanding of the Indian nature. In the gradual exchange, standing with his fists and acting as an interpreter, Dunbar began to learn the Sioux language. One day Dunbar spotted the bison herd and reported it to the Indians, and then began the wonderful bull hunt. Dunbar was finally accepted by the Sioux people, from smoking a cigarette with a kicking bird to eating bison hearts with Feng Manfa to exchanging clothes with Feng Manfa, Dunbar, a man who knew nothing about the Indians, became a friend of the Indians after being sent to the front line of the war. This is the first part of "Dances with Wolves".

The second part of "Dances with Wolves" tells the story of how Dunbar transitioned from a Federation soldier to a "dances with wolves". In the morning, the two White Socks call a bird to reward Dunbar, and after deep thought, he dances the Great Witch Psychic Dance around the campfire at night, during which Sisko and the two White Socks seem to make a connection in their eyes. The next day, Dunbar went to the tribe with the two white socks to follow, but Dunbar was afraid that it would be killed and drove away, and the Indians saw the encounter and gave him the Sioux name "Dances with Wolves". It seems that Indians can only have names if they have a story. This is followed by a love story with a fist and a formal Sioux who defeated the invading Boni with the muskets of their outpost. After Dunbar told the Sioux that American troops would be coming in large numbers, they decided to move elsewhere. Dunbar remembered that the diary was still in the camp and went back to get it, but the troops stationed there were arrested as Indians, and Sisko and the two white socks were killed one after the other. The leading major was not a handful of officers like Van Burough during the period of military tension, and the soldiers accompanying him were also the elite of the battle-hardened after the Civil War stabilized the country. The diary was kept as a storybook by Soldier Spieway, and Dunbar was immediately convicted of treason: desertion, misappropriation of armaments, and communication with foreign countries, and the Major wanted him to act as a translator to negotiate with the Sioux people, trying to use him and the Sioux as pawns, just like in "The Last Mohicans" to use the Indians to discord for the benefit of the colonists, Dunbar decided that he was dancing with wolves and refused. When he was taken back to Heitzburg to be executed Dunbar, he was rescued by the Sioux. Dunbar, knowing that the American army would not rest on his laurels, decided to leave so as not to cause trouble to the Sioux people, and said goodbye to his own people in reluctance, and the Sioux girl returned the diary that had been fished up in the river after Speye's death, and he set out with his fists on his way to the other country.

The Indians were greeted by the bloody plundering and massacres of the colonists immediately after a short period of trade after the arrival of Westerners in the Americas. Western colonizers used various means to gain access to the New World, and "The Last Mohicans" reflects the fact that the colonists used the internal contradictions of the Indians to provoke them to kill each other, and as a result, only one Mohican survived the story, and this genocide and massacre became a dark page in human history. The westward movement of the United States in the process of fighting for western land is also a process of driving the Indians to continue to migrate, and this migration route is also called the "Road of Blood and Tears" by the Indians. During the period reflected in "Dances with Wolves", although the Indians had won the Battle of Little Big Horn, which was shown in the film "Children of the Morning Star", the counteroffensive against the American army under the huge civilizational difference finally failed, and the Indians were forced to go to the barren reservation. It was only after the United States gradually looked at history objectively that the status of the Indians was gradually affirmed, and the Indians were replaced by the Native Americans.

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