Analysis of Dances With Wolves #2

          After the movie Dances With Wolves came out in the 1990's, the whole Native nations had shown a different side to them to Americans that impressed them greatly and now have a completely different aspect towards them. Films that were produced before Dances With Wolves that had given Americans the wrong impression on Native Americans seeing them as "dumb" in movies but after watching Dances With Wolves they had a new prospective on them. Throughout the film there was a reoccurring theme that was shown in the simplest but the most significant scenes was pathos. Pathos defined to appeal to emotion in sensory images, music, etc. is shown through the landscape throughout First lieutenant Dunbar adventure in the native nation. The uplifting and lightening music when Two Socks kept following Dunbar and Dunbar eventually getting his name Dances With Wolves by the Natives it appealed to the audience that Dunbar had a special connection to that wolf. Towards the end of the film when Dunbar gets taken by the American soldiers Two Socks follows him but gets shot down by the soldiers while sorrow music fulfills the emotions in the audience. In the Native culture it was a ritual to dance around the fire which Dunbar wasn't used to and found quite unusual to him but since being around the Natives for a certain amount of time it eventually became a ritual to him as well. Pathos was present in this specific scene because the beauty of it all was so emotionally appealing. This film does a great job portraying the inspiration with beauty in nature. An example is shown in the scene where they come across thousands of buffalo roaming the landscape and a sigh of glory overcame their faces. Before this symbolic scene the hunters from the tribe had found buffalo that were killed by the Americans. During this time the Americans and all Native nations had a lot of mis communication especially when it came to the killing of animals. As they saw the skinned buffalo laying there in the fields they became angry that people would just leave these could of been useful buffalos but instead put them to waste. The buffaloes mean a lot to the Natives. There's no part of the buffalo that goes to waste using the fur for clothes, the bones for tools, the meat for food, etc.

          The transformation of Dunbar becoming a member of the Sioux Tribe was a slow but noticeable transition starting with when one of the members from the tribe found Dunbar's hat in the valley. Throughout the film there are several scenes after showing the trading between First Lieutenant Dunbar and the Wind In His Hair giving him his ceremonial of chest armor. Dunbar wearing his coat from his uniform traded the the jacket for the chest armor symbolizing the becoming of a powerful friendship. Towards the end of the film where Dunbar gets taken from the American soldiers he was fully dressed like an Native American and questioned them why he was dressed this way. After realizing his life belonged to the Sioux Tribe he then turned his back on his American soldiers helping the very last fight in the film. When getting an invite to stay the night, Dunbar catches Kicking bird(Stands With A Fist's Father) and his wife making love to one another and Dunbar eventually recognizing that making live to each other is part of the human nature. For a long time Americans thought Native's were so different and nothing like them at all from the films before Dances With Wolves. Since this movie has been out for over 10 years Americans have gave Native Americans a new prospective on who they are,  respecting them as human beings.