same movie, different setting

Rating: 6/10 (10 January 2005)

Thank you, JFDAddison5458, for finally bringing up Dances with Wolves. Am I the only one who noticed that this is practically a chapter-for-chapter, character-for-character regurgitation of DWW, just in a different setting?! It's ridiculous! You have a broken soldier, ready to die at the beginning; takes a new job that puts him up against a "savage" culture that he learns to admire; a woman who lost her husband at the beginning of the film and becomes his love interest; he develops a friendship with a leader in the "savage" culture; they come under attack while he's there and he fights with them...do I have to go on? The ONLY differences: there's no Two Socks, Dunbar wasn't a captive of the Sioux in DWW, and Algren's diary doesn't get stolen. This was a lovely film but as scene after scene, character after character paralleled DWW, I started wondering if this was some kind of joke. And trwilson is right--the fitting end was for Algren to kill himself on the battlefield alongside Katsumoto. Then his transformation would have been complete.