Like The Stars In The Sky...

Anyone remember Dances With Wolves ?
Yeah. Dances With Wolves.
These days, I think most critics look back on this film, not necessarily with disdain but with indifference. Sure it was a Best Picture winner, was a box office hit, made the Western popular (at least for awhile) but the films place in history is marred by two things : early 90's political correctness and...Kevin Costner.
Remember, once upon a time, Costner was a superstar. If memory serves, he made this right after Robin Hood, which was a smash hit, and for this follow up, Costner not only took top billing, but directed and produced. And it was his first movie. And it was a smash hit. And it won Best Picture. And Costner was knighted an Honorary Native American. Not too shabby.
And then he made WaterWorld.
And that, as they say, was that.

So anyhoo, this isn't a retrospective on Dances With Wolves, but an observation of a scene from the film that ABSOLUTELY COMPLETELY KNOCKED MY SOCKS OFF in a recent viewing. It was a scene I had seen many times before, hadn't thought about in any particular way. But catching the film recently on tv, I couldn't help but be blown away by this moment.
The Buffalo Hunt
This sequence in the film is pure bona fide bravura film making. Y'know the saying "They don't make em like they used to". That was coined for stuff like The Buffalo Hunt.
Go rent the movie, borrow it, whatever and when you watch that sequence, remember this:
No CG
Actual freakin' buffalo, folks riding real horses, and cameras and camera trucks right in the deadly middle.
A-frakkin-mazing

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