Reflection 14

My notes aren't available anymore because I turned them in to get graded, so I'm going to use my memory to write a reflection post. At the beginning of the week the class was around the middle of the movie, "Dances with Wolves". Dunbar was awakened by buffalo running near his cabin so he immediately rode his horse to the tribe to tell them even though they were in the middle of a ceremony. The tribe was surprised but after that became very good friends with him for telling the tribe about the buffalo's. Then came the scene where they were hunting the buffalo. I am happy to hear that they didn't actually kill buffalo, but the 'dead' buffalo were robots. It impresses me hearing that the crew spent weeks preparing for the scene because it is very dangerous to chase buffalo around like that. The scene was shot beautifully and definitely showed what it may have been like when natives hunted buffalo.

In the end of the movie, another rival tribe is coming to attack the tribe. Dunbar finds guns hidden in the ground and gives them to the natives. The battle ends very fast because the natives shoot and kill the members of the rival tribe. The scene was well shot and captures a battle cry because in the end, a tribe member does he final yell before being killed which may be similar to what happened during battles between tribes. Then, the natives run from the white men because they are getting closer and will kill the natives when they arrive. In the ending scene, the natives find a place to settle and Dunbar leaves with Stands with Fist because he doesn't want the white men to find him and kill all of the tribe. The final scene also evokes many emotions because a member of the tribe is yelling bye to Dunbar and is saying that he will always be friends which shows a lot of emotion. Overall, I enjoyed the movie and think it helped me to understand tribes much better.