Dances with wolves

Dances With Wolves Dances With Wolves is a western - a rather obvious statement, but its director, Kevin Costner, has created something far removed from the popular western of the 50's and 60's. Westerns have not been a fashionable genre for some time, so Costner had problems getting his project off the ground in the first place as it proved to be something the film industry was not too keen to back. Together with his …

…is underlined by the weather, a heavy downpour which hampers their search for the guns at Fort Sedgewick. The day the Indians leave for their winter camp and John goes back to Fort Sedgewick to find the note book and instead finds a company of soldiers, the skies are grey and heavy with cloud. The film ends in winter, with the cold and grey of snow, suggesting the misfortunes which will inevitably befall the Indians.