An Actors Profile Part 5

January 25th Kevin Costner in...

Dances with Wolves

If there was a movie that Costner was going to win for it was going to be this epic of epics. It begins with a man wanting to die and instead finding a new life by being reassigned to the frontier. When he arrives at the front no one is at the fort and he is forced into a life of solitude with no one but his horse and a wolf he names two socks. Eventually he comes across a tribe of native Americans who come to slowly understand and connect with him.
Why this ranks amongst Costner's greatest films is because even though like most Costner films it starts off at a crawl, the crawl is necessary for you to learn to walk with this character through the struggles he encounters along his road to redemption.
The other thing that is so good about this one is that he surrounds himself with a fantastic supporting cast who really runs the full circle of emotions including the wonderful Oscar nominated performance by Graham Greene as Kicking Bird. Costner as a director does know what he wants to see and get from his performers and in this he gets a solid days work out of each one of them.
Costner Also loves to play with long scripts and maybe that is his problem as an actor that he likes to see himself on screen a lot and I think sometimes that can be a bad thing but for this I really like how he separates himself from the tribe for a decent chunk of the film it makes the film seem more believable that he has to earn his way in with the tribe.
The clip I put up is from the first few moments of the film you won't get why I put it up but enjoy for how weird and wonderful it is.
Well I have one more post to do with the Costner and I hope it turns out to be a grand slam.