pawnee ( film )
pawnee is a film programme that first aired in 1957 and has been classified a u certificate .
16) adding to the film’s verisimilitude are its oscar - nominated art direction and costuming. it won oscars for film editing, sound, and cinematography .
some of the cast members traveled to indianapolis to film in lucas oil stadium .
the cast visited lucas oil stadium to film these scenes with the indianapolis colts .
chief pawnee was brought up a white man named pale arrow. wagon trains began to invade pawnee' s land, and the chief sends the pale arrow to the white people. pale arrow takes the name paul fletcher and becomes a scout of the wagon train. the chief wants to live in peace with white people. but after his death, crazy fox becomes the chief of pawnee and leads pawnee to attack that wagon train .
but iñárritu, pacing the film to perfection, never forgets that even in the most extreme circumstances there can be levity – glass and a pawnee indian, for example, catching snow on their tongues .
15) costner was made an honorary member of the sioux nation after the film’s release .
on the silver screen, he will appear in the summer film monster trucks with danny glover .
pale arrow is a white man raised since a boy by the pawnee chief. with wagon trains now encroaching on pawnee land, the chief sends pale arrow to be with the white people. now known as paul... see full summary »
chris pratt narrated on the mat, a documentary about his former high school’s wrestling team. the film will be shown at the 2012 tribeca film festival, which takes place april 18 - 29. read more here .
dances with wolves (1990) a group of pawnee warriors observe a small smoke cloud off in the distance and believe it is white settlers. they go to investigate it with bad intentions and come upon timmons. while eating his food, he is caught off guard and shot in the butt with an arrow. he is then executed and scalped by the toughest pawnee. i do not own the copyrights to this film
amy poehler may be leaving pawnee, but she won’t be leaving screens anytime soon. she’ll voice joy in pixar’s next movie, inside out, before teaming up again with fellow golden globes host tina fey for a film called sisters. the film follows two estranged adult sisters who throw a party at their parents’ house and will hit theaters in december. she’ll also join bradley cooper and elizabeth banks in netflix’s revival of wet hot american summer .
23) dances with wolves was added to the national film registry, for “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films, ” in 2007 .
pawnee city hall is leslie' s home away from home, and where most of the show' s action takes place! the recognizable pasadena city hall served as the exterior for the building where leslie and the rest of the parks department. sadly, there are no murals depicting the colorful history of pawnee inside, but at least the fourth floor is probably safe .
pale arrow is a white man raised since a boy by the pawnee chief. with wagon trains now encroaching on pawnee land, the chief sends pale arrow to be with the white people. now known as paul fletcher, he takes the job of wagon train scout. the chief wants peace but when he dies, crazy fox takes over and now leads the pawnees in an attack against that wagon trai
pale arrow is a white man raised since a boy by the pawnee chief. with wagon trains now encroaching on pawnee land, the chief sends pale arrow to be with the white people. now known as paul fletcher, he takes the job of wagon train scout. the chief wants peace but when he dies, crazy fox takes over and now leads the pawnees in an attack against that wagon train .
soon we’ll say farewell to the motley crew that began their careers at the parks and recreation department in pawnee, indiana — but the cast of parks and recreation are moving on to bigger and better things .
how iñárritu will finish his film remains to be seen. we can only hope that he, and dicaprio, and everyone else involved, did not suffer in vain .
the town of pawnee, ind. — home of the nbc comedy
parks and recreation
— is fictional, but if you didn' t know that, the number of references to actual hoosier culture might make you think otherwise .
pawnee' s preferred gay club was, of course, the bulge. inside shots were filmed at serra' s dine & dance. it' s the perfect place to do a few shots of snake juice and get your dance on !
leonardo dicaprio in the revenant. it is always snowing in the film, although the real hugh glass’s adventures took place in late summer. photograph: 20th century fox / evere / rex shutterstock
may 3, 2012 4. 21
bus tour
new an important person in pawnee dies while leslie is on a bus tour for the final day of her campaign; andy investigates a security threat; chris finds a cure for his depression .
in the film, 10 men get away. among them are captain henry, glass, glass’s son hawk (forrest goodluck) and trappers john fitzgerald (tom hardy) and jim bridger (will poulter). they have a conversation, but it’s all so extravagantly mumbled that it’s hard to work out what’s going on. fitzgerald is fighty and racist, so he’s the baddie. glass is the goodie, because he loves his son (who is half - pawnee) in a gruff, manly way that involves telling him off a lot. the backstory about glass’s love for a pawnee woman is fiction. it has been suggested the real glass had such a relationship, but there’s no firm evidence – and no evidence that he had any children .
13) there was a john dunbar, a pro - native american missionary allied with the pawnee in the early 1800s, but there’s no explicit connection to his exploits and the film. blake based stands with a fist on cynthia ann parker, who was kidnapped and adopted by the comanche at age 10, in 1836, and lived with them until 1960, when the texas rangers recaptured her. her story was the basis of another western classic, the searchers (1956) .
there' s no better place to get a serving of waffles with whipped cream (or should i say whipped cream with a side of waffles ?) in pawnee than leslie' s favorite diner, jj' s! some interior shots were filmed at kountry folks restaurant .
this scene is based on a real - life incident: william h ashley and andrew henry (the latter played by domhnall gleeson in the film) set up the rocky mountain fur company in 1822. in june 1823, ashley’s band of around 70 men was attacked by arikara warriors – they estimated around 600, though in the film it’s more like a dozen. various accounts suggest that between 12 and 18 of ashley’s men were killed .
the wealthy town of eagleton (which is pawnee' s rival) comes across as the beverly hills of indiana, so it seems that when filming, they didn' t try to hide the fact that they were filming in la too much, remember when leslie knope marvels at the fact that eagleton somehow has palm trees? get a taste of the good life (well, if you' re not from pawnee, anyways) by visiting the westfield topanga mall, which served as the filming locations for some of the eagleton - set scenes from the show .
2) the film was shot on location in south dakota, from july to november in 1989. prominent castmembers included graham greene, a member of the first nations of canada, as kicking bird, tantoo cardinal, of canada’s metis people, as black shawl, and native american actors including rodney a. grant (wind in his hair), floyd red crow westerman (chief ten bears), and wes studi (as a pawnee tribesman). receiving her most prominent film credit to date was mary mcdonnell, as the sioux - raised stands with a fist. costner, greene, and mcdonnell (who was just a little younger than greene and cardinal, who played her adoptive parents) all received oscar nominations .
9) with thousands of bison, incorrigible wolves, and the rigors of an outdoor shoot to contend with the production exceeded its $ 15 million budget. costner supplied $ 3 million of his own money to complete the film .
met all expectations. great old western. new what to expect. seen it over 40yrs ago. great then, great now! ! watch it, nice entertainment. those were the days when you could escape life and enjoy big film epics .
“if we ended up [ using ] green screen with coffee and everybody having a good time, ” the birdman director told the hollywood reporter, “everybody will be happy, but most likely the film would be a piece of s - - -. ”
the revenant is an impressive film inspired by glass’s real - life story, but lays it on a bit thick and ends up curiously unmoving. the whole thing is begging to be sped up into a two - minute youtube video set to benny hill music .
by the 25 - minute mark, you’ll be literally slack - jawed for one of the most stunning scenes ever committed to film, as glass is attacked by a grizzly bear protecting its two young. is it cgi? is it real footage? however it was done, the result astonishes as glass is tossed around, clawed, bitten and even sat on, the bear’s paw squashing his head into the dirt. like so much of this remarkably visceral film, you’ll live every moment with him – every scream and anguished howl .
1) the film was adapted from a novel by michael blake, who had penned a low - budget costner movie, stacy’s knights (1983). the project began as an unsold script, which the actor and budding director encouraged blake to rethink as a book, purchased and published in 1988. its unconventional, and sympathetic, emphasis is on native american life in the civil war era, observed by costner’s disillusioned john dunbar, a first lieutenant who ultimately chooses to live among peaceful sioux and defend them from pawnee raiders and the encroaching u. s. army. blake won an oscar for his adaptation .
she’s also been active as a performer, starring in the steve carell - created tbs series angie tribeca and will be a voice in the animated film b. o. o. : bureau of otherworldly operations alongside seth rogen, melissa mccarthy, bill murray and octavia spencer .
with the seventh and final season of
parks and recreation
premiering jan. 13, we wanted to go back through the show' s first six seasons to note the best hoosier references. and no, the time they booked larry bird' s aunt tilda to sign autographs at pawnee' s harvest festival unfortunately didn' t make the list .
in the summer. crew spoke of enduring a “living hell”, of being forced to work in - 25c temperatures, of travelling for hours to remote locations in canada and argentina to film for a mere 90 minutes, the result of iñárritu’s decision to shoot only in natural light .
may 10, 2012 9: 30 p. m. 4. 22
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new (season finale) it' s election day in pawnee, and leslie and bobby newport are separated by a razor - thin margin. while everyone waits with leslie for the race to be called, they ponder their futures, and their new opportunities .
glass appeared to be close to death. the party’s leaders decided that two of their number should stay with him until he died and give him a christian burial. these were john fitzgerald and a much younger man, jim bridger, played in the film by british actors tom hardy and will poulter .
if you’re imagining the revenant is a film chock - full of gratuitous violence, though, nothing could be further from the truth. true, some moments are stomach - churning – not least glass cutting out the innards of a dead horse and using it as a makeshift sleeping bag (think luke skywalker on hoth with his tauntaun) .
5) the bison hunt, using 3, 500 bison, 20 wranglers, 24 bareback native american stunt riders, and 150 extras, took three weeks to film (with seven cameras) at the triple u buffalo ranch outside fort pierre, south dakota. costner, who did most of his own horseback riding, nearly broke his back in a fall .
some said that glass killed and ate a rattlesnake during his journey; that he awoke from a slumber to find a grizzly bear licking maggots from his wounds. the length of his crawl swelled from 80 miles to 100 miles to 200 miles. his back story became more elaborate: he had been kidnapped by the french - american pirate jean lafitte as a young man, had been captured by the pawnee tribe and won his freedom with a pouch of scarlet vermilion powder .
in 1903, an outlaw bandit aimed his pistol at movie audiences and fired. it was a shot felt round the world. with the ten - minute - long the great train robbery, a new and uniquely american film genre, the western, was born. (not in the west, but in milltown, nj, where the action was in cinema those days. )
despite the fact that pawnee, indiana, the setting for nbc' s parks and recreation, gets a bad rap (just because it' s one of america' s most obese cities, constantly battles raccoon infestations, and has a history of mistreating the wamapoke indians, among other things) there' s something about the small, fictional town from parks and recreation that makes people wish it was real... probably the fact that the show' s hero, optimistic and enthusiastic government employee leslie knope, loves it so much, even in spite of its flaws. even though the show wasn' t filmed in indiana (or anywhere near the hoosier state, save for a few scenes) they did a pretty good job of making it appear as though they were in the midwest. if you want to explore leslie knope' s hometown, your best shot is to head to la and use this handy guide to treat yourself to a trip dedicated to uncovering the real - life pawnee, indiana !
19) capping the film is its lush symphonic score, composed by john barry. “the john dunbar theme, ” heard in united way commercials for more than a decade afterwards, was said to have been a personal favorite of pope john paul ii. best known for his work on the james bond series, barry won an oscar (his fifth) and a grammy (his fourth) for dances with wolves .
gravely injured, he somehow summoned the energy to drag himself to a nearby spring, the first step in a six - week - long crawl back to the nearest encampment. baroque details began to accumulate in each subsequent telling of the story – and there have been many, from john neihardt’s poem the song of hugh glass (1915) to frederick manfred’s 1954 novel lord grizzly, to the 1970 film man in the wilderness, a trippy take on the tale starring richard harris .
aubrey plaza’s surly but lovable april ludgate earned her the attention of hollywood studios. she’s already juggled parks and recreation with movies like safety not guaranteed, the to do list and life after beth. next, she’s set to star with judy greer in a film called fresno about two co - dependent sisters. but her most anticipated upcoming feature is a comedy called dirty grandpa with zac efron and robert de niro, in which she’ll play de niro’s love interest. yep, you read that correctly .
co - written by iñárritu and mark l. smith (who penned joe dante’s the hole), the story is adapted from michael punke’s 2002 novel – itself inspired by the myth that built up around glass after his grizzly attack. if the film has a documentary - like realism to it, iñárritu seasons it with frequent digressions, flashbacks, hallucinations and dreams, as glass drifts in and out of consciousness, conjuring images of his son and wife (who at one point appears floating above him like a ghost) .
the show' s creators and writers have done their homework, rarely letting you forget it' s taking place in indiana. at the very least, the state' s name is mentioned more than 60 times over the first 112 episodes. at the most, the show has actually come to indianapolis (mentioned more than 40 times throughout its first six seasons) to film. even when the references are fictional, such as the
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the men find glass in a rum old state. captain henry pays fitzgerald, bridger and hawk to stay behind until it is time for glass’s inevitable burial. when the captain leaves, fitzgerald tries to bump glass off. hawk interrupts, so fitzgerald bumps him off instead. this didn’t happen in real life, because hawk didn’t exist. in the film, the ailing glass sees fitzgerald kill his son, giving him an extra motivation to stay alive and seek revenge. when fitzgerald persuades bridger to bury glass alive and abandon him, you know glass isn’t going to go quietly .
adam scott is taking on a wide range of roles in the next year: right now, fans can catch him in hot tub time machine 2, but he also starred in the indie rom - com sleeping with other people, which premiered at sundance in february and will be released later this year. additionally, the actor will take a serious turn in the upcoming black mass, which is based on the true story of boston gangster whitey bulger. the cast makes it sound like surefire awards bait: other featured performers in the film include benedict cumberbatch, johnny depp, sienna miller and fifty shades of grey’ s dakota johnson .
the film has invented some extra obstacles for glass: it is snowing throughout, even though in real life his trek took place between august and october; the arikara track him and chase him into a tree; he has to hollow out a dead horse to make himself a sleeping bag. it’s brilliantly filmed, but the characterisations and dialogue don’t match the sophistication of the visuals. moreover, by the second lingering closeup of a horse’s eye or the sixth epic landscape shot with four - fifths sky and one - fifth land, even those sophisticated visuals begin to feel repetitive. as for the ending, it has been changed in one significant way: in real life, nobody got killed .
i’m at the age when it’s sometimes difficult to remember what you have and haven’t seen in the past. i don’t really remember watching george montgomery in any western movies when i was young. i guess my heroes were clayton moore in the lone ranger, roy rogers and clint walker as cheyenne bodie. i’m just now getting a closer look at western movie stars like george montgomery. i have seen three of his movies in a row now, and the last two minutes of each movie ends with him getting the girl and riding off in the sunset. in this case it was lola albright, the main female star playing meg alden. this freeze frame clip was taken exactly 59 seconds before the end of the movie. i enjoyed it but can only give it a grade of c +, or three stars. did anyone ever make a movie where the cowboys and indians were friends throughout the entire film? i would like to hear from you if you know of one !
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rewarded for his heroism in the civil war, lt. john dunbar (kevin costner) wants to see the american frontier before it is gone. he is assigned to an abandoned fort, where a sioux tribe is his only neighbor. overcoming the language barrier and their mutual fear and distrust, dunbar and the proud indians gradually become friends. eventually, he falls in love with the beautiful stands with a fist (mary mcdonnell) a white woman raised by the tribe .
kevin costner, mary mcdonnell, graham green, rodney a. grant, robert pastoreli
corny western with george montgomery as an unconvincing ex - indian or something. pretty hackneyed across the board with lola albright being the only saving grace .
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indians attack an oregon - bound wagon train whose white guide (george montgomery) was raised by their tribe .
other interior shots for leslie knope' s go - to restaurant were filmed at four n' 20 restaurant .
the pit that started it all! whether leslie knope is falling in it, or andy dwyer is living in it, or tom is staking out the garden planted nearby, the sullivan street pit played a huge role in the show. it' s neither a pit, nor a park in real life. it was once located on the southeast corner of hazeltine ave and collins street in van nuys, to be specific .
ann' s house, where she once lived with andy, is actually located near the former pit. as leslie knope' s number one bff, we occasionally saw the two hanging out here .
april, andy and ben' s house rules :
we have a couple of house rules, though. you can' t use the front door; you have to climb in through the back window. no personal phone conversations. if you ever speak to me in spanish, please use the formal
usted .
and no electricity after 6: 00 pm. a couple more rules: if you ever watch a sad movie, you have to wear mascara so we can see whether or not you' ve been crying. there' s no noise allowed on mondays. and no tv after breakfast .
- april ludgate
jurassic fork is jerry' s favorite restaurant, and it' s not hard to see why, it looks awesome! sadly, there really isn' t a kitschy dinosaur - themed restaurant in indiana... or anywhere right now, for that matter. the closest you can get is clifton' s cafeteria (where the scenes were filmed), which is presently closed and undergoing a massive renovation to make it even more retro - tastic. the theme of clifton' s appears to be part jungle, part forest, and part beach scene, but it' s also 100% awesome. plus, the food is surprisingly tasty, given that they seem to put an awful lot of emphasis on atmosphere .
we see leslie more at work than at home (seriously, the woman never seemed to sleep), but there are few occasions when we see her off - duty, like when she hosted a dinner party to impress ann' s hot lawyer friend justin. here on highland avenue in altadena was where the exterior shots of her home were filmed .
are you still kind of bummed that the show wasn' t actually filmed in the midwest? don' t tear up too fast... they did a bit of filming around indianapolis! ron swanson' s favorite restaurant is st. elmo' s steakhouse, and andy took a bunch of friends to toss around the pigskin with some colts players at lucas oil stadium .
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raised by pawnees, a white man is forced to choose sides between the people who have adopted him as their own and the people who abandoned him .
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we enjoy the classic westerns and enjoyed this movie. modern enough that the colors, scenes look realistic
i love lola albright and westerns, but i like to hear the actors speak their dialog. what happen? is this normal? good movie deserves more than 3 stars, if only... . sound! ! !
i had also seen this movie before however i didn' t recognize it by its name. it was enjoyable, again .
one of my favorites for sure... i would suggest others view this classic as i hope you will enjoy it as much as i do .
i' m a george montgomery fan, but he made a better cowboy than he did an indian .
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frustrated with the lack of opportunities in his hometown, young jess harker plans to leave, but sympathetic stagecoach armed guard race crim persuades his boss to give jess the stage driver job .
the daughter of famous outlaw belle starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find her killer .
a cavalry officer tries to keep a lid on a volatile situation when indian leader cochise is being prodded into starting a war .
disputes over a dead man' s property escalate into a bloody range war .
judge jim scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he' s about to sentence... and his unfaithful fiancee .
a man kidnaps the wife of a cavalry commander in order to exchange her for a gatling gun that' s being sold by a gun runner .
a gunfighter takes a deputy sheriff job in a town caught in a feud between a powerful rancher and small farmers .
half - breed frank madden claims he' s white, in order to own land, but violent racial clashes in town force him to abandon his neutrality and chose a side .
a stranger rides into town and says he is looking for a local indian. told he left town, the truth everyone has been hiding comes out including the stranger' s true identity .
a despised cavalry commander is unfairly blamed by his troop for the death of a popular officer and must redeem himself in front of his men during an indian attack on the fort .
back from the civil war, an ex - yankee officer aids a wagon train of former confederates settle in a prosperous valley marred by cattle - rustling and land - grabbing feuds .
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the tale he wanted to tell was an epic on a personal scale: a man hunting beaver on the missouri river is attacked by a bear, and left for dead by his party of fur trappers. this man, so incensed by being abandoned, finds the strength to crawl 200 miles in pursuit of his faithless friends, bent on exacting revenge .
leonardo dicaprio, who took the central role, had perhaps the most uncomfortable experience of all (discounting the extra who was dragged facedown and naked across an icy plain during a battle scene). dicaprio’s sufferings in the name of art included spending the night sleeping in an animal carcass, plunging in and out of icy rivers and eating raw bison liver .
. the man whose life he was imitating – for the revenant is based on a true story of sorts – enjoyed a far less glamorous existence .
hugh glass was a fur trapper, one of the hard - driving mountain men of the early 19th - century american west, an obscure cousin to more mainstream american folk heroes such as davy crockett .
most of what we know of glass’s life is conjecture: although he was literate, he left very little trace in the historical record. a letter survives that he wrote to the parents of a fellow fur trapper who was killed in a confrontation with the hostile native american arikara tribe. he is mentioned in the papers of some of his superiors, marking him out as a challenging employee, hard to handle. and we know he was attacked by a bear .
he bear attack is why glass is remembered at all. the story became frontier legend within months of its happening, set down in 1824 by a philadelphia lawyer with literary aspirations, and carried to all corners of the united states in newspapers and journals .
was it taken as a true account? jon t coleman, a professor at indiana’s notre dame university, who has investigated the story, isn’t sure .
“i don’t know if they were that worried about the distinction between fact and fiction back then, ” he says. “i think it was a great story and it cohered with an american vision of the west. through this encounter with wild nature, men’s bodies were changed and became something else. they were no longer european or british – they were american. ”
he attack – of which no direct eyewitness account exists – happened in the summer of 1823, five months after glass had joined a fur - trapping expedition in south dakota. somewhere along the banks of the missouri river, he stumbled across a grizzly and her two cubs .
startled, she set upon him, ripping his scalp, puncturing his throat and breaking his leg. hearing his cries, his companions rushed to help, although it took more than one bullet to bring down the enraged creature .
or two days they watched over him, but, aware that with every passing day their fellow trappers were getting farther and farther away, fitzgerald convinced bridger to abandon glass. they laid him in a shallow grave and departed. when glass came to, he found himself alone .
loody and masochistic as all this is, it’s something of a disappointment when one reaches the story’s end, one which seems to stay the same in every telling. glass does find fitzgerald and bridger, but instead of wreaking violent revenge, he forgives them both .
“this has been the most tricky thing for dramatists, ” says coleman. “everyone gets tripped up trying to explain why he was so driven to destroy the men who left him, but then decides to show mercy and doesn’t end up killing anybody. ”
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astounding. with a director, dop and cast at the top of their game, the revenant is a filmmaking triumph. you cannot afford to miss experiencing this on the big screen .
“revenge is in the creator’s hands, ” real - life frontiersman hugh glass is told midway through alejandro g. iñárritu’s extraordinary wilderness drama .
it’s this feeling of vengeance that boils inside glass (leonardo dicaprio) throughout much of this two - and - a - half - hour epic – and little wonder. mauled by a bear, left for dead by his men and witness to the murder of his own son, glass’ bleak and bloody survival in this harsh 1820s terrain is motivated by one reason alone: to even the score .
that bare outline doesn’t even begin to capture the sheer wild ambition, beauty and savagery on show in the revenant. far more challenging than even iñárritu’s bravura oscar - winner birdman, this is his fitzcarraldo or his apocalypse now – man versus the elements, both on screen and off. stories have already spread about the legendarily arduous shoot endured by cast and crew in the canadian wilderness. whatever hardships they went through were worth it .
in the first five minutes, iñárritu and his birdman cinematographer emmanuel lubezki will leave you agog with a scene of arrow - whizzing, tomahawk - wielding carnage as glass and his fellow fur trappers, led by the resourceful captain andrew henry (domhnall gleeson), are set upon by a gang of native americans .
as a group of 40 - odd men is whittled down to just 10, lubezki’s camerawork ensures you’re just as captivated by incidental details as you are by the action: the sun glinting through trees, birds circling, plumes of smoke rising .
while henry is able to sew up glass’ wounds, it becomes clear that the group won’t be able to carry him to safety through the harsh, mountainous landscape. “the proper thing to do would be to finish him off quick, ” says fitzgerald (tom hardy), interested only in self - preservation. volunteering to stay with glass, fitzgerald is joined by youngster jim bridger (will poulter) and glass’ half - native american son hawk (forrest goodluck), who refuses to leave his father’s side .
soon enough, fitzgerald is leading the escape back to civilisation, leaving glass to die. this, of course, he refuses to do, flaunting survival skills that would put bear grylls to shame (not least hauling himself out of a shallow grave) .
glass isn’t the only man left on the mountain, though; in a parallel story, a native american is leading his tribe in search for his missing daughter powaqa (melaw nakehk’o). french - speaking fur trappers, rivals to the captain henry - led gang, are also in the mix. but to say more about their involvement would give away elements of the final blood - soaked act – which’ll leave you feeling especially battered and bruised .
with lubezki’s photography at once capturing the magnificence and cruelty of mother nature, like the moment glass stands by to watch a bison stampede, you’ll be left in a state of shock and awe. will the revenant repeat iñárritu’s triple - oscar swoop for birdman? will lubezki gain his third consecutive golden statue? will dicaprio, in full - blooded form, finally shake off that academy curse? on this evidence, it’s impossible to see how they could not .
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dances with wolves
opened in theaters 25 years ago today. here' s a look back at some of the facts, figures, and stories behind the oscar - winning phenomenon .
by 1990, the western was dead. tastes had changed, and audiences had moved on. other than clint eastwood, few were making westerns—and he hadn’t made one since pale rider (1985) .
the summer of 85 also saw the release of another western, silverado. cast as a brash young cowboy was kevin costner, whose star would rise considerably in the coming years, with movies like the untouchables (1987), bull durham (1988), and field of dreams (1989). against long odds, costner, at age 35, decided to revive the western with his own project, which he would star in, co - produce, and direct .
given wide release 25 years ago, dances with wolves would not just be any western—it would be the western, winning seven oscars (it was nominated for 12) and earning $ 184 million domestically, making it the third biggest hit of 1990, after two other equally unexpected smashes, home alone and ghost. grossing an additional $ 240 million worldwide, dances with wolves is by far the most successful western ever made .
let’s look back at some of the facts, figures, and stories behind a phenomenon, one for each year since its release .
costner in & apos; dances with wolves. & apos; (photo: photofest )
3) to register the discomfort of kicking bird’s poor posture, graham put slippery bologna slices in his shoes. on the canadian comedy program, the red green show, graham’s character was asked what he felt about dances with wolves, to which he responded, “the native guy was ok. should have gotten the oscar. ” (joe pesci did, for goodfellas. )
4) six - year - old annie costner, the filmmaker’s daughter, plays stands with a fist as a child .
graham greene as kicking bird in & apos; dances with wolves. & apos ;
7) an animatronic bison costing $ 250, 000 was built for the production .
8) buck and teddy shared the role of two socks the wolf. neither was terribly cooperative during production .
10) the money woes led to dances with wolves being dismissed as “kevin’s gate” around hollywood, a reference to the epic fail of the western heaven’s gate a decade earlier .
11) when the movie took off at the box office costner realized upwards of $ 40 million in profit .
mary mcdonnell as stands with a fist and costner as john dunbar in & apos; dances with wolves. & apos ;
12) “nothing i have been told about these people is correct. they are not thieves or beggars. they are not the bogeymen they are made out to be. on the contrary, they are polite guests and i enjoy their humor. ”—john dunbar
14) while some critics complained about dunbar’s “white savior” coming to the aid of his sioux friends, audiences were absorbed by the details of their existence. a coach was brought in to teach castmembers unfamiliar with the language, like greene, to speak lakota. (lakota’s gendered aspect proved too challenging to master, so the actors speak like women. the coach, doris leader charge, was cast as chief ten bears’ wife, pretty shield. )
17) dances with wolves was the first western to win best picture since cimarron (1931). eastwood’s unforgiven would also win best picture and best director in 1992 .
18) (some cinephiles were disappointed that goodfellas ’ martin scorsese, whose raging bull (1980) lost best picture and director to actor - turned director robert redford ’s debut ordinary people, was whacked by another first - time actor - turned director. scorsese’s the departed (2006) would eventually win in both categories. )
20) clocking in at a full three hours, dances with wolves is among the lengthier best picture winners. an extended cut that debuted on dvd runs 236 minutes, longer than record holders gone with the wind (1939) and lawrence of arabia (1962) —but still shorter than the extended dvd edition of the lord of the rings: the return of the king (2003), which runs 251 minutes .
21) costner, now 60, would have three more hits after wolves, robin hood: prince of thieves and jfk in 1991 and the sensationally successful the bodyguard (1992) —then suffer a decade - long cold streak (the postman, anyone ?) snapped by another, more modestly popular and traditional western he directed and starred in, open range (2003). costner had another civil war - era winner with the tv miniseries hatfields & mccoys (2012), for which he won an acting emmy .
22) blake published a sequel to dances with wolves, the holy road, in 2004. he died earlier this year, at age 69 .
24) the western periodically revives in the wake of dances with wolves. this christmas brings two, quentin tarantino ’s thriller the hateful eight and the fact - based survival drama the revenant, directed by birdman’s oscar winner alejandro g. inarritu and starring leonardo dicaprio .
25) dances with wolves goes on. in 2004, costner opened an exhibit, “tatanka: the story of the bison, ” outside deadwood, south dakota, to educate visitors about westward expansion. earlier this year the triple u buffalo ranch was up for sale, until ted turner added it to his empire. tours of the south dakota locations are available, so you can experience dances with wolves as living history .
twenty - five years ago today, the groundbreaking series
twin peaks
premiered. as we count down to next year' s much anticipated showtime reboot, we look back at some behind - the - scenes facts about the extraordinary original .
this week' the wonder years' (finally) gets released on dvd. let' s celebrate with these fun facts about how this beloved show came to be !
burt reynolds turns 80 today. here' s a look at the star' s action - packed life in his own words .
twenty - five years ago today, tim burton' s' batman,' starring michael keaton, was released in theaters. but batman' s history started long before and still continues today with various portrayals of the caped crusader—some kitschy, others mesmerizingly dark. which batman do you prefer ?
based on alice walker' s pulitzer prize - winning novel by the same name, steven spielberg' s' the color purple' has a story of its own .
home alone
opened in theaters on november 16, 1990. to celebrate its 25th year, here are some fun facts about the making of the holiday classic .
to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the classic comedy, we' re hitting the gopher - infested greens with 18
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parks and recreation
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note: take these characters' understanding of indiana history with a grain of salt. they are not actually from indiana.
pawnee is a 1957 american western film directed by george waggner and written by george waggner , louis vittes and endre bohem . the film stars george montgomery , bill williams , lola albright , francis mcdonald , robert griffin and dabbs greer . the film was released on september 7 , 1957 , by republic pictures . 
pawnee is a 1957 american western film directed by george waggner and written by george waggner, louis vittes and endre bohem. the film stars george montgomery, bill williams, lola albright, francis mcdonald, robert griffin and dabbs greer. the film was released on september 7, 1957, by republic pictures.
pawnee is a 1957 american western film directed by george waggner and written by george waggner, louis vittes and endre bohem. the film stars george montgomery, bill williams, lola albright, francis mcdonald, robert griffin and dabbs greer. the film was released on september 7, 1957, by republic pictures.