Dances with Wolves parody

Dances with Wolves (novel) - Michael Blake
Dances with Wolves (film) - Orion Pictures

Another for my 100 Films/Parodies challenge

I know I said I was gonna draw a parody for "Gone with the Wind" next but I decided to put this one up as a quickie.

If you've seen James Cameron's "Avatar" (and knowing the lot of you who find and see this parody) this is the film Avatar's plot and premise ripped off from.

Kevin Costner plays a military man who, after getting wounded in the leg in battle since it's the Civil War, he gets awarded a medal and he is allowed to be posted at any fort he wants. he chooses to be in the Western Frontier because, as he quotes, "he wants to see it before it's gone". So he goes, he lives in this fort as he tries to make friendly relations with the Sioux clan (an actual Native American tribe, unlike blue cat people) but communication is rough but, to their luck, their medicine man, Kicking Bird (played by Gram Greene who, if I got this right, was approached by James Cameron to play the Chief of the Na'vi in Avatar but he turned it down and the role went, instead, to Wes Studi, the villain from "The Last of the Mohicans") has an adopted white daughter who knows how to speak English (gee, the chief's daughter training a foriegner? sound familiar? perhaps they might fall in love, oh the possibilities are endless! I hope nobody rips off this idea!)

So Kevin Costner, of course, abandons his old culture and stays with the Sioux clan (hey, i would too, all this newer technology and ignorant people makes me sick) but the white man still cause trouble as it goes down to one final battle between the white man and the Sioux clan. But, unlike Avatar where the blue people won, the Sioux clan just disapears and runs away from the white man since they know they can't fight them forever. The end credits show that after 13 years, the remaning Sioux gave up to the White man's ways and so the white man destroyed their culture by forcing OUR culture into them. God we suck, don't we?

Oh and for anyone wondering why it's called Dances with Wolves, in one scene, a wolf, named Two Socks by Kevin Costner, is jumping around with Kevin Costner as Costner is trying to make the wolf following him go away. The other Sioux clan members, including Graham Greene, see this so they decide to label him as Dances with Wolves, which the name sticks. Hey, it's a much better name than "Dunbar".

Before I end this, I'd like to say, Avatar had a budget of $350 million while Costner had a budget of $22 million. Just goes to show; less is always more.