与狼共舞英文版观影
Dance with wolves tell about a story that a lieutenant from The East and American Indian build up the friendship.
The civil war (1861-1865).It is a second modernized war. Railway, heavy artillery and rifle make the civil war crueler and crueler. John Dunbar, a valiant officer with an injured foot is influenced. At last, he breaks away from army and arrival at The West, which is the beginning.
In the West, his duty isn’t light and pleasant work, in the other hand; his future is this life that he will live in wasteland alone. At the same time, American Indian always influences him.
An injured woman becomes the bridge between John Dunbar and Sioux; American Indian lives in The West. Sioux see and understand John Dunbar and the American culture by Coffee, Sugar. Furthermore, John Dunbar sees and understands the Sioux. In daily life, John Dunbar sees Sioux killed white and hunts buffaloes with Sioux warrior with confidence and doubt. At Sioux becomes his best friends, for example, Kicking Bird、Stands With A Fist.
Indian war is long conflict through American history. It is regard as a conflict between traditional Indian culture and tradition American culture, and then as a consequence the Indian culture vanishes entirely. Hero witnesses the war and his friends are died by his countrymen. Language is the first medium between a couple of culture. As everyone knows, English is a low-context culture. John Dunbar use gesture to communicate with Indian. The characteristic of intercultural communication is misunderstanding, which is hard for people. Like John Dunbar and Kicking Bird have a kind heart to contact each other and his culture. I think a kind heart is most important condition, if they live in rival circumstances.
Maybe someone asked this question that what is link between culture and communication. In the film, we find cultural importance in communication. For example, we find colonists hunt buffaloes for pelage rather than original inhabitant regard it as precious food, which is the different of values. Christian colonists see sorcerer as heterodoxy, which is different of belief. If we understand the components of different culture, we can understand real implication.
Intercultural adaptation is the long-term process of adjusting to a new language environment. John Dunbar and Sioux exchange their idea and face some difficulty. Everyone necessarily convert ours culture rather than try to convert others. In the first, John Dunbar regards himself as an officer with an amount of soldiers and has fear for American Indian. At the same time, American Indian has a prejudice to John Dunbar and regards him as threaten. They keep this rival atmosphere until John Dunbar and Kicking Bird decides to visit each other.
Criticism is also validated the insurmountable stage, which is link John Dunbar and Wind In His Hair. During this stage, a person needs to spread his friendship and make great efforts relax tense atmosphere, if not conflict will happen.
Intercultural communication is always a fraught issue. Dance with wolves is said how to establish successful case. Although we know the Indian unfortunate ending, we comprehend the fact that each other can establish friendship through a sincere heart.
Airplanes and internet make intercultural communication to become general phenomenon. We acquaint some aspects of communication after seeing this film.