Dances with Wolves has a quirk, am I blind?

Matt_n_Barb

Matt_n_Barb

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At about 24 minutes into the movie Kevin Costner arrives at the cabin/dugout where is he is to live...I swear there was a Eurasian collared dove in the scene that shows him in and around the cabin. Has anyone else noticed that?

Matt
 
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At about 24 minutes into the movie Kevin Costner arrives at the cabin/dugout where is he is to live...I swear there was a Eurasian collared dove in the scene that shows him in and around the cabin. Has anyone else noticed that?

Matt
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It seems a little early for them to be widespread and common when the movie was filmed, but there sure are common these days on the prairies (near grain elevators and feedlots - that is). Could have been a prop bird or an early colonizer?
 
Boy, Matt, for a young kid, you sure have been blessed with great eyesight! I'll have to look for that the next time we watch it. We have tons of collared birds here.
Al
 
Not sure if you are a fan of www.IMDB.com but its a movie informational database.

I remember seeing under "Dances with Wolves" the following line in the "Goofs" department so I went back and looked it up again:
[*][/url]Anachronisms: An elder at the fireside can be seen wearing a modern day collar underneath his costume.

[*][/url]Factual errors: Three birds flying over are identified as geese. They are, in fact, cranes.

[*][/url]Anachronisms: A dove in an old fort is a Eurasian collared dove, nonexistent at that time in North America

Its a fun site to look up the real details behind the movies we watch.
 
I'll go all bird nerdy. Since the movie was made in SD in 1989 it would most likely be a prop bird and not a Eurasian Collared Dove but a domesticated Ringed Turtle Dove. The Ringed Turtle Dove may be the African Collared Dove so I guess you were close enough.

I'll have to pay attention next time I see see it on. I'm not a fan of Costner at all and not just because most of his movies blow chunks.

Tim
 
What ever it is, they were not there in the late 1860's through the 1980's or so on the tail end...guess they couldn't find a morning dove to use.

Matt
 
I'm not a fan of Costner at all and not just because most of his movies blow chunks.

Tim
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I'm not particularly either, but I think the long (and BAD ones) like Waterworld are more like a long, wreching, dry-heave...you just wish you could blow chunks and get it over!

I kinda liked Dances...and Silverado is one of my favorite movies of all time, but I struggle to think of another Costner movie I'd miss if I never saw it again.

Scott, that's cool, I look at IMDB quite a bit, but I hadn't seen that feature. I enjoy watching for the oops's in movies...that almost takes the fun out of it...it's like a where's Waldo with a big neon arrow pointing him out.

Chuck
 
I was just being a bird jerk for a moment. :-)
The thing in movies and TV that I notice is how often "Bald Eagles" are African Fish Eagles. They even use them to fly around at football games during the national anthem.

Tim
 
Chuck,
My dislike of Costner comes as much from his brother as him. The own a casino/hotel in Deadwood and lets just say they have the reputation for being slow payers. I know of one good artist that had to wait a long time.

I don't think I have ever finished Waterworld and the Postman is just as bad. Field of Dreams is OK at best and makes me feel like I just ate a giant bag of cotton candy. Dances isn't that bad if it wasn't for the crazy press he got here when it was made. It turned me off seeing him put down every western made before his.

Oh and IMDB rules.

Tim
 
Well as long as we are talking bloopers in movies...."A River Runs Though It" there is a shot looking out a window of a train and in the distance there is a modern wheel-move sprinkler irrigation system in the background. I have not noticed if it is a center pivot, but what ever it is they sure were not around in that era..

The fly fishing is darn plastic also...and the planter rainbows/fish that are from a concrete run...and water levels are changing...hummm

Matt
 
Costner has made some stinkers for sure but he'll always have a pass from me for Open Range. Robert Duvall is fantastic in it as well and if you're a cinematography geek like me there are some beautiful shots in there.
 
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