Dances With Wolves (1990)
Directed by Kevin Costner · Cinematography by Dean Semler
PG-13181 min63 frames
AdventureDramaWestern
Inside everyone is a frontier waiting to be discovered.
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What is Dances With Wolves about?
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
Dances With Wolves is a 1990 American epic revisionist Western film directed and produced by Kevin Costner in his feature directorial debut. Starring Costner with an ensemble cast including Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene and Rodney Grant, the film is a film adaptation of the 1988 novel Dances With Wolves by Michael Blake. It tells the story of Union army Lieutenant John J. Dunbar (Costner), who travels to the American frontier to find a military post and who meets a group of Lakota.
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Across 63 sampled frames, Dances With Wolves builds its coverage from wide compositions (49% of the sample), with medium shots (27%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Dean Semler keeps 62% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Golden-hour light is a recurring motif, appearing in 16% of the sample. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 57% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1800s.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Dances With Wolves (1990) are #312d2a, #938a73, #504c3b, #55534a, #756856, #30354f — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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