Most films are not shot in sequence. Those are actual dead deer that Kevin Costner pulls out of the river. To look authentic the carcasses had to be heavy, so animals killed on the highways were collected for the scene.
The very last scene shot in the film was the one where Kevin Costner rides in to tell them the buffalo had arrived, one of the few out-of-sequence shots in the film. While the cameras were on him, riding only in pants and a shirt, the cast and crew were in heavy coats because of the freezing weather. In the opening scene where two doctors are examining John Dunbar, the man on the table is Kevin Costner 's stand-in.
The voices were dubbed by other actors. In one episode of that series, Edgar mentions "Dances With Wolves", and says the "native guy" Kicking Bird should have gotten the Oscar. The Plains bison herd comprised 3, animals, the largest herd in North America. Many of the Native Americans were visibly moved by the scene where the Sioux encounter a field full of dead, skinned Plains bison. All in all, Kevin Costner spent five years and thousands of dollars of his own money working on the film, having to turn down multiple major film roles including The Bonfire of the Vanities , Dick Tracy , The Hunt for Red October and, Presumed Innocent while facing ridicule for what was seen as a vanity project.
The helmet that Ten Bears is holding when he talks about the "men who came during the time of his grandfather's grandfather" is a typical helmet worn by the Conquistadors - Spanish soldiers and explorers who conquered large parts of both Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries.
Graham Greene 's first reaction when he learned that much of the film was going to be in Lakota was, "I don't speak that". Production delays were numerous, because of South Dakota's unpredictable weather, the difficulty of directing barely trainable wolves, and the complexity of the Indian battle scenes. Particularly arduous was the film's centerpiece bison hunt sequence: this elaborate chase was filmed over three weeks using Indian stunt riders and an actual stampeding herd of several thousand bison.
During one shot, Kevin Costner who did almost all of his own horseback riding was "T-boned" by another rider and knocked off his horse, nearly breaking his back. Stands with a Fist's story of abuse by the other women in the tribe and one in particular is resolved when she hits that woman.
Afterward she is accepted by the other women of the tribe. This is the story of Cynthia Ann Parker who was captured by the Comanche in when she was 9.
Unlike Stands with a Fist, Ms. Parker married a Comanche chief named Peta Nocona and was recaptured by white soldiers some years later. Her son Quanah Parker would become the last war chief of the Comanche to fight against the army, being a key player in the Red River War.
That is Rodney A. Grant 's real long, flowing hair. He does not wear a wig in the film. The studio wanted the final cut to be 2 hours 20 minutes. They had to settle for Kevin Costner 's cut of 3 hours. When native children steal Dunbar's horse, one refers to his father's "bow on his back" if he were to find out. Corporal punishment, or punishment of any kind for misbehavior was extremely rare in most Native cultures, especially from parents. Two of the domesticated buffalos used in the production were borrowed from singer Neil Young.
The actors had trouble learning their lines in Lakota, the language used by the Sioux. Kevin Costner threatened to fire them if they couldn't. The Tennessee battle scenes were supposed to take place in the fall but it wasn't possible to film then so with the aid of 10, gallons of paint the cornfield was sprayed yellow and the foliage on the trees painted in autumnal colours.
During the musical recording in post-production, composer John Barry was reportedly so moved by the film's final scene that he broke down in tears while conducting that section of the score. Kevin Costner claims to have had no involvement with the 4 hour extended version, "Dances with Wolves: The Special Edition".
As a joke, most of the cast and crew assigned each other Indian names. In addition, Tantoo Cardinal , who plays the adoptive mother, is only 2 years older than McDonnell. John Barry agreed to score the film immediately after reading the script. In the novel the Indians were Comanches but were changed in the film due to the need for a large herd of buffalo, which were found in South Dakota, which had one of the largest North American communities in the country, the Sioux.
In the scene where the Confederate soldier is about to kill a suicidal Lt. Kevin Costner couldn't find a suitable director, so he decided to do it himself. His inexperience as a director caused early shooting delays. The feasting scene after the buffalo hunt, where Dunbar and Wind in His Hair become friends and exchange their gifts, was actually shot indoors inside a Quonset hut because it was so cold outside. The majority of this film was supposed to be filmed in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming and in and around Jackson Hole but the National Park Service took issue with displacement of some sets, location of some teepees, and other small conformaties, so only after a week of filming other than dealing with all the Park's demands, Kevin packed up the entire production and moved to South Dakota costing local jobs with the film in the thousands of dollars.
Very little of the Wyoming shots is noticeable in the final film. Director Kevin Reynolds received "special thanks" in the credits due to his helping Kevin Costner direct the famous buffalo hunt scene. There were two wolves used. One had to have the milky white socks painted on him. Dunbar arrives at the Fort Sedgewick outpost only to find it abandoned and in a chaotic state of disrepair. The scene explains that most of the original garrison had deserted, their horses had been stolen, the post had been regularly harassed by marauding Indians, and no supply wagons or other support from Fort Hays had arrived.
Deciding that the situation was desperate and unsustainable, the post's commanding officer Lt. Cargill Michael Horton assembles the remainder of his demoralized men and tells them "Get your things.
We're leaving this place. The Army can go to hell. Kevin Costner chose not to include this scene in the film's theatrical release, however it is included in the extended version. Features Kevin Costner 's only Oscar nominated on screen performance. Graham Greene also gave his only Oscar nominated performance in this film. Cinematographer Dean Semler 's daughter was a horse wrangler on the film. She broke both of her wrists when the horse she was riding was suddenly spooked and threw her.
At minutes, the director's cut of "Dances with Wolves is the longest of Kevin Costner 's three self-directed movies, which average 3 hours.
Thirty-five hundred buffalo were used for the stampede. Some buffalo had arrows attached with clips to their fur to give the impression that they had been struck by arrows. The fake buffalo were run on tracks and then caused to crash and fall to give the impression of buffalo going down. Other fake buffalo were tossed out of the back of a truck and the cameras recorded their falling on the ground.
One buffalo charges at a young Indian girl. It was actually a pet buffalo coming to collect an Oreo cookie for which he has a special yen. This scene was filmed in cuts. The buffalo liver that is cut out of a buffalo was actually made of jello. It took eight days of filming buffalo to get four minutes on screen. The scene was shots in cuts and the fake and real buffalo were mingled in foreground and background and filmed through a haze of dust.
Where a buffalo and a horse collide it is actually a taxidermied buffalo head being held by a man. There is a heart-wrenching scene where the carcasses of dead buffalo lie strewn across a field, these buffalo were supposedly killed and skinned and their tongues removed by white hunters who left their carcasses to rot in the field. But there was one problem: Few people could speak Lakota, much less translate it.
He sent the script to her and got it back three weeks later, fully translated. Since none of the actors spoke Lakota, Costner brought Leader Charge onto the set for further guidance and even offered her a speaking role as Pretty Shield, the wife of Ten Bears.
Leader Charge initially declined, saying she needed to return to work. So Costner called up the president of the college and got her stay extended. In addition to filming at more than 30 locations throughout South Dakota and Wyoming, the shooting script called for buffalo, three dozen teepees, horses, two wolves, and a small army of Native American extras.
The crew got only one shot at filming the stampede each day, since the animals had to first be rounded up and then, once they started running, would go for miles before stopping.
Capturing the sequence took eight days and involved 20 wranglers, a helicopter, and 10 pickup trucks with mounted cameras. Filming required a few domesticated buffalo for close-up shots. To get Cody to run at the camera, his handler enticed him with his favorite treat: Oreos. Wilson estimates that Costner did 95 percent of his own riding, shooting, fighting and wolf-dancing in the film. All of which was impressive, but also kept the crew on edge. Lots of patience and meat scraps were required to get Buck and Teddy to cooperate.
Behind-the-scenes footage shows Wilson and Costner trying to get the wolves to howl by belting out their own calls of the wild. Going against the trend of pairing a leading man with a much younger love interest, Costner said he wanted a mature, more experienced actress to play Stands With a Fist, the white woman adopted by the Sioux tribe as a child who helps John Dunbar integrate with her people, and eventually falls in love with him. Her performance garnered an Oscar nomination—plus lots of compliments about her wind-blown hair.
To stoke interest, Orion took a unique step at the time by cutting separate trailers and print ads that played up different aspects of the film.
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