Dances with Wolves: The Illustrated Screenplay and Story Behind the Film

by Kevin Costner

Book Overview

Depicts the making of the film "Dances With Wolves." Includes the screenplay, features about Plains Indians culture, and information on the historical background. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557041059
• ISBN13: 9781557041050
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Newmarket Press
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Not the complete screenplay

This being one of the most beautiful and inspiring movies of the last two decades, there are probably few people who haven't seen it at least once. For anyone interested in its background and the history of Native Americans, this book is a good starting point. However, it does NOT contain the complete screenplay. All of the important scenes are there (though stage directions are kept to a minimum), but a large part of the rest is told in prose narrative. Since there is no other publication of the screenplay around (the large hardback edition from Newmarket Press has the identical abridged version, plus photographs, minus the interviews) this can't be helped, but anyone buying this book should know they won't be getting the whole thing.

Things I liked about the book

I thought this book "Dances With Wolves" was a great book. It cought my attention quickly watching the movie. I would prefer the movie over the book because I like movies better. Although The book has much more details.

Enjoyable to the end!

My husband and I both read your book and loved it! We couldn't put it down. Enjoyed every minute of it. The movie and the book were both great! It will be a family favorite in our house for years to come.

Tearbreaking and heartfelt

I read this truly great novel after seeing the screeplay. The novel is really rich in detail and emotion. I usually never feel this way about litterature but with this novel it is quite different. I can only recommend this masterpiece for everyone to read. I also began reading about the Indians and I now have a fascination for them.

EMOTIONAL, INTENSE, AND HEARTWARMING

I bought this book after the movie came out and I've never regreted it. If anybody even remotely likes the movie, then they'll absolutely love the book. It gets so in debth about what he is thinking and feeling that you can't help but cry at the end just like the movie. So far I've probably read Dances with Wolves at least 20 times.