Dances With Wolves

Dancing With Wolves shows the audience the misinterpretation of the Sioux Nation and shows the power pathos has on an audience. Pathos is the act of appealing to emotions. Sight, sound, and sensory images are used differently to make the audience feel some type of way.  In the beginning of the film Dunbar finds a women who belongs to the Sioux Nation slitting her wrists and takes her back to her tribe. He picks her up and carries her while riding his horse. The way the scene was set up is to appeal to the audience. It takes place on an open plane and it has heroic music playing and shows him riding off in the horizon. This is supposed to  make the audience gain compassion for Dunbar. He looks like a heroic figure and they enhance that with the music and showing his silhouette in the sunset. From that point on the audience has a soft spot for Dunbar.
The movie shows a misrepresentation of the Sioux Nation. When Dunbar brings the girl he found to the Sioux tribe they throw her off the horse and drag her back to camp. In the story they have been looking after this girl for ten plus years and in reality they would have never treated anyone let alone one of their own like that. She would have been carried to a place she could have been taken care of. The white men are shown as put together in their uniforms with they're swords and armor. And the Natives are shown wearing ratty clothing and they have bows and arrows and they look less civilized. One culture isn't any better then the other or more civilized they are just different.