DUNCES WITH WOLVES

DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)
dir: Kevin Costner

DUNCES WITH WOLVES
MAD #305, September 1991
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker

By this time, their parodies were getting shorter to include more in the issue, which meant they couldn't cover most of the film. Most of the movies they chose to do were usually two hours or more, this one being three made it harder to condense into four pages. It also means not having to rewatch things. They got the gist of it.

During the Civil War, Lt. Dunbar (Kevin Costner) is wounded in battle. He is rewarded for his bravery and given a post. When he gets there he finds it abandoned, And adopts the only being he sees, a wolf he names Two Socks.

   Field of Dreams was Kevin Costner's previous movie.
   Costner was also in The Untouchables. Signs with the names of various Costner vehicles are spread throughout.
   The Oscar refers to how Jeremy Irons won it that year for Best Actor in Reversal of Fortune against Kevin Costner for this movie)


Dunbar comes across a Sioux tribe who's initially hostile to him and he meets Stands With a Fist (Mary McDonnell), a white woman adopted by the tribe, and begins a romantic relationship with her. Since he's virtually the only character that speaks English in the movie, much of it is told through voice-over as diary entries, or in the language of the Lakota Indian tribe.
The tribe begins to respect Dunbar, inviting him to a ceremony. He is accepted as one of them when he informs them of a herd of buffalo.

He's accepted as one of them and gets the name... well, you know.
He eventually marries Stands with a Fist, and is found by the U. S. Army and initially arrested as a deserter, and they're followed by Two Socks. The Sioux tribe insists he is one of them and free him, taking him back. That part is missing from the parody, and they only include the scene of him leaving them voluntarily for their sake.

Also missing from the parody is a piece of text telling us the fate of the Sioux tribe.

In #307, they did an article called Reel vs. Real by Russ Cooper and Sam Viviano

That issue was a special issue for the Iraqi troops so the spoof wasn't on the cover. Since the war wasn't happening in Australia, they were able to put it on the cover of their edition.

DANCES WITH COYOTES
Cracked #263, July 1991
a: Frank Borth

Cracked did their one-page parody with the usual misogynist joke ending.