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Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves (1990)

Mary McDonnell: Stands With A Fist

Dances with Wolves

Mary McDonnell credited as playing...

Stands With A Fist

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  • Stands With a Fist: [translating for Kicking Bird] He thanks Dances with Wolves for coming.
  • John Dunbar: Who is Dances with Wolves?
  • Stands With a Fist: It is the name all the people are calling you now.
  • John Dunbar: How did you get your name?
  • Stands With a Fist: When I came to live on the prarie, I worked every day... very hard... there was a woman who didn't like me. She called me bad names... sometimes she beat me. One day she was calling me these bad names, her face in my face, and I hit her. I was not very big, but she fell down. She fell hard and didn't move. I stood over her with my fist and asked if any other woman wanted to call me bad names... No one bothered me after that day.
  • John Dunbar: [smiles] I wouldn't think so. Show me... where you hit her.
  • [Stands With a Fist balls her fist and touches John at the base of the chin. John feigns being knocked unconscious as Stands With a Fist laughs]
  • John Dunbar: I'm John Dunbar.
  • Stands With a Fist: John - John Dunber.
  • John Dunbar: Dunbar.
  • Stands With a Fist: Dunbar - John Dunbar. John Dunbar.
  • Kicking Bird: Dumb bear.
  • John Dunbar: No, not Dumb Bear.
  • Stands With a Fist: My place is with you. I go where you go.
  • Stands With a Fist: He also asks if you would watch over his family while he is gone.
  • [pauses]
  • Stands With a Fist: This thing he asks of you is a great honor.
  • John Dunbar: Tell him I would be happy to watch over his family.

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