Wild Awakening for all ages - "The Call of the Wild"
Today, let's talk about the movie "The Call of the Wild".
The title of the film is The Call of the Wild (2020), alias Polar Guardian Dog (Hong Kong/Taiwan) / The Long March of Despair (Hong Kong) / The Call of the Wild.
The original novel of "The Call of the Wild" is the representative novella "The Call of the Wild" by American realist writer Jack London. "The Call of the Wild" is so famous that it has been adapted for the big screen more than a dozen times. The 2020 Fox edition is the most recent version.
The protagonist of the film is a large dog named Buck. In the context of the gold rush, his five dog lives have gone through ups and downs. Even with the passage of time, people can still see the bright spots.
"Call of the Wild" uses a combination of live action and CG. Buck is a string, his father is a St. Bernard dog, and his mother is a sheepdog. Buck is very lucky to combine the advantages of his parents, inheriting the huge size of his father's St. Bernard, and integrating his mother's advantages Sheepdogs have a high IQ and become a dog winner at birth.
With The Lion King 2019 as the culmination, the lifelike CG in The Call of the Wild wouldn't look amazing. When all kinds of animals jumped up and down on the screen, the audience could hardly find a flaw.
Buck's dog life, like the ups and downs of successful people, has experienced a lot of extraordinary things. The more he experiences, the more primitive wildness in his body is slowly awakened, and the more he understands what he wants.
A life without a low point is nothing to brag about.
Buck originally thought that he could live a carefree and happy life in peace, but no one or a dog could stop the great changes of the times. In the face of the rolling wheels of history, the individual seemed insignificant. Buck went through many twists and turns and changed hands several times, falling from the peak to the trough, and then bumped all the way, until he finally returned to a new peak.
Buck has been pampered since he was a child. If he has been living a carefree and happy life like this, he will spend his life in an undisturbed and mediocre way like an ordinary pet dog. Although it is not thrilling and exciting, it is also peaceful and comfortable.
Buck spent his childhood in the squire judge's house, and the whole family and the people of the small village were accustomed to it. At this time, Buck was like a rich second-generation official. Although he was not arrogant and domineering, he was also a playboy. Living in a civilized society every day, it does not need to work hard for a living, and it is impossible to talk about wildness.
The good times didn't last long. Buck was abducted and trafficked and beaten with sticks, and he learned the law of sticks. So the wildness in its body began to awaken, just to show that tame cannot survive, but also to show its own value, otherwise it will be ruthlessly abandoned.
Then it met its second owner, the Postman. The boundless ice field stimulated Buck's fighting spirit, and he began to understand the rules of solo and group fights. The first priority of life in the wilderness is to survive, and any show of weakness will be regarded as weakness. When someone comes to challenge, they need to show their own strength, otherwise they will become victims of the law of the jungle.
Buck can help the postman make the job of delivering letters to the top of the industry, but he can't stop the upheaval of the industry. The development of the telegraph directly eliminated the postman industry, and Buck became a stray dog again, and he could only wait for the day when he could pull a sled again.
Buck's third owner was an avid gold digger full of ideas about making a fortune. All he wanted was to make a fortune quickly, and he didn't know anything about anything else, let alone surviving in an ice field. Buck was unlucky to follow him, almost starved to death and drowned, and for the first time Buck knew that he knew more than his master.
Simply Buck meets the fourth owner, Thornton. After being rescued by Thornton, one man and one dog begin to depend on each other. Although living relatively poor, but very happy. In addition to working with Thornton, Buck also mingled with the wolves in the jungle. With his intellectual and physical advantages, he gradually became the leading role.
In The Call of the Wild, the life of Buck and Thornton is the highlight of the adaptation. The biggest change is Thornton's life and death. In the novel, Thornton was attacked and killed. After Thornton died, Buck completed his revenge for Thornton, and then returned to the forest to completely complete the wild awakening.
In the film, Thornton did not die, but one person and one dog completed the handover and farewell, and Buck fled into the jungle under the call of the primitive wildness.
Back in the jungle, Buck no longer needs humans as his masters. Buck is already familiar with human rules, dog rules, wolves rules, and jungle rules. The strong can quickly adapt to any environment and stand at the top again. Buck is such a strong man.
The spiritual core of the film is common, and there are similarities between dog society and human society. The mission and growth of a dog and the mission and growth of a person are all figured out in many places. People have already fully enjoyed the convenience brought by developed industry, and it is estimated that the most primitive nature in the body is almost forgotten like Buck at the beginning. How many people would seek spiritual freedom of obedience to nature if circumstances changed.
The adaptation of the film "The Call of the Wild" is like an improved Grimm fairy tale, removing the dark and grim plot, and making this imperfect world full of light and love. In the otherwise rough wasteland, the film focuses on Buck's upbringing and the emotional bond with good human beings, and the film has become suitable for all ages.
In the original novel, the world of people, the world of dogs, and the world of the jungle are all very cruel and ruthless. When Buck first entered the icefield, he saw the weak dogs being dismembered for food, and the postman's sled dog, Spoz, couldn't escape being dismembered. The fate of the sled dogs is not as helpless and friendly as they appear in the film.
I prefer this change, because the movie becomes cute and backward, which can be more suitable for children to watch. The world may not be perfect, but it still needs to give children a good impression.
If you watch movies for children, it is enough to convey positive and indomitable spiritual power. If the content is too cruel, let the children read books when they grow up.
Old longings nomadic leap,
Chafing at custom's chain;
Again from its brumal sleep,
Wakens the ferine strain.
Ambition is true,
Leap out of the mundane.
After a deep dream,
Wild and portable.
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