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Yvette 2022-10-09 23:40:37
"Nanuk of the North" records the daily life of a family of Eskimos through field investigation: trading with white people, capturing walruses, making igloos, working and resting and other scenes. It is a classic anthropological documentary. Moreover, on the basis of the previous shooting experience, the director gave up shooting the lives of a large group of Eskimos, but used the life of the Nanuk family to reflect the original living conditions of all the Eskimos. According to information, the director developed the film locally and showed it to the natives, which is a pioneer of sharing anthropology. Even so, there are still some controversies in the film. For example, some scenes are reconstructed. In order to shoot the Eskimo's work and rest, the igloo was destroyed, and only the scene where the Eskimos hunted with harpoons was shot. In fact, they also began to use shotguns. However, most of the scenes are real and unadorned, recording the extremely traditional way of life hidden on the fringes of modern society. ——by12yychen3
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Title Card: The shrill piping of the wind, the rasp and hiss of driving snow, the mournful wolf howls of Nanook's master dog typify the melancholy spirit of the North.
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Robert Flaherty, Director: At last, in 1920, I thought I had shot enough scenes to make the film, and prepared to go home. Poor old Nanook hung around my cabin, talking over films we still could make if I would only stay on for another year. He never understood why I should have gone to all the fuss and bother of making the "big aggie" of him. Less than two years later I received word that Nanook had ventured into the interior hoping for deer and had starved to death. But our "big aggie" become "Nanook of the North" has gone into most of the odd corners of the world, and more men than there are stones around the shore of Nanook's home have looked upon Nanook, the kindly, brave, simple Eskimo.