nanook was doomed
unfortuately,the actor who played nanook starved to death after this film was made.
sharewhat!?
shareIt said so in the opening text (it did on my Criterion DVD anyway), so it shouldn't be any surprise if you have seen the movie.
/Mikkel
Why was the other thread with 16 posts totally deleted? What did they talk about there? Any idea? Something ignorant or offensive?
shareDude, you can still read most of the posts.. the thread-starter's post was deleted because he said something derogatory against eskimos... or inuits.. whatever you wanna call the people who live up north (and likes to eat raw flesh)..
Why was he "doomed?" Because he died eventually? In that case, we're all doomed.
You make a good point, "valerie_lp", and yes, we're all doomed in a way, but I think the original poster meant that Nanook was doomed because the climate was so harsh and cruel (not to mention cold and inhabitable), that humans don't have any future up there..
You said,
"...humans don't have any future up there.. "
If that were really the case, the Inuits, Aleutians, and other "Eskimo" tribes would not be extinct. They aren't. After millions of years of evolution, they've adapted to life in that climate, and can survive in it just as well as you can in your environment.
That Nanook and his family ran into hard times does not mean that all other Inuit and Aleutian families will perish the same way, or that their "future" is any different from the eventual fates of all of us, regardless of where we are.
The other folks in this thread talking about mortality in general have made a good point. From that perspective, humans don't have any future anywhere.
Besides, your chances of dying in some kind of automobile accident are 1 in 200 over the course of your lifetime. Compare that to the chances of starving to death if you happen to be an Inuit living in your native environment.
Well, I guess it also depends on where you live, exactly... if there's fish or other edible things in the area. If not, then you're surely doomed.
But anyway, it might have been different back then, as it was a long time ago (just like when I posted my previous message, which was more than 5 years ago, lol)
Holy Moley, I didn't even notice the date-time stamp!
Well... we're both still here, at any rate. Regardless of what happened to Nanook and why, we can count ourselves fortunate that we haven't succumbed to his fate or any other.
And of course you're right about "it might have been different back then, as it was a long time ago". Nowadays the Inuit and Aleutian territories are seeing a constant influx of people with things like skimobiles, four-wheelers, even semis (per those "Ice Road" reality shows). Anyone in trouble for lack of food is likely to be able to get help more easily than Nanook ever could. I didn't even think of that. Nothing like the "not seeing the forest for the trees," eh?
It also means that their way of life when Nanook was living is at an end in other categories, not just starvation. Consider the damage that the introduction of alcohol is causing, as well as the political agendas that confine many Inuits and Aleutians in reservations whenever the current power mongers want the land. Reservations and alcohol are a very bad mix.
It's just another one of those obvious "d'ohs!" that I overlooked.
Five plus years! Well, I'm glad you're still there, my friend.
Best wishes,
UpRight Ape
Haha, yeah it's quite a feat to have had an active profile here for more than 10 years... I wonder where all that time went? But in the end, we're inevitably all doomed, just like poor Nanook... maybe our fates will be a bit more pleasant though, all things considered.. ;)
But yeah, as you said, "Reservations and alcohol are a very bad mix" - I can tell you a small "fun fact" actually, regarding this... I come from Denmark, and here we have a lot of immigrants from Greenland (one of our territories), and many of them have serious problems with alchol, as they just can't hold their liquor, and therefore many of the poor Greenlanders just sit around all day, drinking their lives away.
I've only known a few Greenlanders myself though, so I might be a bit biased, but the general view of Greenlanders is usually a somewhat negative one. Although they're very kind and generous people, they're almost always completely drunk, 99% of the time.
I still hope they'll have a better future than poor Nanook though :P