this movie is great
Dudes, I love this guy Nanook. He has such a hard life, and hes always in a good mood. He's a badass, man. 'Spect. I hope the claims that this is staged are false. That just might break my heart.
shareIt's largely staged, but that doesn't mean this film doesn't still depict truth, at least to a certain degree. For example, Allakariallak (The man who played Nanook) really did live there, but hunted with guns, not spears, and was encouraged to do so by Robert Flaherty for the purposes of the film. On the other hand, the animals that "Nanook" killed in the movie were actually killed for the production of the picture.
Remember, modern conceptions of what we call "documentary filmmaking" today didn't come into existence until AFTER Nanook of the North was made and released.
Betsy McLane has a great book called A New History of Documentary Film that explains the history of this film and the whole genre of documentary quite well.
Lol the docu is completly staged.
The wifes was fake, they were actually Flahertys, and both got new names.
The director and crew even dressed the actors in racist and stereotypical clothing that the western World thinks the people at the arctic wears.
Nanook as he was called was Well known with modern Technology and was told by the Crew to act like an idiot...
I say this doc is 85% fake! and is the biggest BS doc ever made.
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The Hobbit sucks, Tauriel is the worst character in the last 150 years and Jackson = douch
It can't be a "BS doc" when the entire genre as we think of it now didn't even exist yet when it was made. It's considered more a kind of influential proto-documentary because it lead to the development of the genre as a whole.
"An image can say a thousand words, whereas a word cannot show a thousand images." - N.W.R.
Yeah its not really fair to criticize the movie for not conforming to a genre that didnt exist when it was made. If this exact movie came out in 2015 and claimed to be a realistic documentary it would be one thing, but thats not what happened.
Most of the things that were staged dont seem like that big of a deal to me anyway. It might not have been a 100% truthful depiction of one specific mans life, but it seemed like everything was accurate to Inuit culture in some degree.