MovieChat Forums > White Fang (1991) Discussion > Great movie

Great movie

posted 8 years ago by Psilio
3 replies | jump to latest

I read White Fang while on vacation earlier this year, and only just now realised there was a movie based on it.

Like Cujo by Stephen King, it's not possible to make a movie about how an animal thinks and feels, but this movie was great none the less (as was the Cujo movie).

I was really impressed with how they made all the animals 'act' especially. Very impressed.

Although the movie greatly differs from the book, this movie was a pleasant surprise to watch. Good acting by both humans and animals! It must have taken quite an effort to shoot it. Also great Alaskan scenery throughout (I'm from Norway). Beautiful cinematography and music score.

The significance of the stick and the love for his 'new' master is not justified enough in the movie though, in my opinion.

Back then Disney were still famous for realistic animal movies, and this is definitely no exception. These days it's all CGI, which looks great but is less impressive since we know it's not real. This is one of the last 'Disney classics' with great real animal handling left, I suppose.

It also brought quite a few tears to my eyes, which is also quite rare these days.

I gave it a 9 and can highly recommend it for all ages, even though it has a PG rating.

I just felt like sharing my opinion... :)

What we do in life echoes in eternity Russell Crowe as General Maximus in Gladiator (2000)

[–] !!!deleted!!! (67791493) 8 years ago

Where I work gets loud so I found these audio books at YouTube and started with Call of the Wild which was amazing so am now into White Fang. I swear these books are beyond explanation of how exact this author claimed his roles with the dogs/wolves he watched in the wild. I've never explored the books before hearing of them some time ago but never had the opportunity to read them figuring they were 'children's books' so the adult in me wouldn't be interested. But I was WRONG. I raised two Australian Shepherd dogs since pups (8 weeks) to ripe old age (16 and 19 years) and this man, author, dog lover, has them (dogs) NAILED exactly, but it is the backstory AS A ANIMAL that provides the insight.

I'm going to watch this film and the other one that was made a few years later too.

GFW

[–] Psilio 8 years ago

I also grew up with dogs, and many in my family breed German Shepherds for a living (the breed is very expensive!), so I know dogs very well.

Jack London though, in his short life time (sadly), seemed to read their minds, and wrote about them spot on, as you say.

I had only read Call of the Wild before, when I was young, but White Fang I only read recently, like mentioned, and it was so amazing.

You will probably like the movie as well! :o)

What we do in life echoes in eternity Russell Crowe as General Maximus in Gladiator (2000)

[–] !!!deleted!!! (67791493) 8 years ago

From what I've read doing research on him he seemed to grow into the type of human that resonated with the essence of the soul. I'm certain he could "read" humans well as well because many who have his type of childhood become adapt at this as a tool for survival.

In many ways I sort of feel the 'reading' of the animals so well, in this case dogs, was that he, too, identified with survival being his #1 instinct. That will to survive over-powered all else.

GFW