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Pages in category "Films based on The Call of the Wild ". The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
The Call of the Wild is a 2020 American adventure film based on Jack London 's 1903 novel. Directed by Chris Sanders, in his live-action directorial debut, and his first film without a co-director, the film was written by Michael Green, and stars Harrison Ford, Omar Sy, Cara Gee, Dan Stevens, Karen Gillan, and Bradley Whitford.
The Call of the Wild: Directed by Chris Sanders. With Harrison Ford, Omar Sy, Cara Gee, Dan Stevens. A sled dog struggles for survival in the wilds of the Yukon.
- (58K)
- Adventure, Drama, Family
- Chris Sanders
- 2020-02-21
- Violence
- Perrault and Francois
- John Thornton
- Race and Representation
- What It Feels Like to Be A Sled Dog
London’s Buck sees a lot of it. When he first encounters the “man in the red sweater,” an anonymous character who handles dogs on their way north to be sold to prospectors, he’s beaten and beaten, “blood flowing from nose and mouth and ears, his beautiful coat sprayed and flecked with bloody slaver.” Later, Buck sees a friend and fellow Southland t...
In London’s novel, Buck’s first owners in the North are Perrault and Francois, a couple of rough but kindly men who deliver mail for the Canadian government. Perrault is French-Canadian, and “swarthy,” and Francois is “a French-Canadian half-breed, and twice as swarthy.” They speak broken English. London describes Perrault as a “little weazened man...
Harrison Ford’s character, who is also a heroic figure in the book, appears several times throughout the movie. He first encounters Buck when the dog is loaded off the boat that brings him to Alaska, then again when he’s purchased by the foolish and cruel Hal (Dan Stevens), and finally when he saves Buck from Hal’s clutches. Ford’s character also n...
London was intimately familiar with the pseudoscientific ideas around human hierarchy and eugenics of the time from reading the popular books about these concepts that educated people considered au courant. But he was also a socialist, and his published writing usually came down on the side of the oppressed. “London was capable of uttering abhorren...
“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise,” London wrote, describing how Buck felt hunting a hare with his teammates. “And such the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.” The scenes in the movie where Buck and his team, un...
- Rebecca Onion
Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life gets turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon in...
- (213)
- Christopher Sanders
- PG
- Harrison Ford
The film, the fifth cinematic adaptation of Jack London’s 1903 novel of the same name, is an old-fashioned adventure story that delights in the majesties and dangers of Canada’s Yukon territory.
- 2 min
- Clarisse Loughrey
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“The Call of the Wild” is based on the episodic Jack London classic published in 1903 about a pampered pooch who triumphs over abuse to find purpose and community, and then is increasingly drawn to the limitless world beyond civilization.
