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Oct 11, 2024 · Rape Scene. In one scene, The Apprentice depicts Donald Trump as raping his then-wife Ivana Trump (played by Maria Bakalova) following an argument. While the allegations have been publicly ...
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Dec 1, 2020 · The Call of the Wild (2020) For better or worse, Jack London's classic novel gets a sanitized, kid-friendly adaptation. Starring Harrison Ford.
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Oct 10, 2024 · Screenwriter Gabriel Sherman’s film was bankrolled by a billionaire Trump donor, hit with legal threats — and had Hollywood running scared. Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump in ‘The Apprentice’.
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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.
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- Perrault and Francois
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- 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...
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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.
Feb 17, 2020 · The Jack London novel gets a semi-CG 1960s-nature-film makeover, and that's more fakery than it needed. But Harrison Ford rescues the journey. By Owen Gleiberman.
