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there’s no call of the wild fandom but i dont give a shit . i will talk about this stupid large dog and his stupid good narrative with his stupid good human until i die.
call of the wild is like.. one of my favorite books. i read it in 9th??? grade?? for summer reading and it was the best shit ever. i’ve read it like a dozen more times since then and every damn time i cry like a little BITCH because it’s such a powerful story and dogs are precious and animals are better than anything else in the world.
i watched the movie yesterday! the new one not one of the old ones. and honestly i thought it was good. it’s really hard for me to objectively judge the movie since the book is just TOO good and there are so many things that are just better communicated through words than film so like the movie wasn’t doomed to fail but it was doomed to not measure up to the book (most movie adaptations are like that, but especially for this baby)
tl;dr, the movie is good but the book is phenomenal. please do not read spoilers or watch the movie if you want the full impact of the story. read the book. read the book. read the book. (it’s 230 ish pages. not too long)
[[MORE]]i was on the verge of crying for half the movie and i wish i was kidding but the chest sensations and eye stinging were a bit too real lakshdglksd
and i cried 3 times, twice during the climax, and once during the epilogue-like ending. so it was still a powerful story! but some things made it. not as great as the book.
1. most obviously, the movie is narrated by john thornton (harrison ford) while the book is told from the perspective of buck
this completely changes the narrative, and i was a little concerned the movie was gonna be about john instead of buck but they kept it about buck! they make john’s role bigger instead of him just coming in at the end of the book right before the climax, so it is less buck-centered but it’s still buck-centered! which is very good.
BUT the actual impact is that we don’t get to see as much of buck’s inner thoughts. by default a movie cannot accomplish this like a book can (i’m really trying to sell the book here. please read it). the realizations that buck has and his learning moments are so essential to his character and development. the biggest downside to this is that the law of club and fang gets a tiny tiny role. it’s basically just an easter egg for the readers it’s so nonessential in the movie.
(i’m really bad at staying on topic… so i’m adding the numbered points after i type the paragraphs)
(2. censorship of animal abuse)
this is because they had to take out the animal abuse from the man in the red sweater, the deaths of the sled dogs when buck first joins the team, and the dogs that starved to death. all of these really enforced buck’s mental and physical endurance and the movie misses out on that for obvious and understandable reasons.
one change that im REALLY disappointed with is that they made spitz run away!!!!! no!!!!! buck HAD to kill spitz. don’t show that because duh but imply it! buck needed to kill spitz. make the movie pg 13! anything but pg because you miss out on all the extreme moments that, yes, are extreme, but are key points in buck’s life. killing spitz and becoming leader was one of the most important parts of the book. the FIRST important moment.
3. the ending
the ending is very very different. it’s not COMPLETELY different. but it’s very different. partly understandable (similar to the exclusion of animal abuse) and partly not executed well as a movie.
in the movie, Hal survives the spring river and is bent on revenge, believing john thornton is a prospector who tried to selfishly deceive him. he tracks down john and buck and shoots john. before he can deliver a faster death, buck pushes him into the house fire caused by his initial attack.
buck is there with john in his dying moments (i cried twice) before leaving to go to his pack. he returns every spring to see the remains of the house (i cried again) and his pups are there too. he is the leader of the pack and there’s some nice voiceover by ford.
they imply hal’s revenge the moment he comes back on screen after the river. it’s hanging there for like half an hour, and for anyone who’s read the book the ending is obvious. i would’ve preferred they left john’s cause of death open to interpretation (not much to interpret lol) and kept the shock factor that the book had.
in the book, hal, charles, and mercedes die (they deserve it) along with the remainder of the sled team :( my memory is a little rusty but i believe john and buck go camping. in the book john also has two other dogs and i think a friend or two that they go camping with. buck feels the call of the wild strongest in this section of the book. there’s imagery and metaphor that are really nice and poetic.
buck goes out hunting and begins to run with a wolf pack. he goes out for longer and longer periods (which is shown in the movie too) and he does bigger and bigger things. he’s riding a high, a balance of the wild and the world of man with john, who has loved him like no other master has. it’s the best time of his life. until he comes back to camp and the dogs are slaughtered, the other men are dead, and john thornton has been reduced to a corpse. enraged, buck kills the perpetrators (a tribe of natives, so you BEST believe they yeeted that out of the movie real fast), pays his respects, and leaves forever for the wild.
what makes this ending so good is the shock of the massacre. the raw emotions in buck. i can’t describe it and do it justice. it’s a very good ending. the epilogue-ish ending describes the impact of buck on the pack and how the timberwolves here don’t seem to be the same. it’s such a beautiful description and they try to replicate it in the movie but it will never be as good.
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my friend is getting me dog tags that say “maybe i’ll be tracer” and “i’m already tracer” for my bday so really who’s winning at life
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