Never Cry Wolf - Mark Isham (1983)
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Mark Isham - Never Cry Wolf
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Artist...............: Mark Isham
Album................: Never Cry Wolf
Genre................: Soundtrack
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2007
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: FhG
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Stereo / 48000 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
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Tracklisting
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1. (00:02:14) Mark Isham - Prologue / The Train
2. (00:02:59) Mark Isham - Main Title / Rosie & Tyler's Flight Over Arctica
3. (00:02:38) Mark Isham - Lupus Base One / White Wolf Behavior
4. (00:02:33) Mark Isham - George And Angeline At Play
5. (00:02:14) Mark Isham - Tyler Philosophizes / A Black Wolf Appears
6. (00:02:32) Mark Isham - Jump Into The Lake / The Caribou Stampede
7. (00:03:37) Mark Isham - Wolves Hunting Caribou And Meal
8. (00:01:18) Mark Isham - The Bone
9. (00:02:56) Mark Isham - Winter Again
10. (00:01:33) Mark Isham - The End [Epilogue]
Playing Time.........: 00:24:33
Total Size...........: 56,25 MB
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about the movie
Never Cry Wolf is a 1983 American drama film adaption of Farley Mowat's autobiography of the same name. The film, directed by Carroll Ballard, features Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, and Zachary Ittimangnaq.
The drama was made during the 1980s when Walt Disney Productions, under the guidance of Walt Disney's son-in-law Ron W. Miller, was experimenting with more mature plot material in its films. The following year Miller would start the Touchstone Pictures label.
The premise of the film is that the Arctic's caribou population is rapidly dwindling, and wolves are being blamed, yet no one has seen a wolf kill a caribou. The authorities send biologist Tyler (Charles Martin Smith) into the wilderness to study the wolves.
In Northern Canada, a young government biologist named Tyler (Charles Martin Smith) is assigned to travel to the isolated Arctic wilderness to study the area's savage population of wolves. His orders are to gather proof of the wolves' ongoing destruction of caribou herds.
Contact with his quarry comes quickly, as he discovers not a den of marauding killers, but a courageous family of skillful providers and devoted protectors of their young. As Tyler learns more and more about the wolf world, he comes to fear, along with them, the onslaught of hunters (Brian Dennehy) out to kill the wolves for their pelts and exploit the wilderness
Background
The film's fundamental premise is that life in the Arctic seems to be about dying: not only are the caribou and the wolves dying, but the indigenous Inuit people as well. The animals are losing their habitat and the Inuit are losing their land and their resources while their youth are being seduced by modernity. They are trading what is real, true, and their time-honored traditions for the perceived comforts of the modern world.
Never Cry Wolf blends the documentary film style with the narrative elements of drama, resulting in a type of docudrama. It was originally written for the screen by Sam Hamm but the screenplay was altered over time and Hamm ended up sharing credit with Curtis Hanson and Richard Kletter.
The picture is also noteworthy for being the first Walt Disney film to show naked adult buttocks. The buttocks shown are those of actor Charles Martin Smith.
Smith devoted almost three years to Never Cry Wolf. Smith wrote, "I was much more closely involved in that picture than I had been in any other film. Not only acting, but writing and the whole creative process." He also found the process difficult. "During much of the two-year shooting schedule in Canada's Yukon and in Nome, Alaska, I was the only actor present. It was the loneliest film I've ever worked on," Smith said.
L. David Mech, an internationally recognized wolf expert who has researched wolves since 1958 in places such as Minnesota, Canada, Italy, Alaska, Yellowstone National Park, and on Isle Royale, criticized the work, stating that Mowat is no scientist and that in all his studies, he had never encountered a wolf pack which regularly subsisted on small prey as shown in Mowat's book or the film adaptation.
Filming locations
The film locations included Nome, Alaska, the Yukon Territory, and British Columbia, Canada.
Critical reception
When the film was released, a review in the Los Angeles Times called the film, "...subtle, complex and hypnotic...triumphant filmmaking!"[7]
On the television program Siskel & Ebert At the Movies, Gene Siskel felt the film was "absolutely terrific" and Roger Ebert said "this is one of the best films I've ever seen about Man's relationship with the other animals on this planet". Both gave the film "Thumbs Up".
Brendon Hanley of Allmovie also liked the film, especially Smith's performance, and wrote, "Wolf's protagonist, wonderfully played by the reliable character actor Charles Martin Smith...The result is a quirky, deceptively simple meditation on life."[8]
Ronald Holloway, film critic of Variety magazine, gave the film a mostly positive review, and wrote "For the masses out there who love nature films, and even those who don't, Carroll Ballard's more than fits the commercial bill and should score well too with critical suds on several counts."[9]
Some critics found the premise of the film a bit hard to believe. Vincent Canby, film critic for The New York Times, wrote, "I find it difficult to accept the fact that the biologist, just after an airplane has left him in the middle of an icy wilderness, in a snowstorm, would promptly get out his typewriter and, wearing woolen gloves, attempt to type up his initial reactions.[10] Canby added, the film was "a perfectly decent if unexceptional screen adaptation of Farley Mowat's best-selling book about the author's life among Arctic wolves."
The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 100% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on eleven reviews
Never Cry Wolf (1983)
'NEVER CRY WOLF,' ARCTIC TALE
By VINCENT CANBY
Published: October 14, 1983
CARROLL BALLARD'S ''Never Cry Wolf,'' which opens today at the Gemini 2 Theater, is a perfectly decent if unexceptional screen adaptation of Farley Mowat's best-selling book about the author's life among Arctic wolves. Being virtually a one-character film, and largely a straightforward record of that character's daily observations of the ways of the wolf, the film is considerably different from the melodramatic romance of Mr. Ballard's ''Black Stallion.''
In the interests of fiction, Mr. Mowat's first-person narrator in the book has been transformed into a character named Tyler (Charles Martin Smith), who, like the author, is a biologist sent into the Canadian Arctic to study the habits of Arctic wolves, which were then being blamed for the wholesale slaughter of caribou. Instead of finding ruthless, savage killers, Tyler discovers that wolves, though carnivorous, live mostly on a diet of mice, mate for life and are loving fathers to their cubs.
One of the book's more controversial points is that wolves and caribou exist in a symbiotic relationship. Wolves, according to Mr. Mowat, attack only weak and sick caribou, in this way helping to insure that only the fittest caribou are around to re- create the species. In their turn, the caribou provide wolves with a certain number of tasty feasts. It is Mr. Mowat's conviction that hunters, not wolves, have been responsible for the drastic reduction in caribou herds in recent years.
''Never Cry Wolf'' looks to be one of those films somewhat more exciting to make than it is to watch, which is not to say there aren't a number of good things in it. The film makers are, unfortunately, all-too-faithful to the heavily jocular tone of Mr. Mowat's book, which reminds me a lot of the sort of hearty, ''little-did- I-know-but'' journalism I used to eat up in Field & Stream.
In their favor, Mr. Ballard and the people who wrote the screenplay avoid contrived melodrama. As played by Mr. Smith (''American Graffiti,'' ''More American Graffiti''), the biologist is an appealingly eccentric fellow who, at the beginning, is made to seem unbelievably incompetent for the sake of both comedy and drama.
That is, I find it difficult to accept the fact that the biologist, just after an airplane has left him in the middle of an icy wilderness, in a snowstorm, would promptly get out his typewriter and, wearing woolen gloves, attempt to type up his initial reactions. A little later, acting like a man who might get lost in Bryant Park, he goes clumping across a frozen lake and falls through the ice.
After that, the movie treats him and his adventures without condescension. Though Tyler gives names like George, Angeline and Uncle Albert to the wolves he observes, and though he attributes anthropomorphic attitudes to them, the wolves themselves remain always at a distance, most of the time ignoring the presence of the biologist who is studying them.
The humor is as wholesome as it is instructive. In one sequence, Tyler sets out to mark his territory in the same way the wolves do, by urinating on bushes and rocks on the perimeter of his land. He is amused to realize that what has taken him a half a day, plus huge quantities of tea, to do, the wolf accomplishes in less than an hour, without stopping to drink water or tea.
Much Boy Scout sort of fun is also made of Tyler's successful attempt to live on mice, in this way to prove that an animal as large as a wolf can subsist on small rodents, if enough of them are consumed. Tyler eats mice in soup, in stew and even en brochette, usually leaving the tail as the last thing to disappear down his throat. In what is perhaps an homage to earlier Walt Disney movies in which animals act like people, there is a not-super scene in which mice are shown watching Tyler as he eats an all-mouse meal, squealing their horror in ways that, I assume, we are meant to see as cute.
The only other characters in the film are Rosie (Brian Dennehy), a bush pilot who comes to represent everyone who would exploit the Arctic wilderness for private gain; Ootek (Zachary Ittimangnaq), a wise old Eskimo who teaches Tyler many wolf secrets, and Mike (Samson Jorah), a younger Eskimo who must kill wolves to support his family and send his children to school.
The scenery is often spectacularly beautiful. Mr. Smith is at his best when he is playing Tyler straight, without the comic exaggerations that suggest a small child showing off in front of adults. Perhaps the best thing about the film is that the wolves are never made to seem like strange but cuddly dogs. They look like wolves, not especially threatening but still remote and complete unto themselves.