| Blogs > starwomyn > un·a·pol·o·get·ically STAR!!! |
|
Eight Below - A Mushy Film for Lovers - Husky or Otherwse This movie is based on a true event in 1957, where an expedition in the Antarctica goes bad. The research team have to evacuate and leave behind Six Huskies and Two Malamutes who are forced to fend for themselves for over six months in the Antarctic Winter. If you can imagine the look your gives you - when you leave him in the comfort of his own home. Visualize looking in the eyes of Maya, Max, Shorty, Dewey, Truman, Shadow, Buck and Old Jack who just saved your live while you leave them chained up in a storm. – In the 1957 event - there were fifteen dogs and two survived.  In the movie there were Eight Dogs and Six Survived.  The Movie is filmed in bright daylight at a time Antarctica is locked in round-the-clock darkness during the Winter Months.  Nevertheless, a Walt Disney Movie can’t have too much darkness and doom. They would have never been able to film the beautiful scenery with the Gorgeous Pooches in the dark. The movie was actully filmed in Canada which is closer to the North Pole than the South Pole. Hollywood is entitled to take a few creative liberties in the quest for entertainment. One of the dogs came from a puppy mill while another one came from the pound. Now they are Stars!  In the movie, a survivalist guide is ordered to take a geologist who is looking for a meteorite from Mercury through dangerous grounds with his team of sled dogs. The Scientist has a near mishap and the dogs bail him out. He has another accident because of Self-Will-Run-Riot and is rescued by Maya the Alpha Female in the pack. It is Maya's leadership and the dogs working together keep the men alive, as the dogs drag their sled and its two–now unconscious–occupants back to base. The expedition team is forced to evacuate because of the storm of the century but there no room to bring the dogs. They are chained up and left to weather the storm. They are unable to come back for the dogs because of the storm. The rest of the story is about how the animals eventually break loose from the chains and help each other survive and how their master desperately searches for a way to return to his beloved companions. The story has a happy ending when he is finally able to return and discover that six of the dogs survived. This is the ideal feel good mushy movie for those of us who are people.  I wonder how Ferlin the Husky Hound Mutt would fare in the wilderness. I usually have to keep him out of trouble rather than the other way around. I did get lost in the woods once and I suspect Ferlin could have found his way out quicker than I did.  Abracadabra  |
|||
|
It was an outstanding movie without profanity or violence. It made me want to go home and hug Sweet Ferlin. I could never imagine having to do something like that to him. Abracadabra
|
×
×