Category: Animal: Lion
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Roar. Dir. Noel Marshall. Film Consortium, Filmways Pictures. 1981
An Aesthetic Fantasy of Leonine Star-Vehicles: Whose Land is This? Animal rights Activist Tippi Hedren and Director/husband Noel Marshall embarked on a several year journey to turn fantasy into reality by doing the seemingly impossible – shooting a film with hundreds of untamed lions, tigers and other African safari animals. With an unruly plot that…
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Roar. Dir. Noel Marshall. Film Consortium, Filmways Pictures. 1981
“No Animals were harmed in the making of this film. 70 cast and crew members were”. A film tagline that instantly grabs your attention. The Drafthouse re-release in 2015 coined this moniker for the 1981 box-office blunder[1] “Roar”, which lacks plot, conventionality and, as the curious tagline suggests: a lack of safety measures for the actors…
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Nanny McPhee and The Big Bang. Dir. Susanna White. Universal Pictures. 2010.
Susanna White’s Nanny McPhee And The Big Bang (2010) introduces Mr Edelweiss as Nanny McPhee’s mischievous sidekick. Mr Edelweiss is a Jackdaw crow, a member of the Corvid species, who are known for their thieving habits. This scene is particularly interesting as the human-animal relationship portrayed causes a shift in the predicted stock characters of…