Category: Animals: Tigers
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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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Two Brothers. Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud. Pathe. 2004.
Set against the backdrop of 1920s French Indochina, Two Brothers chronicles the poignant journey of two tiger siblings, Kumal and Sangha. From playful cubs roaming freely in the wild, their lives take a turbulent turn when human intervention tears them apart. Kumal, captured by treasure hunters, ends up as a performing circus tiger, whilst Sangha,…