Category: Director: Chris Sanders
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The Call Of The Wild. Dir. Chris Sanders. 20th Century Studios. 2020.
The Call of the Wild is a 2020 American adventure film directed by Chris Sanders and adapted from Jack London’s 1903 novel of the same name and tells the story of a domestic dog finding his inner wild wolf. Set during the late 19th century in Canada’s Yukon centralizing the Klondike Gold Rush, the film…
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How to Train Your Dragon. Dir. Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders. Paramount Pictures. 2010.
Despite the movie’s title, How to Train Your Dragon does not present ‘trained’ dragons. The title insinuates the shift from foe to friend is a means of ‘training’ a dragon, when this is actually achieved through the development of a mutual understanding of the other. The film’s false equation of this mutual agreement reduces the…
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How to Train Your Dragon. Dir. Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders. Paramount Pictures. 2010.
Dreamworks’s 2010 film How to Train Your Dragon tells the story of Hiccup, a Viking whose village is regularly attacked by dragons. Due to his physical weakness and lack of fighting skills Hiccup is an outsider in his village, the others not recognizing his high intellect and inventiveness as useful. Yearning for recognition and acceptance, Hiccup joins…