“Never Cry Wolf” quotes
(1983)
Title Never Cry Wolf
Year 1983
Director Carroll Ballard
Genre Drama, Adventure
Year 1983
Director Carroll Ballard
Genre Drama, Adventure
Plot – Biologist Tyler Farley is sent for six months to North Canada to study the white wolves, accused to hunt caribou herds. Landed with food and equipment, Tyler begins his work, planting his tent near the den of a family of white wolves. The atmosphere is icy and the Canadian tundra is endless. The biologist learns to survive but also to respect and to love the wolves, discovering the caribous are decimated by reckless and greedy hunters.
All actors – Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Zachary Ittimangnaq, Samson Jorah, Hugh Webster, Martha Ittimangnaq, Tom Dahlgren, Walker Stuart
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“They'll come after you, son. Just for the ugly fun of tearing you apart.”
“- Tyler: What's wrong?
- Rosie: Boredom, Tyler. Boredom - that's what's wrong. And how do you beat boredom, Tyler?... Adventure. Adventure, Tyler.”“- Mike: To me a wolf means money. It's a way of making a living. One wolf pelt is about $350 dollars. And I've got to feed my family; my children. Buy a snowmobile; food, rifle, bullets whatever.
- Tyler: You wouldn't ah... you wouldn't kill these wolves?
- Mike: These ones... no. No I don't think so. Besides you would get mad if I killed one of...” (continue)(continue reading)“It opened the way to an old - and very naïve - childhood fantasy of mine: to go off into the wilderness, and test myself against all the dangerous things lurking there. And to find that basic animal that I secretly hoped was hidden somewhere inside myself. I imagined, at that point, I'd become a new man, with a strength and courage I'd never...” (continue)(continue reading)
The only plane in Nootsak belonged to a part-time bush pilot, gambler, and real estate tycoon named Rosie Little. While we were negotiating our deal, he introduced me to this drink that he'd invented. Known locally as "Moose Juice", it consisted of equal parts Moose Brand Beer and ethyl alcohol. Before I knew it, my old fear of flying evaporated... (continue)(continue reading)
“In the end there were no simple answers. No heroes or villians; only silence.”
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