Dogs in Cinema

By Stacey Warwick   |   Date added: 12 Oct 2014


Dogs in cinema has a tradition going back almost as long as cinema itself back in 1927. Hardly a year goes by when our affection for the canine is not used to form a human angle on a story, sometimes badly sometimes brilliantly.



It's not all that often though that these films go on to become highly coveted award courting films.
The Cannes film festival, the worlds' most famous and prestigious film festival championed such a film just this year (2014). "White God" from Hungarian film director Kornel Mundruczo tells the story of how a young girl's separation from her life long pet is the cause of such grief it eventually leads to a rebellion of revolutionary proportion. It is ultimately a metaphor for the result of oppressing and disregarding the poor and marginalized in society and not about the importance of pet ownership, we get that. But it's a film that has courted huge critical success. 
We feature it here as apart from being a mesmerizing film it's also splendid example of training and discipline on show as over 250 dogs that were used in the filming (with zero hurt or killed) and the mammoth task of herding them all on que to perform any number of tricks and commands over and over again. There is not one still of CGI used. If you are in the process of suffering training fatigue with your own dog and feel like giving up we recommend you check this film out just to see what is possible with a little patience and focus. Failing that enjoy the great piece of art that has been assembled.





Source: The Dog Magazine





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