Walt Disney's White Wilderness

The film provided a glimpse into the wildlife of the Arctic region. The film is known as the controversy of the lemming suicide as the species migrate and jump into the sea. A few survive and repeat the cycle of reproduction. The experts were asked if this is the truth. They said that they do not migrate and do not act in a suicidal behavior; rather of traveling across a body of water. They die due to exhaustion and drown. The scene of lemmings was supposedly staged for cliff hanging and excitement. Due to the nature of films, the idea of staging is what becomes a commonality.

I enjoyed seeing the behaviors of the animals. I traveled to Alaska before and watched from a bus in Denali National Park and glacier sightseeing cruises. I saw the caribou, bear, arctic foxes, wolves, fowls, fish, polar bears, whales, and many others shown in the film. One of the sly, dangerous animals was the wolverine. The wolverine is a vicious loner which will attack five times its weight and will climb trees. The characteristics of the bear and the raccoon are combined into this clawing creature. I rather not encounter this creature versus a bear. I was thinking about the movies based on animal characteristics and behaviors. The current movie X-Men surfaced in my mind as how characters and comic writers studied via real life and movies to mimic imagination with reality. I watched the role of Hugh Jackman's character (Wolverine) with the animal. I love the personification. All Disney cartoons have to portray the concentrated studies of animals and plants and how humans interact with them. There is an importance of studying real life to recreate fiction especially for entertainment. It must relate to the audience.

Another observation that I had was the changing of seasons from winter to spring as the tundra melted the ice. I saw the change as the curtain of a screen opened to the act of dynamics interplays between the animals with its Arctic background. The beauty of the film was staging according to close-ups of trees, glaciers, snowbanks, river scenes, burrows, and icebergs to create the more realistic film. There must have been a longstanding cameras to capture the scenes.

This film probably won an award because it was a first view of animal interactions and an area where a majority of humans will not travel to see real life wildlife. The film does give an overall information on what exists in the Arctic as the other films shown through other terrains.