A Man Among Wolves
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Actor: National GeographicBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 50 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Nat'l Geographic Vid
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Movie Review: Beware! Amateur at Work
Summary: 2 Stars
This DVD disapoiinted me so much, and in so many ways. Shaun Ellis of England smacks of Timothy Treadwell who made a lot of money for Discovery Channel by living with bears in the wild for months at a time over a few years until he met his end. Interviews of Treadwell's family and friends revealed a man who could not fit into society, could not hold a job, and seemed to find his place in the world in the mountains with bears. He saw himself as a protector of bears (nevermind those rangers who were there to protect them), and perhaps he did help a bear once or twice from hunters, but for years he spent months at a time until a bear finally had had it with him and 'et him for dinner, along with his girlfriend. A fine ending for an amateur who finally ended up not fitting into the bears' world either! Treadwell did profit from the bears and gained fame and some fortune he so sorely craved.
In comes amateur Shaun Ellis of England, who also proudly announces he gave up (or lost) his wife, children and home because he found his world with wolves. Forget that he has no scientific credentials, has not studied anything about wolves, but he LIKES and RESPECTS them. And better yet, he doesn't have to go into the wild to be with them, he finds a zoo/preserve situation right in the heart of England where people can watch his show daily as he wallows about in mud, growls and snarls at mealtime with the best of the wolves and to keep his "alpha" status, fights to eat the heart, liver and (was it lungs?) of the dead animal. Ellis finds a ready made audience and recognition for the price of admission.
I am disappointed in National Geographic that they apparently did no background research on this man before putting out this DVD. This Brit claims he was a Marine (?). Where did he come from? What did he do before becoming a showman and a wolf? His accomplishments thus far include raising three abandoned pups borne in the fenced preserve and he, this amateur of amateurs, takes it upon himself to teach wolf pups how to live in a pack. Never do they say they plan to release these pups to the wild. Was all this growling, snarling, wallowing in mud and licking the wolves' noses, tongues and fur necessary for him to think of playing a recording of wolves howling in the wild to protect cattle in Poland? Surely this idea could have occurred without the daily show for the public for the price of admission.
Geographic attempts to heighten the sense of danger by repeating over and over that the wolves can turn on Ellis and kill him at any moment - at mealtime, of course.
Ellis appears to be a well intentioned man who doesn't fit into his society and like Treadwell, craves respect and his 15" of fame. It ends abruptly and you wind up feeling you have watched a disturbed man at work. As one child stated when asked what he thought of the show, "I think he's a bit mad!" Out of the mouths of babes.
Summary of A Man Among Wolves
A Man Among Wolves is the unique and unusual story of a man who joins a pack of wolves living among them, behaving like them in order to better understand and ultimately help save one of man's most feared predators in the wild. Witness the incredible story of how Shaun Ellis spent a year and a half raising three abandoned wolf pups by immersing himself in their world as an accepted leader and teaching them by example how to survive in the wild.Documentary DVD Video
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