Dogs go to the Movies
In honor of Sunday’s Oscars, I remembered some of my favorite dog movies. It’s funny how seeing how dogs act in these movies influences our perceptions of how dogs should act — you know, I’m not so sure the Beagle would be as brave around the Wicked Witch as Toto was.
We all have our favorites…the 1975 “A Boy and His Dog” starring Don Johnson…was made from the Harlan Ellison Science Fiction novella of the same name…Vic (Don Johnson) is in a post-apocalyptic world and communicates telepathically with his dog Vic (Tiger)…
Not a GREAT movie…but I believed in the idea that maybe someday somehow we could telepathically communicate with dogs…
Blood: You know, Albert, sometimes you can be such a putz…
Vic: A putz? What’s a putz? It’s somethin’ bad, isn’t it? You better take that back or I’m gonna kick your fuzzy butt!
Blood: [sighs] Yep, definitely a putz.
Sorry..the dog’s name was Blood (Tiger) ..
But in thinking more I was very moved by the movie “Sounder”…early 1970s from the book that won the Newbery (sp?) Award for young readers about a sharecropping family in the South during the Depression…
Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson nominated for best actor and actress and the film for Best Movie…(worth seeing)…bring some tissues…but the love between the father and his wife and son…and Sounder will leave you with ‘something’…