Nature doesn’t need people – people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature. (Harrison Ford)
Indy (Harrison Ford) Reveals His Secret to a cheerful Life
Ford’s 50-year acting career is evidence of that. His résumé is filled with blockbuster films and a few of the foremost iconic film characters of the 20th century, including Indiana Jones, Star Wars’ Han Solo and Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. Ford, 77, is additionally a fanatical pilot and a father of 5. He divides his time between l. a. and a Wyoming ranch that he shares together with his wife, actress Calista Flockhart, 55 (Brothers & Sisters, Supergirl); they’ve been a few for 18 years and married for nearly 10. Not one to hamper, Ford is back on the large screen within the Call of the Wild (in theatres today), a replacement adaptation of the classic London novel.
The flick centres around Buck, a former domestic pet who becomes a dog in 19th-century Alaska. Ford plays John Thornton, a prospector during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s who discovers Buck abused by his owners and decides to require the dog along on his quest. Ford read London’s novel as a tyke, but “I didn’t remember how tough a book it's until I reread it,” he says, noting the story’s inherent violence about “dogs fighting amongst themselves for primacy during a pack and other aspects of the wildlife that remains generally unseen by the gentle folks who sleep in cities.”
Ford appreciated how Thornton’s and Buck’s stories emotionally mirror one another. Buck “heeded the cry of the wild—to slough off his domestic experience and to feel a neighbourhood of nature,” says Ford, while Thornton was performing some sloughing off of his own, deed from his emotionally difficult life. it's through his experiences in Alaska with Buck, notes Ford, that Thornton is “able to revert to… the hope of any redemption.” Ford connected more deeply to the film’s ultimate theme: We are all animals among nature and are liable for taking care of it. “Nature doesn’t need people,” he alleges. “People need nature to exist, to thrive.”
Luckily, Ford and therefore the cast didn’t need to do much surviving during filming, because the harsh, freezing winters of the Yukon were mostly recreated on Southern California sets, and every one the savage animals were computer-generated—including Buck, whose movements were created by former Cirque du Soleil performer Terry Notary. “And then basically, I spent three months approximately scratching [Terry] behind the ears and rubbing his belly and feeding him treats,” says Ford. “I didn’t walk him,” he adds with a smirk.
Ford’s affinity for man’s ally (he currently owns three small rescues) dates back to his childhood in Chicago and his first dog, Lady, “a little fluffy white thing.” He and his younger brother, Terence, were raised within the city by their mother, Dorothy, a homemaker, and father, Christopher, a writer and actor. Ford remembers a childhood that was “absolutely unremarkable” and “relatively uneventful, middle-class”—merely a cheerful time nonetheless.
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