Joe Carnahan probably knew he was in for something of a tussle when his latest film, the survival actioner/mortality meditation The Grey, began drawing criticism from animal activist groups sight unseen even before it debuted (at #1, no less) last weekend. But then PETA posted its own twofold complaint regarding the depiction of wolves in the film and the reported eating of wolf meat on Carnahan?s set, escalating the anti-Grey fight. The question is, does PETA have a legit beef with The Grey?
In a blog entry posted to the official PETA website, the organization blasts Carnahan on two fronts for being ?rotten to wolves from the get-go.? First, the more general grievance: The Grey, they say, makes wolves look bad.
?The writers paint a pack of wolves living in the Alaskan wilderness as bloodthirsty monsters, intent on killing every survivor of a plane crash by tearing each person limb from limb,? claims PETA, when in actuality wolves ?shy away from? humans.
Carnahan?s film (scripted by Ian MacKenzie Jeffers from his own short story) takes fairly diligent measures to portray its wolves as agents of nature, dangerous to be sure but with their own reasons for attacking Liam Neeson?s Ottway and his fellow oil rig workers. They?re glimpsed in the dark all glowing eyes and howling breaths and are seen tearing unfortunate victims to bloody pieces, but are they ?monsters,? or simply animals acting on their natural impulses to defend their territory from encroaching human invaders?
Speaking earlier this month in Los Angeles, Carnahan explained his take on the wolves of The Grey. ?I think the wolves are a facet of and thereby a force of nature, but they?re no different in my mind than the river, than the blizzard, than…
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