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WHITE FANG 2: MYTH OF THE WHITE WOLF (Dir: Ken Olin, 1994).

Walt Disney Pictures’ action/adventure sequel to their 1991 hit White Fang (Randall Kleiser).

White Fang told the story of Jack Conroy (Ethan Hawke) and his adventures during the Klondike Gold Rush with the wolfdog of the title. White Fang 2 picks up with Jack now in San Fransisco having left White Fang in the care of his friend Henry Casey (Scott Bairstow). Nearly drowning in a boating accident, Henry is rescued by Lily Joseph (Charmaine Craig) of the native Haida village. Lily Joseph believes Henry to be the human form of a mythical white wolf sent to help her starving tribe. Henry decides to help the Haida locate the caribou while also dealing with a corrupt mining organisation who are exploiting the Haida.

Published in 1906 Jack London's White Fang was a partly autobiographical novel inspired by his experiences in the Klondike. A sequel to a film based on an iconic literary work is unusual. It also seems a little unnecessary, especially one that largely deals with a different set of characters.

His uncredited appearance, limited to the prologue, suggests that Ethan Hawke declined a larger role in the film. As his replacement Scott Bairstow is a somewhat bland leading man and looks like he would be more comfortable in a 90s boy band than in the Klondike. In fairness, the role demands little of him, other than looking pretty while carrying out some mild heroics. Meatier roles are given to Alfred Molina and Geoffrey Lewis as the bad guys, but in general the movie suffers from too much focus on the humans and not enough of the magnificent White Fang; the beautiful half dog/half wolf reduced to supporting player in his own movie.


White Fang 2 is not without entertainment value. Its old fashioned adventure story is pleasant but unspectacular. Those young enough to forgive its simplistic storytelling will enjoy it but older audiences will be wishing this canine caper had a little more bite. Worth a look, especially if you enjoyed the original but, ultimately a bit of a disappointment.

Visit my blog jinglebonesmovietime.blogspot.com for a longer, more in-depth review of White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf!

From a 1981 French edition of White Fang. Written by Jack London and illustrated by Jacques Darnel.

Screencaps from White Fang (2018). Though it’s not a popular movie, it is really great! I recommend you to watch it.

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Aniu / The White Wolf (Balto, 1995) Moro (Princess Mononoke, 1997) Eve (Alpha and Omega, 2010) Raksha (The Jungle Book, 2016) Niche (White Fang, 2018) Moll MacTíre (Wolfwalkers, 2020)

RWBY has concepts that in my opinion are either very subjective, such tone and conflict and how one reimagines the characters given their source material for inspiration and what story is told with these ideas or concepts.

Or “they are either this or that” and the case of the latter in my opinion is Adam and the White Fang and Jack and The Schnee Dust Company

You either go all in on Jacques being a scum-fuck and the SDC a monstrous megacorporation bordering on an imperialistic empire, like what @sytokun is doing with RWBY:Remnants or what I’m sure Celtic-Phoenix can tune up

and make Adam Taurus a Magneto/Megatron-Like character and White Fang like The Brotherhood of Mutants

Or

You make them underdog good factions, make Jack and Adam just kinda well-meaning asses who get better and use other characters and factions as foils to them.

The latter I'm personally going with due to my sickness of grimmdark and plenty of other people doing the former already

REAL

“You’re just a teenage boy”

I’m literally Gerard Pitts, Jack Conroy, and Dr. Robert Chase

Classics Illustrated #80. "White Fang" by Jack London.