Une Vie Sauvage

Une Vie Sauvage or Wild Life is an Academy Award Nominated animated short directed by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbes is about an Englishman who moves out to the Canadian frontier in the year 1909 with the intention of becoming a rancher. He finds himself unsuited to it but disguises this fact in his letters home. Intertitles compare his fate to that of a comet.

Contains examples of:

 * Break the Cutie: The main character is presented as a nice but rather lazy young man whose upbringing and education have in no way prepared him for life on the harsh Alberta prairie. Because he doesn’t properly prepare for winter he  and its implied
 * Canada, Eh??
 * Canadian Western
 * Going Native
 * Hidden Depths: Though naïve and rather silly the main character is clearly interested in natural science and reads “Principles of Astronomy” for fun.
 * Title Drop: “I’ve slipped into the wild life of those around me”
 * Upper Class Twit: The protagonist could well be one of these
 * The Western: It’s subtitled “A Western”