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* [[Badass]]: The Kodiak |
* [[Badass]]: The Kodiak |
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* [[Everything's Worse with Bears]]: Averted with the cub, but played straight with the hunters. |
* [[Everything's Worse with Bears]]: Averted with the cub, but played straight with the hunters. |
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* [[Expy]] - Coincidentally, [[Brother Bear]] and the |
* [[Expy]] - Coincidentally, ''[[Brother Bear]]'' and the Disney Nature documentary film ''Chimpanzee'' share similarities. |
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* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: The death of the cub's mother as well as several other animals throughout. |
* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: The death of the cub's mother as well as several other animals throughout. |
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* [[Family-Unfriendly Violence]]: While a majority of the violence is |
* [[Family-Unfriendly Violence]]: While a majority of the violence is off-screen, the film tends to get quite gruesome despite its PG rating. |
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* [[Gentle Giant]]: The Kodiak towards the cub. The hunters however. . . |
* [[Gentle Giant]]: The Kodiak towards the cub. The hunters however. . . |
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* [[Mercy Kill]]: One of the hunters has to put down their horse. |
* [[Mercy Kill]]: One of the hunters has to put down their horse. |
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Latest revision as of 14:03, 11 June 2017
The Bear, (also known as L'Ours) is a 1988 adventure film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (who would years later do Two Brothers). It is adapted from the novel The Grizzly King.
After his mother is killed in a freak accident, an orphan bear cub hooks up with a wounded Kodiak bear as they try to dodge human hunters.
Not to be confused with Bear, which is a direct-to-video horror film that also features bears.
Tropes used in The Bear (film) include:
- Badass: The Kodiak
- Everything's Worse with Bears: Averted with the cub, but played straight with the hunters.
- Expy - Coincidentally, Brother Bear and the Disney Nature documentary film Chimpanzee share similarities.
- Family-Unfriendly Death: The death of the cub's mother as well as several other animals throughout.
- Family-Unfriendly Violence: While a majority of the violence is off-screen, the film tends to get quite gruesome despite its PG rating.
- Gentle Giant: The Kodiak towards the cub. The hunters however. . .
- Mercy Kill: One of the hunters has to put down their horse.
- Mushroom Samba: When the young cub eats some mushrooms, we are given a trippy sequence.
- The Film of the Book: The film is based on a book from 1916.