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Keep in mind the fact that at the time of the creation of Wolf Quest, Phil Weinstein, who shot the sequel and triquel, did NOT see the first film.
And the most delicious thing with us is, of course, the White Wolf and the origin of the protagonist Bolto.
Hell, sometimes not the final products are interesting, but the story of their creation and what was behind the scenes ...
We will deal with the White Wolf first. He is a symbolic character, a visual metaphor.
This is NOT a ghost, it is NOT a living beast.
However, the novelization of the cartoon indicates that the White Wolf is male.
Simon Wells, who shot the first cartoon, described the White Wolf as Bolto’s inner voice, a symbol of Bolt’s wolf half left and closed by Bolto himself, which Bolto must accept and realize that his wolf legacy is strength, purity and beauty, and not weakness ugliness or shame.
At the same time, as Wells admitted, with a great desire to interpret the White Wolf, you can either as a guide spirit from northern legends, or as a possible father of Bolto.
In some analyzes of the cartoon, he is called either the wolf god or the spirit of the wild north. But the character’s role and essence does not change - this is Bolto’s inner wolf, his true “I”, which the half-breed had to accept and find harmony and peace within itself.
Now let's take the sequel. Many spat on "Wolf Quest" primarily because of how this character was presented there. In the sequel, this character received the name Inae (or Anyu, or Enayu, or Anayu, or Ayu - it is not clear how to do it).
This is a disembodied wolf spirit with a totem, possessing the ability to change the appearance.
At first, for myself (not to be confused), I assumed her and the white wolf as one and the same hero. Why?
Because both the White Wolf and Inae have a practically similar role in relation to Bolto. Their role for him is to help find the right path.
But I thought so until I found out how the author of the original suggested his character (see above). The role of Inae and the White Wolf is similar, but the essence is different. The White Wolf is exactly something personal and really important, but NOT something magical, supernatural and real.
Inae is the exact opposite. There is a problem, unfortunately. Either because of the frequent rewriting of the script, or, conversely, because of a negligent attitude and without making the necessary corrections that would prevent absurdity and confusion, the sequel authors for some reason attributed Inae to Bolto himself in his mother (!!!).
They also said that the White Wolf from the first film is this same Inae. What for?! For what?!
That is, the creators of the sequels destroyed all the beauty, importance, sensuality and power of the fantastic scene from the first film. The scene with the White Wolf implied precisely Bolto’s internal struggle with himself, with self-acceptance, with self-awareness.
And the appearance from out of nowhere of some kind of random wild beast or spirit would expose Bolto more likely as a passive character in this scene than an active one.
And I still consider her just a spirit with a totem, not a mother. In the first film, it was NEVER planned or implied that the White Wolf was a parent of Bolto, and that Bolto had a mother in her family as a wolf.
Simply put - the White Wolf is a visual metaphor, Inae is a guardian spirit from a totem (like a mouse for Aleu).
... to be continued...
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