 A Boy and His Dog (1975)
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Directed by L.Q. Jones,who has had a major career as a character actor,and will be familiar to horror movie fans from 1982's The Beast Within as Sheriff Bill Pool.Adapted from Harlan Ellison's short story from 1969 called A Boy and his Dog.Set in the post apocalyptic world,which doesn't look to dissimilar to Mad Max 2,where you have bands of killers scouring the wasteland looking for food and there only entertainment being old porno movies which will cost you the price of a can of food to watch.Don Johnson as Vic is a randy young man who with the help of Tim McIntire doing the voice of Blood,finds young women to rape to satisfy his raging hormones.Vic and Blood are telepathically linked together,which means they are able to talk to each other.Vic is a simple minded and under educated boy where as Blood is an highly educated dog who knows pretty much everything about politics and history(how he gained this knowledge is never revealed,we just take it on board that Blood is much more intelligent than his human counter part). What sells the film and makes it work is the relationship between Don Johnson and Blood,and allot of this is down to the voice acting of Tim McIntire,who manages to convey the thought process of the dog you see on screen and what he his thinking.It could so easily of turned into a Disney talking dog movie (saying that I do enjoy those Shaggy Dog movies) but with a young Don Johnson in an early film role,he plays it really well and you do get this feeling that these two characters are actually interacting with each other. I grant you that A Boy and His Dog (1975) is a very much a film that has its detractors.I remember catching it on BBC 2 back in 1980's and being pretty blown away by its uniqueness and some rather witty dialogue between Vic and Blood.That said the story itself is very misogynistic,particularly the ending where Bloods last line summons up the duo's opinion of women.
Blood: Well, I'd certainly say she had marvelous judgment, Albert, if not particularly good taste.
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