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Fox controller William Moore on Fantastic Mr Fox

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Nov 08, 2009

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Fox controller William Moore tells how he would never shoot off the animal's tail and wear as it tie

I've been keen to see this film for a while – because I am the Fantastic Mr Fox, although most people just call me Foxy. So I could relate to the title character, voiced by George Clooney. At the start, Mr Fox is a reformed character: he's been caught stealing chickens from three farmers, Boggis, Bunce and Bean. He promises his wife he'll never go poaching again, becoming a journalist instead (a job that's just as wily and cunning). But then his animal instincts take over and he's back on the chickens.

The film shows foxes as opportunists. This is true. The red fox can live anywhere between the Arctic tundra and the deserts of north Africa, existing on everything from fallen fruit to berries, worms, insect larvae – and KFC. Though they're not cold-blooded killers, they will, like Mr Fox, steal into a henhouse and kill more than they need. But this is an evolutionary thing: they're just building a food supply for when times are lean. Foxes aren't sadists.

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