Music by Stewart Copeland Cranky fully admits to having developed a Jones for cable TV's Discovery Channel, from whom The Leopard Son is the first big screen release. So I was actually intrigued with the idea of the flick. Nature would write the story. The life of the Leopard they chose, and the cub she was raising, show nature at its most basic.
Mom teaches cub to hunt and kill, and then leaves it to fend for itself.
It's more than it looks. Above all else fly the Swan Eagles and, as beautiful as the photography on the Plain is, and the aerial shots are spectacular. But these moments were not enough to overwhelm the failure of construction of The Leopard Son . Now this is an entirely personal thing, so feel free to discount it if you'd like. It does, however, make strong allusions between the Leopard raising the cub and van Lawick's raising of his own son.