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HE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION I MADE WITH MY CO-SCREEN writer Maurizio Braucci when we decided to adapt Jack London’s was to bring the story from Oakland to Naples, in the south of Italy. Since it involves an archetype, like or , we felt we could reshape to our image. But in Italy we don’t have the tradition of Stevenson, Melville, and Conrad, and we don’t have

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