Although both March of the Penguins, directed by Luc Jacquet, and Nanook of the North, directed by Robert J. Flaherty, distort the subject of the respective films, they do so to different extents. Since March of the Penguins follows animals’ journey, humans do not understand the emotional capacity of them and cannot relate to them because of the vast differences in life experiences. To make it easier for the audience to relate to the emperor penguins, Morgan Freeman, the narrator, anthropomorphizes them and describes certain actions in ways that humans can empathize with. For example, when the penguins were searching for their mate and mated with them, the scene was portrayed romantically, as if the penguins were humans. It is highly unlikely …show more content…
The documentary was advertised as a true depiction of the Inuits and their way of life, but it was later found that many of the scenes were staged to make it more appealing to the public. For example, the scene where “Nanook” sees the record player and bites the disc is horribly insulting considering that the Inuits already were already aware of that technology. Even the main characters were lies. “Nanook’s” actual name was Allakariallak and his “wife” wasn’t even his wife. Many other scenes, such as the fishing scene, were just staged and horrible representations of the Inuit tribe. The Inuit tribe was nearly starving and needed to use all their energy and time to survive. For Robert Flaherty to stage these scenes and take up so much of the tribe’s time can cause substantial setbacks for the Inuits. The distortion of reality in Nanook of the North completely misled the public on how they actually lived. Both March of the Penguins and Nanook of the North were distorted to make a more pleasurable viewing experience for the audience, but the misrepresentation in Nanook of the North is far more damaging to humans, while the exaggeration in March of the Penguins had relatively no damage on the ecosystem of the
It is an honest recount of events that lead to a downfall in the indigenous community where they lost an unreal amount of power. It is without questions that Daschuk makes his points heard, while being clear and concise and his arguments are valid. I learned an incredible amount about the Indigenous society from reading this book and although Daschuk does not touch on it, I feel if young people read this it would help with the racism in today’s society because they would be further educated on what it is indigenous people had to go
Memories, with or without context, play a key role as plot devices in both Away from Her and “Bear Came Over the Mountain.” Used to provide context for their only semi-chronological story lines, memories in the story and movie alike give solid glimpses of the past that allow the plot to move forward. One of the most prominent memories, in both the story and the movie, and certainly the clearest of the latter, is the section in which Grant and Fiona go on a walk/ski in a park. The differences between the scene and the passage are substantial, ranging from difference in message to difference in visuals. This section is an excellent example of the drastic differences sometimes found in adaptations, and allows for the presentation of a case for
...mals. The filmmakers provided enough evidence to support their claims which asked the viewer to question the killer whale’s aggressive behavior when in captivity and then allowed the viewer the make their own judgments based on the facts being presented.
I will tell how the Call of the Wild book is different than the movie and how the movie is different than the book.As well as contrasting I will also compare them. The movie was extremely different than the book. There were so many different things, I can't explain, but I am. The movie and the book were opposite in some parts.There were so many same things too.
When watching this documentary, I was shocked that Native Americans were treated so barbaric at this point in time for simply living a different lifestyle. I am disappointed that anyone thought that withdrawing Native Americans from their reservations and their culture would “convert” them to living a more modern lifestyle. For example, Sally General, a Mush
The novels Call of the Wild by Jack London and Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen both reveal aspects of character, personality through the thoughts and actions of the character. The authors, both create the main character’s personality by showing the reader how the character adapts to the surroundings, about the levels of intelligence of the character's in their settings, and the aggressive instincts of the character's. These aspects provide the reader with a complete understanding of the development of the character.
Produced in 2009, The Frog Princess is a Disney animation inspired by the Grimm Brothers’ fairytale, The Frog Prince. Both The Frog Princess and The Frog Prince deal with a multiplicity of issues, all of which contribute to supporting positive messages and morals (Ceaser, 2009). However, though The Frog Princess is based on a classic fairytale, it is far from being the same. The writers at Disney have taken a classic fairytale and created a “Monster” (Prince, 2001). This essay will examine the evolution of the original Grimm Brothers’ fairytale, the messages both main characters represent, and how the adaptation to fit a modern child readership diminishes a classic fairytale. Through discussing these arguments, this paper will prove that Disney’s adaptation into The Princess and The Frog is counter-productive in representing the original story’s messages, morals, and values.
Thanks to evolution, Penguins have evolved into a group of aquatic, fightless birds, that are highly adapted to life in the ocean. This not only makes them one of the divergent and strange species of birds, but also has allowed them to become such a sucessful species. Penguins are mostly located in the Southern hemisphere ranging anywhere from the Galapogos to the Antartic. Throughout their lives, Penguins spend around half their time in the ocean doing things such as catching food and the other half on land raising their young. Their distinct tuxedo-like apperience called countershading camoflages their bodies, protecting them from predators above and below. Through out the “stepping stones”, the penguins grew to have a dense bone containing
When Flaherty chose to embark on his mission to create Nanook of the North, his goal was to capture the life of an Eskimo family. However, Flaherty is said to have explained that he did not want to show the Inuit as they were in the present, but as he believed they had existed
In both Hans Christian Andersons “The Little Mermaid,” and Disney’s version of the story, the main character— a young and beautiful mermaid— waits anxiously for her fifteenth birthday to venture from her father’s underwater castle to the world above the water. As the story carries on the mermaids priorities change; her modest and selfless nature is revealed towards the end in Andersen’s version. However, Disney’s version encompasses a rather shallow ending and plot throughout. The theme found in comparing the two versions reveal that Andersen’s substance trumps Disney’s entertainment factor in fairy tales.
She states that most, if not all, of the movies that make up this new genre of movie “works not to emphasize the difference between humans and nonhumans, as it does in so many other Pixar features, but instead makes the characters into virtual puppets…” (284). Once puppetized, these characters can be made to do whatever they, the directors, please. Such as re-write and re enforce gender roles, as it is shown in March of the Penguins, with how the directors showed how the males were in charge of watching and protecting the eggs while the females left to find food (whereas in human society it is the opposite). Or they can solidify heterosexuality, by stating that all of the penguin relationships are strictly male/ female. Then by taking this bourgeois concept of heterosexuality and advertising it as full of variety and elasticity.
To be frank; we are affected by this in our everyday modern lives. However; this does not take away from the fact that Nanook of the North (1922) and his fellow people did truly have skill; which is portrayed in this film; however they were made to seem like “untouched people”. To quote Edward Bruner “In what he calls imperialist nostalgia, Rosaldo (1989) notes that colonialism frequently yearns for the "traditional" culture, the very culture that the colonialists have intentionally altered or destroyed. But it is precisely this traditional culture that the tourists come to see, and as it no longer exists, the culture must be reconstructed for them.” (Bruner, 439). Meaning that this primitive world no longer exists, and because it is what the viewers pay to see; it must then be rebuilt for them. The viewers do not want to see what modern day technology the Eskimo's may have had for the time; they want the cuddly; fun; untouched
Once I was six years old and I had watched a movie about witches. I believed in them for a long time after that it just intrigued me a lot to watch how they could do the impossible. When I first watched the movie I was in awe with everything about it. I used to watch it non stop wishing that I could be a witch too. Of course the witches i watched on screen were good witches not evil.
It seemed that the film was considerably true to the original story, which was helpful in better understanding of the novel in some ways. The film described the story sequentially in general while the novel was made up of pieces of memories from many characters, which were too intricate to understand the flow sometimes. And the description of characters was also similar to the original. However, I found that the description of Beloved in the film was more distinctive than that in the novel. In the film, Beloved was described as if she was a physically or mentally handicapped girl at first and then later, almost an animal.
Another major issue I had with the movie was its temperature inconsistencies. In the movie, scientists warned people about going outside. They say that if one was to go outside that they would freeze to death. The movie also showed a wooly mammoth which froze to death immediately at the time of the first ice age. These examples were placed in the movie to highlight the ext...