{"id":3541,"date":"2011-04-08T09:26:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T23:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sisterrose.wordpress.com\/?p=3541"},"modified":"2011-04-08T09:26:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T23:26:21","slug":"born-to-be-wild-imax-3d-film-opens-april-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/sisterrosemovies\/2011\/04\/born-to-be-wild-imax-3d-film-opens-april-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Born to Be Wild – IMAX 3D film opens April 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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This new IMAX 3D documentary tells the profoundly moving stories of two women \u201csuper heroes\u201d working to preserve two endangered species. These are Dr. Daphne M. Sheldrick\u00a0 at the\u00a0\u00a0David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust<\/a> in Kenya and Dr. Birute\u2019 Mary Galdikas at \u00a0\u00a0The Orangutan Foundation<\/a> International\u00a0in central Borneo (Indonesia). Both are articulate, experienced, quietly passionate and determined women who have spent decades rescuing, rehabilitating, and returning orphaned infant elephants and orangutans to the wild.<\/p>\n

In general, I do not care for 3D movies but \u201cBorn To Be Wild<\/a>\u201d is a film 3D was made for. It had me from the opening scene.<\/p>\n

The film reaches out and embraces the audience and the narrative gently calls the question: Why save wild animals when they offer humanity no practical benefit? Though the film seems to contradict this, it is not because they are cute \u2013 which they certainly are. As Dr. Galdikas said at the press day on April 2, the forests are like the original Garden of Eden that people left, and the animals remained.\u00a0 Thus, she intimated, we have an obligation to preserve God\u2019s creation.<\/p>\n

Morgan Freeman narrates the 40-minute film with conviction. He said that this project \u00a0\u201cis extremely important and well-worth doing because it highlights a couple of ladies whose courage and dedication should be trumpeted.\u00a0 It also highlights the danger of what we are doing as humans in terms of the rest of life forms on the planet. We are not aware, as people, of what we are doing. We just blithely go along, eliminating habitats, killing off other creatures in order for us to have more room to grow more food for more of us. There is an inherent danger in this that we need to bring to light, that if we continue the way we are going, eliminating habits and other forms of life, we are going to eliminate ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Morgan Freeman<\/p>\n

The problem for orangutans is the palm oil plantations created by the destruction of the rain forests. \u201cModern global culture is coming to Borneo; you cannot leave the global culture behind except in the depths of the rain forest\u201d explained Dr. Galdikas. \u201cPalm oil is in every product today and for someone to obtain a palm oil concession in Borneo is like a license to print money.\u201d She admits that without government help she would not be able to rehabilitate orangutans, but the government \u201cwants to eat its cake and have it, too\u201d when they continue to expand palm oil franchises. \u201cIt\u2019s like facing a tsunami,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Birute\u2019 Mary Galdikas and son.<\/div>\n

\u201cElephants\u201d explains Dr. Sheldrick, \u201cduplicate human in terms of age, so they don\u2019t learn until they are 20. \u00a0We take care of them until they are grown and they we return them to the wild, where they belong. I don\u2019t believe that elephants belong in circuses or zoos. Not do I believe in training them through brutal methods to do unnatural things for the benefit of humans. You can judge a nation by how it treats its animals. \u201c<\/p>\n

Dr. Sheldrick has worked with elephants for fifty years near the Tsavo Natonal Park, an area the size of Michigan, in Kenya. \u201cWhen you raise an elephant there are ups and down,\u201d she told journalists at a press day on April 2. \u201cThis space can give elephants quality of life but there is much \u201cintrusion of domestic life and animals into the national park that politicians permit and this compromises the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is no doubt of Dr. Sheldrick\u2019s love for the elephants. \u201cThe memory part of an elephant\u2019s brain is greater than that of the human brain. They never forget the human trainers from the nursery. And elephants can read your heart; there is no pretense. Those who care for them, it has to come from the heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dr.Daphne M. Sheldrick<\/div>\n

The stunning cinematography and IMAX 3D brought me totally into the film as if I were there, from the very first moment. \u00a0This finished product was not easily obtained, however. Filmmakers David Lickley and Drew Fellman described the challenge of carrying 30,000lbs of equipment into the jungle and out again, and the difficulty in trying to manage a 500lb IMAX camera among the elephants. The good news for the crew is that a lightweight digital IMAX camera was available as a second camera.<\/p>\n

What response does the film ask of viewers? In addition to a respect for creation, one can, through the film\u2019s website, \u201cfoster\u201d elephants in Kenya or \u201cpurchase\u201d forest in Borneo \u2013 land that will be saved from deforestation for orangutans and other forest inhabitants.<\/p>\n

There is no doubt that this film, like last year\u2019s Oscar-winning film \u201cThe Cove\u201d http:\/\/www.americancatholic.org\/Messenger\/Apr2010\/Eye_On_Entertainment.asp<\/a>sends a strong anti-animal capture message to audiences.<\/p>\n

\u201cBorn to Be Wild\u201d \u00a0was too short. I want to know more.<\/p>\n

Click here for IMAX Theater locations<\/a><\/p>\n

The film opens April 8.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Daphne M. Sheldrick, named a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2006, and the Kenyan reserve for orphaned elephants that she founded, were profiled twice by CBS \u201c60 Minutes\u201d news magazine in 2006 http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2006\/04\/06\/60minutes\/main1479398.shtml<\/a> and in 2008<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2008\/12\/19\/60minutes\/main4677338.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr. Galdikas and the Orangutan Foundation International at Camp Leakey (named for paleontologist and conservationist Dr. Richard Leakey) were profiled by \u201c60 Minutes\u201d in 2001 http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2001\/01\/02\/60II\/main260977.shtml in the context of the Indonesian rain forest crisis and CBS \u201c48 Hours\u201d in 2009. http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/1999\/07\/14\/48hours\/main54343.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n

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After the press session I asked Morgan Freeman if I could have my picture with him \u201cotherwise the nuns<\/p>\n

won\u2019t believe I got to meet \u2018God'\u201d (referring to his role in \u201cBruce Almighty\u201d and \u201cEvan Almighty\u201d.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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