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Earth
2007 · Film · documentary · 90 min
Directed by Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield
An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, awaits you in EARTH. Disneynature brings you a remarkable story of three animal families on a journey across our planet – polar bears, elephants and humpback whales.
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> A privileged white dude complains about how he feels disconnected from his family
I thought he was suffering from burnout. Regardless, it's possible to be rich and sad at the same time. You don't have to have empathy for the guy if you don't want to, but if we're turning suffering into a competition, there will always be someone with bigger problems than you.
> It literally tries to run away and he stalks it, it's creepy.
Scientists observe animals that try to run away all the time. And it did approach him on multiple occasions as well.
I found it to be a fascinating case study in the life of an octopus in it's natural environment. These long form animal documentaries are a lot more interesting to me than "Earth" or the like where it's a rapid fire, quick form snapshot into multiple animal species.
The reason why it's cut like that it's because it's a Behind The Scenes from the shooting of BBC's Earth. Normally you'd watch it after watching a specific episode (or even later) and you're not interested in particular content of the shot, but about the making of the shot. Hence the interview, rapid cuts and so on. If you see the full BBC Earth, the scene is a lot better and makes more sense.
Here is the list of my favorite documentaries: - The Cove - Food, Inc. - The Century Of The Self - Inside Job - Earthlings - Samsara - Earth - A Map For Saturday - The Story Of India
Maybe the "entry level" vocabulary, etc., is exactly why it was taught in my Russian class in college.
As for it's doctrinaire qualities: At least it's not Alexander Dovzhenko's film, "Earth."
There are many, many, many movies shot like this. The company who shot this, Teton Gravity Research, along with all their competitor snowboard and ski movie makers, use it. Nature documentaries like the movie Earth used it.
This is one of the first though, to do it in 4K.
Maybe, probably both, but his approach to create popular movies around is the most intelligent way.
Earth was a failure and if something similar with that budget will be made soon is questionable.
Budget: €30,000,000 (estimated)
Gross: $32,001,863
Cameron can do anything he want's with any budget since decades and earned himself a fortune to do things on his own.
Are you saying that what Cameron really wanted to do is documentaries?
also: "No theater would show a nature documentation" Remember Earth?
I agree. I have a lot more respect for quiet agnostics like Sir David Attenborough+. To the best of his knowledge, there is no God, and if there is likely God used evolution as a tool for creation. But he never insists that everyone believe it as fact, or that anyone who doesn't believe is ignorant. He simply says what he thinks is true.
+the gentleman who narrated Earth an Blue Planet, as well as the "BBC Life" nature documentary series.