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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Earth


This is a new spectacular nature movie.

It's an ambitious title, but then this is the most ambitious nature documentary ever made - in technical terms at least. Created by the BBC's Natural History Unit in parallel with the award-winning TV series 'Planet Earth', its production statistics are staggering. It took five years to make, with 40 specialist camera crews spending 4,500 days in the field (including 250 days of aerial photography), filming in 200 locations across 26 countries.
Fans of 'Planet Earth' will have already seen much of the film's footage on telly, which is exactly why they'll be queuing up to see it in cinemas. This really is a case of bigger is better. While little of the photography's clarity has been lost in the transfer from small screen to large, there's a dramatic increase in the emotional clout of the pictures - be it from the alien beauty of the Aurora Australis, the comic dandy strut of a Papuan bird of paradise or the unimaginable ferocity of a great white shark attack in super slow-mo. In fact, thanks to the new-fangled HD and Cineflex camera technology available to the crews, it's a safe bet that much of the natural wonders on display in Earth have never been shown off to such good effect on screen, if at all. The epic sequence in which a migrating flock of demoiselle cranes flies over Mount Everest, for instance, is the first of its kind. It was filmed through an open door of a Nepalese bomber at an altitude of 28,000 feet.

Comment: a very good movie on taking the shoot, and the fast forward of the nature changing. I cried when i watched it, the poor polar bear touched me. And the birds are beautifully funny.

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