Reflections on Elephants A National Geographic Special

• Authors: Istrate Vlad
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

„Reflections on Elephants‟ is a nature documentary film produced by „Wildlife Films Botswana‟ for the National Geographic Society. The movie was released in the United States on the 9th of February 1994. It is narrated by Stacy Keach, written and edited by the well-known south-African director of photography Dereck Joubert. The figurative language used by Dereck Joubert is surprisingly rich and blends nicely with the visual metaphors resulting in a flavory and watchable Sunday evening family film. The film captures the extraordinary journey of elephant herds through the bushes of North Botswana and their incredible capability of adaptation and understanding of the surrounding nature. Being „a symbol of the African wilderness‟ (Reflections on Elephants, approximately 3‟30”), the majestic African elephants „live out their isolation, slowly drawing life from the Earth‟s opened wounds‟ (approximately 3‟59‟‟) and „each movement is a calculated conservation of energy, each day, a tiny investment in a legend‟.„Reflections on Elephants‟ is a nature documentary film produced by „Wildlife Films Botswana‟ for the National Geographic Society. The movie was released in the United States on the 9th of February 1994. It is narrated by Stacy Keach, written and edited by the well-known south-African director of photography Dereck Joubert. The figurative language used by Dereck Joubert is surprisingly rich and blends nicely with the visual metaphors resulting in a flavory and watchable Sunday evening family film. The film captures the extraordinary journey of elephant herds through the bushes of North Botswana and their incredible capability of adaptation and understanding of the surrounding nature. Being „a symbol of the African wilderness‟ (Reflections on Elephants, approximately 3‟30”), the majestic African elephants „live out their isolation, slowly drawing life from the Earth‟s opened wounds‟ (approximately 3‟59‟‟) and „each movement is a calculated conservation of energy, each day, a tiny investment in a legend‟.

Keywords

EN

documentary; elephant; film; emotions; legend

• Publisher: Inter Litteras Research Centre, STEFAN CEL MARE University, Suceava, Romania; STEFAN CEL MARE Publishing House
• Journal: Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 13
• Pages: 147-152
• Document type: research review

Contributors

author

Istrate Vlad

• “Ștefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Romania