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BLOGASSAULT on Sunday, July 22, 2007 10:51:50 AM
The new National Geographic Films "Arctic Tale" depicting the hard life of a polar bear and a walrus as they grow up in the cold is
all fabricated. ...Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robertson, a husband and wife who have spent the better part of two decades filming the Arctic’s hulking, reclusive and sometimes deadly mammals for television nature shows, sifted through more than 800 hours of their own footage and that of other filmmakers to assemble a fictional, family-friendly coming-of-age tale.
Just so you are not confused when you go to the movie, it's not real. The footage is real, what is happening on the footage is real, it's just several different animals playing the same part. And you can bet the story will be sad, showing how difficult life has become because of climate change.
But anyway you slice it, it is still a fictional story.
“It isn’t fictionalized in the way that ‘Transformers’ is fictionalized,” Mr. Leipzig said. “This genre is movies about the creatures of the world as they actually exist, with their real behaviors documented by the foremost wildlife cinematographers in the world and crafted into stories that can entertain and educate audiences and where there are deep resonances that audiences can respond to.”
And I would agree, as long as the audience is made aware that the story line has been fictionalized.
What this boils down too is the twisting of the truth. Plain and simple.