Upon studying all the movies that I could find about
dolphins or involving dolphins, I found quite an extensive list, which I will
share at the end of this post!
I will be exploring two films, one more attuned for
children and one more directed for adults.
"A Dolphin Tale" is the film for children that I will cast
my two cents on. This is a film centered on the friendship that forms between a
boy and a dolphin when the dolphin loses its tail in a trap. The entire movie
is based around this. The boy helps the dolphin cope, the dolphin helps the boy
cope; it is a true story and a great movie. I feel the dolphin was chosen for
this film because they found this true story of the dolphin to be such a
fabulous story to share with kids and because nearly all kids love dolphins, it
would be an easy selling point for them. The intended message to the audience
in my eyes is to instill compassion in today’s youth. I believe this movie does
a great job of bringing the viewer to a state of pure compassion for this
dolphin in need. This is something all children should be taught, and through a
fun movie with a dolphin is an excellent way to do this.
For adults on the other hand, I chose the film "Beneath
the Blue". Dolphins play a main role in this movie as well and there is one
dolphin in particular that is of upmost importance. However, the human and
animal bond in this movie isn’t nearly as strong because the movie has other
points of interest such as, corruption, distrust, dishonesty, oodles of action
and romantic relationships budding, etc. The storyline is about a group of
people researching and studying the intelligence of dolphins only to find them
dying in vast numbers very quickly. They blame the navy for using sonar
technology and then the story stems from their fight to save the dolphins as
well as the other aforementioned aspects. I also believe that the dolphins were
a great selling point for this film because just the year before this movie
came out a documentary by the name of The
Cove (as I have mentioned in previous posts) had come out and was an
excellent seller, listed as documentary of the year. I believe this had a lot
of people amped up about dolphins and saving them, so what better time to drop
a ‘save the dolphins’ movie? I don’t really think this movie had any intended
messages for the audience except to be a good movie with a great selling point.
Unless of course the writers were hinting that underwater solar activity may in
fact be hurting the dolphins. Who knows?
The difference in the message for these two movies is
that the children’s movie gave a message that the child could carry with them throughout
life about having compassion towards animals. The adult movie alternatively
really just wanted an action/ romance movie to draw in adults and threw
dolphins into the plot because people were currently passionate about saving
the dolphins.
Below is the link for A Dolphin Tale trailer!
And here is a
link to the trailer for Beneath the Blue!
Resources:
http://www.squidoo.com/dolphin-movies
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