Arctic Tale Page #3

Synopsis: Two narratives -- the life cycle of a mother walrus and her calf, and the life of a polar bear and her cubs -- are used to illustrate the harsh realities of existence in the Arctic.
Production: Paramount Vantage
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
62%
G
Year:
2007
96 min
£598,103
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Nanu is about to discover...

... that these birds are very special.

It is an impossible mission for Nanu.

What bird class it furrows

the sea instead of the sky?

And then, something even stranger.

Creatures that he/she had never seen.

Nanu meets

with a flock of tusks...

... the unicorns of the sea.

Their sensitive ivory teeth,

of nervous multiple terminations...

... they allow them to analyze the air and the one

sea...

... to know the temperature and the climate.

As an arctic lost tribe,

the tusks wander for the sea...

... silent witnesses

of the change of the time.

The arctic ice had never been broken

so early and in such an abrupt way.

The hunt you impossible restitution.

Contrary to Nanu,

the fox doesn't know how to swim.

Before the melting of the ice,

he/she will have to say goodbye of their it dares.

Nanu faces its own crisis.

It had never been beached

in broken ice.

He/she had never been so hungry.

He/she had never lived situations

in those that the maternal teachings...

... they didn't help her at all.

Sea inside...

... the flock of tusks clings

to the few rafts of ice that are.

Such it is the packing,

that the spirits become warm.

Seela had never experienced

a bad year of ice.

The adults yes...

... although never one so hard.

A tusk incites to the collective decision

of abandoning the ice in setback.

They will have to look for a new home.

Not they can go to the coast

near the mountain of snow...

... because that is the habitation of the bears.

So they opt

for the open dangerous sea...

... in search of a distant island

that it covers them.

They will travel night and day

during one week, about 320 kms.

In the broken field of ice...

... the world of Nanu seems

to be being perturbed.

It should remain on the remains

of ice, where there is not food?

Or to follow the scent of the prey

toward the unknown sea?

This is the moment to show value.

But without a lot of hurry.

Impelled by a strong will

of survival, he/she takes a risk everything.

At the end, they arrive at a refuge in the one

sea...

... a rocky island.

The flock is exhausted.

But before resting...

... they should find where

to ascend to the surface.

Seela is very tired

and a meter cannot swim more.

But to leave the water is not anything easy.

To climb for the rock is even more arduous

that to crawl for a floe.

They will have to get up

about 900 kgs of fat...

... being only been worth of the force

of their fins.

Perhaps they should have eaten

less clams.

The flock would not maybe sleep

so placidly...

... if he/she knew who arrived at the island

before them.

The male bear.

And where there is a bear...

He is a fox of the place,

with summery camouflage.

In this rocky island,

he/she doesn't need to conform to with leftovers.

There are more arao pigeons

of those that he/she can eat.

Not they have escape.

And they are still very young to fly.

Caught between the bear and the wall...

... a dad arao indicates them

that they make something extraordinary.

The vote of trust inspires to jump

to the whole flock.

A breeding takes refuge in the sea.

Other, I joust on time,

on a solitary raft of ice.

Nanu has swimed during days...

... and it is so tired that almost he/she drowns.

This minuscule place of rest

it has saved him/her the life.

In the rocky island,

the summery sun generates a wave of heat.

The temperature overcomes

the freezing level.

The heat provokes

an infuriating itch...

... and when something chops us, we should

to scratch us, it doesn't care where neither how.

Seela feels also bothersome...

... and he/she wants to be liberated of their family,

although it is for a while.

The tusks are not prepared

to climb mountains...

... but she attempts it.

The aunt sees that Seela goes away

for their bill...

... and it leaves in their search...

... to all the speed

that it allows him/her their fat.

All of a sudden, Seela disappears.

The aunt the flame,

but he/she doesn't obtain answer.

The silence of Seela is very strange.

Their trip placed it

in a terrible situation.

It tripped and it was caught

in a narrow edge.

And somebody discovered it.

The polar bear approaches to attack...

... and Seela decides

for a desperate act.

Adolorida will be...

... but live.

Now he/she hurries to notice him/her

to the other ones.

The aunt is last o'clock in leaving the island.

The mother of Seela finds it...

... and the aunt meets with them.

The bear waits his opportunity.

Seela and their family retire

to another part of the rocky island.

Next to the gathered other flocks

here for the arctic ice in extinction.

The new situation has left

to many beached and vulnerable...

... and to other, desperate and

hungry.

Nanu arrives at the beach of the island

rocky...

... after a long week in the sea.

A whole day ago

that he/she smells preys in the wind.

But now that you see them...

... it is not so sure.

It is not about rung seals.

Nanu doesn't have experience

in attacking enormous tusks.

The mature ones triplicate it in weight and they are

armed of teeth like daggers.

Maybe discover a weak or small

that it can manage.

The hunger impels it to continue ahead,

in spite of their few possibilities.

But it is very young and very small...

... and they don't make it to him anything easy.

Their last opportunity

he/she seems to disappear.

Nanu has maybe traveled so much

only to die from hunger.

However, the old bear drifts

an attack from the sea...

... and it acts while the flock

it dozes unworried.

The bear advances in favor of the wind.

He/she comes closer without nobody notices it.

Seela escapes to the water behind its aunt,

but the bear catches it.

The aunt doesn't doubt it.

He/she returns to save the breeding.

Thanks to their anger,

Seela is able to escape to the sea.

In an act of loyalty,

the aunt makes the biggest sacrifice.

Seela awaits...

... but the aunt won't return.

As long as, Nanu weakens.

Without food,

he/she won't be able to resist much more.

He/she knows that the male is not

habituated to share...

... and that it could kill her with easiness.

But this is the moment to demonstrate

the temper that their mother inculcated him/her.

He/she refuses to renounce.

If it doesn't convince him of sharing

the food, she dies.

For that reason he/she doesn't leave...

... and it continues there...

... until he allows him/her to take

what needs.

An only death preserves

the life of many.

During the following four years,

Nanu and Seela return to these rocks...

... since the marine ice melts

more and more early.

The increase of the temperature

he/she has made this even more difficult world...

... altering the ancestral rhythm

of the stations...

... provoking the gradual breakup

of the Kingdom of ice...

... and this way transforming

to their legitimate masters...

... in refugees.

In the whole rtico...

... the animals should wait more and more

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Linda Woolverton

Linda Woolverton (born December 19, 1952) is an American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist, whose most prominent works include the screenplays and books of several acclaimed Disney films and stage musicals. She became the first woman to write an animated feature for Disney by writing the screenplay of Beauty and the Beast, the first animated film ever to be nominated for Best Picture at the 64th Academy Awards. She also wrote the screenplay of The Lion King, and adapted her own Beauty and the Beast screenplay into the book of the Broadway adaptation of the film, receiving a Tony Award nomination for this. more…

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