Oka! Page #3

Synopsis: The story of Louis Sarno, an American ethno-musicologist who lived among the Bayaka Pygmies in Central Africa for 25 years.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Lavinia Currier
Production: Dada Films
 
IMDB:
5.5
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
Year:
2011
105 min
$10,030
Website
85 Views


[Sataka speaking

in native language]

[grunting]

Oh.

[blows]

[both mutter]

Sataka.

Eh?

[yells]

[laughing]

[laughing]

[laughing]

[speaking in native language]

[Larry speaking

in foreign language]

[all speaking]

I'll get the next one.

[speaks in foreign language]

[Sataka repeats]

[laughing]

[chattering]

I'm useless, and...

[speaking in

foreign language]

[laughs]

[laughing]

[speaking in French]

[chuckling]

[mutters]

[whispering]

Larry...

[speaks in native language]

[elephant rumbling]

[animals squawking]

[whispering]

[trumpets]

[trumpets]

[snorting]

[chattering]

[elephant rumbling]

[shouting in French]

[shouts]

Mr. Larry,

your behavior has jeopardized

an important affair

of state.

I'm issuing orders

for your arrest.

[speaks in French]

[speaking in French]

[spits]

Ahh.

[speaks in foreign language]

Ah.

Oh. Oh.

[spits]

[Sataka]

Larry...

[repeating]

[laughing]

[repeats]

[chattering]

[chattering continues]

[chattering]

So Sataka used me as bait

to get the whole village

into the forest.

[shouts]

[chattering intensifies]

It's like the Jersey Shore

in summer.

[chattering]

[chattering continues]

[grunts, groans]

[laughing]

[drumming]

[polyphonic singing]

[giving orders in French]

[continues orders]

[imitating machine gun firing]

Zero.

[animal chirping, squawking]

[polyphonic singing]

[continues]

[chirping,

squawking continue]

[chatter, laughter]

[chatter,

laughter continue]

[water drumming]

[continues]

[whooping]

[call and response chanting]

[laughing]

[chanting continues]

[drumming]

[rhythmic clapping]

[Man singing

in native language]

[men vocalizing]

[continues]

[no audible dialogue]

[chuckling]

[chuckles]

[stringed instrument]

[men chattering]

[continues]

[men singing

in native language]

Hey.

[speaks French]

Ohh.

[animal grunting]

[growls]

[growls]

Larry!

[chattering]

[whooping]

[polyphonic singing]

[continues]

[clears throat]

[rhythmic clapping]

[boy vocalizing]

[kids chanting]

[continues]

[clears throat]

[stops]

[laughter]

[playful chatter]

[speaks in native language]

[vocalizing together,

repetitively]

[continues]

Larry. Larry. Larry.

[shouts]

Larry.

[Girl] Larry.

Larry.

[shouts]

[shouts]

Larry. Larry.

Larry.

[grunts]

[chattering]

[laughing]

[Woman]

[mocking Larry]

Eee! Eee!

[stringed instrument]

[Man singing

in foreign language]

[continues]

[insects buzzing]

[chattering]

Larry?

[responds]

[speaks in native language]

[blade scraping]

[blade continues scraping]

[stringed instrument]

[people vocalizing]

[rhythmic clapping]

[laughing]

[whistling]

[whistling continues]

All work and no play.

Let's go.

[sighs]

Let's go.

Tomorrow, a Pygmy

will shoot an elephant.

This forest will be yours.

[native drums]

[polyphonic vocalizing]

[continues, faint]

[rhythmic clapping]

[whooping]

[radio:
Man singing

in foreign language]

[stops]

[group exclaiming]

[Man speaking

in native language]

[group exclaiming]

This is as far as our wheels

can carry us.

[speaking in native language]

What did he say?

Just a little walk

from here.

[speaks in foreign language]

[soft chatter]

That's a big gun

for red river hog.

[speaking in foreign language]

No, no.

[continues in foreign language]

[shouting in native language]

You will not

be shooting an elephant

while I'm in camp!

I love meat!

[stringed instrument]

[faint chatter]

[chatter continues]

[Woman laughing]

[Woman laughing]

[continues]

[chattering]

Mr. Yi?

[Woman]

Larry.

[laughing]

Shh. Larry.

Shh!

[whispering]

[chattering]

[soft chattering]

[whispering]

Doc did say I'd have

good days and bad days.

If I die here, the Bayaka

will have to leave the forest

to carry my corpse

back to Yamondo.

Yekko?

[elephant rumbling,

distant]

[rumbling continues]

[grunting]

[Boy]

[pounding ground]

[whistles]

[soft chattering]

They are hunting

with spears.

Then you have to do it.

Cannot have

a spear wound.

I'm sick and tired

of carrying out

your dirty work, all of you!

Here. Do it yourself.

[speaking in French]

[speaking in French]

Bassoun!

[snorts]

[rumbling]

[trumpets]

Sataka!

[speaks in foreign language]

I came because

you called me.

[speaking in native language]

[footsteps]

[rumbling]

[molimo bellowing]

[chittering]

[squawking]

[chirping]

The molimo.

[ molimo continues bellowing]

[trumpets]

[elephant trumpets]

[trumpeting]

[trumpeting continues]

[organic percussion]

[continues]

[trumpeting]

[chirping]

[long, sustained ringing]

[ringing continues]

[Man vocalizing]

[continues]

[Woman vocalizing]

Your Africa days

are over, Larry.

[People singing

in native language]

[native drums]

[continues]

[Bassoun]

Our little brothers

will be known

throughout the world.

Because of me.

Me!

[continues]

[yells]

Oh, Larry.

[stops]

Let me free!

[horns honking]

[coughing]

[speaking in native language]

[chattering]

[speaking in native language]

Larry!

Larry!

[people exclaiming,

chattering]

[Man singing

in native language]

[polyphonic singing]

[continues]

[African]

[Woman vocalizing]

[continues]

[polyphonic singing]

[ends]

[native instruments]

[Man vocalizing]

[continues]

[Man laughing]

[Man #2 speaking

in native language]

[vocalizing]

[Man speaks

in native language]

[Men respond]

[polyphonic singing]

[continues]

[ends]

[native instruments]

[Man singing

in native language]

[continues]

[whistling]

[ends]

[insects, birds chirping]

[animal howls]

[animal squawking]

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