Lin Mengdi/Mandy
Dr. Marquardt
ENG1300
Sept.28/14
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What happens when filming may
cause pollution?
Film
market is becoming more and more prosperity recent years. If Chinese films have
the intention to become someone who is outstanding in the world, they have to
pay more attention to the gorgeous scenery, excellent staff, advanced
photography equipment and so on.
However,
in the developing process of Chinese films, there are more and more environment
pollutions being exposed. Unlike American film market owns mature and tacit
environmental protection measures, China has the urgent to standardize film
market. I have found some cases to compare China and other countries in dealing
with environmental pollution when filming. Wish I can find the answers.
《The Promise》(2005,China) directed by Chen Kaige, China
The
promise is a 2005 Chinese epic fantasy film. This film is based on the wuxia
romance The Kunlun Slave, written by Pei Xing at the time of Tang Dynasty. Even
though this film gained a lot of office box earnings in different countries,
but received many criticism voices from different area as well. One of the
important reasons is damage to vegetation.
Because
of quantities of staff in this crew, there must be much garbage. Besides, the
staff there is lack of environmental awareness. What’s the worst, to build the
background and pave, the film crew damaged the alpine meadow in Shangri-La,
Yunnan Province. After the fact published by some reporters then warned by
environmental government, the crew was under pressure having to clean their
garbage out, but the vegetation almost couldn’t be recovered.
Link：http://uk.reuters.com/article/2006/11/01/uk-environment-china-director-idUKPEK25074320061101
《Three Kingdoms》(2010,China) directed by Gao Xixi , China
Three
Kingdoms is a Chinese television series based on the events in the late Eastern
Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period. The series was well received both
domestically and internationally, earning an estimated 800 million yuan in
total as of May.
As
one of four classics in China,《Three Kingdom》occupied an important position from ancient times. So this series
crew cost a lot of money to invite excellent actors, hire workers, furnished
studio and so on. However, what shocked the local people was the crew caused
the water pollution terribly. Apart from the stacked plastic boxes, there were
many drinking bottles even stool floating on water surface of the Yangxi
reservoir. What shocked us was that dealing the problem was not the
environmental but the reservoir management. Until Apr.18th,2009, all
the garbage was cleaned out completely, the film scene was restored as before.
Link: http://sgtsbhtrh.over-blog.com/article-the-new-three-kingdoms-cast-to-promote-the-water-rights-laws-affecting-water-quality-98400361.html
《The Lord of the Rings》(2001-2003,America) directed by Peter Jackson, New Zealand
The
lord of the rings is a film series consisting of three epic fantasy adventure
films directed by Peter Jackson. The series was a major financial success, with
the films collectively being among the highest- grossing film series of all
time.
The
film series was shoot at different places in New Zealand. The scenery and
nature are so beautiful that I cannot describe with words. Because of the
strict environmental rules, the film crew tried their best to build some scenes
which wouldn’t do harm to environment. When the shooting ended, the scenes were
removed at once. So the beautiful scenery in the film could be remained until
now.
Link：http://members.shaw.ca/rolfwitzsche/canada/lord_of_the_rings.html
《Pearl Harbor》(2001,America) directed by Michael Bay, America
Pearl
Harbor is a 2001 American epic war film with romance and action elements
directed by Michael Bay. It is a dramatic reimagining of the Blitz, the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and the Doolittle Raid.
This
film was also a environmental protection case. To reappear the scene at that
time realistically, not only the crew chose scene where is the Pearl Harbor’s
wreck located, but also blew up 17 vessels. In the shooting process, the film
crew was overseen by many environmentalists. And they hired some professional divers.
Before filming the explosion scene, these divers would drive turtles and fishes
that were accidental injured possibly.
Link: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Jan/05/l
Mandy, What an interesting topic. And I like that your examples are all films that rely heavily on the beauty of the landscape. How ironic that in filming these landscapes, they also damage them.
回复删除Do you notice any common elements in these examples? Anything that leads to landscape destruction, that results in it, or that could prevent it? A common element would help you reach your conclusion.