Six years before filming the international box office smash The Gods Must Be Crazy, South African filmmaker Jamie Uys made Animals Are Beautiful People, a nature documentary that served as an interesting warm up for what was to follow.
Six years before filming the international box office smash The Gods Must Be Crazy, South African filmmaker Jamie Uys made Animals Are Beautiful People, a nature documentary that served as an interesting warm up for what was to follow.
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#1 by The Rev. on March 5, 2014 - 4:47 pm
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“The movie introduces us to a plant whose spelling I am not confident with. It sounded like “Styphelia”, but the Internet told me those plants with that name are actually found in the Pacific area.”
I believe this would be Stapelia, a genus of flowers from southern Africa. Most of its species produce blooms that emit a smell like carrion.
#2 by Greywizard on March 5, 2014 - 8:03 pm
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Rev., thanks for clearing that up.
#3 by The Rev. on March 5, 2014 - 10:41 pm
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You’re quite welcome.
The approach to this documentary sounds interesting, but I’m not sure the positives outweigh the negatives as you list them. I have a feeling I’d be better off rewatching…shoot, can’t think of the name. It was a relatively recent documentary, no narration, just film of animals great and small with a soundtrack, interspersed with a delightful old African gentleman relating various myths regarding the creation of the planet, the animals, mankind, and such. He sometimes used visual aids; the one I remember most vividly involved milk. Honestly, as much as I love nature footage, I could’ve watched an hour of him simply telling his stories.