Big Miracle
Ken Kwapis,2012
Lembras o filme Antárctida, da Sobrevivência ao Resgate, baseado numa história verídica, que estudámos nas aulas curriculares de Língua Portuguesa, para debater os problemas das alterações climáticas e a protecção dos animais? Tratava também de um salvamento, mas dessa vez de oito Yuski siberianos. Quantos textos, em escrita criativa, escreveram! Alguns muito interessantes!
Pois aqui temos de novo uma história verídica, mas desta vez, para salvar baleias.
Drew Barrymore/ Big Miracle
Ken Kwapis,2012
Para marcar o lançamento do filme Big Miracle com a actriz Drew Barrymore, baseado no resgate de baleias cinzentas no Alasca em 1988, segundo o livro de Tom Rose Freeing the Whales (1989)
Freeing the Whales
Tom Rose, 1989
Greenpeace (Estados Unidos) está a publicar no seu sítio web a história narrada por Campbell Plowden.
Campbell Plowden, na altura do acontecimento, activista da Greenpeace, descreve uma das mais loucas semanas do seu activismo durante catorze anos de apoio a Greenpeace. A que deu origem ao filme Big Miracle, contextualizando a verdadeira história, a fantástica campanha que teve como objectivo acabar com a caça à baleia e com os baleeiros.
(tradução livre)
Operation Breakthrough é portanto a verdadeira história que deu origem ao filme Big Miracle. Podes ler os acontecimentos verídicos aqui
Vê o trailer do filme Big Miracle mais abaixo. Poderás também visitar o site oficial aqui.
O filme estreou nos Estados Unidos, esta semana. Wow! Que sorte! Vamos esperar que chegue a Portugal.
Rescue of grey whales in Alaska. Read here
Rescue of grey whales in Alaska. Read here
credits: Greenpeace
© Bill Roth/ Anchorage Daily News/MCT/Land
The former oil field services company VECO use a screw-drive vehicle to help free the three California gray whales that were trapped by ice at Point Barrow in October 1988.
A California gray whale surfaces in the original breathing hole during the rescue attempt near Point Barrow in October 1988.
Rescuers use chain saws to cut breathing holes into the ice pack for the three California gray whales found trapped by ice at Point Barrow in October 1988.
A California gray whale surfaces in a breathing hole near rescuers who were cutting holes into the ice pack off Point Barrow in October 1988.
credits: Anchorage Daily News/Getty Images
One of the three California gray whales sis pet as he surfaces in a breathing hole cut into the ice off Point Barrow during a rescue attempt in October 1988.
Big Miracle
Ken Kwapis,2012
"To mark the launch of new movie, Big Miracle starring Drew Barrymore, about the 1988 rescue of grey whales in Alaska, we're publishing this fascinating story by Campbell Plowden. Plowden, then a Greenpeace whales campaigner, describes one of the craziest weeks in his 14 years with Greenpeace, and puts the whale rescue story dramatized the movie Big Miracle in the context of a wider campaign to end whaling worldwide."
Now watch another trailer of the movie when McGraw Thanks Rachel For Her Help In Saving The Whales
The film is now playing in the theaters in the United States. If you teach in the States, go to the movies with your students. It's based a true story, don't forget it.
Some years ago, we watched in the classroom another true story Eight Below about the rescue of eight Siberian Yuski in Antarctida. We loved so much!
After watching the video, in the classroom, we discussed the story, and done different activities on the theme. Some of us wrote lovely creative texts.
Geração 'explorer'
05.02.2012
