Documentary shows Jane Goodall a new perspective with an invisible lens.

In the early 1960s, Jane Goodall's revolutionary research on wild chimpanzees challenged the scientific views of animals and women. This story has never been out of date, but it has also been told in many movies, more books and countless articles. "KDSP" and "KDSP", which is why the documentary "Jane" (2065,438+07) directed by Brett Morgen and scored by philip glass has made some surprising contributions to the information ghouls in the dictionary. "This film can do this, probably because it borrowed more than 65,438+000 hours, which were never made public in the early 1960s, and was shot in Gombe Creek National Park in Tanzania, where Goodall completed some of her most important work," Goodall said at the film media roundtable on Monday (1October 65,438+9). This movie can take me back to those days more than any other movie about me. "[Humanoid behavior of primates]

Ghoder's research on wild chimpanzees has completely changed scientists' understanding of primates, mainly revealing how similar these animals are to humans. She observed that chimpanzees used reeds to take insects out of the mound, which provided some preliminary evidence for animals to use tools.

To study these chimpanzees, Goode will win their trust first, so that she can finally interact with them and be welcomed by chimpanzees.

Jane goodall and she named the chimpanzee David Grizzly Bear, the first member of the wild chimpanzee to lose fear of Goodall. (National Geographic Creative /Hugo van Lawick) The newly released lens captures Goodall's loneliness in the jungle of East Africa. The film emphasizes that she even spent more than five months getting close to chimpanzees and observing what they did besides fleeing from her. Later videos showed the progress of cooperation between Goode and chimpanzees, including bananas that they sat nearby and approached her carefully and let her put on the ground.

Unfortunately, feeding these animals inspired some males to attack Goode's camp and look for other things. This problem is largely solved by a feeding station.

Of course, there will be pictures of Goodall in the future, interacting with chimpanzees-combing hair, scratching and expressing love. In the film, Goodall described this period as the greatest period of her life, because she was submerged in the process of exploration. [Photo album: The deadly attack of wild chimpanzees]

This 16 mm long film has been digitally restored, which is extremely vivid and bright compared with most news short films shot at that time. According to a statement from the company, it has been "hidden in the National Geographic Archives for more than 50 years". In this film, Hugo Van Locke may be the greatest wildlife photographer and filmmaker of his time. The National Geographic Society sent her to photograph Goodall as part of the grant she received. During his stay in Gombe, the photographer and his human subjects gradually fell in love and later got married and had children.

Jane Goodall kisses her son Grub in Gombe, Tanzania. (Jane Goodall Institute/Hugo van Lawick) The film also captures a very dark period in the Gombe Creek Research Center. According to the film, after Ghoder left Tanzania to help her husband make a film in Serengeti, many groups of wild chimpanzees in Africa were infected with human polio virus (though not necessarily scientists at Ghoder Station). The disease caused the death of many chimpanzee groups in Africa, including the chimpanzee that Goodall spent most of his time studying. Many chimpanzees died, and at least one was euthanized by scientists at Ghoder Research Station. The lens hurts.

Jane goodall and Flint the Chimpanzee are in Tanzania. Flint is the first baby born in Gombe after Goodall came to Gombe and started revolutionary research on wild chimpanzees. Flint's insight into chimpanzee feeding behavior further promoted Gold's research. (National Geographic Creative/Hugo Van Lavic) Goodall argued that the epidemic did not start in her place, but since then, she has banned physical contact between animals and scientists.

According to a statement in National Geographic, this has changed the way scientists study local animals, especially primates. However, Goode pointed out in an interview with reporters at the round table this month that there is also a chimpanzee research center in Gombe, and the research on the behavior of wild primates has been changing and has not stopped.

"I think the field of animal behavior has never been so exciting, because in the end, science has to admit that we are part of the magical animal kingdom, not only because we have personality, thoughts and emotions," Gold said. Now, we know not only the intelligence of chimpanzees, dolphins and elephants, but also the intelligence of birds-people have a strong interest in the intelligence of birds-octopus and even insects. Now we find that trees can communicate with pheromones and micro-fungi at the bottom of forests. This is a very exciting moment for young people who want to enter this field.

The task of sharing an experience and arranging 65,438+000 hours of new scenes fell to documentary producer Brett Mo Ergen. His previous film themes include musician Kurt Cobain, rock band The Rolling Stones, filmmaker Robert Evans and O.J. Simpson.

Jane Goodall. From left, Goodall's grandson, Merlin Van Locke; Her son Hugo van Locke; Film director Brett Morgan; Philip glass, the film composer. (National Geographic), but when talking to reporters at the media roundtable, Mo Ergen said that his shooting method has little to do with the details of a theme, and more is to "open my heart to the energy of the theme I am recording and try to put this energy into a bottle."

He added that although he had never seen a camera at his fingertips before, he did not start looking for new information about Goode or her experience in Gombe. Instead, he tried to use these lenses to "tell the story in a movie way," he said. Other documentaries about Goodall seem to make him a little indifferent.

"All these movies tell me what happened in Gombe," he said. None of them allowed me to experience what happened in Gombe. The films KDSP and KDSP also have a lot to do with their mothers. Morgan expressed deep respect for Goodall's mother, Wan Ni, which made Goodall full of confidence in the rampant time gender discrimination and the pursuit of dreams. Goodall even said in the film that she "had a man's dream" when she was a child, because in her world, women didn't do what she wanted to do, such as exploring Africa and living in animals. Vaughan also accompanied his daughter on the scientist's early African expedition.

In this film, Jane Goodall talks about appreciating the maternal skills of Flo, one of her chimpanzee subjects. In the film, she said that these observations had a deeper resonance with Goodall after her son was born. It was not until she became a mother herself that Goode could fully understand the maternal behavior she observed among chimpanzees.

Morgan may have succeeded in creating more experiences than just a historical experience. She said at the media roundtable: "According to Goodall's own view of this film, this film has a directness, and, you know, I feel that I am living in the best time of my life." There is more about me and my personal life [than previous movies], and the relationship with chimpanzees is so vivid that you should go and see it. I think people will take away, not a completely different Jane, but maybe there is a better understanding of who I am.

Jane will be shown in the selected cinema 65438+ from 10 20th. You can see a complete list of screening dates on the National Geographic website. The film will also be broadcast on National Geographic Channel in the winter of 20 18.

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