Last night, I watched Winged Migration, an absolutely beautiful movie about migrating birds. The film follows birds as they are flying and "migrating" in the northern and southern hemispheres. It really is a stunningly beautiful movie with the images that the filmmakers capture. Filming of the movie took place over almost four years and involved about five hundred people.

As beautiful as the movie is, a lot of it is movie staged. The making of on the DVD shows how it's done. You learn how they got such wonderful shots of the birds and that Frenchies can't pronounce the word Adirondack (I did a double take when they first said it). Most of the birds were trained and bread in France, then brought to the various places the movie was filmed. Seems kind of like cheating, but they never claimed it was a documentary - it's just just a story about birds.

Posted by tien mao in Movies at 12:00 PM