TRANSCRIPT
– The concept for the movie, the ‘Hippo King’ began when we got here to South Luangwa, and what was it?
In 2011 for the primary time, once we found these unbelievable animals behind us.
– Usually, we see hippos bobbing about within the water possibly with a pleasant yawn displaying their tusks, however most individuals do not get to see far more about hippos, and subsequently it is onerous to grasp and recognize these animals.
Basically, the story is about an previous hippo bull that is taking us all the best way again to the second he was born.
And takes us by means of the totally different life phases that he goes by means of.
And I believe what we had been hoping to realize with this movie by following one character rising up right here in South Luangwa Zambia, is that we’re hoping to point out the totally different aspect of a hippo, and {that a} viewer truly can join with an animal that we do not often join with simply.
(crickets chirping) (hippo grunting) – [Man] And it took us about six, seven years of repeatedly documenting totally different habits of the hippos.
And there is a aspect to hippos that we found a delicate aspect, an emotional aspect even a social aspect.
– [Woman] We’re usually used to filming enamel and claws, and this was a primary time that we truly adopted a herbivore for such a very long time.
And it has been an superb expertise.
– We used an array of totally different expertise to point out aspect that been hardly seen and that is at nighttime.
We had been lucky to have the option to safe a thermal digital camera, that you would be able to movie at night time with out utilizing any lights in any way.
There will likely be zero affect besides our presence.
And that helped us to get us little secret view of what hippos are as much as at night time.
And what we have seen was exceptional.
We have seen issues that you just by no means hardly think about a hippo do.
And naturally we did one thing with excessive velocity cameras to point out you the element of hippos you will not see in a standard velocity digital camera.
And we used very, very sturdy lenses to get nearer than earlier than to provide you that intimate view of the hippo that you just hardly will see.
I imply, this can be a harmful animal.
I imply, they considered one of the crucial harmful land mammals on earth.
However with this expertise and with time and respect we managed to get fairly intimate and shut to those animals in a secure method.
And to point out that lifetime of a hippo, like by no means earlier than.
As wildlife filmmakers we make movies like these not only for leisure, and it is for us we see the worth in conservation.
A spot like this, the Luangwa river, we wanna make it possible for our future generations can recognize this place.
And a river like this would not solely present aesthetical worth or stunning panorama behind us the place we are able to recognize nature, (hippo grunting) appropriate.
Sure, it helps communities.
It helps all these animals.
And I believe for future generations it is actually essential for us to preserve these, these final remaining wildernesses.
So we hope that The Hippo King will contribute to that, and make individuals recognize these fantastic locations we nonetheless have left on earth.
– And with this character pushed movie we hope that everybody will get to understand, respect and need to preserve these unbelievable animals.
(hippo grunting) (water splashing) (wind swishing)
