{"id":283,"date":"2005-08-10T11:37:10","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T16:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2005-08-10T11:37:10","modified_gmt":"2005-08-10T16:37:10","slug":"march-of-the-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2005\/08\/march-of-the-penguins\/","title":{"rendered":"March of The Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antarctica is a beautiful, brutal place that&#8217;s home to species most uniquely adapted to its frigid climate.  Even as I type it&#8217;s late winter there, the days getting a little bit longer, the sun rising just a little higher over the horizon each day.  And right now there is a big group of penguins nurturing new born chicks &#8211; for they are chicks as the penguin is, genuinely, a bird &#8211; against the harsh climate.<\/p>\n<p>This beautifully filmed piece tells of the Emperor penguin&#8217;s constant clock, one that drives them from their home in the sea unerringly across nearly 100 miles to their traditional breeding ground, a place where the ice is thicker and the wind isn&#8217;t quite so harsh during the storms of deep winter. The penguins hatched during filming by Laurent Chalet and J&#233;r&#244;me Maison for this French documentary (originally, <span class=\"pubtitle\">La Marche de l&#8217;empereur<\/span>) won&#8217;t themselves produce off-spring for another four years.<\/p>\n<p>Pitched at kids with gorgeous cinematography and a lush sound track of naturalistic effects, this film is a diverting enough way to spend 90 or so minutes.  Because of the concentration the film makers put on the harsh conditions there really isn&#8217;t much in the way of exposition about the penguins&#8217; behavior; the narration for the U.S. version (read by Morgan Freeman) freely admits, for example, that we have no idea by what criteria the monogamous-for-a-breeding-season penguins pick a mate.  It&#8217;s not often, though, that you get a chance to see such a rare environment on the big screen.  Even with its shallow depth of knowledge, I found this film charming if a little monochromatic (by the end of the film I was wishing for some color, any color, besides white).  Three popcorns out of five.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/woodstock\/weblog\/images\/popcorn3.gif\" width=\"215\" height=\"79\" alt=\"3 popcorns out of 5\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marchofthepenguins.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster\" src=\"\/woodstock\/weblog\/images\/movieposters\/penguins_poster.jpg\" width=\"219\" height=\"325\" alt=\"March of the Penguins poster\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marchofthepenguins.com\/\">official site<\/a><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antarctica is a beautiful, brutal place that&#8217;s home to species most uniquely adapted to its frigid climate. Even as I type it&#8217;s late winter there, the days getting a little bit longer, the sun rising just a little higher over the horizon each day. And right now there is a big group of penguins nurturing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-movie-review","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}