The Ivory game is a documentary about the illegal poaching that is going on in Africa. It is aimed at bringing awareness to the black market business of ivory that is running rampant in China and the danger that it poses on elephants and even people who want to help against poaching. The producers of the movie are Kief Davidson, Wolfgang Knopfler, and Walter Kohler. These people worked together to bring the movie that has information about the illegal ivory trading in China and Africa and released the movie in the year 2016. The documentary did an amazing job at conveying it’s message with the logos and pathos fields, although it needed to strengthen the ethos section of the triangle.
In the field of logic this film seemed to be able to accurately
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They attempted to evoke many different emotions mainly sympathy for the elephant population and a feeling of being surprised at the fact of how big the black market it is and how much of an influence the ivory trade is on people that live in China. One scene provided an excellent example of the pathos techniques is when Craig Miller is standing in the middle of a small group of elephants carcasses while the camera is floating around showing the carcasses while some mournful music plays and Craig talks about the attack that just took place, this scene can be found around the 18 min mark. This scene is effective at conveying emotions because it effectively displays the author's emotion towards poaching with the camera angles it gets on the carcasses of the elephants and the music that plays while it showing this grave brought the emotion of pity towards the elephants. Those elephants probably huddled up to protect the smallest of the elephants making it easier for the poachers to attack them. Poaching isn’t the only horrifying part about the ivory trade, due to the ivory trade being between Africa and China, China has become more dangerous with the government turning a blind eye to the trade and as well as corrupt government officials. At approximately 13 minutes into the movie it shows a man walking down a poorly lit alley way while ominous music is playing in the …show more content…
They managed to present reliable information to help them persuade the viewers into seeing all the horrible facts that are in the ivory trade such as elephants hiding their own tusks to seem less valuable. The techniques they used in order to persuade people with pathos was just as outstanding as the logos side, they chose excellent music to convey the emotions they wanted the viewers to feel. The ethos technique was the only persuasion technique that lacked at effectively presenting their message, the people didn’t seem very credible and gave the image that they knew too much about the topic. Other than the ethos technique lacking the movie was effective at displaying what they were trying to change and bring awareness
There is a myriad of other films, some produced by groups like PETA and ASPCA, where the intent is solely to inspire sympathy by parading superfluous images of abused animals in front of the viewer. Blackfish could have taken that route, it certainly would have been simple for the film-makers; however, they opted for a sensible and logical fact-based structure to support their message. Gabriela Cowperthwaite, the film’s director, succeeded in providing viewers like myself -- viewers who value facts over feelings, an excellent and well-documented look at the physical and mental treatment of these captured animals. The filmmakers provided enough evidence to support their claims which asked the viewer to question the killer whale’s aggressive behavior when in captivity and then allowed the viewer the make their own judgments based on the facts being
How have the filmmakers of The Cove and Blackfish used techniques to generate empathy for animal rights?
Prejudice plays a big part in “Shooting an Elephant.” It is seen in the relationship between the Burmese natives and the narrator,
However, Conniff notes the only way this will ever happen is if people take action and are able to put aside the basic human urge to consume everything right now, while not leaving much for later. Conniff describes a national park in Zambia known as Kafue which brings in around $2.3 million from tourism, however, lose much wildlife to snaring. He then goes on to note that recent projections, however, claim that “the park could be making $39 million a year instead, along with jobs and benefits for its neighbors — and support four times as many lions.” Conniff attempts to make his audience feel worried about the lions by giving us all these facts pertaining to Africa and its lions in which he hopes will help solidify his attempt at getting his readers to lobby and advocate for organizations such as the UN to help with the upkeep of these national parks. Conniff maintains a strong ethos in multiple points within his argument for instance, when he talks about campaign's purpose was to unite all of us under one banner in a way connects him to his audience as he groups himself with them. Conniff also does a fairly decent job at using logos to help persuade the audience, such as on one occasion in which
The reason ethos was not as successful is because there was not much to it. There was one actress in the documentary but she has only been in one other movie therefor she is not well known to the point where most people watching would recognize who she is. Actress Kristin Davis explains, "Tusks are being broken to represent that there must be a stop and we won't let people profit over their death." She did have a strong connection with the documentary to where she had a campaign trying to end poaching. In the campaign they would break the elephant tusks that were taken away from poachers, sellers and broken down. She was trying to spread the word by persuading the audience to join the campaign or help spread the word. Daphne sheldrick who is giving the first person experience, since she has been raising and reintegrating orphaned elephants into the wild. Daphne sheldrick said, "Baby elephants can die very easily because in a perfect world elephants wouldn’t have any enemies." Baby elephants are very fragile and are more likely to die if under their third birthday. It is not known for sure if they will live if they are under their third birthday they need to be careful and protected. At the orphanage they try their best to help the calves feel safe because it is hard for them to help little ones under their third birthday. Daphne gives the audience a stronger over view on the issue being
Bernhard Schlink once said, “As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book” The director, Francis Lawrence, did just this for the author, Sara Gruen, and her book, Water for Elephants. Water for Elephants is a thrilling romance about a man named Jacob Jankowski, who jumps on a train and joins the circus. He then falls in love with a girl who has a crazy husband. This plot that pulls on the audience’s heart strings has a wide range of moods that help the story be such an emotional roller coaster for the audience. The author and director both do a beautiful job of showing the different moods: romance, nostalgia, and intense that helps
The contents in this document are a critique of the documentary Taking Root. This Paper takes a systematic and analytical approach to the video and uses class and chapter concepts from CPO 3204 Contemporary African Politics.
Similarly, Water for Elephants has a very dark mood as well as many dark subjects that are mentioned throughout the story. The main disturbing idea mentioned in this novel is animal abuse. Rosie, the elephant that acts as a large part of the circus, is beaten countless times by the antagonist of the story. The presence of Rosie’s abuse and the vivid images one pictures of August
This character wants to prove himself so in "Shooting an Elephant" he goes against his own morals ,in order to please the crowd, and kills the elephant. In this story, the elephant symbolises morality and consiciousness ,while the crowd symbolises imperialism. This story proves how imperialism lives in culture and can corrupt anybody in subject to that
When he finial find the elephant Orwell say “I knew with perfect certainty that I ought not to shoot him.” But when he lays his eyes on the crowd he changes his stance to “but I did not want to shoot the elephant.”(Orwell 199). He felt guilty for shooting the elephant when he describe that the elephant worth more alive than dead, but despite the many reason not to shoot the elephant, he took a shot. Orwell describes “when I pulled the trigger I did not hear the bang or feel the kick …I fired again into the same spot…I fired a third time. That was the shot that did it for him.”(199) the shooting of the elephant represent the Burma people trying to stay alive and over powering by the
Much of the conflicting inner voices that the narrators of each of the pieces have, while not always clearly stated, are in fact their personal voice fighting against the controlling voice of society. In several ways, this creates symbols of insecurity, such as the clothing in “The New Dress,” as well as within “The Doll’s House”. All four of these pieces work to symbolize the nearly constant struggle that every single person struggles with between choosing to do what one feels is right and what one has been told by society to be correct. This is notably seen in “Shooting an Elephant” as the crowd watching the officer during his pursuit of the elephant symbolizes the peer pressure and societal expectations that often follow one everywhere. Then interestingly in “The New Dress,” the main symbol is actually a changing symbol that alters in symbolic value from the beginning to the end of the story.
Warren, illustrates her rationalization that, “...ecological feminism is the position that there are important connections-historical, experiential, symbolic, theoretical- between the domination of women and the domination of nature…(281)”. Warren justifies her argument of using this ecofeminist framework through the discussion of the essence or “recipe” in which domination and oppression has historically worked to disenfranchise not only women but nature. In understanding how the ecological feminism may be applied to the exploitation, marginalization, and objectification of poaching elephants in Zimbabwe, it’s important to be formally cognizant of concepts included in feminism addressed in Warren’s argument. Through this work, it is important to remember that every ideology has its own points of illogic self-contradiction that allows us to understand its operation and decrease its
Elephants are an endangered species and they should not be killed for their ivory or they will become extinct. In the article The Poaching Problem the author writes” elephant populations have declined to dangerously low levels.” At the rate that poachers are killing these innocent animal the entire species of elephants will be extinct in the year 2030! That is only twenty five years, I know that does not seem like a long time but it is going to go by fast and every one will regret killing all those poor innocent gentle creatures. In case study 483 they author writes “ During the 1970s and 1980s elephant poaching had included about 1.3 million elephants killed for their tusks.” It is hard to distinguish between legal and illegal ivory so it is sold easily.
...l the flow of conflict diamonds. Both assure consumers that more than 99% of rough stones today come from conflict-free sources which are regulated by the Kimberley process. According to the people who profited from diamonds, the blood diamonds problem is passé5. Further research tells us that it is not. According to Father Rocco Puopolo of the Africa Faith and Justice Network, he says “It’s not passé,” “the diamond industry can claim what they want and the film will always serve as a template for what is going on in Africa today.” This point out that labour exploitation and conflict (for control of precious resources such as gold) may still be going on in Africa.
An elephant may seem to be a silly topic to be writing an honors thesis over. To a lot of people the elephant is a mammal they can only find at the zoo or in a circus. It is not something to be treasured and loved. It is a machine to move logs across the country or to fight wars. It is something to stare at in adoration and wonder. It is something they never touch. They might as well just be something of fairy tales and stories. The truth about elephants is that they are truly magical creatures that are of fairy tales and stories. They are creatures who have been on Earth for millions of years. They lived when dinosaurs still walked the Earth and continue to survive even today. People need to understand the importance of these remarkable creatures. They also need to understand the value that these animals play with thousands of peoples lives, including my own. They portray a symbol of strength, hope, knowledge and thousands of other things. They have been depicted in gods and religions. Most importantly, to me they are a symbol of love and adoration. They remind me of a time when my father was still with me. This is why I am writing my thesis. I plan to discuss the importance of elephants to many different religions and cultures.