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	Whale Rider (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The whales in the movie were depicted using a combination of footage of real whales, life size models (some with humans creating movement) and CGI.
		Continuity: The father and grandfather are arguing after the slide show, and the father goes to pull down the white sheet that was hung over some drapes to act as a screen.
		"Whale Rider" can only give a boost to such efforts which, as this film shows, makes not only New Zealand but the world richer.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0298228 (1000 words)

	Whale Rider - Review - Stumped? - Stumped At the Video Store is a Magazine About Movies, DVD releases, actors, ...
		My panning Whale Rider is a move that effectively separates me from the pantheons of other film critics in America.
		Every compliment was shrouded in mystery, with people stating that Whale Rider was ‘touching’, ‘uplifting’ and a ‘triumph of the human spirit’.
		As one might glean from the ever-so-inspirational tagline, "One young girl dared to confront the past, change the present and determine the future", Whale Rider is a story of empowerment.
	stumpedmagazine.com /Reviews/whale-rider.html (429 words)

	The Whale Rider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 2002 movie Whale Rider is an adaptation of the book with the author's involvement by Niki Caro, who also directed.
		The movie's plot follows the story of twelve-year-old Paikea Apirana (or Kahu, in the book), who is the only living child in the line of the tribe's chiefly succession because of the death of her twin brother and mother during childbirth.
		Riding on the back of the whale, she leads the entire pod back into the sea, nearly drowning in the process.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whale_Rider (816 words)

	Movie Review: Whale Rider
		At root,Whale Rider is one of the best pictures about leadership that has been made in years, a movie that many of our corporate and political leaders would do well to make a beeline to see.
		Whale Rider follows the struggles of young Pai (newcomer Keisha Castle-Hughes) to win the love and respect of her gruff and continually disappointed grandfather Koro (Rawiri Paratene).
		It is about a reel too long, and the scene near the climax that has Pai reciting a speech about how the Maori should modernize their ways is a bit too sophisticated and heavy handed in light of what is to come, which illustrates her point without having to say it.
	www.boxofficemojo.com /reviews/?id=whalerider.htm (523 words)

	Whale Rider (2002) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		Her people claim descent from Kahutia Te Rangi, the legendary "whale rider." In every generation since Kahutia, a male heir has inherited the title of chief.
		But when hundreds of whales beach themselves and threaten the future of the Maori tribe, it is Kahu who saves the tribe when she reveals that she has the whale rider's ancient gift of communicating with whales.
		Author of the book, Witi Ihimaera, "had taken his daughters to a number of action movies, and they had asked him why in all those movies the boy was the hero and the girl was the one who was helpless.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /whale_rider.htm (1407 words)

	Whale Rider
		Whale Rider hails from New Zealand, up to this point most famous for being the setting for The Lord of the Rings.
		Whale Rider draws upon some of the primordial myths of the Maori, and ties it in with some serious issues that plague many cultures.
		Whale Rider is not slow, but moves at its own pace, that mimics life for these particular Maori.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/whale_rider.html (721 words)

	Whale Rider Book Review \| Witi Ihimaera \| New Zealand \| Overview \| Keisha Castle-Hughes \| Movie \| Teen Fiction \| Film
		Whale Rider is a magical tale of survival, stubbornness and destiny.
		Whale Rider is set on the East Coast of New Zealand and is so descriptive you'll be able to feel the ocean spray and hear the cry of the whales, right there in your living room.
		Since Whale Rider is set in New Zealand and the story is about a Maori tribe, a lot of the words used are traditional Maori words, making it a little tricky to follow along.
	www.kidzworld.com /article/4007-book-review-whale-rider (431 words)

	Review: Whale Rider
		The theme of Whale Rider — that of female empowerment — is not unique, but the context in which it is presented is. Like many tribal societies, the Maoris are patriarchal, and the concept of a female ruler, if not unthinkable, goes against tradition.
		Whale Rider, based on the novel by Maori author Witi Ihimaera, postulates what might happen if, in seeming contravention of religious custom, a girl appears to have been endowed with the mystical abilities of chieftain.
		Whale Rider is the second movie in a decade to address the subject of Maori survival in modern culture.
	www.reelviews.net /movies/w/whale_rider.html (788 words)

	Movie Spoiler for the film - WHALE RIDER
		When the whales leave, the fruits of fishing often leave with them, and when they are swimming past the shoreline of the Maori village, life is considered to be abundantly blessed and bountiful.
		"Whale Rider" opens in tragedy as a set of twins are born to the son of a Maori chieftain.
		While on the road to the airport, however, Pai sees several whales swimming off shore and she realizes that her destiny, no matter how difficult it might be, is to remain in New Zealand in the care of her grandparents rather than to go off to Germany with her father.
	www.themoviespoiler.com /Spoilers/whalerider.html (2500 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Whale Rider
		There is a heartbreaking irony in the fact that in Koro's desperation to find a chief for his tribe, he decides to train all of the village's firstborn boys in the ways of their ancestors, when it is obvious that Pai is the only one who is anxious to learn about them.
		Of all the children, she is the one who really believes in the Whale Rider legend, so much so that she is torn between wanting to change Koro's mind about her leadership abilities and accepting it when he refuses to acknowledge her.
		Whether or not Whale Rider could have been directed by a man is a matter of some debate (the book it's based on was, in fact, penned by a man), but it goes to show that women like Niki Caro, who possess this kind of talent, can no longer be ignored by the film community.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/whalerider.php (1896 words)

	Whale Rider
		Whale Rider is such a balanced mix of Maori culture and themes appealing to modern Western sensibilities that one would be tempted to call it canny, if it wasn't so sincere.
		The film takes a culturally specific plot -- the choice by the Maori ancestors of a new chief who will re-awaken the tribe to its lost strength and identity -- and recasts it as the battle by a child to be accepted by a father figure for whom her best is never good enough.
		A scene in which Kono teaches the boys how to scare the enemy by bugging their eyes and sticking out their tongues is funny both for the way it looks and for the way the boys split between being embarrassed and being delighted to pull faces in class.
	www.greenmanreview.com /film/film_whalerider.html (873 words)

	Whale Rider : DVDs : DVD : Movie : Reviews :
		Whale Rider centres on a Maori family in a small coastal village where the chief Koro (Rawiri Paratene) is about to get a grandson.
		Whale Rider brilliantly enters the Maori world of tradition where a man is trying to do the best by his people and stop them from losing their way, but his own strength and beliefs don't allow him to see that sometimes the answer is before his eyes.
		Whale Rider is a gentle, warming and uplifting movie that deserves all the awards it has won.
	www.webwombat.com.au /entertainment/dvds/whale.htm (390 words)

	Whale Rider & Rivers and Tides
		Barred from the patrilineal culture, Pai educates herself in tribal tradition with the silent encouragement of her grandmother Flowers (Vicky Haughton), the pair crushed beneath the weight of Koro's desperation for immortality through the continuation of his line.
		Whale Rider is embedded in the landscape with performances so strong and natural that the simplicity of the picture's fable lands with an almost unbearable eloquence.
		Occasional lapses of confidence aside, Whale Rider is deeply involved in the mysterious, often weaving its threads sublime and familiar into the kind of delicate tapestry that inspires.
	filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/whaleriver.htm (568 words)

	Heart and soul - Film - theage.com.au
		The film, Whale Rider, is inspired by the legend that local Maori were guided to New Zealand by the ancestral figure of Paikea, who swam there on the back of a whale (his carved figure still perches atop the Whangara's marae).
		"Whale Rider is subversive within the Maori tradition, even if it doesn't seem so from a Western perspective," says Ihimaera, in the little book-lined study at the University of Auckland, where he teaches English and creative writing.
		On the other side of Auckland, Whale Rider's director, Niki Caro, manoeuvres gingerly around her office-apartment: she is about to give birth to her first child.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/07/14/1058034937397.html (1910 words)

	Whale Rider (2003): Reviews
		The rhythms of Whale Rider are hypnotic as the ebb tide, haunting as the song of the humpback sea mammal, bracing as the ocean spray.
		While Whale Rider is a doozy of a female-empowerment fantasy, it’s mercifully free of any feminist smugness.
		Whale Rider is one long, sensitive downer capped by an uplifting finale.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/whalerider (1190 words)

	Girl Power: New Zealand Writer/Director Niki Caro Talks About "Whale Rider"
		That may be why she was able to convince the Ngati Konohi tribe that she should be the one to adapt the beloved Maori book to the screen, despite the fact that she's a "pakeha" (a New Zealander of European descent).
		As it turns out, "Whale Rider" is less an anthropological study of the Maori people than a universal story of female empowerment.
		Caro's "Whale Rider" is ultimately a family film that might not be seen by nearly enough families.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_030606caro.html (1703 words)

	WHALE RIDER
		Rider is set in New Zealand, on the Eastern Coast of the North Island in a village a Maori tribe (like the folks from Once Were Warriors) has called home for the last millennium or so.
		Rider carefully avoids the usual two-dimensional characters that generally populate these films (in the same way Bend It Like Beckham is so much better than My Big Fat Greek Wedding).
		Rider was directed by Niki Caro, who adapted the screenplay from Witi Ihimaera's 1986 novel (the first Maori novel to be published in New Zealand).
	www.sick-boy.com /whalerider.htm (568 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Whale Rider [2003]: DVD: Keisha Castle-Hughes,Rawiri Paratene,Niki Caro,Vicky Haughton,Cliff Curtis,Grant ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The mythic whale rider--the ultimate symbol of Maori connection to nature--is also the harbinger of Pai's destiny, and the appealing Castle-Hughes gives a luminous, astonishingly powerful performance that won't leave a dry eye in the house.
		WHALE RIDER comes from New Zealand, and opens with a Maori mother giving birth to twins, a son and a daughter.
		Whales have a significant part in this film, and indeed catalyze the outcome of Pai's struggle for recognition.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Whale-Rider-Keisha-Castle-Hughes/dp/B0000Z0HA8 (1785 words)

	Whale Rider (2003)
		Only the most hardened of cynics will be able to resist Whale Rider, a lyrical coming-of-age story that casts a potent spell.
		Whale Rider bucks this tradition to show a young girl asserting herself in a traditionally male role.
		Whale Rider's director Niki Caro is one of several New Zealand filmmakers who've risen to international prominence since the 1980s.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=137988&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (648 words)

	Kahutia/Paikea - The Whale Rider
		Over a period of three weeks, he wrote "the Whale Rider" - a story of Kahutia-te-Rangi, a story of Whangara, of small-town rural New Zealand, a story of the changing and breaking of years of Maori tradition and teaching.
		Meanwhile, down on the beach, the whales that Kahutia/Paikea called because her Koro was calling them and they were not answering him, are stranded and dying.
		And she is out at sea on the back of a whale, and no one thinks to see her back.
	www.geocities.com /ratesjul/whalerider.html (1506 words)

	Whale Rider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		"Whale Rider", a New Zealand film, is a story about a Maori tribe in modern times, with a twist of their tales and tradition thrown in.
		There isn't an awful lot of whale riding, and I was looking forward to that.
		She's not grown up and felt her full outrage at such brutal betrayal and constant condemnation based on nothing more than that she was born female.
	www.civilizednation.com /webstore/us/product/B0000CABBW.htm (451 words)

	Political Film Society - Whale Rider
		Whale Rider, based on the novel by Witi Ihimaera, contemporaneanizes the legend.
		He throws overboard the tooth of a whale that he has been carrying around his neck as a sign of his status as chief, and he asks the boys to retrieve the tooth from the depths.
		The next day, efforts of the villagers to pull the largest whale into the water prove to be in vain.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/whalerider.html (435 words)

	sfbg.com \| A and E
		It's not a bad metaphor for filmmaking, either, considering that the young woman is Caro herself on the day she accepted Whale Rider as a film project and immediately heard of a whale dead on the sand near her beach house.
		After she consulted Maori friends, sure the whale stranding was a bad omen, Caro learned that traditionally "it was great luck to have a whale stranded like that – it meant that people got meat, oil, bone for weapons." Lucky, that, because the whales have kept on coming.
		He was posted to the New York consulate office when a whale happened to wander into the Hudson River, causing quite a fuss and reminding him of home.
	www.sfbg.com /37/39/art_film_whale.html (1364 words)

	Movie-List: DVD: Whale Rider
		The mythic whale rider--the ultimate symbol of Maori connection to nature--is also the harbinger of Pai's destiny, and the appealing Castle-Hughes gives a luminous, astonishingly powerful performance that won't leave a dry eye in the house.
		Whale Rider is a wonderful story that breaks the limitations of gender or age revealing that wisdom can be found in a young girl.
		Despite what the male elders and tribal community members believe, the "Whale Rider" is not at all who or what they expected.
	www.movie-list.com /onvideo/shop.php?c=01&n=49598011&i=B0000CABBW&x=Whale_Rider (791 words)

	Whale Rider
		I am speaking of "Whale Rider", a Maori coming of age story with a twist--in this case the protagonist is a teenage girl rather than a boy.
		The title of the film is derived from the climactic scene in which the villagers struggle in vain to get a group of beached whales to return to the ocean.
		"Whale Rider" is a very convincing account of the Maori people to resist assimilation.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/culture/WhaleRider.htm (614 words)

	Flere filmer fra sør
		Mandag kveld settes "Whale Rider" fra New Zealand opp i Vika.
		Keisha Castle-Hughes spiller hovedrollene i den prisbelønnede Newzealandske filmen "Whale Rider".
		Niki Caro har regien på "Whale Rider", og har greid å tiltrekke seg festivalpriser i uvanlig omfang.
	www.aftenposten.no /kul_und/film/article691425.ece?service=print (293 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Whale Rider: Books: Witi Ihimaera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The pages are littered with Maaori words and phrases, but there is a glossary in the back to help people not familiar with Maaori culture understand the history of Maaori in NZ and the beleifs and culture of a very vibrant indigenous population.
		"The Whale Rider" is largely an upbeat tale about love, striving for balance between old and new, tradition and modernity, man and nature, myth and reality.
		"The Whale Rider" is a great little novel which will give the unaccustomed reader a wonderful insight into Maori life, yet convey how the specific can adapt to the universal and will invite the curious to delve into other works by this intelligent, sensitive and positive storyteller.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Whale-Rider-Witi-Ihimaera/dp/0152050167 (1148 words)

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