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By moviejourneys On March 3, 2014 · Add Comment · In Bali Hai, Pacific: Oceania

Fantasy Islands Related Posts: Bird of Paradise (1932) Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932) Return to Pacific Overview

Tropical Island Fantasy Films

By moviejourneys On March 3, 2014 · Add Comment · In Bali Hai, Pacific: Oceania

Bird of Paradise (1932) Here is pretty much every cliché of South Sea fantasy films. Found this movie in a very murky old black and white print on YouTube in October 2012. Set in 1932, a group of wealthy yachtsmen arrive at a beautiful Polynesian island and set about throwing trinkets to the natives who [...]

Movies About Hawaii

By moviejourneys On February 14, 2014 · Add Comment · In Hawaii, Pacific: Oceania

Apart from some PBS documentaries on the fate of the royal family of Hawaii and the annexation of their kingdom by the Americans, there are virtually no movies about the history and mythology of the Hawaiian people. Princess Ka’iulani (2010) This movie was playing in Honolulu in June 2010. It is the story of Princess [...]

Hawaii – the Movie (1966), Sequel 1970

By moviejourneys On February 14, 2014 · Add Comment · In Hawaii, North Africa, Pacific: Oceania

James Michener, who has already been discussed in Western Islands, published the first installment of his two-volume fictional treatment of life in Hawaii in 1959, the year Hawaii became a state. Not everyone on the islands appreciated the work, which gave most of its attention to those who came from the Mainland. The brief account [...]

James Michener in the South Pacific

By moviejourneys On February 14, 2014 · Add Comment · In Pacific: Oceania, Western Islands

James Michener began his career writing stories taken from his experiences in the islands of the Pacific during a World War II. Serving in the Navy, he was stationed in the area of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides). He published Tales of the South Pacific in 1947 and later authored another book of stories about the South [...]

Hannibalism: Men Behaving Like Animals

By moviejourneys On February 14, 2014 · Add Comment · In Pacific: Oceania, Western Islands

The South Pacific is more strongly associated with the folklore of cannibalism than any place in the world. Captain Cook witnessed instances of cannibalism in New Zealand, and Captain Bligh was so afraid of cannibals on the islands that he stayed at sea to avoid them. Herman Melville wrote of cannibals in the Marquesas, but [...]

Movies About Polynesia

By moviejourneys On February 12, 2014 · Add Comment · In Pacific: Oceania, Polynesian Triangle

Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of movies about Polynesia. The first of these are laden with bitterness about what has been done to the islands by outside intruders. The other category is full of beautiful sunsets, waving palms, blue lagoons, and willing maidens; it is the South Seas fantasy. The romanticizing of Polynesia will [...]

The Bounty Movies

By moviejourneys On February 12, 2014 · Add Comment · In Pacific: Oceania, Polynesian Triangle

There are three major motion pictures about the mutiny onboard the HMS Bounty off Tahiti in 1789. A fourth and much less famous Australian-made film, called In the Wake of the Bounty (1933), has a place in film history as the first to feature Errol Flynn (as Fletcher Christian) on the big screen. It is [...]

Rapa Nui (1994)

By moviejourneys On February 12, 2014 · Add Comment · In Pacific: Oceania, Polynesian Triangle

Produced by Kevin Costner; this film is set on Easter Island in 1680. A legend speaks of the early settlement of the island and the “discovery” of the spot by Europeans (the Dutch) in 1722. The people of the island called this place the navel of the world – Rapa Nui. The central story of [...]

Whale Rider (2003)

By moviejourneys On February 12, 2014 · Add Comment · In Pacific: Oceania, Polynesian Triangle

This New Zealand film has genuine charm and the advantage of a truly likable young woman (twelve-years-old Keisha Castle-Hughes) in the lead role. It is the story of a girl named Pai who was born a twin. The other was a brother and there was some hope he would lead the people of his Maori [...]

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