Endurance

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Unique because of the extensive film footage and still photographs taken by the expedition's photographer, Frank Hurley. Absorbing because of the astonishing leadership of Captain Ernest Shackleton.</div> <bR> <div> Not one of the twenty-eight lives aboard the Endurance was lost on the remarkable two-year journey.  Among the photos and records of the journey, director George Butler found the original advertisement for a crew offering hazardous work, low pay, and doubtful safe return.  In spite of this thousands of men applied and were carefully interviewed to select the best.  The ship itself broke apart and was crushed after being frozen and locked into the ice six weeks after departing on its mission of traversing across the continent.  </div> <bR> <div> The men survived through the commanding ability of Sir Shackleton.  After he ordered the abandonment of the ship, he organized a work routine and a psychological strategy.  He utilized the dogs they had brought to develop camaraderie and strengthen bonds between the crew.  He tolerated no talk suggesting that a more democratic system than that of captain and crew should decide how to survive.  He sustained and kept them going throughout the long months of waiting and traveling on foot back to civilization.</div> <bR> <div> Even in the dawn of the commercial movie age, people were clamoring for movies from exotic parts of the world, especially of animals and of nature in its grandeur.  Funding for the expedition was obtained largely due to this hunger for photos.  Australian photographer Hurley was hired on the strength of earlier expedition work and this is how the Endurance came to have an official photojournalist.</div> <bR> <div> Butler has wisely let the powerful photos and journal entries speak for themselves, using a minimal amount of editorializing to tell Shackelton's story.  It has been a labor of love and there will eventually be five different films from his difficult and expensive filming trip to the Antarctic, among them <I><B><U>Shackleton's Journey </U></B></I>in IMAX.  The remarkable discipline and fortitude shown by these men are lessons in perseverance.  After an agonizing trip over ice, frigid water, and frozen land, nearing the very end, a snow storm is brewing as two of the strongest men set out with Shackleton to cross a mountain to bring help for the frostbitten and starving men.  If they had failed to reach help in the 36 hours before the storm was unleashed all would surely have perished.  When a team attempted the same route in the late 1990's, with high tech gear, radio contact and air support; the trip took them four days at top speed. </div> <bR> <div> Ironically, after all that these men endured, they returned home to a world at war, a changed world from the one that idolized adventurers a few years earlier.  Thus, they did not receive quite the hero's welcome they might have.  After recovering, some went on to untimely deaths on the front; others went on to long lives, but none of them ever talked much about their ordeal.  Shackleton died a few years later while organizing another Antarctic expedition and was buried on an island there.  A must see for all audiences.</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="592" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="588"><div> Shelley Cameron <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Symbol" >Ó</FONT> 2001</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="588"><div> <A HREF="mailto:shlcameron@aol.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:shlcameron@aol.com"><U><U>Shelley@reelmoviecritic.com</U></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>