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The 11th Hour is a 2007 feature film documentary, created, produced
narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, on the state of the natural environment. It
was directed by Leila Conners Petersen Nadia Conners financed by Adam
Lewis, Pierre André Senizergues Doyle Brunson, distributed by Warner
Independent Pictures. Its world premiere was at the 2007 60th Annual Cannes
Film Festival (May 16-27, 2007) it was released on August 17, 2007, in the
year in which the Fourth Assessment Report of the United Nations global
warming panel IPCC was published about a year after Al Gore's An
Inconvenient Truth, a movie-documentary-slideshow about global
warming.Plot
With contributions from over 50 politicians, scientists, environmental
activists, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist
Stephen Hawking, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, journalist Paul
Hawken, the film documents the grave problems facing the planet's life
systems. Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, depletion
of the oceans' habitats are all addressed. The film's premise is that the
future of humanity is in jeopardy.
The film proposes potential solutions to these problems by calling for
restorative action by the reshaping rethinking of global human activity
through technology, social responsibility conservation. Scientists
environmental advocates such as David Orr, David Suzuki, Paul Stamets,
Gloria Flora paint a portrait for a radically new different future in which
it is not humanity's intent to dominate the planet's life systems, but to
mimic coexist with them.
Quotes
“ Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we
face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity ...
We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming the
problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental
future for our planet. ”
—Leonardo DiCaprio.
Criticism
Patrick Moore, an early member of Greenpeace, now supported by the Nuclear
Energy Institute, who later rejected traditional environmentalism, directly
criticized Leonardo DiCaprio the film The 11th Hour in an article for the
Vancouver Sun on August 29, 2007 titled ‘An Inconvenient Fact’
“ DiCaprio's movie, The 11th Hour, is another example of anti-forestry
scare tactics, this time said to be "brilliant terrifying" by James
Christopher of the London Times.
Maybe so, but instead of surrendering to the terror, keep in mind that
there are solutions to the challenges of climate, our forests are among
them.
This film should be a good, clear reminder for us to put the science before
the Hollywood hype. ”
—Patrick Moore, in the August 29, 2007 issue of The Vancouver Sun,
Release
Box Office
The film generated $8,160,853 from four locations in its first weekend of
release.
See also
- An Inconvenient Truth - another documentary about the same subject
- Global warming - the subject of both documentaries
- List of documentaries
References
1. We all have to... DiCaprio quote Retrieved on April 12, 2007
2. An Inconvenient Fact article by Dr. Patrick Moore Retrieved on
August 29, 2007
3. iW BOT: Hot in Theaters Retrieved on September 5, 2007
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