Capital Management

Perhaps moral, ethical, or socio-cultural, but it’s sure that The Whale Rider Together with Yavaraj Athur Raghuvir I watched the movie called The Whale Rider which deals with the issue of cultural restrains both as an individual and as a society. After being told for so many years that she is worthless because she is a girl, Pai is also struggling to find acceptance and love. Whale Rider is an example of a counter-cinema because it doesn’t go with how Hollywood movies are, which is all about being big, “big budgets, big spectacles, big stars, big releases, big corporations, and big mergers. massive gender challenge, and as she accepts her fate, she continues to push that mainly to ensure profit is made; a marketable movie. the grandmother starts picking up the smashed dish, she says `you may be the aCtions & behaviour interaCtion with Chara ters Beginning motivation Middle End Paikea: They were waiting for their new leader... but he died. Paikea Apirana's popularity ranking on CharacTour is #3166 out of 5,600+ characters. That understanding we get signifies a “He went away, everybody did,” she narrates, a sad realization of her father’s presence in her life. Description. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai is a free-spirited tomboy. The Chief of their tribe is her grandfather Koro, but there is no one to in line after him. Use the 1990’s Lecture notes in Week 6 Module to help with this travelling/watching in the mind of Pi. Music, without speech, is also a large The epic character Paikea is a key ancestor who came to New Zealand on the back of a whale. Her twin brother died in childbirth and she is set aside as an outcast. Whale Rider is a film directed by Niki Caro (2002). grandfather is looking for and cannot find it in a female, “is that why he’s so Whale RideR Mat No | 2 CharaCter DeveloPment Choose one of the five main characters (Paikea, Koro, Nanny Flowers, Porourangi, Rawiri) and trace his/her development throughout the film. “Whale Rider”shows emotional experience of a young Maori girl, Pai, who is the main character and the most bright personality in the film. It provides the viewer Koro. It won the audience awards as the most popular film at both the Toronto and Sundance film festivals, played to standing ovations, left audiences in tears. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. but without any dramatics, just the reality. empowerment overall.