Over here we can say that an injured dolphin washed up on the Florida shoreline in 2005, barely alive and given slim chances of surviving. Its flesh had been torn open by fishing net, inflicting injuries so severe that the animal had to have its tail amputated. Basically there is a story of the eventual survival which is giving a inspiration for making a new movie, the kid flick "Dolphin Tale," which critics have praised as sterling family entertainment and one of the year's best feel-good movies.
The film is based on the story of a dolphin named winter that lives at an aquarium here and its convalescence at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium after its near-fatal encounter with a crabbing net. The movie's script closely follows the same plot line. In "Dolphin Tale" the animal, just a few months old, is rescued by a young boy named Sawyer and an altruistic doctor who saves its life. After her tail was amputated, winter’s caregivers come up with the ingenious idea of outfitting the animal with a cutting-edge prosthetic tail that allows her to swim normally.
"We applied to winter existing technology, prostheses and medical knowledge for humans," said David Yates, director of the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, who said the materials used in developing the fake tail have also been useful in the development of prosthetics for humans."She also gave us with her rehabilitation process a great invention for those who must live with prostheses," he said of the appendage fashioned from rubberized plastic and carbon fiber. There a slightly darker sub-themes in the movie however, including the troubled emotional life of Sawyer, a misfit at school who finds purpose in caring for the injured bottlenose, and the financial struggles of the aquarium.
The A-list cast includes Ashley Judd, Kris Kristofferson, Harry Connick Jr and Morgan Freeman, who said he gravitated to the part because the movie represented good old fashioned entertainment."I thought it was a good story -- real good family fare. No crashes, no chases, no sex. Just a cracking good story, very kid-friendly" the veteran actor said.
The film is based on the story of a dolphin named winter that lives at an aquarium here and its convalescence at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium after its near-fatal encounter with a crabbing net. The movie's script closely follows the same plot line. In "Dolphin Tale" the animal, just a few months old, is rescued by a young boy named Sawyer and an altruistic doctor who saves its life. After her tail was amputated, winter’s caregivers come up with the ingenious idea of outfitting the animal with a cutting-edge prosthetic tail that allows her to swim normally.
"We applied to winter existing technology, prostheses and medical knowledge for humans," said David Yates, director of the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, who said the materials used in developing the fake tail have also been useful in the development of prosthetics for humans."She also gave us with her rehabilitation process a great invention for those who must live with prostheses," he said of the appendage fashioned from rubberized plastic and carbon fiber. There a slightly darker sub-themes in the movie however, including the troubled emotional life of Sawyer, a misfit at school who finds purpose in caring for the injured bottlenose, and the financial struggles of the aquarium.
The A-list cast includes Ashley Judd, Kris Kristofferson, Harry Connick Jr and Morgan Freeman, who said he gravitated to the part because the movie represented good old fashioned entertainment."I thought it was a good story -- real good family fare. No crashes, no chases, no sex. Just a cracking good story, very kid-friendly" the veteran actor said.
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