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- However, in order to strengthen her idea on women development and bringing out women's position in the society, Niki Caro intelligently modified this retelling of a Maori legend. Caro argues that Whale Rider is more about leadership than sexism because the Māori are also profoundly matriarchal.
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Jun 6, 2003 · “The Maoris have a very high bullshit detector,” Niki Caro says of New Zealand’s indigenous people, though it’s quickly apparent that Caro, the writer/director of “Whale Rider,” does as...
- Indiewire
What such criticisms point towards is the fact that Caro and her producer, John Barnett of South Pacific Pictures, deliberately reworked the source story of Whale Rider for the sake of making the film appeal to an international audience.
- Alistair Fox
- 2018
Whale Rider is a 2002 New Zealand drama film written and directed by Niki Caro. Based on the 1987 novel The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera , the film stars Keisha Castle-Hughes as Kahu Paikea Apirana, a twelve-year-old Māori girl whose ambition is to become the chief of the tribe.
Jun 28, 2024 · Niki Caro’s delicately laced film of belief, bravery, and true leadership honours the importance of Rangatira (Chiefs) in Māori self-determination while negotiating the inherent limitations of patriarchal succession by making a young girl the true figure of hope.
- David Nagle
Jun 29, 2020 · Vincent Greene takes a look at the stunning 2002 New-Zealand movie Whale Rider, directed by Niki Caro, starring Keisha Castle-Hughes.
- Vincent Greene
May 24, 2014 · Niki Caro’s 2002 Kiwi classic, Whale Rider – a feminist film if ever there was. Whale Rider is a 2002 film centred around Pai Apriana (Keisha Castle-Hughes), a spirited eleven-year-old born in tragic circumstances on the coastal village of Whangara.
Through a comparison with the film’s source, Witi Ihimaera’s novel The Whale Rider (1987), this chapter explores why many Māori found the film culturally offensive on account of the way that its Pākehā director, Niki Caro, imposed a euro-centric feminist ideology on the story in the process of adaptation that was at odds with the kaupapa ...
