Tuesday 12 July 2011
Jock of the Bushveld Fan Page: Jock of the Bushveld Trailer
Jock of the Bushveld Fan Page: Jock of the Bushveld Trailer: "The official trailer of Jock of the Bushveld - The 3D Animation was recently released. Check it out... South Africa Tours - South Africa..."
Jock of the Bushveld Trailer
The official trailer of Jock of the Bushveld - The 3D Animation was recently released. Check it out...
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Jock of the Bushveld in 3D
Thanks to a tireless efforts of a group of South African animators and South African born producer Duncan MacNeillie (who worked on the 1986 film) Jock finally gets to tell the story from his point of view in 3D in 2011.
The 3D animation was put together on a considerably smaller budget compared to animated movies from Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks, but it is expected that the movie will put South Africa
Reports are that Visio Entertainment, a top marketing and distribution company, joined the team to finance the film's internationally release. To make the film appealing to an international audience they requested that the lead characters voiced to be changed from the South African actor Damon Barry to rock idol, Bryan Adams. Other famous actors making their appearances are Helen Hunt (Jess) and Ted Danson (Pezula). Then there is the voice of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, lending his voice to Tata, a resident spiritual leader.
It is expected that Johnny Clegg will reprise his role from the 1986 film in providing the music for the movie, and with the help of Tim Rice and a handful of South African music artists, will produce the soundtrack. Tim Rice previously contributed the lyrics for Disney's Aladdin and the Lion King. Nianell and lead singer of Watershed, Craig Hinds will also add their voices to the soundtrack.
The animation is set in the late 1880s in the Bushveld near the world famous Kruger National Park region of South Africa Africa ’s great heroes.
The storyline focuses on the animals, and it is from their point of view that the story unfolds…..some of the characters you will meet are:
- Jess, Jock’s mom who is fiercely loyal and protective
- Fitz, Jock’s human partner and friend
- Pezulu, the colourful rooster, a comic character who’s over the top, noisy and who ‘shoots from the hip’
- George, the antagonistic baboon – a villain with a mission to destroy Jock
- Basil, a flamboyant, gossiping monkey whose one liners epitomize his wit
- Jim, a powerful Zulu warrior who respects and admires Jock’s loyalty and bravery
- Snarly, an opportunistic witty mongrel
- Polly, a beautiful French poodle who, although she can be rather snobbish, is the desire of both Jock and Snarly
- Seedlings dislike for Fitz and Jock is immediate, intimidating Fitz and does what he can to disrupt his search for gold
- Lillian is the love of Fitz and Seedling. She is a school teacher and Polly is her dog. She is also the daughter of Mr Morris
- Tata is a wise old man and a respected leader in the community. He is Jess’s mentor and guardian
- Mr Morris made it big in Pilgrims Rest and enjoys the status of mayor who enjoys the odd gambling.
- Claude is an Australian hunter. He is on Seedling’s payroll and is essentially a harmless villain. Claude is his dog.
The story mainly focuses on Jock as a pup and hopefully a sad ending as in the original film will not be on the cards. It has been confirmed that the animation will be released in South Africa
Monday 4 July 2011
The history of Jock of the Bushveld
The history of Jock of the Bushveld
Kids, especially in South Africa
The tale starts where Percy comes to the Bushveld region of the Transvaal to work for transport riders in search of gold, fortune and love. Not long after, one of the transport rider's bull terrier has a litter of six puppies. Five of the six are strong, fat and have good colouring. But, one of them is a runt, weedy, ill-proportioned and is the victim of constant sibling attack. The owner decides to get rid of the pup by drowning it. Percy interferes just in time to save the pup’s life and after a night of contemplation, he decides to stick with the little weakling of the litter. He calls him Jock and a bond is formed from the start. Jock is very loyal towards Percy and brave, as seen as the tale unfolds.
Towards the end of the tale Jock gets kicked by a Kudu cow, losing his hearing which later leads to his death. Fitzpatrick gives Jock to a friend until he has a safer place for him to live in the town, where with his deafness; he is unsafe from traffic and people. The friend, Ted, loans Jock to a store-owner Tom Barnett, who is having trouble with thieves and kraal dogs. He cannot hear Tom when he calls him, and is mistakenly shot, because he is thought to be the dog killing chickens on the farm. Meanwhile Jock has already killed the other intruding dog.
This was the start of many a great adventure. The odd little puppy grew into a great and fearless dog. He was well liked, well respected and well behaved. However, it was only when Fitzpatrick had made his fortune, settled down to have a family and become an established and well-respected member of society that he took pen to paper at the urging of his children and shared these delightful tales with the rest of the world.
Fitzpatrick later recounted these adventures as bedtime stories to his children. Rudyard Kipling, a good friend of Fitzpatrick, also took part in these story-telling evenings and eventually persuaded him to collect these tales in book form. Illustrations for the book were done by Edmund Caldwell, a brother of Mary Tourtel, creator of Rupert Bear. Since 1907 the book has never been out of print.
In the late 1980s a film was made, based on the story of Jock. The movie did not prove popular with American audiences primarily to its sad ending. In 1995 new movies with an ending that was more palatable to this audience was released.
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