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Best Foreign Film Meilleur film tranger | 1984
Best Foreign Film | 1984 | Jamie
Worst Picture | 1984 | Jamie
Budget 5,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 200,000,000 USD
The film ran for 532 consecutive days at the Oaks Theaters in Cupertino, California, setting a record for the longest uninterrupted run of any movie in Northern California. It was pulled only because the film reels fell into disrepair and a large section caught fire. After such a long run, replacing the reels was too expensive.
N!xau was paid less than $2,000 for his role as Xi, even though the film grossed over $200 million worldwide. Before his death in 2003, Jamie Uys gave N!xau $20,000 and a monthly stipend.
The film was the world's biggest non-US box office hit during its release.
While working 14- to 18-hour days for months on end, and with no days off, director Jamie Uys suffered a heart attack during the post-production process. An assistant editor from Hollywood was hired to assist Uys while he recuperated.
Due to an informal international embargo against South Africa, the film was released as a Botswanan film, despite having a South African director and being financed with South African government funds.
"Narrator: Only 600 miles to the south, there's a vast city. And here you find civilized man. Civilized man refused to adapt himself to his environment; instead, he adapted his environment to suit him. So he built cities, roads, vehicles, machinery, and he put up power lines to run his labour-saving devices. But somehow he didn't know where to stop. The more he improved his surroundings to make life easier, the more complicated he made it. So now his children are sentenced to 10-15 years of school, just to learn how to survive in this complex and hazardous habitat they were born into. And civilized man, who refused to adapt to his surroundings, now finds he has to adapt and re-adapt every hour of the day to his self-created environment. For instance, if it's Monday and 7:30 comes up, you have to dis-adapt from your domestic surroundings and re-adapt yourself to an entirely different environment. 8:00 means everybody has to look busy... 10:30 says you can stop looking busy for 15 minutes. And then you have to look busy again... And so your day is chopped into pieces, and in each segment of time you adapt to a new set circumstances. Narrator: [Kate looks for a place to have her lunch] My I share a table? Kate Thompson: No wonder some people go off the rails a bit... Young woman with noise in her head: Does the noise in my head bother you? Young woman with noise in her head: No... Kate Thompson: [Later, Kate finds Pete] Pete, Have you still got that story about the teacher shortage in Botswana? Pete: Yeah, you gonna use it? Kate Thompson: No. Maybe they can use me. Narrator: But in the Kalahari, it's always Tuesday, or Thursday if you like, or Sunday. No clocks or calendars tell you to do this or that."
"Narrator: The rhino is the self appointed fire prevention officer. When he sees a fire, he rushes in and stamps it out."
