PR shot from reality TV producer Mark Burnett’s (credits: “Survivor” and “The Apprentice”) latest venture, “Expedition Africa: Stanley and Livingstone” that sends “… a team of high-energy, frequently fractious, quasi-professional explorers on a trip to recreate [Henry] Stanley’s 1871 journey to find [David] Livingstone, the lost titan of African exploration.” (that’s not my words, that the approving description in a New York Times story this weekend).
Serious.
There’s also this quote about how Mr Burnett prepared for the series:
“… He even rewatched films like “Out of Africa” and “King Solomon’s Mines” to “get the fabric of the lensing we could do on the show,” with wide-vista shots and gauzy cinematography.“
I am tired.
This is on TV because they can still get away with this.
If you don’t mind throwing up, go check out the show’s website.
Wow.
I did though like the combination of “exploring was simply in her and her comrades’ blood” with the problem of having to invent detours so that they could “explore” (“The show’s team takes 30 days to travel a distance it took Stanley 16 months to traverse. And with roads and villages having sprung up near the route, the trip took many detours.”) Something confused about that.
I saw the site. It appears they will be facing “nature’s own fury”.
This comes across as a show for little boys with tender egos.
What are your thoughts on organised hunting in South AFrica? For some reason it blows a fuse in me seeing rich tourists dressed in khaki, just like a colonial, carrying their massive hunting weapons. They really are satisfying some sick fantasy of battling wild animals. Who are they kidding, the whole thing is organised,and how can you get pleasure out of shooting something so beautiful? There is no danger involved, only idiocy. There must be a better way to promote tourism.
Oops sorry for the unrelated rant, it’s just the guys on that show remind me of hunters.