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Chilean movie brings the real Robinson Crusoe to life

Nombre Alfonso Campos Snchez

Profesor Lisa Quezada Arrellano

2 0 1 1 SANTIAGO - CHILE

Chilean movie brings the real Robinson Crusoe to life

One of the most dramatic tales to come out of Chile is the story of Alexander Selkirk, a swashbuckling Scottish sailor who was abandoned on an uninhabited island in the Juan Fernandez Archipelago in the early 18th century.

And now it has been transformed into a South American children's movie: Selkirk: The Real Robinson Crusoe. It all started back in the 1980s, when Chilean filmmaker Fernando Acua began studying the story behind Robinson Crusoe and decided to transform Selkirk's remarkable story into a cinematic production.

The original plan was to film the movie with actors, but today - almost 30 years later - it has evolved into an animated picture, using the stop motion technique made famous by Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and the popular Wallace and Gromit stories.

Like Selkirk's time on Robinson Crusoe Island, producing the film was a painstakingly slow process. It took almost a decade to design and construct the 1,070 images that form the backdrop for the movie's various scenes, while the story was recorded frame by frame using delicate plasticine figures.

The film is set to premiere in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay in February 2012.