Genre: Romance/Drama.
Studio:
Mandalay Entertainment.
Production Company:
Mandalay Entertainment.
Project Phase: In Development.
Who's In It:
Richard Gere.
Who's Making It:
Deepa Mehta (Director, Screenwriter); Maggie Wilde (Producer);
Karen Teicher (Co-Producer).
Premise: A navy lieutenant who falls in love with an oceanographer studying whales.
Release Date: Unknown.
Comments: Years before Chris Carter thought up The X-Files, the 'hundredth monkey' theory was once used to give support to the existence of a collective unconscious, originally postulated by philosopher Carl Jung. Jung speculated that there existed a form of collective memory that we each individually drew from sub-consciously, and that enabled us to perform basic seemingly innate functions, such as the concept of language, knowing how to breathe and so on.
While studying a group of monkeys on a chain of islands, scientists discovered that seemingly overnight another different group of monkeys had learned how to wash bananas like the first group had learned to do. There seemingly was no way each group would have been in contact with the other, since their islands were seperated by miles of ocean. Some believed this was proof of Jung's collective unconsciousness at work, and that once a certain number of monkeys on one island learned how to wash bananas, the other monkeys on other nearby islands would be able to then access that ability from the collective.
However, the theory was later proven to be in error when evidence suggesting banana-washing monkeys had been taken from the original island and re-located on the second island without the knowledge of the scientists.
We have no idea if this at all relates or connects with the movie, but just wanted you to know we did learn something while at school, and it unfotunately wasn't through the collective unconsciousness.
Rumors: In an odd turn of events, a navy Lieutenant believes he has inherited the soul of a whale.
Scoop Feedback:
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March 27, 1998... Taken from Kate Lanier's original script The Hundredth Monkey, Mandalay pictures hired Deepa Mehta to rewrite and direct. Plans are to begin shooting this summer. [Scooped from Variety.]
Deepa Mehta has made a name for herself with controversial films such as the lesbian-inspired Fire and Camilla films. She now turns her lens on a journey of transferrence of a navy lieutenant and the oceanographer he falls for.