Film
Take Your Kids to See the Brazilian Rain Forest: ‘Amazon Adventure’ Starts Saturday at Aquarium’s IMAX
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Plunge deep into the Brazilian rain forest for a giant-screen journey of discovery among glimmering butterflies, surprising insects and a prowling jaguar in the new IMAX movie “Amazon Adventure,” opening July 1 at The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk. The compelling story of 19th-century scientific breakthrough will play at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. daily through Labor Day in Connecticut’s largest IMAX Theater, with a screen that’s six stories high. ____________
— an announcement from the Maritime Aquarium
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“Amazon Adventure” recounts the extraordinary work of naturalist Henry Bates, who the filmmakers call “the most influential scientist you’ve never heard of.”
Beginning in 1848, Bates risked his life for science during an 11-year expedition into the Amazon rain forest, and his findings provided “the beautiful proof” for Charles Darwin’s then-controversial theory of natural selection, the scientific explanation for the development of life on Earth. Filmed in the lush Amazon region, with scenes of sloths, brilliantly colored birds and amazingly camouflaged insects and lizards, “Amazon Adventure” lets audiences join Bates as he searches for clues about how and why species – particularly butterflies – change and adapt over time. “I saw strange creatures that hide in plain sight by looking like something completely different,” Bates (played by Calum Finlay) says in the film.