Year: 1995 – ZooScope

Lucy Luscombe
14th January 2022
No Comments

Pocahontas. Dir. Eric Goldberg and Mike Gabriel. The Walt Disney Company. 1995.

Pocahontas. Dir. Eric Goldberg and Mike Gabriel. The Walt Disney Company. 1995. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Lucy Luscombe Lucy Luscombe https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b838e61ff08e5e2ef987aefc72f24e84?s=96&d=mm&r=g 14th January 2022 15th January 2022

Figure 1 – Percy and Smith are close as are Meeko and Pocahontas, aligning them as cultural counterparts In Pocahontas, the animosity between Meeko, the Native American raccoon and Percy,…

Jessica Trueman
13th January 2019
No Comments

Toy Story. Dir. John Lasseter. Pixar. 1995.

Toy Story. Dir. John Lasseter. Pixar. 1995. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Jessica Trueman Jessica Trueman https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f181871315b34c3d3fd50da5a4dd5fbf?s=96&d=mm&r=g 13th January 2019 25th May 2021

‘You’ve got a friend in me’ is the catchphrase of Pixar’s first computer-generated feature-length film, Toy Story (1995), and this perfectly captures the relationships within the film; including those between the group…

Samuel Ross
14th December 2018
No Comments

La Haine. Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz. Canal+. 1995.

La Haine. Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz. Canal+. 1995. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Samuel Ross Samuel Ross https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c6263209787d0cb095bc63e9dc6863e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g 14th December 2018 25th May 2021

One of the most enigmatic scenes in Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine, an exploration of social tensions and police brutality in the banlieues (council estates) of Paris in the 1990s, occurs…

Rachel Buttery
2nd January 2017
No Comments

Outbreak. Dir. Wolfgang Peterson. Warner Bros. 1995.

Outbreak. Dir. Wolfgang Peterson. Warner Bros. 1995. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Rachel Buttery Rachel Buttery https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/58cb20298bb7058762900f7c1bb565f5?s=96&d=mm&r=g 2nd January 2017 25th May 2021

Outbreak forewarns of the devastating consequences of animal exploitation, encapsulating them in the scene where Jimbo delivers Betsy, host monkey for the deadly Motaba virus, to a pet shop where she…

Amelia Eckersley
25th January 2016
No Comments

Babe. Dir. Chris Noonan. Universal Pictures. 1995.

Babe. Dir. Chris Noonan. Universal Pictures. 1995. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Amelia Eckersley Amelia Eckersley https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/49fc6536e574730d494f0a989a4bc390?s=96&d=mm&r=g 25th January 2016 25th May 2021

Babe’s belief in his capability to function within his new identity role as sheep-pig is shattered when he learns his true purpose as bacon for the farm. Deflated of self-worth…

Alanna Sachse
15th May 2015
No Comments

Babe. Dir. Chris Noonan. Universal Pictures. 1995.

Babe. Dir. Chris Noonan. Universal Pictures. 1995. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Alanna Sachse Alanna Sachse https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/065151998a1036e8b5c7c1d8a28bbc7e?s=96&d=mm&r=g 15th May 2015 25th May 2021

Based on Dick King Smith’s “The Sheep Pig”, Babe is the story of a young pig that is taken in by sheep dogs and the farmer Hoggett who eventually becomes a…

Jack Collier
19th January 2015
No Comments

A Close Shave. Dir. Nick Park. BBC. 1995.

A Close Shave. Dir. Nick Park. BBC. 1995. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Jack Collier Jack Collier https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a720a45f9995532a05363d10012e4448?s=96&d=mm&r=g 19th January 2015 25th May 2021

Following the great success of director Nick Park’s A Grand Day Out in 1990 and 1993’s The Wrong Trousers, eccentric inventor Wallace and his canine companion Gromit returned in 1995…