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"My dream has always been to make a movie that was like a dolphin and I hope we've finally realized that."

He brought back rare images of underwater places. Keith Scholey directed Blue, Disneynature's new documentary.

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00:00My dream has always been to make a movie that was like a dolphin and I
00:06Hope we finally realized that
00:22The underwater world is difficult because we're limited in terms of how much time we can spend and also an animal like a dolphin
00:29If it wants to be with you it can but as soon as it doesn't it just flicks its tail and is gone
00:35So what we had to do is spend many many many days of diving
00:41With different animals to try and build the whole story together
00:59Just take a look at this. This is one of the greatest battles of nature. We've got nearly a dozen male humpbacks battling for supremacy. To be honest, it's never been done properly. And why? Because you can see what's going on at the surface, you can film on the surface, but most of the battle is happening under the water.
01:20So this is our secret camera for filming the humpbacks battling underwater
01:29You spend a lot of days when it just doesn't work out but to get those three or four great days you have to spend about four weeks
02:00The real thing I wanted the audience to understand when they finished watching the film is that underwater places like coral reefs only work as a community
02:14If you want to have dolphins in the future you have to have coral reefs. If you want coral reefs you have to have all the different fish and so on and so forth
02:23Because these places work like a city. You can't have a city when you haven't got any firemen, you haven't got any police, you haven't got any lawyers. You need all these different people and coral reefs and most marine systems work in that way
02:40And why it's important to understand that is that what's happening right now, there's a lot of times through overfishing and different reasons, certain citizens of these underwater worlds are being removed
02:53Sharks have had an absolute terrible time with tens of millions of them being taken from the ocean and sharks play an incredibly important part in the overall community
03:04So you can't sustain a world where the communities of these underwater places are broken up
03:11So we hope the film will actually tell that story and that this will lead to action to protect these places properly

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