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Rapa-Nui (film), the Glossary

Rapa-Nui is a 1994 American historical action-adventure film directed by Kevin Reynolds and coproduced by Kevin Costner, who starred in Reynolds's previous film, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).^[1]

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1990s action adventure films
1990s historical action films
Australian historical drama films
Films based on legends
Films directed by Kevin Reynolds
Films set in Easter Island
Films shot in New South Wales

Action film

The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work.

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Anzac Wallace

Anzac Hohepa Wallace (born Norman Pene Rewiri; 15 September 1945 – 8 April 2019), also known as Zac Wallace, was a New Zealand actor and former trade union delegate.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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Cliff Curtis

Cliff Curtis (born July 27 1968) is a New Zealand actor.

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive for the British edition) is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author first defines collapse: "a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time." He then reviews the causes of historical and pre-historical instances of societal collapse—particularly those involving significant influences from environmental changes, the effects of climate change, hostile neighbors, trade partners, and the society's response to the foregoing four challenges.

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Deforestation

Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.

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Easter Island

Easter Island (Isla de Pascua; Rapa Nui) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania.

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Eru Potaka-Dewes

Eru Potaka-Dewes (1939 in Ruatoria – 7 August 2009 in Rotorua) was a New Zealand actor, Māori religious leader and activist.

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Esai Morales

Esai Manuel Morales Jr. (born October 1, 1962) is an American actor.

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Galleon

Galleons were large, multi-decked sailing ships developed in Spain and first used as armed cargo carriers by Europeans from the 16th to 18th centuries during the Age of Sail and were the principal vessels drafted for use as warships until the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the mid-17th century.

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George Henare

George Winiata Henare (born 11 September 1945) is a New Zealand actor with a career spanning over 50 years.

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Hanau epe

The Hanau epe (also, hanau eepe: supposed to mean "Long-ears") were a semi-legendary people who are said to have lived in Easter Island, where they came into conflict with another people known as the Hanau momoko or "short-ears".

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Historical drama

A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents historical events and characters with varying degrees of fictional elements such as creative dialogue or fictional scenes which aim to compress separate events or illustrate a broader factual narrative.

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Hori Ahipene

Hori Ahipene is an actor and director in theatre, film and television in New Zealand.

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Human overpopulation

Human overpopulation (or human population overshoot) describes a concern that human populations may become too large to be sustained by their environment or resources in the long term.

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Jared Diamond

Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American scientist, historian, and author.

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Jason Scott Lee

Jason Scott Lee (born November 19, 1966) is an American actor and martial artist.

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Jim Wilson (producer)

Jim Wilson is a film producer.

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Kevin Costner

Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Kevin Reynolds (director)

Kevin Hal Reynolds (born January 17, 1952) is an American film director and screenwriter.

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Lawrence Makoare

Lawrence Makoare (born 20 March 1968) is a New Zealand Māori actor.

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Moai

Moai or moʻai (moái; statue) are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500.

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Nathaniel Lees

Maiava Nathaniel Lees (born 1952) is a New Zealand theatre actor and director and film actor of Samoan descent, best known for film roles in The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and for starring in Young Hercules as Chiron the centaur.

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Pete Smith (actor)

Peter Bruce Smith (7 August 1958 – 29 January 2022) was a New Zealand actor.

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Peter Boyle (film editor)

Peter Boyle (born 27 May 1946) is an English film editor with more than 30 feature film credits.

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Pitcairn Island

Pitcairn Island is the only inhabited island of the Pitcairn Islands, in the southern Pacific Ocean, of which many inhabitants are descendants of mutineers of HMS ''Bounty''.

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Polynesian rat

The Polynesian rat, Pacific rat or little rat (Rattus exulans), known to the Māori as kiore, is the third most widespread species of rat in the world behind the brown rat and black rat.

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Rapa Nui people

The Rapa Nui (Rapa Nui:, Spanish) are the indigenous Polynesian peoples of Easter Island.

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Rawiri Paratene

Peter David Broughton, generally known as Rawiri Paratene, is a New Zealand stage and screen actor, director and writer.

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Rena Owen

Maria Makarena Owen (born 22 July 1962), known professionally as Rena Owen, is a New Zealand actress in theatre, television and film.

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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is a 1991 American action adventure film based on the English folk tale of Robin Hood and loosely set in the 12th century. Rapa-Nui (film) and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves are 1990s action adventure films, 1990s historical action films and films directed by Kevin Reynolds.

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Sandrine Holt

Sandrine Claire Holt (born Sandrine Vanessa Ho; 19 November 1972) is a British-born Canadian model and actress.

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Siskel and Ebert

Gene Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) and Roger Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013), collectively known as Siskel & Ebert, were American film critics known for their partnership on television lasting from 1975 to Siskel's death in 1999.

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Sooty tern

The sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) is a seabird in the family Laridae.

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Stephen F. Windon

Stephen F. Windon (born 28 January 1959) is an Australian cinematographer.

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Stewart Copeland

Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician and composer.

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Taboo

A taboo, also spelled tabu, is a social group's ban, prohibition, or avoidance of something (usually an utterance or behavior) based on the group's sense that it is excessively repulsive, offensive, sacred, or allowed only for certain people.

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Tangata manu

The Tangata manu ("bird-man," from "human beings" + "bird") was the winner of a traditional ritual competition on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to collect the first sooty tern egg of the season from the nearby islet of Motu Nui, swim back to Rapa Nui, and climb the sea cliffs of Rano Kau to the clifftop village of Orongo.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapa-Nui_(film)

Also known as Rapa Nui (Movie), Rapa Nui (film).

Rapa-Nui (film), the Glossary

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See also

1990s action adventure films

1990s historical action films

Australian historical drama films

Films directed by Kevin Reynolds

Films set in Easter Island

Films shot in New South Wales

References