Kilirikou And The Sorceres Analysis

Abstract: Against the background of an attempt to review a popular animated movie “Kirikou and the sorceres”, an international acclaimed film inspires from a west African folktale, and created by a Frenchman, Michel Ocelot in 1998. This study requested 5 raters to review the film using criteria in line with basic element of film analysis.
The result demonstrated overwhelming acceptance and high rating of the film, which explains the widely acceptance of the film in Europe, Japan, America, and some parts of Africa.
Keywords: Folklore, animation, Kirikou and Sorceress, film or movie, African.
Introduction
Folklore is a traditional art, literature, knowledge, and practices that are passed on in large part through oral communication and example.
The goals were not just to preserve and propagate cultural values like the Griots used to, but gain significant economic advantages among others. This was the main inspirations to the creation of a well-known animation film, titled “Kirikou and the sorceress”.
The original name of this animated film was in French “Kirikou et les homes et les femmes”. The film was originally released in 1998 and was made using traditional animation technique. The movie was a collaboration among companies in France, Luxemburg, and Belgium. Its production was in Latvia. Its studio exist was in Hungary. Kirikou and sorceress’s song was executed by a Senegalese singer called Yousson N Dour. The film as of today has other language version in Swahili, and Japanese. (Alchetron, 2014)
In the film, the main characters were Kirikou, the protagonist, and Karaba, the sorceress, as the villain. The story line displays how a small new-born boy, Kirikou, who was born mysteriously was able to protect his village from the wicked sorceress,
The storyline in the movie is about the problems the people in the community are going through. This is sort of related to what some people in real life are going through concerning issue of terrorism and how to identify and solve the problem. The use of animated characters as an alternative of an actual human being for the film is appealing to the audience. The writer thinks that the animated movie is entertaining, remarkable, and not too provoking. The movie was correctly composed. This helps as a delightful display by the director/animator Michel Ocelot originality of media. There is a lot of rich colours and enjoyable choice of music played by Youssou N'Dour. The movie includes the use of traditional animation