But, it is not until a baby elephant arrives in the mall that Ivan starts questioning his life under captivity; away from the wild. At the time of writing, little did author Katherine Applegate think that her story of Ivan, would take a visual form as a live-action film titled The One and Only Ivan. Jolie writes, “She [Katherine] got into the mind of Ivan, and how humans see him, and what humans expect of animals. “It’s the weirdest to have written these characters and hear Angeline Jolie or Bryan Cranston, Danny DeVito or Helen Mirren saying those dialogues. In a strange way, Katherine says, Ivan’s story reflects on the present day, when human isolation is the norm to fight the pandemic.

Source: The Hindu August 29, 2020 11:03 UTC