I have no idea why anyone thought this was a story worth telling. Wilson wants his elephant and pursues it while dragging his film crew into the middle of nowhere and letting them sit around bored and angry. Then, when he has an opportunity to shoot the elephant, he can't do it. So? There weren't any characters in the movie worth rooting for except Kay Gibson (Marisa Berenson) who played the role of Katherine Hepburn and was much more attractive and pleasant in the role than Hepburn was, but that was a bit part.