Very Loud & amp; Incredibly Close is an adaptation of the 2011 American drama film of the novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer, directed by Stephen Daldry and written by Eric Roth. It stars Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Max von Sydow, Viola Davis, John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright, and Zoe Caldwell. Production takes place in New York City. The film has a limited release in the United States on December 25, 2011 by Warner Bros. Pictures, and wide release on January 20, 2012. Despite the diverse reviews, the film was nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor for von Sydow. The film earns $ 55.2 million. The film was released in Blu-ray format, DVD, and digital download in Region 1 on March 27, 2012.
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Plot
The nine-year-old Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn), who has Asperger's syndrome, is the son of a German American Thomas Schell (Tom Hanks). Thomas often sends Oskar to missions to do something related to one of his puzzles. The last riddle he gave to Oskar proved that New York City once owned the Sixth Borough. In a flashback, Thomas and Oskar play a hunt for discovering objects throughout New York City. The game requires communication with others and it is not easy for Oskar to be socially awkward, who is told "If everything is easy to find, they will not be worth finding".
On September 11, 2001, Oskar and his classmates were discharged from school early while his mother, Linda (Sandra Bullock) was working. When Oskar arrived home, he found five messages from his father on an answering machine saying he was at the World Trade Center. When Thomas called for the sixth time, Oskar was too scared to answer. The machine recorded the sixth message that stopped when the building collapsed. Oskar knew his father had been killed and fell to the floor. He replaced the answering machine with a new one and hid the old one so his mother would never know.
A few weeks after what Oskar called the "worst day", he confessed to his grandmother in Germany and they got closer. Oskar's relationship with his mother is getting worse because he can not explain why the World Trade Center was attacked and why his father died. Oskar told his mother that he wished that he was in the building, not his father, and he replied, "So am I". After, Oskar said he did not mean it, but his mother did not believe him.
A year later, Oskar found a vase in his father's closet with a key in an envelope with the word "Black" on it. He vowed to find what fits the key. He found 472 blacks in the New York phone book and planned to meet each of them to see if they knew his father. She first meets Abby Black (Viola Davis), who recently divorced her husband. He told Oskar that he did not know his father.
One day, Oskar realizes that a strange man (Max von Sydow) has moved with his grandmother. This stranger did not speak because of the trauma of childhood caused by the death of his parents in World War II. He communicates with written notes and with his hands that have "yes" and "no" tattoos on them. When they became friends and went together to find a suitable key, Oskar learned to confront his fears, such as public transport and bridges. Finally, Oskar concludes that the stranger is his grandfather and plays an answering machine message for this stranger. Before playing the last message, the stranger could not bear to listen any longer, this message became his son's last words, and stop Oskar. Then the stranger came out and told Oskar not to search again.
When Oskar saw the newspaper his father had given him, he found a phone number circled with a reference to the sale of real estate. She calls the number and reaches Abby, who wants to bring Oskar to her ex-husband, William, who probably knows about the key. William (Jeffrey Wright) told Oskar that he had been looking for the key. William had sold the vase to Oskar's father who never knew the key was in the vase. The key fits into the safe where William's father left something for him. Disappointed and discouraged because the key does not belong to him, Oskar confessed to William that he did not pick up the phone during his father's last and last sixth phone calls and then returned home. He went on to write letters to everyone he met and thanked them for their kindness.
Oskar's mother told Oskar she knew she contacted the Blacks. He then tells her that he visits Black each in advance and tells them that Oskar will visit and why. Oskar makes scrapbooks like comic books filled with pop-ups and pulls tabs like children's books, about his hunt and everyone he meets and the title is "Very Hard and Very Close". At the end of the book is a pull tab, which shows the animation in which Thomas's body fell not down.
Soon afterwards, Oskar visited the garden that he and his father frequented and thought about the swings his father showed. Looking under one, he found a message from his father, congratulated him for finishing what would be their last expedition, giving Oskar the closure he desperately needed.
Oskar's grandfather returned to live with Oskar's grandmother.
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Cast
- Thomas Horn as Oskar Schell
- Max von Sydow as Tenant
- Sandra Bullock as Linda Schell
- Tom Hanks as Thomas Schell
- Viola Davis as Abby Black
- Madison Arnold as Alan Black
- John Goodman as Stan the Doorman
- Jeffrey Wright as William Black
- Zoe Caldwell as Oskar grandmother
- Hazelle Goodman as Hazelle Black
- Adrian Martinez as Hector Black
- Stephen Henderson as Walt the Locksmith
- Stephanie Kurtzuba as Elaine Black
Production
Development
In August 2010, it was reported that director Stephen Daldry and producer Scott Rudin had been working on a novel adaptation film for five years. Eric Roth was hired to write the script. Very Loud & amp; Very Close is a joint production with Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros., with Warner being the "main studio". Chris Menges served as director of photography, K. K. Barrett as production designer and Ann Roth as a costume designer.
Casting
Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock were the first to be cast in the film. The national search for child actors between the ages of 9 and 13 began in late October 2010 for the role of Oskar Schell. Thomas Horn, who has won over $ 30,000 at the age of 12 in 2010 Jeopardy! Kids Week, chosen for the role in December 2010. Horn has no previous acting interests but is approached by the producer based on his quiz-show appearance. On January 3, 2011 The Hollywood Reporter announced that John Goodman joined the cast. In the same month, Viola Davis and Jeffrey Wright were cast. Nico Muhly is credited in a movie poster as a composer, but on October 21, 2011 it was reported that Alexandre Desplat was selected to draw the score. Similarly, James Gandolfini is credited on an early poster, and initially in the film as an interest in love for the Bullock character. The audience test reacted negatively to their shared scene, and she was cut off. Austrian actress Senta Berger was offered a role in the film, but declined. Characterization
Daldry stated in an interview that the film tells the story of "a special kid who is somewhere in the autistic spectrum, trying to find his own logic - trying to understand something that is literally unreasonable to him." When asked how much research is needed to describe his character realistically with such conditions, he answers "we do a lot of research," and that he "spends a lot of time with different Asperger experts and talks to them." In the film, Oskar revealed that he was tested for Asperger's syndrome, but the results can not be concluded. As Daldry explains: "Every child differs on the autistic spectrum, so we create our own version of the child somehow - not heavy, but somewhere on the spectrum in terms of fear and phobia." There is no reference to autism in the novel. Writer Jonathan Safran Foer stated in an interview that he never thought about Oskar as an autism, but added, "That does not say he does - it's really for the reader to decide, it's not to say that many descriptions of him." would not fit, it's just that I did not think about it at the time. "
Filming
The subject of photography is expected to begin in January, but begins in March 2011 in New York City. Filming went on hiatus in June. On May 16, 2011, the scene was taken on the streets of Lower East Side and Chinatown. Crane is used to take pictures at the corner of Orchard Street and Grand Street. Very Loud & amp; Very Near was filmed with Arri Alexa and was the first Hollywood feature film to use ArriRaw Arri format to store data for postproduction. Several scenes for the film were taken at Central Park, a location that is an integral part of the storyline, near The Lake and Wollman Rink. Jewelry Exchange Port at Fulton St. used for important scenes in the film when his son searched through a jewelry store and his back room.
Release
Daldry hopes that the film will be released around the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks of 2001. The screening tests took place in New York on 25 September 2011 for a positive reaction. Very Loud & amp; Very Close has a limited release in the United States on December 25, 2011, and a broad release on January 20, 2012. The album was released in the UK on February 17, 2012.
Home media releases
The film was released in Blu-ray format, DVD, and digital download in Region 1 on March 27, 2012.
Reception
Critical response
The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 46% approval rating and an average rating of 5.5/10 based on 179 reviews. The website consensus reads, " Very Loud & Very Close has a story to tell, but it deserves better than the cunning and know-how director of Stephen Daldry who gave it." Metacritic, who scored a weighted average of 100 reviews from major critics, gave the film a score of 46 based on 41 reviews.
Sharp criticism is divided on film subject matter. Betsy Sharkey of The Los Angeles Times wrote that the film is "a very refined and polished Hollywood production thoroughly about the 9/11 national tragedy that seems to have altered words such as' unthinkable ',' no "Andrea Peyser of the New York Post calls it" Very, very exploitative "and" the search for emotional blackmail, cheap sensation, and a naked way for an Oscar. " Peter Howell of the Toronto Star gave this movie one of four stars saying that "the movie feels wrong at every level, misrepresents precursors for perceptions and dooms for hugging sessions." This is counted as a bait Oscar, but poisoned feed by opportunism and ostensibly sensitivity ".
Accolades
best picture nomine
Before the release of the movie, Very Loud & amp; Very Close is expected to be a major competitor at the 84th Academy Awards (two previous films Stephen Daldry has collected Best Film nominations). However, due to the acceptance of film polarization and being ignored by most Critics Groups Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, the British Academy Film Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards, it is no longer considered a major competitor. Nevertheless, the film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor. Critics and audiences criticized the film nomination for Best Film, with some calling it one of the worst Worst Film nominations ever. This is the only widely reviewed film about Rotten Tomatoes aggregators rated "rotten" to receive Best Film nominations. Chris Krapek of The Huffington Post wrote very negatively about the film's nomination, calling the movie "not only the worst Film nominations of the worst over the last 10 years, [but] easily the worst movie of 2011". Paste Adam Vitcavage magazine calls the film consensus for Best Film nominations "definitely the worst for at least 28 years," and David Gritten of The Telegraph called the "mysterious" nominees.
Many critics blame the New Picture rules for nominations. John Young at Entertainment Weekly says that when it comes to the new rules, "better loved by small and vibrant groups than favored by a much larger group", and Jen Chaney in The Washington Post , believes that, "The academy should only stick to 10 rules so that movies like Dragon Tattoo or Harry Potter may join other competing competitors, because if you will making a bunch of dramas around the number of candidates and then appearing a shame of what has become a typical total, which just feels like a disappointment. " The Week writes that the new rules fail, and divisive that the Academy hopes to discard, such as the Tree of Life and Very Loud and Very Near in, but it prevents critically praised praises like > Bridesmaids and The Girl With the D ragon Tattoo of the nominated. "
In contrast, pundit award Tom O'Neil defends nominations and films, stating: "This is a movie that we are not wise to write, but we do it because we believe in criticism.This movie gives.It is a remarkable movie. It's moving, it's relevant to our time, it's very very well made. "
At the 84th Academy Awards, Very Loud & amp; Very Close is missing in both categories (Best Picture for Artist and Best Supporting Actor for Christopher Plummer for Beginner ).
Soundtrack
See also
- List of cultural references to the September 11 attacks
References
External links
- Official website
- Very Loud & amp; Very Near on IMDb
- Very Loud & amp; Very Close at AllMovie
- Very Loud & amp; Very Close in Box Office Mojo
- Very Loud & amp; Very Near in Rotten Tomatoes
- Very Loud and Very Close in Metacritic
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