The Lovely Bones is a 2009 supernatural drama directed by Peter Jackson and stars Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli and Saoirse Ronan. Screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Jackson is based on award-winning 2002 novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. It follows a girl who was killed and watched her family from between, and split between seeking vengeance on her killer and letting her family to recover. International joint production between the United States, Britain and New Zealand, the film is produced by Carolynne Cunningham, Walsh, Jackson, and Aimee Peyronnet, with Steven Spielberg, Tessa Ross, Ken Kamins and James Wilson as executive producers. The subject of photography began in October 2007 in New Zealand and Pennsylvania, USA. The movie score is compiled by Brian Eno.
The Lovely Bones was first released on December 26, 2009, in New Zealand, and then internationally in January 2010. The North American film release date changed several times, with a limited release on December 11, more broadly on January 15, 2010. It was released for a very diverse review from critics; his stories and messages are generally criticized, with praise primarily aimed at visual effects, Peter Jackson's directions, and Ronan and Tucci performances. In the opening weekend of the movie, in limited release, it earned $ 116,616, although it has only been screened in three theaters, placing it 30th on the box office chart. The Lovely Bones earns $ 44 million more in North America. The film also received many awards, including Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA, and Academy Award nominations.
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Plot
In 1973, a 14-year-old high school student, Susie Salmon, dreamed about becoming a photographer. One day, Ray, a boy he had approached, approached him at school and asked her out. When Susie walks home through the cornfield, she runs to her neighbor, George Harvey, who persuades her into her underground lair. Inside, Susie becomes uncomfortable and tries to leave; when he grabs it, the scene fades until he looks rushed past Ruth Connors's classmate, apparently running away from Harvey's nest.
The Salmons became worried when Susie failed to return home from school. His father, Jack, searched for him, while his mother, Abigail, waited for the police. In town, Susie sees Jack, but she does not respond when she calls. Susie ran home to find Harvey soaking in the tub. After seeing his bracelet hanging in the faucet sink near the shaving razor, Susie realizes that she never escaped from the nest and was killed by Harvey. Screaming, he is drawn to "In-Between", it is not Heaven or Earth. From there, Susie watches over her loved ones, unable to release her despite the insistence of her newfound friend, Holly.
Investigating Susie's disappearance with Detective Fenerman, Jack thinks Susie is killed by someone she knows. He examines the neighbors and comes to think Harvey is the killer. Fenerman could not find any evidence that showed Harvey as a suspect, as Harvey cleaned up. Susie's sister, Lindsey, agrees with Jack's suspicions, but their homework hurt Abigail, and Jack invites Abigail's mum's mother, Lynn, to stay with them. Feeling alienated from her husband, Abigail left for California. Susie, in the afterlife, learns that Harvey, who has now targeted Lindsey as his next victim, has killed six other girls, including Holly, and that she put Susie's body into a safe in her basement.
One night, Jack, carrying a bat, skirted Harvey into the cornfield. However, Jack accidentally stumbled on Susie's friend, Clarissa. Her boyfriend, who mistakenly thinks his girlfriend is under attack, almost died Jack until Harvey looks from the hiding place. When Jack recovers, Lindsey bursts into Harvey's house looking for evidence that he killed Susie. Upstairs, he found a notebook containing a nest sketch, Susie's hairstyle, and a news article about Susie's disappearance. Harvey returns home and almost catches Lindsey at his home, but he runs away and rushes home to find that his mother has returned. Not wanting to spoil his parents' reunion, he gave the book to his grandmother, who contacted the police. Harvey had fled, after seeing Lindsey running from her home - she took a safe containing Susie's remains with her.
Life after death Susie began to develop into a bigger paradise, and she was greeted by other Harvey victims - now showing nine, including Susie. He rejected Holly's impulse to enter Paradise with the others, claiming that she had one last thing to do. Meanwhile, classmates Susie, Ruth and Ray were present when Harvey drove to throw the safe at the disposal dump. Susie returns to Earth and enters Ruth's body, causing Ruth to faint. Ray rushes to Ruth's help only to realize that she has become Susie. They kissed, complete Susie's last wishes, and she returned to Heaven. Meanwhile Harvey dumped the safe in a drain, letting it disappear in the muddy water as he left.
Some time later, Harvey met a young woman outside the restaurant and offered her a ride, but she turned him down and left. A large ice fell from the top branch, hitting Harvey on the shoulder. He lost his balance on the ice and fell back on the cliff to his death. Time passes, and Susie sees that her family is healing, which Susie calls "the beautiful bone" that grows around her absence. When the movie ends, Susie finally enters Paradise, telling the audience: "My name is Salmon, like a fish, first name is Susie, I was 14 years old when I was killed on December 6, 1973. I was here for a while and then I left. wish you all a long and happy life. "
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Cast
- Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon, main character and storyteller. She is a 14-year-old girl who was murdered by her neighbor. Ronan was 13 years old at the time of casting and filming. Ronan and his family were initially reluctant to accept Ronan's role due to film material, but agreed after meeting with Jackson.
- Evelyn Lennon as Susie (Age 3)
- Stanley Tucci as George Harvey, a serial killer who killed Susie. Tucci stated that he had been researching his role by watching a documentary film and reading a book by criminal profiler John E. Douglas about the arrest of serial killers. Tucci stated that his wife, Kate, had strongly urged him not to accept his role in the film because he felt, after reading the novel, that his subject was "too horrible."
- Mark Wahlberg as Jack Salmon, Susie's father, who became obsessed with her daughter's murder case. Wahlberg stated that his role in the film encouraged him to be a more careful parent with his three children and talked more to them about "not talking to strangers." Before casting Wahlberg, Ryan Gosling is set to play a role but out of the movie in October 2007, a month before filming. Gosling had gained weight and grew the beard for the role, but said, "My character's age versus my real age [twenty-six] has always been my concern, Peter [Jackson] and I try to make it work and ultimately just do not. the film is much better with Mark Wahlberg in that role. "Gosling later admitted that the real reason for his dismissal was that he had arrived to shoot 60 pounds. overweight and sporting a beard, without discussing physical changes with Jackson.
- Rachel Weisz as Abigail Salmon, Susie's mother. After Susie's murder, her mother was desperate and left family. Weisz states that playing characters and "theme lifting" movies and novels make him view life as a "treasure" and the film gives him "positive feelings" rather than "depressed" ones.
- Susan Sarandon as Grandma Lynn, Susie's grandmother. Sarandon states that his character is like "comic relief" and that his character is associated with the pain of Susie's death by drinking, smoking and firing weapons.
- Rose McIver as Lindsey Salmon, Susie's sister. He was the first to suspect Harvey was involved in Susie's death. Jackson threw McIver primarily because he was an unknown actress. Mclver stated that he had read and became a fan of novels before being cast in a movie.
- Michael Imperioli as Detective Len Fenerman, the detective in charge of investigating Susie's death.
- Christian Thomas Ashdale as Buckley Salmon, younger sister Susie.
- Reece Ritchie as Ray Singh, a love lover of Susie and a friend deeply affected by Susie's death.
- Charlie Saxton as Ronald Drake, one of the murder suspects.
- Amanda Michalka as Clarissa, Susie's best friend. Michalka is better known as a musician before casting.
- Carolyn Dando as Ruth Connors, Susie's classmate. Jackson stated that, after he searched around the world for the role, he finally chose to cast Dando, a relatively unknown actress, who worked as a waitress before casting.
- Nikki SooHoo as Denise "Holly" Le Ang, Susie's best friend in Heaven and other Harvey victims.
- Jake Abel as Brian Nelson
- Thomas McCarthy as Principal of Caden
- Andrew James Allen as Samuel Heckler
Production
In May 2000, Film4 Productions acquired feature film rights for Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones , when it was a half-written manuscript. Producer Aimee Peyronnet has attempted to attract studio interest to the manuscript, and the insider informed the film's deputy head of production4, Jim Wilson, about the project. The company tied Luc Besson and Peyronnet production company, Seaside, to the project, two years before the release of the novel. In February 2001, Lynne Ramsay was hired to direct and write a novel adaptation film. In July 2002, Channel 4 closed Film4, causing Hollywood studios and producers to pursue the acquisition of feature film rights for The Lovely Bones, which has spent several weeks at the top of the New York Times. List of Best Sellers. The film adaptation, which has been estimated at a budget of $ 15 million, remains with Channel 4 under the newly developed inhouse film unit, with Ramsay still contracted to write and direct. In October 2002, Ramsay wrote the script with fellow screenwriter Liana Dognini, with a filmmaking planned for the summer of 2003. The author Sebold was invited by the producers to provide input on the project.
Ramsay, who has read the novel in the manuscript before publication, said in 2012 that his adaptability comes out of him significantly. The scene with Susie in heaven will be portrayed purely as her father's imagination. She will be friends with Mr. Harvey, never suspected him of killing his daughter. "I really do not like My Little Pony, he-in-heaven, all are aspects of O.K.", He told the New York Times in 2012.
In July 2003, DreamWorks studio negotiated a first-view deal with Peyronnet producer, after DreamWorks co-founder Steven Spielberg expressed interest in the project. DreamWorks did not get the rights to the novel, and Ramsay was finally released from the project because, he said, FilmFour wanted a more loyal version of the novel. In April 2004, producers Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens entered negotiations to develop the project. Jackson describes the book as "an incredibly emotional and powerful story.As with all the best fantasies, it has a strong foundation in the real world." In January 2005, Jackson and Walsh plan to independently purchase the rights of the film and to seek studio finance after the manuscript was developed. Producers are trying to start adapting the specific script for The Lovely Bones in January 2006, with the goal of script completion and budget estimation in May next.
Jackson explains that he enjoys the novel because he feels "oddly optimistic" and exhilarating because of the narrator's sense of humor, adding that there is a difference between the tone and the subject. He feels very few movies related to the loss of a loved one. Jackson foresaw the most challenging element in the novel to adapt is the depiction of Susie, the protagonist, in heaven, and make it "subtle and emotional but not hokey." Saoirse Ronan explains that Jackson chose to portray life after death depending on Susie's emotions. "Whenever Susie is happy, Heaven is bright and there are birds and everything, whenever it is not so great, it rains or she is in the middle of the ocean." Jackson describes the book description of "heaven" as "In-Between" rather than true heaven and says he is not trying to portray a definite picture of Heaven itself. "[W] hen Jackson created Susie's paradise, in the world of 1973, she went through the Partridge Family's television show archive as a reference."
A 120-page manuscript draft was written in September 2006. In April 2007, the manuscript was completed by Jackson, Walsh and Boyens; Jackson intended to drive. The three producers began looking for studio partners to finance movie adaptations. In addition to large studios, small companies including United Artists are also contacted. Line New Cinema was expelled from the negotiations due to Jackson's legal dispute with the studio over the royalty of the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings. Jackson sought an initial $ 65 million budget for The Lovely Bones, also requested from the studio what promotional commitments and suggestions they would make for the film adaptation.
In May, four studios remained interested in the project: DreamWorks, Warner Bros., Sony, and Universal. The Lovely Bones are sold to DreamWorks for $ 70 million. Paramount Pictures receives the right to distribute movies worldwide. Production began in October 2007 in the states of Pennsylvania and New Zealand in the US. Shootings in several areas of Delaware, Chester, and Montgomery, including Hatfield, Ridley City, Phoenixville, Royersford, Malvern and East Fallowfield, lasted for several weeks, and most studio shoots were conducted in New Zealand.
In December 2008, Brian Eno signed to compose a movie score. Fran Walsh, a big fan of his work, suggested it to Jackson. Jackson has called Eno to request the use of two early songs to evoke the atmosphere for the 1970s scene in the movie. When Eno asks if he can write the whole score, Jackson is shocked, because he hears Eno does not like working on movies. For the end of the film, Eno discovered the demo he did in 1973 and reunited with the vocalist to make the right version for the movie, commenting: "The song from 1973 finally finished in 2008!" In November 2009, Jackson stated that he re-took a new picture of Harvey's death scene after the test audience said it was not cruel enough and wanted to "see more Harvey in pain." Jackson said it was important for him that the film received a PG-13 rating so the film could attract the widest audience possible, despite the violent nature of some scenes.
Release
Strategy
The Lovely Bones was originally scheduled for release on March 13, 2009, but was postponed until December 11, 2009, when the studio became interested in releasing the movie for the "award season," which gave Jackson an opportunity to make some even bigger effects in coverage. The film later received a limited theatrical release on December 11, 2009, in the United States. The film was originally planned to have a wider US theater release on December 25, 2009 (Christmas Day), as part of a campaign to build its momentum through January 2010. In early December it was confirmed that the release date of the United States had been pushed back by three weeks to January 15, 2010. Paramount and DreamWorks provide no reason to change the release date. The film premiered in New Zealand on December 26, 2009, and was released in the UK on January 29 and in other countries in January 2010.
According to Los Angeles Times, Paramount is investing $ 70 million in production and an additional $ 85 million in marketing and distribution worldwide. In December 2009, Los Angeles Times described The Lovely Bones marketing and promotion as a "heavy advertising campaign". At the end of July 2009, as part of the promotion, Jackson talked about the movie and filtered the 4 / 2 video clips at the San Diego Film Festival Comic- Con International.
As part of the marketing for the film, in August 2009, people were allowed to contest to win a trip to Wellington for the premiere of a New Zealand film on December 14, 2009. The offer includes, if the winner lives outside Wellington, a one-night accommodation and vouchers for flights or gasoline to Wellington. The teaser footage was released in August 2009, a few days before the film's official trailer. The official trailer debuted on the television series Entertainment Tonight and was released online shortly after. In August 2009, Jackson offered "behind the scenes" in the film and discussed elements (especially violence) in the film's storyline.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Paramount originally expected the film to attract "sophisticated adult audiences," but after poor revenue and average reviews, the studio decided to shift the movie to audiences in other countries. age group. Surveys show that the film is favored by women aged 13-20 than by other demographics. Paramount began to play the movie "aggressively for middle school and college girls" during the limited launch of three screens.
box office
On December 11, 2009, the film was released on three screens in Los Angeles and New York. On January 4, 2010, the film has grossed $ 389,000 in the US. Claudia Eller and Ben Fritz of the Los Angeles Times felt that it was bad at the box office in the first few weeks of launch due to average reviews and negative word-of-mouth. During its opening weekend on three screens, it earned over $ 116,616, averaging about $ 38,872 per theater revenue. The movie revenue placed him in thirtieth position on the box office chart. In the second and third weeks of the film, the film has declined; in the fourth week, an increase of 54.3 percent.
When put into a broad release on January 15, 2010, it earned $ 17,005,133 that weekend, ranking number three at the domestic box office. At the end of the journey, The Lovely Bones has generated $ 44,114,232 domestically, and $ 49,507,108 overseas, totaling worldwide $ 93,621,340.
Home media
The film was released in the US on DVD and two Blu-ray discs April 20, 2010 and in the UK on June 11, 2010.
Reception
Critical reception
The Lovely Bones received mixed criticism from critics, though Ronan and Tucci were praised for their performances. In the aggregate Rotten Tomatoes, the film ranked 31%, based on 233 reviews, averaging 5/10. The critical consensus of the site reads, "It's full of the usually dazzling image of Peter Jackson, but The Lovely Bones suffers a sudden shift between terrible violence and shameful sentimentality." Metacritic gave the film a score of 42 out of 100, based on 36 critics, showing "mixed or average review". This is the lowest rated film of Peter Jackson to date.
Ian Freer from Empire gave a 4/5 star movie. Freer emphasized "bold and courageous original filmmaking, with more emotional and intellectual flesh to chew on than the Rings or Kong trilogy." Freer notes that, like the The Lord of the Rings, the movie "does a fantastic job with complex and respected source material" and that, therefore "is terrific in terra firma for being brave in astral plane", it "doubtful" that there will be "more imaginative" and "brave films" in 2010.
Richard Corliss of Time writes that "through the art of [Peter] Jackson" and Ronan "magic" the "immorality of child murder has been invested with immense gravity and grace" and "like the life story of Susie after death, it was a miracle. "Peter Travers of Rolling Stone felt that the film was" delivered "in Ronan's" extraordinary performance "and described Tucci as" unbelievable as an uncontrollable man "to" help Jackson cutting off roads to humanity that replaced life and death. "Travers praised Jackson for building" a shaking tension. " Although praising the film, however, Travers notes that while the book "never jolted," the film, and while "business is being transacted" by Jackson with the "Lord of the Rings fantasy" film "adjust to the family of tragedy."
Claudia Puig from USA Today gave a 2/4 star movie, remarking that while "[Peter] Jackson got the right thriller scene," "Susie's pride was caught in the DayGlo world between what she left behind and her final resting place, giving lessons about dealing with death, preaching. "Puig also described the film as having a" clash "of" clashing tones "that veer from" humility to the heavy hand. " Puig also criticized the imaging of computer-generated films, describing it as "cheap" and feeling that it violated "no ground." Kirt Honeycutt, from the Hollywood Reporter , describes the film as "a fundamentally different story" which is "something not without tension, humor and interesting detail", but that "is also simpler. more push-button stories that yearn for genuine joy and heartbreak. "Honeycutt also describes Jackson as the person who has transformed" a surprising unique novel about the horrific murder story "into a more" focused crime and punishment story. "
Stephanie Zacharek, from Salon.com , considers the film as "an expensive-looking mess that fails to capture mood, and poetry, from its source" because "good actors behave badly." scripts, under the guidance of a director who can no longer make a distinction between imaginativeness and computer-generated effects. "Todd McCarthy, of Variety , feels that Jackson has damaged the" hard work of a good performer "with" celestial worship of the show "which" deeply disturbs the emotional connection with the characters. "McCarthy states that he feels that the film, in its entirety, is a "significant artistic disappointment." Joe Neumaier, of the New York Daily News, described Jackson as "all-consuming souls" that made the author of the "thriller/fantasy of the afterlife amazing as a best-sellerâ € ™ and that the movie is a "dopey" colored potboiler that is more outrageous than really sad. "Neumaier also wrote that the movie and Jackson" wasted "a" good cast. " Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 1.5 stars out of 4, calling it "pathetic", and criticized the obvious message that Susie's murder had finally made her happier. He is also critical of the portrayal of the movie about Heaven, which is compared to "the collection of new Facebook friends are fun". However, he praised acting, stating that "the whole movie is Jackson's fault".
According to the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), the rating given to The Lovely Bones received 24 objections, more than any other movie in 2010. The BBFC report stated, "Many find the film to be an experience which was shocking and annoying.The scene where young Susie was trapped by the killer, and the next sequence in which the killer soaked in the bath after the murder, compared by some claimants to the scene in the horror movie '18' rated. "BBFC rated the movie 12A, and many who complained that the movie was disappointing for a younger audience. However, BBFC defended his rating: "The Lovely Bones has no explicit details about murder and any sexual elements are underestimated.The sympathy of the audience remains entirely with the family and the film has many positive messages about life."
Accolades
See also
- List of ghost movies
References
External links
- Official website
- The Lovely Bones in IMDb
- The Lovely Bones in Box Office Mojo
- The Lovely Bones at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Lovely Bones in Metacritic
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