Major as Sgt. Windle Bourg Self as Self. Benh Zeitlin. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in the Bathtub, a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink's tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe; for a time when he's no longer there to protect her.
When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, nature flies out of whack, temperatures rise, and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink's health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother. Rated PG for thematic material including child imperilment, some disturbing images, language and brief sensuality. Did you know Edit. Trivia On the film's very first day of shooting in the fictional "Bathtub" location outside of New Orleans, the BP oil rig explosion and the start of the massive spill occurred.
For most of the shoot in nearby waters, Benh Zeitlin and his crew had to maneuver in and around the clean-up operations. Goofs During the height of the hurricane scene, Wink challenges the storm, with his rifle, as a means of comforting Hushpuppy and alleviating her fears.
While he is outside in the hurricane winds and rain, only the trees in his immediate vicinity are violently moving. Trees in the background perhaps beyond the reach of a wind fan are perfectly still.
Quotes [last lines] Hushpuppy : When it all goes quiet behind my eyes, I see everything that made me lying around in invisible pieces.
User reviews Review. Top review. A phenomenal child actor and solid story are generating well deserved word of mouth; you are going to hear a lot about this film from your friends. Beasts of the Southern Wild is shot through the eyes of a six year old. To Hushpuppy Quvenzhane Wallis , the islands of southern Louisiana are a magical place filled with lucky people who do not have to live like cowards behind the levees and only get one holiday a year.
Hushpuppy's voice-over reveals the island folk rarely need an excuse to have a party or take another holiday.
If this film were shot through the more perceptive eyes of an adult, the audience I bet would get a much different take on things. Extreme poverty, alcoholism, and child neglect are just the first few overt issues which come to mind. It was a very wise move for the filmmakers to stick with the child protagonist.
Magical realism is far more acceptable and preferable to an audience than what could arguably be termed child cruelty. It is not protected by the New Orleans levee system, people scuttle around from place to place by haphazardly crafted boats, and everyone expects that some day, the melting polar ice caps will submerge their homes and only the strong will survive.
It turns out that some day in Beasts of the Southern Wild is now. When Hushpuppy first hears the thunder of the coming storm, she believes it to the be the sound of melting glaciers falling off of Antarctica. It is never mentioned by name; however, the storm appears to be Hurricane Katrina. Since the main part of her father's and his friends' days consist of drinking, there are no preparations for the coming calamity, just praise for the brave souls staying behind for what they claim will be a little wet weather and catcalls to those fleeing behind the levees.
Where is mama in all of this? The idea of mama to Hushpuppy is and old, dirty basketball jersey she carries around with her and sometimes talks to. Every now and then, Hushpuppy thinks she sees mama when she glimpses a far away lighthouse or watches an approaching helicopter. Whether mama is dead or has just run off is another unexplained phenomenon kept by daddy.
Essentially, an extreme example of what happens at the evacuation center in Beasts of the Southern Wild. Unruly, unbound by studios or the usual Hollywood conventions, this paean to childhood perception and human resilience exists in its own hermetically sealed world, physically and metaphorically. By ignoring received wisdom and gambling on his own powers of invention, he offered further proof that innovation is about breaking rules.
Pitched between realism and folktale, the plot of Beasts involves the inhabitants of a damp, squalid bayou enclave—the Bathtub—beyond the levees that keep the delta dry. The locals are under siege from a hurricane and a government determined to pry them from their homesteads and relocate them to an emergency shelter. The film has earned the adoration of critics, who tend to sprinkle on superlatives like an Italian waiter working a pepper mill.
When not warming up cat food for dinner—lighting the stove with a blowtorch! Alone in her tumbledown trailer, Hushpuppy ponders the nature of time and her place in the cosmos. Her fervent imagination fills the screen with magic, from the motes glowing in the air to visions of aurochs, fearsome prehistoric behemoths that will reclaim the earth as ice caps melt.
Zeitlin auditioned several thousand Gulf Coast girls for the role of Hushpuppy, initially conceived as age 9 to Though Wallis had never acted before, she handled direction and her director like an old pro. I just need a little more subtlety. Come on! Gimme a kid word! By reimagining the project to accommodate a kindergartner, Zeitlin completed a kind of counterintuitive directing trifecta.
Perhaps not coincidentally, all three elements are integral to Beasts. Most movies are designed to maximize order and structure. But if you come into a production with a preordained vision of how everything is going to be, you risk squeezing out spontaneity and ending up with this sanitized thing.
I see my role as guiding the ship without controlling it too tightly, discovering the film by making it. He strove for authenticity, paring the emerging possibilities until emotional resonance found its way onto the screen.
By Stephen Galloway. Through some optical trickery, Wallis' Hushpuppy stares down one of the mythical "aurochs," fantastical creatures she imagines are challenging her community's hardscrabble way of life in the Louisiana bayou country.
In early , just weeks before writer-director Benh Zeitlin was to start shooting his first feature, Beasts of the Southern Wild , his pickup truck burst into flames. As the production team rushed out and firemen were summoned to the scene, the filmmaker had a vision: What if he turned the burned-out hulk into a boat, the very boat that his two main characters — a 6-year-old African-American girl and her dirt-poor, dying father — would use to navigate the bayous where Beasts is set, before and after a hurricane ravages their community?
The movie was an immediate sensation when it debuted in January at the Sundance Film Festival, where Fox Searchlight beat out several other distributors, scooping up U. The writer, who grew up in the Florida Panhandle, had been friends with Zeitlin a New Yorker who moved to New Orleans after graduating from Wesleyan University in ever since the two met as teenagers at a playwriting camp.
Zeitlin had read her play and seen it staged in a workshop but only began seriously thinking of turning it into a film after he had his own brush with death in , when he was driving to Austin for a screening of his short Glory at Sea and a truck rear-ended his vehicle. It turned my leg backward and shattered my pelvis, and I had to move back to New York for eight months.
And that was when I started writing Beasts. Together, over the next year and more, the two hammered out their screenplay, refining it even further when they were accepted into the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, where they worked with writers Michael Goldenberg Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Scott Frank Out of Sight. Financing came with surprising ease. A 30 percent-plus tax break from the state of Louisiana helped bring down costs. By late , the neophyte team was moving toward production, even though the script was unfinished, no locations had been chosen and the girl who would play Hushpuppy remained undiscovered.
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