A Quiet Place (film)

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Movie
German title A quiet place
Original title A quiet place
Country of production United States
original language English , ASL
Publishing year 2018
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director John Krasinski
script John Krasinski,
Bryan Woods ,
Scott Beck
production Michael Bay ,
Andrew Form ,
Bradley Fuller
music Marco Beltrami
camera Charlotte Bruus Christensen
cut Christopher Tellefsen
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A Quiet Place (. English for "A quiet place") is a horror - thriller by John Krasinski , who came on April 6, 2018, the US and on 12 April 2018 the German cinemas. Its premiere A Quiet Place on March 9, 2018 as the opening film of the South by Southwest Film Festival . Krasinski can also be seen in the dystopian end-time film in one of the four leading roles alongside his wife Emily Blunt .

A Quiet Place tells how a family on earth tries to survive after a mysterious invasion. Because the extraterrestrial beings are attracted by the smallest of noises, they have to be absolutely quiet.

action

Three months after an alien invasion of Earth, the Abbott family of five ransack an abandoned supermarket in a deserted town. They move barefoot, slowly and on tiptoe and communicate in sign language . The oldest child, Regan, is deaf and has a malfunctioning cochlear implant .

Although his father Lee forbids him, son Beau secretly and with the approval of his sister Regan takes a battery-operated toy space shuttle with him. On the way back to the farm, Beau lags behind and activates the noisy toys. An alien, attracted by the noise, quickly approaches, abducts and kills the child. More than a year later, the family is still suffering from the loss. They erected a cross for the boy at the site of the attack. Regan in particular blames herself and feels despised by her father for deliberately letting Beau handle the shuttle. Only towards the end of the film does her father expressly convey that he has always loved her.

While social life has collapsed since the arrival of the aliens, humans only survived if they kept absolutely quiet. The creatures have long pincer arms, a melon-shaped head and large fangs and are attracted by the smallest of noises, but are blind. Abbotts' daily life is adapted to life in silence. They do without crockery and cutlery and the children use fabric figures to play. The father has laid out sand paths in the open air and colored paths in the house over creaking wooden floorboards, on which they can move almost noiselessly. They can only talk normally in places like a waterfall, where nature drowns out their own noises. Lee has not stopped looking for a way to stop the creatures and collects newspaper articles in the basement that report on the creatures. It also sends SOS to anyone who could still be alive using a radio . Again and again he tries to build a functioning hearing aid for his deaf daughter that she can connect to her cochlear implant.

The mother is pregnant; Preparing for the birth is difficult: the parents plan the birth and the time with the baby in advance. Using thick layers of paper, they try to build a soundproof room. An oxygen device is said to allow the child to breathe when placed in a wooden box to muffle their screams. When Evelyn's amniotic sac bursts and she wants to go to the basement, she steps on a protruding nail on the stairs. One of the creatures is attracted by the noises made, which is why Evelyn activates a red warning light on the fields to warn her family members. Lee lets Marcus launch New Years Eve rockets to distract the creatures. The project succeeds and the couple can flee into the soundproof room with the baby. In the chaos, however, the parents lose their children who barely escape the extraterrestrial beings several times. Lee searches for and finds his children, but sacrifices himself to distract an alien from their hiding place.

Back in the house, Regan went to the basement for the first time in her life. There she sees the collected newspaper articles, Lee's plans and the technical equipment. When one of the beings comes into the house, she has an idea, because during the last two encounters with the beings she heard a loud noise: the beings generate loud feedback with their hearing aid. She turns on the amplifier of her cochlear implant and lets it run over a loudspeaker. The being writhes in pain. Evelyn kills it with a gun. The family sees through the monitors of the surveillance cameras that other beings are on their way to the house. Resolutely Evelyn reaches for the rifle again.

production

Staff, cast and dubbing

Directed by John Krasinski , who co- wrote the script with Bryan Woods and Scott Beck . Beck, who has known Woods since the age of 11 and wrote several scripts together with Woods, said about the idea of ​​the story on which the film is based, the original concept goes back to their time together in college. There they would have seen a lot of silent films with Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton . However, Jacques Tati was her absolute favorite, whose ability to tell stories visually inspired her and who did not need any dialogue or comment. This led her to place the story of A Quiet Place in such a genre context. Later they had the idea of ​​a family who lived on a farm, no different than in Iowa, where he and Woods grew up. This is how they came up with the idea of ​​the grain silo, which is an important place in the film. Where the two of them grew up, there was a healthy mix of city and country life, Beck continues, but you have always heard about grain silos that they are one of the most dangerous things if you fall into them, because you are in the dry grain can drown. It was terrifying to drive past them on country roads. At the beginning of the writing process, they would have decided that such a silo must be a setting for their story.

Krasinski, who revised the script, said he dived into a world of everyday noises while preparing for the film. During this time, he paid close attention to the noises his family makes all day and how they could possibly be avoided in the world of A Quiet Place . For example, the Monopoly game was created from sponge figures that can be moved silently. The director goes on to explain: “During this time I hardly thought of anything else. One day in a restaurant, for example, I noticed the rattle of dishes - and immediately wrote down that there are no porcelain plates in the dinner scene in the film. I then had to think of a course from high school in which we learned something about life in the Middle Ages - and that also includes the fact that some people used plates made of bread. That's how I came up with the idea of ​​the edible plates - not only do you not have to wash them, after all, water is scarce and they don't make any noise. Things like this populated my brain during this time. "

The director also plays Lee Abbott, the father of the family, a survivor who focuses on supporting his family every day. According to his own statement, this role was also responsible for his interest in the film. He is not a big fan of horror films himself, but would have been enthusiastic about the family issue and the question of how to raise children in a post-apocalyptic environment. Krasinski's wife Emily Blunt took on the role of his wife Evelyn in the film, who wants to make sure that their children are "fully educated, fully thinking people". Noah Jupe plays her hearing son Marcus, and the child actress Millicent Simmonds , who is also deaf in real life, plays her daughter Regan. Simmonds had already played Deaf Rose in the film Wonderstruck , and it was important for the makers of the film not to use an actress who just pretends to be deaf. It also made it so much easier to learn US sign language , says Krasinski.

The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book and the dialogue direction by Hannes Maurer on behalf of Splendid Synchron GmbH, Berlin. Bianca Krahl lends her voice to Evelyn Abbott in the German version, Till Endemann to her husband Lee and Carlos Fanselow to their son Marcus.

Filming and equipment

One of the locations was New Paltz, where the film was shot on and around the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail Bridge

The shooting took place from May to November 2017. In October 2017, the film was shot in Little Falls , on Main Street, where the normally busy center of town was designed to look like a deserted area, with vehicles covered in grass and dust growing in the pavement. These sequences can be seen at the beginning of the film. Also in October 2017, recordings were made in New Paltz, where the film was shot at and on the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail Bridge, and in Beacon , New York , at the Natural Market on Main Street. In the vicinity of the parish of Pawling , around 75 miles north of New York, the film was shot for around 120 days. There is also a house on a hiking trail on Dover Road, which was used as the setting for the forest cabin where the Abbots live. Charlotte Bruus Christensen acted as camerawoman .

Heather Loeffler , who was nominated for an Oscar in 2014 for her work for American Hustle, was responsible for the equipment . For the farm setting, 24 acres of maize had been grown early in Pawling . A nearby equestrian center has been converted to be used for selected indoor shots and for special underwater shots. Another sound stage, a film set built on site, was a metal silo that, according to local media, was filled with 20 tons of corn that they had purchased from farmers in the region for the scenes created there. The final cost of producing the film was around $ 17 million.

Visual effects and creature design

The visual effects supervisor was Scott Farrar , who won an Oscar in 1986 for his work on Cocoon . Krasinski worked closely with his employer Industrial Light & Magic , a company that creates special visual effects for the film industry, on the creatures . In his mind, the aliens came to earth after their homeworld was destroyed: “The idea behind all of this is that they are definitely aliens and an evolutionarily perfect machine. So the idea is that if you grew up on a planet where there were no people and no light, then you don't need eyes, you can focus on sounds while hunting. They're also developing a way to protect themselves from everything else, that's why they're bulletproof and all of those things. I wanted to make it coherent. ”From this thought, the logic developed according to which the family sets their strict rules in the film, continues Krasinski, and he also needed the monsters so that it wouldn't be too comfortable for them. Krasinski said they were thinking alien creatures, and in his minds they were predators who were introduced like parasites into an alien ecosystem. Their protective armor was the reason why they were able to survive the explosion on their planet and then on a meteorite. If the aliens do not open up, they are completely invulnerable.

Film music and sound design

The film music was composed by Marco Beltrami , who has already been nominated twice for an Oscar . The soundtrack to the film, which includes 16 pieces of music, was released on April 6, 2018 as a download and was also released in physical form on May 11, 2018 by Milan Records. Publication as a record is also planned.

The sound design was carried out by Erik Aadahl, who has been nominated for an Oscar several times, and Ethan Van der Ryn, who was awarded several Oscar nominations for his work on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers . Krasinski said he knew sound would play one of the most important roles in the film. Because, in the director's opinion, it is true that very rarely in this world we stop engaging with social media and simply listening, they thought of forcing the audience to stop and listen, for example, to what the wood sounds like and hear how the corn sounds.

SyFy's Tara Bennett says A Quiet Place is practically the master class in the precise use of sound. This requires the viewer to pay attention to every rustling of leaves, every breaking of branches and every suppressed scream. This was made possible by the skillful work of the sound engineers Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl , who are both long-time film music veterans. Van der Ryn has received two Oscars in the past for his work and Aadahl has been nominated for two Academy Awards. Both were involved in big blockbusters like the Transformers movies. Because the extraterrestrial beings in the film are extremely sensitive to noise, it made no sense to make them too loud yourself. Van der Ryn explained that one of the ideas they suggested to Krasinski early on was that when the beings are in their search mode, they have almost the capabilities of a sonar, sending sounds into the environment and the reflections in the Hear the surroundings and navigate in this way. That was the inspiration for some of the sounds that can be heard in the film, says Van der Ryn.

Aadahl and Van der Ryn said they were inspired by echolocation of animals, such as bats. About the noises that the creatures themselves make in the film, Krasinski said in a conversation with Christoph Petersen from Filmstarts that 25 different sounds were superimposed on each other for this purpose: “At some point I realized that the noises in particular are frightening, although we are not exactly but which we can still roughly understand what kind of function they have. The clacking of the creatures, for example, is reminiscent of the Morse code that my character also uses at the beginning of the film. ”So you know from this that they apparently communicate with each other somehow without knowing what they are communicating, Krasinski continues, which is really scary chase in.

The feedback created by a cochlear implant is the weak point of the aliens in the film

Since everything in the film had to be explained through the visuals and through the sound, the same applied to the hearing aid, which interacts with the creature in a negative way, according to Van der Ryn. The feedback causes pain to Regan, but also to the creature, creating a connection between the pain they both experience. It is not just some sound that ultimately turns out to be the aliens' weak point, but rather a feedback generated by the outer part of Regan's cochlear implant , the signal transmission of which is carried out using high-frequency waves. Feedback can develop when a loudspeaker reproduces the signal from a microphone and at the same time the microphone picks up this signal again if it is too close to the loudspeaker, and it also occurs with hearing prostheses. The fact that the signal is amplified again and reproduced via the loudspeaker creates an electroacoustic loop that rocks up to the point of self-excitement. The piece of music played in the scene in which Regan intentionally creates such feedback in the film is entitled Positive Feedback .

Marketing and Publishing

A first trailer for the film was presented by Paramount Pictures in November 2017, a second followed at the beginning of February 2018 and a final trailer in English at the beginning of April 2018. This was followed by the publication of 15 minutes of behind-the-scenes material.

On March 9, 2018, the film opened the South by Southwest Film Festival in the presence of Krasinski and Blunt . The film was released in US cinemas on April 6, 2018 and in German and Austrian cinemas on April 12, 2018. It was released in theaters in China on May 18, 2018. The film has also been shown in Saudi Arabia since May 31, 2018 , making it one of the first films to be released there in decades, following film theaters in the country since the 1980s Years ago. Paramount plans to release the film on Blu-ray Disc and Ultra HD Blu-ray in August or September 2018.

reception

Reviews and age ratings

So far, the film has received a rather positive rating from 95 percent of Rotten Tomatoes critics, with an average of 8.2 out of a possible 10 points. By consensus, it states: " A Quiet Place plays with the elementary fears of a ruthlessly intelligent creature, which is equally original as scary - and established director John Krasinski as a rising talent." In addition, the film went from the 20th Annual Golden Tomato Awards in in the Best Horror Movie 2018 category .

Eric Kohn of IndieWire says that with the first-class visual flair found in John Krasinski's directorial work, this captivating, almost silent thriller exudes the despair of a broken world with the conciseness of a Cormac McCarthy novel , which is transformed into a simple B-movie Premise was embedded.

We Live Entertainment's Ashley Menzel says A Quiet Place is a bold and imaginative film with a top-notch cast, stunning storytelling, and full of intensity. It is a must film of the South by Southwest Film Festival and also of the year. Her colleague Scott Menzel thinks that Krasinski's third feature film is without question his best and that it takes your socks off.

Jonathan Barkan of Dread Central sums up in his review that A Quiet Place is one of the most imaginative, emotional and scary films he has seen in a long time and is destined to be recognized as one of the greatest horror films of our time.

Fabian Holzmann from IGN Germany says about the story told in the film that God knows it is not innovative, but it is refreshing to be challenged by a film and not to have every little plot detail explained and then presented again in a flashback: " A Quiet Place rewards attention, be it on a visual or aural level - and thus makes even the dusty, apocalyptic setting interesting again. ”However, the film does not remain consistent with the music, according to Holzmann, as the atmospheric noises of the surroundings later develop An almost pompous soundtrack gave way to the impressive images, but not to the overall concept: “It's almost as if the director was afraid to carry his minimalist approach through the entire film and scare the audience away. However, this is exactly what makes A Quiet Place so special. "

Antje Wessels sees A Quiet Place as an interesting basic concept, but it is not enough for 90 minutes. A film review by Stern Online also states that the film relies too much on generic shock moments and predictable " jump scares " due to its premise based on silence . Horror novices, for whom A Quiet Place is exactly the right entry into the genre, shouldn't be bothered by it, the review continues, but horror aficionados could get annoyed: “The film by John Krasinski is waiting with great performances and good news, but in the horror sector, despite the imaginative starting point, only delivers a standardized diet, which also loses its taste a bit after half of the film. "

In the US, the film was rated PG-13 by the MPAA . In Germany, the film was approved for people aged 16 and over. The FSK's justification for the release states: “The film is characterized by a continuously tense and threatening atmosphere. There is no humor whatsoever that could alleviate the tension or moments of shock. Due to their level of development and their media experience, young people from the age of 16 are able to classify the plot as a unreal horror story and to process the events accordingly. "

Gross profit

In the US, A Quiet Place grossed $ 50.2 million on its opening weekend, ahead of Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One . The film was able to far exceed expectations. The film recorded 383,877 visitors in Germany. The worldwide revenue of the film from theatrical screenings so far amounts to approximately 341 million US dollars. As a result, the film is ranked 30th among the most successful films of 2018 .

Awards (selection)

In early December 2018, it was announced that the film was in the preselection for the 2019 Academy Awards in the Best Visual Effects category . It is also on a shortlist in the Best Film Music category . It was named one of the top 10 films of 2018 by the American Film Institute . Below is a selection of nominations and awards from other film awards.

AACTA International Awards 2019

Art Directors Guild Awards 2019

British Academy Film Awards 2019

  • Nomination for Best Sound (Erik Aadahl, Michael Barosky, Brandon Procter and Ethan Van der Ryn)

Cinema Audio Society Awards 2019

  • Nomination in the Motion Picture - Live Action category

Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2019

  • Nomination for Best Screenplay (Scott Beck, John Krasinski and Bryan Woods)
  • Nomination for Best Young Actress ( Millicent Simmonds )
  • Award for best science fiction or horror film

Golden Globe Awards 2019

Golden Trailer Awards 2018

  • Award in the Best Horror category

Hollywood Film Awards 2018

Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2018

  • Nomination for Best Score - Science Fiction / Fantasy Film (Marco Beltrami)

Hollywood Professional Association Awards 2018

MTV Movie & TV Awards 2018

  • Nomination in the category Most Frightened Performance (Emily Blunt)

National Board of Review Awards 2018

Online Film Critics Society Awards 2019

  • Award for the best sound design

Academy Awards 2019

People's Choice Awards 2018

  • Nomination for film of the year
  • Nomination for film drama of the year
  • Nomination for Film Star of the Year - Drama (John Krasinski)
  • Nomination for Film Star of the Year - Drama (Emily Blunt)

Producers Guild of America Awards 2019

Satellite Awards 2018

Saturn Award ceremony 2019

Savannah Film Festival 2018

  • Received the Icon Award (Emily Blunt)
  • Received the Vanguard Award (John Krasinski)

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2019

Teen Choice Awards 2018

  • Nomination as a Choice Drama Movie

Writers Guild of America Awards 2019

  • Nomination for Best Original Screenplay (Bryan Woods, Scott Beck and John Krasinski)

Film analysis

Structure and film genre

Just as the horror film genre experienced a boom , the same is true of dystopian end-time films , to which A Quiet Place also belongs, says Michael Pekler from Standard , and which deal with fears of the stranger, which endangers the cohesion of the community and a threat that walls and border fences cannot hold back.

Andreas Staben von Filmstarts explains that director John Krasinski established the initial situation in a ten-minute prologue by throwing us right into the world after the catastrophe: "Instead of informing us about the first monster attacks three months ago with overlay or voiceover, he shows us how the family interacts in an abandoned shop without words and noises, before they make their way home just as quietly through an idyllic, but eerily empty area. The feeling of danger is very quickly developed, which is also due to the fact that we don't really get to see the monsters in the first half of the film. ”Staben says of the deaf daughter that it is heartbreaking, like her in a world in which every noise can have fatal consequences, of all things struggle to be able to hear. Equally touching is the infinite love and admirable patience of the parents, who defy the burden of responsibility and the almost inhuman pressure and even decide to place another child in a seemingly hopeless world. As a result, the film is both a horror thriller and a family drama, according to Staben: "In addition to breathless tension and real horror, it also offers an emotional story about family cohesion in catastrophic times."

Fabian Holzmann from IGN Germany also says that although formally it is a horror film, it works quite well as a drama, at least in the first half: “The everyday life of the family shows how the children in particular feel under the restrictions of their new life have suffered. In order to protect their loved ones, the parents built their own small fortress, in which the children themselves are trapped. That leads to friction, since communication has suffered from the eternal silence. ” Owen Gleiberman from Variety explains about this dichotomy, in the first half of the film the attempt of the family is shown, while the father tries again and again for to build his deaf daughter a functioning hearing aid, which is an initially not immediately recognizable, but important element of action. In the second half, the film turns into a more conventional alien thriller, Gleiberman continues.

Christoph Petersen von Filmstarts remarks that in a film without dialogue you really have to think about how to convey information to the viewer, because you can't just let a character appear and have the world and its rules explained. Instead of a detailed exposition, A Quiet Place only has a blackboard with three notes from the father and a table with a couple of newspapers, the headings of which give a rough picture of what has probably happened.

Anna Leszkiewicz of the New Statesman says the film is most effective at conveying his broader questions when they hover uncomfortably in the background for as long as possible. Nevertheless, there are a number of spoken sentences in the film that would have been better left unspoken, such as “Who are we if we cannot protect them?” To a clarifying fatherly declaration of love. The film is best when it plays with its own premises. Owen Gleiberman also says that things are sometimes scarier if they are not explained. Scott Weinberg of thrillist.com says that since the viewer is only told part of the apocalyptic backstory , the creepy is conveyed in a remarkably efficient manner. The narrative approach serves to increase the mysterious, the tension and the joy of the attentive viewer, says Weinberg.

Visual style and dramaturgy

Brian Tallerico, a film critic for Roger Ebert , says A Quiet Place wasn't one of those films that made the mistake of telling a horror story with a wobble camera. The film chooses a sophisticated imagery and plays wonderfully with perspectives and the terrible nature of a world in which one cannot shout to warn people.

Andreas Busche from Tagesspiegel says: “The obvious question of how to raise a baby in a world in which even the slightest noise can be fatal is always an issue - the answer is as pragmatic as it is ingenious. A Quiet Place draws its suspense from the problem of how to deal with this limitation in everyday life. ”The fact that every loud noise can mean instant death brings Scott Weinberg of Thrillist to a comparison:“ It's almost as if it would the kitchen scene in Jurassic Park extend to the length of a feature film. "

The film critic Antje Wessels explains that occasionally Krasinski pulls the tension screw to the unbearable, for example when Evelyn Abbott not only has to give birth in silence, but also kicks a rusty nail with her bare foot. Wessels goes on to say that one gradually begins to marvel at the attention to detail. With playing pieces made of felt, red lamps as an expression of a cry for help, a sophisticated camera system, prepared floors or the targeted use of other noises in order to cover up one's own or to distract from themselves, the scriptwriters displayed an almost overwhelming wealth of ideas to do this actually grounding such an inflated scenario and making it appear completely realistic, says Wessels.

Acoustic style

The film music composed by Marco Beltrami and also the sound design of the film would be optimally used, says Jonathan Barkan of Dread Central . In the absence of spoken dialogue, A Quiet Place has to catch up in other areas, explains Barkan, and the audio department does a great job: “The sounds the creatures utter are strangely strange and scary and sound like nothing I've ever done I heard before. "

Daniela Li says about the sound design that this grabs even hardened horror fans inside: “Every smallest noise becomes a potential threat and the nerves of the audience are so tense that even the innocent tooting of a toy space shuttle [sic] turns into jumpscare . “The background noise and the background music gave the audience the right feeling much more impressively than any scream and lengthy conversation could ever do,” continued Li.

In many places in the film there is neither music nor other noises. If Simmonds is shown, who plays the deaf daughter in the film, A Quiet Place does not use any sound. In his review of the film, Philip Dethlefs from the dpa notes that this absolute silence is a stroke of genius, as Krasinski draws the audience into his film and lets them experience the situation authentically. About the connection between the sound design and the film editing, Dethlefs says that the mere sight of things that could cause a sound, including a nail in the stairs, make you shudder, and the noises then come all the louder and with maximum shock.

Themes and motifs

Normality of family and parenthood

"I've never played such a caring role as a mother - it's definitely my most personal role to date."

- Emily Blunt

Jörg Albrecht from Deutschlandfunk says that in a hostile world in which the state organs have dissolved, the film repeatedly emphasizes the value of the family as the smallest cell in society. In a film review by Stern Online it is said that while Get Out denounced the still latent racism in the USA, A Quiet Place held an ode to family cohesion. Scott Weinberg says A Quiet Place is especially a film about parents who want to protect their children at all costs and from everything. From their hidden refuge in the woods to their sophisticated security precautions, these parents are obviously keen to keep their children away from the creatures' terrible grasp. Only that seems to be a priority for them. As a viewer, however, you also worry about your parents, says Weinberg.

The Abbotts strive for as much normalcy in an abnormal world as possible and play Monopoly

A Quiet Place is basically about how you can be good parents to your children, while it's actually about survival, says Andreas Busche from Tagesspiegel . Busche remarks to the deaf teenager in his defiant phase that the bloodthirsty aliens are nothing against puberty. Defiant Regan, with her fickle teenage feelings, also challenges Evelyn and Lee's parenting. Anna Leszkiewicz from New Statesman sees A Quiet Place as a metaphor for the horror of parenthood. The film not only poses the question of whether it is possible to build a life in a state of permanent, terrified silence, it also shows how Evelyn and Lee are forced to put their children in cotton wool, but lead them into an uncertain future in which they will have to survive on their own one day.

After the alien invasion, the Abbotts strive for as much normality as possible in their family life in an abnormal world, which includes eating together, prayers and board games. Evelyn also teaches her son Marcus because she considers this to be important despite all the circumstances. Apart from the rules for an almost silent life, parents do not want to give their children any special education and try, as far as possible, to enable them to have a normal childhood.

In an interview with Christoph Petersen from Filmstarts , Emily Blunt said she took on the role because she understood her mother so well: “I felt a deep connection to how she withstood the cold of this world and, despite everything, her children had the opportunity to develop, wants to offer. I've never played such a caring role as a mother - it's definitely my most personal role to date. "

Deafness as an advantage and disadvantage

“I never had a role model in Hollywood. I heard from Marlee Matlin and saw her on Switched At Birth - but there wasn't a deaf star to look up to. So I hope that deaf children who take a look at A Quiet Place will be inspired and realize that they can do the same thing. "

- Millicent Simmonds
Millicent Simmonds had already played Deaf Rose in the film Wonderstruck , here at the premiere in Cannes in May 2017

Pamela J. Kincheloe of the Huffington Post says the silence in the film is only scary to hearing people. The deaf people with whom Kincheloe spoke did not seem to find it so frightening, since silence is nothing unknown to them and is not a loss, but a normal state. Still, deafness is portrayed as a disadvantage in the film, as can be seen in the scene where Regan crouches in the cornfield looking for her brother Marcus while the monster approaches from behind, Kincheloe said.

Deaf lead actress Millicent Simmonds , who plays daughter Regan in A Quiet Place , said the film was a win for the deaf community: “I think it's important in the deaf community to stand up for this story and be an advocate. A story that could inspire directors and other screenwriters to involve more deaf talent and be more creative when using deaf talent. ”The same goes for other disabled actors. Simmonds hoped to have proven through her role in the film that you can do anything despite limitations, be it an activity as an actor or as a writer, teacher or pilot.

In an interview with Christoph Petersen von Filmstarts, when asked if there was anything about her character that she absolutely wanted to be portrayed correctly in terms of her deafness, Simmonds said she had never had a role model in Hollywood, and there was no deaf star to look up to: “So I hope that deaf children who go to A Quiet Place will be inspired and realize that they can do the same thing. There is a lot of discussion going on about representing different groups in Hollywood right now - and the same should be true for people with disabilities. "

continuation

In late April 2018, Paramount confirmed that a sequel to A Quiet Place is in the works. In the summer of 2018, John Krasinski confirmed that he would be involved in this, but it remained unclear in which role. The film was due to hit German cinemas on March 19, 2020, but the date was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for A Quiet Place . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 177769 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for A Quiet Place . Youth Media Commission .
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  8. ^ Mary Jo Murphy: Making Room for Deaf Performers in Hollywood In: The New York Times, October 27, 2017.
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  12. ↑ Stephanie Sorrell-White: 'A Quiet Place' transforms Little Falls In: Times Telegram, October 30, 2017.
  13. ^ A b John W. Barry: Beacon: John Krasinski set to film at Natural Market, Main Street In: Poughkeepsie Journal, October 20, 2017.
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