Hillbilly Elegy (film)
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| Original title | Hillbilly Elegy |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 116 minutes |
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| Director | Ron Howard |
| script | Vanessa Taylor |
| production |
Brian Grazer , Ron Howard, Erica Huggins , Karen Lunder |
| music | Hans Zimmer |
| camera | Maryse Alberti |
| cut | James Wilcox |
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Hillbilly Elegy is a Ron Howard drama film set to hit US theaters in November 2020. The film is based on the autobiographical novel / non-fiction book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by JD Vance and tells the story of a family originally from Kentucky over three generations.
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To escape the prevailing poverty there, a couple from the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky moves to Ohio after the Second World War to start a family and live the American dream.
Autobiographical template
“In the past, the ' hillbillys ', the white factory workers, could hope to toil to prosperity. But towards the end of the 20th century at the latest, the decline of the old industries pulled their families into a downward spiral in which they are still stuck today. "
The film is based on the autobiographical novel / non-fiction by JD Vance entitled Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis , which was published in June 2016 by Harper & Row and in the top 10 of the Nonfiction Books of the same year 2016 of Time magazine landed. Vance grew up in the industrial town of Middletown in the Rust Belt , Ohio, but calls his great-grandmother's house in Jackson, Kentucky, a small town of around 6,000 people in the mining region in the southeast, home in his book.
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In the reporting non-fiction book, Vance, who now works as a capital manager and writer, describes the lives of people from the working class through the history of his white lower-class family. The family history begins in post-war America. In the 1940s, his grandparents moved from Jackson in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky to Ohio to escape the poverty around them and made their fortune there in a large steel mill a few hundred kilometers north in Middletown. However, they could not escape their social origins in Kentucky and certain ethnic and character imprints and stayed among themselves with many other "Hill People". Vance, who was born in 1984, grew up with his grandparents, called Mamaw and Papaw (Blanton), because his mother became more and more addicted to drugs and his birth father had put him up for adoption. They enabled him to study law at Yale Law School, but Vance herself still carries the demons of her chaotic family history with him. So his novel has become "an urgent and disturbing meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large part of this country," said Gerrit Bartels from Tagesspiegel . Jörg Magenau from Deutschlandfunk Kultur explains that the book has become a bestseller in the USA because it wants to make it easier to understand what drives the Trump electorate and why they recognize one of their own in this bullying sexist. Above all, however, it is a rising story, because Vance has escaped his past as a successful investor, which only a few who come from a childhood full of violence, with a drug-addicted mother and constantly changing men at their side, manage.
Vance also credits his career to his military service, which gave his life the structure he needed to be successful. He stayed with his grandmother for the last three years before graduating from high school, and although he got very good grades, he decided to go to the Marines first: “Four years with the Marines, I told myself, would be mine help me become the person I wanted to be, ”said Vance.
The book was published in 2017 in a German translation by Gregor Hens by Ullstein-Verlag under the title Hillbilly-Elegie. The story of my family and a society in crisis published. " Hillbilly " are often disparagingly referred to in the USA as residents of rural, mountainous areas such as the Appalachian Mountains and the Ozarks, similar to the "hillbilly" or the "country egg". The expression “ Elegy ” describes a poem which, according to today's understanding, mostly has sad, lamenting topics as its content and is dominated by a melancholy mood. However, the terminology is poorly defined, especially in English literature, and is sometimes used as a collective term to denote texts with a gloomy or pessimistic tone.
production
JD Vance's autobiographical work was adapted for the film by Vanessa Taylor . Oscar winner Ron Howard directed.
Amy Adams took on the role of Vance's mother Bev, while Glenn Close played the mamaw who raised him. As a younger woman, Mamaw is played by Sunny Mabrey . Bo Hopkins plays Papaw. Haley Bennett as Lindsay, Freida Pinto as Usha, Chase Anderson as Brett and Jesse C. Boyd as Matt also appear in other roles . Gabriel Basso , best known for his role as Martin in Super 8 , plays the author JD Vance as a young man and thus in one of the phases of his life in which he is shown in the film.
Filming took place in Ohio and Georgia, including in Clayton County and North Druid Hills in mid-June 2019 . Outdoor shots were taken in Macon and Middletown, where Vance grew up. The French woman Maryse Alberti acted as camerawoman .
The film music is composed by Hans Zimmer , with whom Howard most recently worked for Inferno .
The film is slated to hit US cinemas in November 2020.
literature
- JD Vance: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis . Harper & Row, 2016. ISBN 9780062300546
- JD Vance: Hillbilly Elegy: The Story of My Family and a Society in Crisis . Translation by Gregor Hens, Ullstein, Berlin 2017. ISBN 9783550050084
Web links
- Hillbilly Elegy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- JD Vance in an interview with NPR (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b J.D. Vance: Hillbilly Elegy: The Story of My Family and a Society in Crisis . Translation by Gregor Hens, Ullstein, Berlin 2017.
- ↑ a b c J.D. Vance: Hillbilly Elegy: The Story of My Family and a Society in Crisis . Reading sample from the Ullstein publishing house. (PDF)
- ↑ a b c d James Barber: Marine Vet JD Vance's 'Hillbilly Elegy' Movie Will Star Amy Adams and Glenn Close. In: military.com, April 11, 2019.
- ^ Sarah Begley: The Top 10 Nonfiction Books. In: Time, November 22, 2016.
- ^ Joshua Rothman: The Lives of Poor White People. In: The New Yorker, September 12, 2016.
- ↑ 'Hillbilly Elegy' Recalls A Childhood Where Poverty Was 'The Family Tradition'. In: npr.org, August 17, 2016.
- ↑ a b Jörg Magenau: JD Vance: “Hillbilly Elegy”: You can only pull yourself out. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, April 18, 2017.
- ^ A b c Gerrit Bartels: "Hillbilly Elegy" by JD Vance: Society on the Abyss. In: Der Tagesspiegel, April 26, 2017.
- ↑ https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/whats-filming-in-atlanta-now-lovecraft-country-the-conjuring-3-waldo-hillbilly-elegy-and-more/
- ↑ Hans Zimmer to Reteam with Ron Howard on 'Hillbilly Elegy'. In: filmmusicreporter.com, March 10, 2020.