Walking out

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Movie
Original title Walking out
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2017
length 95 minutes
Rod
Director Alex Smith ,
Andrew J. Smith
script Alex Smith,
Andrew J. Smith
production Brunson Green ,
Laura Ivey
music Ernst Reijseger
camera Todd McMullen
cut Michael Taylor
occupation

Walking Out is an adventure film by Alex and Andrew J. Smith that premiered on January 21, 2017 as part of the Sundance Film Festival and was released in US cinemas on October 5, 2017. The film is based on a short story by David Quammen and tells of a father and son's struggle for survival in the wilderness of Montana .

action

David tries to save his father Cal in the wilds of Montana. The film was shot in the Crazy Mountains, among others

14-year-old David, a teenager who lives with his mother and has become very used to the conveniences of city life, travels from Texas to Montana for his annual visit to see his father, Cal, a Roughneck who is withdrawn and out of touch lives to other people. The two have become estranged, and while David would be content to hang around the hut and play video games, his father has made up his mind to hunt a moose with his son that David should shoot because he thinks they are could thereby come closer to each other again.

During their hunting trip through the wintry landscape, his father explains the tracks to him and tells him about the animistic philosophy of a hunt. Cal also tells his son about his first hunt, which his long-dead father once took him on. In the wilderness, Cal is suddenly attacked and injured by a grizzly bear. Cal's survival now depends on the strength of his son, and David must try to get his wounded father out of the wintry wilderness and back into civilization. Sometimes he has to carry it, and the cold and snow make it difficult to get ahead. During their breaks, Cal recalls his own first moose hunt when he was David's age.

The hunting trip becomes a struggle for survival, but also ensures that father and son find each other again.

production

Literary template and staff

The film is based on the short story Walking Out by the American writer and science journalist David Quammen from 1980, who is best known for his award-winning popular scientific works on natural history and evolution. The work belongs in the canon of rural American literature. In the initiation story Walking Out , which recalls the hunting stories from William Faulkner's short story collection Go Down, Moses and is told in the third person, an 11-year-old boy lives with his mother and stepfather near Chicago and does one with his father Hunting trip through the Montana wilderness. In this story, the boy fears these journeys, but the father does not recognize his son's resistance because he tries to teach him as much as possible in the few days that they see each other that he considers important, his son to do To give life. The forced togetherness and the constant stories of his father about his father bore the boy, however. When his father almost dies in an accident, the boy has to outgrow himself, which surprises him, but his father does not, who already knew what his son is capable of because he had always prepared him for such situations.

It was directed by twin brothers Alex Smith and Andrew J. Smith , who also wrote the script adaptation of Quammen's short story. Andrew J. Smith is a filmmaker and writer and is a professor in the School of Media Arts at the University of Montana. The director and his brother Alex say they grew up in an area where the residents specialized in woodworking, and the forest was their playground. The directors left the main plot of the story in Montana in their script adaptation to increase the authenticity, and so, according to Andrew J. Smith, the filming took place not only in roughly the same area, but in exactly the places described in Quammenin's story are.

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Josh Wiggins (left), here at the screening of the film as part of the South by Southwest Film Festival 2017, took on the role of David.  Matt Bomer (right) plays his father Cal in the film Josh Wiggins (left), here at the screening of the film as part of the South by Southwest Film Festival 2017, took on the role of David.  Matt Bomer (right) plays his father Cal in the film
Josh Wiggins (left), here at the screening of the film as part of
the South by Southwest Film Festival 2017 , took on the role
of David. Matt Bomer (right) plays his father Cal in the film

Up- and-coming actor Josh Wiggins took on the role of David . Actor Matt Bomer took on the lead role of the adult protagonist Cal, David's father. As a boy, Cal is played in flashbacks by Alex Neustaedter .

Filming

The film was shot in Montana , where the novel is based, David Quammen lives today and the two directors also come from. The shooting took place mainly in the area around Livingston and Bozeman and the Crazy Mountains there, in Paradise Valley , and in January 2016 in the Hyalite Canyon Recreation Area.

Since much of the filming had taken place in Indian reserve territory, the directors had to work with a tribal council and were given official Montana scouts to drive them around and know every corner of the reservation. Filming was finished in early 2016.

Film music

The soundtrack was composed by Ernst Reijseger . The soundtrack for the film comprises 15 pieces of music and was released on CD by Winter & Winter on July 14, 2017.

publication

Walking Out premiered on January 21, 2017 at the Sundance Film Festival , where the film was screened in the US Dramatic Competition. Trevor Groth, program director of the Sundance Film Festival, praised the film before its premiere for its incredible cinematography and as a very emotional father-son story.

From March 12, 2017, the film was presented at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin. The film was released in two selected American cinemas on October 5, 2017.

reception

Age rating

In the US, the film was rated PG-13 by the MPAA .

Reviews

The film has so far won over 89 percent of Rotten Tomatoes ' critics .

Sean P. Means of The Salt Lake Tribune says the writer-director-brothers Alex and Andrew Smith captured the rugged beauty of Montana and the terrifying isolation of the place perfectly.

The Hollywood Reporter's John DeFore explains that as the script and portrayal became deeper and deeper into the story, David had to prove his skills as a savior, and his father Cal indulged in memories of hunting trips with his own father, Todd McMullen's camerawork shows how lost the two are. The subtle flashbacks didn't detract from the actual father-son story, however, according to DeFore.

Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2017

  • Nomination as a competition film in the US Dramatic Competition

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. As They Lay Dying In: The New York Times, January 31, 1988.
  3. Walking Out In: sundance.org. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
  4. a b c Brian DAmbrosio: Big Sky on the Big Screen: Walking Out With Alex and Andrew Smith In: The Huffington Post, February 5, 2016.
  5. a b c Paula Bernstein: Where I Shot It: Alex and Andrew Smith on How Setting Can Be Its Own Character In: indiewire.com, October 28, 2015.
  6. 'In Montana it feels like there's lots of sky stacked on top of us, layer upon layer': Director Alex Smith, whose film Walking Out premieres at Sundance London this weekend, on his love for his home state, 'Big Sky Country' In: The Guardian, June 2, 2017.
  7. Aja Goare: Montana brothers release "Walking Out" at Sundance Film Festival In: kbzk.com, January 25, 2017.
  8. Cory Walsh: Montana-made film 'Walking Out' to premiere at Sundance in 2017 In: mtstandard.com, November 30, 2016.
  9. Stephen Camelio: As real as it gets In: mtoutlaw.com. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
  10. Andreas Wiseman: 'The Help' producer wraps survival drama 'Walking Out' starring Matt Bomer In: screendaily.com, February 2, 2016.
  11. Nan Chalat Noaker: Sundance programming director offers a few insider tips In: parkrecord.com, January 8, 2017.
  12. SXSW Schedule In: sxsw.com. Retrieved March 14, 2017.
  13. BULLETIN NO: 2490: motion pictures rated by the classification and rating administration In: filmratings.com. Accessed August 25, 2017 (PDF)
  14. Walking Out In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 27, 2018.
  15. Sean P. Means: Sundance review: 'Walking Out' in: The Salt Lake Tribune, Jan. 22, 2017.
  16. ^ John DeFore: 'Walking Out': Film Review. Sundance 2017 In: The Hollywood Reporter, Jan 31, 2017.