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Once Were Warriors
Once Were Warriors poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Lee Tamahori
Produced by
Robin Scholes
Written by
Riwia Brown
 based on the novel Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
Starring
Rena Owen
Temuera Morrison
Cliff Curtis
Julian Arahanga
Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell
Music by
Murray Grindlay
 Murray McNabb
Cinematography
Stuart Dryburgh
Edited by
Michael J. Horton
Distributed by
Fine Line Features
Release date(s)
2 September 1994

Running time
99 min.
Country
New Zealand
Language
English
Maori
Box office
$2,201,126 (USA)[1]
Once Were Warriors is a 1994 film based on New Zealand author Alan Duff's bestselling 1990 first novel.[2] The film tells the story of an urban Māori family the Hekes and their problems with poverty, alcoholism and domestic violence, mostly brought on by family patriarch Jake. It was directed by Lee Tamahori and stars Rena Owen and Temuera Morrison.[3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Differences between book and film
3 Characters
4 Production and awards
5 Popular and critical reception
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
Beth left her small town and despite the disapproval of her parents, married Jake "the Muss" Heke. After eighteen years they live in an unkempt State House and have five children. Their interpretations of life and being Māori are tested. Their eldest daughter, Grace, keeps a journal in which she chronicles events as well as stories which she tells her younger siblings.
Jake is fired from his job and is satisfied with the unemployment benefit, spending most days getting drunk at the local pub with his friends, singing songs and savagely beating any patron whom he considers to have stepped out of line. He often invites crowds of friends back from the bar to his home for drunken parties. His wife "gets lippy" at one of his parties and he brutally attacks her in front of their friends. Beth turns to drink when things go wrong, with angry outbursts and occasional violence on a much smaller scale. Her children fend for themselves, resignedly cleaning the blood-streaked house after her beating.
Nig, the Heke’s eldest son, moves out to join a gang whose rituals include facial tattoos (in Māori culture called Tā moko). This usually shows the heritage of the person; in Nig’s case, he shows only the heritage of his mother, with the Moko located on only one side of his face. He is subjected to an inititation beating by the gang members, but then embraced as a new brother and later sports the gang’s tattoos. Nig cares about his siblings, but despises his father. He is angered when his mother is beaten, but deals with it by walking away.
The second son, Mark "Boogie" Heke has a history of minor criminal offences and is taken from his family and placed in a foster home as a ward of the state due to the situation with his parents. Despite his initial anger, Boogie finds a new niche for himself, as the foster home’s manager Mr. Bennett helps him embrace his Māori heritage. Jake does not care that Boogie is taken away; he comments that it will do him some good, to toughen him up a bit. Beth is heartbroken, and scrapes money together to visit him. Jake pays for the rental car from gambling winnings, but deserts the family to go to the pub and they never make the journey.
Grace, the Heke’s 13-year-old daughter, loves writing stories. Her best friend is a homeless boy named Toot who lives in a wrecked car. She despises the future she believes is inevitable and is constantly reminded of getting married and playing the role of the wife, which she believes is catering to one’s husband’s demands and taking beatings. She dreams of leaving and being independent and single.
Grace is raped in her bed by her father’s friend "Uncle Bully" who tells her that it is her fault for "turning him on" by wearing her "skimpy little nighty". She becomes depressed. She tries to go to her friend Toot for support, smoking her first dope. Toot kisses her, but she reacts violently and storms out, believing him to be "just like the rest of them". After wandering through the city streets, Grace comes home to an angry Jake with his friends. Bully asks for a goodnight kiss in front of everyone, to test his power over her. Grace refuses and her father tears her journal in two and nearly beats her up. She runs out to the backyard crying. Beth returns home from searching for her and goes outside looking for Grace, only to find that she has hanged herself from a tree branch.
Jake stays in the pub with his mates while the rest of the family take Grace's body to a traditional Māori funeral ceremony. Beth stands up to him properly for the first time as he refuses to let her be taken to the marae; he has always felt second rate for not being in touch with his heritage, in his words, "a black bastard". The film cuts back and forth between the mourning, Jake in the pub bottling it up and the family on the marae. Boogie impresses Beth with his Māori singing at the funeral and Toot says his goodbyes, telling her the gentle kiss was all he meant by it. Boogie reassures Toot that Grace loved him and Beth invites Toot to live with them.
Reading Grace’s diary later that day, Beth finds out about the rape and confronts Bully in the pub. Jake at first threatens Beth, but Nig steps between them, protecting his mother. He hands him Grace’s diary and Jake reacts by severely beating Bully and stabbing him with a glass bottle in the crotch. Beth blames Jake just as much as Bully for bringing home his violent friends. She leaves and states her intentions to leave with their children and return to her Māori village and traditions, defiantly telling Jake that her Māori heritage gives her the strength to resist his control over her. Jake hopelessly sits on a curb outside the pub as the family leaves, with sirens wailing in the background.
Differences between book and film[edit]
The book and the film follow a roughly similar plot. Three major differences include the role of Beth, the involvement of Nig's gang, and the ending. In addition, the film takes place in Auckland, whereas the novel was set in the fictional town of Two Lakes, which was based on Rotorua where Alan Duff grew up. Two Lakes is a literal translation of the Maori Name Rotorua.
In the book, Beth and Jake are roughly equal characters; Beth is flawed but dynamic, and almost as irresponsible as her husband. In the film, Beth is more central, especially because Jake's period of homelessness is omitted from the film; however, her character is less complex. The difference between the book and the film is illustrated by a key episode in which the family rent a car in order to visit Boogie, but Jake stops at a pub along the way for "one drink." He ends up getting drunk for hours as the family wait in the car. In the book, Beth hires the car using money she has saved by not drinking, but quickly joins Jake in the pub and gets upset only when it is too late to visit Boogie. In the film, Jake wins money gambling on horses and uses it to rent the car. Beth and the children wait in the car outside the bar for several hours before Beth finally calls a cab and takes the children back home without visiting Boogie. Essentially, Beth spends the first three-quarters of the film as a passive character, until Grace's suicide spurs her into leaving Jake, whereas throughout the book she attempts to improve her life.[citation needed]
The subplot concerning Nig's gang is a bigger part of the book than the film. In the book, Nig tries to find a substitute family in the gang, but its members are either too brutal or too beaten down to give him the love and support he craves.[citation needed] In the film, we see little of the gang once Nig is initiated and tattooed. Also in the Book it is Toot that rejects Grace's advances for affection, as he instinctively realizes they are both too damaged to console each other or explore their childhood love.
The most obvious difference between the book and the film is the ending. In the novel, Grace is not sure who raped her, but thinks it may have been Jake. She writes this in her diary, and when the rest of the family find it, they confront Jake. However, he can't remember what happened, because he was too drunk. He then leaves the family, lives in a park, and befriends a young homeless man. Meanwhile Beth begins a Māori culture group that reinvigorates her community.[citation needed]
Characters[edit]
Rena Owen as Beth Heke
Temuera Morrison as Jake "the Muss" Heke
Julian Arahanga as Nig Heke
Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell as Grace Heke
Taungaroa Emile as Boogie Heke
George Henare as Mr. Bennett
Cliff Curtis as Bully
Pete Smith as Dooley
Calvin Tuteao as Taka
Shannon Williams as Toot
Production and awards[edit]
The film was produced by Communicado Productions, its first feature film. The film won best film at the New Zealand Film & Television Awards, Durban International Film Festival, Montreal Film Festival and Rotterdam Film Festival. It also became at the time the highest grossing film in New Zealand, surpassing The Piano. The film was nominated for the Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics.
The film was shot at a local Otara state house, located at 33 O'Connor street, Otara, Auckland. The film was filmed primarily in that house, with neighbours complaining on numerous occasions due to the film's late night party scenes.
A sequel to the book was published in 1996, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?, which was made into a film in 1999. However, it was poorly received compared to the original. The third book in the trilogy, Jake's Long Shadow, was published in 2002 but has not been made into a movie.
Popular and critical reception[edit]
The website RottenTomatoes.com, which compiles mostly North American reviews, shows that 29 out of 31 were "fresh", or 94 percent positive. The reviews gave the film an average rating of 8 out of 10.
A New Zealand survey in 2014 voted the film the best New Zealand film of all time.[4]
In 2014 a documentary film was made for the 20th anniversary of the original release of the film. [5] [6]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1995/0OWWA.php
2.Jump up ^ Maslin, Janet (February 24, 1995). "Once Were Warriors (1994) FILM REVIEW; For a Family, the War at Home". The New York Times.
3.Jump up ^ Thompson, K. M. (2003). "Once Were Warriors: New Zealand's first indigenous blockbuster." In J. Stringer (Ed.), Movie Blockbusters (pp. 230 – 241). London: Routledge.
4.Jump up ^ "Kiwis pick their favourite movie". Stuff/Fairfax. 19 August 2014.
5.Jump up ^ "Once were the cast of Warriors". Stuff/Fairfax. 19 August 2014.
6.Jump up ^ "What became of Grace Heke". Stuff/Fairfax. 19 August 2014.
External links[edit]
Once Were Warriors on NZ On Screen - behind-the-scenes footage and interviews as well as the film trailer. Free to view (Flash required)
Once Were Warriors at the Internet Movie Database


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Once Were Warriors (film)
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Once Were Warriors
Once Were Warriors poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Lee Tamahori
Produced by
Robin Scholes
Written by
Riwia Brown
 based on the novel Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
Starring
Rena Owen
Temuera Morrison
Cliff Curtis
Julian Arahanga
Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell
Music by
Murray Grindlay
 Murray McNabb
Cinematography
Stuart Dryburgh
Edited by
Michael J. Horton
Distributed by
Fine Line Features
Release date(s)
2 September 1994

Running time
99 min.
Country
New Zealand
Language
English
Maori
Box office
$2,201,126 (USA)[1]
Once Were Warriors is a 1994 film based on New Zealand author Alan Duff's bestselling 1990 first novel.[2] The film tells the story of an urban Māori family the Hekes and their problems with poverty, alcoholism and domestic violence, mostly brought on by family patriarch Jake. It was directed by Lee Tamahori and stars Rena Owen and Temuera Morrison.[3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Differences between book and film
3 Characters
4 Production and awards
5 Popular and critical reception
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
Beth left her small town and despite the disapproval of her parents, married Jake "the Muss" Heke. After eighteen years they live in an unkempt State House and have five children. Their interpretations of life and being Māori are tested. Their eldest daughter, Grace, keeps a journal in which she chronicles events as well as stories which she tells her younger siblings.
Jake is fired from his job and is satisfied with the unemployment benefit, spending most days getting drunk at the local pub with his friends, singing songs and savagely beating any patron whom he considers to have stepped out of line. He often invites crowds of friends back from the bar to his home for drunken parties. His wife "gets lippy" at one of his parties and he brutally attacks her in front of their friends. Beth turns to drink when things go wrong, with angry outbursts and occasional violence on a much smaller scale. Her children fend for themselves, resignedly cleaning the blood-streaked house after her beating.
Nig, the Heke’s eldest son, moves out to join a gang whose rituals include facial tattoos (in Māori culture called Tā moko). This usually shows the heritage of the person; in Nig’s case, he shows only the heritage of his mother, with the Moko located on only one side of his face. He is subjected to an inititation beating by the gang members, but then embraced as a new brother and later sports the gang’s tattoos. Nig cares about his siblings, but despises his father. He is angered when his mother is beaten, but deals with it by walking away.
The second son, Mark "Boogie" Heke has a history of minor criminal offences and is taken from his family and placed in a foster home as a ward of the state due to the situation with his parents. Despite his initial anger, Boogie finds a new niche for himself, as the foster home’s manager Mr. Bennett helps him embrace his Māori heritage. Jake does not care that Boogie is taken away; he comments that it will do him some good, to toughen him up a bit. Beth is heartbroken, and scrapes money together to visit him. Jake pays for the rental car from gambling winnings, but deserts the family to go to the pub and they never make the journey.
Grace, the Heke’s 13-year-old daughter, loves writing stories. Her best friend is a homeless boy named Toot who lives in a wrecked car. She despises the future she believes is inevitable and is constantly reminded of getting married and playing the role of the wife, which she believes is catering to one’s husband’s demands and taking beatings. She dreams of leaving and being independent and single.
Grace is raped in her bed by her father’s friend "Uncle Bully" who tells her that it is her fault for "turning him on" by wearing her "skimpy little nighty". She becomes depressed. She tries to go to her friend Toot for support, smoking her first dope. Toot kisses her, but she reacts violently and storms out, believing him to be "just like the rest of them". After wandering through the city streets, Grace comes home to an angry Jake with his friends. Bully asks for a goodnight kiss in front of everyone, to test his power over her. Grace refuses and her father tears her journal in two and nearly beats her up. She runs out to the backyard crying. Beth returns home from searching for her and goes outside looking for Grace, only to find that she has hanged herself from a tree branch.
Jake stays in the pub with his mates while the rest of the family take Grace's body to a traditional Māori funeral ceremony. Beth stands up to him properly for the first time as he refuses to let her be taken to the marae; he has always felt second rate for not being in touch with his heritage, in his words, "a black bastard". The film cuts back and forth between the mourning, Jake in the pub bottling it up and the family on the marae. Boogie impresses Beth with his Māori singing at the funeral and Toot says his goodbyes, telling her the gentle kiss was all he meant by it. Boogie reassures Toot that Grace loved him and Beth invites Toot to live with them.
Reading Grace’s diary later that day, Beth finds out about the rape and confronts Bully in the pub. Jake at first threatens Beth, but Nig steps between them, protecting his mother. He hands him Grace’s diary and Jake reacts by severely beating Bully and stabbing him with a glass bottle in the crotch. Beth blames Jake just as much as Bully for bringing home his violent friends. She leaves and states her intentions to leave with their children and return to her Māori village and traditions, defiantly telling Jake that her Māori heritage gives her the strength to resist his control over her. Jake hopelessly sits on a curb outside the pub as the family leaves, with sirens wailing in the background.
Differences between book and film[edit]
The book and the film follow a roughly similar plot. Three major differences include the role of Beth, the involvement of Nig's gang, and the ending. In addition, the film takes place in Auckland, whereas the novel was set in the fictional town of Two Lakes, which was based on Rotorua where Alan Duff grew up. Two Lakes is a literal translation of the Maori Name Rotorua.
In the book, Beth and Jake are roughly equal characters; Beth is flawed but dynamic, and almost as irresponsible as her husband. In the film, Beth is more central, especially because Jake's period of homelessness is omitted from the film; however, her character is less complex. The difference between the book and the film is illustrated by a key episode in which the family rent a car in order to visit Boogie, but Jake stops at a pub along the way for "one drink." He ends up getting drunk for hours as the family wait in the car. In the book, Beth hires the car using money she has saved by not drinking, but quickly joins Jake in the pub and gets upset only when it is too late to visit Boogie. In the film, Jake wins money gambling on horses and uses it to rent the car. Beth and the children wait in the car outside the bar for several hours before Beth finally calls a cab and takes the children back home without visiting Boogie. Essentially, Beth spends the first three-quarters of the film as a passive character, until Grace's suicide spurs her into leaving Jake, whereas throughout the book she attempts to improve her life.[citation needed]
The subplot concerning Nig's gang is a bigger part of the book than the film. In the book, Nig tries to find a substitute family in the gang, but its members are either too brutal or too beaten down to give him the love and support he craves.[citation needed] In the film, we see little of the gang once Nig is initiated and tattooed. Also in the Book it is Toot that rejects Grace's advances for affection, as he instinctively realizes they are both too damaged to console each other or explore their childhood love.
The most obvious difference between the book and the film is the ending. In the novel, Grace is not sure who raped her, but thinks it may have been Jake. She writes this in her diary, and when the rest of the family find it, they confront Jake. However, he can't remember what happened, because he was too drunk. He then leaves the family, lives in a park, and befriends a young homeless man. Meanwhile Beth begins a Māori culture group that reinvigorates her community.[citation needed]
Characters[edit]
Rena Owen as Beth Heke
Temuera Morrison as Jake "the Muss" Heke
Julian Arahanga as Nig Heke
Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell as Grace Heke
Taungaroa Emile as Boogie Heke
George Henare as Mr. Bennett
Cliff Curtis as Bully
Pete Smith as Dooley
Calvin Tuteao as Taka
Shannon Williams as Toot
Production and awards[edit]
The film was produced by Communicado Productions, its first feature film. The film won best film at the New Zealand Film & Television Awards, Durban International Film Festival, Montreal Film Festival and Rotterdam Film Festival. It also became at the time the highest grossing film in New Zealand, surpassing The Piano. The film was nominated for the Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics.
The film was shot at a local Otara state house, located at 33 O'Connor street, Otara, Auckland. The film was filmed primarily in that house, with neighbours complaining on numerous occasions due to the film's late night party scenes.
A sequel to the book was published in 1996, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?, which was made into a film in 1999. However, it was poorly received compared to the original. The third book in the trilogy, Jake's Long Shadow, was published in 2002 but has not been made into a movie.
Popular and critical reception[edit]
The website RottenTomatoes.com, which compiles mostly North American reviews, shows that 29 out of 31 were "fresh", or 94 percent positive. The reviews gave the film an average rating of 8 out of 10.
A New Zealand survey in 2014 voted the film the best New Zealand film of all time.[4]
In 2014 a documentary film was made for the 20th anniversary of the original release of the film. [5] [6]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1995/0OWWA.php
2.Jump up ^ Maslin, Janet (February 24, 1995). "Once Were Warriors (1994) FILM REVIEW; For a Family, the War at Home". The New York Times.
3.Jump up ^ Thompson, K. M. (2003). "Once Were Warriors: New Zealand's first indigenous blockbuster." In J. Stringer (Ed.), Movie Blockbusters (pp. 230 – 241). London: Routledge.
4.Jump up ^ "Kiwis pick their favourite movie". Stuff/Fairfax. 19 August 2014.
5.Jump up ^ "Once were the cast of Warriors". Stuff/Fairfax. 19 August 2014.
6.Jump up ^ "What became of Grace Heke". Stuff/Fairfax. 19 August 2014.
External links[edit]
Once Were Warriors on NZ On Screen - behind-the-scenes footage and interviews as well as the film trailer. Free to view (Flash required)
Once Were Warriors at the Internet Movie Database


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Equus
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Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Sidney Lumet
Produced by
Elliott Kastner
Lester Persky
 Denis Holt
Screenplay by
Peter Shaffer
Based on
Equus
 by Peter Shaffer
Starring
Richard Burton
Peter Firth
Jenny Agutter
Joan Plowright
Colin Blakely
Music by
Richard Rodney Bennett
Cinematography
Oswald Morris
Edited by
John Victor-Smith
Production
   company
Winkast Film Productions
Distributed by
United Artists
Release date(s)
October 14, 1977 (United Kingdom)
October 16, 1977 (United States)

Running time
137 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
 United States
Language
English
Equus is a 1977 British-American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Richard Burton. Peter Shaffer wrote the screenplay based on his play Equus. The film also featured Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins, and Jenny Agutter.


Contents  [hide]
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2 Cast
3 Reception 3.1 Accolades
4 References
5 External links

Plot[edit]
Psychiatrist Martin Dysart investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming 17-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of opinionated but inwardly-timid Frank Strang and his genteel, religious wife, Dora. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
Cast[edit]
Richard Burton as Martin Dysart
Peter Firth as Alan Strang
Colin Blakely as Frank Strang
Joan Plowright as Dora Strang
Harry Andrews as Harry Dalton
Eileen Atkins as Hesther Saloman
Jenny Agutter as Jill Mason
Kate Reid as Margaret Dysart
John Wyman as Horseman
Elva Mai Hoover as Miss Raintree
Ken James as Mr Pearce
Reception[edit]
Unlike the play, the film version was placed in a realistic setting, using real horses. Some critics and theatre purists found this objectionable, arguing that the spirit of the stage play was lost in the film. Others had praise for both Burton and Firth, who were in the stage versions of the play. The film received mixed reviews, currently holding a 69% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[1]
Accolades[edit]
Academy AwardsBest Actor – Richard Burton (nominated)
Best Supporting Actor – Peter Firth (nominated)
Best Adapted Screenplay – Peter Shaffer (nominated)
Golden GlobesBest Actor – Motion Picture Drama – Richard Burton (won)
Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture – Peter Firth (won)
OthersBAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress – Jenny Agutter (won)
BAFTA Award for Best Film Music – Richard Rodney Bennett (won)
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor – Peter Firth (won)
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Equus at Rotten Tomatoes
External links[edit]
Equus at the Internet Movie Database
Equus at AllMovie
Equus at Rotten Tomatoes


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Equus (film)
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Equus
Equusposter77.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Sidney Lumet
Produced by
Elliott Kastner
Lester Persky
 Denis Holt
Screenplay by
Peter Shaffer
Based on
Equus
 by Peter Shaffer
Starring
Richard Burton
Peter Firth
Jenny Agutter
Joan Plowright
Colin Blakely
Music by
Richard Rodney Bennett
Cinematography
Oswald Morris
Edited by
John Victor-Smith
Production
   company
Winkast Film Productions
Distributed by
United Artists
Release date(s)
October 14, 1977 (United Kingdom)
October 16, 1977 (United States)

Running time
137 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
 United States
Language
English
Equus is a 1977 British-American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Richard Burton. Peter Shaffer wrote the screenplay based on his play Equus. The film also featured Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins, and Jenny Agutter.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Reception 3.1 Accolades
4 References
5 External links

Plot[edit]
Psychiatrist Martin Dysart investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming 17-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of opinionated but inwardly-timid Frank Strang and his genteel, religious wife, Dora. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
Cast[edit]
Richard Burton as Martin Dysart
Peter Firth as Alan Strang
Colin Blakely as Frank Strang
Joan Plowright as Dora Strang
Harry Andrews as Harry Dalton
Eileen Atkins as Hesther Saloman
Jenny Agutter as Jill Mason
Kate Reid as Margaret Dysart
John Wyman as Horseman
Elva Mai Hoover as Miss Raintree
Ken James as Mr Pearce
Reception[edit]
Unlike the play, the film version was placed in a realistic setting, using real horses. Some critics and theatre purists found this objectionable, arguing that the spirit of the stage play was lost in the film. Others had praise for both Burton and Firth, who were in the stage versions of the play. The film received mixed reviews, currently holding a 69% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[1]
Accolades[edit]
Academy AwardsBest Actor – Richard Burton (nominated)
Best Supporting Actor – Peter Firth (nominated)
Best Adapted Screenplay – Peter Shaffer (nominated)
Golden GlobesBest Actor – Motion Picture Drama – Richard Burton (won)
Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture – Peter Firth (won)
OthersBAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress – Jenny Agutter (won)
BAFTA Award for Best Film Music – Richard Rodney Bennett (won)
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor – Peter Firth (won)
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Equus at Rotten Tomatoes
External links[edit]
Equus at the Internet Movie Database
Equus at AllMovie
Equus at Rotten Tomatoes


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Hiroshima (film)
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Hiroshima
HiroshimaFilm.jpg
Directed by
Koreyoshi Kurahara, Roger Spottiswoode
Produced by
Tracey Alexander
Written by
John Hopkins, Toshiro Ishido
Starring
Kenneth Welsh
Music by
Cory Rizos
Marty Simon
Cinematography
Shohei Ando, Pierre Mignot
Edited by
John Soh
Production
   company
Telescene Film Group Productions
Distributed by
Showtime Network
Release date(s)
1995
Running time
186 min. (DVD version)
Language
English, Japanese
Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki toward the end of World War II. Except as actors, no Americans took part in the production. The three-hour film was made for television (Showtime Network) and evidently had no theatrical release, but is available on DVD for home viewing.
A combination of dramatisation, historical footage, and eyewitness interviews, the film alternates between documentary footage and the dramatic recreations. Both the dramatisations and most of the original footage are presented as sepia-toned images, serving to blur the distinction between them. The languages are English and Japanese, with subtitles, and the actors are largely Canadian and Japanese.


Contents  [hide]
1 Synopsis
2 Cast
3 Reception
4 See also
5 External links

Synopsis[edit]
The film opens in April 1945 with the death of Franklin Roosevelt and the succession of Harry Truman to the presidency. In Europe, the Germans are close to surrender, but in the Pacific the bloody battle for Okinawa is still underway and an invasion of the Japanese home islands is not foreseen until the autumn. American battle casualties have almost reached 900,000, with Japanese casualties at 1.1 million, and some 8 million Asian civilians have died in the war that began with Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931.
The new president knows nothing about the nuclear weapons being developed at Los Alamos, and he must soon decide on whether to use them and how. The US Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, has doubts even about the wisdom of the American fire-bombing raids on Japan.
"One of these Gadgets [bombs]", U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes says, "could end the war in one blow." When nuclear physicist Leo Szilard delivers a petition signed by 73 scientists urging the president not to deploy the bomb, Byrnes tells him: "You do not spend two billion dollars and then show them [American voters] nothing." The film suggests that Byrnes never mentioned Szilard's visit to the president. Also urging deployment is Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project. "We've come this far", Groves says; "there's no going back." A demonstration is ruled out because "it might be a dud."
In Japan, the strong man is Gen. Anami Korechika, the minister of war, who argues that if the homeland is defended at the cost of every Japanese, the Americans will tire of war and sue for peace. "Surrender is out of the question", he says. The voice of reason is the new civilian prime minister, Suzuki Kantaro, who says in private, "We must end this damned war."
A committee appointed by Truman recommends unanimously that he use the bomb on "war plants surrounded by worker housing", without warning. A portly Gen. George Marshall lays out plans for the invasion of Kyūshū in November and Honshū in March 1946, involving 767,000 Allied troops and casualties that may reach 250,000. In Tokyo, Adm. Yonai Mitsumasa assures the cabinet that 25 percent of the invaders will be destroyed by kamikaze attack at sea, 25 percent will die on the beach, and the rest will fall in battle. Children as young as nine are being taught to fight the invaders with bamboo spears. "This is madness", says foreign minister Togo Shigenori, an outspoken peace advocate. The civilians in the cabinet decide to secretly ask for Russian mediation.
On July 16, the Trinity test shows that a plutonium bomb is feasible and that a nuclear blast is even more powerful than scientists predicted. The uranium bomb Little Boy leaves Los Alamos for Tinian island in the Pacific. At the Potsdam conference near Berlin, the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin promises to join the war against Japan. British prime minister Winston Churchill urges Truman to use the bomb so as to constrain Russian expansion, an argument seconded by Truman's military advisers, who warn that unless Japan surrenders quickly it will have a Russian zone of occupation and the attendant problems.
Truman decides to drop the bomb, reporting afterward that he then "went to bed and slept like a baby." The Allied leaders deliver an ultimatum to Japan "to give them one last chance." In Tokyo, prime minister Suzuki tries to keep the army in line by declaring in a press conference that he will "mokusatsu" the ultimatum—a term that the Americans translate as "treat with silent contempt."
In deference to Henry Stimson's qualms, Truman strikes Kyoto off the target list, leaving Hiroshima as the primary target, and Enola Gay makes a successful drop on the morning of August 6, 1945. Recalls an airman afterward: "I'll tell you what I thought: this is the end of the war." The Japanese war cabinet is told that the blast killed or injured 130,000 people, but the hardliners argue that the U.S. can't have many more such bombs, that world opinion will prevent a repetition, and that Japan can still fight to an honorable peace. At worst, Gen. Anami declares, Japan will be "destroyed like a beautiful flower."
On August 9, the Soviet Union invades Manchuria; next day, the Fat Man plutonium bomb devastates Nagasaki. Hirohito finally intervenes, telling the cabinet that Japan "must endure the unendurable" and surrender. Young army officers urge Gen. Anami to join them in a military coup, but the army minister tells them: "The emperor has spoken; we must obey him." On August 15, the emperor's surrender message is broadcast to Japan, and Anami commits ritual suicide.
Cast[edit]
Kenneth Welsh - President Harry S. Truman
J. Winston Carroll (as J.W. Carroll) - Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone
Ken Jenkins - Secretary of State James F. Byrnes
Wesley Addy - Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
Colin Fox - Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal
Tom Rack - Under Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard
Bernard Behrens - Asst. Secretary of War John J. McCloy
George R. Robertson - Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy
James Bradford - Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King
Leon Pownall - General of the Army George Marshall
Kurt Reis - General Thomas T. Handy
Richard Masur - Major General Leslie R. Groves
Cedric Smith - Major General Curtis LeMay
Vlasta Vrána - Brigadier General Tom Farrell
David Gow - Colonel Paul Tibbets
Robert Morelli - Colonel William H. Blanchard
Gary Reineke - Captain William 'Deke' Parsons, USN
Tim Post - Major Thomas Ferebee
Mark Camacho - Major Charles Sweeney
Martin Neufeld Second Lieutenant Morris R. Jeppson
Jeffrey DeMunn - Professor J. Robert Oppenheimer
Saul Rubinek - Professor Leo Szilard
Domenico Fiore (as Dom Fiore) - Professor Harold Urey
Erwin Potitt - Professor Hoffmann
Philip Pretten (as Phillip Pretten) - Charles E. Bohlen
Sheena Larkin - Bess Truman
Timothy West (as Tim West) - Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Serge Christianssens (as Serge Christiaenssens) - Marshal Joseph Stalin
Naohiko Umewaka - Emperor Hirohito
Kazuo Katô - Prince Fumimaro Konoe
Tatsuo Matsumura - Prime Minister Kantarō Suzuki
Hisashi Igawa - Foreign Minister Shigenori Tōgō
Ken Maeda - Minister of War Korechika Anami
Yuzo Hayakawa - Minister of the Navy Koshirō Oikawa
Zenichi Inagawa - Baron Hiranuma Kiichirō
Sakae Koike - Admiral Teijirō Toyoda
Reception[edit]
Though not widely reviewed, Hiroshima was praised online: "Fascinating, and surprisingly ambivalent, docudrama rehashes familiar terrain with remarkable freshness precisely because of the emphasis on the politicians (rather than on the scientists), the bi-national approach, and an odd mixing of dramatization, newsreel footage, and even a few talking head interviews with people who were there."
The film won the 1996 Humanitas Prize in the PBS/Cable category, and received an Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Miniseries" the same year, as well as three Canadian Gemini Awards, including "Best Actor in a Dramatic Program" for Kenneth Welsh's portrayal of President Truman.
See also[edit]
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Surrender of Japan
List of historical drama films
List of historical drama films of Asia
External links[edit]
Hiroshima at the Internet Movie Database
Hiroshima at AllMovie
Hiroshima review, Variety, August 4, 1995


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Hiroshima (film)
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Hiroshima
HiroshimaFilm.jpg
Directed by
Koreyoshi Kurahara, Roger Spottiswoode
Produced by
Tracey Alexander
Written by
John Hopkins, Toshiro Ishido
Starring
Kenneth Welsh
Music by
Cory Rizos
Marty Simon
Cinematography
Shohei Ando, Pierre Mignot
Edited by
John Soh
Production
   company
Telescene Film Group Productions
Distributed by
Showtime Network
Release date(s)
1995
Running time
186 min. (DVD version)
Language
English, Japanese
Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki toward the end of World War II. Except as actors, no Americans took part in the production. The three-hour film was made for television (Showtime Network) and evidently had no theatrical release, but is available on DVD for home viewing.
A combination of dramatisation, historical footage, and eyewitness interviews, the film alternates between documentary footage and the dramatic recreations. Both the dramatisations and most of the original footage are presented as sepia-toned images, serving to blur the distinction between them. The languages are English and Japanese, with subtitles, and the actors are largely Canadian and Japanese.


Contents  [hide]
1 Synopsis
2 Cast
3 Reception
4 See also
5 External links

Synopsis[edit]
The film opens in April 1945 with the death of Franklin Roosevelt and the succession of Harry Truman to the presidency. In Europe, the Germans are close to surrender, but in the Pacific the bloody battle for Okinawa is still underway and an invasion of the Japanese home islands is not foreseen until the autumn. American battle casualties have almost reached 900,000, with Japanese casualties at 1.1 million, and some 8 million Asian civilians have died in the war that began with Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931.
The new president knows nothing about the nuclear weapons being developed at Los Alamos, and he must soon decide on whether to use them and how. The US Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, has doubts even about the wisdom of the American fire-bombing raids on Japan.
"One of these Gadgets [bombs]", U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes says, "could end the war in one blow." When nuclear physicist Leo Szilard delivers a petition signed by 73 scientists urging the president not to deploy the bomb, Byrnes tells him: "You do not spend two billion dollars and then show them [American voters] nothing." The film suggests that Byrnes never mentioned Szilard's visit to the president. Also urging deployment is Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project. "We've come this far", Groves says; "there's no going back." A demonstration is ruled out because "it might be a dud."
In Japan, the strong man is Gen. Anami Korechika, the minister of war, who argues that if the homeland is defended at the cost of every Japanese, the Americans will tire of war and sue for peace. "Surrender is out of the question", he says. The voice of reason is the new civilian prime minister, Suzuki Kantaro, who says in private, "We must end this damned war."
A committee appointed by Truman recommends unanimously that he use the bomb on "war plants surrounded by worker housing", without warning. A portly Gen. George Marshall lays out plans for the invasion of Kyūshū in November and Honshū in March 1946, involving 767,000 Allied troops and casualties that may reach 250,000. In Tokyo, Adm. Yonai Mitsumasa assures the cabinet that 25 percent of the invaders will be destroyed by kamikaze attack at sea, 25 percent will die on the beach, and the rest will fall in battle. Children as young as nine are being taught to fight the invaders with bamboo spears. "This is madness", says foreign minister Togo Shigenori, an outspoken peace advocate. The civilians in the cabinet decide to secretly ask for Russian mediation.
On July 16, the Trinity test shows that a plutonium bomb is feasible and that a nuclear blast is even more powerful than scientists predicted. The uranium bomb Little Boy leaves Los Alamos for Tinian island in the Pacific. At the Potsdam conference near Berlin, the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin promises to join the war against Japan. British prime minister Winston Churchill urges Truman to use the bomb so as to constrain Russian expansion, an argument seconded by Truman's military advisers, who warn that unless Japan surrenders quickly it will have a Russian zone of occupation and the attendant problems.
Truman decides to drop the bomb, reporting afterward that he then "went to bed and slept like a baby." The Allied leaders deliver an ultimatum to Japan "to give them one last chance." In Tokyo, prime minister Suzuki tries to keep the army in line by declaring in a press conference that he will "mokusatsu" the ultimatum—a term that the Americans translate as "treat with silent contempt."
In deference to Henry Stimson's qualms, Truman strikes Kyoto off the target list, leaving Hiroshima as the primary target, and Enola Gay makes a successful drop on the morning of August 6, 1945. Recalls an airman afterward: "I'll tell you what I thought: this is the end of the war." The Japanese war cabinet is told that the blast killed or injured 130,000 people, but the hardliners argue that the U.S. can't have many more such bombs, that world opinion will prevent a repetition, and that Japan can still fight to an honorable peace. At worst, Gen. Anami declares, Japan will be "destroyed like a beautiful flower."
On August 9, the Soviet Union invades Manchuria; next day, the Fat Man plutonium bomb devastates Nagasaki. Hirohito finally intervenes, telling the cabinet that Japan "must endure the unendurable" and surrender. Young army officers urge Gen. Anami to join them in a military coup, but the army minister tells them: "The emperor has spoken; we must obey him." On August 15, the emperor's surrender message is broadcast to Japan, and Anami commits ritual suicide.
Cast[edit]
Kenneth Welsh - President Harry S. Truman
J. Winston Carroll (as J.W. Carroll) - Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone
Ken Jenkins - Secretary of State James F. Byrnes
Wesley Addy - Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
Colin Fox - Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal
Tom Rack - Under Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard
Bernard Behrens - Asst. Secretary of War John J. McCloy
George R. Robertson - Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy
James Bradford - Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King
Leon Pownall - General of the Army George Marshall
Kurt Reis - General Thomas T. Handy
Richard Masur - Major General Leslie R. Groves
Cedric Smith - Major General Curtis LeMay
Vlasta Vrána - Brigadier General Tom Farrell
David Gow - Colonel Paul Tibbets
Robert Morelli - Colonel William H. Blanchard
Gary Reineke - Captain William 'Deke' Parsons, USN
Tim Post - Major Thomas Ferebee
Mark Camacho - Major Charles Sweeney
Martin Neufeld Second Lieutenant Morris R. Jeppson
Jeffrey DeMunn - Professor J. Robert Oppenheimer
Saul Rubinek - Professor Leo Szilard
Domenico Fiore (as Dom Fiore) - Professor Harold Urey
Erwin Potitt - Professor Hoffmann
Philip Pretten (as Phillip Pretten) - Charles E. Bohlen
Sheena Larkin - Bess Truman
Timothy West (as Tim West) - Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Serge Christianssens (as Serge Christiaenssens) - Marshal Joseph Stalin
Naohiko Umewaka - Emperor Hirohito
Kazuo Katô - Prince Fumimaro Konoe
Tatsuo Matsumura - Prime Minister Kantarō Suzuki
Hisashi Igawa - Foreign Minister Shigenori Tōgō
Ken Maeda - Minister of War Korechika Anami
Yuzo Hayakawa - Minister of the Navy Koshirō Oikawa
Zenichi Inagawa - Baron Hiranuma Kiichirō
Sakae Koike - Admiral Teijirō Toyoda
Reception[edit]
Though not widely reviewed, Hiroshima was praised online: "Fascinating, and surprisingly ambivalent, docudrama rehashes familiar terrain with remarkable freshness precisely because of the emphasis on the politicians (rather than on the scientists), the bi-national approach, and an odd mixing of dramatization, newsreel footage, and even a few talking head interviews with people who were there."
The film won the 1996 Humanitas Prize in the PBS/Cable category, and received an Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Miniseries" the same year, as well as three Canadian Gemini Awards, including "Best Actor in a Dramatic Program" for Kenneth Welsh's portrayal of President Truman.
See also[edit]
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Surrender of Japan
List of historical drama films
List of historical drama films of Asia
External links[edit]
Hiroshima at the Internet Movie Database
Hiroshima at AllMovie
Hiroshima review, Variety, August 4, 1995


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Once Were Warriors
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For the film, see Once Were Warriors (film).
Once Were Warriors
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First edition cover

Author
Alan Duff
Country
New Zealand
Language
English
Publisher
Tandem Press

Publication date
 1990
Followed by
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
Once Were Warriors is New Zealand author Alan Duff's bestselling first novel, published in 1990. It tells the story of an urban Māori family, the Hekes, and portrays the reality of domestic violence in New Zealand. It was the basis of a 1994 film of the same title, directed by Lee Tamahori and starring Rena Owen and Temuera Morrison, which made its U.S. premiere at the Hawaii International Film Festival. The novel was followed by two sequels, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (1996) and Jake's Long Shadow (2002).


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1 Plot summary 1.1 Autobiographical elements
2 References
3 External links

Plot summary[edit]
Beth Heke left her small town and, despite her parents' disapproval, married Jake "the Muss" Heke. After 18 years, they live in a slum and have six children. Their interpretations of life and being Māori are tested. Beth is from a more traditional background and in saying so, relates to the old ways; Jake is an interpretation of what some Māori have become. Beth sometimes tries to reform herself and her family - for example, by giving up drinking and saving the money which she would have spent on alcohol. However, she finds it easy to lapse back into a pattern of drinking and irresponsibility. The family are also shown disconnected from Western culture and ways of learning. Beth reflects that neither she nor anyone else she knows has any books in their home, and her daughter, Grace, is the only character with a real interest in school and learning. (This disconnection from books and education is a major concern of Duff's, for which reason he founded the charity Duffy Books in Homes, which gives free books to children from poor backgrounds and generally encourages reading).
Jake is unemployed and spends most of the day getting drunk at the local pub with his friends. There he is in his element, buying drinks, singing songs and savagely beating any other patron whom he considers to have stepped out of line (hence his nickname of 'The Muss'). He often invites huge crowds of friends back to his home for wild parties. While Jake portrays himself as an easygoing man out for a good time, he has a vicious temper when drinking. This is highlighted when his wife dares to 'get lippy' at one of his parties and he savagely attacks her in front of their friends.
Nig, the Hekes' eldest son, moves out to join a street gang. He cares about his siblings, but despises his father for his thoughtless brutality, a feeling returned by the elder Heke. Nig attempts to find a substitute family in the form of the gang, but this is unsuccessful as the gang members are either too brutal or, in the case of Nig's gang girlfriend, too beaten down to provide him with the love and support he craves.
The second son, Mark 'Boogie' Heke, has a history of minor criminal offences, and is taken from his family and placed in a borstal. Despite his initial anger Mark finds a new niche for himself, as the borstal manager instructs him in his Māori heritage.
Grace, the Hekes' 13-year-old daughter, loves writing stories as an escape from the brutality of her life. Grace's best friend is a drug-addicted boy named Toot who has been cast out by his parents and lives in a wrecked car. He is the one who really cares for her. She is the maternal figure within the family when her family are a drunken mess, clearing up the house and going with Boogie to court to attempt to make a good impression of their broken family.
Grace is raped in her bed one night, and she subsequently hangs herself. In her diary, later found by her family, Grace says she thinks it was her father who raped her (while in the movie she clearly identifies by name one of Jake's friends, who was at the house during a party, as the rapist); Jake, who had been too drunk to remember what happened that night, has no answer. (In the movie Grace's mother finds and reads the diary which reveals the dads friend who raped her. Jake and that friend are at a bar when the mother brings the diary to Jake, shows him the passage about who raped her. Jake flies into a rage savagely beats the rapist, including smashing the rapist's head into the glass front of the music jukebox.) He leaves his family and starts living in a park, where he reflects on his life and befriends a homeless young man. Meanwhile, Beth starts a Māori culture group and generally attempts to revive the community.
A sequel to the book was published in 1996, What Becomes of The Broken Hearted?, which was made into a film in 1999. Both the book and film sequel were well received, though not as celebrated as the original. The third book in the trilogy, Jake's Long Shadow, was published in 2002, but has not been made into a movie.
Autobiographical elements[edit]
Once Were Warriors, and Duff's fiction in general, is strongly influenced by his childhood experiences. In his 1999 autobiography, Out of the Mist and Steam, he describes his Māori mother (and most of her relatives) as alcoholic, irresponsible and physically and emotionally abusive. His Pākehā father and his relatives, by contrast, were highly educated and sophisticated - one uncle, Roger Duff, was a well-known anthropologist; his paternal grandfather was liberal magazine editor and literary patron Oliver Duff.
As a teenager, Duff himself spent some time in borstal, and he drew on this when writing about Boogie. The book's setting of Two Lakes is based on his hometown of Rotorua (which means 'two lakes' in the Māori language; roto lake, rua two), and on the Ford Block of state housing in the town.

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References[edit]
Thompson, K. M. (2003). "Once Were Warriors: New Zealand's first indigenous blockbuster." In J. Stringer (Ed.), Movie Blockbusters (pp. 230 – 241). London: Routledge.
External links[edit]
Once Were Warriors review at subtitledonline.com. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
 


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What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (novel)
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For the song, see What Becomes of the Brokenhearted. For the film, see What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? .
What Becomes of The Broken Hearted?
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Author
Alan Duff
Country
New Zealand
Language
English
Series
Once Were Warriors Trilogy
Genre
Novel
Publisher
Vintage

Publication date
 1996
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages
253 pp
ISBN
0-09-183420-1
OCLC
36296335
Preceded by
Once Were Warriors
Followed by
Jake's Long Shadow
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? is a 1996 novel by Alan Duff.[1] It was adapted into a film in 1999, and is the sequel to Duff's 1990 novel Once Were Warriors,[1][2] which was made into a film in 1994. The novel was followed in 2002 by the third novel in the Once Were Warriors trilogy, Jake's Long Shadow.[1]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c "New Zealand Writers, DUFF, Alan". www.bookcouncil.org.nz New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 2009-03-23.
2.Jump up ^ "What becomes of the broken hearted? / Alan Duff". catalogue.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2009-03-23.



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For the song, see What Becomes of the Brokenhearted. For the film, see What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? .
What Becomes of The Broken Hearted?
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Cover of Vintage paperback, 1998

Author
Alan Duff
Country
New Zealand
Language
English
Series
Once Were Warriors Trilogy
Genre
Novel
Publisher
Vintage

Publication date
 1996
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages
253 pp
ISBN
0-09-183420-1
OCLC
36296335
Preceded by
Once Were Warriors
Followed by
Jake's Long Shadow
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? is a 1996 novel by Alan Duff.[1] It was adapted into a film in 1999, and is the sequel to Duff's 1990 novel Once Were Warriors,[1][2] which was made into a film in 1994. The novel was followed in 2002 by the third novel in the Once Were Warriors trilogy, Jake's Long Shadow.[1]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c "New Zealand Writers, DUFF, Alan". www.bookcouncil.org.nz New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 2009-03-23.
2.Jump up ^ "What becomes of the broken hearted? / Alan Duff". catalogue.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2009-03-23.



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Jake's Long Shadow
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Author
Alan Duff
Country
New Zealand
Language
English
Subject
Gangster
Publisher
Vintage Press, New Zealand

Publication date
 2002
Preceded by
Once Were Warriors
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
Jake's Long Shadow is a novel by Alan Duff, first published in 2002.[1] It is the third book in the Once Were Warriors trilogy, following Jake "The Muss" Heke and his estranged family. Jake had previously driven his wife and children away for his domestic violence ways. The story shows new characters and their stories, such as Beth's new husband. It has not yet been made into a third film.
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Publisher
Vintage Press, New Zealand

Publication date
 2002
Preceded by
Once Were Warriors
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
Jake's Long Shadow is a novel by Alan Duff, first published in 2002.[1] It is the third book in the Once Were Warriors trilogy, following Jake "The Muss" Heke and his estranged family. Jake had previously driven his wife and children away for his domestic violence ways. The story shows new characters and their stories, such as Beth's new husband. It has not yet been made into a third film.
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Equus (play)
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Equus
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the 1993 Longman edition

Written by
Peter Shaffer
Characters
Martin Dysart
Alan Strang
Frank Strang
Jill Mason
Hesther Soloman
Dora Strang
Nurse
Harry Dalton
Horseman
Nugget

Date premiered
1973
Place premiered
Royal National Theatre
Original language
English
Subject
17-year old boy blinds six horses with spike, case becomes a catalyst for his psychiatrist's own doubts
Genre
Drama
Setting
The Present; Rokeby Psychiatric Hospital, Southern England
Official site
Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses.[1]
Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old who blinded six horses in a small town near Suffolk.[2] He set out to construct a fictional account of what might have caused the incident, without knowing any of the details of the crime. The play's action is something of a detective story, involving the attempts of the child psychiatrist, Dr. Martin Dysart, to understand the cause of the boy's actions while wrestling with his own sense of purpose.[3] The stage show ran in London between 1973 and 1975: later came the Broadway productions that starred Anthony Hopkins as Dysart (later played by Richard Burton, Leonard Nimoy, and Anthony Perkins), and from the London production, Peter Firth as Alan. Tom Hulce replaced Firth during the Broadway run. The Broadway production ran for 1,209 performances. Marian Seldes appeared in every single performance of the Broadway run, first in the role of Hesther and then as Dora.
Numerous other issues inform the narrative. Most important are religious and ritual sacrifice themes, and the manner in which character Alan Strang constructs a personal theology involving the horses and the supreme godhead, "Equus". Alan sees the horses as representative of God and confuses his adoration of his "God" with sexual attraction. Also important is Shaffer's examination of the conflict between personal values and satisfaction and societal mores, expectations and institutions. In reference to the play's classical structure, themes and characterisation, Shaffer has discussed the conflict between Apollonian and Dionysian values and systems in human life.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Film adaptation
3 Revivals
4 Awards and nominations
5 References
6 Further reading
7 External links

Plot summary[edit]
Martin Dysart (Richard Burton) is a psychiatrist in a psychiatric hospital. He begins with a monologue in which he outlines the case of 17-year-old Alan Strang. He also divulges his feeling that his occupation is not all that he wishes it to be and his feelings of dissatisfaction and disappointment about his barren life. Dysart finds that there is a never-ending supply of troubled young people for him to "adjust" back into "normal" living; but he doubts the value of treating these youths, since they will simply return to a dull, normal life that lacks any commitment and "worship" (a recurring theme). He comments that Alan Strang's crime was extreme but adds that just such extremity is needed to break free from the chains of existence. A court magistrate, Hesther Saloman, visits Dysart, believing that he has the skills to help Alan come to terms with his violent acts involving six horses.
At the hospital, Dysart has a great deal of difficulty making any kind of headway with Alan (Peter Firth), who at first responds to questioning by singing TV advertising jingles. Slowly, however, Dysart makes contact with Alan by playing a game where each of them asks a question, which must be answered honestly. He learns that, from an early age, Alan has been receiving conflicting viewpoints on religion from his parents. Alan's mother, Dora Strang (Joan Plowright), is a devout Christian who has read to him daily from the Bible. This practice has antagonized Alan's atheist father, Frank Strang (Colin Blakely), who, concerned that Alan has taken far too much interest in the more violent aspects of the Bible, destroyed a violent picture of the Crucifixion that Alan had hung at the foot of his bed. Alan replaced the picture with one of a horse, with large, staring eyes.
During his youth, Alan had established his attraction to horses by way of his mother's biblical tales, a horse story that she had read to him, western movies, and his grandfather's interest in horses and riding.
Dysart reveals a dream he has had, in a Grecian/Homeric setting, in which he is a public official presiding over a mass ritual sacrifice. Dysart slices open the viscera of hundreds of children, and pulls out their entrails. He becomes disgusted with what he is doing, but desiring to "look professional" to the other officials, does not stop.
Alan's sexual training began with his mother who told him he could find true love and contentment by way of religious devotion and marriage. During this time Alan also begins to show a sexual attraction to horses, desiring to pet their thick coats, feel their muscular bodies and smell their sweat. Alan reveals to Dysart that he had first encountered a horse at age six, on the beach. A rider (John Wyman) approached him, and took him up on the horse. Alan was visibly excited, but his parents found him and his father pulled him violently off the horse. The horse rider scoffed at the father and rode off.
In another key scene, Dysart hypnotizes Alan, and during the hypnosis, Dysart reveals elements of his terrifying dream of the ritual murder of children. Dysart begins to jog Alan's memory by filling in blanks, and asking questions. Alan reveals that he wants to help the horses by removing the bit, which enslaves them.
After turning 17, Alan took a job working in a shop selling electrical goods, where he met Jill Mason (Jenny Agutter), an outgoing and free-spirited young woman. She visits the shop wanting to purchase blades for horse-clippers. Alan is instantly interested when he discovers that Jill has such close contact with horses after she tells him that she works for a local stable owner. Jill suggests that Alan work for the owner of the stables, Harry Dalton (Harry Andrews), and Alan agrees.
Dysart meets with Dalton who tells him that he first held Alan to be a model worker, since he kept the stables immaculately clean and grooms the horses, including one named "Nugget." Through Dysart's questioning, it becomes clear that Alan is erotically fixated on Nugget (or 'Equus') and secretly takes him for midnight rides, bareback and naked. Alan also envisions himself as a king, on the godhead Equus, both destroying their enemies.
In the climax, Dysart gives Alan a placebo "truth pill" and revealing a tryst with Jill, begins to re-enact the event. Jill, who had taken an interest in Alan, had asked him to take her to a porno theater. While there, they both ran into Frank. Alan was traumatized, particularly when he realized that his father was lying when he tried to justify his presence in the theater. However, this occurrence allows Alan to realize that sex is a natural thing for all men... even his father. Alan walks Jill home after they leave. She convinces Alan to come to the stables with her.
Once there, Jill seduces Alan and the two start having wild sex. However, Alan breaks this off when he hears the horses making noises in the stables beneath. Jill tries to ask Alan what the problem is, but he shouts at her to leave. After the stark nude Jill walks out of the stables, the stark nude Alan begs the horses for forgiveness for having pre-marital sex, as he sees the horses as God-like figures. "Mine!...You're mine!...I am yours and you are mine!" cries Equus through Dysart's voice, but then he becomes threatening: "The Lord thy God is a jealous God," Equus/Dysart seethes, "He sees you, he sees you forever and ever, Alan. He sees you!...He sees you!" Alan screams, "God sees!" and then he says "No more. No more, Equus!" Alan then blinds the six horses in the stable with a steel spike, whose eyes have "seen" his very soul.
The final scene has another monologue by Dysart questioning the fundamentals of his practice and whether or not what he does will actually help Alan, as the effect of his treatment will remove Alan's humanity which includes his intense sexual and religious commitment, and his worship of the horses as well.
Film adaptation[edit]
Main article: Equus (film)
Shaffer adapted the play for a 1977 film starring Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Eileen Atkins, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, and Jenny Agutter, directed by Sidney Lumet.
Revivals[edit]
Equus was presented in Baltimore, in 1979 by the Lovegrove Alley Theatre. The production starred a pre-Broadway Charles S. Dutton in the role of Dysart. Director Brad Mays did double-duty in the role of Alan Strang. A young actress named Lauren Raher played Jill Mason, and her real-life mother Rhona Raher portrayed Dora, Alan's mother.[4][5][6]
Equus was revived in 2007 in the West End by producers David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers, starring Richard Griffiths and Daniel Radcliffe in the leading roles. The production was directed by Thea Sharrock, and opened in February 2007 at the Gielgud Theatre. The production attracted a lot of press attention, as both Radcliffe and Griffiths appear in the Harry Potter film series (as Harry Potter and Vernon Dursley). In particular the casting of then 17-year-old Radcliffe caused some controversy, since the role of Alan Strang required him to appear nude on stage.[7] This was despite the fact that many other young actors over the years had performed the play naked. Radcliffe insisted that the nude scene was not "gratuitous" and that he should portray the character and the scene as called for by the script. Radcliffe has stated in interviews that he chose not to watch the 1977 film, as he did not want to be influenced by Firth's interpretation of the character. The 2007 London revival was then transferred to Broadway, at the Broadhurst Theatre, running through 8 February 2009. Radcliffe and Griffiths reprised their roles, and Thea Sharrock returned as director. The cast also included Anna Camp, Carolyn McCormick, Lorenzo Pisoni, T. Ryder Smith, Graeme Malcolm, Sandra Shipley, with Collin Baja, Tyrone Jackson, Spencer Liff, Adesola Osakalumi and Marc Spaulding.[8] Radcliffe eventually received a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play.
The first illustrated edition of the play text was produced as a large-format artist's book by the Old Stile Press, with images and an afterword by the British artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins, in 2009.[9]
Equus was revived in Houston, Texas for a limited run in July 2014 at Frenetic Theater by director Matthew C. Logan, starring Kevin Daugherty as Martin Dysart and young British actor Ed Theakston as Alan Strang. The production was largely funded by donations on Kickstarter and was well received by critics and audiences alike. Broadway World called the production 'dark, daunting and sensual' and commending its 'stellar cast'.[10] Houston Press said it was 'astonishingly good... a must see'[11] while Culturemap listed the show as one of the hottest shows of the year.[12]
Awards and nominations[edit]
1975 Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Foreign Play
1975 Tony Award Best Play
1975 Tony Award Best Featured Actress in a Play – Frances Sternhagen (nominated)
1975 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award Best Play
2009 Drama Desk Award Best Leading actor in a Play – Daniel Radcliffe (nominated)
2009 Tony Award Best Sound Design of a Play – Gregory Clarke (nominated)
2009 Tony Award Best Lighting Design of a Play – David Hersey (nominated)[13]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Equus". Discussion Guides for Penguin Classics. The Great Books Foundation. Archived from the original on 17 June 2008. Retrieved 20 October 2008.
2.Jump up ^ Pearce, Ian (18 March 2008). "Review: EQUUS". Theater and Dance Reviews. www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
3.Jump up ^ "EQUUS: About The Show". EQUUS on Broadway. The Shubert Organization. Archived from the original on 15 April 2008. Retrieved 18 June 2008.
4.Jump up ^ Lord, Sarah (4 May 1979). "Jolted to the Roots (Review)". The Columbia Times.
5.Jump up ^ Strausbaugh, John (10 May 1979). "Carefully Crafted 'Equus' at Lovegrove Theatre (Review)". Baltimore City Paper.
6.Jump up ^ Giuliano, Mike (21 May 1979). "Lovegrove's 'Equus' Powerful First Production (Review)". Baltimore News American.
7.Jump up ^ Staff writers (28 July 2006). "Naked stage role for Potter star". BBC News. Retrieved 18 June 2008.
8.Jump up ^ http://www.playbill.com/news/article/121672-Horse-Power-Equus-Revival-Opens-on-Broadway-Sept-25
9.Jump up ^ Campbell, Nancy, Frances McDowall, Nicolas McDowall, The Old Stile Press... the Next Ten Years: A Bibliography 2000–2010 (2010: Old Stile Press) ISBN 978-0-907664-85-7
10.Jump up ^ http://www.broadwayworld.com/houston/article/BWW-Reviews-Matthew-Logans-Production-of-EQUUS-is-Intense-and-Beautifully-Poignant-20140727#.U9WSXBZ8v1o
11.Jump up ^ http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2014/07/_the_setup_sir_peter.php
12.Jump up ^ http://houston.culturemap.com/news/arts/07-28-14-houstons-hottest-summer-theater-full-frontal-nudity-rich-babes-behaving-badly-and-a-falstaff-party-titillate/
13.Jump up ^ "The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards". TonyAwards.com. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
Further reading[edit]
Shaffer, Peter (2005). Equus. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-8730-2.
External links[edit]
 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Equus (play).
Equus at the Internet Broadway Database
Equus at the Internet Broadway Database
Equus (film) at the Internet Movie Database
Second-Graders Wow Audience With School Production Of Equus. — parody; The Onion
Audience get up close and personal for Harry Potter star's nude debut. The London Standard October 12, 2006.
Wolfe, G. Enjoying Equus: Jouissance in Shaffer’s Play. PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. December 15, 2009.
Mahmood, R. Equus: Saving the best for last. The Express Tribune March 12, 2012.


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This article is about the play. For the 1977 film, see Equus (film).


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Equus
Equusplaybookcover2.JPG
the 1993 Longman edition

Written by
Peter Shaffer
Characters
Martin Dysart
Alan Strang
Frank Strang
Jill Mason
Hesther Soloman
Dora Strang
Nurse
Harry Dalton
Horseman
Nugget

Date premiered
1973
Place premiered
Royal National Theatre
Original language
English
Subject
17-year old boy blinds six horses with spike, case becomes a catalyst for his psychiatrist's own doubts
Genre
Drama
Setting
The Present; Rokeby Psychiatric Hospital, Southern England
Official site
Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses.[1]
Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old who blinded six horses in a small town near Suffolk.[2] He set out to construct a fictional account of what might have caused the incident, without knowing any of the details of the crime. The play's action is something of a detective story, involving the attempts of the child psychiatrist, Dr. Martin Dysart, to understand the cause of the boy's actions while wrestling with his own sense of purpose.[3] The stage show ran in London between 1973 and 1975: later came the Broadway productions that starred Anthony Hopkins as Dysart (later played by Richard Burton, Leonard Nimoy, and Anthony Perkins), and from the London production, Peter Firth as Alan. Tom Hulce replaced Firth during the Broadway run. The Broadway production ran for 1,209 performances. Marian Seldes appeared in every single performance of the Broadway run, first in the role of Hesther and then as Dora.
Numerous other issues inform the narrative. Most important are religious and ritual sacrifice themes, and the manner in which character Alan Strang constructs a personal theology involving the horses and the supreme godhead, "Equus". Alan sees the horses as representative of God and confuses his adoration of his "God" with sexual attraction. Also important is Shaffer's examination of the conflict between personal values and satisfaction and societal mores, expectations and institutions. In reference to the play's classical structure, themes and characterisation, Shaffer has discussed the conflict between Apollonian and Dionysian values and systems in human life.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Film adaptation
3 Revivals
4 Awards and nominations
5 References
6 Further reading
7 External links

Plot summary[edit]
Martin Dysart (Richard Burton) is a psychiatrist in a psychiatric hospital. He begins with a monologue in which he outlines the case of 17-year-old Alan Strang. He also divulges his feeling that his occupation is not all that he wishes it to be and his feelings of dissatisfaction and disappointment about his barren life. Dysart finds that there is a never-ending supply of troubled young people for him to "adjust" back into "normal" living; but he doubts the value of treating these youths, since they will simply return to a dull, normal life that lacks any commitment and "worship" (a recurring theme). He comments that Alan Strang's crime was extreme but adds that just such extremity is needed to break free from the chains of existence. A court magistrate, Hesther Saloman, visits Dysart, believing that he has the skills to help Alan come to terms with his violent acts involving six horses.
At the hospital, Dysart has a great deal of difficulty making any kind of headway with Alan (Peter Firth), who at first responds to questioning by singing TV advertising jingles. Slowly, however, Dysart makes contact with Alan by playing a game where each of them asks a question, which must be answered honestly. He learns that, from an early age, Alan has been receiving conflicting viewpoints on religion from his parents. Alan's mother, Dora Strang (Joan Plowright), is a devout Christian who has read to him daily from the Bible. This practice has antagonized Alan's atheist father, Frank Strang (Colin Blakely), who, concerned that Alan has taken far too much interest in the more violent aspects of the Bible, destroyed a violent picture of the Crucifixion that Alan had hung at the foot of his bed. Alan replaced the picture with one of a horse, with large, staring eyes.
During his youth, Alan had established his attraction to horses by way of his mother's biblical tales, a horse story that she had read to him, western movies, and his grandfather's interest in horses and riding.
Dysart reveals a dream he has had, in a Grecian/Homeric setting, in which he is a public official presiding over a mass ritual sacrifice. Dysart slices open the viscera of hundreds of children, and pulls out their entrails. He becomes disgusted with what he is doing, but desiring to "look professional" to the other officials, does not stop.
Alan's sexual training began with his mother who told him he could find true love and contentment by way of religious devotion and marriage. During this time Alan also begins to show a sexual attraction to horses, desiring to pet their thick coats, feel their muscular bodies and smell their sweat. Alan reveals to Dysart that he had first encountered a horse at age six, on the beach. A rider (John Wyman) approached him, and took him up on the horse. Alan was visibly excited, but his parents found him and his father pulled him violently off the horse. The horse rider scoffed at the father and rode off.
In another key scene, Dysart hypnotizes Alan, and during the hypnosis, Dysart reveals elements of his terrifying dream of the ritual murder of children. Dysart begins to jog Alan's memory by filling in blanks, and asking questions. Alan reveals that he wants to help the horses by removing the bit, which enslaves them.
After turning 17, Alan took a job working in a shop selling electrical goods, where he met Jill Mason (Jenny Agutter), an outgoing and free-spirited young woman. She visits the shop wanting to purchase blades for horse-clippers. Alan is instantly interested when he discovers that Jill has such close contact with horses after she tells him that she works for a local stable owner. Jill suggests that Alan work for the owner of the stables, Harry Dalton (Harry Andrews), and Alan agrees.
Dysart meets with Dalton who tells him that he first held Alan to be a model worker, since he kept the stables immaculately clean and grooms the horses, including one named "Nugget." Through Dysart's questioning, it becomes clear that Alan is erotically fixated on Nugget (or 'Equus') and secretly takes him for midnight rides, bareback and naked. Alan also envisions himself as a king, on the godhead Equus, both destroying their enemies.
In the climax, Dysart gives Alan a placebo "truth pill" and revealing a tryst with Jill, begins to re-enact the event. Jill, who had taken an interest in Alan, had asked him to take her to a porno theater. While there, they both ran into Frank. Alan was traumatized, particularly when he realized that his father was lying when he tried to justify his presence in the theater. However, this occurrence allows Alan to realize that sex is a natural thing for all men... even his father. Alan walks Jill home after they leave. She convinces Alan to come to the stables with her.
Once there, Jill seduces Alan and the two start having wild sex. However, Alan breaks this off when he hears the horses making noises in the stables beneath. Jill tries to ask Alan what the problem is, but he shouts at her to leave. After the stark nude Jill walks out of the stables, the stark nude Alan begs the horses for forgiveness for having pre-marital sex, as he sees the horses as God-like figures. "Mine!...You're mine!...I am yours and you are mine!" cries Equus through Dysart's voice, but then he becomes threatening: "The Lord thy God is a jealous God," Equus/Dysart seethes, "He sees you, he sees you forever and ever, Alan. He sees you!...He sees you!" Alan screams, "God sees!" and then he says "No more. No more, Equus!" Alan then blinds the six horses in the stable with a steel spike, whose eyes have "seen" his very soul.
The final scene has another monologue by Dysart questioning the fundamentals of his practice and whether or not what he does will actually help Alan, as the effect of his treatment will remove Alan's humanity which includes his intense sexual and religious commitment, and his worship of the horses as well.
Film adaptation[edit]
Main article: Equus (film)
Shaffer adapted the play for a 1977 film starring Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Eileen Atkins, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, and Jenny Agutter, directed by Sidney Lumet.
Revivals[edit]
Equus was presented in Baltimore, in 1979 by the Lovegrove Alley Theatre. The production starred a pre-Broadway Charles S. Dutton in the role of Dysart. Director Brad Mays did double-duty in the role of Alan Strang. A young actress named Lauren Raher played Jill Mason, and her real-life mother Rhona Raher portrayed Dora, Alan's mother.[4][5][6]
Equus was revived in 2007 in the West End by producers David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers, starring Richard Griffiths and Daniel Radcliffe in the leading roles. The production was directed by Thea Sharrock, and opened in February 2007 at the Gielgud Theatre. The production attracted a lot of press attention, as both Radcliffe and Griffiths appear in the Harry Potter film series (as Harry Potter and Vernon Dursley). In particular the casting of then 17-year-old Radcliffe caused some controversy, since the role of Alan Strang required him to appear nude on stage.[7] This was despite the fact that many other young actors over the years had performed the play naked. Radcliffe insisted that the nude scene was not "gratuitous" and that he should portray the character and the scene as called for by the script. Radcliffe has stated in interviews that he chose not to watch the 1977 film, as he did not want to be influenced by Firth's interpretation of the character. The 2007 London revival was then transferred to Broadway, at the Broadhurst Theatre, running through 8 February 2009. Radcliffe and Griffiths reprised their roles, and Thea Sharrock returned as director. The cast also included Anna Camp, Carolyn McCormick, Lorenzo Pisoni, T. Ryder Smith, Graeme Malcolm, Sandra Shipley, with Collin Baja, Tyrone Jackson, Spencer Liff, Adesola Osakalumi and Marc Spaulding.[8] Radcliffe eventually received a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play.
The first illustrated edition of the play text was produced as a large-format artist's book by the Old Stile Press, with images and an afterword by the British artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins, in 2009.[9]
Equus was revived in Houston, Texas for a limited run in July 2014 at Frenetic Theater by director Matthew C. Logan, starring Kevin Daugherty as Martin Dysart and young British actor Ed Theakston as Alan Strang. The production was largely funded by donations on Kickstarter and was well received by critics and audiences alike. Broadway World called the production 'dark, daunting and sensual' and commending its 'stellar cast'.[10] Houston Press said it was 'astonishingly good... a must see'[11] while Culturemap listed the show as one of the hottest shows of the year.[12]
Awards and nominations[edit]
1975 Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Foreign Play
1975 Tony Award Best Play
1975 Tony Award Best Featured Actress in a Play – Frances Sternhagen (nominated)
1975 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award Best Play
2009 Drama Desk Award Best Leading actor in a Play – Daniel Radcliffe (nominated)
2009 Tony Award Best Sound Design of a Play – Gregory Clarke (nominated)
2009 Tony Award Best Lighting Design of a Play – David Hersey (nominated)[13]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Equus". Discussion Guides for Penguin Classics. The Great Books Foundation. Archived from the original on 17 June 2008. Retrieved 20 October 2008.
2.Jump up ^ Pearce, Ian (18 March 2008). "Review: EQUUS". Theater and Dance Reviews. www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
3.Jump up ^ "EQUUS: About The Show". EQUUS on Broadway. The Shubert Organization. Archived from the original on 15 April 2008. Retrieved 18 June 2008.
4.Jump up ^ Lord, Sarah (4 May 1979). "Jolted to the Roots (Review)". The Columbia Times.
5.Jump up ^ Strausbaugh, John (10 May 1979). "Carefully Crafted 'Equus' at Lovegrove Theatre (Review)". Baltimore City Paper.
6.Jump up ^ Giuliano, Mike (21 May 1979). "Lovegrove's 'Equus' Powerful First Production (Review)". Baltimore News American.
7.Jump up ^ Staff writers (28 July 2006). "Naked stage role for Potter star". BBC News. Retrieved 18 June 2008.
8.Jump up ^ http://www.playbill.com/news/article/121672-Horse-Power-Equus-Revival-Opens-on-Broadway-Sept-25
9.Jump up ^ Campbell, Nancy, Frances McDowall, Nicolas McDowall, The Old Stile Press... the Next Ten Years: A Bibliography 2000–2010 (2010: Old Stile Press) ISBN 978-0-907664-85-7
10.Jump up ^ http://www.broadwayworld.com/houston/article/BWW-Reviews-Matthew-Logans-Production-of-EQUUS-is-Intense-and-Beautifully-Poignant-20140727#.U9WSXBZ8v1o
11.Jump up ^ http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2014/07/_the_setup_sir_peter.php
12.Jump up ^ http://houston.culturemap.com/news/arts/07-28-14-houstons-hottest-summer-theater-full-frontal-nudity-rich-babes-behaving-badly-and-a-falstaff-party-titillate/
13.Jump up ^ "The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards". TonyAwards.com. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
Further reading[edit]
Shaffer, Peter (2005). Equus. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-8730-2.
External links[edit]
 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Equus (play).
Equus at the Internet Broadway Database
Equus at the Internet Broadway Database
Equus (film) at the Internet Movie Database
Second-Graders Wow Audience With School Production Of Equus. — parody; The Onion
Audience get up close and personal for Harry Potter star's nude debut. The London Standard October 12, 2006.
Wolfe, G. Enjoying Equus: Jouissance in Shaffer’s Play. PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. December 15, 2009.
Mahmood, R. Equus: Saving the best for last. The Express Tribune March 12, 2012.


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Antarctica (Vangelis album)
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Antarctica

Film score by Vangelis

Released
1983
Recorded
1983, Nemo Studios, London
Genre
Electronic, Film score
Length
45:29
Label
Polydor
Producer
Vangelis
Vangelis chronology

Chariots of Fire
 (1982) Antarctica
 (1983) Soil Festivities
 (1984)


Professional ratings

Review scores

Source
Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars [1]
Antarctica is a Vangelis soundtrack to the 1983 Japanese film Antarctica ("Nankyoku Monogatari") by Koreyoshi Kurahara. For years, the soundtrack album was only available in Japan, appearing in other countries as a rare and expensive import, when in 1988 Polydor finally decided to release the album worldwide.


Contents  [hide]
1 CD Covers
2 Track listing
3 Personnel
4 References

CD Covers[edit]
There are two different CD covers, one predominantly white and the other depicting a frame from the film with the dogs. In each CD, the unused cover serves as the back of the booklet.
Track listing[edit]
All music composed by Vangelis.

No.
Title
Length

1. "Theme from Antarctica"   7:29
2. "Antarctica Echoes"   5:58
3. "Kinematic"   3:50
4. "Song of White"   5:17
5. "Life of Antarctica"   5:59
6. "Memory of Antarctica"   5:30
7. "Other Side of Antarctica"   6:56
8. "Deliverance"   4:30
Personnel[edit]
##Vangelis – arrangements, all instruments and producer
##Raine Shine – engineer
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Brenholts, Jim. Antarctica (Vangelis album) at AllMusic


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Antarctica

Film score by Vangelis

Released
1983
Recorded
1983, Nemo Studios, London
Genre
Electronic, Film score
Length
45:29
Label
Polydor
Producer
Vangelis
Vangelis chronology

Chariots of Fire
 (1982) Antarctica
 (1983) Soil Festivities
 (1984)


Professional ratings

Review scores

Source
Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars [1]
Antarctica is a Vangelis soundtrack to the 1983 Japanese film Antarctica ("Nankyoku Monogatari") by Koreyoshi Kurahara. For years, the soundtrack album was only available in Japan, appearing in other countries as a rare and expensive import, when in 1988 Polydor finally decided to release the album worldwide.


Contents  [hide]
1 CD Covers
2 Track listing
3 Personnel
4 References

CD Covers[edit]
There are two different CD covers, one predominantly white and the other depicting a frame from the film with the dogs. In each CD, the unused cover serves as the back of the booklet.
Track listing[edit]
All music composed by Vangelis.

No.
Title
Length

1. "Theme from Antarctica"   7:29
2. "Antarctica Echoes"   5:58
3. "Kinematic"   3:50
4. "Song of White"   5:17
5. "Life of Antarctica"   5:59
6. "Memory of Antarctica"   5:30
7. "Other Side of Antarctica"   6:56
8. "Deliverance"   4:30
Personnel[edit]
##Vangelis – arrangements, all instruments and producer
##Raine Shine – engineer
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Brenholts, Jim. Antarctica (Vangelis album) at AllMusic


[hide]
v ·
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Vangelis


Studio albums
Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit ·
 Earth ·
 Heaven and Hell ·
 Albedo 0.39 ·
 Spiral ·
 Beaubourg ·
 Hypothesis ·
 The Dragon ·
 China ·
 See You Later ·
 Soil Festivities ·
 Mask ·
 Invisible Connections ·
 Direct ·
 The City ·
 Voices ·
 Oceanic ·
 El Greco ·
 Mythodea
 

Soundtracks
Sex Power ·
 L'Apocalypse des animaux ·
 Entends-tu les chiens aboyer ? ·
 La Fête sauvage ·
 Opéra sauvage ·
 Chariots of Fire ·
 Antarctica ·
 Conquest of Paradise ·
 Blade Runner ·
 Alexander ·
 Blade Runner Trilogy. 25th Anniversary ·
 El Greco ·
 Świadectwo
 

Compilations
The Best of Vangelis ·
 To the Unknown Man ·
 Cosmos: A Personal Voyage ·
 Magic Moments ·
 Themes ·
 Mundo Magico de Vangelis ·
 Themes II ·
 Portraits (So Long Ago, So Clear) ·
 Reprise 1990–1999 ·
 Odyssey: The Definitive Collection ·
 The Collection
 

Jon and Vangelis
Short Stories ·
 The Friends of Mr Cairo ·
 Private Collection ·
 Page of Life ·
 The Best of Jon and Vangelis ·
 Chronicles
 

Other Collaborations
Chinese Restaurant ·
 Odes ·
 Hibernation ·
 Ich Hab' Keine Angst ·
 Moi, Je n'ai pas peur ·
 The Velocity of Love ·
 Rapsodies ·
 Geheimnisse ·
 Tra Due Sogni
 

Pseudonyms
Who/Sad Face (Odyssey) ·
 Red Square (Mama O') ·
 Astral Abuse/Who Killed (Alpha Beta)
 

Aphrodite's Child ·
 Electronic music ·
 20th century classical music
 

 


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Eight Below
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Eight Below
Eight Below poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Frank Marshall
Produced by
Patrick Crowley
 David Hoberman
Screenplay by
David DiGillio
Based on
Nankyoku Monogatari:
 Toshirô Ishidô
Koreyoshi Kurahara
 Tatsuo Nogami
 Susumu Saji
Starring
Paul Walker
Bruce Greenwood
Moon Bloodgood
Jason Biggs
Music by
Mark Isham
Cinematography
Don Burgess
Edited by
Christopher Rouse
Production
   company
Walt Disney Pictures
Spyglass Entertainment
Mandeville Films
Kennedy/Marshall
Distributed by
Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s)
February 17, 2006
Running time
120 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$40 million
Box office
$120,455,994
Eight Below is a 2006 American adventure drama film directed by Frank Marshall and written by David DiGilio. It stars Paul Walker, Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood, and Jason Biggs. It was released theatrically on February 17, 2006, by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States. The film is set in Antarctica, but was filmed in Svalbard, Norway, Greenland, and British Columbia, Canada.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot 1.1 The Dogs' Story
2 Cast
3 Background 3.1 Sled dogs
4 Release 4.1 Critical reception
4.2 Box office
5 Awards
6 Home media
7 References
8 External links

Plot[edit]
In 1993, Jerry Shepard (Walker) is a guide at an Antarctica research base under contract with the National Science Foundation. UCLA professor, Dr. Davis McClaren (Greenwood), arrives at the base and along with Shepard's boss, Dr. Andy Harrison (Gerard Plunkett), presses Shepard to take McClaren to Mount Melbourne to attempt to find a rare meteorite from the planet Mercury. Shepard does so, ignoring his own intuition, which tells him it is too late in the season (January) to complete such a treacherous route. Worried about the snowmobiles breaking through the thinning ice or falling into a crevasse, Shepard tells Harrison and McClaren that the only way to get to Mount Melbourne is by dog sled.
Shepard and McClaren make it to Mount Melbourne, but immediately are called back to base camp due to an approaching heavy storm. McClaren begs for more time, and Shepard gives him half a day. McClaren finds what he was looking for and the two head back to the sled.
Shepard pauses to patch up one of the dogs (Old Jack) whose paw is bleeding. McClaren, while walking around to get a better radio connection with base, slides down an embankment when a soft ledge gives way. His landing at the bottom cracks the thin ice and McClaren ends up breaking through. Shepard is able to get his lead dog Maya to take a rope to McClaren and the dog team pulls him from the water.
Now, as they battle hypothermia, frostbite, and near whiteout conditions, Shepard and McClaren have to rely on the dogs' stamina and keen sense of direction to get them back to base. The injured people are immediately evacuated, along with all other personnel, due to the storm, which is expected to intensify. With too much weight in the plane to carry both people and dogs, the human team medically evacuates Shepard and McClaren with a plan to return later for the dogs. The dogs are temporarily left behind, but the storm is worse than expected. Because of the harsh weather conditions and a shortage of supplies at the McMurdo Station, it soon becomes apparent that no rescue will be attempted until the next spring.
Back at home, Shepard is guilt-ridden about leaving his dogs and stops working as an Antarctic-conditions guide. Five months later, and after a heart-to-heart session with an older, veteran guide, Shepard decides to throw his all into rescuing the dogs. Before leaving for the trip, Shepard patches things up with McClaren and shares his intention to rescue the dogs. McClaren learns Shepard does not have enough money to pay for the trip but tells him that he cannot help him. Soon afterwards, McClaren sees a drawing of the dog team made by his young son, with the title: "My Hero is... THE DOGS WHO SAVED MY DADDY." McClaren realizes the magnitude of his ingratitude and uses the remaining balance of his grant money to finance a rescue mission.
The Dogs' Story[edit]
Four days after the dogs were left at base camp, they eventually break free of their chains, except for Old Jack. Old Jack, who's too old to go with the others on their journey, dies at the base camp, despite Maya's encouragement to break free. The dogs now begin hunting seals, sea gulls, and penguins in order to keep from starving. However, one night while looking at the southern lights, one of the dogs, Dewey, falls off a steep slope and is fatally injured. The dogs show their affection for their teammate, but after Dewey succumbs to his injuries and dies, the dogs eventually have to move on. The youngest dog, Max, stays with Dewey a little longer and is separated from the rest.
Max finds his way back to where McClaren fell into the ice earlier and spots a dead Orca. He eats from it until he is attacked by a nearby leopard seal that fiercely guards its meal. The other dogs also find their way to the dead Orca and Max gets the leopard seal's attention so the rest can eat. But the leopard seal quickly sees what's happening, bites Maya on the leg and nearly kills her. Max and the other dogs fiercely chase him off. Maya manages to survive, but her leg is seriously injured.
The rest of the pack continue to hunt for food. Maya refuses food brought for her, and gives pack leadership to Max, who has shown bravery, leadership, and compassion.
The dogs manage to find their way close to the base camp, where Shepard and his rescue team are arriving. Shepard and the five dogs have a happy reunion. When Shepard gets ready to go in the car to leave, Max refuses to go. Max leads Jerry to the injured Maya, and he is able to rescue her as well. The team then leaves the base to return home with the six dogs. The final scene shows a grave for Old Jack and Dewey.
Cast[edit]
Paul Walker as Jerry Shepard
Bruce Greenwood as Dr. Davis McClaren
Moon Bloodgood as Katie
Jason Biggs as Charlie Cooper
Gerard Plunkett as Dr. Andy Harrison
August Schellenberg as Mindo
Wendy Crewson as Eve McClaren
Belinda Metz as Rosemary Paris
Connor Christopher Levins as Eric McClaren
Duncan Fraser as Captain Lovett
Dan Ziskie as Navy Commander
Michael David Simms as Armin Butler
Daniel Bacon as Bureaucrat #2
Laara Sadiq as Bureaucrat #3
Malcolm Stewart as Charles Buffett
Background[edit]
The 1958 ill-fated Japanese expedition to Antarctica inspired the 1983 hit film Nankyoku Monogatari. Eight Below adapts the events of the 1958 incident, moved forward to 1993.[1] In the 1958 event, fifteen Sakhalin Husky sled dogs were abandoned when the expedition team was unable to return to the base. When the team returned a year later, two dogs were still alive. Another seven were still chained up and dead, five were unaccounted for, and one died just outside of Showa Station.
Sled dogs[edit]
In Eight Below there are two Alaskan Malamutes (Buck and Shadow) and six Siberian Huskies (Max, Maya, Truman, Dewey, Shorty, and Old Jack). Each actor-dog had help from other dogs that performed stunts and pulled sleds. In all, over 30 dogs were used to portray the film's eight canine characters. Max, Maya, Dewey, and Buck (Old Jack's stunt double) were played by dogs seen in Disney's Snow Dogs.[2] The animal filming was supervised by the American Humane Association, and the film carries the standard "No animals were harmed..." disclaimer, despite an on-set incident in which a trainer used significant force to break up an animal fight.[3]
Release[edit]
Critical reception[edit]
The film received generally positive reviews from critics. Roger Ebert from Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, and said "Eight Below succeeds as an effective story."[4] BBC liked the movie as well, but did not like its long length (2 hours).[5] Reel.com liked it, saying "the movie succeeds at drawing you into their incredible adventure".[6] However, the San Francisco Chronicle disliked the film, saying: "The movie is overly long and much too intense for small children, yet it's filled with dialogue and plot turns that are too juvenile to thrill adult audiences."[7] William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reacted favorably ("the dog actors will melt your heart"), but pointed out, as did other reviewers, that "Antarctica buffs" will be critical of errors, such as portraying midwinter events occurring in "balmy, blazing daylight at a time Antarctica is locked in round-the-clock darkness and temperatures of 140 degrees below."[8]
The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 72% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on 146 reviews." The site's consensus says, "Featuring a stellar cast of marooned mutts, who deftly display emotion, tenderness, loyalty and resolve, Eight Below is a heartwarming and exhilarating adventure film."[9]
Box office[edit]
According to Box Office Mojo, the film opened at #1 on February 17, 2006, with a total weekend gross of $20,188,176 in 3,066 theaters, averaging to about $6,584 per theater. The film closed on June 1, 2006 with a total worldwide gross of $120,453,565 ($81,612,565 domestic and $38,841,000 overseas).[10]
Awards[edit]
Wins
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards: ASCAP Award, Top Box Office Films (Mark Isham) 2007.
Nominations
Satellite Awards: Satellite Award, Best Youth DVD, 2006.
Home media[edit]

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The film was released on separate format widescreen and full screen editions on DVD on June 26, 2006. It was also released on PlayStation Portable (an original widescreen format) on June 26, 2006. The film was released on high definition Blu-ray for an original widescreen presentation on September 19, 2006.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Rechtshaffen, Michael (2006-02-15). "Eight Below". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2007-08-07. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
2.Jump up ^ "A True 'Survivor' Story, Dog Version". The Washington Post. 2006-02-16. pp. C12. Retrieved 2008-01-11.
3.Jump up ^ "Animals were Harmed". The Hollywood Reporter. 2013-11-25. pp. C12. Retrieved 2013-11-28.
4.Jump up ^ Ebert, Roger (2006-02-17). "Eight Below". rogerebert.com. Retrieved 2007-12-29.
5.Jump up ^ Smith, Neil (2006-04-16). "Eight Below". BBC. Retrieved 2007-12-29.
6.Jump up ^ Knight, Tim. "Eight Below". Reel.com. Archived from the original on 2007-12-16. Retrieved 2007-12-29.
7.Jump up ^ Hartlaub, Peter (2006-02-17). "Man's 8 best friends get the cold shoulder". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2007-12-29.
8.Jump up ^ Arnold, William (2006-02-17). "'Eight Below' warms the heart despite faux paws". seattlepi.com. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
9.Jump up ^ Eight Below at Rotten Tomatoes. Last accessed: February 04, 2012.
10.Jump up ^ Eight Below at Box Office Mojo.
External links[edit]
Official website
Eight Below at the Internet Movie Database
Eight Below at AllMovie


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Eight Below
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Eight Below
Eight Below poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Frank Marshall
Produced by
Patrick Crowley
 David Hoberman
Screenplay by
David DiGillio
Based on
Nankyoku Monogatari:
 Toshirô Ishidô
Koreyoshi Kurahara
 Tatsuo Nogami
 Susumu Saji
Starring
Paul Walker
Bruce Greenwood
Moon Bloodgood
Jason Biggs
Music by
Mark Isham
Cinematography
Don Burgess
Edited by
Christopher Rouse
Production
   company
Walt Disney Pictures
Spyglass Entertainment
Mandeville Films
Kennedy/Marshall
Distributed by
Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s)
February 17, 2006
Running time
120 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$40 million
Box office
$120,455,994
Eight Below is a 2006 American adventure drama film directed by Frank Marshall and written by David DiGilio. It stars Paul Walker, Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood, and Jason Biggs. It was released theatrically on February 17, 2006, by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States. The film is set in Antarctica, but was filmed in Svalbard, Norway, Greenland, and British Columbia, Canada.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot 1.1 The Dogs' Story
2 Cast
3 Background 3.1 Sled dogs
4 Release 4.1 Critical reception
4.2 Box office
5 Awards
6 Home media
7 References
8 External links

Plot[edit]
In 1993, Jerry Shepard (Walker) is a guide at an Antarctica research base under contract with the National Science Foundation. UCLA professor, Dr. Davis McClaren (Greenwood), arrives at the base and along with Shepard's boss, Dr. Andy Harrison (Gerard Plunkett), presses Shepard to take McClaren to Mount Melbourne to attempt to find a rare meteorite from the planet Mercury. Shepard does so, ignoring his own intuition, which tells him it is too late in the season (January) to complete such a treacherous route. Worried about the snowmobiles breaking through the thinning ice or falling into a crevasse, Shepard tells Harrison and McClaren that the only way to get to Mount Melbourne is by dog sled.
Shepard and McClaren make it to Mount Melbourne, but immediately are called back to base camp due to an approaching heavy storm. McClaren begs for more time, and Shepard gives him half a day. McClaren finds what he was looking for and the two head back to the sled.
Shepard pauses to patch up one of the dogs (Old Jack) whose paw is bleeding. McClaren, while walking around to get a better radio connection with base, slides down an embankment when a soft ledge gives way. His landing at the bottom cracks the thin ice and McClaren ends up breaking through. Shepard is able to get his lead dog Maya to take a rope to McClaren and the dog team pulls him from the water.
Now, as they battle hypothermia, frostbite, and near whiteout conditions, Shepard and McClaren have to rely on the dogs' stamina and keen sense of direction to get them back to base. The injured people are immediately evacuated, along with all other personnel, due to the storm, which is expected to intensify. With too much weight in the plane to carry both people and dogs, the human team medically evacuates Shepard and McClaren with a plan to return later for the dogs. The dogs are temporarily left behind, but the storm is worse than expected. Because of the harsh weather conditions and a shortage of supplies at the McMurdo Station, it soon becomes apparent that no rescue will be attempted until the next spring.
Back at home, Shepard is guilt-ridden about leaving his dogs and stops working as an Antarctic-conditions guide. Five months later, and after a heart-to-heart session with an older, veteran guide, Shepard decides to throw his all into rescuing the dogs. Before leaving for the trip, Shepard patches things up with McClaren and shares his intention to rescue the dogs. McClaren learns Shepard does not have enough money to pay for the trip but tells him that he cannot help him. Soon afterwards, McClaren sees a drawing of the dog team made by his young son, with the title: "My Hero is... THE DOGS WHO SAVED MY DADDY." McClaren realizes the magnitude of his ingratitude and uses the remaining balance of his grant money to finance a rescue mission.
The Dogs' Story[edit]
Four days after the dogs were left at base camp, they eventually break free of their chains, except for Old Jack. Old Jack, who's too old to go with the others on their journey, dies at the base camp, despite Maya's encouragement to break free. The dogs now begin hunting seals, sea gulls, and penguins in order to keep from starving. However, one night while looking at the southern lights, one of the dogs, Dewey, falls off a steep slope and is fatally injured. The dogs show their affection for their teammate, but after Dewey succumbs to his injuries and dies, the dogs eventually have to move on. The youngest dog, Max, stays with Dewey a little longer and is separated from the rest.
Max finds his way back to where McClaren fell into the ice earlier and spots a dead Orca. He eats from it until he is attacked by a nearby leopard seal that fiercely guards its meal. The other dogs also find their way to the dead Orca and Max gets the leopard seal's attention so the rest can eat. But the leopard seal quickly sees what's happening, bites Maya on the leg and nearly kills her. Max and the other dogs fiercely chase him off. Maya manages to survive, but her leg is seriously injured.
The rest of the pack continue to hunt for food. Maya refuses food brought for her, and gives pack leadership to Max, who has shown bravery, leadership, and compassion.
The dogs manage to find their way close to the base camp, where Shepard and his rescue team are arriving. Shepard and the five dogs have a happy reunion. When Shepard gets ready to go in the car to leave, Max refuses to go. Max leads Jerry to the injured Maya, and he is able to rescue her as well. The team then leaves the base to return home with the six dogs. The final scene shows a grave for Old Jack and Dewey.
Cast[edit]
Paul Walker as Jerry Shepard
Bruce Greenwood as Dr. Davis McClaren
Moon Bloodgood as Katie
Jason Biggs as Charlie Cooper
Gerard Plunkett as Dr. Andy Harrison
August Schellenberg as Mindo
Wendy Crewson as Eve McClaren
Belinda Metz as Rosemary Paris
Connor Christopher Levins as Eric McClaren
Duncan Fraser as Captain Lovett
Dan Ziskie as Navy Commander
Michael David Simms as Armin Butler
Daniel Bacon as Bureaucrat #2
Laara Sadiq as Bureaucrat #3
Malcolm Stewart as Charles Buffett
Background[edit]
The 1958 ill-fated Japanese expedition to Antarctica inspired the 1983 hit film Nankyoku Monogatari. Eight Below adapts the events of the 1958 incident, moved forward to 1993.[1] In the 1958 event, fifteen Sakhalin Husky sled dogs were abandoned when the expedition team was unable to return to the base. When the team returned a year later, two dogs were still alive. Another seven were still chained up and dead, five were unaccounted for, and one died just outside of Showa Station.
Sled dogs[edit]
In Eight Below there are two Alaskan Malamutes (Buck and Shadow) and six Siberian Huskies (Max, Maya, Truman, Dewey, Shorty, and Old Jack). Each actor-dog had help from other dogs that performed stunts and pulled sleds. In all, over 30 dogs were used to portray the film's eight canine characters. Max, Maya, Dewey, and Buck (Old Jack's stunt double) were played by dogs seen in Disney's Snow Dogs.[2] The animal filming was supervised by the American Humane Association, and the film carries the standard "No animals were harmed..." disclaimer, despite an on-set incident in which a trainer used significant force to break up an animal fight.[3]
Release[edit]
Critical reception[edit]
The film received generally positive reviews from critics. Roger Ebert from Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, and said "Eight Below succeeds as an effective story."[4] BBC liked the movie as well, but did not like its long length (2 hours).[5] Reel.com liked it, saying "the movie succeeds at drawing you into their incredible adventure".[6] However, the San Francisco Chronicle disliked the film, saying: "The movie is overly long and much too intense for small children, yet it's filled with dialogue and plot turns that are too juvenile to thrill adult audiences."[7] William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reacted favorably ("the dog actors will melt your heart"), but pointed out, as did other reviewers, that "Antarctica buffs" will be critical of errors, such as portraying midwinter events occurring in "balmy, blazing daylight at a time Antarctica is locked in round-the-clock darkness and temperatures of 140 degrees below."[8]
The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 72% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on 146 reviews." The site's consensus says, "Featuring a stellar cast of marooned mutts, who deftly display emotion, tenderness, loyalty and resolve, Eight Below is a heartwarming and exhilarating adventure film."[9]
Box office[edit]
According to Box Office Mojo, the film opened at #1 on February 17, 2006, with a total weekend gross of $20,188,176 in 3,066 theaters, averaging to about $6,584 per theater. The film closed on June 1, 2006 with a total worldwide gross of $120,453,565 ($81,612,565 domestic and $38,841,000 overseas).[10]
Awards[edit]
Wins
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards: ASCAP Award, Top Box Office Films (Mark Isham) 2007.
Nominations
Satellite Awards: Satellite Award, Best Youth DVD, 2006.
Home media[edit]

Question book-new.svg
 This section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2014)
The film was released on separate format widescreen and full screen editions on DVD on June 26, 2006. It was also released on PlayStation Portable (an original widescreen format) on June 26, 2006. The film was released on high definition Blu-ray for an original widescreen presentation on September 19, 2006.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Rechtshaffen, Michael (2006-02-15). "Eight Below". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2007-08-07. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
2.Jump up ^ "A True 'Survivor' Story, Dog Version". The Washington Post. 2006-02-16. pp. C12. Retrieved 2008-01-11.
3.Jump up ^ "Animals were Harmed". The Hollywood Reporter. 2013-11-25. pp. C12. Retrieved 2013-11-28.
4.Jump up ^ Ebert, Roger (2006-02-17). "Eight Below". rogerebert.com. Retrieved 2007-12-29.
5.Jump up ^ Smith, Neil (2006-04-16). "Eight Below". BBC. Retrieved 2007-12-29.
6.Jump up ^ Knight, Tim. "Eight Below". Reel.com. Archived from the original on 2007-12-16. Retrieved 2007-12-29.
7.Jump up ^ Hartlaub, Peter (2006-02-17). "Man's 8 best friends get the cold shoulder". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2007-12-29.
8.Jump up ^ Arnold, William (2006-02-17). "'Eight Below' warms the heart despite faux paws". seattlepi.com. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
9.Jump up ^ Eight Below at Rotten Tomatoes. Last accessed: February 04, 2012.
10.Jump up ^ Eight Below at Box Office Mojo.
External links[edit]
Official website
Eight Below at the Internet Movie Database
Eight Below at AllMovie


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Antarctica (1983 film)
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Antarctica
Nankyoku Monogatari poster.jpg
Film poster

Directed by
Koreyoshi Kurahara
Produced by
Tomohiro Kaiyama
Masaru Kakutani
Koretsugo Kurahara
Juichi Tanaka
Written by
Toshirō Ishidō
Koreyoshi Kurahara
Tatsuo Nogami
Kan Saji
Starring
Ken Takakura
Tsunehiko Watase
Eiji Okada
Masako Natsume
Music by
Vangelis
Cinematography
Akira Shiizuka
Edited by
Koreyoshi Kurahara
Akira Suzuki
Distributed by
Nippon Herald Films (Japan)
20th Century Fox (USA - dubbed)
Release date(s)
23 July 1983

Running time
143 minutes
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
Box office
¥5,900,000,000[1]
($56,300,000)[2]

Antarctica (南極物語 Nankyoku Monogatari?, literally "South Pole Story") is a 1983 Japanese film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and starring Ken Takakura. Its plot centers on the 1958 ill-fated Japanese scientific expedition to the South Pole, its dramatic rescue from the impossible weather conditions on the return journey, the relationship between the scientists and their loyal and hard-working Sakhalin huskies, particularly the lead dogs Taro and Jiro, and fates of the 15 dogs left behind to fend for themselves.
The film was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 56th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[3] It entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival, at the Japan Academy Awards was nominated for the best film, cinematography, lighting, and music score, winning the Popularity award for the two dogs Taro and Jiro as most popular performer, as well the cinematography and reader's choice award at the Mainichi Film Award. It was a big cinema hit, and held the Japanese box office record for a domestic film until it was surpassed by Miyazaki Hayao's Princess Mononoke in 1997.
The original electronic score was created by Greek musician Vangelis, who had recently written music for Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner. The soundtrack is available worldwide on CD-audio as Antarctica.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Release and reception
5 Original score album
6 Fate of Taro and Jiro
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Plot[edit]
In February 1958, the Second Cross-Winter Expedition for the Japanese Antarctic Surveying Team rides on the icebreaker Sōya to take over from the 11-man First Cross-Winter Expedition. Due to the extreme weather conditions in Antarctica, Sōya can not get near enough to the Showa Base and they decide not to proceed with the stay-over.
The First Cross-Winter Expedition retreats by helicopter, but they have to leave 15 Sakhalin huskies at the unmanned Showa Base. The dogs are left chained at the base, as the team believes that they will soon be returning, but the men are unable to due to fuel shortages. The team is worried about the dogs, as the weather is extremely cold and only one week of food is available.
Meanwhile, eight of the fifteen sled dogs manage to break loose from their chains (Riki, Anko, Shiro, Jakku, Deri, Kuma, Taro, and Jiro), but the other seven are not so fortunate. As they journey across the frozen wilderness of Antarctica, the dogs are forced to survive on their own feces, hunting penguins and seals on the ice shelves and even eating the excrement of seals for food. As months pass, several of the dogs die or disappear in the glacier. Riki is fatally injured by a killer whale while trying to protect Taro and Jiro. Anko and Deri fall through the ice and drown in freezing waters. Shiro falls off a cliff to his death, and Jakku and Kuma disappear in the wilderness.
Eleven months later, on 14 January 1959, Kitagawa, one of the dog handlers in the first expedition, returns with the Third Cross-Winter Expedition, wanting to bury his beloved dogs. He, along with the two dog-handlers Ushioda and Ochi, recover the frozen corpses of seven dogs, but are even more surprised when they discover that eight of their dogs have broken loose. To everyone's surprise, they are greeted warmly at the base by two dogs, Taro and Jiro, brothers who were born in Antarctica.
It is still unknown how and why the brothers survived, because an average husky can only live in such conditions for about one month. In the movie, the director used the data available, together with his imagination, to reconstruct how the dogs struggled with the elements and survived.
Cast[edit]
Ken Takakura as Akira Ushioda
Tsunehiko Watase as Kenjirō Ochi
Eiji Okada as Chief Ozawa
Masako Natsume as Keiko Kitazawa
Keiko Oginome as Asako Shimura
Takeshi Kusaka as Morishima Kyōju
Shigeru Kōyama as Horigome Taichō
So Yamamura as Iwakiri Senchō
Jun Etō as Tokumitsu Taiin
Kōichi Satō as Toda Taichō
Shin Kishida as Kissaten Master
Takeshi Ōbayashi as Nonomiya Taichō
Shinji Kanai as Ozaki Taichō
Production[edit]
The film took over three years to make. It was filmed at the northern tip of Hokkaidō. The dogs in the film were sired by Kuma, a Sakhalin from Furen and were born in Wakanai, Hokkaido, not Antarctica.
Release and reception[edit]
Antarctica was entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival.[4] The film was a big hit in Japan, becoming the number one Japanese film on the domestic market in 1983, earning ¥5.9 billion in distribution income.[1] As of 2007, the film is available on DVD in Japan (Japanese subtitles) and Hong Kong (Chinese and English subtitles).
The breed of dog also became briefly popular. However, concerns were raised that the dogs who took part in the filming might have been subjected to extreme conditions to obtain the degree of realism involved. The American Humane Association withheld its "No Animals Were Harmed" disclaimer, rating the film "Unacceptable" due to what it regarded as deliberate cruelty on the set.[5] The director responded that the emotions shown by the dogs during the film were painstakingly captured and then edited into the relevant parts. In order to recreate the death scenes the dogs were carefully anesthetized. The parts where the dogs drowned or fell were done in the studio and blue-screened with the actual filming location. The blood on the dogs was fake. It remained unclear whether the deaths of the prey animals (a seabird and a seal) were also simulated.
In 2006, Antarctica's plot was adapted into the Disney film Eight Below. In 2011 a Japanese drama titled Nankyoku Tairiku centers on Japan's first expedition to Antarctica in 1958.
Original score album[edit]
Main article: Antarctica (Vangelis album)
The original score to Antarctica was composed, arranged, produced and performed by Greek artist Vangelis. It was recorded at Vangelis' Nemo Studios, in London, UK, by sound engineer Raine Shine. The album was released worldwide (including Japan) as Antarctica.
Fate of Taro and Jiro[edit]
The younger brother Jiro died at the age of four during the fifth expedition in July 1960. His body was made into a specimen and is placed together in the National Museum of Nature and Science at Ueno, Tokyo.[6] The older brother Taro was luckier: he returned to Hokkaido University for his retirement, and died at the age of 15 in 1970. His body was also made into a specimen at Hokkaido University.
See also[edit]
List of submissions to the 56th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "Kako haikyū shūnyū jōi sakuhin 1983-nen" (in Japanese). Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
2.Jump up ^ "Nankyoku monogatari". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
3.Jump up ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
4.Jump up ^ "Berlinale: 1984 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2011-01-04.
5.Jump up ^ American Humane Association review retrieved on February 17, 2010[dead link]
6.Jump up ^ Pink Tentacle blog with photo of Jiro, retrieved on August 29, 2009
External links[edit]
Antarctica at the Internet Movie Database
Details of the film (Chinese)
Filming Location (Japanese)


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Antarctica
Nankyoku Monogatari poster.jpg
Film poster

Directed by
Koreyoshi Kurahara
Produced by
Tomohiro Kaiyama
Masaru Kakutani
Koretsugo Kurahara
Juichi Tanaka
Written by
Toshirō Ishidō
Koreyoshi Kurahara
Tatsuo Nogami
Kan Saji
Starring
Ken Takakura
Tsunehiko Watase
Eiji Okada
Masako Natsume
Music by
Vangelis
Cinematography
Akira Shiizuka
Edited by
Koreyoshi Kurahara
Akira Suzuki
Distributed by
Nippon Herald Films (Japan)
20th Century Fox (USA - dubbed)
Release date(s)
23 July 1983

Running time
143 minutes
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
Box office
¥5,900,000,000[1]
($56,300,000)[2]

Antarctica (南極物語 Nankyoku Monogatari?, literally "South Pole Story") is a 1983 Japanese film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and starring Ken Takakura. Its plot centers on the 1958 ill-fated Japanese scientific expedition to the South Pole, its dramatic rescue from the impossible weather conditions on the return journey, the relationship between the scientists and their loyal and hard-working Sakhalin huskies, particularly the lead dogs Taro and Jiro, and fates of the 15 dogs left behind to fend for themselves.
The film was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 56th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[3] It entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival, at the Japan Academy Awards was nominated for the best film, cinematography, lighting, and music score, winning the Popularity award for the two dogs Taro and Jiro as most popular performer, as well the cinematography and reader's choice award at the Mainichi Film Award. It was a big cinema hit, and held the Japanese box office record for a domestic film until it was surpassed by Miyazaki Hayao's Princess Mononoke in 1997.
The original electronic score was created by Greek musician Vangelis, who had recently written music for Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner. The soundtrack is available worldwide on CD-audio as Antarctica.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Release and reception
5 Original score album
6 Fate of Taro and Jiro
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Plot[edit]
In February 1958, the Second Cross-Winter Expedition for the Japanese Antarctic Surveying Team rides on the icebreaker Sōya to take over from the 11-man First Cross-Winter Expedition. Due to the extreme weather conditions in Antarctica, Sōya can not get near enough to the Showa Base and they decide not to proceed with the stay-over.
The First Cross-Winter Expedition retreats by helicopter, but they have to leave 15 Sakhalin huskies at the unmanned Showa Base. The dogs are left chained at the base, as the team believes that they will soon be returning, but the men are unable to due to fuel shortages. The team is worried about the dogs, as the weather is extremely cold and only one week of food is available.
Meanwhile, eight of the fifteen sled dogs manage to break loose from their chains (Riki, Anko, Shiro, Jakku, Deri, Kuma, Taro, and Jiro), but the other seven are not so fortunate. As they journey across the frozen wilderness of Antarctica, the dogs are forced to survive on their own feces, hunting penguins and seals on the ice shelves and even eating the excrement of seals for food. As months pass, several of the dogs die or disappear in the glacier. Riki is fatally injured by a killer whale while trying to protect Taro and Jiro. Anko and Deri fall through the ice and drown in freezing waters. Shiro falls off a cliff to his death, and Jakku and Kuma disappear in the wilderness.
Eleven months later, on 14 January 1959, Kitagawa, one of the dog handlers in the first expedition, returns with the Third Cross-Winter Expedition, wanting to bury his beloved dogs. He, along with the two dog-handlers Ushioda and Ochi, recover the frozen corpses of seven dogs, but are even more surprised when they discover that eight of their dogs have broken loose. To everyone's surprise, they are greeted warmly at the base by two dogs, Taro and Jiro, brothers who were born in Antarctica.
It is still unknown how and why the brothers survived, because an average husky can only live in such conditions for about one month. In the movie, the director used the data available, together with his imagination, to reconstruct how the dogs struggled with the elements and survived.
Cast[edit]
Ken Takakura as Akira Ushioda
Tsunehiko Watase as Kenjirō Ochi
Eiji Okada as Chief Ozawa
Masako Natsume as Keiko Kitazawa
Keiko Oginome as Asako Shimura
Takeshi Kusaka as Morishima Kyōju
Shigeru Kōyama as Horigome Taichō
So Yamamura as Iwakiri Senchō
Jun Etō as Tokumitsu Taiin
Kōichi Satō as Toda Taichō
Shin Kishida as Kissaten Master
Takeshi Ōbayashi as Nonomiya Taichō
Shinji Kanai as Ozaki Taichō
Production[edit]
The film took over three years to make. It was filmed at the northern tip of Hokkaidō. The dogs in the film were sired by Kuma, a Sakhalin from Furen and were born in Wakanai, Hokkaido, not Antarctica.
Release and reception[edit]
Antarctica was entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival.[4] The film was a big hit in Japan, becoming the number one Japanese film on the domestic market in 1983, earning ¥5.9 billion in distribution income.[1] As of 2007, the film is available on DVD in Japan (Japanese subtitles) and Hong Kong (Chinese and English subtitles).
The breed of dog also became briefly popular. However, concerns were raised that the dogs who took part in the filming might have been subjected to extreme conditions to obtain the degree of realism involved. The American Humane Association withheld its "No Animals Were Harmed" disclaimer, rating the film "Unacceptable" due to what it regarded as deliberate cruelty on the set.[5] The director responded that the emotions shown by the dogs during the film were painstakingly captured and then edited into the relevant parts. In order to recreate the death scenes the dogs were carefully anesthetized. The parts where the dogs drowned or fell were done in the studio and blue-screened with the actual filming location. The blood on the dogs was fake. It remained unclear whether the deaths of the prey animals (a seabird and a seal) were also simulated.
In 2006, Antarctica's plot was adapted into the Disney film Eight Below. In 2011 a Japanese drama titled Nankyoku Tairiku centers on Japan's first expedition to Antarctica in 1958.
Original score album[edit]
Main article: Antarctica (Vangelis album)
The original score to Antarctica was composed, arranged, produced and performed by Greek artist Vangelis. It was recorded at Vangelis' Nemo Studios, in London, UK, by sound engineer Raine Shine. The album was released worldwide (including Japan) as Antarctica.
Fate of Taro and Jiro[edit]
The younger brother Jiro died at the age of four during the fifth expedition in July 1960. His body was made into a specimen and is placed together in the National Museum of Nature and Science at Ueno, Tokyo.[6] The older brother Taro was luckier: he returned to Hokkaido University for his retirement, and died at the age of 15 in 1970. His body was also made into a specimen at Hokkaido University.
See also[edit]
List of submissions to the 56th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "Kako haikyū shūnyū jōi sakuhin 1983-nen" (in Japanese). Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
2.Jump up ^ "Nankyoku monogatari". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
3.Jump up ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
4.Jump up ^ "Berlinale: 1984 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2011-01-04.
5.Jump up ^ American Humane Association review retrieved on February 17, 2010[dead link]
6.Jump up ^ Pink Tentacle blog with photo of Jiro, retrieved on August 29, 2009
External links[edit]
Antarctica at the Internet Movie Database
Details of the film (Chinese)
Filming Location (Japanese)


[hide]
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Films directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara


I Am Waiting (1957) ·
 Fūsoku 40 metres (1958) ·
 Arashi no naka o tsuppashire (1958) ·
 The Warped Ones (1960) ·
 The Gate of Youth (1981) ·
 Nankyoku Monogatari (1983) ·
 Haru no Kane (1985) ·
 Hiroshima (1995)
 

 


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Japanese-language films
Japanese films
Films set in Antarctica
Films about dogs
Films directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara
Film scores by Vangelis









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