Temple Grandin is a 2010 American biopic drama directed by Mick Jackson and starred Claire Danes as Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who revolutionized the practice of handling human livestock on cattle ranches. and slaughterhouses.
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Plot
The film follows the life of Temple Grandin (Danes), providing background through a series of flashbacks. As a child, Grandin is not communicative and tends to tantrum and is diagnosed with autism. The medical consensus at the time was that autism was a form of schizophrenia due to a lack of maternal affection. Although there is a recommendation to place it in an institution, Grandin's mother (Ormond) hires a therapist and works to help her daughter adapt to social interaction.
As a teenager, Temple travels to his aunt (O'Hara) and his uncle's farm to work. He watched the cows being placed into the slide to calm them, and, during an anxiety attack, he used a parachute to calm himself down. Inspired by his teacher, Dr. Carlock (Strathairn) to pursue science, he was accepted at Franklin Pierce College where he developed an early version of the wring machine to calm himself during times of stress. His lecture misinterpreted the use of the machine as a sexual act and forced him to remove it. In response, he developed a scientific protocol to test the subject's reaction to the machine, proving it as a purely therapeutic tool. Grandin graduate with a degree in psychology and pursues a master's degree in zoology.
Temple faced sexism while trying to integrate into the world of cattle farms but ultimately designed a new dip structure designed to allow cattle to voluntarily move rather than be forced. Initially, this tool works properly, and collects profitable coverage in the local press, but farm hands, unaware of its design, accidentally change it, resulting in the drowning of several cows. Angry, Grandin visits Carlock, and leaves the meeting encouraged to continue his efforts to improve the industry.
The conclusions of this film illustrate the autism convention that Temple and his mother were present. Given the state of uncompleted autism research, the speaker can not answer many questions from the audience, but Temple speaks from a crowd of people explaining how he has adapted. Temple also describes her mother's contribution to her success. Excited by the opportunity to hear from someone with real experience, the audience called him to the podium, marking Temple's transition into autism advocacy.
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Transmission and character
- Claire Danes as Temple Grandin
- Catherine O'Hara as Aunt Ann, Eustacia's aunt and sister. As a teenager, Temple often visits his Arizona cattle ranch during the summer.
- Julia Ormond as Eustacia Grandin, mother of Temple. When Temple was younger, Eustacia denied the diagnosis of Temple autism diagnosis. Eustacia is determined to have her daughter receive education and live a normal life despite being diagnosed.
- David Strathairn as Dr. Carlock, the science teacher and Temple boarding school mentor. Carlock is aware of Temple's visual skills and supports in advancing his education.
- Charles Baker as Billy, a worker at Aunt Ann's ranch.
- Barry Tubb as Randy.
Production
Development
The idea for the Grandin biography film comes from his executive producer, Emily Gerson Saines, a successful talent agency and co-founder of the Nonprofit Autism Coalition for Research and Education (now part of Autism Speaks). In the mid-1990s, Gerson Saines was vice president at the William Morris Agency when his 2-year-old son was diagnosed with autism. She learned about Grandin shortly afterward, when her mother told her about seeing Grandin Thinking in Pictures bookstore and, at about the same time, her grandmother independently sent her an article about Grandin by Oliver Sacks.
Reading about Grandin renews Gerson Saines's "energy, motivation, and passion" in overcoming his son's condition. "The Temple story brings me hope and the story (his mother) gives me direction and purpose," Gerson Saines said in a later interview. "Parents of a child with autism everywhere need to hear it, functionally and spiritually.I know this story should be told and given my access as a talent representative in the entertainment industry, I feel it is my responsibility to make it happen." Through Grandin's agent, Gerson Saines was asked to meet Grandin for lunch. "He came wearing his cowgirl shirt - in the very way of Temple, in his shrine walking.I realized that there were people staring at him, and in a different life I was probably one of them, but all I could think of was, 'I can not believe how lucky I am to be here This woman is my hero. ' "
Grandin was familiar with Gerson Saines's work with the Autism Coalition and gave him permission to make the film, but the effort - first launched in the late 1990s - would take more than ten years to fruition. Variety reported in 2002 that David O. Russell is bound to direct the film from a screenplay by Merritt Johnson (adapting from the Grandin's memoir Emerging and Thinking in Pictures >). Russell then came out and was replaced by Moisà © Kaufman, who also left the project. In 2008, director Mick Jackson had taken the helm and Claire Danes was negotiating to star as Grandin. Johnson's manuscript has been replaced by one of Christopher Monger (both Johnson and Monger credited as the author of the finished film).
One element that Gerson Saines believes from the beginning is that she wants to work with HBO, partly because of her long-standing relationship with the network through her work as an agent. "But I also know that by taking that route, more people will see it," he said. "When you try to make a movie like this, it's rare that it reaches a wide audience." HBO are equally interested in this story, and Gerson Saines gives credit to past and present HBO executives by keeping the project alive until it gets realized. "I made a commitment to Temple that I would make it and fix it... I have never pushed to make it until now, because now we've done it right."
Jackson knew from the start that Denmark was his first choice to portray Grandin, believing that Danish seriousness and dedication would help him to capture Grandin's mental and emotional shifts without turning the film into a week-long melodrama. Denmark itself comes from a series of lighter roles (whose "work and ultimate experience is to be a gaga over a man," he describes) and are eager to take on a more demanding part. Although he only realized Grandin at the time, Denmark did research, including watching a documentary about Grandin and studying Grandin's books and recordings. "It's really scary, because he lives and has a good eye for detail," said Danes. The two women spent about six hours together in the Danes apartment, ending up with hugs from Grandin ("For him, it's not easy," Danes says), which Danes likes to do as validation that Grandin approves her for the role.
Filming
Temple Grandin began filming in October 2008 at Austin Studios in Austin, Texas. The film was filmed for filming in Texas at a time when TV and film productions became increasingly scarce in the state, and legislators sought to expand financial incentives to attract more film crews. Grandin producer Scott Ferguson said that Arizona, New Mexico and Canada have all been considered before producers chose Texas, partly because different regions of the country could be used to represent rural West and New England. Ferguson also praised the many trained film crews in the Austin and Dallas area as a significant benefit for shooting in the area.
Gerson Saines took Grandin to observe the last day of the shooting, which is a scene involving a cattle tank designed by Grandin. Although Grandin said that he tried to stay away from Denmark not to overwrite his performance, he was quite worried about the construction of the right tank and about the type of livestock used on the scene. "I do not think we can have such silly things like that City Slickers Movie, where they have Holstein cattle out there," Grandin said. "If you know something about cattle, you'll know it's stupid." He said keeping an eye on Denmark on the monitor was "like going back to a weird time machine until the 60s."
Release
Promotions
The film was previewed on January 27th at the Gene Siskel Film Center, in a screening attended by Grandin. A trailer was previewed for critics during their winter press tour on January 14th; critics respond positively to "bright film palettes and inventive directions."
HBO and Barnes & Bar book store network Noble partnered to promote Grandin movies and books, displaying information about autism and movies in all of Barnes & amp; Noble Shop and create a free coloring book about Grandin, using illustrations by autistic artists. Grandin appeared for the signing of special books, discussions and movie previews at Manhattan Barnes & amp; Noble on January 25th.
Reception
On February 6, 2010, Temple Grandin received Metacritic score 84/100 (average of 19 critical reviews). Review the aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 100% approval rating based on six reviews.
Jennifer Armstrong writes, "The beauty of [the movie] is that it makes autism the title character - and the unique insight it gives into the psychology of cattle - can be annoyed by anyone who has a heart, and appeals to anyone who has a brain.The fact that he does it with a single story like that only makes the movie much bigger. "
Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times called it "a biopic film made for television that avoids clicha michael from the genre without draining the narrative of colors and feelings.Ms Danes is really comfortable in his walking style of subject and voice that is not modulated. "He makes Temple's anxiety as direct and contagious as a torrent of his joy... And as the character ages and learns more social grace, Ms. Danes seamlessly sees the progress of Temple."
Robert Bianco from USA Today writes that unlike many other HBO productions, " Temple is a very cheerful and often funny movie." While praising Catherine O'Hara's powerful direction and supporters, David Strathairn and Julia Ormond, Bianco stated that "as good as everything around them, the Temple of Grandin belongs to two women: the real Temple, a seemingly spectacular human , and Danes, who is clearly a spectacular actor. "The AV Club's Noel Murray, whose father was the father of an autistic son, wrote that "some aesthetic choices of films bordering on cliches.A minimalist height from Alex Wurman's score has become an abbreviation for 'intellectual mystery' as said by the Arabic lament for 'Danger! Terrorists!' and the Grandin Temple ' illustrated animation sequence runs a bit too close to A Beautiful Mind for my liking. "However, Murray gave A-movie, partly for Denmark's success in portraying Grandin as a full personality is not a "list of symptoms gathered from medical journals."
NPR David Bianculli clearly calls the movie "the best telephoto film over the last few years... I can not praise this movie high enough.It's not crybaby or sentimental, but it's very inspiring.This gives great emotional points with very little touch, sound heart rate, tentative touch, winning smile.Acting, writing, directing, production value, every sight and every sound in HBO's Temple Grandin is perfect. "
Accolades
Temple Grandin also won the Peabody Award in 2010 "for turning an excellent and inspiring biography into an experiential event as well."
References
External links
- Temple Grandin on HBO
- Temple Grandin in IMDb
- Temple Grandin at Rotten Tomatoes
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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