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Pierce Brosnan has accused Hollywood executives of being 'lazy and lacking in imagination' over their decision not to release his latest movie, Grey Owl, in US in cinemas.
The film, which cost £20m, is the true story of an Englishman who hides his true identity to live the life of a Canadian Indian.
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Archie - Grey Owl - Belaney was an animal trapper in the 1930s who eventually became a world renowned conservationist.
Grey Owl opens in UK cinemas on 3 November. In the US The film went straight to video after distributors said they did not know how to market the picture.
Peoples' sensitivities have been deadened and I think they've backed themselves into a corner in this town called Hollywood |
Brosnan believes a blind eye was turned to the movie. He described as 'a lot of bull' the explanation that executives could not come up with a strategy to sell the film to American audiences.
'It was made for the cinema, it should have been presented in theatres here in America,' added Brosnan during an interview, recorded at his beach home in Malibu, for BBC 5 Live's Ian Payne Show.
Flaws
The film's director, Lord Attenborough, has also criticised the decision.
He told BBC Radio 4's Front Row that Grey Owl was snubbed because it did not contain 'violence or sex'.
Brosnan agreed with the notion that Hollywood had little appetite for a story lacking in the presumed ingredients for commercial success.
'Peoples' sensitivities have been deadened and I think they've backed themselves into a corner in this town called Hollywood,' he said.
He added: 'The movie-makers have found themselves up against a wall and don't know how to get out of it because the ante has just gone up and up on the issue of violence and more sex.'
Brosnan acknowledged that Grey Owl was not a perfect movie.
'It has flaws, of course,' he said. But he believed the film was 'head and shoulders above' the quality of many other movies currently coming out of Hollywood.
The James Bond star admitted he was perplexed when Lord Attenborough first gave him a copy of the script for Grey Owl.
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'I thought: 'He's fallen out of his rocker. What on earth is he doing, sending me a script about an Indian, what is going on here?'
He said he gradually warmed to the story as he understood more about the character - a complicated man who grew up in Hastings in a cloistered, repressed, Victorian home.
He was a man who dreamt of being an Indian and who ultimately became one.
Responsibility
The question of violence in movies has been hotly debated in recent months with Washington politicians wading in on the issue.
When I was younger, I loved the violence, loved the perversity of it all and the sheer bravado of it. But you realise you have a responsibility |
'I think it's good that Hollywood is being hauled over the coals,' said Brosnan.
'Not that I want to see creative censorship, but I think there has to be an awareness on the part of film-makers that there is so much violence in our society,' he added.
The actor, who is set to make his fourth outing as the suave British agent, 007, in 2002, said he considered the violence in a Bond movie to be tame. 'The blood is not real,' he said.
But, he added: 'When I was younger I loved the violence, loved the perversity of it all and the sheer bravado of it. But you realise you have a responsibility.'
Brosnan's sense of responsibility extends to the subject matter of Grey Owl.
His character was said to be one of the world's first environmentalists - travelling the globe preaching about caring for the wilderness and animals.
A keen observer of nature, Brosnan paused several times during our conversation to watch dolphins frolicking in the Pacific Ocean.
'We cannot ignore and turn a blind eye to the environment that we live in,' he said.
'For me it's a concern and it's a worry and you stand up there and you lend your name to certain causes - or in this case, Grey Owl, you make a movie,' he said.
| Grey Owl | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Richard Attenborough |
| Produced by | Richard Attenborough Jake Eberts Claude Léger |
| Written by | William Nicholson |
| Starring | |
| Music by | George Fenton |
| Cinematography | Roger Pratt |
| Edited by | Lesley Walker |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox (United Kingdom) Remstar (Canada) |
Release date |
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| 117 minutes | |
| Country | United Kingdom Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $30 million[1] |
| Box office | $632,617[1] |
Grey Owl is a 1999 biopic directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Pierce Brosnan in the role of real-life British schoolboy turned Native American trapper 'Grey Owl', Archibald Belaney (1888–1938), and Annie Galipeau as his wife Anahareo, with brief appearances by Graham Greene and others. The screenplay was written by William Nicholson. The film was released on 10 September 1999 in Spain and 15 February 2000 in US. It was the last film made by Largo Entertainment before it went defunct in 1999.
Plot[edit]
Archibald Belaney (Brosnan) was a British man who grew up fascinated with Native American culture—so much so that in the early 1900s he left the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for Canada, where he reinvented himself as Archie Grey Owl and pretended to be a Native American who was a trapper. Eventually, Belaney becomes an environmentalist after renouncing trapping and hunting.
Cast[edit]
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- Pierce Brosnan as Archibald 'Grey Owl' Belaney
- Annie Galipeau as Anahareo
- Nathaniel Arcand as Ned White Bear
- Luis Vasquez as Harry Champlin
- David Fox as Jim Wood
- Charles Powell as Walter Perry
- Stephanie Cole as Ada Belaney
- Renée Asherson as Carrie Belaney
- Stewart Bick as Cyrrus Finney
- Graham Greene as Jim Bernard
- Saginaw Grant as Pow Wow Chief
Production[edit]
The film was shot in the English town of Hastings, Quebec towns Chelsea and Wakefield, Jacques Cartier Park and Saskatchewan's Prince Albert National Park.
Director Richard Attenborough said in an interview that he and his brother, noted presenter and naturalist David Attenborough, had attended 'Grey Owl's' De Montfort Hall, Leicester lecture in 1936, depicted in the film, and been influenced by his advocacy of conservation.[2] The musical group Northern Cree Singers is featured in the soundtrack.
Release[edit]
The film opened 1 October 1999 on 70 screens in Canada.[3][1]
The film premiered on video in the United States on 15 February 2000. It eventually opened on 3 November 2000 in the United Kingdom.[4]
Critical reception[edit]
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The film was met with negative reviews, and has a 'rotten' 17% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.[5]William Gallagher of the BBC said, 'if you like cuddly animals or you fancy Pierce Brosnan, you're in luck'.[4]
The film won one Genie Award at the 20th Genie Awards, in the category of Best Costume Design for Renée April.[6]
Box office[edit]
Grey Owl flopped at the box office upon its limited release grossing $162,360 in its opening weekend in Canada and a total of $632,617 against its $30 million budget.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ abcd'Grey Owl'. Box Office Mojo.
- ^Country Life: Volume 194, 2000
- ^Klady, Leonard (4 October 1999). ''Double' decks 'Kings' at B.O.'. Daily Variety. p. 1.
- ^ ab'Grey Owl (2000)'. BBC. 31 October 2000.
- ^'Grey Owl'. Rotten Tomatoes.
- ^Playback Staff (23 July 2001). 'Costumes: from tripe to chain mail'. Playback. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
External links[edit]
- Grey Owl on IMDb
- Grey Owl at Rotten Tomatoes
- Grey Owl at AllMovie