Straw Dog is the 2011 American psychological thriller/action directed, produced and written by Rod Lurie. This is a remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 Straw Dogs, lightly based on Gordon Williams's novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm. It stars James Marsden and Kate Bosworth.
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Plot
Scriptwriter David Sumner (James Marsden) and his wife Amy (Kate Bosworth) moved to the Mississippi countryside where Amy grew up, to rebuild the house of Amy's recently deceased father and allow David to complete the script.
While in town one afternoon, David meets Charlie's ex-boyfriend Charlie (Alexander SkarsgÃÆ' Â¥ rd) and his three friends, Norman (Rhys Coiro), Chris (Billy Lush), and Bic (Drew Powell). David was intimidated by the people but hired them to fix their roof. He also meets Tom Heddon (James Woods), a former high school football coach whose 15-year-old daughter Janice (Willa Holland) is interested in a local man with intellectual disabilities, Jeremy Niles (Dominic Purcell). Heddon often oppresses Jeremy and believes he's stalking his daughter.
Charlie and his friends soon start teasing David, who later escalates into abuse as they make rude comments on Amy and play their music aloud to distract David as he writes, while taking longer than expected to repair the roof. One Sunday after church, Tom attacked Jeremy for talking to Janice, and Amy came to defend him, but David warned him not to get involved.
That night at home, David finds their cat strangled and hung in the bedroom closet. Amy's positive Charlie and her friends were to blame when they disappeared from the church barbeque for a few hours earlier, but David hesitated to confront them. When he finally questions it, people deny everything.
Charlie took David out on a deer hunt. While David is in the woods with two people, Charlie forces into the house and rapes Amy - believing that Amy's resistance is a fake and Amy actually wants it. During the process, she asks Amy if she wants him to have sex with her in this way, and that's how David and she passed. After that, he realizes that Amy does not want this, and is stunned. Norman arrives and also rapes Amy while Charlie is watching. When David came back, Amy did not tell her, because she had guided Charlie before. David fired the men the next day because it took too long to repair the roof and the men left, after David paid them $ 5000.
David and Amy go to a local football game. Janice lured Jeremy into an empty dressing room and tried to give him oral sex, while Tom noticed his absence and started looking for him. As he approached, Jeremy, afraid Heddon found them, holding hands over Janice's mouth to silence him, accidentally choking him to death. He ran away just as Tom told Charlie and his friends about Janice's disappearance. They all suspected Jeremy had done something to him.
In that game, Amy finds a flashback about rape and asks David to take her home. On the way, he tells her that he wants to go back to Los Angeles, shocking her and causing her to accidentally run over Jeremy standing in the street. David and Amy take him back to their house and call an ambulance. Charlie and Norman heard the ambulance call in the police scanner, and told Tom. They all went to David and Amy's house, and demanded the hands of Jeremy's partner, but David refused. The sheriff then arrives but Tom shoots him dead; then the men tried to enter the house. David and Amy blocked the closed doors and took Jeremy upstairs to the bedroom and prepared to fight the men.
As Chris tried to enter through the window, David nailed his hand to the wall with a nail pistol, his throat struck with broken glass. When Tom tries to follow, David burns his face with hot oil. Tom and Charlie crashed into one of the walls of the house with Charlie's pickup truck, but Charlie fainted. David fights Tom and causes him to shoot himself in the foot. David then shot Tom and hit Bic to death with a fireplace poker.
Upstairs, Amy and Jeremy were attacked by Norman, who had climbed in through the window. Norman tried to rape Amy again when David and Charlie appeared. Charlie and Norman pulled each other together when Norman threatened to kill Amy. Amy shoots Norman, Charlie attacks and disarms him, then David jumps on him. Charlie kicked David down the stairs and hit him hard. While David lay prostrate on the floor, disarming him, Charlie prepared to shoot him in the head as Amy came closer from behind, pointing a gun at him. Turning to him, Charlie informs him that his gun is empty, and tells him, "I will always protect you, dear", when David climbs behind him and slams a bear trap on his head, which closes and snares him. Charlie slowly died.
When the siren heard, with the barn adjacent to the fire, David said, "I got it all".
Maps Straw Dogs (2011 film)
Cast
- James Marsden as David Sumner
- Kate Bosworth as Amy Sumner
- Alexander SkarsgÃÆ' ¥ rd as Charlie Venner
- Dominic Purcell as Jeremy Niles
- Rhys Coiro as Norman
- Willa Holland as Janice Heddon
- James Woods as "Coach" Tom Heddon
- Billy Lush as Chris
- Laz Alonso as Sheriff John Burke
- Walton Goggins as Daniel Niles
- Anson Mount as Coach Milkens
- Drew Powell as Bic
Production
The film was originally scheduled for release on February 25, 2011. But that date was pushed until September 16, 2011. The film began filming on August 16, 2009 in Shreveport and Vivian, Louisiana.
Release
box office
Straw Dog opened on September 16, 2011 with $ 1.98 million for the day and took $ 5.1 million on its opening weekend.
Critical reception
The film received mixed reviews; Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 40% based on reviews from 121 critics, with consensus "This remake simplifies the storyline but ultimately makes a fatal mistake: It celebrates violence". Metacritic gave the film a 45% score based on 29 reviews, indicating "mixed or average review".
Carrie Rickey from Philadelphia Inquirer gave the movie 1.5 out of 4 stars stating that the "Straw Dog " almost succeeded as an object lesson in the difference between being a man and becoming an animal macho. But it failed as a gripping home-invasion thriller ". Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune called the "wrong-picked bird-picking" remake, barely functioning in engineering, stupid and unnecessary "and rated it 1 of 4 stars. Wesley Morris of Boston Globe , writes that watching Straw Dogs such as "is being aired by liberals outside the National Democratic Committee's events".
Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times has reviewed the original version in 1971. He gave the 2011 movie 3 of a possible 4 stars, and stated "The new version of" Straw Dog "is a fairly close adaptation of a 1971 movie by Sam Peckinpah, Change location from England to Mississippi, turn a mathematician into a screenwriter, save a bear trap and a cat found choked, and it tells the same story I find it visceral, annoying and well-made ", and says he prefers to the original.
Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News also likes this movie, giving it 4 out of 5 stars, stating that "while Lurie can become lighter on symbolism, he collects the tension deftly. thriller but a horror movie, and we feel his own fears in every scene. "
See also
- List of movies featuring home invasion
References
External links
- Straw Dog on IMDb
- Straw Dog at Box Office Mojo
- Straw Dog at Rotten Tomatoes
- Straw Dog in Metacritic
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