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The Grey
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Joe Carnahan
Produced by
Jules Daly
Joe Carnahan
Ridley Scott
Mickey Liddell
Adi Shankar
Screenplay by
Joe Carnahan
Ian MacKenzie Jeffers
Based on
Ghost Walker
by Ian MacKenzie Jeffers
Starring
Liam Neeson
Frank Grillo
Dallas Roberts
Dermot Mulroney
Nonso Anozie
Joe Anderson
James Badge Dale
Music by
Marc Streitenfeld
Cinematography
Masanobu Takayanagi
Edited by
Roger Barton
Jason Hellmann
Production
company
LD Entertainment
Scott Free Productions
Inferno Distribution
Distributed by
Open Road Films
(United States)
Release date
December 11, 2011 (2011-12-11) (Butt-Numb-A-Thon)
January 27, 2012 (2012-01-27) (United States)
Running time
117 minutes[1]
Country
United States
United Kingdom[2]
Language
English
Budget
$25 million[3]
Box office
$77.3 million[4]
The Grey is a 2011 survival thriller film co-written, produced and directed by Joe Carnahan and starring Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo and Dermot Mulroney. It is based on the short story "Ghost Walker" by Ian MacKenzie Jeffers, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Carnahan. The story follows a number of oil-men stranded in Alaska after a plane crash, who must wage a war against a pack of grey wolves stalking them amidst mercilessly cold weather.
Released in the United States on January 27, 2012, the film received praise for its philosophical themes, cinematography, sound effects and acting, while some of the dialogue and the film's ending were criticized; it grossed $77 million worldwide.
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Release
4.1 Marketing
5 Music
6 Reception
6.1 Critical response
6.2 Box office
7 Controversy
8 Awards
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
Plot[edit]
John Ottway (Liam Neeson) works in Alaska as a marksman for an undisclosed oil company, killing grey wolves that threaten the drillers. On his last day on the job, he shoots one. That evening, Ottway writes a letter "without purpose" to his wife, Ana (Anne Openshaw), explaining his plans to commit suicide. He hears a distant wolf howl and doesn't follow through.
The next day, Ottway and other oil drillers board a plane. During the flight, Ottway dreams of sleeping with his wife in bed but is awakened by a loud bang. He buckles up in fear of a possible plane crash. Shortly afterwards, the back of the plane is torn off and it crashes. Eight people including Ottway survive the crash. However, a young oil worker, Lewenden, dies of his injuries as Ottway sadly watches. Taking charge, Ottway sets the survivors on the task of building a fire. While doing this, he discovers a corpse, and is attacked by the grey wolf feeding on it. After saving Ottway, the group soon surmises that they are in the wolves' territory. They decide to take turns keeping watch for the predators.
Later, Hernandez (Ben Bray) is killed by two wolves. Ottway suggests they leave the crash site, but Diaz (Frank Grillo) questions his leadership. While searching for the wallets of their deceased colleagues, intending to return them to their families, Diaz finds an emergency wrist watch containing a radio beacon. The group then leaves the site.
While walking, Flannery (Joe Anderson) falls behind, and is killed by wolves. One of them spots a pack of wolves approaching and the survivors run for the trees, lighting a fire in an attempt to ward off their attackers. The group sets about producing makeshift weaponry. A stressed Diaz loses his cool somewhat and belligerently threatens Ottway with a knife, but is quickly disarmed and ultimately begins regretting his actions. As he's about to apologize, he's suddenly pounced upon by a wolf from behind. An omega wolf sent by the alpha wolf to test them, Ottway later surmises, after the survivors manage to kill it and then roast it for food. A bloodied and crazed Diaz, elated at having survived the attack, beheads the corpse and loudly howls like a wolf, then defiantly throws the severed head back at the pack. A move noted by the group as possibly unwise, as they accept a statement that "wolves are known to take revenge".
While sitting around the fire, Diaz tells the group of his atheism and Talget (Dermot Mulroney) states he believes in God and lovingly talks about his daughter. Ottway states he is also an atheist, but wishes he could believe or have faith; he then recites a simple poem written by his father. A blizzard approaches; some of the survivors set to maintaining the fire while the others get some rest.
The following morning, Burke (Nonso Anozie), who had earlier been suffering from hypoxia, is found dead. The remaining survivors leave the camp and travel to the edge of a steep canyon. Hendrick (Dallas Roberts) secures a line across to a tall tree opposite and Diaz & Ottway traverse the canyon. Talget, however, is afraid of heights and with the added handicap of a bleeding mangled hand, when his foot becomes caught on a hook, in the ensuing struggle the rope breaks away. He falls to the ground, getting severely thrashed by tree branches on the way down; barely alive, he hallucinates a vision of his daughter, but is instantly set upon and dragged away by four wolves. While attempting to save Talget, Diaz falls from the tree and badly injures his knee.
Diaz, Ottway, and Hendrick continue and arrive at a river. There, Diaz, humbled by his journey and unable to walk on, explains that he can accept dying in the middle of nature and will not try to keep running. They part company, leaving a tearful Diaz contemplating the glorious mountainous vista and his resigned fate. Reluctantly Ottway and Hendrick continue on together. Further along the river, Ottway and Hendrick are set upon by the wolves. In an attempt to flee, Hendrick falls into the river and in the chaos is trapped beneath the surface when his foot gets wedged between boulders. Ottway attempts to save him but unable to pull him loose, Hendrick soon drowns. Frustrated and now alone, Ottway looks up and angerily appeals to God for help, to "show him something real", but his disbelief allows him to doubt and he ends up stubbornly deciding to “do this on my own.”
Ottway, cold and wet, continues on alone. Exhausted, he stops walking and begins going through the collected wallets of the others. Ottway then realizes he has stumbled right into the wolves' den - and that the team had been steadily walking towards, not away from, the source of danger. Surrounded by the pack and having the leader of the pack standing in front of him, he looks at his wife's photo in his wallet; it is then revealed that she was dying of a terminal illness (hence his own futility earlier) and that he was trying to kill himself earlier in the film but unable to do so. As the large, snarling alpha wolf approaches him, Ottway arms himself with a knife and shards of glass from small liquor bottles taped to his other hand. He recites the words "Once more into the fray. Into the last good fight I'll ever know. Live and die on this day. Live and die on this day."
In a brief post-credits scene, the alpha wolf lies on the ground, breathing slowly and deeply. Ottway lies against the wolf, viewed from the back - his fate is unclear.
Cast[edit]
Liam Neeson as John Ottway
Frank Grillo as John Diaz
Dermot Mulroney as Jerome Talget
Dallas Roberts as Pete Hendrick
Joe Anderson as Todd Flannery
Nonso Anozie as Jackson Burke
James Badge Dale as Luke Lewenden
Ben Hernandez Bray as Hernandez
Anne Openshaw as Ana Ottway
Production[edit]
The Grey reunited director Joe Carnahan with producers Ridley Scott and Tony Scott (credited as executive producer) as well as actor Liam Neeson, who collaborated on the 2010 action film The A-Team. The film initially imagined a much-younger lead character and Bradley Cooper, who also worked with Carnahan on The A-Team, was cast in the lead role, but he was eventually replaced by Neeson.[5]
Filming began in January 2011 and ended in March. The film was shot in forty days.[6] Though set in Alaska, the film was shot in Vancouver and Smithers, British Columbia, with several scenes being shot at the Smithers Regional Airport.[7] According to Empire magazine, in the climactic scene in which Neeson's character pens a letter to his wife, Carnahan urged Neeson to "channel his grief" over the death of his own wife, Natasha Richardson.[8] Carnahan disclosed, in a Q&A session following an early screening at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, that he had shot an alternative ending (that he'd never intended to use) showing Neeson battling the alpha wolf. It was supposed to be included in deleted cuts,[9] however, no extras were included on the Blu-ray.
Release[edit]
The world premiere of The Grey took place on January 11, 2012, at the Regal Cinemas Theatre in Los Angeles.[10] The film was released nationwide on January 27, 2012.[11][unreliable source?]
Marketing[edit]
Promotion for The Grey in part targeted Christian groups by issuing a "film companion", which highlighted the spiritual value of the film.[12] Marketing also partnered with The Weather Network to highlight the hazardous filming conditions.[12] Open Road Films incorporated comments tweeted by film critics to promote the film in the third trailer for The Grey. This was the first time tweets from and Twitter handles for professional critics had been used in a film trailer.[13]
Music[edit]
The Grey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Film score by Marc Streitenfeld
Released
February 14, 2012 (2012-02-14)
Length
35:09
Label
Lakeshore
Producer
Marc Streitenfeld
The score for The Grey was released on CD February 14, 2012. A digital version available for download was released on January 24, 2012.[14]
No.
Title
Length
1. "Writing the Letter" 2:00
2. "Suicide" 1:44
3. "You Are Gonna Die" 3:14
4. "Walking" 1:45
5. "Eyes Glowing" 1:25
6. "The Morning After" 2:57
7. "Collecting Wallets" 1:53
8. "Wife Memory" 1:09
9. "Life and Death" 2:52
10. "Lagging Behind" 1:53
11. "Running from Wolves" 1:46
12. "Daughter Appears" 2:13
13. "Last Walk" 2:34
14. "Memorial" 3:41
15. "Alpha" 2:16
16. "Into the Fray" 1:49
Reception[edit]
Critical response[edit]
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 79% based on 192 reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The Grey is an exciting tale of survival, populated with fleshed-out characters and a surprising philosophical agenda."[15] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 64 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[16]
Roger Ebert gave the film 3 and a half stars out of 4, and wrote that the unrelenting harshness of The Grey so affected him that he departed the screening of a different movie on the same day:[17]
It was the first time I've ever walked out of a film because of the previous film. The way I was feeling in my gut, it just wouldn't have been fair to the next film... There's time for some conversation among the men, and this film, directed by Joe Carnahan and written by him and Ian Mackenzie Jeffers, treats them as individuals. They're not simply a group of victims. The Grey advances with pitiless logic. There are more wolves than men. The men have weapons, the wolves have patience, the weather is punishing. I sat regarding the screen with mounting dread. The movie had to have a happy ending, didn't it? If not "happy," then at least a relief in some sense? Sit through the entire credits. There's one more shot still to come. Not that you wouldn't be content without it.
The film also earned a place on A.O. Scott's list of the year's ten best films,[18] and Slate film critic Dana Stevens included it in her runners-up for the year's best movies.[19] Film Critic Richard Roeper also had The Grey in his top 10 best movies of 2012 list, placing it at number 3.[20]
Dissenters' reviews tend to focus on the film's abrupt ending and perceive the emotional and philosophical undertones as unnecessary. Siobhan Synnot of The Scotsman gave the film two stars, commenting that "On the down side, there's a lot of dull pretentious philosophizing about the heartlessness of nature and God. On the up side, you get to see a man punch a wolf in the face."[21] Some reviewers and analysts have described the film as having an atheist theme, due to characters such as John Ottway (Liam Neeson) pleading for divine help but not getting any.[22][23][24]
Box office[edit]
The Grey opened in North America on January 27, 2012 in 3,185 theaters and grossed $19,665,101, with an average of $6,174 per theater and ranking #1 at the box office. The film ultimately earned $51,580,236 domestically and $25,698,095 internationally for a total of $77,278,331, above its $25 million production budget.[25]
Controversy[edit]
On January 19, 2012, British Columbia's The Province featured an article about the movie's crew buying four wolf carcasses from a local trapper, two for props for the film and two wolves for the cast to eat.[7] This angered environmentalists and animal activists, who were already irate that the film depicts wolves in a negative light, specifically at a time when grey wolves had recently been removed from the Endangered Species Act in many western American states.[26][27] In response to the portrayal of wolves in the film, groups including PETA and WildEarth Guardians started drives to boycott the film.[28][29] Open Road responded by placing a fact sheet about the grey wolf on the film's official website, with cooperation from the Sierra Club.[29] Carnahan responded by downplaying the significance of the violent wolves portrayed in the film, instead highlighting the significance of man's internal struggle for survival.[28]
Awards[edit]
The film was nominated in 2012 for the International Wolf Center's Scat Award in Scare Tactics and Silly Information categories,[30] being granted said distinction in 2013.[31]
See also[edit]
Survival film, about the film genre, with a list of related films
References[edit]
Jump up ^ secondtake (January 27, 2012). "The Grey (2011)". IMDb. Retrieved May 7, 2015.
Jump up ^ "The Grey (2012)". British Film Institute. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
Jump up ^ "The Grey". The Numbers. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
Jump up ^ "The Grey". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 29, 2012.
Jump up ^ Nashawaty, Chris (September 3, 2010). "Liam Neeson replaces much-younger Bradley Cooper in survival thriller 'The Grey'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
Jump up ^ Sneider, Jeff (January 14, 2012). "No 'Grey' areas for Carnahan". Variety. Retrieved January 28, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b Schaefer, Glen (January 19, 2012). "Method motivates Liam Neeson, 'The Grey' cast to dine on wolf meat". The Province. Archived from the original on January 20, 2012. Retrieved November 26, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Liam Neeson Used Grief Over Wife's Death To Fuel Emotional Scene In 'The Grey'". starpulse. Retrieved February 28, 2014.
Jump up ^ "Joe Carnahan Talks About the Alternate Ending He Shot for 'The Grey'". The Moveable Fest. January 30, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Stars at the LA Premiere of 'The Grey'". Zimbio. January 11, 2012. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
Jump up ^ "The Grey Gets A Release Date". ScreenRant.com. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
^ Jump up to: a b Stewart, Andrew (January 26, 2012). "The Grey looks to lead box office pack". Variety. Retrieved January 28, 2012.
Jump up ^ Dickey, Josh L. "They're blurbing tweets now? Yes they are". Variety. Retrieved January 28, 2012.
Jump up ^ "The Grey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)". apple/itunes. Apple Inc. February 14, 2012. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
Jump up ^ "The Grey". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 19, 2012.
Jump up ^ "The Grey". Metacritic. Retrieved May 7, 2015.
Jump up ^ Ebert, Roger (January 25, 2012). "The Grey". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved February 2, 2012.
Jump up ^ Scott, A.O. (December 14, 2012). "25 Favorites From a Year When 10 Aren't Enough". New York Times. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
Jump up ^ Stevens, Dana (December 19, 2012). "The 10 Best Movies of 2012". Slate. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
Jump up ^ Richard Roeper's top ten best movies of 2012 on YouTube
Jump up ^ Synnot, Siobhan (January 22, 2012). "Film reviews: A Useful Life, The Grey, A Monster In Paris, Intruders". The Scotsman. Retrieved February 2, 2012.
Jump up ^ Morris, Shane (February 2, 2012). "'The Grey': Liam Neeson's bleak atheist parable". BreakPoint. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
Jump up ^ "Camouflaged Atheism! (User Reviews)". Yahoo! Movies. March 25, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
Jump up ^ "THE GREY – A MOVIE REVIEW". The Trent Wilke. April 2, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
Jump up ^ "The Grey (2012) - Box Office Mojo". boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved May 7, 2015.
Jump up ^ Nasaw, Daniel. "Congress strips gray wolf endangered species protection". BBC. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Salazar Announces Recovery of Gray Wolves in the Western Great Lakes, Removal from Threatened and Endangered Species List". U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b Lynch, Rene (January 28, 2012). "'The Grey' slammed for 'bloodthirsty' portrayal of wolves". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b Robinson, Jessica (January 26, 2012). "Groups boycott 'The Grey' with Liam Neeson for portrayal of wolves". KPLU-FM. Archived from the original on August 30, 2012. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
Jump up ^ "The Scat Awards". International Wolf Center. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
Jump up ^ Tubbs, Nancy. "Nomination for The Scat Awards". International Wolf Center. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
External links[edit]
Official website
The Grey on IMDb
The Grey at Rotten Tomatoes
Smithers Regional Airport
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Nate Archibald
Gossip Girl character
Chace Crawford as Nathaniel Archibald
First appearance
Novel:
Gossip Girl
Television:
"Pilot"
(episode 1.01)
Last appearance
Novel:
I Will Always Love You
Television:
"New York, I Love You XOXO"
(episode 6.10)
Created by
Character
Cecily von Ziegesar
Developed for Television
Josh Schwartz
Stephanie Savage
Portrayed by
Chace Crawford
Information
Full name
Nathaniel Fitzwilliam Archibald
Nickname(s)
Nate
Nathaniel (by his grandfather and Chuck)
Novels:
Natie (by Serena and Blair)
Aliases
N
Golden Boy
Gender
Male
Occupation
Novels:
Sailor and lacrosse captain
High school student
(at St. Jude's; graduated)
College student
(at Yale; later Deep Springs College)
Television:
High school student
(at St. Jude's; graduated)
College student
(at Columbia)
Editor-in-chief
(at The New York Spectator)
Family
Novels:
Captain Archibald
(father)
Mrs. Archibald
(mother)
Television:
Howard Archibald
(father)
Anne Archibald
(mother; née van der Bilt)
William van der Bilt I
(maternal grandfather)
William van der Bilt II
(maternal uncle)
William "Tripp" van der Bilt III
(first cousin)
Nathaniel Fitzwilliam Archibald is a character in the best selling Gossip Girl book series. He is portrayed by Chace Crawford in the television series of the same name.[1] In the novels, he is considered the primary male character, always being fought over by the two most prominent females, Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen.
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1 Novel series
2 TV series
2.1 In other media
3 References
Novel series
Nate Archibald is a lacrosse player at the elite St. Jude's School for Boys. His mother, Anne Archibald, is a French socialite, and his father, Captain Archibald, is a former Navy captain and a wealthy banker. His closest friends are Chuck Bass, Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf.
He has been dating Blair since middle school. However, Nate is shown to have deep, unresolved feelings for Serena. They have sex during the summer at a wedding. He reveals this to Blair in the first novel after Serena returns, and right before they were supposed to lose their virginity to each other, which causes their first breakup. He gets together with freshman Jenny Humphrey, but later dumps her for Blair for being too clingy. He and Blair have an on-again-off-again relationship throughout most of the novels.
Nate's family resides in a stately townhouse off Park Avenue on the exclusive Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, and his mother's French socialite family owns a summer chateau in Nice. He is a fan of sailing like his father, and wished to do that instead of attending Yale with Blair, although he expressed interest in attending Brown University. At the end of the series he sails around the world with a friend of his father's, Captain Charles "Chips" White to avoid getting in between Blair and Serena again. In I Will Aways Love You, on break from Deep Springs College, Nate chooses Blair in part I and then Serena in part II.
TV series
Nathaniel Archibald was born to Captain Howard Archibald, a successful business magnate, and Anne Vanderbilt Archibald, a member of the Vanderbilt family. On the surface, Nate seems to be the perfect "Golden Boy" of the Upper East Side. He is best friends with Chuck Bass, with whom he attends the elite St. Jude's School for Boys. Nate has been with girlfriend Blair Waldorf "since kindergarten". However, he secretly harbors feelings for Blair's best friend, Serena van der Woodsen. They shared a sordid one night stand before the show began, which caused her departure to boarding school. Nate's feelings for Blair are complicated by his ongoing infatuation with Serena and his parents' determination to keep him on a certain path. He later goes on to attend Columbia University.
In other media
Nate is the subject of the song 'Nate Will Not Return' by British post-punk band The Fall on their 2011 album Ersatz GB.[2]
References
Jump up ^ "Gossip Girl - Cast - Chace Crawford". CWtv.com. Archived from the original on 2010-06-19. Retrieved 2010-06-21.
Jump up ^ "Nate Will Not Return - Reformation!".
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