He also found the home Ree Dolly fights so hard to keep. In real life, the hand-built house belongs to a man named Frank Layson, and it's rich in visual details. Anything from old school buses for storage to old mobile homes that were gonna be recycled for metal.
Layson's 6-year-old granddaughter was always around during shooting, and the filmmakers ended up casting her as one of Ree's two younger siblings. Little Ashlee Thompson was a natural; Michaels says she's the most realistic part of a scene that's still embarrassing to him, where the kids shoot and skin a squirrel. Actress Jennifer Lawrence, playing Ree, almost lost her nerve when she had to teach her on-screen brother how to disembowel the poor squirrel.
You can tell by watching Ashlee, the local girl playing their sister. Michael went from finding places to shoot to finding props: chain saws, rusty old trucks, Christmas lights, even the coarse burlap bag covering Ree's head in one climactic scene where she learns her father's fate. Where in the world can we find a burlap sack? Oh good! Can you give us the phone number? I said, 'I've got a burlap sack for you. It's OK. Calm down. The Ozarks landscape mapped in Winter's Bone is cultural too, with lots of banjo playing.
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Posted online June 25, am. There were red carpets, members of the cast and production crew, including the lead actress, a question-and-answer session following the film and an afterparty.
And it was filmed here - mostly in Taney and Christian counties, as well as a scene at the cattle auction in Springfield. The local connection has raised awareness of the film; people will go just because it was shot in our neck of the woods. Denny Goins, general manager of the Campbell 16, said that they went the extra mile to get the film booked at the theater. Any theater that is part of a chain usually gets films chosen by a booker from the corporate office. And the word is good on the movie.
Cooking meth is a cottage industry in Dolly's area and a way of life. To post his bail, he signed over his house. As his court date approaches, he's nowhere to be found. His year-old daughter, Ree, played by Lawrence takes care of two younger siblings and a nearly catatonic mom. She's visited by the local sheriff who informs her that if her dad misses his court date, she's going to lose her house. Ree is a character that is wise and focused beyond her years.
They couldn't have been her own, Woodrell figured; still, she acted like their mother, as she walked through the store agonizing over each item she took off the shelf. In creating Ree, Woodrell, 57, mixed in elements of his own life as a native of the east side of West Plains, Mo.
He has seen what the scourge of crank, or crystal meth, can do to a region, and it fuels the story in Winter's Bone. A meth lab seemed to be raided every other day around town, he said. The narcotic was killing its makers and users, but it also propped up families that would have otherwise scattered.
To a disparate clan like the Dollys, meth was the one linchpin. Feminine strength wasn't something Woodrell figured in writing the book, but he noticed afterward how the impact of strong women in the Ozarks was reflected in the story.
The story ultimately ends with both Ree and her creator facing positive prospects. Ree's left to tend to a mother with a lost mind and her young siblings. But she's found her father, and ends up with a little money in her pocket. Likewise, Woodrell will be joining his wife at the Academy Awards Sunday, as Winter's Bone is up for the most prestigious awards in the film industry.
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