Movie Lions,
Sorry I didn’t send this earlier, I wrote most of this last week. I probably won’t be able to make it tonight.
So there was a pretty small group for this week. We couldn’t find a copy of Q’s first choice movie “Crocodile Fury” that wasn’t fully in French. That may be the only way it exists. So we went with a movie that has been bouncing around the list for a while, ROAR! from 1981. The film was never actually released in the US until Drafthouse films released it in 2015. IT DID NOT DISAPPOINT.
I don’t know if there’s ever been another movie that you have to know more about the backstory about it to make it coherent. SO I’ll copy a little from the wiki. Written and directed by Noel Marshall, produced by and starring Marshall and his then wife Tippi Hedren, and co-starring Hedren’s real-life daughter Melanie Griffith and Marshall’s real-life sons John and Jerry.
LOL shout out to TOGAR for keepin it
Q.
The plot is pretty much just, the family is coming to live at the ranch. They have a miscommunication and the father isn’t there when they arrive. But 75 big cats are. They just tear the place up and almost kill everyone.
In real life, this place was actually taken over by a pride of lions. I’m not sure if these are the same wild lions, but it would make sense that the elephants are also the meanest I’ve ever seen.
In the end there’s no real resolution. I think they just go back to living with the cats that almost killed them.
This movie doesn’t screenshot well because the scenes are so basic, but in the middle of every one somebody will piss off a lion and almost get mauled… Then just continue to do the scene.
It’s the best.
It should be put up there with The Room and American shaolin
-Mark
Roar is a 1981 American adventure comedy film[3][4] written, produced, and directed by Noel Marshall. Roar's story follows Hank, a naturalist who lives on a nature preserve in Africa with lions, tigers, and other big cats. When his family visits him, they are instead confronted by the group of animals. The film stars Marshall as Hank, his real-life wife Tippi Hedren as his wife Madeleine, with Hedren's daughter Melanie Griffith and Marshall's sons John and Jerry Marshall in supporting roles.
In 1969, while Hedren was filming Satan's Harvest in Mozambique, she and Marshall had occasion to observe a pride of lions move into a recently vacated house, driven by increased poaching. They decided to make a film centered around that theme, bringing rescued big cats into their homes in California and living with them. Filming began in 1976; it was finished after five years. The film was fully completed after 11 years in production.
Roar was not initially released in North America; in 1981, Noel and John Marshall privately released it internationally. It was also acquired by Filmways Pictures and Alpha Films. Despite performing well in Germany and Japan, Roar was a box office failure, grossing $2 million worldwide against a $17 million budget. In 2015, 34 years after the film's original release, it was released in theaters in the United States by Drafthouse Films. Roar's message of protection for African wildlife as well as its animal interactions were praised by critics, but its plot, story, inconsistent tone, dialogue, and editing were criticized.
The cast and crew members of Roar faced dangerous situations during filming; seventy people, including the film's stars, were injured as a result of multiple animal attacks. Flooding from a dam destroyed much of the set and equipment during its production, and the film's budget increased drastically. In 1983, Hedren founded the Roar Foundation and established the Shambala Preserve sanctuary, to house the animals appearing in the film. She also wrote a book, The Cats of Shambala (1985), about many of the film's events. The film has been described as "the most dangerous film ever made" and "the most expensive home movie ever made", and has gained a cult following.
source : wikipedia
