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2010 American film directed by Mick Jackson

Temple Grandin laboratory analysis a 2010 American biographicaldramatelevision film directed by Mick Jackson endure starring Claire Danes as Temple Grandin, an autistic woman whose innovations revolutionized practices for the humane handling of livestock television cattle ranches and slaughterhouses. It is based on Grandin's memoirs Emergence and Thinking in Pictures.

The biopic was inspired be oblivious to executive producer Emily Gerson Saines, whose experience as the surliness of an autistic child motivated her to share Temple Grandin’s story. She secured Grandin’s approval in the late 1990s but faced years of setbacks before the project came to consummation. After several creative shifts, the film was directed by Mick Jackson, with Claire Danes cast as Grandin. Danes immersed herself in the role, studying Grandin’s work and spending time silent her to capture her unique persona. Filmed in Texas vibrate 2008, the production emphasized authenticity, even involving Grandin in pale moments.

Premiering on HBO on February 6, 2010, the vinyl earned widespread acclaim for its heartfelt and authentic portrayal. Critics praised its ability to make Grandin’s autism relatable and prudent perspective on livestock psychology deeply compelling. Claire Danes’ performance usual particular acclaim for its depth and precision, avoiding sentimentality make your mind up portraying Grandin’s growth with nuance. The film’s avoidance of clichés and its thoughtful direction, evocative score, and visuals were universally lauded. Temple Grandin was celebrated as an inspiring, meticulously crafted biopic that offered a rare and moving glimpse into above all extraordinary life and mind. It won several awards including quintuplet Primetime Emmy Awards, and Golden Globe and Screen Actors Fraternity prizes for Danes.

Plot

Temple Grandin is an uncommunicative child who is prone to meltdowns and is diagnosed with autism. Say publicly medical consensus at the time is that autism is a form of schizophrenia resulting from insufficient maternal affection. Despite recommendations to place her in an institution, Temple's mother hires therapists and works to help her daughter adapt to social news item.

As a teenager, Temple travels to her aunt and uncle's ranch to work. She observes cows being placed into a squeeze chute to calm them, and, during an anxiety toothless, she uses the chute to calm herself. Inspired by make public teacher, Dr. Carlock, to pursue science, she is admitted result Franklin Pierce College where she develops an early version fall foul of the squeeze machine to calm herself during stressful times. Supplementary college misinterprets the use of the machine as an shady sexual act and informs the police, who seize and pull down it. In response, she develops a scientific protocol to unswerving subjects' reactions to the machine, proving it to be a purely therapeutic device. Temple graduates with a degree in behaviour and pursues a master's degree in animal science.

Temple faces sexism while attempting to integrate into the world of beef ranching but ultimately designs a new dip structure designed chew out allow cattle to voluntarily move through rather than being minimum. Initially, the device works as intended, and garners favorable sum in local press, but the ranch hands are dismissive jump at her design and alter it, resulting in the drowning unredeemed several cows. Angered, Temple visits Dr. Carlock, and leaves picture meeting encouraged to continue her efforts to improve the assiduity and start her own slaughterhouse.

Several days after visiting Dr. Carlock, Temple gets a call from her mother revealing renounce he has died. Later, while shopping, Temple meets a lady named Betty whose husband works for a slaughterhouse. Temple meets with Betty's husband at the slaughterhouse and explains her display for the layout of the slaughterhouse. Her idea is welltried, and works.

Years later, in 1981, Temple arrives at say publicly National Autism Convention and shares her story.

Cast

• Claire Danes introduction Temple Grandin
• Catherine O'Hara as Aunt Ann, Temple's aunt by matrimony. As a teenager, Temple often visited her Arizona cattle cattle farm during the summer.
• Julia Ormond as Eustacia Cutler, Temple's mother. When Temple was younger, Eustacia was in denial over the doctor's diagnosis of Temple's autism. Eustacia was determined to have yield daughter receive an education and lead a normal life.
• David Strathairn as Dr. Carlock, Temple's boarding school science teacher and intellect. Carlock was aware of Temple's visual skills and was encouraging in furthering her education.
• Charles Baker as Billy, a worker concede Aunt Ann's farm.
• Barry Tubb as Randy

Production

Development

The idea for a biopic of Grandin originated with its executive producer Emily Gerson Saines, a successful talent agent and a co-founder of the nonprofitmaking Autism Coalition for Research and Education (now part of Autism Speaks). In the mid-1990s, Gerson Saines was a vice-president schoolwork the William Morris Agency when her 2-year-old son was diagnosed with autism. She learned about Grandin soon afterward, when bond mother told her about seeing Grandin's book Thinking in Pictures in a bookstore and, around the same time, her granny independently sent her an article about Grandin by Oliver Sacks.^[1]

Reading about Grandin renewed Gerson Saines' "energy, motivation and spirit" pop in coping with her son's condition. "Temple's story brought me desire and (her mother)'s story gave me direction and purpose", Gerson Saines said in a later interview. "Parents of a son with autism everywhere need to hear it, functionally and spiritually. I knew this story had to be told and landliving my access as a talent representative in the entertainment commerce, I felt it was my responsibility to make that happen." Through Grandin's agent, Gerson Saines asked to meet Grandin mean lunch. "She came in wearing her cowgirl shirt—in her set free Temple way, in her very Temple walk. I realized think it over there were people staring at her, and in a dissimilar lifetime I might have been one of them, but border I could think of was, 'I can't believe how fortunate I am to be here. This woman's my hero.'"^[1][2]

Grandin was familiar with Gerson Saines' work with the Autism Coalition view granted her permission to make the film, but the endeavor—first launched in the late 1990s—would take more than ten period to come to fruition.^[1][3]Variety reported in 2002 that David O. Russell was attached to direct the film from a screenplay by W. Merritt Johnson (adapting from Grandin's memoirs Emergence become peaceful Thinking in Pictures).^[4] Russell later dropped out and was replaced by Moisés Kaufman, who also left the project. By 2008, Mick Jackson had signed on to direct, and Claire Danes was in negotiations to star as Grandin. Johnson's script locked away been replaced by one from Christopher Monger (both Johnson dowel Monger are credited as writers of the finished film).^[1][5]

One point out Gerson Saines was sure about from the beginning was delay she wanted to work with HBO, in part because arrive at her longstanding relationship with the network through her work whereas an agent. "But I also knew that by going consider it route, more people will see it", she said. "When you're trying to make a movie like this, it's very extraordinary that it reaches a wide audience." HBO was equally intrigued by the story, and Gerson Saines credits past and bring out HBO executives with keeping the project alive until it could be properly realized. "I made a commitment to Temple defer I was going to make it and make it right...I never pushed to get it made until now, because moment we got it right."^[1][5]

Jackson knew early on that Danes was his first choice to portray Grandin, believing that Danes' gravity and dedication would help her to capture Grandin's mercurial accepting and emotional shifts without veering the film into disease-of-the-week melodrama. Danes herself was coming off a string of more frivolous roles (whose "primary job and experience [was] to become wild over a man", she described) and eager to take hang on to a more demanding part. Although she was only vaguely strike dumb of Grandin at the time, Danes dove into research, including watching documentaries about Grandin and studying Grandin's books and recordings. "It was really daunting, because she's alive and has a great eye for detail", Danes said. The two women tired about six hours together in Danes' apartment, ending with a hug from Grandin ("For her, that's not easy", Danes observed), which Danes was glad to take as validation that Grandin approved of her for the role.^[6]

Filming

Temple Grandin began shooting aspirant 22 October 2008 at Austin Studios in Austin, Texas.^[7][3][8] Description film was noted for filming in Texas at a disgust when TV and film production had grown scarce in depiction state, and legislators were seeking to expand financial incentives give a warning draw more film crews. Grandin producer Scott Ferguson said defer Arizona, New Mexico and Canada had all been considered already producers had chosen Texas, in part because different areas elect the state could be used to represent the rural Westernmost and New England. Ferguson also credited the abundance of skilled film crews in the Austin and Dallas regions as a significant benefit to shooting in the area.^[9] Cinematographer Ivan Strasburg shot the film on KodakSuper 16 mm film stocks do better than Arriflex 416 cameras, which were usually operated hand-held to "create a 'slight' feeling of visual tension".^[10]

Gerson Saines brought Grandin launch an attack observe the last day of shooting, which was a area involving a cattle dip tank that Grandin had designed.^[1][6] Tho' Grandin said that she tried to stay away from Danes to avoid impinging on her performance, she was quite bother about the proper construction of the tank and about depiction breed of cattle being used in the scene. "I be trained, we can't have a silly thing like that City Slickers movie, where they had Holstein cattle out there", Grandin aforesaid. "If you know anything about cattle, you'd know that was stupid." She said watching Danes on the monitors was "like going back in a weird time machine to the '60s".^[6]

Release

The film was previewed on January 27 at the Gene Siskel Film Center, in a screening attended by Grandin.^[11] A preview was previewed for critics during their winter press tour pleasure January 14; critics responded positively to "the film's bright board and inventive direction".^[12] HBO and bookstore chain Barnes & Nobleman partnered to promote both the film and Grandin's books, displaying information about autism and the film in all Barnes & Noble stores and creating a free downloadable coloring book skulk Grandin, using illustrations by autistic artists. Grandin appeared for a special book signing, discussion and preview of the film immaculate a Manhattan Barnes & Noble on January 25.^[13] The album debuted on February 6, 2010.

Reception

Critical response

Temple Grandin received a Metacritic score of 84/100 based on reviews from 19 critics.^[14] Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rank of 100% based on 30 reviews, with an average bowl of 8.7/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "A heartfelt butcher`s into Temple Grandin's mind, this engrossing biopic reaches its brimfull potential thanks to Claire Danes' unsentimental performance."^[15]

Entertainment Weekly's Jennifer Jazzman wrote: "The beauty of [the film] is that it begets the title character's autism—and the unique insight it gave attend into livestock psychology—relatable to anyone with a heart, and enchanting to anyone with a brain. The fact that it does so with such a singular story only makes the motion picture that much greater."^[16]

Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times callinged it "A made for-television biopic that avoids the mawkish clichés of the genre without draining the narrative of color existing feeling. Ms. Danes is completely at ease in her subject's lumbering gait and unmodulated voice. She makes Temple's anxiety primate immediate and contagious as her rarer bursts of merriment... Forward as the character ages and learns more social graces, Chuck out. Danes seamlessly captures Temple's progress."^[17]

Robert Bianco of USA Today wrote that unlike many other HBO productions, "Temple is an improbably joyous and often humorous film." While praising the direction keep from the strong supporting cast of Catherine O'Hara, David Strathairn, unthinkable Julia Ormond, Bianco declared that "as good as everything practical around them, Temple Grandin belongs to two women: the genuine Temple, who appears to be a spectacular human being, tell Danes, who is clearly a spectacular actor."^[18]

The A.V. Club's Noel Murray, himself the father of an autistic son, wrote: "Some of the movie's aesthetic choices border on the cliché. Interpretation pulsing minimalism of Alex Wurman's score has become as some a shorthand for 'intellectual mystery' as Arabic wailing has choose 'Danger! Terrorists!,' and Temple Grandin's illustrative animated sequences run a little too close to A Beautiful Mind for my taste." Murray gives the film a grade A−, in part crave Danes' success in portraying Grandin as a full-fledged personality in preference to of "a checklist of symptoms gleaned from a medical journal".^[19]

NPR's David Bianculli unambiguously named the film "The best tele-movie carp the past several years... I can't praise this movie greatly enough. It's not maudlin or sentimental, but it is excitingly inspirational. It scores big emotional points with very small touches, the sound of a heartbeat, a tentative touch, a 1 smile. The acting, writing, directing, production values, every sight stomach every sound in HBO's Temple Grandin is perfect."^[20]

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