Water for Elephants

[Brian in Mesa]

Water for Elephants

Release Date: April 22, 2011
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Francis Lawrence
Screenwriter: Richard LaGravenese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for moments of intense violence and sexual content)
Website: WaterforElephants.com

Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz

Plot Summary: During the Great Depression, Jacob, a penniless and recently-orphaned veterinary school student, parlays his expertise with animals into a job with a second-rate traveling circus. He falls in love with Marlena, one of the show's star performers, but their romance is complicated by Marlena's husband, the charismatic but unbalanced circus boss.

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[Mulli]

Sequel to Dumbo?

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Water. Elephants. Robert Pattinson.

 

[Renz]

He falls in love with Marlena, one of the show's star performers, but their romance is complicated by Marlena's husband.

Yeah, that'll happen.

 

[Mulli]

A sucker is born every minute.

 

[Shane]

Yeah, that'll happen.

I'm living proof that that kind of shiot happens!

 

[Mulli]

I'm living proof that that kind of shiot happens!

Yeah, but you are not a penniless, recently orphaned veterinary student/vampire.

 

[Shane]

Yeah, but you are not a penniless, recently orphaned veterinary student/vampire.

How do you know?

 

[Bert]

Yeah, but you are not a penniless, recently orphaned veterinary student/vampire.

Oh cmon Shane sucks as much as any Vampire.

 

[Mulli]

Oh cmon Shane sucks as much as any Vampire.

 

[Passepartout]

Not a big fan of RP but I like RW and CW of Inglorious B**tards!

 

[Zeno]

Saw this on a spur of the moment type thing and I was pleasantly surprised. A very good story.

 

[Passepartout]

My niece is dying to see this. Hopefully it will be good when it comes out on DVD. She loves RP btw!

 

[Jersey Girl]

A few weeks ago, I went to see Bridesmaid with my guy. It was sold out. The older lady working the ticket window, trying to be helpful (I guess), said "Water for Elephants is playing in 15 minutes." I said "ah, I don't think so." Her reply? "But it stars Reese Witherspoon!" I just walked away, lol.

I am guessing Bridemaids>Water for Elephants.

 

[Renz]

I enjoyed it quite a bit. Interesting story, well acted.

 

[Mulli]

I enjoyed it quite a bit. Interesting story, well acted.

Who are you and what have you done with cool Renz?

 

[Renz]

Who are you and what have you done with cool Renz?

 

[Passepartout]

Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz are great actors. But heard the book is much better than the movie.

 

[D-Dogg]

The book was fantastic. The movie looks kind of meh. Again, the book was great...

 

[Shane]

The book was fantastic. The movie looks kind of meh. Again, the book was great...

You read the book why?

 

[D-Dogg]

You read the book why?

Because it is good and I read all the time.

 

[Renz]

The book was fantastic. The movie looks kind of meh. Again, the book was great...

My wife liked the book and the movie. The movie was fairly true to the book, according to her.

 

[Shane]

Because it is good and I read all the time.

I read all the time and I'm not gonna read it

Did you know the book was good before you read it?

 

[D-Dogg]

I read all the time and I'm not gonna read it

Did you know the book was good before you read it?

I heard it was good - great reviews. I had it on my ipod for two years, but then picked up the hardcover and it hooked me right away.

Reminded me of Carnivale, without the magic aspect. Cooch dancers, freaks, etc. Good read.

Are you under the impression that it's some touchy-feely romance novel? Yeah, there's a romance plot in it but it's not a book with Fabio on the cover. Dork.

 

[D-Dogg]

What the book is about - ef if I know what the movie is about:

Amazon.com Review

Jacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of Water for Elephants, he is living out his days in a nursing home, hating every second of it. His life wasn't always like this, however, because Jacob ran away and joined the circus when he was twenty-one. It wasn't a romantic, carefree decision, to be sure. His parents were killed in an auto accident one week before he was to sit for his veterinary medicine exams at Cornell. He buried his parents, learned that they left him nothing because they had mortgaged everything to pay his tuition, returned to school, went to the exams, and didn't write a single word. He walked out without completing the test and wound up on a circus train. The circus he joins, in Depression-era America, is second-rate at best. With Ringling Brothers as the standard, Benzini Brothers is far down the scale and pale by comparison.

Water for Elephants is the story of Jacob's life with this circus. Sara Gruen spares no detail in chronicling the squalid, filthy, brutish circumstances in which he finds himself. The animals are mangy, underfed or fed rotten food, and abused. Jacob, once it becomes known that he has veterinary skills, is put in charge of the "menagerie" and all its ills. Uncle Al, the circus impresario, is a self-serving, venal creep who slaps people around because he can. August, the animal trainer, is a certified paranoid schizophrenic whose occasional flights into madness and brutality often have Jacob as their object. Jacob is the only person in the book who has a handle on a moral compass and as his reward he spends most of the novel beaten, broken, concussed, bleeding, swollen and hungover. He is the self-appointed Protector of the Downtrodden, and... he falls in love with Marlena, crazy August's wife. Not his best idea.

The most interesting aspect of the book is all the circus lore that Gruen has so carefully researched. She has all the right vocabulary: grifters, roustabouts, workers, cooch tent, rubes, First of May, what the band plays when there's trouble, Jamaican ginger paralysis, life on a circus train, set-up and take-down, being run out of town by the "revenooers" or the cops, and losing all your hooch. There is one glorious passage about Marlena and Rosie, the bull elephant, that truly evokes the magic a circus can create. It is easy to see Marlena's and Rosie's pink sequins under the Big Top and to imagine their perfect choreography as they perform unbelievable stunts. The crowd loves it--and so will the reader. The ending is absolutely ludicrous and really quite lovely.

I think this is the book where I read about people drinking Sterno.

 

[Shane]

I heard it was good - great reviews. I had it on my ipod for two years, but then picked up the hardcover and it hooked me right away.

Reminded me of Carnivale, without the magic aspect. Cooch dancers, freaks, etc. Good read.

Are you under the impression that it's some touchy-feely romance novel? Yeah, there's a romance plot in it but it's not a book with Fabio on the cover. Dork.

just ribbing you my friend!