The Kingdom of the Full Moon is a film by the famous American director Wes Anderson. The script was created by him in collaboration with Roman Coppola. The world saw the picture in 2012.
The plot of the "Kingdom of the Full Moon"
The film takes place in the 60s of the twentieth century on one of the islands of New England. Two teenagers in love run away from adults in search of a place where they can be happy.
Sam Shikaski - an orphan, a boy scout, because of his character became an outcast and can not make friends. Susie Bishop is a troubled, not very talkative girl of twelve. She lives in her dreams and tries not to notice that her mother is cheating on her father with a local sheriff.
After the loss, Sam, the scout squad leader organizes the search and tries to investigate the matter. As a result, a scuffle ensues between him and other boys. Susie attacks one of the attackers and stabs him with scissors.
At this time, the local authorities, headed by the sheriff, are also looking with might and main for the missing children. When they find Sam and Suzy, they forbid them to see each other. And they want to send the boy to a boarding school for difficult orphans, where he is threatened with shock therapy. Because of this, scouts change their attitude towards the main characters and arrange for them to escape.
Along the way, lovers get married in a church and vow to be faithful to each other until death. Heavy rain begins, which destroys the dam. Fleeing the disaster, the entire population of the island is hiding in the church. Sam and Sue come in there.
The film ends well, the sheriff wants to adopt a boy and he goes to it to be next to Susie, now nothing will interfere with their love.
The main characters of the film “Kingdom of the Full Moon” (2012) are actors Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward.
Filming and rental
In order to find suitable locations for filming the movie, Wes Anderson used the Google system and ended up choosing Rhode Island landscapes near Narragansett Bay. The entire interior inside Sue’s house and many other buildings were taken from the Thousand Islands Natural Park.
In an interview, Anderson admitted that he was greatly influenced by the sentimentality of French films and the period of his life when he was in France.
The film premiered at the opening of the twenty-fourth film festival in the Czech Republic. The first to be seen by viewers in the USA was May 25, 2012. The following year, it was already shown in all cinemas around the world. In the very first weekend, the fees amounted to almost one and a half million dollars, in Russia 1 million dollars.
The actors of the film “Kingdom of the Full Moon” (2012), of course, were one of the main components of stunning success.
References
The music for the film was written by Britten, who in his work often refers to the works of William Blake, a famous English poet and playwright, whose image was perfectly conveyed by the cult American film Dead Man by Jim Darmusch.
Sam connects several external and internal manifestations with the main character of this picture. The first include glasses, a raccoon hat, a scene of canoeing from pursuers, and the second: the spiritual journey of a creative person, liberation through feelings of love. William Blake often wrote about children, especially in Songs of Innocence and Experience. If you try, you can find many references to it throughout the film. This will be a nice bonus for anyone who loves Wes Anderson's work.
Kara Hayward in the Kingdom of the Full Moon
Kara plays one of the main roles - Sue Bishop. She was born on November 17, 1998 in the city of Winchester in the USA. Her parents are Karen and John. After graduating from high school, Kara moved with her entire family, including her younger sister, to Andover.
Incredibly, this young attractive girl from the age of nine is a member of the organization for people with a high level of IQ - Mensa. Kara became one of several actors in the film “Kingdom of the Full Moon” (2012), who was able to start his career with him.
She also played in the series Law and Order, the films Lodyri, Fanatka, Manchester by the Sea. And more recently, a new film with her participation - Patterson - was released.
The years 2012 and 2013 were successful in Kara's career. She received several prestigious film awards at once in the following categories: "Best Young Actress", "Breakthrough of the Year", "Best Kiss" and "Young Ensemble of the Year". If she continues in the same vein, then most likely. will soon receive an Academy Award, and perhaps not even one.
Jared gilman
Jared was born December 28, 1998 in the city of South Orange, New Jersey, USA. He was incredibly lucky, as among the actors of the movie “Kingdom of the Full Moon” (2012) there were many famous people: Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Francis McDormand and Tilda Swinton. And their kiss with Kara received the award as the best among all films of 2012. What other twelve-year-old boy can boast of such professional successes?
Gilman also played in the films Elsa and Fred, Keeping Up, and The Useless Waltz. In 2016, on the set of Patterson, he again met with Kara Hayward. You fall in love with their duet at first sight and it will not be surprising if they together play in many more films. Perhaps Karen and Jared are the new Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in the movie world.
Reviews of film critics and viewers
Most critics took the film positively. In 2013, he was nominated several times for an Oscar. At the Golden Globe Award, he took the award in the nomination "The Best Comedy of the Year." The Academy of America and Britain marked the film for the original screenplay.
Of the 208 critical reviews of the “Kingdom of the Full Moon” on the Rotten Tommatos website, 94% were positive. In this case, the average rating of the picture is 8.2 points out of ten possible.