Roped together, they worked with one man always anchored, and so Yates was able to hold the rope when Simpson had a sudden fall. Now also a theatre production in the West End, from November 2019. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Though they reach the summit, a powerful storm develops and Simpson suffers a badly broken leg in a fall during the descent. Yates' plan was to lower Simpson 300 feet and wait for a tug on the rope. [6], Peter Knegt at Indiewire called it one of the "10 incredible documentaries that weren't nominated for an Oscar". But it was disastrous: He broke his leg, driving the calf bone up through the knee socket. The movie was shot on location in Peru and also in the Alps, and the climbing sequences are always completely convincing; the use of actors in those scenes is not a distraction because their faces are so bearded, frost-bitten and snow-caked that we can hardly recognize them. Yates, on the other hand, reported having no emotional response to returning to Siula Grande, and decided to have nothing to do with the film once he had returned from the mountain. The movie is about Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, two Brits in their mid-20s who were determined to scale the forbidding west face of a mountain named Siula Grande, in the Peruvian Andes. Simpson says he would have done the same thing under the circumstances, and we believe him. The Guardian described it as "the most successful documentary in British cinema history".[1]. You climbed all the way up there just so you could fall back down!". He must somehow get down the mountain and cross a plain strewn with rocks and boulders, so that he cannot walk but must try to hop or crawl despite the pain in his leg. What we can hardly believe is what happens next, and what makes the film into an incredible story of human endurance. Moving Forward Together: Julianne Moore and Bette Midler on The Glorias, NYFF 2020: Malmkrog, Days, I Carry You With Me, AMC's Gangs of London a Bold Continuation of the Mafia Movie Tradition, Bright Wall/Dark Room September 2020: You Can Have Me for Nothing: Escaping the Cynicism of Ace in the Hole by Elizabeth Cantwell. iRevise.com specialises in providing study tools and premium study content for the Junior and Leaving Certificate students in Ireland, as well as GCSE/IGCSE and A-Level/International A-Level students. Original music for the film was scored by Alex Heffes. When they collaborated on the film in 2003, Simpson and Yates had not seen one another for 10 years. [2] The film was directed by Kevin Macdonald. [3], During the making of the film, the director and producers invited Yates and Simpson to return to Siula Grande in 2002 for the first time since the events of 1985. We learn at the end that after two years of surgery Simpson's leg was repaired, and that (but you anticipated this, didn't you?) It is based on Simpson's 1988 book of the same name. Unable to pull Simpson back over the cliff and gradually losing traction in the loose snow, Yates realizes after about an hour that there is little chance of recovery from this situation for either of them and he decides to cut the rope connecting him with Simpson. I simply sat there before the screen, enthralled, fascinated and terrified. "No Disaster for 'Touching the Void '." Yates arrests his fall, but cannot see the predicament his partner is in, nor hear him over the howling wind. During one of Simpson's many deliriums, he experiences a very strong reminiscence of a Boney M song he hated thoroughly, "Brown Girl in the Ring"; at one point thinking "Bloody hell, I'm going to die to Boney M". Touching The Void Summary. Simpson was hanging in mid air, Yates was slipping, and unless he cut the rope they would both surely die. I've read reviews from critics who were only moderately stirred by the film (my friend Dave Kehr certainly kept his composure), and I must conclude that their dreams are not haunted as mine are. Critically acclaimed, Touching the Void was listed in PBS's "100 Greatest Documentaries of All Time". I didn't take a single note during this film. The film stars Brendan Mackey as Joe Simpson, Nicholas Aaron as Simon Yates, and Ollie Ryall as Richard Hawking, and combines dramatizations with interviews with Simpson, Yates, and Hawking. Simpson and Yates doubled as their younger selves for long-distance shots of the snow-fluted couloirs of Siula Grande. They were fit and in good training, and bold enough to try the "one push" method of climbing, in which they carried all their gear with them instead of establishing caches along the route. The book is written in a 13 chapters – the traditionally unlucky number for the superstitious. It went on to gross $4,593,598 in America and $9,292,204 from foreign markets for a worldwide total of $13,885,802 after 20 weeks.[9]. But there is a floor far below, and in the morning he sees light and is able, incredibly, to crawl out to the mountainside. So there he is, in total darkness and bitter cold, his fuel gone so that he cannot melt snow, his lamp battery running low, and no food. [8], The film was released in theaters on 23 January 2004 and grossed $96,973 in the opening weekend. According to interviews with Yates however, the climbing community (including Simpson) has always sided with him on that matter, and accused the film of being selectively edited and one-sided.[5]. Now there is a movie more frightening than my nightmares. He then spends days crawling back to base camp across glaciers and rocks, despite his broken leg, frostbite, and severe dehydration. 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