Hunt For The Wilderpeople Essay
“The Hunt for the Wilderpeople” is a New Zealand film produced/directed in 2016 by Taika Waititi. An adventurous comedy-drama film. The Hunt for the Wilderpeople is an adaptation/ was based on the book Wild pork and Watercress, written by Barry Crump. Jullian Dennison who played Ricky Baker and Sam Neill played “Uncle” Hector. A father figure and a foster son who had become “criminals” and was chased by a manhunt after fleeing to the Bush (New Zealand Bush). The film was released across New Zealand on the 31st of March 2016.
The movie includes a throughout plot/storyline, character developments, and well-written relationships. Ricky Baker (Protagonist) was a juvenile delinquent who was abandoned by his own biological mother and was taken by the child welfare agency, officer Paula and police officer, Andy. He then was brought to a farm with foster aunt Bella and her husband.
Throughout the start of the story, Ricky and Bella then developed an unbreakable mother-son bond. Ricky felt accepted and thought of aunt Bella as a mother that he never had, but unfortunately, Bella had suddenly died, leaving Hector and Ricky devastated. Throughout the story Ricky and Hector adventures to the bush building a relationship similar to Bella’s and Ricky’s. You could say Hector is a very interesting and unusual character to learn about, a lot of times he is very unpredictable, mysterious, and sometimes understanding.
At first, Ricky and Hector had a very distant relationship, when Hector was first introduced to the story he was very mysterious and he looked very intimidating to Ricky. Around the start of the Hector never really showed any affection towards anyone or anything but he did deeply love and care for Bella but showed affection at the very end of Bella’s life. After Bella’s quick death, Ricky and Hector’s relationship didn’t change or develop for a minimum of time but they developed an unusual but understanding relationship/bond with each other.
One of the most memorable moments in the show was when Ricky was able to overcome his fear, saying something similar to “you never trade family for anything!”. Leaving Paula and Andy speechless, this scene clearly shows that Ricky’s character had changed throughout the show.
Awesome work, Zoe!
ReplyDeleteYour essay covers the relationships in the movie with some evidence to support it.
I liked the quote you included at the end.
Something to improve on would be providing some more evidence on what led to Ricky saying "You never trade family for anything" when he was protecting Hector.