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John Ottway works as a sharpshooter at a remote Alaskan oil facility, protecting the staff from frequent grey wolf attacks. His wife has died from a terminal illness leaving him depressed and apathetic towards life. On Ottway's last day of work, he considers suicide.
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Jan 27, 2012 · The Grey: Directed by Joe Carnahan. With Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts. After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Joe Carnahan
- 2012-01-27
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- Ottway's Dad's Poem Explained
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The Grey's narrative leads to the inevitable standoff between Ottway and the Alpha wolf. The Grey was marketed as a survival action movie with tough-guy trope Neeson picking off the predators one by one. That's an understandable presumption on the part of the audience based on the trailer for The Grey, which includes flashes of a fight scene with O...
Amidst the adrenaline-pumping scenes, there are moments of reflection in The Grey that reveal a deeper complexity of the characters whom Ottway refers to as "men unfit for mankind."Talget (Dermot Mulroney) raises the point that surviving the crash was meant to be. They have been singled out for some unknown reason that he's trying to extrapolate. H...
As with many survival movies like The Grey, the movie raises the question: what is it that drives the protagonists of these stories to keep going in the face of sometimes insurmountable odds? What is their sense of purpose? What gives their life meaning? The answer isn't thrust upon them. It's something or someone they've created for themselves. As...
The key, at least in part, to understanding Ottway's perseverance in The Grey, despite seemingly not having a reason to push forward, can be found in his father's poem. "Once more into the fray ... Into the last good fight I'll ever know ... Live and die on this day ... Live and die on this day ... " It's not coincidental that the poem bears a stri...
Ottway appears resigned to his fate in the moments before he realizes he's stumbled into the wolves' den in The Grey ending. The irony that the one place he spends the film trying to avoid is where he ends up isn't lost on Ottway. The den represents death, and now he must face it head-on. Once again he sees his wife who tells him "Don't be afraid."...
Jan 27, 2012 · Following a grueling five-week shift at an Alaskan oil refinery, workers led by sharpshooter John Ottway (Liam Neeson) are flying home for a much-needed vacation. A brutal storm causes their plane...
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- Joe Carnahan
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- Liam Neeson
Synopsis. John Ottway (Liam Neeson) works in Alaska, killing wolves that threaten an oil drilling team. It is a lonely and brutal life in harsh climatic conditions. Oil drilling attracts all kinds of misfits including ex-cons, drifters, fugitives and generally unfit for mankind.
Jan 25, 2012 · “The Grey” is an unrelenting demonstration that wolves have no opinion. When they attack, it’s not personal. They’ve spent untold millennia learning how to survive, naked and without weapons, in fearsome places like the Arctic Circle in the dead of winter.
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Following a grueling five-week shift at an Alaskan oil refinery, workers led by sharpshooter John Ottway are flying home for a much-needed vacation. But a brutal storm causes their plane to crash...
