The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is James Thurber's classic story of a day-dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker are threatened, Walter takes action in the real world embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined.
Director: Ben Stiller - Cast: Kristen Wiig, Ben Stiller, Sean Penn, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn
2hr 5min - Rated PG - Action/Adventure/Comedy/Drama
For every daydream, there is an extraordinary awakening.
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Sixty-Six years later and some odd months later, Mr. Stiller (whose brand of comedy still has a lot of catching up to do for my tastes), has the fitting idea for a present day revision: his Walter Mitty is employed as the manager of film negatives at Life magazine. If you think about it, his workplace, and the magazine in question, with its big, imposing photographs with public and screen icons is keen cynicism for a man who doesn’t really have a life of his own – well, not in the literal sense, that is.
Like Mr. Thurber’s version, though updated for the present, Walter is today’s subservient kind: a humble, modest, meek-ling with mousy confidence.
Unlike Mr. Thurber’s story (where he has a stiff Mrs. hammering him), or Mr. Kaye’s adaptation (where he has a mysterious vixen and a snooty fiancé), Mr. Stiller’s Walter is single. In one of the earliest scenes in the movie, it takes Walter some ten to fifteen seconds to make up his mind and send a social network “wink” to his office-mate Cheryl (Kristen Wiig) on eHarmony (that the wink has a technical glitch, is part of a side-story with a brief, but effective, Patton Oswalt).
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In an obnoxious corporate restructure, Life magazine is downsized (another intelligent parallel, perhaps?) and converted to an online publication. (For those who don’t know, Life magazine, despite the homage-cum-product placement, is now defunct and is up as an archive at Time Magazine.
As Life’s last print copy goes to edit, Walter needs to find a missing negative by reclusive, flighty, photojournalist Sean O’ Connell (Sean Penn) on a deadline. In the interim, he passes some transitory scenes with his mom and sister (Shirley MacLaine and Kathryn Hahn) and battles his temporary corporate boss (Adam Scott badly bearded in badly choreographed daydreams, with worse special effects).
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On occasion, because the production is fixated on making “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” a major winter release, with all the Christmas bells and whistles that attract genre-ridden humor, Walter’s dreams – and the way he zones out – make him look like a schizophrenic, rather than a very serious-minded man living infantile spurts of imagination.
But bit by slow bit the screenplay by Steven Conrad moves away from these sparse and phony moments – and Mr. Thurber’s underlying gist; in fact, like Walter, left on its own the movie actually ends up finding its distinctiveness. Eventually, Walter’s own maturity becomes the movie’s best companion, when he, unpredictably, finds himself shuttling to Iceland, swimming in shark infested waters and trekking to Afghanistan to find Sean. (Walter’s body-scan by U.S. authorities is one of the best scenes in the movie by the way).
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Even as one applauds Mr. Stiller’s own crude self-restraints to farce, for some the slow build-up may be too little too late and too wafer-thin a journey for personal salvation. Like most reveries, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is whimsical and abrupt, and maybe only half-happy with what it daydreamed.
Released by 20th Century Fox, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is rated PG-13 for one or two crude jokes.
Directed by Ben Stiller; Produced by Mr. Stiller, Samuel Goldwyn Jr., John Goldwyn and Stuart Cornfeld; Written by Steven Conrad, based on the short story by James Thurber; Cinematography by Stuart Dryburgh; Edited by Greg Hayden; Music by Theodore Shapiro.
The movie stars: Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Sean Penn and Patton Oswalt.
Sean O'Connell: Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
[from trailer]
Cheryl: Life is about courage and going into the unknown.
[reciting Life Magazine's Motto]
Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.
Trawler Captain: You have at least a minute before you freeze.
Walter Mitty: What?
Trawler Captain: You are safe.
[from trailer]
Walter Mitty: [in shark-infested waters] There's a fin here!
Sean O'Connell: I thought it would be cute.
Sean O'Connell: They call the snow leopard the ghost cat. Never lets itself be seen.
Walter Mitty: Ghost cat.
Sean O'Connell: Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
Walter Mitty: What was the picture?
Sean O'Connell: Let's just call it a ghost cat, Walter Mitty.
Cheryl: I wanted to tell you, that song "Major Tom" and that beard guy... he doesn't know what he's talking about. That song is about courage and going into the unknown. It's a cool song.
Walter Mitty: When are you going to take it?
Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it.
Walter Mitty: Stay in it?
Sean O'Connell: Yeah. Right there. Right here.
Ted Hendricks: Oh, hey, welcome... wait, sorry, not welcome. Not an employee.
Walter Mitty: Sorry. This is the picture Sean wanted, 25. You have two days to print for cover. Here's your quintessence.
Walter Mitty: Hey, do you know our motto?
Ted Hendricks: Life, I'm loving it.
Walter Mitty: That's not it. That's McDonald's. This thing that you do, Ted, where you come into a place and push people out, you should know those people worked really hard to build this magazine. They believed in the motto. And I get it, you've got your marching orders and you have to do what you have to do, but you don't have to be such a d*ck. Put that on a plaque and hang it at your next job.
Walter Mitty: I was saying you know who looks good in a beard? Dumbledore. Not you.
Sean O'Connell: Sorry about the neg roll. I spilled some blood on it while self stitching a gun wound to my abdomen.
Don Proctor: I just wanted to inform you all reluctantly that this month's issue will be our last. It's sad news, I'm sure. Now you're all valued employees but as we go under this transition of Life online, I want to be candid with you that some of you will be determined non-vital employees to the new partnership and we'll be deciding which of those positions will be remaining with us over the course of the next week. I also feel sad about that.
Sean O'Connell: Number 25 is my best ever, the quintessence of life, I think. I trust you'll get it where it needs to go, you always do.
Ted Hendricks: Never fun, this stage, but we do have ahead of us the privilege of publishing what will be the very last issue of Life magazine. We just received a telegram from Sean O'Connell, who has never been willing, I'm told, to speak with the executives here. Well, he broke his long silence and shared his thoughts with us through that old man... Sean O'Connell. I expect full consideration of negative 25 for cover. My most grand. The quintessence of life... what is that?
Ted's Toner Box Associate: Best. Highest.
Ted Hendricks: So our cover will probably be the most famous ever because it will have the big quintessence of all time. Full and so rich. So let's see this thing. Let's see it. What am I doing here? What's going on?
Don Proctor: Negative assets has it. This gentleman here.
Ted Hendricks: Ah, Major Tom! Can I get that?
Walter Mitty: It's being processed.
Ted Hendricks: All right, let's do it. Let's process some quintessence. Come on. Go, now. That's why I'm clapping.
Todd Maher: How does that Cinnabon taste?
Walter Mitty: Great.
Todd Maher: That's frosted heroin, what you're eating, my friend.
Below is the original book from where this wonderful story came from
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