Social and Production Context of Winter's Bone
https://www.popoptiq.com/interview-john-hawkes-winters-bone/ '... she [Debra Granik ] couldn’t shoot it anywhere else, she couldn’t pretend to be somewhere else but it was a story that was so embedded in a specific area...' I like how the director was persistent on having it shot in the same location as it is in the novel, as this allows the film to have the truest demonstration of its social structure to show its audiences. It also benefits the film as it means it's loyal to the book; no changes have to be made with the setting so prevention of a changed storyline has likely been avoided. Due to it being accurate, it furthermore warrants positive feedback from the reader portion of the audience carried from the novel. '...a lot of people weren’t professional actors who were local people in the movie... ' This enforces the idea of keeping it authentic, and means the performance of the characters is as it would be in Mi ssouri. It en