‘The Mosquito Coast’: How the Camera Became an Essential Part of Justin Theroux’s Perilous Journey IndieWire 6 days ago
The first two episodes of “The Mosquito Coast,” currently streaming on Apple TV+, kicked off with a probing camera that helped convey the eccentric mind of inventor Allie Fox (Justin Theroux) and the perilous journey he’s forced to take with his family in pursuit of his mad dream. In the opener, the camera snakes through his steampunk refrigeration system that converts heat to ice, and, in the follow-up episode, the camera tracks a butterfly landing on top of a Coke can and then follows its flight through the urban emptiness, foreshadowing Fox’s path.
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The Mosquito Coast Star Justin Theroux Plucked Elements of His Antihero from Family, Including the Book s Author
Theroux s character, brilliant but exhausting contrarian Allie Fox, resembles members of his family, the actor says. He is “an amalgam of several people, including, more than he d like to admit, probably elements of my uncle Paul.”
Author Paul Theroux’s 1981 novel
The Mosquito Coast was meant to be an attack on Reagan-era economics and its views toward consumerism and the environment.
Told from the viewpoint of a 14-year-old boy trying to understand his father, we find the frequently failing, yet brilliant, inventor Allie Fox leading his family of four away from modern civilization and deeper into Central America. Then things get complicated. The 1986 film adaptation, which was directed by Peter Weir, written by Paul Schrader and starred a grimy, stubbly Harrison Ford in horn-rimmed glasses, came away with mostly favorable reviews and has 76% Toma
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“I’ll bet you I can rob a casino,” Allie Fox tells his wife Margot midway through the first season of the Apple TV+ drama
The Mosquito Coast. This is a mark both of how desperate their circumstances are and how highly Allie regards his ability to accomplish what others call the impossible. Margot, meanwhile, doesn’t so much as indulge him with an eye-roll, instead moving on to more practical solutions for their latest debacle.