History Film / BeastsOfTheSouthernWild

It was nominated at the 2012 Academy Awards for Best Picture, with 9-year old Quvenzhané Wallis becoming the youngest person ever to be nominated for Best Actress. The movie itself lost to ''{{Argo}}'', while Wallis lost to Jennifer Lawrence.

* DawsonCasting - [[AvertedTrope Averted]], possibly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] depending on your perspective. Quvenzhané Wallis was five at the time of casting. Hushpuppy, the character she plays, is six.

* [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude Who Names Their Kid "Hushpuppy"?]]

* SoapOperaDisease - Hushpuppy's father Wink has a mysterious illness, complete with the IncurableCoughOfDeath and BloodFromTheMouth. The only explanation he ever gives is that his blood is "eating itself".

* AdultChild: Wink comes of as one several times.

* ParentalAbandonment: The three girls under Ms. Bathsheba's care, their parents are never seen or mentioned. Its implied that their families evacuated The Bathtub and left them there.

* ParentalAbandonment: The three girls under Ms. Bathsheba's care, there parents are never seen or mentioned. Its implied that when there families evacuated The Bathtub and left them there.

Beasts of the Southern is a 2012 movie directed by Benh Zeitlin. It follows the story of six-year-old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) who lives with her father in a place called “the Bathtub”, a southern community on the edge of the world, blocked off from civilization by a huge levee. Hushpuppy and her community face destruction from the changing environment, including a mass flood and prehistoric beasts released by the melting ice caps. Meanwhile Hushpuppy’s father, Wink (Dwight Henry), is suffering from a mysterious illness.

* NoFEMAResponse: Averted. When the big flood comes, the remaining people in the Bathtub are evacuated [[spoiler:forcefully to a shelter.]]

* DawsonCasting - [[AvertedTrope Averted]], possibly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] depending on your perspective. Quvenzhane Wallis was five at the time of casting. Hushpuppy, the character she plays, is six.

* NoFEMAResponse: Averted. When the big flood comes, the remaining people in the Bathtub are evacuated [[spoiler: Forcefully to a shelter.]]

* ApocalypseHow - At the beginning of the film, the Bathtub is cut off from civilization by a huge levee, and people live in a preindustrial level of civilization. [[spoiler: When the rain comes, the entire Bathtub area is flooded, animals start to die and some of the people who didn't leave were drowned]]

* HandsOffParenting - Hushpuppy lives in her own trailer apart from her dad. [[spoiler: She moves in with her dad after she sets her trailer on fire due to her misuse of a flamethrower.]]

* MagicRealism - Whether Hushpuppy's visions of aurocks are real or fantasy is not discussed.

* ArtisticLiscenceBiology - Aurochs were prehistoric cattle, not gigantic pigs. Justified by their being implied to exist only in Hushpuppy's imagination.

* SoapOperaDisease - Hushpuppy's father Wink has a mysterious illness, complete with the IncurableCoughOfDeath and BloodFromTheMouth

* IncurableCoughOfDoom - Wink's illness is largely characterized as this.

* SoapOperaDisease - Hushpuppy's father Wink has a mysterious illness, complete with the IncurableCoughOfDeath and BloodFromTheMouth

Beasts of the Southern is a 2012 movie directed by Benh Zeitlin. It follows the story of six-year-old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) who lives with her father in a place called “the Bathtub”, a southern community on the edge of the world, blocked off from cviilization by a huge levee. Hushpuppy and her community face destruction from the changing environment, including a mass flood and prehistoric beasts released by the melting ice caps. Meanwhile Hushpuppy’s father, Wink (Dwight Henry), is suffering from a mysterious illness.

* AmphibiousAutomobile - Wink uses what seems to be a pickup truck as a boat.

Beasts of the Southern is a 2012 movie directed by Benh Zeitlin. It follows the story of six-year-old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) who lives with her father in a place called “the Bathtub”, a southern community on the edge of the world. Hushpuppy and her community face destruction from the changing environment, including a mass flood and prehistoric beasts released by the melting ice caps. Meanwhile Hushpuppy’s father, Wink (Dwight Henry), is suffering from a mysterious illness.

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* KidHero
* MagicRealism
* SoapOperaDisease

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Beasts of the Southern is a 2012 movie directed by Benh Zeitlin. It follows the story of six-year-old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) who lives with her father in a place called “the Bathtub”, a southern community on the edge of the world. Hushpuppy and her community face destruction from the changing environment, including a mass flood and prehistoric beasts released by the melting ice caps. Meanwhile Hushpuppy’s father, Wink (Dwight Henry), is suffering from a mysterious illness.