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This image released by SRH shows a scene from the film "Hundreds of Beavers." (SRH via AP)

What do hundreds of beavers have to do with the future of movies?

The low-budget movie “Hundreds of Beavers” has turned into a lo-fi legend

By JAKE COYLE
Published - Nov 22, 2024, 05:56 PM ET
Last Updated - Dec 16, 2024, 05:14 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Hard as it may be to believe, changing the future of cinema was not on Mike Cheslik’s mind when he was making “Hundreds of Beavers.” Cheslik was in the Northwoods of Wisconsin with a crew of four, sometimes six, standing in snow and making his friend, Ryland Tews, fall down funny.

“When we were shooting, I kept thinking: It would be so stupid if this got mythologized,” says Cheslik.

And yet, “Hundreds of Beavers” has accrued the stuff of, if not quite myth, then certainly lo-fi legend. Cheslik’s film, made for just $150,000 and self-distributed in theaters, has managed to gnaw its way into a movie culture largely dominated by big-budget sequels.

“Hundreds of Beavers” is a wordless black-and-white bonanza of slapstick antics about a stranded 19th century applejack salesman (Tews) at war with a bevy of beavers, all of whom are played by actors in mascot costumes.

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