Sconvolto dalle guerre, il mondo precipita nelle barbarie; l'Inghilterra riesce a mantenere l'ordine interno grazie all'instaurazione di un governo totalitario che controlla ogni aspetto della vita dei suoi cittadini. Contro di esso combatterà un uomo conosciuto solo come V; col volto coperto da una maschera ispirata al volto di Guy Fawkes, V finirà col personificare gli ideali di libertà e di lotta all'oppressione che il paese sembra aver dimenticato.
Parlando solo del film in sé, devo dire che V for Vendetta è discreto: la regia non brilla ma non fa troppi danni, la sceneggiatura risulta forse un po' macchinosa da seguire per chi non conosce la storia ma presenta alcune scelte interessanti, la recitazione è decente (anche se Natalie Portman non mi ha convinto per nulla); nel complesso riesce a trasmettere il messaggio che si era preposto e lo fa senza risultare pesante o artificioso.
Non si può però tralasciare il fatto che V for Vendetta è tratto da una delle opere fondamentali di Alan Moore; il film, come è giusto che sia, è un adattamento e non una trasposizione pedestre del fumetto: molti dettagli sono stati cambiati e semplificati mentre altri sono stati aggiunti.
Fa un po' impressione non vedere "il fato" come originalmente concepito e molti altri particolari del tutto eliminati; ancor più straniante il cambiamento - di azioni se non di personalità - di Evey, anche se a questo proposito devo dire che nella parte centrale del film uno dei temi principali del fumetto (il suo "diventare V") è stato rispettato appieno.
Nel film, per renderlo più appetibile al grande pubblico, viene sviluppato molto il tema di V come catalizzatore per la ribellione contro il governo oppressore: pregevole a questo proposito l'idea della "distribuzione delle maschere", mentre paiono un po' forzate le scene di massa finali.
A proposito del finale, anche qui il film cerca una via più "commerciale" presentando la lotta personale contro l'establishment e contro Adam Sutler in particolare; si eccede anche con le mosse supereroistiche gratuite.
Come suo solito, Alan Moore si è totalmente dissociato dal film (non che l'abbia visto), al punto che per sua espressa richiesta solo il nome di David Lloyd compare nei credits; continuo a pensare che il suo atteggiamento complessivo verso il cinema sia un tantinello spocchioso, ma basta poi ignorarlo...
Voto: 7. (per la cronaca il fumetto è valutabile almeno 12 su 10)
Tags: v for vendetta, vendetta, fantascienza, thriller, dittatuta, fumetto, alan moore, david lloyd, londra, inghilterra, drammatico, azione, guy fawkes, anarchia, ribellione.
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mercoledì 27 settembre 2006
mercoledì 28 giugno 2006
miss vendemmia
In fatto di (quasi) giovani registi, la Corea (del Sud, serve dirlo?) può vantarsi di un nome del calibro di Chan-wook Park. L'Italia può vantarsi d'avere Muccino. E sì che - diciamolo chiaramente - i coreani sono ben più sfigati di noi, dai... 
Lady Vendetta è il terzo capitolo della trilogia sulla vendetta di Park (di cui mi pento di non aver visto il primo capitolo, che spero di recuperare al più presto).
Una giovane donna sconta 13 anni di galera dopo essersi accusata dell'omicidio di un bambino. Tredici anni passati in maniera (apparentemente) impeccabile, mentre in lei covava un unico desiderio: uscire per poter rintracciare il vero omicida e fargliela pagare.
Lentamente costruisce intorno a sé una figura quasi mistica; per anni distribuisce favori con lo scopo di costruire una rete di amicizie che l'aiuteranno una volta uscita di galera.
Rintracciare il colpevole non sarà un problema; la parte davvero elaborata sarà la vendetta vera e propria. Una vendetta complessa, che somiglia alla giustizia pur non essendo tale, e che - caso raro - non sarà una questione strettamente personale.
Assolutamente perfetto sul piano visivo: Park è semplicemente geniale nel costruire la scena e nel montare la vicenda; acuto e grottesco nell'inventare le situazioni chiave e tremendamente crudo quando serve.
La trama qui è più lineare e (un po') meno originale e surreale che in Oldboy (che, in generale, ho preferito), ma non meno efficace.
Forse troppo coreano nel finale simbolico (che ho apprezzato il giusto), ha un buon numero di momenti da antologia: la discussione via interfono e la fila di persone con l'impermeabile sedute sulla panca su tutti.
Voto: 8.
Tags: vendetta, carcere, omicidio, tortura, violenza, Park, crimine, dramma, thriller.
Data di nascita: 23 August 1963
Coniuge: ?::(? - present) 1 child
Ultimi lavori:
Trivia random: Has one daughter.
Citazione random: "Living without hate for people is almost impossible. There is nothing wrong with fantasizing about revenge. You can have that feeling. You just shouldn't act on it."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Data di nascita: 20 May 1967
Coniuge: Elena Majoni::(4 May 2002 - 2006) (divorced)
Ultimi lavori:
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Regista: Chan-wook Park
Scrittore: Seo-Gyeong Jeong, Chan-wook Park
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Valutazione: 7.9/10 (2800 voti)
Durata: 112 min
Paese: SouthKorea
Lingua: Korean, English, Japanese
Cast:
Trama:
Lee Geum-Ja, at the age of 19, goes to prison for the murder and abduction of a child on behalf of her accomplice Mr. Baek, only to find out that she is betrayed. While in prison, she carefully prepares for her revenge by winning the hearts of her fellow inmates with her kindness, thus earning herself the nickname 'kind Ms. Geum-Ja'. Upon her release from prison after 13 years, she finally sets out to seek revenge on Baek, with the help of her former prison mates.
Trivia random: The snow at the ending is not real. They brought two trucks of salt, scattered it all over the street and finally adjusted the scene using computer graphics.
Citazione random: Geum-ja Lee: Listen carefully. Everyone make mistakes. But if you committed a sin, you have to make an atonement for that sin. Atonement, do you know what that means? Big Atonement for big sins. Small Atonement for small sins.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Lady Vendetta è il terzo capitolo della trilogia sulla vendetta di Park (di cui mi pento di non aver visto il primo capitolo, che spero di recuperare al più presto).
Una giovane donna sconta 13 anni di galera dopo essersi accusata dell'omicidio di un bambino. Tredici anni passati in maniera (apparentemente) impeccabile, mentre in lei covava un unico desiderio: uscire per poter rintracciare il vero omicida e fargliela pagare.
Lentamente costruisce intorno a sé una figura quasi mistica; per anni distribuisce favori con lo scopo di costruire una rete di amicizie che l'aiuteranno una volta uscita di galera.
Rintracciare il colpevole non sarà un problema; la parte davvero elaborata sarà la vendetta vera e propria. Una vendetta complessa, che somiglia alla giustizia pur non essendo tale, e che - caso raro - non sarà una questione strettamente personale.
Assolutamente perfetto sul piano visivo: Park è semplicemente geniale nel costruire la scena e nel montare la vicenda; acuto e grottesco nell'inventare le situazioni chiave e tremendamente crudo quando serve.
La trama qui è più lineare e (un po') meno originale e surreale che in Oldboy (che, in generale, ho preferito), ma non meno efficace.
Forse troppo coreano nel finale simbolico (che ho apprezzato il giusto), ha un buon numero di momenti da antologia: la discussione via interfono e la fila di persone con l'impermeabile sedute sulla panca su tutti.
Voto: 8.
Tags: vendetta, carcere, omicidio, tortura, violenza, Park, crimine, dramma, thriller.
Park, Chan-wook
Data di nascita: 23 August 1963
Coniuge: ?::(? - present) 1 child
Ultimi lavori:
- Bakjwi (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Saibogujiman kwenchana (2006) .... [scrittore]
- Chinjeolhan geumjassi (2005) .... [scrittore]
- Sonyeon, Cheonguk-e gada (2005) .... [scrittore]
- Saam gaang yi (2004) .... (segment "Cut") [scrittore]
- Oldboy (2003) .... (screenplay) [scrittore]
- Yeoseot gae ui siseon (2003) .... [scrittore]
- Boksuneun naui geot (2002) .... [scrittore]
- Cheoleobtneun anaewa paramanjanhan nampyeon geurigo taekwon sonyeo (2002) .... [scrittore]
- The Humanist (2001) .... [scrittore]
Trivia random: Has one daughter.
Citazione random: "Living without hate for people is almost impossible. There is nothing wrong with fantasizing about revenge. You can have that feeling. You just shouldn't act on it."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Muccino, Gabriele
Data di nascita: 20 May 1967
Coniuge: Elena Majoni::(4 May 2002 - 2006) (divorced)
Ultimi lavori:
- The Last Kiss (2006) .... (motion picture "L'ultimo bacio") [scrittore]
- The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) .... [regista]
- Ricordati di me (2003) .... [scrittore]
- L'Ultimo bacio (2001) .... (also story) [scrittore]
- Come te nessuno mai (1999) .... [scrittore]
- Ecco fatto (1998) .... (story) [scrittore]
- Intolerance (1996) .... (segment "Max suona il piano") [regista]
- "Un Posto al sole" (1996) .... [regista]
- Atto di dolore (1991) .... Zico [attore]
- È proibito ballare (1989) (TV) .... [attore]
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Chinjeolhan geumjassi (2005)
Lady vendetta
Regista: Chan-wook Park
Scrittore: Seo-Gyeong Jeong, Chan-wook Park
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Valutazione: 7.9/10 (2800 voti)
Durata: 112 min
Paese: SouthKorea
Lingua: Korean, English, Japanese
Cast:
- Tony Barry .... StepFather, Australian
- Min-sik Choi .... Mr. Baek
- Anne Cordiner .... StepMother, Australian
- Su-hee Go .... Ma-nyeo
- Hye-jeong Kang .... Tv announcer
- Bu-seon Kim .... So-young Woo
- Byeong-ok Kim .... Preacher
- Shi-hoo Kim .... Geun-shik
- Yea-young Kwon .... Jenny
- Dae-yeon Lee
Trama:
Lee Geum-Ja, at the age of 19, goes to prison for the murder and abduction of a child on behalf of her accomplice Mr. Baek, only to find out that she is betrayed. While in prison, she carefully prepares for her revenge by winning the hearts of her fellow inmates with her kindness, thus earning herself the nickname 'kind Ms. Geum-Ja'. Upon her release from prison after 13 years, she finally sets out to seek revenge on Baek, with the help of her former prison mates.
Trivia random: The snow at the ending is not real. They brought two trucks of salt, scattered it all over the street and finally adjusted the scene using computer graphics.
Citazione random: Geum-ja Lee: Listen carefully. Everyone make mistakes. But if you committed a sin, you have to make an atonement for that sin. Atonement, do you know what that means? Big Atonement for big sins. Small Atonement for small sins.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
giovedì 28 dicembre 2006
Mr. Vendetta
Con Mr. Vendetta ho completato (perfettamente al contrario) la trilogia sulla vendetta di Chan-wook Park.
Un ragazzo sordo deve occuparsi della sorella gravemente malata, che necessita al più presto di un trapianto; dopo un disastroso tentativo con dei trafficanti di organi decide, spinto dalla sua ragazza, di rapire la figlia del suo ex-capo (che lo ha licenziato). Stupefacentemente nulla va come previsto ed iniziano le vendette incrociate tra i protagonisti.
Ancor più "coreano" dei film seguenti, questo film si allontana più degli altri dai canoni classici del cinema occidentale; molte cose appaiono quasi incomprensibili e molti salti logici sembrano eccessivi. Pur collegati in maniera poco coerente, i singoli eventi riescono a trasmettere la genialità di un regista che sa mantenere la tensione e mettere in luce (esasperandoli) gli istinti più violenti.
Pur lasciando una sensazione complessiva di opera imperfetta, non mancano i dialoghi geniali e surreali, né le situazioni costruite con cura.
Tutto il resto (per dirne una tra cento: le autopsie con pubblico), può in fondo essere catalogato alla voce... "culture differenti!"
Voto: 7+.
Tags: crimine, drammatico, thriller, vendetta, Chan-wook Park, trapianto, rene, trafficanti di organi, muto, licenziamento, bambina, omicidio, mutilazioni, sangue, sorella, corea.
Regista: Chan-wook Park
Scrittore: Jae-sun Lee, Mu-yeong Lee
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Valutazione: 7.7/10 (4985 voti)
Durata: 129 min
Paese: SouthKorea
Lingua: Korean, KoreanSignLanguage
Cast:
Trama:
This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. Ryu's boss, Park, has just laid him off, and in order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend develop a plan to kidnap Park's daughter. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.
Trivia random: After the enormous success of 'Joint Security Area', Park Chan Wook was given "carte blanche" to make whatever film he wanted in Korea. After searching for another "vengence-minded" script with no success, he finished the script he was working on before making 'Joint Security Area'.
Citazione random: Park Dong-jin: I know you're a good guy... but you know why I have to kill you...
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Data di nascita: 23 August 1963
Coniuge: ?::(? - present) 1 child
Ultimi lavori:
Trivia random: Was a student of philosophy at Sogang University in Seoul.
Citazione random: "...there is one thing that can never be said in Korea. You could never say that the Japanese occupation of Korea had been beneficial. That would create even more hostility than a movie praising North Korea. It would be like telling Jews that the Holocaust didn't exist."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Un ragazzo sordo deve occuparsi della sorella gravemente malata, che necessita al più presto di un trapianto; dopo un disastroso tentativo con dei trafficanti di organi decide, spinto dalla sua ragazza, di rapire la figlia del suo ex-capo (che lo ha licenziato). Stupefacentemente nulla va come previsto ed iniziano le vendette incrociate tra i protagonisti.
Ancor più "coreano" dei film seguenti, questo film si allontana più degli altri dai canoni classici del cinema occidentale; molte cose appaiono quasi incomprensibili e molti salti logici sembrano eccessivi. Pur collegati in maniera poco coerente, i singoli eventi riescono a trasmettere la genialità di un regista che sa mantenere la tensione e mettere in luce (esasperandoli) gli istinti più violenti.
Pur lasciando una sensazione complessiva di opera imperfetta, non mancano i dialoghi geniali e surreali, né le situazioni costruite con cura.
Tutto il resto (per dirne una tra cento: le autopsie con pubblico), può in fondo essere catalogato alla voce... "culture differenti!"
Voto: 7+.
Tags: crimine, drammatico, thriller, vendetta, Chan-wook Park, trapianto, rene, trafficanti di organi, muto, licenziamento, bambina, omicidio, mutilazioni, sangue, sorella, corea.
Boksuneun naui geot (2002)
Regista: Chan-wook Park
Scrittore: Jae-sun Lee, Mu-yeong Lee
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Valutazione: 7.7/10 (4985 voti)
Durata: 129 min
Paese: SouthKorea
Lingua: Korean, KoreanSignLanguage
Cast:
- Kang-ho Song .... Park Dong-ji n
- Ha-kyun Shin .... Ryu
- Du-na Bae .... Cha Yeong-mi
- Ji-Eun Lim .... Ryu's Sister
- Bo-bae Han .... Yu-sun
- Se-dong Kim .... Chief of Staff
- Dae-yeon Lee .... Choe
- Gyu-su Jeong
- Jae-yeong Jeong .... Husband of Dong-jin's ex-wife's
- Kan-hie Lee .... Park Dong-jin's ex-wife
Trama:
This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. Ryu's boss, Park, has just laid him off, and in order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend develop a plan to kidnap Park's daughter. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.
Trivia random: After the enormous success of 'Joint Security Area', Park Chan Wook was given "carte blanche" to make whatever film he wanted in Korea. After searching for another "vengence-minded" script with no success, he finished the script he was working on before making 'Joint Security Area'.
Citazione random: Park Dong-jin: I know you're a good guy... but you know why I have to kill you...
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Park, Chan-wook
Data di nascita: 23 August 1963
Coniuge: ?::(? - present) 1 child
Ultimi lavori:
- Bakjwi (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
- High Maintenance (2006) .... (special thanks) [misc]
- Saibogujiman kwenchana (2006) .... [scrittore]
- Chinjeolhan geumjassi (2005) .... [scrittore]
- Sonyeon, Cheonguk-e gada (2005) .... [scrittore]
- Saam gaang yi (2004) .... (segment "Cut") [scrittore]
- Oldboy (2003) .... (screenplay) [scrittore]
- Yeoseot gae ui siseon (2003) .... [scrittore]
- Boksuneun naui geot (2002) .... [scrittore]
- Cheoleobtneun anaewa paramanjanhan nampyeon geurigo taekwon sonyeo (2002) .... [scrittore]
Trivia random: Was a student of philosophy at Sogang University in Seoul.
Citazione random: "...there is one thing that can never be said in Korea. You could never say that the Japanese occupation of Korea had been beneficial. That would create even more hostility than a movie praising North Korea. It would be like telling Jews that the Holocaust didn't exist."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
domenica 30 aprile 2006
[ninja] ninja occhio per occhio
Maledizione! Mi accorgo solo ora che questa vecchia recensione si riferisce in realtà a Ninja Campione. Errore imperdonabile, dovrò fare seppuku; del resto, vivere da ninja, morire da ninja!
Sia come sia, ho rivisto pure Ninja Occhio Per Occhio.
La polizia è sulle tracce di alcuni trafficanti di droga e - dopo un terribile scontro a fuoco a colpi di pistole, baguette e citazioni da Callaghan - uno dei malviventi viene catturato e convinto a collaborare.
Quello che la polizia non sa è che l'organizzazione è gestita da ninja, che prontamente accoppano lo scomodo testimone!
Quel che l'organizzazione non sa, invece, è che anche tra la polizia i dementi abbondano, e presto il nostro eroe Richard Harrison unirà le sue forze all'arte sopraffina di Alphonse Beni, che è di gran lunga il ninja più camerunense che la storia ricordi e che, come prevedibile (!), si fa chiamare Alvin ed ha una moglie francese che muore subito (sempre buona per fornire una scusa per una sana vendetta personale!)
Dovranno combattere un nemico del calibro di Stuart Smith - mica l'ultimo dei fessi - che qui si fa chiamare Rudolph (tipico nome ninja) e si è tirato dietro un buon numero degli euro-ninja già visti in Ninja Il Padrino!
Com'è, come non è, la palla passa ai nostri uomini sul campo ad Hong-Kong, dove gli scagnozzi di Rudolph uccidono un onesto operaio del porto che si era opposto ai loro ricatti. Questo scatena l'ira del figlio (forte, ma più portato alla fuga che non ai combattimenti), che aiutato da un paio di fessi ed una ragazza appena uscita dal riformatorio riuscirà ad avere vendetta. O almeno credo: ad un certo punto la trama viene troncata di netto...
Lezione imparata: in Africa ci sono eccellenti scuole d'avviamento professionale per ninja.
Da non perdere: lo scontro finale, coi 4 fessi che mulinano le braccine; la gente investita da auto senza alcuna ragione; la morte della moglie di Alvin; quasi tutto il resto!
Voto: 2. Trashometro® 10/10:
Tags: ninja, camerun, droga, omicidio, vendetta.
Harrison, Richard (II)
Data di nascita: 26 May 1935
Coniuge: Francesca::(1978 - present) 1 child, Loretta Nicholson::(1961 - ?) (divorced) 3 children
Ultimi lavori:
- Jerks (2000) .... [attore]
- Angel Eyes (1993) .... Vince [attore]
- Lies of the Twins (1991) (TV) .... Jack Roth [attore]
- Paid to Kill (1991) .... James Burton [attore]
- Empire of the Dark (1990) .... [attore]
- Rescue Force (1989) (V) .... Chief CIA Agent [attore]
- Terminal Force (1989) .... Nick Tyree [attore]
- Dark Mission (Operación cocaína) (1988) .... [attore]
- Ninja Powerforce (1988) .... Ninja Master Gordon [attore]
- Ninja Strike Force (1988) .... Gordon [attore]
Biografia:
Muscular actor Richard Harrison was one of many handsome young American hunks whose career in Hollywood amounted to little more than brawny bits until being lured to Italy and churning out the sword-and-sandal pictures that were the early 60s craze. He would end up making over 100 films due to this lucky trek abroad. Born on May 26, 1936 in Salt Lake City, he relocated to sunny Southern California in his late teens where his blond, tanned, chiseled good looks (he was sometimes mistaken for handsome actor Guy Madison) landed him modeling work both on runways and in beefcake magazines. He was quickly noticed by casting agents and cast in small film roles, usually as a man in uniform. He can be obscurely seen in Jeanne Eagles (1957), his film debut which starred Kim Novak, Kronos (1957) with Jeff Morrow, Too Much, Too Soon (1958) starring Dorothy Malone, South Pacific (1958), in which he briefly appeared as a co-pilot, and Battle Flame (1959) with Scott Brady. While filming another minor role in Master of the World (1961) he met producer James H. Nicholson's daughter, Loretta, and married her within six months. They produced three sons. Frustrated at not being able to secure meatier roles in Hollywood, Richard jumped at the chance when offered a lead role in The Invincible Gladiator (1961) which was filming in Europe. He would end up settling in Italy for the next two decades. His first role immediately typed him as another Steve ("Hercules") Reeves and to avoid being penned in too much as a mythological muscle man, Richard also sought roles in routine spaghetti westerns and spy intrigue. Once Italy closed down it's film production and he, like others, found himself unemployed, he managed to scrape up work in Hong Kong with mostly bottom-of-the-barrel Ninja movies. Remarried in 1978, he had already begun acting less and less and delving into producing and directing. He has retired fully now except for an occasional script writing assignment.
Trivia random: Harrison was another in a long line of American hunks with super physiques who 'muscled' in on Steve Reeves' territory by traveling to Italy in the early 60s when he couldn't kickstart an American film career. Appearing in scores of sword-and-sandal spectaclaes and 'spaghetti' westerns, Harrison, unlike the others, was able to keep the momentum going later on in Hong Kong-produced kung fu movies.
Citazione random: "In my opinion, it is a death wish for an actor to be in too many B or should I say C movies. Maybe my greatest contribution to cinema was not doing Fistful of Dollars, and recommending Clint for the part."
Ninja: Silent Assassin (1987)
Regista: Godfrey Ho
Valutazione: 4.0/10 (20 voti)
Paese: Canada, HongKong, UK, USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Alphonse Beni .... Alvin (as Chris Kelly)
- Richard Harrison .... Gordon
- Chris Larris
- Stuart Smith .... Rudolph
- Grant Temple .... Norman
- Pierre Tremblay
Trama:
When police officer Alvin loses both his star witness and his wife to drug kingpin (and ninja assassin) Rudolph, he vows to get revenge. Travelling to Hong Kong, hot on Rudolph's trail, he teams up with local investigators Gordon, Vivian and Jackie. Meanwhile, a young street punk named Edmund is hunting for the man who killed his father. Could they all possibly be searching for the same person?
Smith, Stuart (IV)
Altezza: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Ultimi lavori:
- Sheng zhan feng yun (1990) .... Colin (as Stuart Onslow Smith) [attore]
- Bloodfight (1989) .... Gang Leader (as Stuart Smita) [attore]
- Ninja Demon's Massacre (1988) .... Special agent (uncredited) [attore]
- Cobra Vs. Ninja (1987) .... Cobra [attore]
- Death Code: Ninja (1987) .... Ninja (uncredited) [attore]
- Ninja Kill (1987) .... [attore]
- Ninja in Action (1987) .... Rex (as Stuart Steen) [attore]
- Ninja: Silent Assassin (1987) .... Rudolph [attore]
- Long zai jiang hu (1986) .... [attore]
- Ninja Hunt (1986) .... [attore]
Trivia random: Reportedly a British-born stuntman, he made acting appearances, mostly as a bad guy, in several B and Z-grade actioners made in Hong Kong during the eighties. His extreme overacting has made him a favorite in some "bad movies lovers" circles.
Beni, Alphonse
Ultimi lavori:
- Power Force (1991) .... (as Alfons Beny) [attore]
- Ninja: Silent Assassin (1987) .... Alvin (as Chris Kelly) [attore]
- Three Men on Fire (1986) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Cameroon Connection (1985) .... [regista]
- Coup dur (1982) .... [regista]
- Anna Makossa (1980) .... [regista]
- La Pension des surdoués (1980) .... Ange Noir (uncredited) [attore]
- Saint voyou (1980) .... (screenplay) [scrittore]
- Danse mon amour (1979) .... [regista]
- L'État sauvage (1978) .... Minister One [attore]
Trivia random: Cameroonese actor and director, he had a genuine fame in African countries during the seventies. He directed several genre pictures in his native country, most of which were box office successes in Africa, and also appeared in French-made b-movies, including soft porn films. As Cameroonese cinema collapsed in the eighties, he found work in films made in such different places as Italy and Hong Kong.
sabato 5 maggio 2007
spider-man 3
Avevo apprezzato molto il primo, concentrato su una trama semplice, ma ben realizzata e che diceva quel che aveva da dire.
Ero rimasto piuttosto deluso dal secondo: pregevole il cattivo, ma dimenticabile ed in certi punti stucchevole la trama, con dialoghi a volte sterotipati all'estremo.
Mi mancava giusto un capitolo che mi lasciasse così-così; a porvi rimedio, arriva ora Spider-Man 3.
Il nostro beneamato ometto-ragno è diventato molto popolare tra gli abitanti di New York e paradossalmente questo non semplifica la sua vita: da un lato Jonah Jameson continua la sua caccia allo scoop del "ragno cattivo", dall'altro la sua vita sentimentale è complicata dal fatto che Mary Jane - fallita la carriera teatrale - fatica a conciliarsi con la fama dell'alter-ego del suo Peter e si ingelosisce alla comparsa della compagna di scuola Gwen Stacy.
Su altri fronti, i sensi di rogna dell'UR verranno messi a dura prova prima da Harry Osborn (novello Goblin determinato a vendicare la morte del padre), poi dal misterioso organismo alieno Venom (che è l'unico ad avere il buon gusto d'essere cattivo a tutto tondo) e dall'Uomo Sabbia che si rivelerà essere il vero assassino di zio Ben.
Spalmare, seppur su 2 ore e 20, così tanti intrecci è un po' un cercarsi rogne; anche solo considerando i temi principali abbiamo:
E dimentico di certo qualcosa; il tutto, rammentando che si devono anche fronteggiare tre-dico-tre cattivi ed integrare il tutto con i capitoli precedenti.
Sezionando le parti, abbiamo un capitolo più che discreto dedicato al rapporto con Harry Osborn (questa parte avrebbe meritato più spazio, e non sarebbe stato male farne l'unico tema portante), ed anche i contrasti con Mary Jane non sono male. Poteva risultare interessante, ma è stato sfruttato poco e male, la ricerca di vendetta per l'omicidio dello zio. Capisco poi che Sam Raimi sia statocostrettoconvinto da Avi Arad a metterci Venom, ma fatto così non ha davvero alcun senso: se ce lo metti, vedi di svilupparci sopra qualcosa che non sia solo una scusa per delle scazzotatte (ok, con Venom non è che...)
C'è troppa carne al fuoco, ed inevitabilmente si finisce con l'avere troppe cose che accadono Perché Sì (l'arrivo di Venom e la genesi di Sandman, che diamine!) e poco sviluppate (Venom, in particolare).
Le singole scene si riducono, a volte, ad uno slide-show di eventi non strettamente coesi, ed i combattimenti ad una serie di scontri con mostri di fine livello.
Semplificazione avrebbe dovuto essere la parola chiave, in fase di post-produzione, tagliando tutto ciò che non si riusciva ad inserire in un contesto adeguato, ed avendo anche cura di inserire i siparietti "simpatici" nei momenti opportuni e non nel bel mezzo di scontri campali; azzeccata la camminata disinvolta per le strade di New York di un Peter Parker ultra-sicuro di sé, ma anche qui si è poi voluto strafare con la scena al jazz club.
A livello grafico stupisce, e ci mancherebbe altro: L'Uomo Sabbia è qualcosa di spettacolare, ed anche Venom non è male. Gli scontri paradossalmente a volte peccano nel cercare di stupire a tutti i costi, specie a livello di dinamismo: nel primo con Harry si ha la sensazione che abbiano voluto esagerare, con un inseguimento infinito tra vicoli stretti e scontri ravvicinati; a mio avviso meravigliosi, invece, i pochi secondi iniziali dello scontro con Venom: caduta a piombo dal grattacielo e loro a darsi delle gran randellate! Così si fa!
Nel complesso resta un esercizio di grafica bella da vedere, ma per la trama è difficile non parlare di occasione in parte sprecata.
Tobey Maguire ha la sua solita espressione beota, ed ha forse un futuro come triglia in barile, non certo come attore.
Tutto sommato decenti gli altri (anche se sospetto che buona parte del budget degli effetti speciali sia stato speso per far venire le tette grosse a Bryce Dallas Howard...
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Note di merito al mitico Bruce Campbell, qui con una scena esilarante, ed al Vecchiaccio che dice anche una battuta (ho il sospetto che nell'intera sala nessuno lo abbia riconosciuto: a certa gente andrebbe impedito di entrare al cinema, quando ci sono film tratti da fumetti).
Nota di assoluto demerito invece alla traduzione: nel 2007, su una produzione dal budget spropositato (e che si suppone non sia stata affidata ad un ragazzino che ha studiato inglese alle elementari), tradurre "silicon" con "silicone" è da carcere a vita. Vacca boia, è l'Uomo Sabbia, mica l'Uomo TetteRifatte!
Voto: 6. (è costato un quarto di miliardi di dollari: era lecito aspettarsi di più)
Tags: azione, fantascienza, avventura, thriller, fumetto, spider-man, uomo ragno, marvel, supereroi, sequel, amore, amicizia, combattimento, morte, vendetta, matrimonio, venom, uomo sabbia, goblin.
Regista: Sam Raimi
Scrittore: Stan Lee, Steve Ditko (comic book)
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Valutazione: 7.8/10 (75339 voti)
Durata: 127 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
Trama:
After 2 years of crime fighting peter parker life is changing the woman he loves in getting married he's getting fired from his jobs and his grade's are drooping after all this peter parker decides to give up being spider-man and throws out his costume. And makes his life back to normal everything is now going great for him until he realizes that he needs to be both peter parker and spider-man as he balances his life as both.
Trivia random: Robert De Niro, Sam Neill, Ed Harris, and Chris Cooper were all considered for the role of Otto Octavius.
Citazione random: Dr. Otto Octavius: [talking to his arms] Listen. Listen... to me now. Listen... to ME now!
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Regista: Sam Raimi
Scrittore: Stan Lee, Steve Ditko (Marvel comic book)
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Valutazione: 7.4/10 (97409 voti)
Durata: 121 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
Trama:
Based on Marvel Comics' superhero character, this is a story of Peter Parker who is a nerdy high-schooler. He was orphaned as a child, bullied by jocks, and can't confess his crush for his stunning neighbourhood girl Mary Jane Watson. To say his life is "miserable" is an understatement. But one day while on an excursion to a laboratory a runaway radioactive spider bites him... and his life changes in a way no one could have imagined. Peter acquires a muscle-bound physique, clear vision, ability to cling to surfaces and crawl over walls, shooting webs from his wrist ... but the fun isn't going to last. An eccentric millionaire Norman Osborn (William Dafoe) administers a performance enhancing drug on himself and his maniacal alter ego Green Goblin emerges. Now Peter Parker has to become Spider-Man and take Green Goblin to the task... or else Goblin will kill him. They come face to face and the war begins in which only one of them will survive at the end.
Trivia random: During the World Unity parade, a billboard for Terminix can be seen, one of many insect-related inside jokes.
Citazione random: Norman Osborn: [to Peter] Harry tells me you're quite the science whiz. You know, I'm something of a scientist myself.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Nome di battesimo: Campbell, Bruce Lorne
Data di nascita: 22 June 1958
Altezza: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Coniuge: Ida Gearon::(1991 - present), Christine Deveau::(13 March 1983 - 1989) (divorced) 2 children
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"Uncle Sam's favorite son" as the lyrics to the theme of "Jack of All Trades" (2000) go, was born June 22, 1958 (the youngest of 3 brothers) in Royal Oak, Michigan. As a child, Bruce watched "Lost in Space" (1965) on TV, and ran around dressed as Zorro. He got the acting bug at age 8; his dad was performing in local community theater. At 14, Bruce got to play the young prince in "The King and I" and even got to sing. He went on to appear in several community theater productions, including "South Pacific". However, he was also interested in directing, and shot super-8 flicks with a neighborhood pal. Perhaps through fate, he met future director Sam Raimi in a high school drama class in 1975. Soon, along with Sam, and now a bunch of other high school pals, Bruce filmed about 50 super-8 movies. During the summer of 1976, he was an apprentice in northern Michigan at Traverse City's Cherry County Playhouse, a summer-stock company. Bruce worked 18-hour days putting up sets, being assistant stage manager, doing errands, etc. No money, but it was a learning experience (it was show biz). He attended Western Michigan University and took theater courses. Bruce became a production assistant for a company that made commercials in Detroit. In the early part of 1979, with buddy Sam Raimi, he decided to become a pro filmmaker. Armed with a super-8 horror film _Within the Woods (1978) _ which they showed potential investors, they raised $350,000 to make The Evil Dead (1981) which Bruce co-produced and starred in as "Ash". Four years later, the completed film became the best-selling video of 1983 in England, and New Line Cinema got it a US release. Around this time, he married his first wife, and they had 2 kids. They raised 10 times as much cash for the sequel Evil Dead II (1987) again co-produced by Bruce and starring him as "Ash". He moved to L.A. In 1990, while filming Mindwarp (1990), he met his future second wife (costume designer Ida Gearon) on the set. In 1992, he rejoined Sam, and Bruce co-produced and starred as "Ash" in the 3rd of the Evil Dead trilogy, Army of Darkness (1992) for Universal Studios. On TV, Bruce directed many episodes of "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" (1995). Bruce also acted as the recurring character "Autolycus", the King of Thieves; he portrayed this villain with zest in both "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" (1995) and "Xena: Warrior Princess" (1995). Bruce's latest television venture was starring as the title rogue of "Jack of All Trades" (2000). Everybody loves Jack. And everybody's heard of him -- "There ain't a French or pirate rogue who don't know Jack!".
Trivia random: Screen-tested for the lead role in The Phantom (1996).
Citazione random: Referring to Assault on Dome 4 (1996) (TV) and Moontrap (1989), Campbell said "The movies that are the easiest to make are the hardest to watch".
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Regista: Sam Raimi
Scrittore: Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi (screenplay)
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Valutazione: 7.9/10 (4503 voti)
Durata: 140 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
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Peter Parker has finally found the balance he's longed for between his love for Mary Jane Watson and his responsibilities as Spider-Man. The city of New York and it's citizens are at last coming around and appreciating everything he has done as his crime-fighting alter ego, and Peter is in the running for a staff job at the Daily Bugle. However, everything Peter has worked for is about to unravel. Flint Marko, while fleeing prison, is caught in an accident that displaces molecules and is transformed into the Sandman, a new super villain who is able to change his body into any shape of sand he sees fit. When Peter learns of a connection between The Sandman and the murder of his Uncle Ben, he will stop at nothing as Spider-Man to capture him. But before Peter can do so he discovers a mysterious black substance has turned his suit black, and has brought forth a darker side of Parker and Spidey nobody has seen before. Peter begins to give into this new dark personality, starts to abandon the ones he loves the most and in turn his best friend Harry Osborn takes up his late father's mantle as The New Goblin. Quickly Parker begins a new romance with his lab partner, the beautiful Gwen Stacy but in doing so Peter sets off a rival Bugle photographer, a troubled young man by the name of Eddie Brock who is obsessed with Stacy. Little does Peter know the black substance has its sights set on Eddie else as well. Brock is turned into Venom, a arch-foe that mirrors everything Spider-Man can do. Peter is forced to become the strong-willed hero he has forgotten about if he hopes to defeat his greatest threat yet.
Trivia random: Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire were the driving forces that got Sandman into this film. During press interviews for the first two Spider-Man films, Raimi and Maguire repeatedly mentioned Sandman as a villain they would like to see in a future sequel.
Citazione random: [from trailer]::[Harry, chasing Peter, throws one of his many devices at him. As it explodes and becomes Razor Bats,]::Peter Parker: Hate those things!
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Nome di battesimo: Lieber, Stanley Martin
Data di nascita: 28 December 1922
Coniuge: Joan Lee::(5 December 1947 - present) 2 children
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Trivia random: Daughter is model/actress Joan Celia "J.C." Lee (b. 1950). His other daughter, Jan, died shortly after birth (1953).
Citazione random: "If a character had the first initial in both names, I could at least remember one of the names" [his reason for creating characters with the same initial... bad memory]
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Nome di battesimo: Maguire, Tobias Vincent
Data di nascita: 27 June 1975
Altezza: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
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Tobey Maguire's parents were 18 and 20--and unwed--when he was born. His father, Vincent, was a cook. His mother, Wendy, was a secretary. They split two years after his birth. This resulted in moving constantly as a youth, spending time in California, Oregon, and Washington. He quit school in the ninth grade and pursued acting roles. He did several commercials and bit roles on various TV shows before landing a starring role on the Fox comedy "Great Scott!" (1992). That role lasted nine weeks before the show was canceled. Although avoiding drugs and alcohol, he still is known for running with the party set, including Leonardo DiCaprio's group. Tobey is a vegetarian and studies yoga.
Trivia random: During the Australian release period of Spider-Man (2002), he appeared on an Australian late-night variety show with his co-star Willem Dafoe. During this interview, when asked if he was a fan of the comic book, he claimed that he had never touched a Spider-Man comic book before and that he never wanted to read them.
Citazione random: "All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that."
Salario massimo: $17,000,000, per Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Data di nascita: 2 March 1981
Altezza: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
Coniuge: Seth Gabel::(17 June 2006 - present) 1 child
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Bryce Dallas Howard was born on March 2, 1981, in Los Angeles, California. She was conceived in Dallas, Texas (the reason for her middle name). Her father, named Ron Howard, is a former actor turned Oscar-winning director. Her mother is actress and writer Cheryl Howard (nee Alley). Her famous relatives include her uncle, actor Clint Howard, and her grandparents, actor Rance Howard and actress Jean Speegle Howard. She also has two younger twin sisters, named Jocelyn and Paige, born in 1985, and a brother, Reed Howard, born in 1987.Howard was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, because her parents decided to raise their four children as far away from the trappings of showbiz milieu as possible. During most of her childhood she really did not have much access to a TV. She attended Greenwich Country Day School, and Byram Hills High School in Armonk, New York. At that time she discovered existentialism and devoured books by Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. She attended the prestigious Steppenwolf School and Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts camp at Catskills together with her friend Natalie Portman. She applied to drama school as Bryce Dallas, dropping her last name to eschew special treatment because of association with her renown father. From 1999 - 2003 she studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory and at the New York University Tisch School of Arts and graduated with a BFA degree in Drama in 2003. At that time she performed in Broadway productions of classical plays by George Bernard Shaw, William Shakespeare and Anton Chekhov.Young Howard appeared in three of her father's films as an extra, including her appearance as a child together with her mother in Apollo 13 (1995). She made her feature film debut as Heather, a supporting role in Book of Love (2004) by director Alan Brown. Director M. Night Shyamalan was impressed by her performance in a Broadway play and cast her without an audition as a female lead in his two thrillers: The Village (2004) and Lady in the Water (2006). Howard replaced Nicole Kidman in Dogville sequel, Manderlay (2005). She stars as Rosalind in As You Like It (2006), a reprise of her stage role that made such an impression on Shyamalan. She is also billed as Gwen Stacy in the third installment of the Spider-Man franchise, Spider-Man 3 (2007).Howard became a devoted vegan since Joaquin Phoenix showed her Earthlings (2003), a documentary about animal cruelty. After seeing that she has consumed no animal products, not even milk or eggs. Her other activities outside of the acting profession include playing basketball and writing.On June 17, 2006, in Connecticut, she married her long-term boyfriend, actor Seth Gabel, whom she met at New York University and had dated for five years.
Trivia random: Graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama (2003)
Citazione random: Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.
Salario massimo: $150,000, per The Village (2004)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Data di nascita: August 1948
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Trivia random: As CEO of Marvel, handles the rights to the approximately 4,700 Marvel comic book characters, including heavyweights Spider-Man, the X-Men, The Incredible Hulk, Daredevil, and The Fantastic Four.
Citazione random: "They're the new taste-makers. Hard-core fans represent a small piece of the viewing public, but they influence geek culture, journalists, Wall Street. You don't want them to trash your project."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Nome di battesimo: Raimi, Samuel Marshall
Data di nascita: 23 October 1959
Altezza: 5' 11" (1.80 m)
Coniuge: Gillian Greene::(1993 - present) 5 children
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Highly inventive US film director/producer/writer/actor Sam Raimi first came to the attention of film fans with the savage, yet darkly humorous, low-budget horror film The Evil Dead (1981). From his childhood Raimi was a fan of the cinema and before he was ten years old, he was out making movies with an 8mm camera. He was a devoted fan of The Three Stooges, so much of Raimi's film work in his teens, with good friends Bruce Campbell and Robert G. Tapert, was slapstick comedy based around what they had observed from Stooges movies.Among the three of them they wrote, directed, produced and edited a short horror movie titled Within the Woods (1978), which was then shown to prospective investors to raise the money necessary to film The Evil Dead (1981). It met with lukewarm interest in the US with local distributors, so Raimi took the film to Europe, where it was much more warmly received. After it started gaining positive reviews and, more importantly, ticket sales upon its release in Europe, US distributors showed renewed interest, and "Evil Dead" was eventually released stateside to strong box office returns. His next directorial effort was Crimewave (1985), a quirky, cartoon-like effort that failed to catch fire with audiences. However, he bounced back with Evil Dead II (1987), a racier and more humorous remake/sequel to the original "Dead" that did even better at the box office. Raimi was then given his biggest budget to date to shoot Darkman (1990), a comic book-style fantasy about a scarred avenger. The film did moderate business, but Raimi's strong visual style was evident throughout the film via inventive and startling camera work that caught the attention of numerous critics.The third chapter in the Evil Dead story beckoned, and Raimi once again directed buddy Campbell as the gritty hero "Ash", in the Gothic horror _Army of Darkness (1993)_ . Raimi surprised fans when he took a turn away from the fantasy genre and directed Gene Hackman and Sharon Stone in the sexy western The Quick and the Dead (1995); four years later he took the directorial reins on A Simple Plan (1998), a crime thriller about stolen money starring Bill Paxton and Bridget Fonda. In early 1999 he directed the baseball film For Love of the Game (1999) and in 2000 returned to the fantasy genre with a top-flight cast in The Gift (2000). In 2002 Raimi was given a real opportunity to demonstrate his dynamic visual style with the big-budget film adaptation of the Stan Lee comic book superhero Spider-Man (2002), and fans were not disappointed. The movie was strong in both script and effects, and was a runaway success at the box office. Of course, Raimi returned for the sequel, Spider-Man 2 (2004), which surpassed the original in box-office takings.Raimi remains one of Hollywood's most creative, exciting and intelligent filmmakers.
Trivia random: 1977 graduate of Birmingham Groves High School, Birmingham, Michigan.
Citazione random: "At every step of the way wanted to be careful to make sure that what they thought worked in Japanese horror got translated into this. [Taka and Shimizu] didn't want to have solid explanations for everything. That was the challenge, to somehow make it acceptable to the American audience, rules being one of the many things we talked about but not lose what make it striking and unique." [on 'Grudge, The']
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Ero rimasto piuttosto deluso dal secondo: pregevole il cattivo, ma dimenticabile ed in certi punti stucchevole la trama, con dialoghi a volte sterotipati all'estremo.
Mi mancava giusto un capitolo che mi lasciasse così-così; a porvi rimedio, arriva ora Spider-Man 3.
Il nostro beneamato ometto-ragno è diventato molto popolare tra gli abitanti di New York e paradossalmente questo non semplifica la sua vita: da un lato Jonah Jameson continua la sua caccia allo scoop del "ragno cattivo", dall'altro la sua vita sentimentale è complicata dal fatto che Mary Jane - fallita la carriera teatrale - fatica a conciliarsi con la fama dell'alter-ego del suo Peter e si ingelosisce alla comparsa della compagna di scuola Gwen Stacy.
Su altri fronti, i sensi di rogna dell'UR verranno messi a dura prova prima da Harry Osborn (novello Goblin determinato a vendicare la morte del padre), poi dal misterioso organismo alieno Venom (che è l'unico ad avere il buon gusto d'essere cattivo a tutto tondo) e dall'Uomo Sabbia che si rivelerà essere il vero assassino di zio Ben.
Spalmare, seppur su 2 ore e 20, così tanti intrecci è un po' un cercarsi rogne; anche solo considerando i temi principali abbiamo:
- Il rapporto con Mary Jane, e le intromissioni di Gwen Stacy e Harry Osborn.
- Le difficoltà della popolarità, e lo stallo della carriera di MJ.
- La vendetta nei confronti dell'omicida dello zio, ora Sandman.
- L'amicizia con Harry Osborn, e le conseguenze della morte del padre di lui.
- Il lavoro come freelance ed i contrasti con Eddie Brock.
- L'attacco di Venom, e la corruzione di Parker.
E dimentico di certo qualcosa; il tutto, rammentando che si devono anche fronteggiare tre-dico-tre cattivi ed integrare il tutto con i capitoli precedenti.
Sezionando le parti, abbiamo un capitolo più che discreto dedicato al rapporto con Harry Osborn (questa parte avrebbe meritato più spazio, e non sarebbe stato male farne l'unico tema portante), ed anche i contrasti con Mary Jane non sono male. Poteva risultare interessante, ma è stato sfruttato poco e male, la ricerca di vendetta per l'omicidio dello zio. Capisco poi che Sam Raimi sia stato
C'è troppa carne al fuoco, ed inevitabilmente si finisce con l'avere troppe cose che accadono Perché Sì (l'arrivo di Venom e la genesi di Sandman, che diamine!) e poco sviluppate (Venom, in particolare).
Le singole scene si riducono, a volte, ad uno slide-show di eventi non strettamente coesi, ed i combattimenti ad una serie di scontri con mostri di fine livello.
Semplificazione avrebbe dovuto essere la parola chiave, in fase di post-produzione, tagliando tutto ciò che non si riusciva ad inserire in un contesto adeguato, ed avendo anche cura di inserire i siparietti "simpatici" nei momenti opportuni e non nel bel mezzo di scontri campali; azzeccata la camminata disinvolta per le strade di New York di un Peter Parker ultra-sicuro di sé, ma anche qui si è poi voluto strafare con la scena al jazz club.
A livello grafico stupisce, e ci mancherebbe altro: L'Uomo Sabbia è qualcosa di spettacolare, ed anche Venom non è male. Gli scontri paradossalmente a volte peccano nel cercare di stupire a tutti i costi, specie a livello di dinamismo: nel primo con Harry si ha la sensazione che abbiano voluto esagerare, con un inseguimento infinito tra vicoli stretti e scontri ravvicinati; a mio avviso meravigliosi, invece, i pochi secondi iniziali dello scontro con Venom: caduta a piombo dal grattacielo e loro a darsi delle gran randellate! Così si fa!
Nel complesso resta un esercizio di grafica bella da vedere, ma per la trama è difficile non parlare di occasione in parte sprecata.
Tobey Maguire ha la sua solita espressione beota, ed ha forse un futuro come triglia in barile, non certo come attore.
Tutto sommato decenti gli altri (anche se sospetto che buona parte del budget degli effetti speciali sia stato speso per far venire le tette grosse a Bryce Dallas Howard...
Note di merito al mitico Bruce Campbell, qui con una scena esilarante, ed al Vecchiaccio che dice anche una battuta (ho il sospetto che nell'intera sala nessuno lo abbia riconosciuto: a certa gente andrebbe impedito di entrare al cinema, quando ci sono film tratti da fumetti).
Nota di assoluto demerito invece alla traduzione: nel 2007, su una produzione dal budget spropositato (e che si suppone non sia stata affidata ad un ragazzino che ha studiato inglese alle elementari), tradurre "silicon" con "silicone" è da carcere a vita. Vacca boia, è l'Uomo Sabbia, mica l'Uomo TetteRifatte!
Voto: 6. (è costato un quarto di miliardi di dollari: era lecito aspettarsi di più)
Tags: azione, fantascienza, avventura, thriller, fumetto, spider-man, uomo ragno, marvel, supereroi, sequel, amore, amicizia, combattimento, morte, vendetta, matrimonio, venom, uomo sabbia, goblin.
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Regista: Sam Raimi
Scrittore: Stan Lee, Steve Ditko (comic book)
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Valutazione: 7.8/10 (75339 voti)
Durata: 127 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Tobey Maguire .... Spider-Man/Peter Parker
- Kirsten Dunst .... Mary Jane Watson
- James Franco .... Harry Osborn
- Alfred Molina .... Doc Ock/Dr. Otto Octavius
- Rosemary Harris .... May Parker
- J.K. Simmons .... J. Jonah Jameson
- Donna Murphy .... Rosalie Octavius
- Daniel Gillies .... John Jameson
- Dylan Baker .... Dr. Curt Connors
- Bill Nunn .... Joseph 'Robbie' Robertson
Trama:
After 2 years of crime fighting peter parker life is changing the woman he loves in getting married he's getting fired from his jobs and his grade's are drooping after all this peter parker decides to give up being spider-man and throws out his costume. And makes his life back to normal everything is now going great for him until he realizes that he needs to be both peter parker and spider-man as he balances his life as both.
Trivia random: Robert De Niro, Sam Neill, Ed Harris, and Chris Cooper were all considered for the role of Otto Octavius.
Citazione random: Dr. Otto Octavius: [talking to his arms] Listen. Listen... to me now. Listen... to ME now!
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Man
Regista: Sam Raimi
Scrittore: Stan Lee, Steve Ditko (Marvel comic book)
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Valutazione: 7.4/10 (97409 voti)
Durata: 121 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Tobey Maguire .... Spider-Man/Peter Parker
- Willem Dafoe .... Green Goblin/Norman Osborn
- Kirsten Dunst .... Mary Jane Watson
- James Franco .... Harry Osborn
- Cliff Robertson .... Ben Parker
- Rosemary Harris .... May Parker
- J.K. Simmons .... J. Jonah Jameson
- Joe Manganiello .... Flash Thompson
- Gerry Becker .... Maximilian Fargas
- Bill Nunn .... Joseph 'Robbie' Robertson
Trama:
Based on Marvel Comics' superhero character, this is a story of Peter Parker who is a nerdy high-schooler. He was orphaned as a child, bullied by jocks, and can't confess his crush for his stunning neighbourhood girl Mary Jane Watson. To say his life is "miserable" is an understatement. But one day while on an excursion to a laboratory a runaway radioactive spider bites him... and his life changes in a way no one could have imagined. Peter acquires a muscle-bound physique, clear vision, ability to cling to surfaces and crawl over walls, shooting webs from his wrist ... but the fun isn't going to last. An eccentric millionaire Norman Osborn (William Dafoe) administers a performance enhancing drug on himself and his maniacal alter ego Green Goblin emerges. Now Peter Parker has to become Spider-Man and take Green Goblin to the task... or else Goblin will kill him. They come face to face and the war begins in which only one of them will survive at the end.
Trivia random: During the World Unity parade, a billboard for Terminix can be seen, one of many insect-related inside jokes.
Citazione random: Norman Osborn: [to Peter] Harry tells me you're quite the science whiz. You know, I'm something of a scientist myself.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Campbell, Bruce (I)
Nome di battesimo: Campbell, Bruce Lorne
Data di nascita: 22 June 1958
Altezza: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Coniuge: Ida Gearon::(1991 - present), Christine Deveau::(13 March 1983 - 1989) (divorced) 2 children
Ultimi lavori:
- Bubba Nosferatu and the Curse of the She-Vampires (2008) .... Elvis Presley/Sebastjin Haff (attached) [attore]
- The Evil Dead (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (2007) .... Chicken Bittle (voice) [attore]
- Burn Notice (2007) (TV) .... Sam [attore]
- My Name Is Bruce (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Spider-Man 3 (2007) .... Maître d' [attore]
- Ant Bully (2006) (VG) .... Fugax (voice: English version) [attore]
- The Ant Bully (2006) .... Fugax (voice) [attore]
- Touch the Top of the World (2006) (TV) .... Ed Weihenmayer [attore]
- The Woods (2006) .... Joe Fasulo [attore]
Biografia:
"Uncle Sam's favorite son" as the lyrics to the theme of "Jack of All Trades" (2000) go, was born June 22, 1958 (the youngest of 3 brothers) in Royal Oak, Michigan. As a child, Bruce watched "Lost in Space" (1965) on TV, and ran around dressed as Zorro. He got the acting bug at age 8; his dad was performing in local community theater. At 14, Bruce got to play the young prince in "The King and I" and even got to sing. He went on to appear in several community theater productions, including "South Pacific". However, he was also interested in directing, and shot super-8 flicks with a neighborhood pal. Perhaps through fate, he met future director Sam Raimi in a high school drama class in 1975. Soon, along with Sam, and now a bunch of other high school pals, Bruce filmed about 50 super-8 movies. During the summer of 1976, he was an apprentice in northern Michigan at Traverse City's Cherry County Playhouse, a summer-stock company. Bruce worked 18-hour days putting up sets, being assistant stage manager, doing errands, etc. No money, but it was a learning experience (it was show biz). He attended Western Michigan University and took theater courses. Bruce became a production assistant for a company that made commercials in Detroit. In the early part of 1979, with buddy Sam Raimi, he decided to become a pro filmmaker. Armed with a super-8 horror film _Within the Woods (1978) _ which they showed potential investors, they raised $350,000 to make The Evil Dead (1981) which Bruce co-produced and starred in as "Ash". Four years later, the completed film became the best-selling video of 1983 in England, and New Line Cinema got it a US release. Around this time, he married his first wife, and they had 2 kids. They raised 10 times as much cash for the sequel Evil Dead II (1987) again co-produced by Bruce and starring him as "Ash". He moved to L.A. In 1990, while filming Mindwarp (1990), he met his future second wife (costume designer Ida Gearon) on the set. In 1992, he rejoined Sam, and Bruce co-produced and starred as "Ash" in the 3rd of the Evil Dead trilogy, Army of Darkness (1992) for Universal Studios. On TV, Bruce directed many episodes of "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" (1995). Bruce also acted as the recurring character "Autolycus", the King of Thieves; he portrayed this villain with zest in both "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" (1995) and "Xena: Warrior Princess" (1995). Bruce's latest television venture was starring as the title rogue of "Jack of All Trades" (2000). Everybody loves Jack. And everybody's heard of him -- "There ain't a French or pirate rogue who don't know Jack!".
Trivia random: Screen-tested for the lead role in The Phantom (1996).
Citazione random: Referring to Assault on Dome 4 (1996) (TV) and Moontrap (1989), Campbell said "The movies that are the easiest to make are the hardest to watch".
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Regista: Sam Raimi
Scrittore: Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi (screenplay)
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Valutazione: 7.9/10 (4503 voti)
Durata: 140 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Tobey Maguire .... Spider-Man/Peter Parker
- Kirsten Dunst .... Mary Jane Watson
- James Franco .... New Goblin/Harry Osborn
- Thomas Haden Church .... Sandman/Flint Marko
- Topher Grace .... Venom/Eddie Brock
- Bryce Dallas Howard .... Gwen Stacy
- Rosemary Harris .... May Parker
- J.K. Simmons .... J. Jonah Jameson
- James Cromwell .... Captain Stacy
- Theresa Russell .... Emma Marko
Trama:
Peter Parker has finally found the balance he's longed for between his love for Mary Jane Watson and his responsibilities as Spider-Man. The city of New York and it's citizens are at last coming around and appreciating everything he has done as his crime-fighting alter ego, and Peter is in the running for a staff job at the Daily Bugle. However, everything Peter has worked for is about to unravel. Flint Marko, while fleeing prison, is caught in an accident that displaces molecules and is transformed into the Sandman, a new super villain who is able to change his body into any shape of sand he sees fit. When Peter learns of a connection between The Sandman and the murder of his Uncle Ben, he will stop at nothing as Spider-Man to capture him. But before Peter can do so he discovers a mysterious black substance has turned his suit black, and has brought forth a darker side of Parker and Spidey nobody has seen before. Peter begins to give into this new dark personality, starts to abandon the ones he loves the most and in turn his best friend Harry Osborn takes up his late father's mantle as The New Goblin. Quickly Parker begins a new romance with his lab partner, the beautiful Gwen Stacy but in doing so Peter sets off a rival Bugle photographer, a troubled young man by the name of Eddie Brock who is obsessed with Stacy. Little does Peter know the black substance has its sights set on Eddie else as well. Brock is turned into Venom, a arch-foe that mirrors everything Spider-Man can do. Peter is forced to become the strong-willed hero he has forgotten about if he hopes to defeat his greatest threat yet.
Trivia random: Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire were the driving forces that got Sandman into this film. During press interviews for the first two Spider-Man films, Raimi and Maguire repeatedly mentioned Sandman as a villain they would like to see in a future sequel.
Citazione random: [from trailer]::[Harry, chasing Peter, throws one of his many devices at him. As it explodes and becomes Razor Bats,]::Peter Parker: Hate those things!
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Lee, Stan (I)
Nome di battesimo: Lieber, Stanley Martin
Data di nascita: 28 December 1922
Coniuge: Joan Lee::(5 December 1947 - present) 2 children
Ultimi lavori:
- Magneto (2009) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Spider-Man 4 (2009) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Thor (2009) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- "The Amazing Spider-Man" (2008) .... (Marvel comic book) [scrittore]
- The Incredible Hulk (2008) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Iron Man (2008) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Nick Fury (2008) .... (character) [scrittore]
- The Condor (2007) (V) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Ghost Rider (2007) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
Trivia random: Daughter is model/actress Joan Celia "J.C." Lee (b. 1950). His other daughter, Jan, died shortly after birth (1953).
Citazione random: "If a character had the first initial in both names, I could at least remember one of the names" [his reason for creating characters with the same initial... bad memory]
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Maguire, Tobey
Nome di battesimo: Maguire, Tobias Vincent
Data di nascita: 27 June 1975
Altezza: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
Ultimi lavori:
- Tokyo Suckerpunch (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Quiet Type (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Spider-Man 3 (2007) (VG) .... Peter Parker/Spider-man (voice) [attore]
- The Good German (2006) .... Patrick Tully [attore]
- Spider-Man 2 (2004) .... Spider-Man/Peter Parker [attore]
- Rock of Ages (2003) (TV) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Seabiscuit (2003) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Whatever We Do (2003) .... (producer) [produttore]
- 25th Hour (2002) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Spider-Man (2002) .... Spider-Man/Peter Parker [attore]
Biografia:
Tobey Maguire's parents were 18 and 20--and unwed--when he was born. His father, Vincent, was a cook. His mother, Wendy, was a secretary. They split two years after his birth. This resulted in moving constantly as a youth, spending time in California, Oregon, and Washington. He quit school in the ninth grade and pursued acting roles. He did several commercials and bit roles on various TV shows before landing a starring role on the Fox comedy "Great Scott!" (1992). That role lasted nine weeks before the show was canceled. Although avoiding drugs and alcohol, he still is known for running with the party set, including Leonardo DiCaprio's group. Tobey is a vegetarian and studies yoga.
Trivia random: During the Australian release period of Spider-Man (2002), he appeared on an Australian late-night variety show with his co-star Willem Dafoe. During this interview, when asked if he was a fan of the comic book, he claimed that he had never touched a Spider-Man comic book before and that he never wanted to read them.
Citazione random: "All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that."
Salario massimo: $17,000,000, per Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Howard, Bryce Dallas
Data di nascita: 2 March 1981
Altezza: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
Coniuge: Seth Gabel::(17 June 2006 - present) 1 child
Ultimi lavori:
- The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008) .... Fisher Willow [attrice]
- Spider-Man 3 (2007) (VG) .... Gwen Stacy [attrice]
- As You Like It (2006) .... Rosalind [attrice]
- Lady in the Water (2006) .... Story [attrice]
- Orchids (2006) .... [scrittore]
- Manderlay (2005) .... Grace Margaret Mulligan [attrice]
- Book of Love (2004) .... Heather [attrice]
- The Village (2004) .... Ivy Walker [attrice]
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) .... Surprised Who (as Bryce Howard) [attrice]
- Apollo 13 (1995) .... (uncredited) [attrice]
Biografia:
Bryce Dallas Howard was born on March 2, 1981, in Los Angeles, California. She was conceived in Dallas, Texas (the reason for her middle name). Her father, named Ron Howard, is a former actor turned Oscar-winning director. Her mother is actress and writer Cheryl Howard (nee Alley). Her famous relatives include her uncle, actor Clint Howard, and her grandparents, actor Rance Howard and actress Jean Speegle Howard. She also has two younger twin sisters, named Jocelyn and Paige, born in 1985, and a brother, Reed Howard, born in 1987.Howard was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, because her parents decided to raise their four children as far away from the trappings of showbiz milieu as possible. During most of her childhood she really did not have much access to a TV. She attended Greenwich Country Day School, and Byram Hills High School in Armonk, New York. At that time she discovered existentialism and devoured books by Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. She attended the prestigious Steppenwolf School and Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts camp at Catskills together with her friend Natalie Portman. She applied to drama school as Bryce Dallas, dropping her last name to eschew special treatment because of association with her renown father. From 1999 - 2003 she studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory and at the New York University Tisch School of Arts and graduated with a BFA degree in Drama in 2003. At that time she performed in Broadway productions of classical plays by George Bernard Shaw, William Shakespeare and Anton Chekhov.Young Howard appeared in three of her father's films as an extra, including her appearance as a child together with her mother in Apollo 13 (1995). She made her feature film debut as Heather, a supporting role in Book of Love (2004) by director Alan Brown. Director M. Night Shyamalan was impressed by her performance in a Broadway play and cast her without an audition as a female lead in his two thrillers: The Village (2004) and Lady in the Water (2006). Howard replaced Nicole Kidman in Dogville sequel, Manderlay (2005). She stars as Rosalind in As You Like It (2006), a reprise of her stage role that made such an impression on Shyamalan. She is also billed as Gwen Stacy in the third installment of the Spider-Man franchise, Spider-Man 3 (2007).Howard became a devoted vegan since Joaquin Phoenix showed her Earthlings (2003), a documentary about animal cruelty. After seeing that she has consumed no animal products, not even milk or eggs. Her other activities outside of the acting profession include playing basketball and writing.On June 17, 2006, in Connecticut, she married her long-term boyfriend, actor Seth Gabel, whom she met at New York University and had dated for five years.
Trivia random: Graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama (2003)
Citazione random: Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.
Salario massimo: $150,000, per The Village (2004)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Arad, Avi
Data di nascita: August 1948
Ultimi lavori:
- The Avengers (2009) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Captain America (2009) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Magneto (2009) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Spider-Man 4 (2009) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Thor (2009) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Ant-Man (2008) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Deathlok (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
- The Incredible Hulk (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Iron Fist (2008) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Iron Man (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
Trivia random: As CEO of Marvel, handles the rights to the approximately 4,700 Marvel comic book characters, including heavyweights Spider-Man, the X-Men, The Incredible Hulk, Daredevil, and The Fantastic Four.
Citazione random: "They're the new taste-makers. Hard-core fans represent a small piece of the viewing public, but they influence geek culture, journalists, Wall Street. You don't want them to trash your project."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Raimi, Sam
Nome di battesimo: Raimi, Samuel Marshall
Data di nascita: 23 October 1959
Altezza: 5' 11" (1.80 m)
Coniuge: Gillian Greene::(1993 - present) 5 children
Ultimi lavori:
- Armored (2009) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Spider-Man 4 (2009) .... (in talks) [regista]
- Untitled Shannon-Swift Project (2009) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Boogeyman 2 (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Dibbuk Box (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
- The Evil Dead (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Priest (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
- "Wizard's First Rule" (2008) (mini) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- 30 Days of Night (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
- The Man Who Couldn't Forget (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
Biografia:
Highly inventive US film director/producer/writer/actor Sam Raimi first came to the attention of film fans with the savage, yet darkly humorous, low-budget horror film The Evil Dead (1981). From his childhood Raimi was a fan of the cinema and before he was ten years old, he was out making movies with an 8mm camera. He was a devoted fan of The Three Stooges, so much of Raimi's film work in his teens, with good friends Bruce Campbell and Robert G. Tapert, was slapstick comedy based around what they had observed from Stooges movies.Among the three of them they wrote, directed, produced and edited a short horror movie titled Within the Woods (1978), which was then shown to prospective investors to raise the money necessary to film The Evil Dead (1981). It met with lukewarm interest in the US with local distributors, so Raimi took the film to Europe, where it was much more warmly received. After it started gaining positive reviews and, more importantly, ticket sales upon its release in Europe, US distributors showed renewed interest, and "Evil Dead" was eventually released stateside to strong box office returns. His next directorial effort was Crimewave (1985), a quirky, cartoon-like effort that failed to catch fire with audiences. However, he bounced back with Evil Dead II (1987), a racier and more humorous remake/sequel to the original "Dead" that did even better at the box office. Raimi was then given his biggest budget to date to shoot Darkman (1990), a comic book-style fantasy about a scarred avenger. The film did moderate business, but Raimi's strong visual style was evident throughout the film via inventive and startling camera work that caught the attention of numerous critics.The third chapter in the Evil Dead story beckoned, and Raimi once again directed buddy Campbell as the gritty hero "Ash", in the Gothic horror _Army of Darkness (1993)_ . Raimi surprised fans when he took a turn away from the fantasy genre and directed Gene Hackman and Sharon Stone in the sexy western The Quick and the Dead (1995); four years later he took the directorial reins on A Simple Plan (1998), a crime thriller about stolen money starring Bill Paxton and Bridget Fonda. In early 1999 he directed the baseball film For Love of the Game (1999) and in 2000 returned to the fantasy genre with a top-flight cast in The Gift (2000). In 2002 Raimi was given a real opportunity to demonstrate his dynamic visual style with the big-budget film adaptation of the Stan Lee comic book superhero Spider-Man (2002), and fans were not disappointed. The movie was strong in both script and effects, and was a runaway success at the box office. Of course, Raimi returned for the sequel, Spider-Man 2 (2004), which surpassed the original in box-office takings.Raimi remains one of Hollywood's most creative, exciting and intelligent filmmakers.
Trivia random: 1977 graduate of Birmingham Groves High School, Birmingham, Michigan.
Citazione random: "At every step of the way wanted to be careful to make sure that what they thought worked in Japanese horror got translated into this. [Taka and Shimizu] didn't want to have solid explanations for everything. That was the challenge, to somehow make it acceptable to the American audience, rules being one of the many things we talked about but not lose what make it striking and unique." [on 'Grudge, The']
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
domenica 6 dicembre 2009
ninja assassin - anche no
Va bene che ormai dai fratelli Wachowski non mi aspetto altro che porcatine semi-stylish, ma con Ninja Assassin si esagera davvero, trascinando nel fango anche un tal Straczynski qui impegnato a mettere mano ad una sceneggiatura non pervenuta.
Poootentissimo ninja di un millenario clan, fugge dopo aver fatto particolarmente poco per impedire la morte della pseudo-amata.
Nella sua strada per la vendetta, si ritroverà senza alcuna spiegazione plausibile a difendere una tizia dell'europol (ebbene sì) da ondate su ondate di fessi in calzamaglia che si fanno impallinare uno ad uno come tordi. Però sono letalissimi quando non serve, tipo contro tutte le comparse.
Si giunge infine allo scontro finale con Il Maestro® - uno Shô Kosugi più severo-ma-giusto del solito, coi suoi metodi didattici da Signorina Rottenmeier.
Il non avere una logica non sarebbe neanche un problema, se i combattimenti fossero fatti bene.
Purtroppo dare in mano la telecamera ad un malato di parkinson ubriaco, non si è rivelata una grande idea: movimenti convulsi e privi senso, messi lì - si suppone - per coprire l'inettitudine degli attori. Al qual proposito non si può non sottolineare la grande prova di quell'eclettico artista di Rain, che saltella in giro con la stessa disinvoltura con cui fa le smorfie.
Una regia senza freni ci regala poi altre perle in qua e in là, non ultimi dei grandi inseguimenti automobilistici ed una serie di ritratti di Kosugi visto di fronte/di lato/da sopra/da sotto.
Il film ha comunque i suoi meriti istruttivi: ad esempio scopriamo - ma già lo sospettavamo - che Shô Kosugi è in grado di eseguire complessi interventi chirurgici in laparoscopia a mani nude, e che il corpo umano contiene 300 litri di sangue, ad una pressione di 80 atmosfere..png)
Voto: meno del numero di punte di uno shuriken.
Trashometro® 6/10:


Tags: ninja, azione, thriller, clan, Rain, Shô Kosugi, fratelli Wachowski, europol, inseguimento, auto, ferita, omicidio, ombra, buio, shuriken, arti marziali, mulinar di braccine, vendetta, punizione, severo ma giusto, tatuaggio, ecatombe, arresto, oro, trash.
Nome di battesimo: Wachowski, Andrew Paul
Data di nascita: 29 December 1967
Altezza: 6' 3¼" (1.91 m)
Coniuge: Alisa Blasingame::(1991 - present)
Ultimi lavori:
Trivia random: He and his brother have written a screenplay called "Carnivore". The script was one of the scripts on Empire magazine's "Twelve Greatest Unproduced Scripts In Hollywood" list. (As of October 2003 it is still unproduced.)
Salario massimo: $4,000,000 + gross points, per The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Nome di battesimo: Ji-Hoon, Jeong
Data di nascita: 25 June 1982
Altezza: 6' 0½" (1.84 m)
Ultimi lavori:
Biografia:
Rain was born in Seoul, South Korea, on June 25, 1982 with the birth name Jung Jihoon. He was extremely shy in elementary school, stating in interviews that he barely spoke a word. He caught the desire to become a dancer when, at a school talent show in sixth grade, no one from his school stepped forward to dance so he gave it a try, imitating the moves he saw on TV. The applause was extremely gratifying and he decided on the spot to become a professional dancer. In order to learn, he sought out older street dancers, who sometimes helped him, sometimes bullied and beat him up. Rain and his younger sister, Hana, enjoyed a comfortable life until the Korean recession of 1997, when his father's mill and bakery businesses failed. Bankrupt, his father left for Brazil to pursue economic opportunities, leaving Rain's mother to try to support the family as a food vendor. Rain's mother was ailing from diabetes due to lack of money for medical care and insulin. Rain got a start in the entertainment business briefly as part of a six-member boy-band called Fanclub. Revealing abuses in the Korean entertainment industry, Rain described the Fanclub members as "caged animals" locked in the rehearsal room for up to ten hours without food. After Fanclub released only two CDs, the company promoting the band failed and Rain was back to square one. During his junior year of high school Rain lived with some of his dance group members, subsisting mostly on cups of ramen noodles. He auditioned eighteen times for entertainment companies but was told that, although he was talented, he was too ugly to become a star. He was told that he should have plastic surgery to create "double eyelids", a common Korean practice to obtain more western-looking eyes. Finally in 2000, he was accepted by JYP Entertainment as a trainee. CEO Park Jin Young, who put Rain through a grueling 3-4 hour audition, described Rain as "desperate" and "like a tiger who was about to starve to death" (2008 Discovery Channel documentary "Hip Korea"). JYP stipulated that Rain had to attend college so, after studying "ferociously," Rain got accepted to Kyunghee University and became a music major. Rain spent three years as a trainee and back-up dancer for JYP, who has stated that he was particularly critical of Rain in order to push him to be the best and keep him from "getting a swelled head." During Rain's time as a trainee, his family was living in poverty and his mother was becoming increasingly ill due to lack of money for medicine. Rain drove himself hard in order to prove himself ready to make his debut, but did not achieve success in time to save her life. She died from complications of diabetes a year before his debut. This event had a huge impact on Rain. He has said in interviews that he regrets having had conflict with her over skipping school to go to dance practice, and that he believes she is in heaven where she can see him. He says that a major motivation in his life is to make her proud and he still visits her grave before embarking on each new project. Another motivator Rain has mentioned is remembering what it was like to be hungry. He is a self-professed workaholic and after acting alongside him in Speed Racer, John Goodman called him "the hardest working man in show business."
Trivia random: His favorite artists are Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Regista: James McTeigue
Scrittore: Matthew Sand, J. Michael Straczynski
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Valutazione: 6.9/10 (3201 voti)
Durata: 99 min
Paese: USA, Germany
Lingua: English
Cast:
Trama:
Trained since childhood to be a lethal killer, Raizo has since turned his back on the Ozunu clan that raised him and now seeks revenge for their heartless murders. Teaming up with Europol investigator Mika, Raizo steadily butchers his enemies while inching ever closer to the long-awaited bloody reunion with his former master.
Trivia random: Producers Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski hired J. Michael Straczynski to completely rewrite the script six weeks before filming started, as they weren't satisfied with Matthew Sand's original work. Straczynski finished the rewrite in 53 hours.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Nome di battesimo: Kosugi, Shôichi
Data di nascita: 17 June 1948
Altezza: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Ultimi lavori:
Biografia:
Easily the best known actor/martial artist during the 1980s ninja cinema craze, Kosugi was a proficient martial artist & skilled weapons performer which was highlighted in his several starring roles. Kosugi grew up as the youngest child and only son of a Tokyo fisherman, and began his martial arts training at the age of five studying karate at a local dojo. Sho expanded upon his martial arts studies, also learning judo & kendo, and by his 18th birthday he had achieved the status of All Japan Karate Champion. Intent on entering the world of international finance, Sho left Japan at only 19 years old to study and reside in Los Angeles, USA where he achieved a Bachelor's Degree in Economics, yet he also remained focused on constantly improving his martial arts skills. Throughout the early 1970s, Sho competed in hundred's of martial arts tournaments & demonstrations including winning the L.A. Open in 1972, 1973 & 1974. In addition, he also met a young Chinese woman named Shook, who was eventually to become his wife and mother of his children, plus Sho had his first foray into the cinema with part's in a minor Taiwanese film titled "The Killers", and then in a Korean production, shot in Los Angeles known as "The Stranger From Korea". Sho's big break came in 1981 when karate legend Mike Stone pitched a screenplay under the title of "Dance of Death" to Cannon Films. Cannon was at the time, a lackluster production house that had two years prior been purchased by film producer cousins Menahem Golan & Yoram Globus. The innovative cousins quickly turned Cannon into a profitable key player in the independently produced film market by latching onto topics popular to the youth market, having rapid shooting schedules, relatively unknown casts and tight budgets. Menehem Golan once remarked that he believed it was impossible to lose money on a film shot for the US market with a budget of under $5 million!! Cannon Films backed Stone's screenplay and the title was changed to _Enter The Ninja (1981)_ starring Franco Nero, Christopher George & Susan George with filming completed in the Phillipines in early 1981. Sho's role was as the evil black ninja "Hasegawa", and his icy screen presence and martial arts skills grabbed the attention of martial arts film fans, and ignited the huge fascination with ninjitsu that engulfed martial arts for the next decade. With the financial success of their first "ninja" film, Cannon readily backed a further ninja movie, only this time Sho was elevated to being the star of the film and had become a good guy!! Revenge of the Ninja (1983) was shot in Salt Lake City, Utah in late 1982 and featured Sho as a ninja master forced to flee from Japan to America with his only surviving son, after the rest of his family are butchered by opposing ninjas's. Launching into an art importing business with an American business partner, Sho finds out too late that his partner is also a ninja, importing drugs hidden in Sho's Japanese dolls. The second film outstripped the first on box office takings, and Sho Kosugi was now the hottest star in martial arts cinema! Based on those booming ticket sales, Cannon were once again happy to back another ninja movie, and in late 1983 shooting commenced in Phoenix, Arizona on Ninja III: The Domination (1984). The plot line however, was a rather strange affair, with the spirit of dead ninja possessing the body of dance instructor Christie (played by Solid Gold dancer Lucinda Dickey)......it was a misguided attempt by Cannon to combine ninjutsu with the 80s break dancing craze and horror movies about possession. None the less, fans didn't seem to mind, and the third installment in Cannon's ninja trilogy did reasonable business at the box office. Kosugi then starred in the short lived action TV series _"The Master" (1984)_ alongside legendary screen bad guy 'Lee van Cleef', before going onto star in several more ninja films, including taking on Mafia thugs in the bloody Pray for Death (1985), stopping terrorists as a ninja commando in Nine Deaths of the Ninja (1985) and as a ninja secret agent taking on "the Muscles from Brussels" Jean-Claude Van Damme in the military adventure Black Eagle (1988). However, by 1990 the US movie going public had grown tired of a decade of black clad ninja's hurling shuriken's and swords at each other, and Sho Kosugi left Hollywood to venture back to Japan where he became involved in numerous TV productions again centered around martial arts. In 1992, Kosugi starred in his biggest budgeted movie to date, a samurai epic titled _Journey of Honor (1992)_ also featuring screen legends Toshirô Mifune and Christopher Lee. Since then, Kosugi has remained very active in Japanese TV, was involved in contributing martial arts choreography for the highly popular Sony Playstation game "Tenchu; Stealth Assassins", plus he returned to Hollywood in the late 1990s to set up the Sho Kosugi Institute to assist Asian actors wishing to break into the mainstream US film market. Undeniably, many of the ninja films featuring Sho Kosugi were marred by low budgets & cheap production....however his superb martial arts skills and captivating on screen presence have assured him a unique place in the history of martial arts cinema, and his name has become synonymous with the art of ninjitsu.
Trivia random: Performed the motion capturing for the Rikimaru character in the PlayStation game, "Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, " (1998) which was released in the U.S. and Japan.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Ultimi lavori:
Trivia random: Grew up in Sydney, Australia.
Citazione random: "I don't think anyone wants to go to the cinema and get preached at. You have to evolve the ideas, some of them political, some of them personal, into a film. Then the film becomes like a Trojan Horse. You push it into the village as one thing and it comes out another thing. Hopefully it is something people think about afterward, have discussions about, even vehemently disagree on. I like the idea you can have the entertainment and the political idea in there."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Nome di battesimo: Straczynski, Joseph Michael
Data di nascita: 17 July 1954
Altezza: 6' 3½" (1.92 m)
Coniuge: Kathryn M. Drennan::(? - ?) (divorced)
Ultimi lavori:
Trivia random: Although he attended his 20-year high school reunion, he only found one former classmate who "sort of" remembered him.
Citazione random: To me science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe'.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Nome di battesimo: Wachowski, Laurence
Data di nascita: 21 June 1965
Coniuge: Thea Bloom::(30 October 1993 - December 2002) (filed for divorce)
Ultimi lavori:
Trivia random: Attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School along with his brother Andy Wachowski in Chicago, Illinois.
Salario massimo: $4,000,000 + gross points, per The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Poootentissimo ninja di un millenario clan, fugge dopo aver fatto particolarmente poco per impedire la morte della pseudo-amata.
Nella sua strada per la vendetta, si ritroverà senza alcuna spiegazione plausibile a difendere una tizia dell'europol (ebbene sì) da ondate su ondate di fessi in calzamaglia che si fanno impallinare uno ad uno come tordi. Però sono letalissimi quando non serve, tipo contro tutte le comparse.
Si giunge infine allo scontro finale con Il Maestro® - uno Shô Kosugi più severo-ma-giusto del solito, coi suoi metodi didattici da Signorina Rottenmeier.
Il non avere una logica non sarebbe neanche un problema, se i combattimenti fossero fatti bene.
Purtroppo dare in mano la telecamera ad un malato di parkinson ubriaco, non si è rivelata una grande idea: movimenti convulsi e privi senso, messi lì - si suppone - per coprire l'inettitudine degli attori. Al qual proposito non si può non sottolineare la grande prova di quell'eclettico artista di Rain, che saltella in giro con la stessa disinvoltura con cui fa le smorfie.
Una regia senza freni ci regala poi altre perle in qua e in là, non ultimi dei grandi inseguimenti automobilistici ed una serie di ritratti di Kosugi visto di fronte/di lato/da sopra/da sotto.
Il film ha comunque i suoi meriti istruttivi: ad esempio scopriamo - ma già lo sospettavamo - che Shô Kosugi è in grado di eseguire complessi interventi chirurgici in laparoscopia a mani nude, e che il corpo umano contiene 300 litri di sangue, ad una pressione di 80 atmosfere.
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Voto: meno del numero di punte di uno shuriken.
Trashometro® 6/10:



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Wachowski, Andy
Nome di battesimo: Wachowski, Andrew Paul
Data di nascita: 29 December 1967
Altezza: 6' 3¼" (1.91 m)
Coniuge: Alisa Blasingame::(1991 - present)
Ultimi lavori:
- Ninja Assassin (2009) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Speed Racer (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
- The Matrix Online (2005) (VG) .... (characters) [scrittore]
- The Matrix: Path of Neo (2005) (VG) .... (writer) [scrittore]
- V for Vendetta (2005) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Enter the Matrix (2003) (VG) .... (written by) (as The Wachowski Brothers) [scrittore]
- Final Flight of the Osiris (2003) .... (written by) [scrittore]
- Kid's Story (2003) .... (story) [scrittore]
- The Animatrix (2003) .... (producer) [produttore]
- The Matrix Reloaded (2003) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
Trivia random: He and his brother have written a screenplay called "Carnivore". The script was one of the scripts on Empire magazine's "Twelve Greatest Unproduced Scripts In Hollywood" list. (As of October 2003 it is still unproduced.)
Salario massimo: $4,000,000 + gross points, per The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Rain (IV)
Nome di battesimo: Ji-Hoon, Jeong
Data di nascita: 25 June 1982
Altezza: 6' 0½" (1.84 m)
Ultimi lavori:
- Ninja Assassin (2009) .... Raizo [attore]
- "East of Eden" (2008) .... [attore]
- Speed Racer (2008) .... Taejo Togokahn [attore]
- Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family (2008) (V) .... Taejo Togokhan [attore]
- Saibogujiman kwenchana (2006) .... Park Il-sun [attore]
- "Pool ha-woo-seu" (2004) .... Lee Yeong-jae [attore]
- "Sangdooya hakgyo kaja!" (2003) .... Sang-doo Cha [attore]
Biografia:
Rain was born in Seoul, South Korea, on June 25, 1982 with the birth name Jung Jihoon. He was extremely shy in elementary school, stating in interviews that he barely spoke a word. He caught the desire to become a dancer when, at a school talent show in sixth grade, no one from his school stepped forward to dance so he gave it a try, imitating the moves he saw on TV. The applause was extremely gratifying and he decided on the spot to become a professional dancer. In order to learn, he sought out older street dancers, who sometimes helped him, sometimes bullied and beat him up. Rain and his younger sister, Hana, enjoyed a comfortable life until the Korean recession of 1997, when his father's mill and bakery businesses failed. Bankrupt, his father left for Brazil to pursue economic opportunities, leaving Rain's mother to try to support the family as a food vendor. Rain's mother was ailing from diabetes due to lack of money for medical care and insulin. Rain got a start in the entertainment business briefly as part of a six-member boy-band called Fanclub. Revealing abuses in the Korean entertainment industry, Rain described the Fanclub members as "caged animals" locked in the rehearsal room for up to ten hours without food. After Fanclub released only two CDs, the company promoting the band failed and Rain was back to square one. During his junior year of high school Rain lived with some of his dance group members, subsisting mostly on cups of ramen noodles. He auditioned eighteen times for entertainment companies but was told that, although he was talented, he was too ugly to become a star. He was told that he should have plastic surgery to create "double eyelids", a common Korean practice to obtain more western-looking eyes. Finally in 2000, he was accepted by JYP Entertainment as a trainee. CEO Park Jin Young, who put Rain through a grueling 3-4 hour audition, described Rain as "desperate" and "like a tiger who was about to starve to death" (2008 Discovery Channel documentary "Hip Korea"). JYP stipulated that Rain had to attend college so, after studying "ferociously," Rain got accepted to Kyunghee University and became a music major. Rain spent three years as a trainee and back-up dancer for JYP, who has stated that he was particularly critical of Rain in order to push him to be the best and keep him from "getting a swelled head." During Rain's time as a trainee, his family was living in poverty and his mother was becoming increasingly ill due to lack of money for medicine. Rain drove himself hard in order to prove himself ready to make his debut, but did not achieve success in time to save her life. She died from complications of diabetes a year before his debut. This event had a huge impact on Rain. He has said in interviews that he regrets having had conflict with her over skipping school to go to dance practice, and that he believes she is in heaven where she can see him. He says that a major motivation in his life is to make her proud and he still visits her grave before embarking on each new project. Another motivator Rain has mentioned is remembering what it was like to be hungry. He is a self-professed workaholic and after acting alongside him in Speed Racer, John Goodman called him "the hardest working man in show business."
Trivia random: His favorite artists are Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Ninja Assassin (2009)
Regista: James McTeigue
Scrittore: Matthew Sand, J. Michael Straczynski
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Valutazione: 6.9/10 (3201 voti)
Durata: 99 min
Paese: USA, Germany
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Sung Kang .... Hollywood
- Randall Duk Kim .... Tattoo Master
- Jonathan Chan-Pensley .... Yakuza Henchman
- Yuki Iwamoto .... Yakuza Couch
- Ill-Young Kim .... Yakuza Mohawk
- Ben Miles .... Maslow
- Naomie Harris .... Mika
- Rain .... Raizo
- Stephen Marcus .... Kingpin
- Linh Dan Pham .... Pretty Ninja
Trama:
Trained since childhood to be a lethal killer, Raizo has since turned his back on the Ozunu clan that raised him and now seeks revenge for their heartless murders. Teaming up with Europol investigator Mika, Raizo steadily butchers his enemies while inching ever closer to the long-awaited bloody reunion with his former master.
Trivia random: Producers Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski hired J. Michael Straczynski to completely rewrite the script six weeks before filming started, as they weren't satisfied with Matthew Sand's original work. Straczynski finished the rewrite in 53 hours.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Kosugi, Shô
Nome di battesimo: Kosugi, Shôichi
Data di nascita: 17 June 1948
Altezza: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Ultimi lavori:
- Ninja Assassin (2009) .... Ozunu [attore]
- The Scorpion King (2002) .... (choreographer: taiko) [misc]
- Tenchu (1998) (VG) .... Rikimaru (voice: Japanese version) [attore]
- Kyokutô koku shakai (1993) .... Larry Matsuda [attore]
- Za kakuto oh (1993) .... [regista]
- Kabuto (1991) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Blind Fury (1989) .... The Assassin (as Sho Kosugi) [attore]
- Aloha Summer (1988) .... Yukinaga Konishi [attore]
- Black Eagle (1988) .... Ken Tani [attore]
- Rage of Honor (1987) .... Shiro Tanaka [attore]
Biografia:
Easily the best known actor/martial artist during the 1980s ninja cinema craze, Kosugi was a proficient martial artist & skilled weapons performer which was highlighted in his several starring roles. Kosugi grew up as the youngest child and only son of a Tokyo fisherman, and began his martial arts training at the age of five studying karate at a local dojo. Sho expanded upon his martial arts studies, also learning judo & kendo, and by his 18th birthday he had achieved the status of All Japan Karate Champion. Intent on entering the world of international finance, Sho left Japan at only 19 years old to study and reside in Los Angeles, USA where he achieved a Bachelor's Degree in Economics, yet he also remained focused on constantly improving his martial arts skills. Throughout the early 1970s, Sho competed in hundred's of martial arts tournaments & demonstrations including winning the L.A. Open in 1972, 1973 & 1974. In addition, he also met a young Chinese woman named Shook, who was eventually to become his wife and mother of his children, plus Sho had his first foray into the cinema with part's in a minor Taiwanese film titled "The Killers", and then in a Korean production, shot in Los Angeles known as "The Stranger From Korea". Sho's big break came in 1981 when karate legend Mike Stone pitched a screenplay under the title of "Dance of Death" to Cannon Films. Cannon was at the time, a lackluster production house that had two years prior been purchased by film producer cousins Menahem Golan & Yoram Globus. The innovative cousins quickly turned Cannon into a profitable key player in the independently produced film market by latching onto topics popular to the youth market, having rapid shooting schedules, relatively unknown casts and tight budgets. Menehem Golan once remarked that he believed it was impossible to lose money on a film shot for the US market with a budget of under $5 million!! Cannon Films backed Stone's screenplay and the title was changed to _Enter The Ninja (1981)_ starring Franco Nero, Christopher George & Susan George with filming completed in the Phillipines in early 1981. Sho's role was as the evil black ninja "Hasegawa", and his icy screen presence and martial arts skills grabbed the attention of martial arts film fans, and ignited the huge fascination with ninjitsu that engulfed martial arts for the next decade. With the financial success of their first "ninja" film, Cannon readily backed a further ninja movie, only this time Sho was elevated to being the star of the film and had become a good guy!! Revenge of the Ninja (1983) was shot in Salt Lake City, Utah in late 1982 and featured Sho as a ninja master forced to flee from Japan to America with his only surviving son, after the rest of his family are butchered by opposing ninjas's. Launching into an art importing business with an American business partner, Sho finds out too late that his partner is also a ninja, importing drugs hidden in Sho's Japanese dolls. The second film outstripped the first on box office takings, and Sho Kosugi was now the hottest star in martial arts cinema! Based on those booming ticket sales, Cannon were once again happy to back another ninja movie, and in late 1983 shooting commenced in Phoenix, Arizona on Ninja III: The Domination (1984). The plot line however, was a rather strange affair, with the spirit of dead ninja possessing the body of dance instructor Christie (played by Solid Gold dancer Lucinda Dickey)......it was a misguided attempt by Cannon to combine ninjutsu with the 80s break dancing craze and horror movies about possession. None the less, fans didn't seem to mind, and the third installment in Cannon's ninja trilogy did reasonable business at the box office. Kosugi then starred in the short lived action TV series _"The Master" (1984)_ alongside legendary screen bad guy 'Lee van Cleef', before going onto star in several more ninja films, including taking on Mafia thugs in the bloody Pray for Death (1985), stopping terrorists as a ninja commando in Nine Deaths of the Ninja (1985) and as a ninja secret agent taking on "the Muscles from Brussels" Jean-Claude Van Damme in the military adventure Black Eagle (1988). However, by 1990 the US movie going public had grown tired of a decade of black clad ninja's hurling shuriken's and swords at each other, and Sho Kosugi left Hollywood to venture back to Japan where he became involved in numerous TV productions again centered around martial arts. In 1992, Kosugi starred in his biggest budgeted movie to date, a samurai epic titled _Journey of Honor (1992)_ also featuring screen legends Toshirô Mifune and Christopher Lee. Since then, Kosugi has remained very active in Japanese TV, was involved in contributing martial arts choreography for the highly popular Sony Playstation game "Tenchu; Stealth Assassins", plus he returned to Hollywood in the late 1990s to set up the Sho Kosugi Institute to assist Asian actors wishing to break into the mainstream US film market. Undeniably, many of the ninja films featuring Sho Kosugi were marred by low budgets & cheap production....however his superb martial arts skills and captivating on screen presence have assured him a unique place in the history of martial arts cinema, and his name has become synonymous with the art of ninjitsu.
Trivia random: Performed the motion capturing for the Rikimaru character in the PlayStation game, "Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, " (1998) which was released in the U.S. and Japan.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
McTeigue, James
Ultimi lavori:
- Ninja Assassin (2009) .... [regista]
- The Invasion (2007) .... (additional director) (uncredited) [regista]
- V for Vendetta (2005) .... [regista]
- Belinda (1988) .... (production assistant) (as James McTiegue) [misc]
- Boundaries of the Heart (1988) .... (production runner) [misc]
Trivia random: Grew up in Sydney, Australia.
Citazione random: "I don't think anyone wants to go to the cinema and get preached at. You have to evolve the ideas, some of them political, some of them personal, into a film. Then the film becomes like a Trojan Horse. You push it into the village as one thing and it comes out another thing. Hopefully it is something people think about afterward, have discussions about, even vehemently disagree on. I like the idea you can have the entertainment and the political idea in there."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Straczynski, J. Michael
Nome di battesimo: Straczynski, Joseph Michael
Data di nascita: 17 July 1954
Altezza: 6' 3½" (1.92 m)
Coniuge: Kathryn M. Drennan::(? - ?) (divorced)
Ultimi lavori:
- They Marched Into Sunlight (2010) .... (writer) [scrittore]
- Ninja Assassin (2009) .... (screenplay) [scrittore]
- Changeling (2008) .... (written by) [scrittore]
- Babylon 5: The Lost Tales - Voices in the Dark (2007) (V) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers: To Live and Die in Starlight (2002) (TV) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For (2000) (TV) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999) (TV) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- "Crusade" (1999) .... (title designer: main titles) (unknown episodes) [misc]
- Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998) (TV) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998) (TV) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
Trivia random: Although he attended his 20-year high school reunion, he only found one former classmate who "sort of" remembered him.
Citazione random: To me science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe'.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Wachowski, Larry
Nome di battesimo: Wachowski, Laurence
Data di nascita: 21 June 1965
Coniuge: Thea Bloom::(30 October 1993 - December 2002) (filed for divorce)
Ultimi lavori:
- Ninja Assassin (2009) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Speed Racer (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
- The Matrix Online (2005) (VG) .... (characters) [scrittore]
- The Matrix: Path of Neo (2005) (VG) .... (writer) [scrittore]
- V for Vendetta (2005) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Enter the Matrix (2003) (VG) .... (written by) (as The Wachowski Brothers) [scrittore]
- Final Flight of the Osiris (2003) .... (written by) [scrittore]
- Kid's Story (2003) .... (story) [scrittore]
- The Animatrix (2003) .... (producer) [produttore]
- The Matrix Reloaded (2003) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
Trivia random: Attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School along with his brother Andy Wachowski in Chicago, Illinois.
Salario massimo: $4,000,000 + gross points, per The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
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