"Predator": everything you need to know before viewing the new movie
Cinema / / December 19, 2019
September 13, the screens out the new "Predator" from director Shane Black. Almost everyone remembers the first film from the eighties, where the military are faced with an alien in the jungle. But the continuation of the story have been less successful.
Predator
In fact, the first movie "Predator" was born out of a joke. In the eighties at the height of the popularity of the movies were cool guys pumped. And after the triumph "Rocky 4"Sylvester Stallone in Hollywood joked that now the main character of the franchise remains only to defeat the alien.
Budding writers Thomas brothers liked the idea, and they came up with the story of the confrontation between the hero and the stranger in the jungle.
The main role initially wanted to take Danny Glover, but he refused. And then the authors invited to the star "Commando" and "Terminator" Arnold Schwarzenegger. To avoid the analogy with "Rambo", the hero did not alone, but part of a SWAT team.
In the story of a group of military bombarded the jungle to rescue the hostages held by local rebels. But there they are faced with an unknown alien-hunter who can be invisible. The whole team are killed, it remains alive only hero Schwarzenegger.
I wonder what the role of the Predator (originally his, by the way, called the hunter) invited Jean-Claude Van Damme. But that did not suit too heavy costume and role, which will not be seen on his face. And the authors of the film did not like the small growth of Van Damme.
And another interesting fact about the cast. On all the main roles were looking for a big and beefy men. Knocked out of the team, only one character - a lean joker radio operator Rick Hawkins. The thing is that it is - the famous screenwriter Shane Black. The film was shot novice director John McTiernan, and producers asked Black to play a "predator", and at the same time to help with the work on the film.
The movie "Predator" instantly won acclaim. Primarily because of the realistic shooting and advanced special effects. Most of the pictures really filmed on location, and the actors had a lot to give everything to play all at the appropriate level: they constantly ran cross country, fell into the dirty water and dragged the heavy weapon.
In addition, part of the dialogue was not spelled out in the script. So many characters invented on the fly.
predator 2
According to the initial idea, the new Predator had to open the hunt for Schwarzenegger's. There was also an option to transfer actions during World War II and make the American and German soldiers together to fight with the aliens.
But in the end the second part was easier. The authors decided to talk about the next confrontation Predator and brave police officer, played by Danny Glover. It attracted the success of the first film.
Events unfold in Los Angeles, where the struggle for influence in the Colombian and Jamaican mafia. Hero Glover, investigating crime, victims are found, with whom skinned - so kill some Predator victims in the first film.
Then a police officer encounters an alien who uses his technology to prey on humans. And here it becomes clear that the predator kills only armed without touching civilians. Government agents trying to track down and catch a predator, to take possession of his technology, but he destroys the whole group of capture and remains one on one with the main character.
In the box the picture has collected little, and critics disliked it.
It may have played a role secondary ideas. Or the film itself came not as exciting and dynamic as the first part, in which there was simply no time to think about the illogicality of some scenes. Whatever it was, the sequel only praised for his acting game, Danny Glover, and the rest of the film flopped.
But the final picture has created a good foundation for an almost infinite number of sequels. Firstly, the new Predators, who came to take away the wounded brother, left the hero for free pistol 1715. This means that there are hunters in the world since ancient times.
And secondly, in one scene in the background flashed Alien skull of another famous franchise. The thing is that the special effects of the second "Predator" made by the same studio that created "Alien". But it is suggested that races exist in the same fictional world.
Alien vs. Predator
It is this idea took advantage of 10-plus years, the authors of the next movie, which brought together just two stories about aliens. Among the heroes of the "Alien vs. Predator", for example, Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) - Founder "Weyland-Industries" (later - part of the "Weyland-Yutani" which sent ships to the space in the "Aliens"), as well as a prototype of robots such as "Bishop".
Weiland organizes an expedition to the ice-covered desert island, where in ancient pyramid discovered thermal activity. In the pyramid are the eggs of others, and the people are infected. And this time, predators ship arrives on Earth.
It turns out that predators since ancient times diluted ksenomorfov to practice hunting. And people worshiped hunters, teaching them construction, and sacrificed. Human flesh went to feed a stranger.
Directed by Paul W. FROM. Anderson, after the release of "Resident evil"I picked up a seemingly great idea: each franchise in the world with millions of fans. But successfully combine the two stories did not. The film is very vague plot, most of the characters here looks simply unnecessary. In this case, the special effects showing a greased, and the picture is often too dark.
For this "Alien vs. Predator" I have received several antipremiyu, including a "Golden Raspberry". However, the popularity of the two franchises still attracted enough viewers to theaters. And the box office allowed to start production of the sequel.
Aliens vs. Predator. Requiem
At the end of the previous film viewers for the first time showed a mutant - the Alien, who was born in the body of the Predator. Fans then called this hybrid Chuzhehischnikom and Predalienom. It and decided to make the central character of the new part.
In the story of this mutant predators captures the ship and returned to Earth, where it becomes the uterus and begins to strangers multiply by laying eggs in others (here, by the way, the authors of the idea of moving away from breeding ksenomorfov using Facehugger).
On the home planet of predators on Earth send cleaning, which must destroy the monster and hide traces of its existence. But his arrival is already someone else's time to multiply. So the hunter faced with an entire colony, and then with himself mutant.
The filmmakers could not show anything interesting.
In the first place because of all the human characters seem just extras or cannon fodder, they do not have their history. Emphasis decide to make blood and cruelty, while again hiding all the interesting scene in the dark.
The film, like the previous one, has paid off at the box office, but received very low ratings and the extremely negative reviews.
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Robert Rodriguez - known director and one Quentin Tarantino - for many years I wanted to make a film about a predator. He offered his script to studios even after the first part. But then the idea of a novice director no one is interested.
However, in 2010 still left the movie "Predator", which continues the idea of the first paintings. However, Rodriguez did not direct it, and made only a producer and screenwriter.
The atmosphere of "Predators" returns to the first part. The action again takes place in the jungle, and in the center of the plot - a team of trained people. But now they are on another planet and do not know how they got there. In addition, the characters do not know each other.
But then everything happens in much the same: people are trying to survive, and the predators hunt them.
In this film, I felt love and respect to the original.
Is that Rodriguez and director Nimrod Antal bit complicated relationship between the characters. Now among them the military of various countries (including Russian, played by Oleg Taktarov), fugitive criminals, drug dealers and yakuza. And the hunters themselves became ambiguous: they fight with each other, and one kept in captivity.
This film took much better than the previous largely thanks to a good actor's ensemble. The main role played Adrien Brody. Also in the film starring Danny Trejo, Mahershala Ali, Topher Grace, Laurence Fishburne, and many others.
But nostalgia has played a role. "Predators" atmospherically very similar to the classic Adventure 80-90. At this point, it is estimated critics, the film loses only to the first.
Predator
Work on the new part of the franchise was still with 2014. A year later, he announced that director Shane Black would be - the same radio operator, that appeared in the first film. Black, like Rodriguez, a big fan of history predators. He even planned to invite to the continuation of the main characters of the first film, but all of them refused.
According to the director, the new film does not restart, and continues the franchise, while ignoring the events of the "Alien vs. Predator."
In the story, the boy accidentally triggers a mechanism that returns the aliens on Earth. They have become even stronger and more dangerous due to genetic engineering. And now a group of soldiers and scientists will have to find ways to stop them.
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