Director:
David Dobkin
Writers (WGA):
Steve Faber (written by)
Bob Fisher (written by)
Release Date :
USA 15 July 2005
Genre:
Comedy | Romance
Cast :
* Owen Wilson as John Beckwith - One half of the wedding crasher duo. John is a bachelor attorney riding high on his success with Jeremy, but unlike his friend, seems to be developing a conscience after taking advantage of so many women.
* Vince Vaughn as Jeremy Grey - The other half of the wedding crasher duo, and an unrepentant womanizer. He remains a loyal friend to John, even sticking it out over one tumultuous weekend at the Clearys'. He eventually meets his match in Gloria Cleary.
* Christopher Walken as United States Secretary of the Treasury William Cleary - A big sailing fan and oblivious head of the dysfunctional Cleary household. He is generally affable man, but punishes anyone who insults his wife or his three daughters. He is considered a possible presidential candidate.
* Rachel McAdams as Claire Cleary - Middle daughter of William Cleary and the love interest of John. A sweet girl and full-time environmental activist. Claire does not easily accept clichés.
* Isla Fisher as Gloria Cleary - Youngest daughter of William Cleary. A mentally unstable nymphomaniac who is obsessed with Jeremy and forces increasingly kinky sex acts on him. Initially he calls her "a stage five clinger" but ultimately falls in love with her.
* Jane Seymour as Kathleen "Kitty Kat" Cleary - The alcoholic wife of Secretary Cleary who attempts to seduce John by making him fondle her surgically-enhanced breasts.
* Ellen Albertini Dow as "Grandma" Mary Cleary - William's mother, Kathleen's mother-in-law, and the siblings grandmother who lives in the compound.
* Keir O'Donnell as Todd Cleary - The reclusive, hyper-sensitive son of William and Kathleen. He is an extremely angry homosexual artist. He is also convinced Jeremy "had a moment" with him at the dinner table, and tries to seduce him and play tummysticks. He creates a painting devoted to Jeremy, who finds it unsettling - however, when John and Jeremy are thrown out, Jeremy demands to keep the painting...momentarily startling Todd into a rare moment of satisfaction and suggesting that Jeremy has taken him seriously as an artist and likes his work.
* Bradley Cooper as Zachary "Sack" Lodge - Claire's sociopathic, testosterone-fueled, preppy, violent boyfriend who is obsessed with winning at any cost. Though he cheats regularly on Claire, he is threatened by John and Jeremy. After physically abusing John, Zach gets his just desserts in the end.
* Henry Gibson as Father O'Neil, the priest officiating at several weddings.
* Jennifer Alden as Christina Cleary - Eldest daughter of William Cleary, she is getting married when John and Jeremy crash her wedding and meet Gloria and Claire.
* Will Ferrell as Chazz Reinhold - The sage who passed on the wedding crashing rules to his protege Jeremy in 1993. He happily lives with his mother who, according to John, tried to poison Chazz's oatmeal. Chazz has most recently moved on from crashing weddings, and now predominantly crashes funerals.
Original Sound Track :
1. The Sound of Settling - Death Cab for Cutie
2. Love Underground - Robbers on High Street
3. Aside - The Weakerthans
4. (Splash) Turn Twist - Jimmy Eat World
5. Sister Jack - Spoon
6. I Hope Tomorrow Is Like Today - Guster
7. In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry
8. This Modern Love - Bloc Party
9. Rock 'N Roll - The Sounds
10. Mr. Ambulance Driver - The Flaming Lips
11. Circus - The Sights
12. Cinnamon - The Long Winters
13. More Adventurous - Rilo Kiley
14. Shout - The Isley Brothers
15. Hava Nagilah - Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson/The Klezmer Juice Band
Plot :
Single bachelors and lifelong best friends, John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) are business partners in divorce mediation in Washington D.C.. The friends frequently "crash" wedding parties to meet women, working from a set of rules taught to them by a past ‘crasher,’ Chazz. The duo always have cover stories for inquisitive guests and inevitably become the hit of every reception, to charm their way into bed with ladies at the wedding for a one night stand.
After a sequence of successful ‘crashes,’ Jeremy spots the wedding of the daughter of the Secretary of the Treasury William Cleary and his wife, Kathleen. After infiltrating the lavish event as brothers, John and Jeremy set their sights on two bridesmaids, also daughters of Secretary Cleary: Claire (Rachel McAdams) and Gloria Cleary (Isla Fisher). While Jeremy manages to make it on the beach with "stage-five clinger" and supposed virgin Gloria, John works on Claire. While talking afterwards, John is blocked by Claire's hotheaded and controlling Ivy League graduate boyfriend Zach, whom as the film progresses, isn't such a loyal boyfriend when he brags of his sexual conquests to his buddies behind Claire's back and seems to only want to marry Claire so he can advance his future political career by marrying into the family of powerful political figure. John convinces a resistant Jeremy to break the rules and accept an invitation to an extended weekend party at the Cleary family compound.
Jeremy and John are convinced into playing touch football where Jeremy is hurt by Claire's obnoxious boyfriend. Gloria puts Band-Aids on Jeremy, hoping to have sex with him. However, Jeremy turns her down with a philosophical love speech. Jeremy is shown to not really like Gloria all that much, at least not initially. At dinner later that day with Jeremy's assistance, John proceeds to spike Zach's wine with eye-drops which makes him sick, letting John have some alone time with Claire. That night, Gloria ties up Jeremy while he sleeps and then has her way with him. Jeremy is then visited by the girl's brother Todd later that night, thinking the two had "had a moment" earlier at the dinner table to which his advances are quickly rebuffed by a terrified Jeremy. The next morning, Jeremy asks John to leave the island with him but John convinces him otherwise. The family takes a boat ride in the afternoon, which ends in a hunting trip in which Zach shoots Jeremy in the rear end. John and Claire leave on a bike ride in which they connect deeply. In the meantime, Gloria reveals to relieved Jeremy that she was not a virgin. She merely told him so, as she "thought that's what guys liked to hear." John and Claire return from their bike ride, after which Zach "proposes" to Claire by announcing their engagement, leaving Claire at a loss for words. John talks to Claire afterwards, as she is apparently discomforted by the announcement. John tries to comfort her but ends up telling her his true feelings for her. They are interrupted by Jeremy running out of the house being chased by the grandmother with a gun. Zach comes out and tells the family who the "brothers" really are, as he had them privately investigated. John reveals their true identities, upsetting and hurting the entire Cleary family, particularly Claire. John and Jeremy are forced to leave the island.
John and Jeremy return to their normal lives; however, John is distraught, as he was never given the chance to reconcile with Claire, even though he attempted to contact her multiple times. During one such attempt, John pretends to be a waiter at Claire and Zach's engagement party. However, he is caught and brutally beaten by Zach and his friends. He returns home to find Jeremy, who was supposed to have attended the event with John, locked in a passionate moment with Gloria. This results in a rift between John and Jeremy, as they no longer see eye-to-eye on the idea of marriage. John crashes several more weddings by himself, but behaves erratically. Meanwhile, Jeremy continues his relationship with Gloria, culminating in an accepted marriage proposal. Jeremy attempts to reconcile with John, asking him to be his best man, but John cannot bear to think about the marriage and asks Jeremy to leave.
John meets their mentor Chazz (Will Ferrell) to reaffirm Jeremy's apparent stupidity in getting engaged. During the visit, he discovers that Chazz has moved onto "funeral crashing," as he believes that grief is the best aphrodisiac. John joins Chazz on an outing, but is taken aback by the amount of love and sorrow shown by the widow of the deceased. He reconsiders his stance on love and marriage and rushes to Jeremy's wedding. He joins them mid-ceremony as the best man, but disrupts it by attempting to speak to Claire while standing at the altar. After intense arguments and a mild scuffle, Claire finally reveals that she, too, has feelings for John. Zach is dumbfounded by the situation, and turns to Secretary Cleary for help. However, Secretary Cleary fully supports his daughter's decision to reject Zach. Defeated and clearly angry, Zach begins demanding Claire to return to the altar (And his true nature being shown in front of the entire wedding.) before attacking John; however, Jeremy intervenes and knocks Zach to the ground with a solid punch. The film ends with Jeremy getting married to Gloria, John uniting with Claire, and the two couples driving away joking about crashing a wedding all together.
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
King Kong
Director:
Peter Jackson
Writing credits
(WGA)
Fran Walsh (screenplay)
Philippa Boyens (screenplay)
Peter Jackson (screenplay)
Merian C. Cooper (story)
Edgar Wallace (story)
Release Date :
USA 5 December 2005 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
Genre:
Adventure | Romance
Cast :
* Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow: A struggling vaudeville actress who is desperate to continue acting. Carl Denham discovers her attempting to steal an apple from a fruit stand, only to pay for it himself. She is a big fan of Jack Driscoll, but knows nothing about acting in a movie. During the course of the voyage, she falls in love with Driscoll. She also forms a special relationship with Kong. Ann herself is very confident, beautiful, and capable of handling herself in a tough situation.
* Jack Black as Carl Denham: A film director who obtained the map to Skull Island. Due to his desperate situation — involving debts and theft — Carl is obsessive and slowly loses his moral compass during the film. His producers are convinced that he is on a wild goose chase and the police have a warrant for his arrest.
* Adrien Brody as Jack Driscoll: A scriptwriter who falls for Ann. He is on the voyage mistakenly, when he delivers 15 pages of script to Denham, who consequently delays him as the SS Venture begins its voyage. Jack is quickly enchanted by Ann's beauty and charm, and plans to write a play for her. He refuses to give up on Ann's rescue, even continuing on alone even the crew turns back. He is heavily involved with Kong's return to Manhattan.
* Thomas Kretschmann as Captain Englehorn: The German Captain of the SS Venture, who Denham has hired to take the film crew to Skull Island.
* Colin Hanks as Preston: Denham's neurotic but honest personal assistant.
* Jamie Bell as Jimmy: A boy who was found on the SS Venture, wild and abandoned. He is a kleptomaniac and views Hayes as a father figure.
* Evan Parke as Ben Hayes: Englehorn's first mate and a friend of Lumpy, who leads Ann's rescue mission due to his army training and combat experience gained during World War I. He is killed during the log scene after Kong snatches him and subsequently throws him against the rock wall. In the extended cut, Jimmy takes his hat in remembrance after the group is rescued from the insect pit.
* Lobo Chan as Choy: Lumpy's best friend and a janitor on the Venture, who falls to his death during the log scene.
* Kyle Chandler as Bruce Baxter: An actor who specialises in adventure films such as Tribal Brides of the Amazon, Rough Trader, and Dame Tamer. He abandons Ann's rescue mission but brings Englehorn to rescue them from the insect pit, and is given credit for rescuing Ann during the Broadway display of Kong. He has sense once more to leave before Kong escapes.
* Andy Serkis as Kong (motion capture and voice): A 25-ft gorilla who is around 120–150 years old.[4] He is the last of his species, Megaprimatus kong.
o Andy Serkis as Lumpy: The ship's cook, barber and surgeon. He is a brave sailor who goes to search for Ann but is eaten alive in the pit after fighting a group of leech-like creatures.
* John Sumner as Herb: Denham's loyal camera man who has a fake right leg. He is killed by a pack of Venatosaurus after the Brontosaurus stampede.
* Craig Hall as Mike: Denham's soundman for the journey and ends up being the first person to be killed by the Skull Island natives when a spear impales him.
* Jed Brophy and Todd Rippon cameoed as crew members.
Original Sound Track :
1. King Kong
2. Fateful Meeting, A
3. Defeat Is Always Momentary
4. It's in the Subtext
5. Two Grand
6. Venture Departs, The
7. Last Blank Space on the Map
8. It's Deserted
9. Something Mysterious...Neither Beast Nor Man
10. Head Towards the Animals
11. Beautiful
12. Tooth & Claw
13. That's All There Is
14. Captured
15. Central Park
16. Empire State Building, The
17. Beauty & The Beast I
18. Beauty & The Beast II
19. Beauty & The Beast III
20. Beauty & The Beast IV
21. Beauty & The Beast V
Plot :
The film opens in New York City, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression. Having lost her job as a vaudeville actress, Ann Darrow is hired by troubled filmmaker Carl Denham to be an actress in his new motion picture against the famous and popular actor Bruce Baxter. With time running out, Ann signs on when she learns her favourite playwright Jack Driscoll is the screenwriter. On the SS Venture, they slowly fall in love. As for Carl, a warrant is out for his arrest and Captain Englehorn begins to have second thoughts, following the fears of his crew over the legend of Skull Island. Despite his attempt to turn around, their ship is sucked up into a fog and crashes into one of the encircling rocks.
Carl and his crew explore the island, with a deserted village against a wall, but they are attacked by the vicious natives. Mike, the sound technician, is speared, one of the sailors has his head crushed, and Jack is knocked out. Ann screams, and a roar beyond the wall responds. The matriarch vows to sacrifice her to "Kong", a 25 ft (8 m) gorilla. Englehorn and his crew break up the attack and return to the damaged ship. They finally lighten the load to steer away, until Jack discovers Ann has been kidnapped. On the island, Ann is hung from a balcony to the other side of a valley. The crew comes armed, but are too late. Carl sees the gorilla that has taken her. Englehorn gives them 24 hours to find her. In the meantime, Ann discovers the remains of the previous sacrifices, and stabs Kong's hand with her ceremonial necklace to no avail. Kong takes Ann into the jungles of the island.
Captain Englehorn organises a rescue party to find Ann and hunt down the beast. The rescue party is caught up in a Venatosaurus pack's hunt of Brontosaurus, and four of them (including Herb, the cameraman) are killed while Jack and the rest of the crew survive. Ann manages to entertain Kong with juggling and dancing, but he does not kill her when she refuses to continue, leaving her instead. The rest of the rescue party come across a swamp. It is here that Bruce Baxter and two others leave the group. The survivors stumble across a log where Kong attacks, shaking them off the log into a ravine. He returns to rescue Ann from three Vastatosaurus rex (modern Tyrannosaurus), and takes her up to his mountain lair. While there, Ann briefly attempts to communicate with Kong using sign language, but without success. Englehorn and the rest of the crew rescue whomever is left of the rescue party from the pit of giant insects, and as Jack decides to continue to search for Ann, Carl decides to capture Kong. Jack comes to Kong's lair, and disturbs him from his slumber. As Kong fights a swarm of giant bats, Ann and Jack escape by grabbing the wing of a Terapusmordax and then jumping to a river. They arrive at the village wall with the angry Kong following them, where Ann becomes distraught by what Carl plans to do. Kong bursts through the gate and struggles to get her back, but he is knocked out by chloroform.
In New York around Christmas, Carl presents Kong — the Eighth Wonder of the World on Broadway. Ann has become an anonymous chorus girl and a double of her is used as a replacement in the play however Kong becomes enraged from the fake 'Ann' and breaks free from his chrome-steel chains. Causing chaos throughout the town searching for Ann by picking up several look alikes, Jack looks him in the eye and results in a chase across town where Kong eventually encounters Ann again. They share a quiet moment on a frozen lake in Central Park before they are interrupted by the military. Kong climbs onto the Empire State Building, and observing the dawning day repeats the sign for "beautiful" Ann had used in his lair, causing a shocked Ann to realize his intelligence. Before Ann is able to attempt further communication they are again attacked and Kong makes his last stand against the Curtiss Helldivers,[3] downing three of them. Ultimately Kong is hit by several bursts of gunfire from the surviving planes, and gazes at a distraught Ann for the last time before falling off the building to his death. Ann is greeted by Jack, and the reporters flood to Kong's corpse. Carl takes one last look and says, "It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."
Pictures :
Peter Jackson
Writing credits
(WGA)
Fran Walsh (screenplay)
Philippa Boyens (screenplay)
Peter Jackson (screenplay)
Merian C. Cooper (story)
Edgar Wallace (story)
Release Date :
USA 5 December 2005 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
Genre:
Adventure | Romance
Cast :
* Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow: A struggling vaudeville actress who is desperate to continue acting. Carl Denham discovers her attempting to steal an apple from a fruit stand, only to pay for it himself. She is a big fan of Jack Driscoll, but knows nothing about acting in a movie. During the course of the voyage, she falls in love with Driscoll. She also forms a special relationship with Kong. Ann herself is very confident, beautiful, and capable of handling herself in a tough situation.
* Jack Black as Carl Denham: A film director who obtained the map to Skull Island. Due to his desperate situation — involving debts and theft — Carl is obsessive and slowly loses his moral compass during the film. His producers are convinced that he is on a wild goose chase and the police have a warrant for his arrest.
* Adrien Brody as Jack Driscoll: A scriptwriter who falls for Ann. He is on the voyage mistakenly, when he delivers 15 pages of script to Denham, who consequently delays him as the SS Venture begins its voyage. Jack is quickly enchanted by Ann's beauty and charm, and plans to write a play for her. He refuses to give up on Ann's rescue, even continuing on alone even the crew turns back. He is heavily involved with Kong's return to Manhattan.
* Thomas Kretschmann as Captain Englehorn: The German Captain of the SS Venture, who Denham has hired to take the film crew to Skull Island.
* Colin Hanks as Preston: Denham's neurotic but honest personal assistant.
* Jamie Bell as Jimmy: A boy who was found on the SS Venture, wild and abandoned. He is a kleptomaniac and views Hayes as a father figure.
* Evan Parke as Ben Hayes: Englehorn's first mate and a friend of Lumpy, who leads Ann's rescue mission due to his army training and combat experience gained during World War I. He is killed during the log scene after Kong snatches him and subsequently throws him against the rock wall. In the extended cut, Jimmy takes his hat in remembrance after the group is rescued from the insect pit.
* Lobo Chan as Choy: Lumpy's best friend and a janitor on the Venture, who falls to his death during the log scene.
* Kyle Chandler as Bruce Baxter: An actor who specialises in adventure films such as Tribal Brides of the Amazon, Rough Trader, and Dame Tamer. He abandons Ann's rescue mission but brings Englehorn to rescue them from the insect pit, and is given credit for rescuing Ann during the Broadway display of Kong. He has sense once more to leave before Kong escapes.
* Andy Serkis as Kong (motion capture and voice): A 25-ft gorilla who is around 120–150 years old.[4] He is the last of his species, Megaprimatus kong.
o Andy Serkis as Lumpy: The ship's cook, barber and surgeon. He is a brave sailor who goes to search for Ann but is eaten alive in the pit after fighting a group of leech-like creatures.
* John Sumner as Herb: Denham's loyal camera man who has a fake right leg. He is killed by a pack of Venatosaurus after the Brontosaurus stampede.
* Craig Hall as Mike: Denham's soundman for the journey and ends up being the first person to be killed by the Skull Island natives when a spear impales him.
* Jed Brophy and Todd Rippon cameoed as crew members.
Original Sound Track :
1. King Kong
2. Fateful Meeting, A
3. Defeat Is Always Momentary
4. It's in the Subtext
5. Two Grand
6. Venture Departs, The
7. Last Blank Space on the Map
8. It's Deserted
9. Something Mysterious...Neither Beast Nor Man
10. Head Towards the Animals
11. Beautiful
12. Tooth & Claw
13. That's All There Is
14. Captured
15. Central Park
16. Empire State Building, The
17. Beauty & The Beast I
18. Beauty & The Beast II
19. Beauty & The Beast III
20. Beauty & The Beast IV
21. Beauty & The Beast V
Plot :
The film opens in New York City, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression. Having lost her job as a vaudeville actress, Ann Darrow is hired by troubled filmmaker Carl Denham to be an actress in his new motion picture against the famous and popular actor Bruce Baxter. With time running out, Ann signs on when she learns her favourite playwright Jack Driscoll is the screenwriter. On the SS Venture, they slowly fall in love. As for Carl, a warrant is out for his arrest and Captain Englehorn begins to have second thoughts, following the fears of his crew over the legend of Skull Island. Despite his attempt to turn around, their ship is sucked up into a fog and crashes into one of the encircling rocks.
Carl and his crew explore the island, with a deserted village against a wall, but they are attacked by the vicious natives. Mike, the sound technician, is speared, one of the sailors has his head crushed, and Jack is knocked out. Ann screams, and a roar beyond the wall responds. The matriarch vows to sacrifice her to "Kong", a 25 ft (8 m) gorilla. Englehorn and his crew break up the attack and return to the damaged ship. They finally lighten the load to steer away, until Jack discovers Ann has been kidnapped. On the island, Ann is hung from a balcony to the other side of a valley. The crew comes armed, but are too late. Carl sees the gorilla that has taken her. Englehorn gives them 24 hours to find her. In the meantime, Ann discovers the remains of the previous sacrifices, and stabs Kong's hand with her ceremonial necklace to no avail. Kong takes Ann into the jungles of the island.
Captain Englehorn organises a rescue party to find Ann and hunt down the beast. The rescue party is caught up in a Venatosaurus pack's hunt of Brontosaurus, and four of them (including Herb, the cameraman) are killed while Jack and the rest of the crew survive. Ann manages to entertain Kong with juggling and dancing, but he does not kill her when she refuses to continue, leaving her instead. The rest of the rescue party come across a swamp. It is here that Bruce Baxter and two others leave the group. The survivors stumble across a log where Kong attacks, shaking them off the log into a ravine. He returns to rescue Ann from three Vastatosaurus rex (modern Tyrannosaurus), and takes her up to his mountain lair. While there, Ann briefly attempts to communicate with Kong using sign language, but without success. Englehorn and the rest of the crew rescue whomever is left of the rescue party from the pit of giant insects, and as Jack decides to continue to search for Ann, Carl decides to capture Kong. Jack comes to Kong's lair, and disturbs him from his slumber. As Kong fights a swarm of giant bats, Ann and Jack escape by grabbing the wing of a Terapusmordax and then jumping to a river. They arrive at the village wall with the angry Kong following them, where Ann becomes distraught by what Carl plans to do. Kong bursts through the gate and struggles to get her back, but he is knocked out by chloroform.
In New York around Christmas, Carl presents Kong — the Eighth Wonder of the World on Broadway. Ann has become an anonymous chorus girl and a double of her is used as a replacement in the play however Kong becomes enraged from the fake 'Ann' and breaks free from his chrome-steel chains. Causing chaos throughout the town searching for Ann by picking up several look alikes, Jack looks him in the eye and results in a chase across town where Kong eventually encounters Ann again. They share a quiet moment on a frozen lake in Central Park before they are interrupted by the military. Kong climbs onto the Empire State Building, and observing the dawning day repeats the sign for "beautiful" Ann had used in his lair, causing a shocked Ann to realize his intelligence. Before Ann is able to attempt further communication they are again attacked and Kong makes his last stand against the Curtiss Helldivers,[3] downing three of them. Ultimately Kong is hit by several bursts of gunfire from the surviving planes, and gazes at a distraught Ann for the last time before falling off the building to his death. Ann is greeted by Jack, and the reporters flood to Kong's corpse. Carl takes one last look and says, "It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."
Pictures :
War of the Worlds
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Writing credits
(WGA)
Josh Friedman (screenplay)
David Koepp (screenplay)
H.G. Wells (novel)
Release Date :
USA 23 June 2005 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
Cast :
* Tom Cruise as Ray Ferrier
* Dakota Fanning as Rachel Ferrier
* Justin Chatwin as Robbie Ferrier
* Tim Robbins as Harlan Ogilvy
* Miranda Otto as Mary Ann
* David Alan Basche as Tim
* Lenny Venito as Manny
* Ann Robinson as Grandmother
* Gene Barry as Grandfather
* Morgan Freeman as Narrator (voice)
Original Sound Track :
1. (00:02:55) John Williams - Prologue
2. (00:05:50) John Williams - The Ferry Scene
3. (00:03:24) John Williams - Reaching the Country
4. (00:04:13) John Williams - The Intersection Scene
5. (00:02:42) John Williams - Ray and Rachel
6. (00:03:50) John Williams - Escape from the City
7. (00:04:12) John Williams - Probing the Basement
8. (00:03:51) John Williams - Refugee Status
9. (00:02:44) John Williams - The Attack On the Car
10. (00:02:37) John Williams - The Separation of the Family
11. (00:04:35) John Williams - The Confrontation With Ogilvy
12. (00:04:30) John Williams - The Return to Boston
13. (00:09:21) John Williams - Escape from the Basket
14. (00:03:17) John Williams - The Reunion
15. (00:03:11) John Williams - Epilogue
Plot :
The story opens in Newark, New Jersey, with dock worker Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) finishing the third shift in the morning. His pregnant ex-wife Mary Anne (Miranda Otto) and her wealthy new husband Tim (David Alan Basche), drop off Ray's 10-year-old daughter Rachel (Dakota Fanning) and teenage son Robbie (Justin Chatwin) at his house. They are staying with him in Bayonne, New Jersey, while Tim and Mary Anne visit her parents in Boston, Massachusetts for the weekend. Rachel suffers from a panic disorder, while Robbie harbors resentment and outright disrespect towards his father. Later that day, Ray wakes up from a nap and is told by Rachel that Robbie has stolen his car and left.
Ray immediately sets out to find him, but is distracted by a strange wall cloud formation near his neighborhood. As he and Rachel view it from the garden, the clouds begin to unleash electromagnetic pulses, disabling all of the working electronic devices in the area, including cars. Ray finds an apologetic Robbie, and tells him to take care of Rachel in the house while he goes to look at a hole in the ground that Robbie mentioned. Traveling past, he advises a mechanic to replace the solenoid of a Plymouth Voyager he is repairing. Ray and many other people find the mysteriously cold hole in the intersection, from which a large Tripod machine emerges. It begins to vaporize all humans within its range, and starts to destroy all the buildings in its path. Ray however, manages to escape and returns to his house. After packing food, Ray and the kids abandon their home and steal the Plymouth Voyager, which, due to Ray's advice of changing the solenoid, is the only operating vehicle in town.
The family drives to Tim's house, and take refuge in the basement for the night. During the night, a tripod destroys an airliner that crashes into the development, demolishing many of the houses. In the morning, Ray meets a small news team, who show close-up video footage to Ray of the lightning in the previous "storm". In slow-motion, they see what they believe to be a pod, deducing that the aliens "rode" down the lightning into the ground where the Tripods were located. The reporter believes that the machines were buried in the Earth long before the rise of humanity. After hearing the siren of a nearby Tripod approaching the area, the news crew flees. Ray gathers Rachel and Robbie and they leave to join their mother in Boston.
As the family continues on their journey and stop for a bathroom break, Rachel is startled by the sight of corpses floating along the Hudson River. They are passed by a convoy from the U.S. Army. Robbie begs the soldiers driving by to allow him to join and fight, but is ignored until Ray confronts him along with Rachel. In the evening, their van is attacked by a mob along their travel route, who are desperate for transport. However, after a man steals the van by holding Ray at gunpoint, Ray and his children are forced to continue on foot. They reach a Hudson River ferry in Athens, New York, but as a Tripod appears over the hills on the horizon (joined by two others), the crowd panics and the ferry immediately sets off. However, escape proves futile as a fourth Tripod hiding underwater capsizes the ferry. Ray, Robbie, and Rachel manage to escape and swim to safety, while other refugees are captured or killed. On a hill, they witness the town of Athens being destroyed.
Later, the family come across U.S. Military forces somewhere in Massachusetts, attacking a group of Tripods; an entirely fruitless effort as the machines are protected by force-fields. Although their weapons are ineffective, the military continues with their assault to delay the advance of the Tripods, and give some time for the refugees in the area to escape. Robbie attempts to join the battle, and Ray reluctantly lets him go in order to save Rachel from being taken away by a couple nearby, who see her waiting alone by a tree and worry for her safety. In the ensuing chaos an enormous firebomb erupts, Robbie is separated from Ray and Rachel, and they assume he is dead.
As they flee the battle, Ray and Rachel are offered shelter in a nearby basement by a man named Harlan Ogilvy (Tim Robbins), who lost his family to the Tripods. The invaders settle close to the house where the trio are hiding, and tensions start to emerge between Ogilvy, who wants to strike back at the aliens, and Ray, who is preoccupied with his own safety and that of his daughter. Later that night, a Martian probe gains access to the basement, and the three barely manage to escape detection. A small contingent of aliens enter to explore the basement, and Ray struggles to stop Ogilvy from attacking them with a shotgun. The aliens are summoned back to the Tripods by a siren before Ogilvy has an opportunity to shoot them. Meanwhile, the invaders begin cultivating a strange "red weed", which appears to be a mysterious plant fertilized with the blood of captured humans. Subsequently, Ogilvy suffers a mental breakdown after witnessing one of the Tripods harvesting blood and tissue from a helpless human victim. Ray, concerned that the commotion Ogilvy is creating might draw the attention of the invaders to himself and his daughter, makes the decision to murder Ogilvy and thereby silence him. Rachel goes to comfort her father, who is clearly affected by having to carry out the killing. The pair then fall asleep, but are awoken by another probe entering the basement, which sights Rachel. Ray attacks the probe with an axe and it retreats, while Rachel flees the house.
Ray attempts to find Rachel, but is attacked by a Tripod. As he tries to find safety in a truck which the Tripod tosses upside down, Ray spots his daughter standing nearby, screaming as the Tripod advances towards her. The Tripod captures Rachel and ignores Ray's provocation, forcing him to harass it with some hand grenades he finds nearby. Though the shield protects the Tripod, it immediately captures Ray and deposits him in a metal cage with many other captives, and a traumatized Rachel. A closed chute above the cage releases a mechanical arm which periodically grabs a human to be devoured by the metal flesh. After it grabs Ray, the other prisoners fight to save him, and successfully pull him out from within the interior of the Tripod. Ray reveals that he left the remaining grenades primed within the Tripod, and the grenades detonate, destroying it. The cage is dropped on a tree, and Ray and Rachel - along with the other surviving captives - escape.
Soon afterwards, Ray and his daughter continue to move towards Boston. It is there that they find that all the "red weed" is dying, and the Tripods are beginning to seriously malfunction. After seeing birds fly near, and land, on one still-moving Tripod, Ray realizes that the shields are no longer operational. He draws this to the attention of a group of soldiers who are trying to lead refugees to safety, and the soldiers attack the Tripod with several Javelin missile launchers - successfully bringing it down. When the soldiers advance towards the Tripod, it discharges a cargo of orange-colored liquid, and one of the dying aliens within. With the threat gone, Ray finally brings Rachel to Mary Anne and Tim at her parents' house, where she has been waiting for them. Robbie also comes out of the house, revealing that he survived too. The movie closes with Ray and Robbie hugging, and Ray crying in relief.
Afterwards, the narrator reveals that the Tripods were breaking down because the invaders and their weeds were suffering from terrestrial diseases, for which they had no immunity.
Pictures :
Steven Spielberg
Writing credits
(WGA)
Josh Friedman (screenplay)
David Koepp (screenplay)
H.G. Wells (novel)
Release Date :
USA 23 June 2005 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
Cast :
* Tom Cruise as Ray Ferrier
* Dakota Fanning as Rachel Ferrier
* Justin Chatwin as Robbie Ferrier
* Tim Robbins as Harlan Ogilvy
* Miranda Otto as Mary Ann
* David Alan Basche as Tim
* Lenny Venito as Manny
* Ann Robinson as Grandmother
* Gene Barry as Grandfather
* Morgan Freeman as Narrator (voice)
Original Sound Track :
1. (00:02:55) John Williams - Prologue
2. (00:05:50) John Williams - The Ferry Scene
3. (00:03:24) John Williams - Reaching the Country
4. (00:04:13) John Williams - The Intersection Scene
5. (00:02:42) John Williams - Ray and Rachel
6. (00:03:50) John Williams - Escape from the City
7. (00:04:12) John Williams - Probing the Basement
8. (00:03:51) John Williams - Refugee Status
9. (00:02:44) John Williams - The Attack On the Car
10. (00:02:37) John Williams - The Separation of the Family
11. (00:04:35) John Williams - The Confrontation With Ogilvy
12. (00:04:30) John Williams - The Return to Boston
13. (00:09:21) John Williams - Escape from the Basket
14. (00:03:17) John Williams - The Reunion
15. (00:03:11) John Williams - Epilogue
Plot :
The story opens in Newark, New Jersey, with dock worker Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) finishing the third shift in the morning. His pregnant ex-wife Mary Anne (Miranda Otto) and her wealthy new husband Tim (David Alan Basche), drop off Ray's 10-year-old daughter Rachel (Dakota Fanning) and teenage son Robbie (Justin Chatwin) at his house. They are staying with him in Bayonne, New Jersey, while Tim and Mary Anne visit her parents in Boston, Massachusetts for the weekend. Rachel suffers from a panic disorder, while Robbie harbors resentment and outright disrespect towards his father. Later that day, Ray wakes up from a nap and is told by Rachel that Robbie has stolen his car and left.
Ray immediately sets out to find him, but is distracted by a strange wall cloud formation near his neighborhood. As he and Rachel view it from the garden, the clouds begin to unleash electromagnetic pulses, disabling all of the working electronic devices in the area, including cars. Ray finds an apologetic Robbie, and tells him to take care of Rachel in the house while he goes to look at a hole in the ground that Robbie mentioned. Traveling past, he advises a mechanic to replace the solenoid of a Plymouth Voyager he is repairing. Ray and many other people find the mysteriously cold hole in the intersection, from which a large Tripod machine emerges. It begins to vaporize all humans within its range, and starts to destroy all the buildings in its path. Ray however, manages to escape and returns to his house. After packing food, Ray and the kids abandon their home and steal the Plymouth Voyager, which, due to Ray's advice of changing the solenoid, is the only operating vehicle in town.
The family drives to Tim's house, and take refuge in the basement for the night. During the night, a tripod destroys an airliner that crashes into the development, demolishing many of the houses. In the morning, Ray meets a small news team, who show close-up video footage to Ray of the lightning in the previous "storm". In slow-motion, they see what they believe to be a pod, deducing that the aliens "rode" down the lightning into the ground where the Tripods were located. The reporter believes that the machines were buried in the Earth long before the rise of humanity. After hearing the siren of a nearby Tripod approaching the area, the news crew flees. Ray gathers Rachel and Robbie and they leave to join their mother in Boston.
As the family continues on their journey and stop for a bathroom break, Rachel is startled by the sight of corpses floating along the Hudson River. They are passed by a convoy from the U.S. Army. Robbie begs the soldiers driving by to allow him to join and fight, but is ignored until Ray confronts him along with Rachel. In the evening, their van is attacked by a mob along their travel route, who are desperate for transport. However, after a man steals the van by holding Ray at gunpoint, Ray and his children are forced to continue on foot. They reach a Hudson River ferry in Athens, New York, but as a Tripod appears over the hills on the horizon (joined by two others), the crowd panics and the ferry immediately sets off. However, escape proves futile as a fourth Tripod hiding underwater capsizes the ferry. Ray, Robbie, and Rachel manage to escape and swim to safety, while other refugees are captured or killed. On a hill, they witness the town of Athens being destroyed.
Later, the family come across U.S. Military forces somewhere in Massachusetts, attacking a group of Tripods; an entirely fruitless effort as the machines are protected by force-fields. Although their weapons are ineffective, the military continues with their assault to delay the advance of the Tripods, and give some time for the refugees in the area to escape. Robbie attempts to join the battle, and Ray reluctantly lets him go in order to save Rachel from being taken away by a couple nearby, who see her waiting alone by a tree and worry for her safety. In the ensuing chaos an enormous firebomb erupts, Robbie is separated from Ray and Rachel, and they assume he is dead.
As they flee the battle, Ray and Rachel are offered shelter in a nearby basement by a man named Harlan Ogilvy (Tim Robbins), who lost his family to the Tripods. The invaders settle close to the house where the trio are hiding, and tensions start to emerge between Ogilvy, who wants to strike back at the aliens, and Ray, who is preoccupied with his own safety and that of his daughter. Later that night, a Martian probe gains access to the basement, and the three barely manage to escape detection. A small contingent of aliens enter to explore the basement, and Ray struggles to stop Ogilvy from attacking them with a shotgun. The aliens are summoned back to the Tripods by a siren before Ogilvy has an opportunity to shoot them. Meanwhile, the invaders begin cultivating a strange "red weed", which appears to be a mysterious plant fertilized with the blood of captured humans. Subsequently, Ogilvy suffers a mental breakdown after witnessing one of the Tripods harvesting blood and tissue from a helpless human victim. Ray, concerned that the commotion Ogilvy is creating might draw the attention of the invaders to himself and his daughter, makes the decision to murder Ogilvy and thereby silence him. Rachel goes to comfort her father, who is clearly affected by having to carry out the killing. The pair then fall asleep, but are awoken by another probe entering the basement, which sights Rachel. Ray attacks the probe with an axe and it retreats, while Rachel flees the house.
Ray attempts to find Rachel, but is attacked by a Tripod. As he tries to find safety in a truck which the Tripod tosses upside down, Ray spots his daughter standing nearby, screaming as the Tripod advances towards her. The Tripod captures Rachel and ignores Ray's provocation, forcing him to harass it with some hand grenades he finds nearby. Though the shield protects the Tripod, it immediately captures Ray and deposits him in a metal cage with many other captives, and a traumatized Rachel. A closed chute above the cage releases a mechanical arm which periodically grabs a human to be devoured by the metal flesh. After it grabs Ray, the other prisoners fight to save him, and successfully pull him out from within the interior of the Tripod. Ray reveals that he left the remaining grenades primed within the Tripod, and the grenades detonate, destroying it. The cage is dropped on a tree, and Ray and Rachel - along with the other surviving captives - escape.
Soon afterwards, Ray and his daughter continue to move towards Boston. It is there that they find that all the "red weed" is dying, and the Tripods are beginning to seriously malfunction. After seeing birds fly near, and land, on one still-moving Tripod, Ray realizes that the shields are no longer operational. He draws this to the attention of a group of soldiers who are trying to lead refugees to safety, and the soldiers attack the Tripod with several Javelin missile launchers - successfully bringing it down. When the soldiers advance towards the Tripod, it discharges a cargo of orange-colored liquid, and one of the dying aliens within. With the threat gone, Ray finally brings Rachel to Mary Anne and Tim at her parents' house, where she has been waiting for them. Robbie also comes out of the house, revealing that he survived too. The movie closes with Ray and Robbie hugging, and Ray crying in relief.
Afterwards, the narrator reveals that the Tripods were breaking down because the invaders and their weeds were suffering from terrestrial diseases, for which they had no immunity.
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Director:
Mike Newell
Writers (WGA):
Steve Kloves (screenplay)
J.K. Rowling (novel)
Release Date :
USA 12 November 2005 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
Cast :
* Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, the main protagonist. Now entering his fourth year at Hogwarts, Harry is unknowingly entered into the Triwizard Tournament.
* Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, one of Harry's best friends. Although he falls out with Harry at the beginning of the Triwizard tournament, the pair reconcile and remain good friends.
* Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, one of Harry's best friends. Although she loathes her position as an intermediary between Harry and Ron during their period of hostility, she remains supportive of Harry throughout.
* Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort, the main antagonist. The darkest wizard of age, who returns to a human form near the end of the film.
* Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore, the Hogwarts headmaster. He is supportive of Harry throughout the year, although he doesn't suspect Moody until it's almost too late.
* Brendan Gleeson as Alastor Moody, the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. The real Moody is not seen until the end of the film.
* Miranda Richardson as Rita Skeeter, an over-inquisitive journalist.
* Robert Pattinson as Cedric Diggory, a very handsome Hogwarts student who is chosen as a Triwizard champion.
* Clémence Poésy as Fleur Delacour, the Triwizard champion from Beauxbatons.
* Stanislav Ianevski as Viktor Krum, the Durmstrang Triwizard champion. He invites Hermione Granger to the Yule Ball.
* Katie Leung as Cho Chang: a girl whom Harry has a crush on, and whom he unsuccessfully tries to invite to the Yule Ball.
* Alan Rickman as Severus Snape, the Potions teacher.
* Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid, the Hogwarts gamekeeper. He is responsible for showing Harry the dragons before the first task.
* Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall, the Transfiguration teacher, and Harry's Head of house.
* Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy, Draco Malfoy's father and one of Voldemort's followers, who is seen in the graveyard at the film's climax in Death Eater robes for the first time and at the Quidditch World Cup.
* Timothy Spall as Peter Pettigrew, Voldemort's main servant, who helps in his rebirth.
* David Tennant as Barty Crouch Jr, the impostor who impersonates Alastor Moody, to assist in the return of Voldemort.
* Frances de la Tour as Olympe Maxime, a half-giant who is headmistress of Beauxbatons Academy of Magic.
* Predrag Bjelac as Igor Karkaroff, the headmaster of Durmstrang.
* Roger Lloyd Pack as Barty Crouch, head of the Department of Magical Co-operation, who is murdered by his son.
* Robert Hardy as Cornelius Fudge, the Minister for Magic.
* Mark Williams as Arthur Weasley, Ron's father. He takes the children to the Quidditch World Cup.
* Jeff Rawle as Amos Diggory, Cedric's father.
* Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy, Harry's school nemesis. Moody's imposter briefly turns him into a ferret.
* Gary Oldman as Sirius Black who appears for a brief expository scene in a fireplace in the Gryffindor common room.
Jarvis Cocker, Phil Selway, Jonny Greenwood, Steve Mackey, Jason Buckle and Steven Claydon cameoed as the members of the Weird Sisters.
Original Sound Track :
1. The Story Continues 1:31
2. Frank Dies 2:12
3. The Quidditch World Cup 1:52
4. The Dark Mark 3:27
5. Foreign Visitors Arrive 1:30
6. The Goblet of Fire 3:23
7. Rita Skeeter 1:42
8. Sirius Fire 2:00
9. Harry Sees Dragons 1:54
10. Golden Egg 6:11
11. Neville's Waltz 2:11
12. Harry In Winter 2:56
13. Potter Waltz 2:19
14. Underwater Secrets 2:28
15. The Black Lake 4:37
16. Hogwart's March 2:46
17. The Maze 4:44
18. Voldemort 9:39
19. Death of Cedric 1:59
20. Another Year Ends 2:21
21. Hogwart's Hymn 2:59
22. "Do The Hippogriff" - Jarvis Cocker 3:39
23. "This Is The Night" - Jarvis Cocker 3:24
24. "Magic Works" - Jarvis Cocker
Plot :
Harry Potter dreams about an event while it takes place. He sees an elderly man investigate a light that is shining in the house he cares for and overhear Lord Voldemort making plans with Peter Pettigrew and another man that Harry does not recognise. The elderly caretaker, Frank Bryce, is caught and killed by Voldemort. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger express concern over Harry's dreams. However, the arrival of the Quidditch World Cup permits Harry Potter a distraction from his nightmares. However, the post-match celebrations are interrupted by violence, as followers of Voldemort known as Death Eaters attack and destroy the spectators' campsites.
At Hogwarts, Headmaster Albus Dumbledore introduces a new teacher, a man known for his powerful magic and his all-seeing glass eye, the auror Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody. Harry, along with his classmates, notices Moody's silver flask from which he partakes from often. Dumbledore also announces that the school will host the Triwizard Tournament, in which one wizard from each of three schools competes in three difficult tasks. The champions are selected by the Goblet of Fire, a magical cup into which the names of candidates are placed. Cedric Diggory is chosen to represent Hogwarts, Quidditch champion Viktor Krum is chosen as representative of Durmstrang Institute, and Fleur Delacour was selected to represent Beauxbatons Academy of Magic. The Goblet unexpectedly announces a fourth champion, Harry Potter. As Harry was underage at the time of his selection, the circumstances led Hogwarts teachers and fellow students alike to regard Potter with suspicion.
In the first task, each of the four champions were instructed to retrieve a golden egg guarded by a dragon. Mad-Eye Moody probes Harry about which talent he should use to overcome the dragon, and the two ultimately decide upon flying. During the competition, Harry summons his broomstick and retrieves the egg, which contained information about the second challenge. As a token of appreciation for previous aid, Cedric Diggory provides him with a clue that prompts him to open the egg underwater. He learns that the second task entails the retrieval of "something precious" to each of the competitors from mermaids in the nearby Black Lake. In last-minute preparation for the task, long time friend Neville Longbottom provides Harry with Gillyweed, which allows him to breathe underwater. Harry is the first to arrive at the location, and finds Ron, Hermione, Cho Chang and Fleur's sister, Gabrielle Delacour, in a state of suspended animation. Finishing last in an attempt to free all four at once, Harry is awarded second place for "moral fiber."
While waiting in his office, Harry's curiosity leads him to look into Dumbledore's pensieve, which allows him to revisit a memory which Dumbledore has placed inside it. He witnesses a trial before the Wizard Court (Wizengamot) in which captured Death Eater Igor Karkaroff, the current headmaster of Dumstrang Institute denounces a number of Death Eaters, including both Snape and Barty Crouch Jr. Whereas Dumbledore vouches for Snape's integrity, Crouch, Sr. is horrified at this revelation and denounces his son, sending him to Azkaban. Dumbledore tells Harry that he is searching his memories for a clue as to why extraordinary events have taken place at Hogwarts since the start of the Triwizard Tournament. While walking the halls, Harry is confronted by Snape, who believes Harry was stealing from his store the ingredients for Polyjuice Potion, by which one person can assume the appearance of another.
In the Triwizard Cup's third and final task, the four competitors are placed inside a large hedge maze, the challenge being to reach the cup first. Viktor Krum, who was afflicted as a puppet by the forbidden Imperius curse at the time, incapacitates Delacour and attempts to do the same to Diggory; Harry stops Cedric Diggory from attacking Krum once Krum had been incapacitated, and the two run for the cup, which has appeared in view of the two. When Cedric trips and is trapped by vines at the maze floor, Harry frees him and the two reach the center of the maze together. They agree to claim a draw, and touch the cup together.
The Triwizard Cup transports the two champions to a graveyard where Voldemort is awaiting a confrontation with Harry. On Voldemort's command, Peter Pettigrew kills Cedric and traps Harry. Pettigrew concocts a potion that rejuvenates Voldemort, who then summons the Death Eaters and bids them witness the duel between their lord and his nemesis. As Harry repels Voldemort's spells, a connection called Priori Incantatem occurs between their wands. Harry's wand forces Voldemort's to disgorge the spirits of the people Voldemort has most recently killed, including Harry's parents and Cedric. Harry is briefly protected by the spirits and escapes with Cedric's body using the cup. Immediately upon his arrival, Harry Potter tells Dumbledore and Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge that Voldemort is back, and is responsible for Diggory's death. Mad-Eye Moody leads Harry back to the castle, where Moody begins to arouse Harry's suspicion with conversation. Upon the arrival of Dumbledore, Snape, and McGonagall, Moody transforms into Barty Crouch, Jr. as the polyjuice potion he had loaded into his flask began to wear off. The real Mad-Eye Moody had been kept prisoner in a trunk.
The school year ends as the representatives from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons depart, after Dumbledore exhorts them to stand together against Voldemort, telling them that "Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between doing what is right, and what is easy."
Pictures :
Mike Newell
Writers (WGA):
Steve Kloves (screenplay)
J.K. Rowling (novel)
Release Date :
USA 12 November 2005 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
Cast :
* Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, the main protagonist. Now entering his fourth year at Hogwarts, Harry is unknowingly entered into the Triwizard Tournament.
* Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, one of Harry's best friends. Although he falls out with Harry at the beginning of the Triwizard tournament, the pair reconcile and remain good friends.
* Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, one of Harry's best friends. Although she loathes her position as an intermediary between Harry and Ron during their period of hostility, she remains supportive of Harry throughout.
* Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort, the main antagonist. The darkest wizard of age, who returns to a human form near the end of the film.
* Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore, the Hogwarts headmaster. He is supportive of Harry throughout the year, although he doesn't suspect Moody until it's almost too late.
* Brendan Gleeson as Alastor Moody, the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. The real Moody is not seen until the end of the film.
* Miranda Richardson as Rita Skeeter, an over-inquisitive journalist.
* Robert Pattinson as Cedric Diggory, a very handsome Hogwarts student who is chosen as a Triwizard champion.
* Clémence Poésy as Fleur Delacour, the Triwizard champion from Beauxbatons.
* Stanislav Ianevski as Viktor Krum, the Durmstrang Triwizard champion. He invites Hermione Granger to the Yule Ball.
* Katie Leung as Cho Chang: a girl whom Harry has a crush on, and whom he unsuccessfully tries to invite to the Yule Ball.
* Alan Rickman as Severus Snape, the Potions teacher.
* Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid, the Hogwarts gamekeeper. He is responsible for showing Harry the dragons before the first task.
* Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall, the Transfiguration teacher, and Harry's Head of house.
* Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy, Draco Malfoy's father and one of Voldemort's followers, who is seen in the graveyard at the film's climax in Death Eater robes for the first time and at the Quidditch World Cup.
* Timothy Spall as Peter Pettigrew, Voldemort's main servant, who helps in his rebirth.
* David Tennant as Barty Crouch Jr, the impostor who impersonates Alastor Moody, to assist in the return of Voldemort.
* Frances de la Tour as Olympe Maxime, a half-giant who is headmistress of Beauxbatons Academy of Magic.
* Predrag Bjelac as Igor Karkaroff, the headmaster of Durmstrang.
* Roger Lloyd Pack as Barty Crouch, head of the Department of Magical Co-operation, who is murdered by his son.
* Robert Hardy as Cornelius Fudge, the Minister for Magic.
* Mark Williams as Arthur Weasley, Ron's father. He takes the children to the Quidditch World Cup.
* Jeff Rawle as Amos Diggory, Cedric's father.
* Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy, Harry's school nemesis. Moody's imposter briefly turns him into a ferret.
* Gary Oldman as Sirius Black who appears for a brief expository scene in a fireplace in the Gryffindor common room.
Jarvis Cocker, Phil Selway, Jonny Greenwood, Steve Mackey, Jason Buckle and Steven Claydon cameoed as the members of the Weird Sisters.
Original Sound Track :
1. The Story Continues 1:31
2. Frank Dies 2:12
3. The Quidditch World Cup 1:52
4. The Dark Mark 3:27
5. Foreign Visitors Arrive 1:30
6. The Goblet of Fire 3:23
7. Rita Skeeter 1:42
8. Sirius Fire 2:00
9. Harry Sees Dragons 1:54
10. Golden Egg 6:11
11. Neville's Waltz 2:11
12. Harry In Winter 2:56
13. Potter Waltz 2:19
14. Underwater Secrets 2:28
15. The Black Lake 4:37
16. Hogwart's March 2:46
17. The Maze 4:44
18. Voldemort 9:39
19. Death of Cedric 1:59
20. Another Year Ends 2:21
21. Hogwart's Hymn 2:59
22. "Do The Hippogriff" - Jarvis Cocker 3:39
23. "This Is The Night" - Jarvis Cocker 3:24
24. "Magic Works" - Jarvis Cocker
Plot :
Harry Potter dreams about an event while it takes place. He sees an elderly man investigate a light that is shining in the house he cares for and overhear Lord Voldemort making plans with Peter Pettigrew and another man that Harry does not recognise. The elderly caretaker, Frank Bryce, is caught and killed by Voldemort. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger express concern over Harry's dreams. However, the arrival of the Quidditch World Cup permits Harry Potter a distraction from his nightmares. However, the post-match celebrations are interrupted by violence, as followers of Voldemort known as Death Eaters attack and destroy the spectators' campsites.
At Hogwarts, Headmaster Albus Dumbledore introduces a new teacher, a man known for his powerful magic and his all-seeing glass eye, the auror Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody. Harry, along with his classmates, notices Moody's silver flask from which he partakes from often. Dumbledore also announces that the school will host the Triwizard Tournament, in which one wizard from each of three schools competes in three difficult tasks. The champions are selected by the Goblet of Fire, a magical cup into which the names of candidates are placed. Cedric Diggory is chosen to represent Hogwarts, Quidditch champion Viktor Krum is chosen as representative of Durmstrang Institute, and Fleur Delacour was selected to represent Beauxbatons Academy of Magic. The Goblet unexpectedly announces a fourth champion, Harry Potter. As Harry was underage at the time of his selection, the circumstances led Hogwarts teachers and fellow students alike to regard Potter with suspicion.
In the first task, each of the four champions were instructed to retrieve a golden egg guarded by a dragon. Mad-Eye Moody probes Harry about which talent he should use to overcome the dragon, and the two ultimately decide upon flying. During the competition, Harry summons his broomstick and retrieves the egg, which contained information about the second challenge. As a token of appreciation for previous aid, Cedric Diggory provides him with a clue that prompts him to open the egg underwater. He learns that the second task entails the retrieval of "something precious" to each of the competitors from mermaids in the nearby Black Lake. In last-minute preparation for the task, long time friend Neville Longbottom provides Harry with Gillyweed, which allows him to breathe underwater. Harry is the first to arrive at the location, and finds Ron, Hermione, Cho Chang and Fleur's sister, Gabrielle Delacour, in a state of suspended animation. Finishing last in an attempt to free all four at once, Harry is awarded second place for "moral fiber."
While waiting in his office, Harry's curiosity leads him to look into Dumbledore's pensieve, which allows him to revisit a memory which Dumbledore has placed inside it. He witnesses a trial before the Wizard Court (Wizengamot) in which captured Death Eater Igor Karkaroff, the current headmaster of Dumstrang Institute denounces a number of Death Eaters, including both Snape and Barty Crouch Jr. Whereas Dumbledore vouches for Snape's integrity, Crouch, Sr. is horrified at this revelation and denounces his son, sending him to Azkaban. Dumbledore tells Harry that he is searching his memories for a clue as to why extraordinary events have taken place at Hogwarts since the start of the Triwizard Tournament. While walking the halls, Harry is confronted by Snape, who believes Harry was stealing from his store the ingredients for Polyjuice Potion, by which one person can assume the appearance of another.
In the Triwizard Cup's third and final task, the four competitors are placed inside a large hedge maze, the challenge being to reach the cup first. Viktor Krum, who was afflicted as a puppet by the forbidden Imperius curse at the time, incapacitates Delacour and attempts to do the same to Diggory; Harry stops Cedric Diggory from attacking Krum once Krum had been incapacitated, and the two run for the cup, which has appeared in view of the two. When Cedric trips and is trapped by vines at the maze floor, Harry frees him and the two reach the center of the maze together. They agree to claim a draw, and touch the cup together.
The Triwizard Cup transports the two champions to a graveyard where Voldemort is awaiting a confrontation with Harry. On Voldemort's command, Peter Pettigrew kills Cedric and traps Harry. Pettigrew concocts a potion that rejuvenates Voldemort, who then summons the Death Eaters and bids them witness the duel between their lord and his nemesis. As Harry repels Voldemort's spells, a connection called Priori Incantatem occurs between their wands. Harry's wand forces Voldemort's to disgorge the spirits of the people Voldemort has most recently killed, including Harry's parents and Cedric. Harry is briefly protected by the spirits and escapes with Cedric's body using the cup. Immediately upon his arrival, Harry Potter tells Dumbledore and Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge that Voldemort is back, and is responsible for Diggory's death. Mad-Eye Moody leads Harry back to the castle, where Moody begins to arouse Harry's suspicion with conversation. Upon the arrival of Dumbledore, Snape, and McGonagall, Moody transforms into Barty Crouch, Jr. as the polyjuice potion he had loaded into his flask began to wear off. The real Mad-Eye Moody had been kept prisoner in a trunk.
The school year ends as the representatives from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons depart, after Dumbledore exhorts them to stand together against Voldemort, telling them that "Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between doing what is right, and what is easy."
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Director:
Andrew Adamson
Writing credits
(WGA)
Ann Peacock (screenplay)
Andrew Adamson (screenplay)
Christopher Markus (screenplay)
Stephen McFeely (screenplay)
C.S. Lewis (book)
Release Date :
Mexico 8 December 2005 (Mexico City) (premiere)
Genre:
Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Cast :
* William Moseley as Peter Pevensie, the eldest of the four Pevensie children.
* Anna Popplewell as Susan Pevensie, the second eldest child of the four Pevensie children.
* Skandar Keynes as Edmund Pevensie, the third of the four Pevensie children.
* Georgie Henley as Lucy Pevensie, the youngest of the four Pevensie children.
* Tilda Swinton as Jadis, the White Witch, the evil witch who holds Narnia under an eternal winter.
* Liam Neeson as the voice of Aslan, the great lion who was responsible for creating Narnia and who sacrifices himself for Edmund's sake.
* James McAvoy as Mr. Tumnus, a faun who at first is on the White Witch's side, then, seeing her evil ways, turns to Aslan's forces.
* Ray Winstone voices Mr. Beaver, a beaver who helps lead the children to Aslan.
* Dawn French voices Mrs. Beaver, a beaver who helps lead the children to Aslan.
* Kiran Shah as Ginarrbrik, the White Witch's servant dwarf.
* Jim Broadbent as Professor Digory Kirke, an old professor who went to Narnia as a child although he has been unable for years to get through the Wardrobe. He let the children stay at his manor in the country during the war.
* Elizabeth Hawthorne as Mrs. Macready, Kirke's strict housekeeper.
* James Cosmo as Father Christmas. He gives Peter, Susan, and Lucy their Christmas gifts.
* Michael Madsen as the voice of Maugrim, a wolf who is captain of the White Witch's secret police.
* Patrick Kake as Oreius, a centaur who is second-in-command of Aslan's army.
* Shane Rangi as General Otmin, a minotaur who is second-in-command of the White Witch's army.
* Judy McIntosh as Helen Pevensie, the mother of the four Pevensie children.
* Rupert Everett as the voice of a fox who helps the children along their way to Aslan.
* Noah Huntley as the adult Peter Pevensie, who has grown up as a king in Narnia.
* Sophie Winkleman as the adult Susan Pevensie, who has grown up as a queen in Narnia.
* Mark Wells as the adult Edmund Pevensie, who has grown up as a king in Narnia.
* Rachael Henley as the adult Lucy Pevensie, who has grown up as a queen in Narnia.
* Producer Philip Steuer voices Phillip, Edmund's talking horse.
Original Sound Track :
01 Harry Gregson-Williams - the Blitz, 19 02:33
02 Harry Gregson-Williams - Evacuating Lo 03:39
03 Harry Gregson-Williams - the Wardrobe 02:55
04 Harry Gregson-Williams - Lucy Meets Mr 04:11
05 Harry Gregson-Williams - A Narnia Lull 01:13
06 Harry Gregson-Williams - the White Wit 05:31
07 Harry Gregson-Williams - form Western 03:34
08 Harry Gregson-Williams - Father Christ 03:2
09 Harry Gregson-Williams - to Aslan's Ca 03:12
10 Harry Gregson-Williams - Knighting Pet 03:49
11 Harry Gregson-Williams - the Stone Tab 08:07
12 Harry Gregson-Williams - the Battle 07:08
13 Harry Gregson-Williams - Only the Begi 05:32
14 Imogen Heap - Can't Take it in 04:43
15 Alanis Morissette - Wunderkind 05:20
16 Tim Finn - Winter Light 04:13
17 Lisbeth Scott - Where 01:55
Plot :
The film begins with the 1940 bombing of Finchley, London, during the Blitz. The Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, are in direct danger from the falling bombs - a scene which did not appear in the original C.S. Lewis book and which at the very start introduces the underlying tension and jealousy between Edmund and his siblings which would have a major role in the later plot.
Subsequently, the children are - as in the book - evacuated to the country home of Professor Kirke. One day while they are playing hide and seek, Lucy discovers a wardrobe and enters a wintry fantasy world called Narnia. She spends a few hours in the home of the faun, Mr Tumnus, who explains that the White Witch cursed Narnia, and it has been winter for one hundred years. In accordance with her orders, if a human is ever encountered, a Narnian must bring them to her. However, Tumnus likes Lucy and can't bring himself to kidnap her so he sends her home. When she returns, hardly any time has passed in the normal world, and when the other children check the Wardrobe, all they see is a normal wooden back - the portal is gone.
Later, Edmund follows Lucy into Narnia, and he meets the White Witch and her faithful dwarf, Ginarrbrik. She offers him Turkish delight, as well as the prospect of becoming king if Edmund will bring his brother and sisters to her castle. After she departs, Edmund and Lucy meet again and they return to tell the others. Edmund does not confirm Narnia's existence to Peter and Susan, saying he was merely playing along with Lucy. This distresses Lucy, who bumps into Professor Kirke. The Professor has a private talk with Peter and Susan; he does not understand why they do not believe Lucy's story and presents to them the use of logic (which Susan is very fond of) in the situation: when they are given three choices for an explanation of Lucy's behavior — madness, dishonesty, and sincerity — the others know she is neither mad nor dishonest, so she is "logically" telling the truth.
On another day, while hiding from the housekeeper in the wardrobe after breaking a window, the four siblings step into Narnia. Peter and Susan apologize for their earlier disbelief and Peter threatens Edmund unless he apologizes to Lucy. They discover Mr. Tumnus has been taken by the Witch's Secret Police and they meet talking beavers who tell them about Aslan. According to the beavers, Aslan is on the move to take the control of Narnia from the White Witch. The four must help Aslan and his followers; it had been prophesied that when two sons of Adam and two daughters of Eve sat in the four thrones, the Witch's reign would come to an end.
Edmund sneaks off and visits the Witch alone. When he arrives at her castle, she is angry that he did not deliver his brother and sisters. Then the White Witch sends a pack of wolves to hunt down the other children and the beavers, who barely escape with the aid of a fox. Meanwhile, Edmund is chained in the Witch's dungeon where he meets Mr. Tumnus in an adjacent cell. The Witch comes down and demands that Edmund tell her where his family is because her police couldn't find them; Edmund tells her some information, but hesitates when Tumnus looks at him, warningly (he also tries to tell the witch that Edmund doesn't know anything, but is injured by Ginnabrik). The witch sees that Tumnus is hindering the information, so she has him "released" and brought over to her. After she tells Mr. Tumnus that it was Edmund's fault that she knew about his involvement, Mr. Tumnus is dragged upstairs and turned into stone, as Edmund sees with a horror when he is brought up.
While Peter, Lucy, Susan, and the beavers are traveling to the Stone Table, they see what they believe to be the White Witch in her sleigh chasing after them, so they run and hide — fortunately, it is really Father Christmas. This is taken as a sign-as the Witch's spell made it "always winter and never Christmas", her power is beginning to break. Warning them that they are tools, not toys, he gives Lucy a bottle of juice of fire-flowers and a dagger; Susan a bow and arrow and a magical horn; and Peter a sword and shield. Father Christmas informs them that winter will soon be over. Unfortunately, this means the rivers are thawing, and the arrival of Maugrim and several other wolves makes the passage even more perilous. But with their weapons, the group manages to safely cross the river, leaving the Witch no real way to reach them by sleigh. The curse of endless winter is finally broken, much to to Witch's chagrin; her followers capture the fox who helped the children, and Edmund initially reveals that his siblings are going to meet Aslan at the Stone Table to spare the fox's life. But when the Witch turns the fox into stone anyways, Edmund realizes that the Witch truly will dispatch anyone in order to achieve her means, but is then taken to her camp as prisoner.
Arriving at Aslan's army encampment, they encounter Aslan, who is revealed as a huge and noble lion. Aslan promises to help Edmund in any way he can. They are also reluctant to participate in a war after fleeing from London. However, they have to save Edmund and Mr. Tumnus. Peter joins Aslan's army. A little later, two wolves ambush Lucy and Susan while they are frolicking by the river. When Peter intervenes, Maugrim attacks him, and Peter kills him with his sword. Some of Aslan's troops follow the other wolf back to the witch's camp and rescue Edmund.
Aslan has a "private talk" with Edmund that profoundly affects him. When he is done, Aslan tells the other children to speak of Edmund's actions no more, and the siblings reconcile. The White Witch then arrives and claims that Edmund is her property, based on the "deep magic" of Narnia; it says that traitors belong to her as lawful prey and that she must kill them at the Stone Table. Aslan privately "negotiates" with the White Witch, who agrees to leave Edmund alone. In return, Aslan "sacrifices" himself and surrenders to the witch. Later that night Susan and Lucy notice Aslan leaving the encampment and into the forest alone. After walking with Aslan for a while he tells the sisters to return to camp for they cannot go where Aslan is heading. As they watch in hiding, Aslan approaches the Stone Table where he is humiliated and his mane shaved by the White Witch's followers. Finally he is bound and laid before the White Witch herself who plunges a dagger into Aslan, killing him. However, in the morning he is resurrected because "there is a magic deeper still the Witch does not know." Aslan takes Susan and Lucy to the Witch's mansion where he frees the prisoners of the White Witch, including Mr. Tumnus, forming an army for battle.
Meanwhile, Edmund persuades Peter to join battle with the Witch's host. At first quite successful, Peter's army soon begins to lose the fight, and Edmund is badly injured, though he has managed to destroy the White Witch's stone-turning staff, her most effective weapon. As she sword fights Peter, Aslan soon arrives with reinforcements. She takes advantage of this distraction and disarms him. She is about to stab him when Aslan jumps on her, knocking her to the other side of the cliff and killing her. He then returns to Peter and tells him that "it is finished". Susan uses her bow and arrow to kill Ginarrbrik who attempts to finish Edmund off before there is a chance to save him. Lucy revives Edmund and many others with the fire-flower juice given to her by Father Christmas, while Aslan frees more victims of the White Witch's stone-turning spell.
The Pevensies become Kings and Queens and stay in Narnia until they are older. When chasing a white stag to receive wishes, they find the lamppost and the wardrobe and go back to England, where they magically appear as children again. The Professor then tosses them the ball used to break the window and instructs them to tell him the story. Later, Lucy attempts to go back to Narnia, but the Professor tells her he has been trying for years, and they will probably get back to Narnia when least expected.
Pictures :
Andrew Adamson
Writing credits
(WGA)
Ann Peacock (screenplay)
Andrew Adamson (screenplay)
Christopher Markus (screenplay)
Stephen McFeely (screenplay)
C.S. Lewis (book)
Release Date :
Mexico 8 December 2005 (Mexico City) (premiere)
Genre:
Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Cast :
* William Moseley as Peter Pevensie, the eldest of the four Pevensie children.
* Anna Popplewell as Susan Pevensie, the second eldest child of the four Pevensie children.
* Skandar Keynes as Edmund Pevensie, the third of the four Pevensie children.
* Georgie Henley as Lucy Pevensie, the youngest of the four Pevensie children.
* Tilda Swinton as Jadis, the White Witch, the evil witch who holds Narnia under an eternal winter.
* Liam Neeson as the voice of Aslan, the great lion who was responsible for creating Narnia and who sacrifices himself for Edmund's sake.
* James McAvoy as Mr. Tumnus, a faun who at first is on the White Witch's side, then, seeing her evil ways, turns to Aslan's forces.
* Ray Winstone voices Mr. Beaver, a beaver who helps lead the children to Aslan.
* Dawn French voices Mrs. Beaver, a beaver who helps lead the children to Aslan.
* Kiran Shah as Ginarrbrik, the White Witch's servant dwarf.
* Jim Broadbent as Professor Digory Kirke, an old professor who went to Narnia as a child although he has been unable for years to get through the Wardrobe. He let the children stay at his manor in the country during the war.
* Elizabeth Hawthorne as Mrs. Macready, Kirke's strict housekeeper.
* James Cosmo as Father Christmas. He gives Peter, Susan, and Lucy their Christmas gifts.
* Michael Madsen as the voice of Maugrim, a wolf who is captain of the White Witch's secret police.
* Patrick Kake as Oreius, a centaur who is second-in-command of Aslan's army.
* Shane Rangi as General Otmin, a minotaur who is second-in-command of the White Witch's army.
* Judy McIntosh as Helen Pevensie, the mother of the four Pevensie children.
* Rupert Everett as the voice of a fox who helps the children along their way to Aslan.
* Noah Huntley as the adult Peter Pevensie, who has grown up as a king in Narnia.
* Sophie Winkleman as the adult Susan Pevensie, who has grown up as a queen in Narnia.
* Mark Wells as the adult Edmund Pevensie, who has grown up as a king in Narnia.
* Rachael Henley as the adult Lucy Pevensie, who has grown up as a queen in Narnia.
* Producer Philip Steuer voices Phillip, Edmund's talking horse.
Original Sound Track :
01 Harry Gregson-Williams - the Blitz, 19 02:33
02 Harry Gregson-Williams - Evacuating Lo 03:39
03 Harry Gregson-Williams - the Wardrobe 02:55
04 Harry Gregson-Williams - Lucy Meets Mr 04:11
05 Harry Gregson-Williams - A Narnia Lull 01:13
06 Harry Gregson-Williams - the White Wit 05:31
07 Harry Gregson-Williams - form Western 03:34
08 Harry Gregson-Williams - Father Christ 03:2
09 Harry Gregson-Williams - to Aslan's Ca 03:12
10 Harry Gregson-Williams - Knighting Pet 03:49
11 Harry Gregson-Williams - the Stone Tab 08:07
12 Harry Gregson-Williams - the Battle 07:08
13 Harry Gregson-Williams - Only the Begi 05:32
14 Imogen Heap - Can't Take it in 04:43
15 Alanis Morissette - Wunderkind 05:20
16 Tim Finn - Winter Light 04:13
17 Lisbeth Scott - Where 01:55
Plot :
The film begins with the 1940 bombing of Finchley, London, during the Blitz. The Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, are in direct danger from the falling bombs - a scene which did not appear in the original C.S. Lewis book and which at the very start introduces the underlying tension and jealousy between Edmund and his siblings which would have a major role in the later plot.
Subsequently, the children are - as in the book - evacuated to the country home of Professor Kirke. One day while they are playing hide and seek, Lucy discovers a wardrobe and enters a wintry fantasy world called Narnia. She spends a few hours in the home of the faun, Mr Tumnus, who explains that the White Witch cursed Narnia, and it has been winter for one hundred years. In accordance with her orders, if a human is ever encountered, a Narnian must bring them to her. However, Tumnus likes Lucy and can't bring himself to kidnap her so he sends her home. When she returns, hardly any time has passed in the normal world, and when the other children check the Wardrobe, all they see is a normal wooden back - the portal is gone.
Later, Edmund follows Lucy into Narnia, and he meets the White Witch and her faithful dwarf, Ginarrbrik. She offers him Turkish delight, as well as the prospect of becoming king if Edmund will bring his brother and sisters to her castle. After she departs, Edmund and Lucy meet again and they return to tell the others. Edmund does not confirm Narnia's existence to Peter and Susan, saying he was merely playing along with Lucy. This distresses Lucy, who bumps into Professor Kirke. The Professor has a private talk with Peter and Susan; he does not understand why they do not believe Lucy's story and presents to them the use of logic (which Susan is very fond of) in the situation: when they are given three choices for an explanation of Lucy's behavior — madness, dishonesty, and sincerity — the others know she is neither mad nor dishonest, so she is "logically" telling the truth.
On another day, while hiding from the housekeeper in the wardrobe after breaking a window, the four siblings step into Narnia. Peter and Susan apologize for their earlier disbelief and Peter threatens Edmund unless he apologizes to Lucy. They discover Mr. Tumnus has been taken by the Witch's Secret Police and they meet talking beavers who tell them about Aslan. According to the beavers, Aslan is on the move to take the control of Narnia from the White Witch. The four must help Aslan and his followers; it had been prophesied that when two sons of Adam and two daughters of Eve sat in the four thrones, the Witch's reign would come to an end.
Edmund sneaks off and visits the Witch alone. When he arrives at her castle, she is angry that he did not deliver his brother and sisters. Then the White Witch sends a pack of wolves to hunt down the other children and the beavers, who barely escape with the aid of a fox. Meanwhile, Edmund is chained in the Witch's dungeon where he meets Mr. Tumnus in an adjacent cell. The Witch comes down and demands that Edmund tell her where his family is because her police couldn't find them; Edmund tells her some information, but hesitates when Tumnus looks at him, warningly (he also tries to tell the witch that Edmund doesn't know anything, but is injured by Ginnabrik). The witch sees that Tumnus is hindering the information, so she has him "released" and brought over to her. After she tells Mr. Tumnus that it was Edmund's fault that she knew about his involvement, Mr. Tumnus is dragged upstairs and turned into stone, as Edmund sees with a horror when he is brought up.
While Peter, Lucy, Susan, and the beavers are traveling to the Stone Table, they see what they believe to be the White Witch in her sleigh chasing after them, so they run and hide — fortunately, it is really Father Christmas. This is taken as a sign-as the Witch's spell made it "always winter and never Christmas", her power is beginning to break. Warning them that they are tools, not toys, he gives Lucy a bottle of juice of fire-flowers and a dagger; Susan a bow and arrow and a magical horn; and Peter a sword and shield. Father Christmas informs them that winter will soon be over. Unfortunately, this means the rivers are thawing, and the arrival of Maugrim and several other wolves makes the passage even more perilous. But with their weapons, the group manages to safely cross the river, leaving the Witch no real way to reach them by sleigh. The curse of endless winter is finally broken, much to to Witch's chagrin; her followers capture the fox who helped the children, and Edmund initially reveals that his siblings are going to meet Aslan at the Stone Table to spare the fox's life. But when the Witch turns the fox into stone anyways, Edmund realizes that the Witch truly will dispatch anyone in order to achieve her means, but is then taken to her camp as prisoner.
Arriving at Aslan's army encampment, they encounter Aslan, who is revealed as a huge and noble lion. Aslan promises to help Edmund in any way he can. They are also reluctant to participate in a war after fleeing from London. However, they have to save Edmund and Mr. Tumnus. Peter joins Aslan's army. A little later, two wolves ambush Lucy and Susan while they are frolicking by the river. When Peter intervenes, Maugrim attacks him, and Peter kills him with his sword. Some of Aslan's troops follow the other wolf back to the witch's camp and rescue Edmund.
Aslan has a "private talk" with Edmund that profoundly affects him. When he is done, Aslan tells the other children to speak of Edmund's actions no more, and the siblings reconcile. The White Witch then arrives and claims that Edmund is her property, based on the "deep magic" of Narnia; it says that traitors belong to her as lawful prey and that she must kill them at the Stone Table. Aslan privately "negotiates" with the White Witch, who agrees to leave Edmund alone. In return, Aslan "sacrifices" himself and surrenders to the witch. Later that night Susan and Lucy notice Aslan leaving the encampment and into the forest alone. After walking with Aslan for a while he tells the sisters to return to camp for they cannot go where Aslan is heading. As they watch in hiding, Aslan approaches the Stone Table where he is humiliated and his mane shaved by the White Witch's followers. Finally he is bound and laid before the White Witch herself who plunges a dagger into Aslan, killing him. However, in the morning he is resurrected because "there is a magic deeper still the Witch does not know." Aslan takes Susan and Lucy to the Witch's mansion where he frees the prisoners of the White Witch, including Mr. Tumnus, forming an army for battle.
Meanwhile, Edmund persuades Peter to join battle with the Witch's host. At first quite successful, Peter's army soon begins to lose the fight, and Edmund is badly injured, though he has managed to destroy the White Witch's stone-turning staff, her most effective weapon. As she sword fights Peter, Aslan soon arrives with reinforcements. She takes advantage of this distraction and disarms him. She is about to stab him when Aslan jumps on her, knocking her to the other side of the cliff and killing her. He then returns to Peter and tells him that "it is finished". Susan uses her bow and arrow to kill Ginarrbrik who attempts to finish Edmund off before there is a chance to save him. Lucy revives Edmund and many others with the fire-flower juice given to her by Father Christmas, while Aslan frees more victims of the White Witch's stone-turning spell.
The Pevensies become Kings and Queens and stay in Narnia until they are older. When chasing a white stag to receive wishes, they find the lamppost and the wardrobe and go back to England, where they magically appear as children again. The Professor then tosses them the ball used to break the window and instructs them to tell him the story. Later, Lucy attempts to go back to Narnia, but the Professor tells her he has been trying for years, and they will probably get back to Narnia when least expected.
Pictures :
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Director:
George Lucas
Writer:
George Lucas
Release Date:
France 15 May 2005(Cannes Film Festival) (premiere)
Genre:
Action | Fantasy
Cast :
* Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi: Obi-Wan is a General for the Galactic Republic and is a Jedi Master who sits on the Jedi Council. He often travels and performs missions with his best friend and former Padawan, Anakin.
* Natalie Portman as Padmé Amidala: Padmé is Anakin's wife-in-secret; she has recently become pregnant with twins. As Senator of Naboo, she has taken a cautious look at the growing amount of power that is being given to the Supreme Chancellor and her husband's increasingly dark behavior.
* Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader: Anakin has been recently promoted as the youngest ever Jedi Knight to join the council, but was denied the title of 'Master'. However, upon learning of his wife's pregnancy, he begins to have recurring visions of her dying in childbirth. Because similar visions accurately foretold the death of his mother, he swears to himself and his wife to do whatever it takes to save her. While many assume that James Earl Jones is the uncredited, briefly heard voice of Darth Vader at the film's conclusion, Jones, when specifically asked if he had supplied the voice, either newly or from a previous recording, told Newsday, "You'd have to ask Lucas about that. I don't know".[2]
* Ian McDiarmid as Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious: As the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic, Palpatine enacted the start of the Clone Wars against the Separatists. As a result, the Senate has voted him vast emergency powers, effectively turning him into a dictator. The Jedi Council supported this at first, but later began to distrust him. The feeling is mutual for Palpatine, who only confides in Anakin Skywalker, in addition to being an unofficial mentor. In reality, Palpatine is the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Sidious, who finally steps from the shadows to exact the revenge of the Sith using the powers he has accumulated as the Supreme Chancellor to destroy the Jedi Order and the Republic it serves and lure Anakin to his side.
* Frank Oz voices Yoda: The wise old leader of the Jedi Council. He is a friend and mentor to many Jedi. He plays a major role in the Battle of Kashyyyk.
* Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu: Windu is a Jedi Master who sits on the Jedi Council and is also a Jedi General in the Clone Wars.
* Matthew Wood voices General Grievous: Grievous is a fearsome, bad-tempered cyborg and General of the Separatists' droid army. He is the individual responsible for kidnapping Chancellor Palpatine at the beginning, and he has skill in lightsaber combat, thanks to training from Count Dooku.
* Jimmy Smits as Senator Bail Organa: Organa is a Senator in the Galactic Republic and friend to the Jedi, who grows concerned at the growing power of the Chancellor.
* Anthony Daniels as C-3PO: C-3PO is Padmé Amidala's personal protocol droid created by Anakin Skywalker.
* Kenny Baker as R2-D2: R2-D2 is Anakin Skywalker's astro-droid and good friend and C-3PO's counterpart.
* Silas Carson as Nute Gunray and Ki-Adi-Mundi: Gunray is the Viceroy of the Trade Federation, who is at odds with Grievous and dares to question his leadership. Ki-Adi-Mundi is an old Jedi Master who sits at the Jedi Council and General in the Clone Wars.
* Temuera Morrison as Commander Cody and Clone troopers: Cody and the clone troopers are part of the army for the Republic. As seen in Attack of the Clones, they are the clones of the bounty hunter Jango Fett.
* Christopher Lee as Count Dooku / Darth Tyranus: He is a Sith apprentice to Darth Sidious, Leader of the Separatists, and Grievous' superior, and together they kidnap Palpatine.
* Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca: Chewbacca is a Wookiee who is friends with Yoda, and fights alongside him in the Battle of Kashyyyk.
Original Sound Track :
01. John Williams - Star Wars and Revenge of the Sith.mp3
02. John Williams - Anakin's Dream.mp3
03. John Williams - Battle of the Heroes.mp3
04. John Williams - Anakin's Betrayal.mp3
05. John Williams - General Grievous.mp3
06. John Williams - Palpatine's Teachings.mp3
07. John Williams - Grievous and the Droids.mp3
08. John Williams - Padme's Ruminations.mp3
09. John Williams - Anakin vs. Obi-Wan.mp3
10. John Williams - Anakin's Dark Deeds.mp3
11. John Williams - Enter Lord Vader.mp3
12. John Williams - The Immolation Scene.mp3
13. John Williams - Grievous Speaks to Lord Sidious.mp3
14. John Williams - The Birth of the Twins and Padme's Destiny.mp3
15. John Williams - A New Hope and End Credits.mp3
Plot :
The Galactic Republic is on the verge of collapse as a result of the Clone Wars, which have been waged between the Republic and the Separatists for three years. In a surprise move, General Grievous, commander of the Separatist Droid Army, kidnaps Supreme Chancellor Palpatine and attempts to escape. During a battle over the planet Coruscant, Jedi Knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker lead a mission to rescue the Chancellor, who is being held captive on Grievous's flagship. There they confront Count Dooku in a lightsaber duel; at the end of the duel, Anakin hesitantly kills Dooku at Palpatine's urging. The Jedi free the Chancellor and attempt to escape the battle-torn flagship, but Grievous traps them inside and escapes. Anakin pilots the collapsing flagship to safety on Coruscant. There, Anakin reunites with his wife, Padmé Amidala, who reveals that she is pregnant. Anakin is overjoyed with this news until he begins having recurring nightmares of Padmé dying in childbirth, similar to the visions he had of his mother before she died. Anakin resolves to prevent these visions from coming true.
Palpatine, concerned about the Jedi's motives, places Anakin on the Jedi Council to be his eyes and ears. Meanwhile, the Jedi Council has begun to suspect Palpatine of corruption and orders Anakin to spy on him, while also denying the young Jedi the rank of Jedi Master out of additional distrust of him. Under Palpatine's influence, Anakin begins to grow distrustful of his fellow Jedi, and is intrigued when Palpatine mentions the power to prevent death, an ability only gained through the dark side of the Force. Obi-Wan, meanwhile, is sent to the planet Utapau where he engages and kills General Grievous. Back on Coruscant, Palpatine reveals himself to Anakin as the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, who has been controlling both sides of the war. Anakin reports Palpatine's treachery to Jedi Master Mace Windu, who engages and subdues the Sith Lord in a lightsaber duel. Believing that Sidious is his only hope to save Padmé, Anakin intervenes and literally disarms Windu before he can execute Sidious, allowing the Sith Lord to kill the Jedi Master. Palpatine takes advantage of Anakin's emotionally drained mind to submit him to the dark side and becomes Sidious's new apprentice, Darth Vader.
Darth Sidious initiates a pre-programmed directive within all clone troopers to kill their Jedi commanders, while Vader kills all the Jedi within the Jedi Temple, Knights, Padawans, and Younglings alike. Obi-Wan and Yoda survive the extermination, and meet up with Senator Bail Organa, who brings them to the Jedi Temple while Palpatine reorganizes the Republic into the Galactic Empire, with himself as Emperor. Vader, meanwhile, heads to the volcanic planet of Mustafar, where he slaughters the remaining Separatist leaders. Within the Jedi Temple, Obi-Wan witnesses security footage of Anakin's massacre as Darth Vader. Yoda tells Obi-Wan that they must kill the Sith Lords if they are to restore peace. Obi-Wan begs Yoda to send him to kill the Emperor, but Yoda tells him to confront and kill Vader; Obi-Wan isn't strong enough to face the Emperor and he must accept that the friend he had known and loved as a brother is gone forever.
Obi-Wan meets with Padmé, who refuses to believe that her husband has fallen to the dark side. She travels to Mustafar to be with him, unaware that Obi-Wan has secretly stowed aboard. Once she confronts Vader, however, she realizes that Obi-Wan was telling the truth. Spotting Obi-Wan within her ship, Vader accuses Padmé of betraying him and uses the Force to strangle her into unconsciousness. Obi-Wan and Vader engage in an epic lightsaber duel across the volcanic facility and over a river of lava. Finally, Obi-Wan gains the upper hand and, acting on a critical misjudgment from his former friend, swiftly dismembers Vader. Vader slides down a bank of volcanic ash and bursts into flames, while Obi-Wan picks up Anakin's lightsaber and leaves him to die. Obi-Wan escorts the injured Padmé to the asteroid Polis Massa where he regroups with Senator Organa and Yoda, the latter of whom has gone into self-imposed exile after dueling Darth Sidious to a stalemate. Meanwhile, Sidious finds his maimed apprentice and takes him back to Coruscant to revive him.
Padmé gives birth to twins, a boy named Luke and a girl named Leia, and dies, but not before insisting to Obi-Wan that there is still good in Anakin. Meanwhile, Sidious has Darth Vader rebuilt in black cybernetic body armor to keep him alive. When Vader asks for Padmé, Sidious tells him that she died as a result of Vader's anger. This revelation breaks what remains of Anakin's spirit, and he screams in torment. He is last seen at Sidious' side, overseeing the construction of the Death Star. With Anakin's children the last hope for the galaxy, Obi-Wan, Yoda and Organa agree that they should be hidden and separate from one another. Leia is taken to Alderaan to be raised by Organa, while Obi-Wan takes Luke to Tatooine to live with his uncle Owen and aunt Beru.
Pictures :
George Lucas
Writer:
George Lucas
Release Date:
France 15 May 2005(Cannes Film Festival) (premiere)
Genre:
Action | Fantasy
Cast :
* Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi: Obi-Wan is a General for the Galactic Republic and is a Jedi Master who sits on the Jedi Council. He often travels and performs missions with his best friend and former Padawan, Anakin.
* Natalie Portman as Padmé Amidala: Padmé is Anakin's wife-in-secret; she has recently become pregnant with twins. As Senator of Naboo, she has taken a cautious look at the growing amount of power that is being given to the Supreme Chancellor and her husband's increasingly dark behavior.
* Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader: Anakin has been recently promoted as the youngest ever Jedi Knight to join the council, but was denied the title of 'Master'. However, upon learning of his wife's pregnancy, he begins to have recurring visions of her dying in childbirth. Because similar visions accurately foretold the death of his mother, he swears to himself and his wife to do whatever it takes to save her. While many assume that James Earl Jones is the uncredited, briefly heard voice of Darth Vader at the film's conclusion, Jones, when specifically asked if he had supplied the voice, either newly or from a previous recording, told Newsday, "You'd have to ask Lucas about that. I don't know".[2]
* Ian McDiarmid as Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious: As the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic, Palpatine enacted the start of the Clone Wars against the Separatists. As a result, the Senate has voted him vast emergency powers, effectively turning him into a dictator. The Jedi Council supported this at first, but later began to distrust him. The feeling is mutual for Palpatine, who only confides in Anakin Skywalker, in addition to being an unofficial mentor. In reality, Palpatine is the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Sidious, who finally steps from the shadows to exact the revenge of the Sith using the powers he has accumulated as the Supreme Chancellor to destroy the Jedi Order and the Republic it serves and lure Anakin to his side.
* Frank Oz voices Yoda: The wise old leader of the Jedi Council. He is a friend and mentor to many Jedi. He plays a major role in the Battle of Kashyyyk.
* Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu: Windu is a Jedi Master who sits on the Jedi Council and is also a Jedi General in the Clone Wars.
* Matthew Wood voices General Grievous: Grievous is a fearsome, bad-tempered cyborg and General of the Separatists' droid army. He is the individual responsible for kidnapping Chancellor Palpatine at the beginning, and he has skill in lightsaber combat, thanks to training from Count Dooku.
* Jimmy Smits as Senator Bail Organa: Organa is a Senator in the Galactic Republic and friend to the Jedi, who grows concerned at the growing power of the Chancellor.
* Anthony Daniels as C-3PO: C-3PO is Padmé Amidala's personal protocol droid created by Anakin Skywalker.
* Kenny Baker as R2-D2: R2-D2 is Anakin Skywalker's astro-droid and good friend and C-3PO's counterpart.
* Silas Carson as Nute Gunray and Ki-Adi-Mundi: Gunray is the Viceroy of the Trade Federation, who is at odds with Grievous and dares to question his leadership. Ki-Adi-Mundi is an old Jedi Master who sits at the Jedi Council and General in the Clone Wars.
* Temuera Morrison as Commander Cody and Clone troopers: Cody and the clone troopers are part of the army for the Republic. As seen in Attack of the Clones, they are the clones of the bounty hunter Jango Fett.
* Christopher Lee as Count Dooku / Darth Tyranus: He is a Sith apprentice to Darth Sidious, Leader of the Separatists, and Grievous' superior, and together they kidnap Palpatine.
* Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca: Chewbacca is a Wookiee who is friends with Yoda, and fights alongside him in the Battle of Kashyyyk.
Original Sound Track :
01. John Williams - Star Wars and Revenge of the Sith.mp3
02. John Williams - Anakin's Dream.mp3
03. John Williams - Battle of the Heroes.mp3
04. John Williams - Anakin's Betrayal.mp3
05. John Williams - General Grievous.mp3
06. John Williams - Palpatine's Teachings.mp3
07. John Williams - Grievous and the Droids.mp3
08. John Williams - Padme's Ruminations.mp3
09. John Williams - Anakin vs. Obi-Wan.mp3
10. John Williams - Anakin's Dark Deeds.mp3
11. John Williams - Enter Lord Vader.mp3
12. John Williams - The Immolation Scene.mp3
13. John Williams - Grievous Speaks to Lord Sidious.mp3
14. John Williams - The Birth of the Twins and Padme's Destiny.mp3
15. John Williams - A New Hope and End Credits.mp3
Plot :
The Galactic Republic is on the verge of collapse as a result of the Clone Wars, which have been waged between the Republic and the Separatists for three years. In a surprise move, General Grievous, commander of the Separatist Droid Army, kidnaps Supreme Chancellor Palpatine and attempts to escape. During a battle over the planet Coruscant, Jedi Knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker lead a mission to rescue the Chancellor, who is being held captive on Grievous's flagship. There they confront Count Dooku in a lightsaber duel; at the end of the duel, Anakin hesitantly kills Dooku at Palpatine's urging. The Jedi free the Chancellor and attempt to escape the battle-torn flagship, but Grievous traps them inside and escapes. Anakin pilots the collapsing flagship to safety on Coruscant. There, Anakin reunites with his wife, Padmé Amidala, who reveals that she is pregnant. Anakin is overjoyed with this news until he begins having recurring nightmares of Padmé dying in childbirth, similar to the visions he had of his mother before she died. Anakin resolves to prevent these visions from coming true.
Palpatine, concerned about the Jedi's motives, places Anakin on the Jedi Council to be his eyes and ears. Meanwhile, the Jedi Council has begun to suspect Palpatine of corruption and orders Anakin to spy on him, while also denying the young Jedi the rank of Jedi Master out of additional distrust of him. Under Palpatine's influence, Anakin begins to grow distrustful of his fellow Jedi, and is intrigued when Palpatine mentions the power to prevent death, an ability only gained through the dark side of the Force. Obi-Wan, meanwhile, is sent to the planet Utapau where he engages and kills General Grievous. Back on Coruscant, Palpatine reveals himself to Anakin as the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, who has been controlling both sides of the war. Anakin reports Palpatine's treachery to Jedi Master Mace Windu, who engages and subdues the Sith Lord in a lightsaber duel. Believing that Sidious is his only hope to save Padmé, Anakin intervenes and literally disarms Windu before he can execute Sidious, allowing the Sith Lord to kill the Jedi Master. Palpatine takes advantage of Anakin's emotionally drained mind to submit him to the dark side and becomes Sidious's new apprentice, Darth Vader.
Darth Sidious initiates a pre-programmed directive within all clone troopers to kill their Jedi commanders, while Vader kills all the Jedi within the Jedi Temple, Knights, Padawans, and Younglings alike. Obi-Wan and Yoda survive the extermination, and meet up with Senator Bail Organa, who brings them to the Jedi Temple while Palpatine reorganizes the Republic into the Galactic Empire, with himself as Emperor. Vader, meanwhile, heads to the volcanic planet of Mustafar, where he slaughters the remaining Separatist leaders. Within the Jedi Temple, Obi-Wan witnesses security footage of Anakin's massacre as Darth Vader. Yoda tells Obi-Wan that they must kill the Sith Lords if they are to restore peace. Obi-Wan begs Yoda to send him to kill the Emperor, but Yoda tells him to confront and kill Vader; Obi-Wan isn't strong enough to face the Emperor and he must accept that the friend he had known and loved as a brother is gone forever.
Obi-Wan meets with Padmé, who refuses to believe that her husband has fallen to the dark side. She travels to Mustafar to be with him, unaware that Obi-Wan has secretly stowed aboard. Once she confronts Vader, however, she realizes that Obi-Wan was telling the truth. Spotting Obi-Wan within her ship, Vader accuses Padmé of betraying him and uses the Force to strangle her into unconsciousness. Obi-Wan and Vader engage in an epic lightsaber duel across the volcanic facility and over a river of lava. Finally, Obi-Wan gains the upper hand and, acting on a critical misjudgment from his former friend, swiftly dismembers Vader. Vader slides down a bank of volcanic ash and bursts into flames, while Obi-Wan picks up Anakin's lightsaber and leaves him to die. Obi-Wan escorts the injured Padmé to the asteroid Polis Massa where he regroups with Senator Organa and Yoda, the latter of whom has gone into self-imposed exile after dueling Darth Sidious to a stalemate. Meanwhile, Sidious finds his maimed apprentice and takes him back to Coruscant to revive him.
Padmé gives birth to twins, a boy named Luke and a girl named Leia, and dies, but not before insisting to Obi-Wan that there is still good in Anakin. Meanwhile, Sidious has Darth Vader rebuilt in black cybernetic body armor to keep him alive. When Vader asks for Padmé, Sidious tells him that she died as a result of Vader's anger. This revelation breaks what remains of Anakin's spirit, and he screams in torment. He is last seen at Sidious' side, overseeing the construction of the Death Star. With Anakin's children the last hope for the galaxy, Obi-Wan, Yoda and Organa agree that they should be hidden and separate from one another. Leia is taken to Alderaan to be raised by Organa, while Obi-Wan takes Luke to Tatooine to live with his uncle Owen and aunt Beru.
Pictures :
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Director:
Gore Verbinski
Writing credits
(WGA)
Ted Elliott (written by)
Terry Rossio (written by)
Ted Elliott (characters)
Terry Rossio (characters)
Stuart Beattie (characters)
Jay Wolpert (characters)
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Cast :
# Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow: Pirate Lord of the Caribbean Sea. After being tricked by Elizabeth Swann to save the crew, Sparrow and the Black Pearl were dragged to Davy Jones' Locker by the Kraken. Sparrow is trapped there until his former crew mounts a rescue party, whereupon he returns to the living world to battle his nemesis, Davy Jones. While in the Locker, he suffers hallucinations, seeing multiple versions of himself, each representing a different facet of his personality.
# Orlando Bloom as William "Will" Turner Jr.: A blacksmith turned pirate, and the son of the pirate "Bootstrap Bill" Turner, a crewman on the Flying Dutchman, commanded by Davy Jones. Will becomes the "Flying Dutchman" captain after killing Davy Jones. Will hopes to free his father and marry Elizabeth Swann.
# Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann: Governor Swann’s daughter and engaged to Will. She tricked Jack Sparrow into being swallowed by the Kraken to save herself and the Black Pearl crew. Jack is at first unable to forgive her for sending him to his doom and uses the event against her, but eventually relents.
# Chow Yun-Fat as Captain Sao Feng: Pirate Lord of the South China Sea, he captains the Chinese ship The Empress. He has a bad history with Sparrow and is reluctant to aid in his rescue from Davy Jones' Locker. "Sao Feng" (啸风) means "Howling Wind" in Chinese.
#Geoffrey Rush as Captain Hector Barbossa: Pirate Lord of the Caspian Sea, he was the first mate of the Black Pearl under Jack's command before leading a mutiny. Although he was killed by Sparrow a year before, he was brought back by Tia Dalma. Barbossa returns to lead Elizabeth, Will and the others to the World's End in a bid to free Jack and the Pearl from Davy Jones' Locker.
# Bill Nighy provides motion capture and voice acting for Davy Jones: Ghostly ruler of the ocean realm, captain of The Flying Dutchman, and to whom Jack owed a blood debt Jones is one of the main villains of the film (the other being Cutler Beckett). James Norrington captured his heart, and as a result, he is now trapped into service to Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company, who forces him to kill the Kraken. During a brief reunion, Tia Dalma shortly restores his former human form.
# Tom Hollander as Lord Cutler Beckett: Chairman of the East India Trading Company and one of the main villains of the film (the other being Davy Jones). Beckett possesses Davy Jones' heart, thus controlling the world's oceans and seven seas as the new ruler.
# Naomie Harris as Tia Dalma/Calypso: An obeah witch who travels with the Black Pearl crew to rescue Jack, she also raised Hector Barbossa from the dead at the conclusion of Dead Man's Chest and is the woman Davy Jones loved. She is actually the sea goddess, Calypso, who was bound in human form by the first Brethren Court, because they believed the power of the seas should belong to man and not to her. She has the ability to raise the dead, implement curses, voodoo and witchcraft, and is in touch with the elements while in human form. When released from her human form, she transforms into numerous crabs to return to the sea and unleashes a violent maelstrom.
# Stellan Skarsgård as William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner Sr.: Will's father, he is cursed to serve an eternity aboard The Flying Dutchman. As he slowly loses his humanity to the sea, he becomes mentally confused, barely recognizing his own son.
# Kevin McNally as Joshamee Gibbs: Jack's loyal and superstitious first mate.
# Jack Davenport as James Norrington: Promoted to the rank of admiral, he has an alliance with Lord Beckett and the East India Trading Company after stealing the heart of Davy Jones and bargaining it to Cutler Beckett in exchange for his career. He is also Elizabeth's former fiancé and still loves her. Bootstrap Bill kills him after he allows Elizabeth and her crew to escape the Dutchman.
# Lee Arenberg as Pintel: A slightly mischievous, stolid member of Jack's crew.
# Mackenzie Crook as Ragetti: A Black Pearl crewman and Pintel's eccentric companion who wears a wooden eye.
# Jonathan Pryce as Weatherby Swann: Governor of Port Royal, Jamaica. He is Elizabeth's father and is trapped in Beckett's service. Beckett has him murdered due to his learning of the heart now belonging to the East India Trading Company.
# Keith Richards as Captain Teague: A pirate and the Keeper of the Pirata Codex for the Brethren Court. He is Jack Sparrow's father, and keeps Jack's dead mother's shrunken head with him.
Original Sound Track :
1. Hoist The Colours
2. Singapore
3. At Wit's End
4. Multiple Jacks
5. Up Is Down
6. I See Dead People In Boats
7. The Brethren Court
8. Parlay
9. Calypso
10.What Shall We Die For
11.I Don't Think Now Is The Best Time
12.One Day
13.Drink Up Me Hearties
Plot :
Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) executes anyone suspected of or associated with piracy. Beckett, who now possesses Davy Jones's (Bill Nighy) heart, orders Jones to destroy all pirate ships. Condemned prisoners sing a song to compel the nine pirate lords composing the (fourth) Brethren Court to convene at Shipwreck Cove. However, Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), pirate lord of the Caribbean, never appointed his successor, and therefore must attend. Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) leads Will (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth (Keira Knightley), Tia Dalma (Naomie Harris), and the Black Pearl crewmen to rescue Jack. Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat), pirate lord of the South China Sea, possesses a map to the entrance to Davy Jones's Locker, where Jack is imprisoned. Turner goes to attempt to steal the charts from Feng but is captured and tied up by his henchman, Tai Huang. The British Royal Navy, led by Mercer, attack Feng's bathhouse. During the battle, Will bargains with Feng for the Pearl in exchange for Sparrow, so Will can rescue his father from The Flying Dutchman.
The crew journeys into the Locker and successfully retrieves Sparrow. As The Black Pearl seeks an escape route, dead souls are seen floating by underwater. Tia Dalma reveals that Davy Jones was appointed by Calypso, Goddess of the Sea and his lover, to ferry the dead to the next world. In return, Jones was allowed to step upon land for one day every ten years to be with his love; but when she failed to meet him, the scorned captain abandoned his duty and transformed into a monster. Governor Swann, now dead, reveals that whoever stabs Jones's heart becomes the Dutchman's immortal captain.
After returning to the living world, The Black Pearl is ambushed by Sao Feng, who reveals his agreement with Will. However, he betrays Will, having made another deal with Beckett to hand over the crew and keep The Black Pearl. The Endeavor arrives, and takes Sparrow aboard, although he refuses to divulge to Beckett where the Brethren Court will convene: instead, Jack makes a deal to lead Beckett to the Court and lure them out for Beckett to destroy, in exchange for Beckett protecting him from Jones. When Feng is double-crossed by Beckett, he bargains with Barbossa to release the Pearl in exchange for Elizabeth, who he believes is Calypso trapped in human form. Feng attacks the Endeavor, allowing Jack to escape. Aboard his warship, Feng tells Elizabeth that the first Brethren Court trapped Calypso in human form so men could rule the seas. Davy Jones attacks Feng's ship. The mortally wounded Feng appoints Elizabeth as the new captain and the Pirate Lord of the South China Sea. She and the crew are then imprisoned in The Flying Dutchman's brig. Also aboard is Admiral James Norrington (Jack Davenport), who frees Elizabeth and her crew. They escape to their ship, although Norrington is killed by a crazed Bootstrap Bill Turner (Stellan Skarsgård).
Will leaves a trail of corpses for Beckett's ship to follow. Jack catches Will and tosses him overboard after giving him his magical compass so Beckett can find Shipwreck Cove. Will is rescued by Beckett's ship, and Davy Jones reveals that he masterminded Calypso's imprisonment by the first Brethren Court. At Shipwreck Island, the pirate lords introduce themselves and present the nine pieces of eight, but disagree over freeing Calypso. Barbossa calls upon Captain Teague to confirm that only a Pirate King can declare war. Elizabeth is elected Pirate King after Sparrow's vote for her breaks a stalemate. She orders the pirates to go to war. During a parley with Beckett and Jones, Elizabeth and Barbossa swap Sparrow for Will.
Barbossa tricks the pirate lords into yielding their "pieces of eight", which he needs to free Calypso, who is bound in human form as Tia Dalma. As she is released, Will discloses that it was Davy Jones who betrayed her to the Brethren Court. Her fury unleashes a violent maelstrom. Sparrow escapes The Flying Dutchman's brig and steals the Dead Man's Chest. Davy Jones kills Mercer and obtains the key to the chest, which Jack then steals from Jones during a duel. The Black Pearl and The Flying Dutchman face off near the center of the maelstrom. Will proposes to Elizabeth, and Captain Barbossa marries them in the midst of battle. Will boards the Dutchman to retrieve the chest, but is mortally wounded by Davy Jones. Sparrow places his sword in Will's hand and helps him stab Jones's heart, killing him. Jack and Elizabeth escape The Flying Dutchman as the crew carve out Will's heart and place it into the Dead Man's Chest; the ship disappears into the whirlpool. Beckett, never intending to honor his agreement with Jack, moves to attack The Black Pearl. The Flying Dutchman resurfaces with Will as the captain and the crew now human. The Flying Dutchman and The Black Pearl destroy The Endeavor and kill Beckett. The surviving armada retreats.
Will is bound to sail the sea as The Flying Dutchman's captain. Will and Elizabeth have one day together where they consummate their marriage. He departs at sunset, but first gives Elizabeth the Dead Man's Chest. Barbossa commandeers the Pearl, stranding Jack and Gibbs in Tortuga. Having anticipated Barbossa's deception, Sparrow removed the map's middle that shows the path to the Fountain of Youth. Jack departs the trilogy just as he entered, alone in a dinghy on the open sea. Ten years later, Elizabeth and her son Will,[3] stand atop a seacliff; The Flying Dutchman appears on the horizon with Will Turner aboard.
Pictures :
Gore Verbinski
Writing credits
(WGA)
Ted Elliott (written by)
Terry Rossio (written by)
Ted Elliott (characters)
Terry Rossio (characters)
Stuart Beattie (characters)
Jay Wolpert (characters)
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Cast :
# Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow: Pirate Lord of the Caribbean Sea. After being tricked by Elizabeth Swann to save the crew, Sparrow and the Black Pearl were dragged to Davy Jones' Locker by the Kraken. Sparrow is trapped there until his former crew mounts a rescue party, whereupon he returns to the living world to battle his nemesis, Davy Jones. While in the Locker, he suffers hallucinations, seeing multiple versions of himself, each representing a different facet of his personality.
# Orlando Bloom as William "Will" Turner Jr.: A blacksmith turned pirate, and the son of the pirate "Bootstrap Bill" Turner, a crewman on the Flying Dutchman, commanded by Davy Jones. Will becomes the "Flying Dutchman" captain after killing Davy Jones. Will hopes to free his father and marry Elizabeth Swann.
# Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann: Governor Swann’s daughter and engaged to Will. She tricked Jack Sparrow into being swallowed by the Kraken to save herself and the Black Pearl crew. Jack is at first unable to forgive her for sending him to his doom and uses the event against her, but eventually relents.
# Chow Yun-Fat as Captain Sao Feng: Pirate Lord of the South China Sea, he captains the Chinese ship The Empress. He has a bad history with Sparrow and is reluctant to aid in his rescue from Davy Jones' Locker. "Sao Feng" (啸风) means "Howling Wind" in Chinese.
#Geoffrey Rush as Captain Hector Barbossa: Pirate Lord of the Caspian Sea, he was the first mate of the Black Pearl under Jack's command before leading a mutiny. Although he was killed by Sparrow a year before, he was brought back by Tia Dalma. Barbossa returns to lead Elizabeth, Will and the others to the World's End in a bid to free Jack and the Pearl from Davy Jones' Locker.
# Bill Nighy provides motion capture and voice acting for Davy Jones: Ghostly ruler of the ocean realm, captain of The Flying Dutchman, and to whom Jack owed a blood debt Jones is one of the main villains of the film (the other being Cutler Beckett). James Norrington captured his heart, and as a result, he is now trapped into service to Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company, who forces him to kill the Kraken. During a brief reunion, Tia Dalma shortly restores his former human form.
# Tom Hollander as Lord Cutler Beckett: Chairman of the East India Trading Company and one of the main villains of the film (the other being Davy Jones). Beckett possesses Davy Jones' heart, thus controlling the world's oceans and seven seas as the new ruler.
# Naomie Harris as Tia Dalma/Calypso: An obeah witch who travels with the Black Pearl crew to rescue Jack, she also raised Hector Barbossa from the dead at the conclusion of Dead Man's Chest and is the woman Davy Jones loved. She is actually the sea goddess, Calypso, who was bound in human form by the first Brethren Court, because they believed the power of the seas should belong to man and not to her. She has the ability to raise the dead, implement curses, voodoo and witchcraft, and is in touch with the elements while in human form. When released from her human form, she transforms into numerous crabs to return to the sea and unleashes a violent maelstrom.
# Stellan Skarsgård as William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner Sr.: Will's father, he is cursed to serve an eternity aboard The Flying Dutchman. As he slowly loses his humanity to the sea, he becomes mentally confused, barely recognizing his own son.
# Kevin McNally as Joshamee Gibbs: Jack's loyal and superstitious first mate.
# Jack Davenport as James Norrington: Promoted to the rank of admiral, he has an alliance with Lord Beckett and the East India Trading Company after stealing the heart of Davy Jones and bargaining it to Cutler Beckett in exchange for his career. He is also Elizabeth's former fiancé and still loves her. Bootstrap Bill kills him after he allows Elizabeth and her crew to escape the Dutchman.
# Lee Arenberg as Pintel: A slightly mischievous, stolid member of Jack's crew.
# Mackenzie Crook as Ragetti: A Black Pearl crewman and Pintel's eccentric companion who wears a wooden eye.
# Jonathan Pryce as Weatherby Swann: Governor of Port Royal, Jamaica. He is Elizabeth's father and is trapped in Beckett's service. Beckett has him murdered due to his learning of the heart now belonging to the East India Trading Company.
# Keith Richards as Captain Teague: A pirate and the Keeper of the Pirata Codex for the Brethren Court. He is Jack Sparrow's father, and keeps Jack's dead mother's shrunken head with him.
Original Sound Track :
1. Hoist The Colours
2. Singapore
3. At Wit's End
4. Multiple Jacks
5. Up Is Down
6. I See Dead People In Boats
7. The Brethren Court
8. Parlay
9. Calypso
10.What Shall We Die For
11.I Don't Think Now Is The Best Time
12.One Day
13.Drink Up Me Hearties
Plot :
Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) executes anyone suspected of or associated with piracy. Beckett, who now possesses Davy Jones's (Bill Nighy) heart, orders Jones to destroy all pirate ships. Condemned prisoners sing a song to compel the nine pirate lords composing the (fourth) Brethren Court to convene at Shipwreck Cove. However, Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), pirate lord of the Caribbean, never appointed his successor, and therefore must attend. Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) leads Will (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth (Keira Knightley), Tia Dalma (Naomie Harris), and the Black Pearl crewmen to rescue Jack. Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat), pirate lord of the South China Sea, possesses a map to the entrance to Davy Jones's Locker, where Jack is imprisoned. Turner goes to attempt to steal the charts from Feng but is captured and tied up by his henchman, Tai Huang. The British Royal Navy, led by Mercer, attack Feng's bathhouse. During the battle, Will bargains with Feng for the Pearl in exchange for Sparrow, so Will can rescue his father from The Flying Dutchman.
The crew journeys into the Locker and successfully retrieves Sparrow. As The Black Pearl seeks an escape route, dead souls are seen floating by underwater. Tia Dalma reveals that Davy Jones was appointed by Calypso, Goddess of the Sea and his lover, to ferry the dead to the next world. In return, Jones was allowed to step upon land for one day every ten years to be with his love; but when she failed to meet him, the scorned captain abandoned his duty and transformed into a monster. Governor Swann, now dead, reveals that whoever stabs Jones's heart becomes the Dutchman's immortal captain.
After returning to the living world, The Black Pearl is ambushed by Sao Feng, who reveals his agreement with Will. However, he betrays Will, having made another deal with Beckett to hand over the crew and keep The Black Pearl. The Endeavor arrives, and takes Sparrow aboard, although he refuses to divulge to Beckett where the Brethren Court will convene: instead, Jack makes a deal to lead Beckett to the Court and lure them out for Beckett to destroy, in exchange for Beckett protecting him from Jones. When Feng is double-crossed by Beckett, he bargains with Barbossa to release the Pearl in exchange for Elizabeth, who he believes is Calypso trapped in human form. Feng attacks the Endeavor, allowing Jack to escape. Aboard his warship, Feng tells Elizabeth that the first Brethren Court trapped Calypso in human form so men could rule the seas. Davy Jones attacks Feng's ship. The mortally wounded Feng appoints Elizabeth as the new captain and the Pirate Lord of the South China Sea. She and the crew are then imprisoned in The Flying Dutchman's brig. Also aboard is Admiral James Norrington (Jack Davenport), who frees Elizabeth and her crew. They escape to their ship, although Norrington is killed by a crazed Bootstrap Bill Turner (Stellan Skarsgård).
Will leaves a trail of corpses for Beckett's ship to follow. Jack catches Will and tosses him overboard after giving him his magical compass so Beckett can find Shipwreck Cove. Will is rescued by Beckett's ship, and Davy Jones reveals that he masterminded Calypso's imprisonment by the first Brethren Court. At Shipwreck Island, the pirate lords introduce themselves and present the nine pieces of eight, but disagree over freeing Calypso. Barbossa calls upon Captain Teague to confirm that only a Pirate King can declare war. Elizabeth is elected Pirate King after Sparrow's vote for her breaks a stalemate. She orders the pirates to go to war. During a parley with Beckett and Jones, Elizabeth and Barbossa swap Sparrow for Will.
Barbossa tricks the pirate lords into yielding their "pieces of eight", which he needs to free Calypso, who is bound in human form as Tia Dalma. As she is released, Will discloses that it was Davy Jones who betrayed her to the Brethren Court. Her fury unleashes a violent maelstrom. Sparrow escapes The Flying Dutchman's brig and steals the Dead Man's Chest. Davy Jones kills Mercer and obtains the key to the chest, which Jack then steals from Jones during a duel. The Black Pearl and The Flying Dutchman face off near the center of the maelstrom. Will proposes to Elizabeth, and Captain Barbossa marries them in the midst of battle. Will boards the Dutchman to retrieve the chest, but is mortally wounded by Davy Jones. Sparrow places his sword in Will's hand and helps him stab Jones's heart, killing him. Jack and Elizabeth escape The Flying Dutchman as the crew carve out Will's heart and place it into the Dead Man's Chest; the ship disappears into the whirlpool. Beckett, never intending to honor his agreement with Jack, moves to attack The Black Pearl. The Flying Dutchman resurfaces with Will as the captain and the crew now human. The Flying Dutchman and The Black Pearl destroy The Endeavor and kill Beckett. The surviving armada retreats.
Will is bound to sail the sea as The Flying Dutchman's captain. Will and Elizabeth have one day together where they consummate their marriage. He departs at sunset, but first gives Elizabeth the Dead Man's Chest. Barbossa commandeers the Pearl, stranding Jack and Gibbs in Tortuga. Having anticipated Barbossa's deception, Sparrow removed the map's middle that shows the path to the Fountain of Youth. Jack departs the trilogy just as he entered, alone in a dinghy on the open sea. Ten years later, Elizabeth and her son Will,[3] stand atop a seacliff; The Flying Dutchman appears on the horizon with Will Turner aboard.
Pictures :
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Movie
Director:
Gore Verbinski
Writing credits
(WGA)
Ted Elliott (written by)
Terry Rossio (written by)
Ted Elliott (characters)
Terry Rossio (characters)
Stuart Beattie (characters)
Jay Wolpert (characters)
Release Date:
7 July 2006 (USA)
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Cast :
* Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow: Captain of the Black Pearl. He is hunted by the Kraken because of his unpaid blood debt to Davy Jones. He is also searching for the Dead Man's Chest to free himself from Jones' servitude.
* Orlando Bloom as Will Turner: A blacksmith-turned-pirate who strikes a deal with Cutler Beckett to find Jack Sparrow and his compass so he can save both himself and his fiancée Elizabeth from execution. Later he is reunited with, and seeks to free, his father, who owes a lifetime of servitude to Davy Jones.
* Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann: Governor Swann's daughter and Will's fiancée, who is arrested on her wedding day for helping Jack Sparrow escape. Escaping jail with help from her father, she meets up with Jack in Tortuga and joins his crew to search for both Will and the chest.
* Bill Nighy as Davy Jones: Captain of the Flying Dutchman. The main antagonist, Davy Jones was once a human being. Unable to bear the pain of losing his true love, he carved out his heart and put it into the Dead Man's Chest, then buried it in a secret location. He has become a bizarre creature – part octopus, part crab, part man – and collects the souls of dead or dying sailors to serve aboard his ship for one hundred years.
* Jack Davenport as James Norrington: He resigned his commission as Commodore in the Royal Navy after losing his ship and crew in a hurricane in the pursuit of Jack Sparrow and his crew. Fallen on hard times and into alcoholism, he joins the Black Pearl's crew and seeks to regain his honor and career.
* Stellan Skarsgård as "Bootstrap Bill" Turner: A crewman aboard the Flying Dutchman who so happens to be Will Turner's father. He was cursed by the Aztec gold on Isla de Muerta (along with Hector Barbossa's crew). Thrown overboard after refusing to take part in the mutiny against Jack led by Barbossa, he spent years bound to a cannon beneath the crushing ocean. Found by Davy Jones, he swore to servitude aboard the Flying Dutchman crew and escaped death.
* Kevin McNally as Joshamee Gibbs: The Black Pearl's first mate and Jack Sparrow's loyal friend, he once served in the Royal Navy under Lieutenant James Norrington.
* Tom Hollander as Lord Cutler Beckett: Chairman of the East India Trading Company, he travels to Port Royal to capture and recruit Jack Sparrow as a privateer. What he really desires is Davy Jones' heart, with which he can rule the seas with Jones' commanded servitude.
* Lee Arenberg as Pintel: A pirate and former Black Pearl crewmember under Captain Barbossa, he was imprisoned after the Aztec curse was broken, but escaped to rejoin Jack Sparrow's Black Pearl crew.
* Mackenzie Crook as Ragetti: Pintel's inseparable crewmate. He has a wooden eye, and despite being illiterate, has begun "reading" the Bible, with the excuse that "you get credit for trying."
* Naomie Harris as Tia Dalma: An obeah priestess who Jack Sparrow bartered with for his magic compass. She explains the legend of Davy Jones, in addition to owning a similar locket to his.
* Jonathan Pryce as Governor Weatherby Swann. Elizabeth's father and governor of Port Royal. He adores his daughter but puts little faith in Will - not considering him the best match for Elizabeth.
* Geoffrey Rush as Hector Barbossa: Barbossa's character is resurrected during this film, however, he does not appear until the final scene. Having met his demise in the previous installment, Barbossa is resurrected by the character Tia Dalma in order to save Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' locker, therefore allowing a Brethren Court conclave in order to "release" Calypso from her Human Bonds. For this role, Rush was uncredited.
Original Sound Track :
01. Jack Sparrow
02. The Kraken
03. Davy Jones
04. I've Got My Eye On You
05. Dinner Is Served
06. Tia Dalma
07. Two Hornpipes (Tortuga)
08. A Family Affair
09. Wheel Of Fortune
10. You Look Good Jack
11. Hello Beastie
12. He's A Pirate (Testo Remix) (Bonus Track)
Plot :
The East India Trading Company arrives in Port Royal, Jamaica, to extend its monopoly in the Caribbean and purge piracy from its waters. Leading the expansion is Lord Cutler Beckett, a powerful and ruthless EITC agent who arrests Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner as they are about to be married. Beckett threatens to execute them and the absent ex-Commodore James Norrington for aiding Captain Jack Sparrow's escape, but he offers clemency if Will agrees to hunt for Sparrow and his magical compass which points to what its possessor wants most. An informant in Tortuga leads Will to the Black Pearl run aground on Pelegosto, a cannibal-inhabited island where Jack and his crew are captive. Jack hid there after "Bootstrap Bill" Turner, Jack's former crewmate and now an indentured sailor aboard Captain Davy Jones' ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman, delivered Jack the Black Spot, a mark signifying his debt to Jones is due. Thirteen years before, Jones raised the Pearl from the ocean depths and made Jack its captain. In exchange, Jack must now serve aboard the Dutchman for 100 years, or be hunted by Jones' beast, the Kraken.
Will, Jack, and a few crew members escape their captors, unexpectedly recruiting Pintel and Ragetti along the way, and head for sea. Will learns that Jack has been searching for a particular key. Jack agrees to give Will the compass if he helps him find the key and the object it unlocks. Seeking assistance from Tia Dalma, an obeah priestess, Jack learns the compass fails to work because he does not know what he truly wants. The key, Tia tells him, unlocks the Dead Man's Chest containing Davy Jones' still-beating heart—to avoid lost love's pain, Jones carved the heart from his chest and buried it. Whoever possesses the heart controls Davy Jones, thereby controlling the world's oceans. Back at sea, the Dutchman encounters Sparrow, who deviously attempts to barter Will in exchange for himself. Jones demands 100 souls within three days in exchange for Jack's freedom and keeps Will as a "good faith payment," leaving Jack only 99 more souls to harvest.
In Port Royal, Governor Weatherby Swann frees Elizabeth. Confronting Beckett at gunpoint, she forces him to validate a Letter of Marque—a royal document with which Beckett intends to recruit Sparrow as a privateer, and which Elizabeth wants for Will. Posing as a cabin boy on a merchant vessel, Elizabeth lands in Tortuga where she finds Jack and Gibbs desperately recruiting unsuspecting sailors in a pub to pay off his blood debt. A disheveled Norrington also applies. Blaming Sparrow for his ruin, he tries to shoot him and ignites an angry brawl, but Elizabeth knocks Norrington out and saves Sparrow. At the pier, Jack reveals the compass' secret to Elizabeth; it points to what the holder wants most in the world. When he convinces her that she can save Will by finding the chest, she gets a bearing. Once the ship is underway, however, an attraction arises between Jack and Elizabeth.
On Isla Cruces, Jack, Norrington, and Elizabeth find the Dead Man's Chest. Will, who has escaped the Dutchman with help from his father, Bootstrap Bill, arrives with the key he stole from Davy Jones. Will wants to stab the heart to free his father, but Jack fears that with Jones dead, the Kraken will continue hunting him as there will be no one to call it off, while Norrington desires the heart to bargain back his naval career. As a three-way swordfight erupts, the arrival of Jones' crew and Pintel and Ragetti's attempt to make off with the chest complicate matters even more. Norrington ultimately escapes with the heart and the Letters of Marque while Jones' crewmembers retrieve the now-empty Dead Man's Chest.
Jack's confrontation with Kraken
The Dutchman pursues the Pearl but, with the wind behind them, the Pearl outruns her. Jones summons the Kraken. Jack escapes the Pearl in the last longboat; but unable to desert his crew, he returns in time to save them. After a fierce battle that kills every crew member except for Will, Jack, Gibbs, Pintel and Ragetti, Marty, Cotton, and Elizabeth, he gives the order to abandon ship before the Kraken makes its final assault. Realizing the Kraken is only hunting Jack, a deceptive Elizabeth kisses him while handcuffing him to the mast as bait. Wracked with guilt over her betrayal, Elizabeth tells the others Jack chose to remain behind, unaware that Will now believes she loves Sparrow. Jack escapes the shackles just as the Kraken resurfaces: Jack draws his cutlass and goes down fighting as the Kraken lunges for him; the colossal beast drags him and the Pearl to a watery grave.
Davy Jones declares Jack's debt settled, although he becomes enraged when he discovers an empty Dead Man's Chest. Meanwhile, Norrington makes his way to Port Royal and delivers the heart of Davy Jones and the Letters of Marque to Cutler Beckett. Elizabeth, Will, and the surviving Pearl crew seek refuge with Tia Dalma, who asks if they would be willing to save Jack from Davy Jones' Locker. When all agree, Tia Dalma sends them on a journey to World's End to rescue Jack, saying they will need a captain who knows those waters;the resurrected Captain Barbossa.
After the credits, it shows the pirate's dog, which was earlier chased away, being worshipped by the cannibals.
Pictures :
Gore Verbinski
Writing credits
(WGA)
Ted Elliott (written by)
Terry Rossio (written by)
Ted Elliott (characters)
Terry Rossio (characters)
Stuart Beattie (characters)
Jay Wolpert (characters)
Release Date:
7 July 2006 (USA)
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Cast :
* Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow: Captain of the Black Pearl. He is hunted by the Kraken because of his unpaid blood debt to Davy Jones. He is also searching for the Dead Man's Chest to free himself from Jones' servitude.
* Orlando Bloom as Will Turner: A blacksmith-turned-pirate who strikes a deal with Cutler Beckett to find Jack Sparrow and his compass so he can save both himself and his fiancée Elizabeth from execution. Later he is reunited with, and seeks to free, his father, who owes a lifetime of servitude to Davy Jones.
* Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann: Governor Swann's daughter and Will's fiancée, who is arrested on her wedding day for helping Jack Sparrow escape. Escaping jail with help from her father, she meets up with Jack in Tortuga and joins his crew to search for both Will and the chest.
* Bill Nighy as Davy Jones: Captain of the Flying Dutchman. The main antagonist, Davy Jones was once a human being. Unable to bear the pain of losing his true love, he carved out his heart and put it into the Dead Man's Chest, then buried it in a secret location. He has become a bizarre creature – part octopus, part crab, part man – and collects the souls of dead or dying sailors to serve aboard his ship for one hundred years.
* Jack Davenport as James Norrington: He resigned his commission as Commodore in the Royal Navy after losing his ship and crew in a hurricane in the pursuit of Jack Sparrow and his crew. Fallen on hard times and into alcoholism, he joins the Black Pearl's crew and seeks to regain his honor and career.
* Stellan Skarsgård as "Bootstrap Bill" Turner: A crewman aboard the Flying Dutchman who so happens to be Will Turner's father. He was cursed by the Aztec gold on Isla de Muerta (along with Hector Barbossa's crew). Thrown overboard after refusing to take part in the mutiny against Jack led by Barbossa, he spent years bound to a cannon beneath the crushing ocean. Found by Davy Jones, he swore to servitude aboard the Flying Dutchman crew and escaped death.
* Kevin McNally as Joshamee Gibbs: The Black Pearl's first mate and Jack Sparrow's loyal friend, he once served in the Royal Navy under Lieutenant James Norrington.
* Tom Hollander as Lord Cutler Beckett: Chairman of the East India Trading Company, he travels to Port Royal to capture and recruit Jack Sparrow as a privateer. What he really desires is Davy Jones' heart, with which he can rule the seas with Jones' commanded servitude.
* Lee Arenberg as Pintel: A pirate and former Black Pearl crewmember under Captain Barbossa, he was imprisoned after the Aztec curse was broken, but escaped to rejoin Jack Sparrow's Black Pearl crew.
* Mackenzie Crook as Ragetti: Pintel's inseparable crewmate. He has a wooden eye, and despite being illiterate, has begun "reading" the Bible, with the excuse that "you get credit for trying."
* Naomie Harris as Tia Dalma: An obeah priestess who Jack Sparrow bartered with for his magic compass. She explains the legend of Davy Jones, in addition to owning a similar locket to his.
* Jonathan Pryce as Governor Weatherby Swann. Elizabeth's father and governor of Port Royal. He adores his daughter but puts little faith in Will - not considering him the best match for Elizabeth.
* Geoffrey Rush as Hector Barbossa: Barbossa's character is resurrected during this film, however, he does not appear until the final scene. Having met his demise in the previous installment, Barbossa is resurrected by the character Tia Dalma in order to save Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' locker, therefore allowing a Brethren Court conclave in order to "release" Calypso from her Human Bonds. For this role, Rush was uncredited.
Original Sound Track :
01. Jack Sparrow
02. The Kraken
03. Davy Jones
04. I've Got My Eye On You
05. Dinner Is Served
06. Tia Dalma
07. Two Hornpipes (Tortuga)
08. A Family Affair
09. Wheel Of Fortune
10. You Look Good Jack
11. Hello Beastie
12. He's A Pirate (Testo Remix) (Bonus Track)
Plot :
The East India Trading Company arrives in Port Royal, Jamaica, to extend its monopoly in the Caribbean and purge piracy from its waters. Leading the expansion is Lord Cutler Beckett, a powerful and ruthless EITC agent who arrests Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner as they are about to be married. Beckett threatens to execute them and the absent ex-Commodore James Norrington for aiding Captain Jack Sparrow's escape, but he offers clemency if Will agrees to hunt for Sparrow and his magical compass which points to what its possessor wants most. An informant in Tortuga leads Will to the Black Pearl run aground on Pelegosto, a cannibal-inhabited island where Jack and his crew are captive. Jack hid there after "Bootstrap Bill" Turner, Jack's former crewmate and now an indentured sailor aboard Captain Davy Jones' ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman, delivered Jack the Black Spot, a mark signifying his debt to Jones is due. Thirteen years before, Jones raised the Pearl from the ocean depths and made Jack its captain. In exchange, Jack must now serve aboard the Dutchman for 100 years, or be hunted by Jones' beast, the Kraken.
Will, Jack, and a few crew members escape their captors, unexpectedly recruiting Pintel and Ragetti along the way, and head for sea. Will learns that Jack has been searching for a particular key. Jack agrees to give Will the compass if he helps him find the key and the object it unlocks. Seeking assistance from Tia Dalma, an obeah priestess, Jack learns the compass fails to work because he does not know what he truly wants. The key, Tia tells him, unlocks the Dead Man's Chest containing Davy Jones' still-beating heart—to avoid lost love's pain, Jones carved the heart from his chest and buried it. Whoever possesses the heart controls Davy Jones, thereby controlling the world's oceans. Back at sea, the Dutchman encounters Sparrow, who deviously attempts to barter Will in exchange for himself. Jones demands 100 souls within three days in exchange for Jack's freedom and keeps Will as a "good faith payment," leaving Jack only 99 more souls to harvest.
In Port Royal, Governor Weatherby Swann frees Elizabeth. Confronting Beckett at gunpoint, she forces him to validate a Letter of Marque—a royal document with which Beckett intends to recruit Sparrow as a privateer, and which Elizabeth wants for Will. Posing as a cabin boy on a merchant vessel, Elizabeth lands in Tortuga where she finds Jack and Gibbs desperately recruiting unsuspecting sailors in a pub to pay off his blood debt. A disheveled Norrington also applies. Blaming Sparrow for his ruin, he tries to shoot him and ignites an angry brawl, but Elizabeth knocks Norrington out and saves Sparrow. At the pier, Jack reveals the compass' secret to Elizabeth; it points to what the holder wants most in the world. When he convinces her that she can save Will by finding the chest, she gets a bearing. Once the ship is underway, however, an attraction arises between Jack and Elizabeth.
On Isla Cruces, Jack, Norrington, and Elizabeth find the Dead Man's Chest. Will, who has escaped the Dutchman with help from his father, Bootstrap Bill, arrives with the key he stole from Davy Jones. Will wants to stab the heart to free his father, but Jack fears that with Jones dead, the Kraken will continue hunting him as there will be no one to call it off, while Norrington desires the heart to bargain back his naval career. As a three-way swordfight erupts, the arrival of Jones' crew and Pintel and Ragetti's attempt to make off with the chest complicate matters even more. Norrington ultimately escapes with the heart and the Letters of Marque while Jones' crewmembers retrieve the now-empty Dead Man's Chest.
Jack's confrontation with Kraken
The Dutchman pursues the Pearl but, with the wind behind them, the Pearl outruns her. Jones summons the Kraken. Jack escapes the Pearl in the last longboat; but unable to desert his crew, he returns in time to save them. After a fierce battle that kills every crew member except for Will, Jack, Gibbs, Pintel and Ragetti, Marty, Cotton, and Elizabeth, he gives the order to abandon ship before the Kraken makes its final assault. Realizing the Kraken is only hunting Jack, a deceptive Elizabeth kisses him while handcuffing him to the mast as bait. Wracked with guilt over her betrayal, Elizabeth tells the others Jack chose to remain behind, unaware that Will now believes she loves Sparrow. Jack escapes the shackles just as the Kraken resurfaces: Jack draws his cutlass and goes down fighting as the Kraken lunges for him; the colossal beast drags him and the Pearl to a watery grave.
Davy Jones declares Jack's debt settled, although he becomes enraged when he discovers an empty Dead Man's Chest. Meanwhile, Norrington makes his way to Port Royal and delivers the heart of Davy Jones and the Letters of Marque to Cutler Beckett. Elizabeth, Will, and the surviving Pearl crew seek refuge with Tia Dalma, who asks if they would be willing to save Jack from Davy Jones' Locker. When all agree, Tia Dalma sends them on a journey to World's End to rescue Jack, saying they will need a captain who knows those waters;the resurrected Captain Barbossa.
After the credits, it shows the pirate's dog, which was earlier chased away, being worshipped by the cannibals.
Pictures :
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Director:
Gore Verbinski
Writing credits
(WGA)
Ted Elliott (screen story)
Terry Rossio (screen story)
Stuart Beattie (screen story)
Jay Wolpert (screen story)
Ted Elliott (screenplay)
Terry Rossio (screenplay)
Release Date:
9 July 2003
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Cast :
1. Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow: An eccentric pirate noted for a slightly drunken swagger, accompanied by slurred speech and awkwardly flailing hand gestures. His obsession for rum is only matched by his obsession with regaining the Black Pearl, which he captained ten years before. Jack uses his wits rather than weapons, and has gained a reputation with made up stories of how he escaped from the deserted island he was put on. The actor found the script quirky: rather than trying to find treasure, the crew of the Black Pearl were trying to return it in order to lift their curse; also, the traditional mutiny had already taken place.
2. Orlando Bloom as Will Turner: A blacksmith's apprentice working in Port Royal, he is in love with Elizabeth Swann. Will struggles with the fact his father, "Bootstrap" Bill, was a pirate, unable to reconcile that he was a good man too.
3. Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann: The daughter of Governor Weatherby Swann, Elizabeth has been fascinated with pirates since childhood. During the Black Pearl's attack on Port Royal, she gives her name as Turner and is mistaken for "Bootstrap" Bill's child. She also is in love with Will Turner. Elizabeth abandons the "damsel in distress" image and in time her personality changes to that of a noble pirate.
4. Geoffrey Rush as Captain Barbossa: The captain of the Black Pearl, he was Captain Jack Sparrow's first mate before he led a mutiny ten years before. He and his crew stole cursed Aztec gold, for which they walk the Earth forever. He has a love of green apples and his monkey Jack, which never leaves his side.
5. Jack Davenport as Commodore Norrington: An officer in the Royal Navy who is in love with Elizabeth, and also has a deep-seated dislike for pirates. He considers Jack Sparrow to be, "the worst pirate I have ever heard of".
6. Jonathan Pryce as Governor Weatherby Swann: Governor of Port Royal, Jamaica and father of Elizabeth Swann.
7. Lee Arenberg as Pintel: A pirate aboard the Black Pearl. He and Ragetti dress up as women to provide the distraction that allows the cursed pirates to board the Dauntless near the end of the movie.
8. Mackenzie Crook as Ragetti: A pirate aboard the Black Pearl, Pintel's buddy, with a wooden eye that never seems to stay in place.
9. Kevin McNally as Joshamee Gibbs: Jack Sparrow's friend and first mate, he was once a sailor for the Royal Navy. He is usually the one who tells the legends of Jack Sparrow.
10. Zoe Saldana as Anamaria: A female pirate furious with Jack Sparrow for stealing her boat. He promises her the Interceptor in an attempt to assuage her anger.
Original Sound Track :
01.-.Fog.Bound
02.-.The.Medallion.Calls
03.-.The.Black.Pearl
04.-.Will.and.Elizabeth
05.-.Swords.Crossed
06.-.Walk.the.Plank
07.-.Barbosa.is.Hungry
08.-.Blood.Ritual
09.-.Moonlight.Serenade
10.-.To.the.Pirates'.Cave!
11.-.Skull.and.Crossbows
12.-.Bootstraps'.Bootstraps
13.-.Underwater.March
14.-.One.Last.Shot
15.-.He's.a.Pirate
Plot :
As Governor Weatherby Swann and his twelve-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, sail to Port Royal, Jamaica, their vessel, HMS Dauntless encounters a shipwreck with a sole survivor, the young Will Turner, floating among the wreckage. Elizabeth finds and hides a gold medallion she found around the unconscious Will's neck, fearing he would be accused of piracy. She then glimpses a ghostly pirate ship (the Black Pearl), disappearing into the mist.
Eight years later, Captain James Norrington of the British Royal Navy is promoted to Commodore. At his ceremony, he proposes to Elizabeth. Before she is able to answer, her corset causes her to faint and fall off the rampart, tumbling into the bay. The medallion she is wearing emits a mysterious pulse through the water.
Meanwhile, pirate Captain Jack Sparrow has arrived in Port Royal to commandeer a ship. Seeing Elizabeth fall, he rescues her, but is promptly arrested for piracy. He escapes and ducks into a blacksmith shop where he encounters Will Turner, now a blacksmith's apprentice and self-taught expert swordsman. Following a swordfight with Turner, Sparrow is knocked unconscious and jailed, set to be hanged the next day. That night, Port Royal is besieged by the Pearl, answering the medallion's mysterious call. Elizabeth is captured and invokes parley— an agreement ensuring one's safety until meeting and negotiating with the opposing side. Not wishing to reveal that she's the Governor's daughter, Elizabeth tells Captain Barbossa her surname is Turner. She negotiates for the pirates to cease the attack on Port Royal in exchange for the medallion. Barbossa agrees but, employing a loophole in their agreement, keeps Elizabeth prisoner, believing she is the key to breaking an ancient curse they are under.
When Commodore Norrington refuses to take immediate action, Will, who loves Elizabeth, persuades Captain Jack Sparrow to help him rescue her in exchange for freeing him from jail. Jack agrees only after learning Will's last name is Turner. After commandeering the HMS Interceptor Jack and Will recruit a crew in Tortuga with help from Jack's old friend, Gibbs, a former boatswain in the Royal Navy. They set sail for Isla de Muerta, a mysterious island Jack knows the pirates will go to in order to break the curse.
While en route, Will learns about Jack's past. He was once the captain of the Pearl, but when he shared the bearings to a hidden chest of Aztec gold coins, First Mate Barbossa instigated a mutiny and marooned Jack on an island. Jack escaped three days later. The pirates found and spent the treasure, but soon learned it was cursed—turning them into immortal skeletal beings whose true forms are only revealed in moonlight. The curse can only be lifted when every coin and each pirate's blood is returned to the chest. William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner, Jack's only supporter, sent a coin to his son, Will, believing the crew should remain cursed for what they did to Jack. Barbossa had Bootstrap tied to a cannon and thrown overboard, only to realize later that his blood is also needed to break the curse; a Turner relative must now take his place.
In a cave full of treasure on Isla de Muerta, Barbossa, believing Elizabeth is Bootstrap's child, anoints the last coin with her blood and drops it into the chest—unsurprisingly, the curse remains unbroken.
Reaching the island, Will suspects Sparrow may betray him and knocks him out. He rescues Elizabeth, and they escape to the Interceptor. Jack barters with Barbossa—he will reveal Bootstrap's real child in exchange for the Pearl. Jack's negotiations come to naught, however, when the Pearl pursues the Interceptor, sinking her and taking the crew captive. Will reveals that he is Bootstrap Bill's son and demands that Elizabeth and the crew be freed, or he will shoot himself and fall overboard, lost forever. Barbossa agrees but craftily applies another loophole and maroons Elizabeth and Jack on a deserted island (the same island Jack was on ten years before) and throws Jack's crew into the brig. Will is taken to Isla de Muerta for the ritual. On the island, Elizabeth discovers the truth behind how Jack really got off the island. The island that Jack was imprisoned on was used as a cache by rum runners, who are long since out of business.
Elizabeth burns an abandoned cache of rum to create a signal fire that is spotted by Norrington. She convinces Norrington to rescue Will by accepting his earlier marriage proposal. Returning to Isla de Muerta, Norrington sets an ambush outside the cave while Jack goes inside and persuades Barbossa to form an alliance. He tells him to delay breaking the curse until after they have taken the Dauntless and killed the crew. Jack then removes a coin from the chest, rendering himself immortal. But whatever Jack's actual intent is, his plan goes awry when Barbossa orders his crew to infiltrate the Dauntless from underwater. Jack tosses his bloodied coin to Will, who returns the last two medallions to the chest, breaking the curse. Jack's true allegiance is revealed when he attacks and then shoots Barbossa. No longer immortal, the wounded Barbossa falls dead. Realizing they are no longer cursed, the now-mortal pirates surrender to the navy.
Back in Port Royal, Jack is about to be executed. Believing Jack deserves to live, Will rescues him. Both are quickly captured, but Elizabeth lends her support and declares her love for Will. Norrington releases her from their engagement, and Will is pardoned. Meanwhile, Jack escapes by falling into the bay. His crew, who escaped with the Pearl, rescues him. Norrington is impressed enough to allow him one day's head start before giving pursuit.
After the credits, Jack the monkey swims back to the treasure chest, near Barbossa's dead body, and steals a gold coin. The camera shows his skeleton body, and Jack jumps at the screen, which blacks out.
Pictures :
Gore Verbinski
Writing credits
(WGA)
Ted Elliott (screen story)
Terry Rossio (screen story)
Stuart Beattie (screen story)
Jay Wolpert (screen story)
Ted Elliott (screenplay)
Terry Rossio (screenplay)
Release Date:
9 July 2003
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Cast :
1. Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow: An eccentric pirate noted for a slightly drunken swagger, accompanied by slurred speech and awkwardly flailing hand gestures. His obsession for rum is only matched by his obsession with regaining the Black Pearl, which he captained ten years before. Jack uses his wits rather than weapons, and has gained a reputation with made up stories of how he escaped from the deserted island he was put on. The actor found the script quirky: rather than trying to find treasure, the crew of the Black Pearl were trying to return it in order to lift their curse; also, the traditional mutiny had already taken place.
2. Orlando Bloom as Will Turner: A blacksmith's apprentice working in Port Royal, he is in love with Elizabeth Swann. Will struggles with the fact his father, "Bootstrap" Bill, was a pirate, unable to reconcile that he was a good man too.
3. Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann: The daughter of Governor Weatherby Swann, Elizabeth has been fascinated with pirates since childhood. During the Black Pearl's attack on Port Royal, she gives her name as Turner and is mistaken for "Bootstrap" Bill's child. She also is in love with Will Turner. Elizabeth abandons the "damsel in distress" image and in time her personality changes to that of a noble pirate.
4. Geoffrey Rush as Captain Barbossa: The captain of the Black Pearl, he was Captain Jack Sparrow's first mate before he led a mutiny ten years before. He and his crew stole cursed Aztec gold, for which they walk the Earth forever. He has a love of green apples and his monkey Jack, which never leaves his side.
5. Jack Davenport as Commodore Norrington: An officer in the Royal Navy who is in love with Elizabeth, and also has a deep-seated dislike for pirates. He considers Jack Sparrow to be, "the worst pirate I have ever heard of".
6. Jonathan Pryce as Governor Weatherby Swann: Governor of Port Royal, Jamaica and father of Elizabeth Swann.
7. Lee Arenberg as Pintel: A pirate aboard the Black Pearl. He and Ragetti dress up as women to provide the distraction that allows the cursed pirates to board the Dauntless near the end of the movie.
8. Mackenzie Crook as Ragetti: A pirate aboard the Black Pearl, Pintel's buddy, with a wooden eye that never seems to stay in place.
9. Kevin McNally as Joshamee Gibbs: Jack Sparrow's friend and first mate, he was once a sailor for the Royal Navy. He is usually the one who tells the legends of Jack Sparrow.
10. Zoe Saldana as Anamaria: A female pirate furious with Jack Sparrow for stealing her boat. He promises her the Interceptor in an attempt to assuage her anger.
Original Sound Track :
01.-.Fog.Bound
02.-.The.Medallion.Calls
03.-.The.Black.Pearl
04.-.Will.and.Elizabeth
05.-.Swords.Crossed
06.-.Walk.the.Plank
07.-.Barbosa.is.Hungry
08.-.Blood.Ritual
09.-.Moonlight.Serenade
10.-.To.the.Pirates'.Cave!
11.-.Skull.and.Crossbows
12.-.Bootstraps'.Bootstraps
13.-.Underwater.March
14.-.One.Last.Shot
15.-.He's.a.Pirate
Plot :
As Governor Weatherby Swann and his twelve-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, sail to Port Royal, Jamaica, their vessel, HMS Dauntless encounters a shipwreck with a sole survivor, the young Will Turner, floating among the wreckage. Elizabeth finds and hides a gold medallion she found around the unconscious Will's neck, fearing he would be accused of piracy. She then glimpses a ghostly pirate ship (the Black Pearl), disappearing into the mist.
Eight years later, Captain James Norrington of the British Royal Navy is promoted to Commodore. At his ceremony, he proposes to Elizabeth. Before she is able to answer, her corset causes her to faint and fall off the rampart, tumbling into the bay. The medallion she is wearing emits a mysterious pulse through the water.
Meanwhile, pirate Captain Jack Sparrow has arrived in Port Royal to commandeer a ship. Seeing Elizabeth fall, he rescues her, but is promptly arrested for piracy. He escapes and ducks into a blacksmith shop where he encounters Will Turner, now a blacksmith's apprentice and self-taught expert swordsman. Following a swordfight with Turner, Sparrow is knocked unconscious and jailed, set to be hanged the next day. That night, Port Royal is besieged by the Pearl, answering the medallion's mysterious call. Elizabeth is captured and invokes parley— an agreement ensuring one's safety until meeting and negotiating with the opposing side. Not wishing to reveal that she's the Governor's daughter, Elizabeth tells Captain Barbossa her surname is Turner. She negotiates for the pirates to cease the attack on Port Royal in exchange for the medallion. Barbossa agrees but, employing a loophole in their agreement, keeps Elizabeth prisoner, believing she is the key to breaking an ancient curse they are under.
When Commodore Norrington refuses to take immediate action, Will, who loves Elizabeth, persuades Captain Jack Sparrow to help him rescue her in exchange for freeing him from jail. Jack agrees only after learning Will's last name is Turner. After commandeering the HMS Interceptor Jack and Will recruit a crew in Tortuga with help from Jack's old friend, Gibbs, a former boatswain in the Royal Navy. They set sail for Isla de Muerta, a mysterious island Jack knows the pirates will go to in order to break the curse.
While en route, Will learns about Jack's past. He was once the captain of the Pearl, but when he shared the bearings to a hidden chest of Aztec gold coins, First Mate Barbossa instigated a mutiny and marooned Jack on an island. Jack escaped three days later. The pirates found and spent the treasure, but soon learned it was cursed—turning them into immortal skeletal beings whose true forms are only revealed in moonlight. The curse can only be lifted when every coin and each pirate's blood is returned to the chest. William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner, Jack's only supporter, sent a coin to his son, Will, believing the crew should remain cursed for what they did to Jack. Barbossa had Bootstrap tied to a cannon and thrown overboard, only to realize later that his blood is also needed to break the curse; a Turner relative must now take his place.
In a cave full of treasure on Isla de Muerta, Barbossa, believing Elizabeth is Bootstrap's child, anoints the last coin with her blood and drops it into the chest—unsurprisingly, the curse remains unbroken.
Reaching the island, Will suspects Sparrow may betray him and knocks him out. He rescues Elizabeth, and they escape to the Interceptor. Jack barters with Barbossa—he will reveal Bootstrap's real child in exchange for the Pearl. Jack's negotiations come to naught, however, when the Pearl pursues the Interceptor, sinking her and taking the crew captive. Will reveals that he is Bootstrap Bill's son and demands that Elizabeth and the crew be freed, or he will shoot himself and fall overboard, lost forever. Barbossa agrees but craftily applies another loophole and maroons Elizabeth and Jack on a deserted island (the same island Jack was on ten years before) and throws Jack's crew into the brig. Will is taken to Isla de Muerta for the ritual. On the island, Elizabeth discovers the truth behind how Jack really got off the island. The island that Jack was imprisoned on was used as a cache by rum runners, who are long since out of business.
Elizabeth burns an abandoned cache of rum to create a signal fire that is spotted by Norrington. She convinces Norrington to rescue Will by accepting his earlier marriage proposal. Returning to Isla de Muerta, Norrington sets an ambush outside the cave while Jack goes inside and persuades Barbossa to form an alliance. He tells him to delay breaking the curse until after they have taken the Dauntless and killed the crew. Jack then removes a coin from the chest, rendering himself immortal. But whatever Jack's actual intent is, his plan goes awry when Barbossa orders his crew to infiltrate the Dauntless from underwater. Jack tosses his bloodied coin to Will, who returns the last two medallions to the chest, breaking the curse. Jack's true allegiance is revealed when he attacks and then shoots Barbossa. No longer immortal, the wounded Barbossa falls dead. Realizing they are no longer cursed, the now-mortal pirates surrender to the navy.
Back in Port Royal, Jack is about to be executed. Believing Jack deserves to live, Will rescues him. Both are quickly captured, but Elizabeth lends her support and declares her love for Will. Norrington releases her from their engagement, and Will is pardoned. Meanwhile, Jack escapes by falling into the bay. His crew, who escaped with the Pearl, rescues him. Norrington is impressed enough to allow him one day's head start before giving pursuit.
After the credits, Jack the monkey swims back to the treasure chest, near Barbossa's dead body, and steals a gold coin. The camera shows his skeleton body, and Jack jumps at the screen, which blacks out.
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Spiderman 3 Movie
Director:
Sam Raimi
Writers (WGA):
Sam Raimi (screenplay) &
Ivan Raimi (screenplay)
Genre:
Action
Cast :
1. Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker / Spider-Man: A superhero, a brilliant physics student at Columbia University, and photographer for the Daily Bugle. As he grows arrogant with the city starting to embrace him for the first time in his career, an alien symbiote attaches itself to Peter's costume and influences his behavior for the worse.
2. Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson: Peter Parker's girlfriend and a Broadway actress, whom he has loved since childhood. Mary Jane has a string of bad luck in the film, reminiscent of Peter's misfortune in Spider-Man 2,losing her job because of bad reviews and losing her boyfriend when the symbiote takes him over.
3. James Franco as Harry Osborn / New Goblin: The son of Norman Osborn and Peter Parker's best friend, who believes Spider-Man murdered his father. After learning Peter is Spider-Man and that Norman was the Green Goblin, Harry becomes the New Goblin to battle his former friend directly.
4. Rosemary Harris as May Parker: The aunt of Peter Parker and the widow of Ben Parker, Peter's uncle. She gives Peter her engagement ring so he can propose to Mary Jane, and gives him lessons in forgiveness.
5. J. K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson: The aggressive chief of The Daily Bugle. He has particular dislike towards Spider-Man, whom he considers a criminal.
6. Dylan Baker as Dr. Curt Connors: A college physics professor under whom Peter Parker studies. He examines a piece of the symbiote and tells Peter it "amplifies characteristics of its host... especially aggression."
7. Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn / Green Goblin: The hallucination of Harry Osborn's late wicked father returns to encourage his son to destroy Spider-Man.
8. Cliff Robertson as Ben Parker: Peter Parker's deceased uncle.
9. Bill Nunn as Joseph "Robbie" Robertson: A longtime employee at The Daily Bugle.
10. Michael Papajohn as Dennis Carradine: The carjacker who was believed to have murdered Uncle Ben.
11. Elizabeth Banks as Betty Brant: Receptionist at The Daily Bugle for J. Jonah Jameson.
Original Sound track :
1. "Signal Fire" Snow Patrol
2. "Move Away" The Killers
3. "Sealings" Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4. "Pleased to Meet You" Wolfmother
5. "Red River" The Walkmen
6. "Stay Free" Black Mountain
7. "The Supreme Being Teaches Spider-Man How to Be in Love" The Flaming Lips
8. "Scared of Myself" Simon Dawes
9. "The Twist" Chubby Checker
10. "Sight Lines" Rogue Wave
11. "Summer Day" Coconut Records
12. "Falling Star" Jet
13. "Portrait of a Summer Thief" Sounds Under Radio
14. "A Letter from St. Jude" The Wasted Youth Orchestra a.k.a. The?Wyo's
15. "Small Parts" The Oohlas
Plot :
Peter Parker has begun to feel secure in his life and plans to propose to Mary Jane. While Peter and Mary Jane are on a date, a small meteorite crashes nearby, and an extraterrestrial symbiote attaches itself to Peter's moped. Meanwhile, escaped convict Flint Marko falls into a particle accelerator that fuses his body with the surrounding sand. The result allows him to shape shift at will, becoming the Sandman. Peter's best friend, Harry Osborn, who seeks vengeance for his father's death, which he believes Peter caused, attacks him. During the scuffle, Harry injures his head and suffers from partial amnesia, making him forget his vendetta.
Later, during a festival honoring Spider-Man for saving Gwen Stacy's life, Sandman attempts to rob an armored car, and overpowers Spider-Man. Gwen's father, police officer Captain Stacy, later informs Peter and Aunt May that Marko is the one who killed Ben Parker. A vengeful Peter waits for Marko to strike again. The symbiote bonds with his costume while he is asleep; Peter discovers that not only has his costume changed, but his powers have been enhanced as well. The black suit brings out the more vengeful, insensitive, and arrogant side of Peter's personality, exemplified by a near-lethal attack on Sandman during a battle.
The shift in Peter's personality alienates Mary Jane, whose career is floundering, and she finds solace with Harry. Harry recovers from his amnesia and, urged on by an apparition of his dead father, forces Mary Jane to break up with Peter. After Mary Jane leaves Peter, stating she is in love with another man, Harry meets him at a restaurant and claims to be the other man. Later, Peter finds him at the Osborn mansion. With the help of the black suit, Peter is victorious in a brutal fight, which leaves Harry's face disfigured. Influenced by the suit, Peter exposes and humiliates Eddie Brock, a rival freelance photographer, who has sold fake pictures to The Daily Bugle supposedly showing Spider-Man to be a criminal. Meanwhile, Sandman recovers from his injuries, and swears revenge on Spider-Man.
In an effort to make Mary Jane jealous, Peter brings Gwen to the nightclub where Mary Jane works. He gets into a fight with the club's bouncers and unintentionally shoves Mary Jane to the floor. Peter realizes the symbiote-suit is changing him for the worse. He runs out of the nightclub and goes to a church bell tower to dispose of it. Initially he is unable to remove the suit, but the sound of the church bell weakens the symbiote, enabling Peter to break free. Eddie Brock is at the same church praying for Peter's death when the symbiote falls from the tower and takes over his body. The newly-empowered Eddie finds Sandman and suggests joining forces to destroy Spider-Man.
The pair put Mary Jane in a taxicab and hang it from a gigantic symbiote web. Peter approaches Harry for help, but is turned down. However, Harry learns the truth about his father's death from his butler Bernard, and arrives in time to rescue Peter, and they form an alliance against the two villains. As the fight progresses, Eddie attempts to impale Peter with Harry's glider, but Harry jumps in the way and is fatally wounded. Peter recalls how the church bell's toll weakened the symbiote, and frees Eddie from it by clanging several pipes together to make sonic vibrations. Peter throws a pumpkin bomb at the symbiote just as Eddie attempts to rebond with it, causing both to be destroyed in the resulting explosion.
After the battle, Marko recovers and tells Peter that he had no intention of killing Ben Parker, and that it was an accident born out of a desperate attempt to save his daughter's life. Peter forgives Marko, who dissipates and floats away to his daughter. Peter and Harry forgive each other before Harry dies with Mary Jane and Peter at his side. After Harry's funeral, Peter and Mary Jane begin to mend their relationship.
Pictures :
Sam Raimi
Writers (WGA):
Sam Raimi (screenplay) &
Ivan Raimi (screenplay)
Genre:
Action
Cast :
1. Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker / Spider-Man: A superhero, a brilliant physics student at Columbia University, and photographer for the Daily Bugle. As he grows arrogant with the city starting to embrace him for the first time in his career, an alien symbiote attaches itself to Peter's costume and influences his behavior for the worse.
2. Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson: Peter Parker's girlfriend and a Broadway actress, whom he has loved since childhood. Mary Jane has a string of bad luck in the film, reminiscent of Peter's misfortune in Spider-Man 2,losing her job because of bad reviews and losing her boyfriend when the symbiote takes him over.
3. James Franco as Harry Osborn / New Goblin: The son of Norman Osborn and Peter Parker's best friend, who believes Spider-Man murdered his father. After learning Peter is Spider-Man and that Norman was the Green Goblin, Harry becomes the New Goblin to battle his former friend directly.
4. Rosemary Harris as May Parker: The aunt of Peter Parker and the widow of Ben Parker, Peter's uncle. She gives Peter her engagement ring so he can propose to Mary Jane, and gives him lessons in forgiveness.
5. J. K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson: The aggressive chief of The Daily Bugle. He has particular dislike towards Spider-Man, whom he considers a criminal.
6. Dylan Baker as Dr. Curt Connors: A college physics professor under whom Peter Parker studies. He examines a piece of the symbiote and tells Peter it "amplifies characteristics of its host... especially aggression."
7. Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn / Green Goblin: The hallucination of Harry Osborn's late wicked father returns to encourage his son to destroy Spider-Man.
8. Cliff Robertson as Ben Parker: Peter Parker's deceased uncle.
9. Bill Nunn as Joseph "Robbie" Robertson: A longtime employee at The Daily Bugle.
10. Michael Papajohn as Dennis Carradine: The carjacker who was believed to have murdered Uncle Ben.
11. Elizabeth Banks as Betty Brant: Receptionist at The Daily Bugle for J. Jonah Jameson.
Original Sound track :
1. "Signal Fire" Snow Patrol
2. "Move Away" The Killers
3. "Sealings" Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4. "Pleased to Meet You" Wolfmother
5. "Red River" The Walkmen
6. "Stay Free" Black Mountain
7. "The Supreme Being Teaches Spider-Man How to Be in Love" The Flaming Lips
8. "Scared of Myself" Simon Dawes
9. "The Twist" Chubby Checker
10. "Sight Lines" Rogue Wave
11. "Summer Day" Coconut Records
12. "Falling Star" Jet
13. "Portrait of a Summer Thief" Sounds Under Radio
14. "A Letter from St. Jude" The Wasted Youth Orchestra a.k.a. The?Wyo's
15. "Small Parts" The Oohlas
Plot :
Peter Parker has begun to feel secure in his life and plans to propose to Mary Jane. While Peter and Mary Jane are on a date, a small meteorite crashes nearby, and an extraterrestrial symbiote attaches itself to Peter's moped. Meanwhile, escaped convict Flint Marko falls into a particle accelerator that fuses his body with the surrounding sand. The result allows him to shape shift at will, becoming the Sandman. Peter's best friend, Harry Osborn, who seeks vengeance for his father's death, which he believes Peter caused, attacks him. During the scuffle, Harry injures his head and suffers from partial amnesia, making him forget his vendetta.
Later, during a festival honoring Spider-Man for saving Gwen Stacy's life, Sandman attempts to rob an armored car, and overpowers Spider-Man. Gwen's father, police officer Captain Stacy, later informs Peter and Aunt May that Marko is the one who killed Ben Parker. A vengeful Peter waits for Marko to strike again. The symbiote bonds with his costume while he is asleep; Peter discovers that not only has his costume changed, but his powers have been enhanced as well. The black suit brings out the more vengeful, insensitive, and arrogant side of Peter's personality, exemplified by a near-lethal attack on Sandman during a battle.
The shift in Peter's personality alienates Mary Jane, whose career is floundering, and she finds solace with Harry. Harry recovers from his amnesia and, urged on by an apparition of his dead father, forces Mary Jane to break up with Peter. After Mary Jane leaves Peter, stating she is in love with another man, Harry meets him at a restaurant and claims to be the other man. Later, Peter finds him at the Osborn mansion. With the help of the black suit, Peter is victorious in a brutal fight, which leaves Harry's face disfigured. Influenced by the suit, Peter exposes and humiliates Eddie Brock, a rival freelance photographer, who has sold fake pictures to The Daily Bugle supposedly showing Spider-Man to be a criminal. Meanwhile, Sandman recovers from his injuries, and swears revenge on Spider-Man.
In an effort to make Mary Jane jealous, Peter brings Gwen to the nightclub where Mary Jane works. He gets into a fight with the club's bouncers and unintentionally shoves Mary Jane to the floor. Peter realizes the symbiote-suit is changing him for the worse. He runs out of the nightclub and goes to a church bell tower to dispose of it. Initially he is unable to remove the suit, but the sound of the church bell weakens the symbiote, enabling Peter to break free. Eddie Brock is at the same church praying for Peter's death when the symbiote falls from the tower and takes over his body. The newly-empowered Eddie finds Sandman and suggests joining forces to destroy Spider-Man.
The pair put Mary Jane in a taxicab and hang it from a gigantic symbiote web. Peter approaches Harry for help, but is turned down. However, Harry learns the truth about his father's death from his butler Bernard, and arrives in time to rescue Peter, and they form an alliance against the two villains. As the fight progresses, Eddie attempts to impale Peter with Harry's glider, but Harry jumps in the way and is fatally wounded. Peter recalls how the church bell's toll weakened the symbiote, and frees Eddie from it by clanging several pipes together to make sonic vibrations. Peter throws a pumpkin bomb at the symbiote just as Eddie attempts to rebond with it, causing both to be destroyed in the resulting explosion.
After the battle, Marko recovers and tells Peter that he had no intention of killing Ben Parker, and that it was an accident born out of a desperate attempt to save his daughter's life. Peter forgives Marko, who dissipates and floats away to his daughter. Peter and Harry forgive each other before Harry dies with Mary Jane and Peter at his side. After Harry's funeral, Peter and Mary Jane begin to mend their relationship.
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