11/07/2020
WEEK 16 OF LOCKDOWN SERIES CONTINUES...
coronavirus is a gift !!!
Ekta Films have compiled a list of movies to watch during this crisis to turn this unfortunate event into a gift. So for WEEK 16 we have compiled a list of Survival Movies. Enjoy the movies and watch out for more.
Survival Movies
Gravity (2013)
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Two astronauts work together to survive after an accident leaves them stranded in space.
Movie Scene: Debris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCx5kry7mWs&list=PLIy76b_ysfBl5uRGKaqt_YlDfsQk0EsGo
Fun facts:
● The film's cascade of debris is a very real possibility. This scenario is known as the Kessler syndrome, named after N.A.S.A. scientist Donald J. Kessler who first proposed the theory in 1978. A cascading Kessler syndrome involving an object the size of the International Space Station would trigger a catastrophic chain-reaction of debris. The orbiting debris field would make it impossible to launch space exploration missions or satellites for many decades.
● The opening scene, from the establishing view of Earth to Dr. Stone detaching from the structure, is a single, continuous shot lasting about twelve and a half minutes.
● Everything except the ending was shot on a green screen.
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiTiKOy59o4
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Life of Pi (2012)
Director: Ang Lee
A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.
Movie Scene: I Would Have Died by Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_SjI2N-Qh4
Fun facts:
● Pi is on the lifeboat for 227 days. A good approximation for the number pi is 22/7.
● The Japanese insurance report, seen briefly while the "Writer" glances at the report folder and newspaper clipping, indicates a report number "250663", 25 June 1963 is the birth-date of Yann Martel, the author of the 2001 novel "Life of Pi".
● Pi does not write out Pi in full in the book, he just gives the traditional 3.14 (pi cannot be written in full as it is infinite)
watch trailer:
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The Revenant (2015)
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.
Movie Scene: Bear attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOlVRHsVzE4
Fun facts:
● Leonardo DiCaprio chose to devour a raw slab of bison's liver, even though he is vegetarian. He also had to learn to shoot a musket, build a fire, speak two Native American languages (Pawnee and Arikara), and study with a doctor who specializes in ancient healing techniques. DiCaprio calls it the hardest performance of his career.
● The real Hugh Glass did not have a son and there is no record that he was ever married.
● The film takes place in 1823.
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoebZZ8K5N0
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Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Director: Taika Waititi
A young boy in Hi**er's army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.
Movie Scene: Jojo Meets Elsa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvSs2bb38dA
Fun facts:
● Taika Waititi discovered in his research that WWII Germany was very vibrant and fashionable, and was interested in shying away from traditional war films showing it as dreary and dark, instead presenting the town as a seemingly celebratory place and dressing characters as stylishly as possible. He liked the idea that everything seems happy, but just underneath the surface "the third Reich is crumbling, and, you know, the dream is over."
● Taika Waititi described the film as a love letter to his mother, and single parents everywhere: "It wasn't until I was a grown up and I had kids of my own that I realized 'oh, these parent people, they make a lot of sacrifices, it's really hard raising a kid!'"
● The film is based on Christine Leunens's novel Caging Skies, a book that Waititi's mom loved before turning him onto it as well. "Imaginary Hi**er is not in the book," he adds, although the rest of the story's main characters are.
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL4McUzXfFI
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The Host (2006)
Director: B**g Joon Ho
A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and begins attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches.
Fun facts:
● Co-Writer and Director B**g Joon Ho and the designer of the creature nicknamed it Steve Buscemi, based on the actor's screen persona and the way he acted in Fargo (1996).
● The film takes place in 2000, 2002, and 2006.
● The event described in the beginning of the film is based on an actual event. In February 2000 at a U.S. Military facility located in the center of Seoul, a U.S. Military civilian employee named Mr. McFarland was ordered to dispose of formaldehyde by dumping it into the sewer system that led to the Han River, despite the objection of a South Korean subordinate. The government attempted to prosecute Mr. McFarland in court, but the U.S. Military refused to hand over the custody of Mr. McFarland to the South Korean legal system. Later, a South Korean judge convicted Mr. McFarland in absentia. The public was enraged at the government's inability to enforce its law on its own soil. In 2005, nearly five years after the original incident, Mr. McFarland was finally found guilty in a court in his presence.
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HRTy26s4hw
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Nobody Knows (2004)
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
Fun facts:
● According to the director Hirokazu Koreeda, though Nobody Knows (2004) was inspired by the true story of the Sugamo child abandonment case, it is not a factual recounting, and only the settings and the ending of the story are based on the true story. Also, the film's version of the story was far less grisly than the actual event upon which the movie is based on.
● The director Hirokazu Koreeda held extensive auditions to cast the four children, and the actors were all nonprofessionals. Also, during the casting, a little girl came in with noisy sandals. The director liked it so much that he brought it over to Yuki's character when searching for her mother. He also did not give the children detailed explanations of their roles, because he wanted them to be natural.
● Hirokazu Koreeda wrote the first draft of the screenplay fifteen years before the film was actually made. At that point it was titled "Wonderful Sunday" and unfolded from Akira's subjective point of view, ending with a fantasy sequence in which the entire family (the children, the mother and the various fathers) are reunited for a Sunday outing.
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8COIEaleR8
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Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Director: Roberto Benigni
When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Movie Scene: Creative Translation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lTSqc1UnLU
Fun facts:
● Guido's wife, Dora, is played by Roberto Benigni's real-life wife, Nicoletta Braschi.
● Roberto Benigni says the title comes from a quote by Leon Trotsky. In exile in Mexico, knowing he was about to be killed by Joseph Stalin's assassins, he saw his wife in the garden and wrote that, in spite of everything, "life is beautiful".
● In Italian, the answer to the "Snow White" riddle is seven "minuti" - a play on words between "minutes" and "dwarves".
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAYEQP8gx3w
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