![]() The Thing (1. 98. Wikipedia. The Thing (also known as John Carpenter's The Thing) is a 1. American science- fictionhorror film directed by John Carpenter, written by Bill Lancaster, and starring Kurt Russell. The film's title refers to its primary antagonist: a parasiticextraterrestrial lifeform that assimilates other organisms and in turn imitates them. The Thing infiltrates an Antarctic research station, taking the appearance of the researchers that it absorbs, and paranoia develops within the group. The film is based on John W. Campbell, Jr.'s novella Who Goes There?, which was more loosely adapted by Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby as the 1. The Thing from Another World. ![]() Although the films are narratively unrelated, each features a potentially apocalyptic scenario; should . Carpenter acknowledged that the work of H. P. Lovecraft also inspired the film. It remained in the top 1. Upon landing, a Norwegian accidentally drops a thermite charge, destroying the helicopter. Directed by Jabbar Raisani. With Adrian Paul, Reiley McClendon, Brandon Auret, Rick Ravanello. A documentary crew follows an elite unit of soldiers in the wake of an.The surviving Norwegian pursues the dog, firing a rifle, until he is shot dead by Garry, the station commander. The Americans send a helicopter pilot, R. J. Mac. Ready, and Dr. Copper to the Norwegian camp for answers, but they find only a charred ruin containing corpses. Outside, they discover the burned remains of a humanoid corpse with two faces, which they bring back along with some video tapes. Their biologist, Blair, performs an autopsy on the corpse, finding a normal set of human internal organs. Clark kennels the Malamute with the station's sled dogs; it soon metamorphosizes and attacks them. When he hears the commotion, Mac. Ready pulls the fire alarm, and Childs incinerates the creature. The Thing (also known as John Carpenter's The Thing) is a 1982 American science-fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter, written by Bill Lancaster, and. Blair performs another autopsy which leads him to believe the creature perfectly imitates other organisms. The Norwegians' records lead the Americans to a buried flying saucer that the station's geologist, Norris, hypothesizes is likely over 1. Blair becomes increasingly paranoid and withdraws, calculating that if the alien escapes to a civilized area, all life on Earth will be assimilated within a few years. Fuchs tells Mac. Ready that he is worried about Blair, and according to Blair's journal, the creature's . The camp enacts safety measures designed to reduce risk of assimilation. ![]() The creature assimilates Bennings, but Windows catches him outside before his metamorphosis is complete and Mac. Ready burns the creature before it can escape. They discover Blair has wrecked all the transports and killed the remaining sled dogs. The team subdue Blair as he is destroying the radio and lock him in an isolated tool shed. Copper recommends a blood- serum test to determine who is assimilated, but the paranoid men turn on each other when they find the blood stores have been sabotaged. Mac. Ready takes charge and orders Fuchs to continue Blair's work, but Fuchs disappears; Mac. Ready, Windows, and Nauls find his burnt corpse outside.
Windows returns to warn the others while Mac. Ready and Nauls investigate further. On the way back, Nauls cuts Mac. Ready loose from the tow line, assuming that he has been assimilated when he finds a torn shirt with Mac. Ready's name on it. As the team debate Mac. Ready's fate, he breaks in and threatens to destroy the station with a bundle of dynamite if they attack him. Norris appears to suffer a heart attack after he and Nauls unsuccessfully attack Mac. Ready from behind. When Copper attempts to revive him, Norris transforms and kills Copper by biting his arms off. Mac. Ready incinerates the creature and orders Windows to tie up everyone for a new test. Clark attacks Mac. Ready, but is killed. Mac. Ready explains his theory that every piece of the alien is an individual organism with its own survival instinct. One by one, Mac. Ready tests everyone's blood with a heated piece of copper wire. Everyone is still human except Palmer, whose blood flees from the hot wire. Exposed, Palmer transforms and infects Windows, forcing Mac. Ready to burn them both. Leaving Childs on guard, the others head out to test Blair, only to find that he has tunneled out of the tool shed. They realize that Blair is assimilated and has been scavenging equipment to build a small escape craft. Discovering that Childs is missing and the station's power generator is destroyed, Mac. Ready speculates that the Thing now intends to hibernate until a rescue team arrives. Mac. Ready, Garry, and Nauls decide to dynamite the complex, hoping to destroy the Thing. As they set the explosives, Blair kills Garry and Nauls disappears. Blair transforms into a much larger monster and attacks, destroying the detonator, but Mac. Ready still triggers the blast with a stick of dynamite, destroying the base. Mac. Ready sits nearby as the camp burns, and Childs reappears, claiming he was lost in the storm, pursuing Blair. Exhausted and with no hope of survival, they acknowledge the futility of their distrust and agree to . Macready offers Childs a bottle of what appears to be whiskey and smiles after he takes a sip. The movie closes with both men sitting near the burning outpost, presumably waiting to freeze to death and forcing the alien to freeze as well. Production. The research station in the film was built by the film crew during summer, and the film shot in sub- freezing winter conditions. The only female presence in the film is the voice of a chess computer, voiced by Carpenter regular (and then- wife) Adrienne Barbeau, as well as the female contestants viewed on a videotaped episode of Let's Make a Deal. According to the sign post outside the camp, the Antarctic research team is stationed at the United States National Science Institute Station 4. However, in early drafts of the script, the base was called, . Macready, helicopter pilot, U. S. Outpost #3. 1. The Norwegian camp was simply the remains of the American outpost after it was destroyed by an explosion. Russell would appear in two additional Carpenter films following The Thing: Big Trouble in Little China and Escape from L. A. Most of the special creature effects were designed and created by Rob Bottin and his crew, with the exception of the dog creature, which was created by Stan Winston. Ramsay states that he made the suggestion to Carpenter to film a . Carpenter agreed and shot a scene in which Mac. Ready has been rescued and administered a blood test, proving that he is still human. Ramsay follows this by saying that The Thing had two test screenings, but Carpenter did not use the sequence in either of them, as the director felt that the film worked better with its eventual nihilistic conclusion. The alternate ending with Mac. Ready definitively proven to be human has yet to be released. According to the 1. DVD release, the . However, due to the limitations of stop- motion animation, the monster appears for only a few seconds in the film. One of the film's associate producers, Larry J. Franco, has a credited cameo as the Norwegian rifleman from the beginning of the film. Director John Carpenter and his then- wife Adrienne Barbeau have uncredited cameos as a man in the Norwegian video footage and the voice of the chess computer, respectively. Although the production's helicopter pilots are not characters within the film and only serve as body doubles when the helicopters are in flight, they are listed under the credits. Nate Irvin is listed as Helicopter Pilot and William Zeman is listed as Pilot. Two names were changed from Bill Lancaster's second draft of the script. The second character changed is the Norwegian rifleman, who was identified as . This is why I've called you. Then when he showed me the film, later when I wrote the music, we didn't exchange ideas. He ran away, nearly ashamed of showing it to me. I wrote the music on my own without his advice. Naturally, as I had become quite clever since 1. I've written several scores relating to my life. And I had written one, which was electronic music. The 1. 99. 8 edition was a Universal Collector's Edition, featuring The Thing: Terror Takes Shape, an extensive 8. It details all aspects of the film and features interviews from many of the people involved. There are detailed stories from the cast and crew concerning the adapted screenplay, the special effects, the post- production, the critical reception, and more. Other features include deleted scenes, the alternative ending shown in the television version, a theatrical trailer and production notes. Additionally, John Carpenter and Kurt Russell provide commentary throughout the film. The film was released on Blu- ray Disc in Europe on October 6, 2. These extras include the documentary The Thing: Terror Takes Shape although several extras, most notably the alternate ending, were not included. The Blu- ray version also includes various Blu- ray- only features, such as a HD version of the film (although the extras are still presented in 4. Although the feature is new, the footage included in the picture- in- picture mode is all taken from The Thing: Terror Takes Shape documentary. The film was released in the United States on June 2. It debuted at #8 at the box office, with an opening weekend gross of $3. It went on to make $1. The Thing also opened on the same day as Ridley Scott's science fiction film Blade Runner, which debuted at #2. The one I took the hardest was The Thing. My career would have been different if that had been a big hit.. The movie was hated. Even by science- fiction fans. They thought that I had betrayed some kind of trust, and the piling on was insane. Even the original movie's director, Christian Nyby, was dissing me. Film critic Roger Ebert called the film . Sometimes it looks as if it aspired to be the quintessential moron movie of the 8. There's a big difference between shock effects and suspense, and in sacrificing everything at the altar of gore, Carpenter sabotages the drama. The Thing is so single- mindedly determined to keep you awake that it almost puts you to sleep. An early positive review of the film was provided by Peter Nicholls in 1. The Thing . Muir goes on to say that it is . Rango (2. 01. 1 film) - Wikipedia. Rango is a 2. 01. American 3. Dcomputer- animated. Westernactioncomedy film directed by Gore Verbinski, written by John Logan, and produced by Verbinski, Graham King and John B. Rango was a critical and commercial success, and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. It features the voices of actors Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone, Timothy Olyphant, Stephen Root and Ned Beatty. The film premiered at Westwood on February 1. United States on March 4, 2. Paramount Pictures. The film earned $2. A pet chameleon (Johnny Depp) becomes stranded in the Mojave Desert after his terrarium falls from his owners' car by accident. He meets an armadillo named Roadkill (Alfred Molina) who is seeking the mystical . While wandering the desert, he narrowly avoids being eaten by a vicious red- tailed hawk before meeting the desert iguana Beans (Isla Fisher). Beans takes him to Dirt, an Old West town populated by desert animals. The chameleon presents himself to the townsfolk as a tough drifter named . He quickly runs afoul of outlaw Gila monster Bad Bill (Ray Winstone), but avoids a shootout when Bill is scared off by the hawk's return. Rango is chased by the hawk until he accidentally knocks down an empty water tower which crushes the predator. The town mayor (Ned Beatty), an elderly tortoise, appoints Rango as the new sheriff. Meanwhile, the townsfolk worry that with the hawk dead, the gunslinger Rattlesnake Jake (Bill Nighy), who is afraid of hawks, will return. After discovering Dirt's water reserves — stored in the town bank inside a water cooler bottle — to be near empty, a skeptical Beans demands Rango investigate where the water has gone. That night, Rango inadvertently assists a trio of bank robbers, led by a mole named Balthazar (Harry Dean Stanton), mistaking them for prospectors. The townsfolk find their water bottle stolen the next day, so Rango organizes a posse and track the robbers to their hideout. They fight Balthazar's clan over the stolen water bottle before discovering it to be empty. The robbers profess that they found it empty, but the posse brings them to town for trial. Rango confronts the mayor about his buying of the land around Dirt, but the mayor denies any wrongdoing and shows Rango that he is building a modern city with the purchased land. The mayor then summons Rattlesnake Jake, who forces Rango to admit that he lied to the townsfolk and runs him out of town. Falling unconscious, Rango wakes and meets the Spirit of the West (Timothy Olyphant), whom Rango identifies as the Man with No Name. The Spirit inspires Rango, telling him, . Rango returns to Dirt to challenge Jake to a duel, a diversion so the yuccas can turn the pipeline's valve to flood the town. The mayor, however, forces Rango to surrender by threatening Beans' life, and locks them inside the glass bank vault to drown. He then tries to shoot Jake with Rango's gun, intending to kill Jake along with the rest of the Old West, but the gun is empty. Rango has taken the bullet, which he uses to crack the glass and shatter the vault, freeing himself and Beans. Impressed, Jake thanks Rango and drags the mayor into the desert. The citizens of Dirt celebrate the return of the water and recognize Rango as their hero. Johnny Depp as . Parson as Hazel Moats, Kinski, Stump, Clinker, Lenny, Boseefus, Dirt Kid. Lew Temple as Furgus; Hitch. Gore Verbinski as Sergeant Turley, a wild turkey; Crevice; Slim, a turkey vulture; Lupe, the violin player. Kym Whitley as Melonee. Alex Manugian as Spoons, a mouse prospector. Production. The CGIanimation was created by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), marking its first full- length animated feature. ILM usually does visual effects for live- action films. During voice recording, the actors received costumes and sets to . You want to compete with what they're doing at Pixar and Dream. Works. There's a price tag with that just in terms of achieving that quality level. What happened to the Ralph Bakshis of the world? We’re all sitting here talking about family entertainment. Does animation have to be family entertainment? I think at that cost, yes. There's the bull's- eye you have to hit, but when you miss it by a little bit and you do something interesting, the bull's- eye is going to move. Audiences want something new; they just can't articulate what. The site's consensus says, . Rango was the coolest, funniest and dagnab- orneriest of the bunch. It's a real movie lover's movie, conceived as a Blazing Saddles- like comic commentary on genre that's as back- lot savvy as it is light in the saddle. There's no gory violence or swearing, of course, but there sure is a film buff's parade of great movie moments. The movie respects the tradition of painstakingly drawn animated classics, and does interesting things with space and perspective with its wild action sequences. Not much laughter. Moans and sobs of pre- teen fright whenever Rattlesnake Jake slithered into view, threatening murder. However, no change was made, and the film maintained its PG rating. It is the first time since the 2. Happy Feet that the award did not go to either a Disney or Pixar film. It is the 5th non- Disney/Pixar film to win Best Animated Film. List of awards and nominations. Award. Category. Recipient(s) and nominee(s)Result. Academy Awards. Best Animated Film. Gore Verbinski. Won. Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Best Animated Film. Won. Best Animated Female. Isla Fisher. Won. American Cinema Editors. Best Edited Animated Feature Film. Craig Wood. Won. Annie Awards. Best Animated Feature. Won. Animated Effects in an Animated Production. Chase Cooper. Nominated. Animated Effects in an Animated Production. Willi Geiger. Nominated. Character Design in a Feature Production. Mark “Crash” Mc. Creery. Won. Directing in a Feature Production. Gore Verbinski. Nominated. Storyboarding in a Feature Production. Delia Gosman. Nominated. Storyboarding in a Feature Production. Josh Hayes. Nominated. Writing in a Feature Production. John Logan, Gore Verbinski and James Ward Byrkit. Won. Editing in a Feature Production. Craig Wood. Won. BAFTABest Animated Film. Gore Verbinski. Won. Boston Society of Film Critics Awards. Best Animated Film. Won. Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards. Best Animated Feature. Won. Chicago Film Critics Association Awards. Animated Feature. Gore Verbinski. Won. Golden Globes Awards. Best Animated Feature Film. Nominated. Hollywood Film Festival. Best Animated. Won. IGN Best of 2. 01. Best Animated Movie. Won. International Film Music Critics Association. Best Original Score for an Animated Feature. Hans Zimmer. Nominated. Kids Choice Awards. Favorite Voice From an Animated Movie. Johnny Depp. Nominated. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards. Best Animated Film. Won. Motion Picture Sound Editors. Best Sound Editing in an Animation Feature Film. Nominated. National Board of Review Awards. Best Animated Feature. Won. Online Film Critics Society Awards. Best Animated Feature. Won. People's Choice Awards. Carls, Gore Verbinski. Nominated. San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards. Best Animated Feature. Won. Satellite Awards. Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media. Nominated. Saturn Awards. Best Animated Film. Nominated. Teen Choice Awards. It is rated E1. 0+ and was released for the Play. Station 3, Xbox 3. Nintendo DS, and Wii. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 3, 2. Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Archived from the original on March 6, 2. Retrieved March 3, 2. Web. Citation archive.^ ab. Mondello, Bob. Web. Citation archive.^C., Sonja (March 4, 2. Scholastic Corporation. Archived from the original on March 7, 2. Retrieved May 3. 1, 2. My character in Rango is Priscilla. She is a cactus mouse and the technically . She's not from the desert or the United States at all. Web. Citation archive.^della Cava, Marco R. Web. Citation archive^ abc. Coyle, Jake (March 4, 2. Associated Press via North. Jersey. com. Archived from the original on March 7, 2. Web. 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