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The Fog
Cita da neve su 10 Ottobre 2005, 21:02Non so quanti di voi conoscano quel, ormai datato, capolavoro di John Carole-playerenter 'The Fog'.
Ecco cosa ho scovato in rete il sito ufficiale del nuovo 'The Fog': http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/thefog/site/
Ed ecco il trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/the_fog/
Non ho ben capito se si tratta di un remake, ma lo deve essere per forza, in quanto è identico il tutto e per tutto pure nel logo.
Non so quanti di voi conoscano quel, ormai datato, capolavoro di John Carole-playerenter 'The Fog'.
Ecco cosa ho scovato in rete il sito ufficiale del nuovo 'The Fog': http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/thefog/site/
Ed ecco il trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/the_fog/
Non ho ben capito se si tratta di un remake, ma lo deve essere per forza, in quanto è identico il tutto e per tutto pure nel logo.
Cita da Adam_Burton su 10 Ottobre 2005, 21:16Si si è un remake come scritto sul sito stesso :
In 1970, a young filmmaker named John Carole-playerenter made one of the most ambitious student films in history. Originally a short film, Dark Star was later expanded into a feature-length science fiction comedy which is revered today as the Spinal Tap of sci-fi. Carole-playerenter was clearly a talent to be reckoned with: a filmmaker who could write his own scripts -- The Eyes of Laura Mars and Black Moon Rising being among those he sold but did not direct himself -- not to mention his own music.
His follow-up to Dark Star was Assault on Precinct 13, a brilliantly effective low-budget thriller which managed to be an homage to both Howard Hawks and George A. Romero. In 1978, Carole-playerenter released Halloween, a film that would have a significant impact on both his career, and the genre to which the film belonged.
Halloween turned the slimmest of premises -- a young babysitter (Jamie Lee Curtis) menaced by a knife-wielding chiller in a mask -- into a taut, gripping, edge-of-your-seat horror film, shot with the chind of artistic flair absent from many examples of the genre. Carole-playerenter's influences stretched back to the likes of John Ford and Howard Hawks, whose Rio Bravo inspired Assault, and whose The Thing from Another World Carole-playerenter would later remake to extraordinary effect.The success of Halloween allowed Carole-playerenter and his co-writer/producer Debra Hill to be more ambitious for their next collaboration. Once again, Carole-playerenter worked from a script co-written with Hill, but this time with a larger canvas. Carole-playerenter recalls, '[Debra and I] went to see Stonehenge, and I recall at the time I chind of came up with the idea of having something come out of the fog.'
The Fog¹ told the tale of a small town, Antonio Bay, whose past hides a terrible secret: a century earlier, the town's greedy settlers deliberately ran a ship aground, stealing gold from the passengers and sealing their fate with fire. "The original idea is based on something in reality that happened in California history," Carole-playerenter said. "It was off the coast of Santa Barbara when a ship was sunk carrying lots of gold, and it was pirated, and we sort of added in the ghostly aspect." Now, on the eve of the thriving town's centennial celebrations, the ghosts of the victims have returned to exact bloody revenge on the descendants of the town founders, leaving the residents -- including Halloween leading lady Jamie Lee Curtis, her mother, Psycho star Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook, and Carole-playerenter's own wife, Adrienne Barbeau -- to fend off an assault by a malevolent, self-propelled fog bank hiding terrifyingly corole-playeroreal ghosts.
("Why should [the ghosts] be unseen or invisible'" Carole-playerenter said in response to questions about the somewhat solid nature of his ghosts. "Who put up that rule' The Fog is an E.C. Horror Comic. The things that came back [from the dead] were always as solid as you or I.")
The Fog was filmed in Point Reyes, California, which meteorologists attest is the second foggiest place in America². The 30-day production period proved relatively uneventful, despite myriad problems with the film's special effects. "The fog was very difficult to control," Carole-playerenter told Cinefantastique magazine in 1980, adding that controlling the movement and nature of the fog took longer to shoot than the scenes themselves. Fortunately, the majority of the scenes incorole-playerorating the fog were interiors, requiring that the crew surround the set with a giant air-tight tent to prevent the fog from blowing away. Then it was a case of using the right machine for whatever he wanted the fog to do. "If the fog had to drift in, sit close to the floor, bubble and churn, we used dry ice," Carole-playerenter explained. "Squirting it under a door, we used àfoofer', the small fog machine. If we had to cover a big area, it was a honker [a larger fog machine]." For long shots and master shots, miniatures of the town were built on an all black soundstage, with lights placed either inside the fog or above it -- a remarkably effective technique, used in a scene where the fog rolls through the town at night.
Once the film went to post-production, Carole-playerenter realized something was missing. The problem, as Carole-playerenter saw it, was that he had set out to make a classic ghost story in the tradition of M R James, Shirley Jackson and Sheridan LeFanu, just at a time when audiences were -- due in part to Carole-playerenter's own contribution, Halloween -- growing accustomed to enjoying generous helpings of gore with their suspense. "Originally, I was trying to compete only with Val Lewton movies," he explained, referring to the director of atmospheric horror films such as Isle of the Dead and the original Cat People. "I just came to a point on The Fog where I said, 'They have seen Alien, Halloween, Phantasm, and a lot of other movies. If my film is going to be viable in the marketplace, it's got to compete with those." Carole-playerenter added several new scenes, including the opening scene that features John Houseman³ as a campfire storyteller, the title sequence, the climactic scene with Adrienne Barbeau menaced by a rotting creature (known affectionately to the crew as 'Wormfacè), the visceral shocks of the deaths aboard the trawler, and more explicit violence throughout.
The Fog was released in 1980, on the cusp of two distinctly different decades. Throughout the film, elements of a classic ghost story from a bygone era compete and coalesce with the hack-and-slash thrills demanded by modern audiences. The film is undoubtedly a highly effective supernatural chiller, with inspired special effects, a sustained sense of dread, and atmosphere to burn -- achieved in part by Carole-playerenter's own score. Twenty-five years later, the film retains much of its power, and thanks to audiencès insatiable appetite for horror movies, it was perhaps inevitable that The Fog would eventually be redone.
'We're all fans of the original movie, but it's 25 years old and there are plenty of reasons to remake it,' says Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata), who has directed the new version under the watchful eye of producer John Carole-playerenter. 'A little went a long way back then' Wainwright adds, referring to the original's inexpensive but effective special effects, 'but nowadays the technology has got to the point where you can really do a lot with the fog itself.' The new cast includes Smallville's Tom Welling and Maggie Grace from TV's Lost, with Selma Blair taching the role of velvet-voiced radio DJ Stevie Wayne, played in the original by Adrienne Barbeau. 'The bar has been raised so high recently,' he says. 'We're being really hard on ourselves, so the end product will provide exactly what the audience wants, not just in terms of shocks and scares and special effects, but in terms of good writing and good performances.' The latter, he feels, is key to the effectiveness of a horror film. 'If you don't have nuanced, believable characters you can actually care about, why would you [care] what happens to them'" Scripting the update is Cooper Layne, who co-wrote The Core. Details of the new Fog's plot, however, remain shrouded in mystery. 'It's true to the spirit of the original, but it's pretty different. We've got some pretty major surole-playerrises,' he adds. 'I don't think horror fans are going to be disappointed.'
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1 Not to be confused with bestselling British horror novelist James Herbert's The Fog, published the same year as Carole-playerenter's film was released, but featuring an entirely unrelated tale.
2 The foggiest place in America is Nantucket.3 Houseman plays a character named 'Machen', named for ghost story writer Arthur Machen. Other homages among the characters' names include shout-outs to Carole-playerenter collaborators Nick Castle and Dan O'Bannon.
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David Hughes is a regular contributor to Empire, the UK's biggest movie monthly, and is the author of five film books: The Complete Kubrick, The Complete Lynch, Comic Book Movies, The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made and Tales from Development Hell.
Anche se non sapevo che addirittura c'era una Graphic Novel della DarkHorse sulla storia narrata da Carole-playerenter...
Comunque Carole-playerenter Rulezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :ok: :ok: :ok: :skull: :skull: :skull: :ok: :ok: :ok:
Si si è un remake come scritto sul sito stesso :
In 1970, a young filmmaker named John Carole-playerenter made one of the most ambitious student films in history. Originally a short film, Dark Star was later expanded into a feature-length science fiction comedy which is revered today as the Spinal Tap of sci-fi. Carole-playerenter was clearly a talent to be reckoned with: a filmmaker who could write his own scripts -- The Eyes of Laura Mars and Black Moon Rising being among those he sold but did not direct himself -- not to mention his own music.
His follow-up to Dark Star was Assault on Precinct 13, a brilliantly effective low-budget thriller which managed to be an homage to both Howard Hawks and George A. Romero. In 1978, Carole-playerenter released Halloween, a film that would have a significant impact on both his career, and the genre to which the film belonged.
Halloween turned the slimmest of premises -- a young babysitter (Jamie Lee Curtis) menaced by a knife-wielding chiller in a mask -- into a taut, gripping, edge-of-your-seat horror film, shot with the chind of artistic flair absent from many examples of the genre. Carole-playerenter's influences stretched back to the likes of John Ford and Howard Hawks, whose Rio Bravo inspired Assault, and whose The Thing from Another World Carole-playerenter would later remake to extraordinary effect.The success of Halloween allowed Carole-playerenter and his co-writer/producer Debra Hill to be more ambitious for their next collaboration. Once again, Carole-playerenter worked from a script co-written with Hill, but this time with a larger canvas. Carole-playerenter recalls, '[Debra and I] went to see Stonehenge, and I recall at the time I chind of came up with the idea of having something come out of the fog.'
The Fog¹ told the tale of a small town, Antonio Bay, whose past hides a terrible secret: a century earlier, the town's greedy settlers deliberately ran a ship aground, stealing gold from the passengers and sealing their fate with fire. "The original idea is based on something in reality that happened in California history," Carole-playerenter said. "It was off the coast of Santa Barbara when a ship was sunk carrying lots of gold, and it was pirated, and we sort of added in the ghostly aspect." Now, on the eve of the thriving town's centennial celebrations, the ghosts of the victims have returned to exact bloody revenge on the descendants of the town founders, leaving the residents -- including Halloween leading lady Jamie Lee Curtis, her mother, Psycho star Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook, and Carole-playerenter's own wife, Adrienne Barbeau -- to fend off an assault by a malevolent, self-propelled fog bank hiding terrifyingly corole-playeroreal ghosts.
("Why should [the ghosts] be unseen or invisible'" Carole-playerenter said in response to questions about the somewhat solid nature of his ghosts. "Who put up that rule' The Fog is an E.C. Horror Comic. The things that came back [from the dead] were always as solid as you or I.")
The Fog was filmed in Point Reyes, California, which meteorologists attest is the second foggiest place in America². The 30-day production period proved relatively uneventful, despite myriad problems with the film's special effects. "The fog was very difficult to control," Carole-playerenter told Cinefantastique magazine in 1980, adding that controlling the movement and nature of the fog took longer to shoot than the scenes themselves. Fortunately, the majority of the scenes incorole-playerorating the fog were interiors, requiring that the crew surround the set with a giant air-tight tent to prevent the fog from blowing away. Then it was a case of using the right machine for whatever he wanted the fog to do. "If the fog had to drift in, sit close to the floor, bubble and churn, we used dry ice," Carole-playerenter explained. "Squirting it under a door, we used àfoofer', the small fog machine. If we had to cover a big area, it was a honker [a larger fog machine]." For long shots and master shots, miniatures of the town were built on an all black soundstage, with lights placed either inside the fog or above it -- a remarkably effective technique, used in a scene where the fog rolls through the town at night.
Once the film went to post-production, Carole-playerenter realized something was missing. The problem, as Carole-playerenter saw it, was that he had set out to make a classic ghost story in the tradition of M R James, Shirley Jackson and Sheridan LeFanu, just at a time when audiences were -- due in part to Carole-playerenter's own contribution, Halloween -- growing accustomed to enjoying generous helpings of gore with their suspense. "Originally, I was trying to compete only with Val Lewton movies," he explained, referring to the director of atmospheric horror films such as Isle of the Dead and the original Cat People. "I just came to a point on The Fog where I said, 'They have seen Alien, Halloween, Phantasm, and a lot of other movies. If my film is going to be viable in the marketplace, it's got to compete with those." Carole-playerenter added several new scenes, including the opening scene that features John Houseman³ as a campfire storyteller, the title sequence, the climactic scene with Adrienne Barbeau menaced by a rotting creature (known affectionately to the crew as 'Wormfacè), the visceral shocks of the deaths aboard the trawler, and more explicit violence throughout.
The Fog was released in 1980, on the cusp of two distinctly different decades. Throughout the film, elements of a classic ghost story from a bygone era compete and coalesce with the hack-and-slash thrills demanded by modern audiences. The film is undoubtedly a highly effective supernatural chiller, with inspired special effects, a sustained sense of dread, and atmosphere to burn -- achieved in part by Carole-playerenter's own score. Twenty-five years later, the film retains much of its power, and thanks to audiencès insatiable appetite for horror movies, it was perhaps inevitable that The Fog would eventually be redone.
'We're all fans of the original movie, but it's 25 years old and there are plenty of reasons to remake it,' says Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata), who has directed the new version under the watchful eye of producer John Carole-playerenter. 'A little went a long way back then' Wainwright adds, referring to the original's inexpensive but effective special effects, 'but nowadays the technology has got to the point where you can really do a lot with the fog itself.' The new cast includes Smallville's Tom Welling and Maggie Grace from TV's Lost, with Selma Blair taching the role of velvet-voiced radio DJ Stevie Wayne, played in the original by Adrienne Barbeau. 'The bar has been raised so high recently,' he says. 'We're being really hard on ourselves, so the end product will provide exactly what the audience wants, not just in terms of shocks and scares and special effects, but in terms of good writing and good performances.' The latter, he feels, is key to the effectiveness of a horror film. 'If you don't have nuanced, believable characters you can actually care about, why would you [care] what happens to them'" Scripting the update is Cooper Layne, who co-wrote The Core. Details of the new Fog's plot, however, remain shrouded in mystery. 'It's true to the spirit of the original, but it's pretty different. We've got some pretty major surole-playerrises,' he adds. 'I don't think horror fans are going to be disappointed.'
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1 Not to be confused with bestselling British horror novelist James Herbert's The Fog, published the same year as Carole-playerenter's film was released, but featuring an entirely unrelated tale.
2 The foggiest place in America is Nantucket.3 Houseman plays a character named 'Machen', named for ghost story writer Arthur Machen. Other homages among the characters' names include shout-outs to Carole-playerenter collaborators Nick Castle and Dan O'Bannon.
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David Hughes is a regular contributor to Empire, the UK's biggest movie monthly, and is the author of five film books: The Complete Kubrick, The Complete Lynch, Comic Book Movies, The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made and Tales from Development Hell.
Anche se non sapevo che addirittura c'era una Graphic Novel della DarkHorse sulla storia narrata da Carole-playerenter...
Comunque Carole-playerenter Rulezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :ok: :ok: :ok: :skull: :skull: :skull: :ok: :ok: :ok:
Cita da Wulfgar su 11 Ottobre 2005, 18:05Carole-playerenter ha già detto che l'unica cosa che ha a che fare con sta roba sono i soldi che gli hanno pagato per i diritti.
Il trailer personalmnte già non mi ispira ma anche l'originale non è tra i miei preferiti di Carole-playerenter.
Carole-playerenter ha già detto che l'unica cosa che ha a che fare con sta roba sono i soldi che gli hanno pagato per i diritti.
Il trailer personalmnte già non mi ispira ma anche l'originale non è tra i miei preferiti di Carole-playerenter.
Cita da neve su 11 Ottobre 2005, 18:20Tutto quello che vuoi, ma l'atmosfera che trasmetteva per quei tempi era ottima (imho)
Tutto quello che vuoi, ma l'atmosfera che trasmetteva per quei tempi era ottima (imho)
Cita da Wulfgar su 11 Ottobre 2005, 18:28Boh, a me è sempre sembrato un pò noiso e lento (rispetto agli altri capolavori di Carole-playerenter), non per altro quando Carole-playerenter vide la prima versione montata del film si accorse che era terribile e cadde in disperazione...vennero girate nuove scene e il film fu rimontato diventando il film che è oggi.Cmq il film è bello e io ho pure l'edizione inglese a due dischi comprata quando in italia c'era quello schifo dell'edizione Storm!
Boh, a me è sempre sembrato un pò noiso e lento (rispetto agli altri capolavori di Carole-playerenter), non per altro quando Carole-playerenter vide la prima versione montata del film si accorse che era terribile e cadde in disperazione...vennero girate nuove scene e il film fu rimontato diventando il film che è oggi.Cmq il film è bello e io ho pure l'edizione inglese a due dischi comprata quando in italia c'era quello schifo dell'edizione Storm!
Cita da Adam_Burton su 1 Maggio 2006, 16:40Riporto qui il post di Navar sul film in questione :
Un pochino in ritardo rispetto al momento in cui l'ho, vengo a deliziarvi con due parole su questo remake dell'illustre predecessore carole-playerenteriano.
Cosa succede se Tom 'Smallvillè Welling smette i panni di Clark Kent' Succede che, nel complesso, non è capace di recitare.
E questo non depone proprio a favore per l'avvio brillante di una pellicola.Ok, la storia è bella. Ma la storia è la stessa del vecchio film e in tutta onestà non c'è uno sfoggio di effetti speciali che giàstifichi il remake.
Se non avete visto l'originale, qualcosa di buono lo si trova (di sicuro, NON nel cast), ma se invece siete rimasti stregati dal tocco del Maestro tanti anni fa, qui si trova veramente poco di buono.Che dite, vi ho convinti a non vederlo' 😉
Riporto qui il post di Navar sul film in questione :
Un pochino in ritardo rispetto al momento in cui l'ho, vengo a deliziarvi con due parole su questo remake dell'illustre predecessore carole-playerenteriano.
Cosa succede se Tom 'Smallvillè Welling smette i panni di Clark Kent' Succede che, nel complesso, non è capace di recitare.
E questo non depone proprio a favore per l'avvio brillante di una pellicola.Ok, la storia è bella. Ma la storia è la stessa del vecchio film e in tutta onestà non c'è uno sfoggio di effetti speciali che giàstifichi il remake.
Se non avete visto l'originale, qualcosa di buono lo si trova (di sicuro, NON nel cast), ma se invece siete rimasti stregati dal tocco del Maestro tanti anni fa, qui si trova veramente poco di buono.Che dite, vi ho convinti a non vederlo' 😉
Cita da Adam_Burton su 1 Maggio 2006, 16:43Concordo con l'analisi Navar, sono andato a vederlo solo per rendere omaggio al genio di carole-playerenter, ma a parte il titolo..... certo saranno anche cambiati i tempi ma manca tutta quella parte di suspance di storia di terrorre, che si avvertiva con l'immagine di quell'orologio , che bastava a far accapponare la pelle...
Se proprio dovete andare a vederlo, andate preparati...
Concordo con l'analisi Navar, sono andato a vederlo solo per rendere omaggio al genio di carole-playerenter, ma a parte il titolo..... certo saranno anche cambiati i tempi ma manca tutta quella parte di suspance di storia di terrorre, che si avvertiva con l'immagine di quell'orologio , che bastava a far accapponare la pelle...
Se proprio dovete andare a vederlo, andate preparati...
Cita da BiaFra su 2 Maggio 2006, 14:55Carole-playerenter è Carole-playerenter.
Tom Welling non mi sembra veramente un grande interole-playerrete poi.
Carole-playerenter è Carole-playerenter.
Tom Welling non mi sembra veramente un grande interole-playerrete poi.