" Galaxy " is a sci-fi war movie adapted from the masterpiece "Starship Paratrooper" by American science fiction writer Robert Heinlein. The film is directed by Paul Van Hoeven, Caspar van Dean and Dee Starring Na Meyer and Denise Richards, it was released in November 1997.
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movie plot introduction
high school student Rick (Casper Van Dien) after graduation, under the agitation of his girlfriend Carmen (Denise Richards), he went against his father’s will. Joined the Mechanized Infantry Academy, and Carmen also joined the Naval Academy.
Not long after they participated in the training, the earth was attacked by insects from alien planets. Rico’s relatives were brutally killed, and Carmen sent the captured images to Rico. The grief and anger Rico led his men into the battle against alien insects. …After graduating from high school student Rico (Casper Van Dien), under the agitation of his girlfriend Carmen (Denise Richards), he went against his father’s will and joined the Mechanized Infantry Academy. Carmen also joined the Naval Academy.
Not long after they participated in the training, the earth was attacked by insects from alien planets. Rico’s relatives were brutally killed, and Carmen sent the captured images to Rico. The grief and anger Rico led his men into the battle against alien insects. However, the army underestimated the power of these insects. In an encounter, 100,000 troops were slaughtered, leaving only Rico, Carmen and others to escape by chance. Rico witnessed the terrifying killing scene with his own eyes, and accidentally learned the secret that these insects have become so smart and powerful. Rico realized that more advanced weapons must be made to deal with these insects, and the human counterattack began!
behind the scenes
directors Paul van Hoeven and Jost Vacano (Jost Vacano) once filmed a scene where men and women share a bath with the actors naked. The amount of real ammunition used in this film is larger than any previous Hollywood film. The filming of The Battle of the Fortress draws on the 1964 "Blood-stained Robe", and some dialogue and viewing angles are the same as the film.
film preparation
The filming idea of this film originated from the producer of "Robocop" Jon Davidson and screenwriter Ed Neumeier. The film is adapted from the science fiction novel "Starship Paratrooper" by Robert Heinlein. Davidson read this novel in his childhood, and still clearly remembers the fierce controversy that the novel caused in the following years. They hope to keep the original political features in the script-a kind of fascist ideal country. In 1991, Ed Neumeier approached Davidson with a script called "Bug Hunt". The story soon attracted Davidson. On Davidson’s suggestion, Samsung purchased Heinlein’s novel "Star Wars". Adapted shooting rights. The
film paved the way for the scary war between humans and insects with the government's "Infomercial" (Infomercial), and the film has hidden irony throughout the film. The whole script captures the atmosphere and feeling of Hollywood World War II movies. Producer Davidson described the film as a war epic.
Two years later, the script of the film was finally completed. Samsung saw the script. Although the story was very fascinating, Samsung raised questions about the specific image of alien insects, so the chief creators decided to shoot a super short film for the producers to see How a soldier fought two cruel alien insects.
In the early stages of film preparation, special effects wizard Phil Tippet joined the main creative team. This film is the second collaboration between Van Hoven and Tippet after “Robocop”. In “Robocop” Tippet invented the technique of frame-by-frame shooting. In order to shoot the ultra-short film, Van Hoven and Tippet spent 6 months. Samsung showed great enthusiasm and finally decided to shoot.The green light is lit.
On the issue of choosing actors, Van Hoven insisted on choosing young actors to convince the audience that the characters are high school students, which means that the film will not be a star lineup. The production process of
The main shooting of the film
kicked off on April 29, 1996, first at Hell&39;s Half Acre, 45 miles outside Casper City, Wyoming, and then rushed to South Dakota. Because the locations used as extraterrestrial scenes in the film are very remote, it is a difficult problem to solve the board and lodging of 500 people in the crew. Every day, the crew must take the cast and crew who live in various places to the studio. Producer Marshall raised the difficulties faced by the crew to Natrona County officials, and the county government later agreed to build a road leading to the location. In addition, when shooting in South Dakota, the crew also built a two and a half mile road leading to the location.
In order to let the actors fully experience the role of military life, before the filming of the film, the crew organized a 10-day military training. The actors have to run two miles a day, in addition to quality training, they also practice the use of weapons and eat military instant rations. The huge and terrifying alien insects in the film
originated from Van Hoven and Tippet’s extensive research on spiders and other insects. In order to design the details of the insects, many macro-photographs of insects were used, and each insect in the film A patchwork of different kinds of insects in reality. According to the design drawings, the staff creates a three-dimensional model, which completes the computer graphics model, and helps the special effects department complete the full-scale model. The
movie box office
, an R-rated cool film that can never be shown in the mainland, not only won the audience’s reputation, but also was nominated for the Oscar for the best visual effects award, which fully illustrates the huge difference between Eastern and Western visual culture. The investment cost of the film was as high as 95 million US dollars, which was a rare large-scale production in the 1990s. After the film was released, it achieved a global box office of 121 million US dollars.
film evaluation
"Star Wars" was a very ambitious and ambitious film back then. Paul Van Hoven mixed elements of war films and monster films together, and then made use of the most advanced CG technology at the time. A series of space giants, hoping to use this movie to open up the Xinjiang field of science fiction action films. Of course, in a sense, Van Hoeven’s attempt was very successful. The visual impact and entertainment effects of the film are top-notch, but the strong racial and militaristic atmosphere in the film also brings a lot of controversy to the film.
Some people think that Paul Van Hoven’s sci-fi masterpiece has a strong "Nazism tendency", but the ideological scapegoat can not hold back the classic sections of this movie. Today, it is like the reproduction of the "StarCraft" game. The bloody fierce battle scene is still vivid. The film faithfully represents Heinlein's militarism, the national consciousness of the boss, and killing a friend before insects eat him is the most noble value. The subconscious mind is the most interesting aspect of this film.
