Final Destination is an American 2000 supernatural horror film directed by James Wong. This scenario was written by James Wong, Glen Morgan, and Jeffrey Reddick, based on a story by Reddick. The film stars Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, and Tony Todd. Sawa describes a teenager who deceived death after having a premonition of a big plane explosion. He and several of his classmates left the plane before the explosion occurred, but Death then took the lives of those who were supposed to die on the plane.
The movie begins as a specific script written by Reddick for the episode of The X-Files, in order for Reddick to get a TV agent, however, he never sends it to The X-Files after a colleagues in New Line Cinema persuaded him to write it as a long movie. Later, Wong and Morgan, The X-Files wrote a partner, became interested in the script and agreed to rewrite and direct the movie, marking the debut of Wong movie director. Filming took place in New York City and Vancouver, with additional scenes filmed in Toronto and San Francisco. The album was released on March 17, 2000, and became a financial success, earning $ 10 million on its opening weekend. The DVD release of the film was released on September 26, 2000, in the United States and Canada, including comments, deleted scenes, and documentaries.
The film received mixed reviews from critics. The positive reviews praised the movie for "generating considerable amount of tension", "pleasant enough and energized to keep the audience guessing" and "unexpected warnings by teen-hunters", while negative reviews portray the film as " very flat "and" intended for dating teens ". It received Saturn Award for Best Horror Movie and Best Appearance by Young Actor for Sawa appearance. The film's success has spawned a media franchise, which includes four additional installments, as well as a series of novels and comic books.
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Plot
Middle school student Alex Browning boarded Volene  © Flight 180 with his classmates for their senior trip to Paris. Before take-off, Alex has a hunch that the plane will explode in the air, killing everyone in it. When the events of his vision began to happen in reality, he panicked and fights broke out between Alex and his rival, Carter Horton. As a result, several passengers were removed from the plane, including Alex, Carter, friend Alex Tod Waggner, Carter's girlfriend Terry Chaney, teacher Valerie Lewton, and students Billy Hitchcock and Clear Rivers. No passengers, except Clear, believed Alex about his vision until the plane exploded on take-off, killing the remaining passengers on the plane. Afterward, survivors were interrogated by two FBI agents, who believed that Alex had something to do with the explosion.
Thirty-nine days later, the survivors attended the memorial service for the victims. That night, the chain reaction caused Tod to suffocate to death in the bathroom. His death was considered suicide, but Alex did not believe that Tod committed suicide. To see Tod's body, he and Clear sneak into the funeral home, where they meet mortarist William Bludworth (Tony Todd). He told them that they had thwarted Death and that Death now took the lives of those who were supposed to die on the plane.
The next day, at a cafe, Alex and Clear discuss what the mortis said. Although Clear is skeptical, Alex believes that they can cheat Death again if they are looking for omens. They found the rest of the survivors; and, when Carter provoked Alex, Terry storm was upset and hit by a speeding bus.
After watching news reports about the cause of the explosion, Alex realized that the victims who died in their order were meant to die on the plane. He concluded that Ms. Lewton next and rushed to his home to ensure his safety. Thinking Alex was useless, Ms. Lewton called the FBI agent, who took him for interrogation. Although Alex could not convince the agents of what had happened, they decided to let him go. Nevertheless, he was too late to save Ms. Lewton, whose home exploded after he was stabbed by a falling kitchen knife.
The survivors remained reunited and talked about what to do while driving through the city. During the conversation, Carter learned that he was the next on the death list. Frustrated for not having control over his life, Carter stopped his car on the railroad track, wanting to die in his own way. He changed his mind at the last minute but could not get out when his seat belt jammed. Alex managed to rescue Carter just before the car was hit by an upcoming train, and Billy was beheaded with shrapnel.
Alex concludes that, because he intervened, Death misses Carter and moves to Billy, and he realizes that he is the next on the death list. Later, while hiding in a fortified cabin, Alex remembers the change of seat with the two girls in his hunch, which means Clear is actually next, and he rushes to save her when chased by the agent. Meanwhile, Clear is stuck in his car with a leaky gas tank, surrounded by a loose electrical wire. Alex arrives at his home just in time and takes the cable, allowing him to escape from the car before it explodes.
Six months later, Alex, Clear, and Carter travel to Paris to celebrate their survival. While discussing their ordeal, Alex realizes that Death never missed it. After seeing more signs, he left the table, and a bus nearly bumped into him, but it swerved and hit a large neon sign that led toward Alex. Carter pushes Alex out of the way at the last second, and Alex says that Death has passed him. When Carter asked who was next, the sign swung back toward Carter, and the screen turned black followed by a loud noise.
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Cast
- For more details on characters, see List of Late Destination characters.
Many movie characters are named after the famous Horror movie director, actor and producer Billy Hitchcock named after Alfred Hitchcock, Browning and Tod Waggner family named after Tod Browning, Larry Murnau is a reference to Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Blade Dreyer to Carl Theodor Dreyer, Valerie Lewton to Val Lewton, Agent Schreck to Max Schreck, Terry Chaney to Lon Chaney, Christa Marsh reminds Fredric March, Agent Weine of Robert Wiene, and George Waggner is directly named after Universal Horror film producer George Waggner.
Production
Development
The original idea was written by Jeffrey Reddick as a specification script for The X-Files to get a TV agent. "I actually flew back to Kentucky and I read a story about a woman on vacation and her mother called her and said, 'Do not get on the plane tomorrow, I have a bad feeling about that.' He changed flights and planes he overlapped, "Reddick said. "I thought it was scary - what if he should have died on that flight?" Based on his idea, Reddick wrote the script and got the agent, but never sent the script to The X-Files after a colleague in New Line Cinema suggested he write it as a movie. One of the biggest misconceptions about the project is that it is based on the real-life disaster of TWA Flight 800 that occurred in 1996. As in the movie, the TWA disaster involved Boeing 747 which exploded after takeoff from JFK International Airport in New York en route to Paris. In addition, five companions and sixteen high school students from Montoursville, Pennsylvania, are on a cursed flight, heading to Paris with their high school club in France. TV specification script for The X-Files However, it was actually written in 1994.
New Line Cinema purchased Jeffrey's treatment and hired him to write the script's original script, which featured Death as an invisible force. After the script was finished, New Line Cinema submitted the manuscript to the directors, including coauthor James Wong and Glen Morgan. Both authors are willing to make it into a movie, even though they rewrite the script to comply with their standards. "I believe that at one time or another we have all experienced a sense of conscience, we have a feeling, a feeling, and then that hunch proved true," Wong said. "We want to do for airplanes and air travel what Jaws do for sharks and swimming".
Morgain said, "The main thing they want about Death to come to get people is that you never see a Michael Myers figure.You never see a killer, and they love the idea and they say, 'Okay.Let's write.' we have a basic story, I started to catalog odd events in my own life, for example, I was at Vancouver airport waiting for a flight when John Denver came through the loudspeaker I remember saying to myself, 'Hey, he just died in plane crash - that's a little weird.'We write that experience version into the script. "
Producers Craig Perry and Warren Zide from Zide/Perry Productions helped with the film budget, as both were equally fascinated by the idea of ​​an invisible power that executed its victims. Perry, the X-Files fan, claimed that he "responded to Wong and Morgan working for one particular reason: fear". New Line Cinema accepts financing and distributes the rights to the movie after Reddick comes to them personally.
Casting
"One of the most important things we look for in casting is the ability of actors to play subtlety - the little things that a character does not create or excel, things that are under your skin and scare you." Morgan about the audition.
Alex Browning, the last role actor, went to Canadian actor Devon Sawa, who previously starred in the 1999 film Idle Hands . Sawa says that when "[he] reads the manuscript on the plane, [he] finds himself peeking out the window in the machine every few minutes" and "[he] goes down and meets Glen and Jim and [he] thinks they are amazing and already has some great ideas ". However, Morgan and Wong hesitate to give him a role, so they ask him to perform again when they review his previous works. Morgan was shocked by Sawa's appearance in Handsome, and Sawa was hired.
Sawa describes his role as "at first, [Alex] is a bit crazy and cotter, and you know, probably not the most popular guy in school." I think he may be a dork, you know, do their stuff and they have their own thing going and they chased two beautiful girls at school, but there was no chance of that happening, I think after the plane descended, his world really changed. "Devon has every human quality that makes it accessible," Wong said. as if he was very confident. He's more like an ordinary kid who can take on the complexity of roles and become a hero. "Perry was amazed by Sawa's vulnerability in acting, describing it as" a very different actor. He's very loose and he's a bit cut-up when he's not in the camera, but once the camera is on, I've never seen someone to completely slide right through the moment ".
Ali Larter, who starred in the 1999 film Varsity Blues , serves as the leader of Clear Rivers women. "This movie shows how easy it is to change someone, blame someone when you're scared," Larter said. "It's also about believing in your intuition and yourself." He defines his part as "the girl who has many losses in his life and has fallen in love with himself, and has made a living in it.He is an artist, he lives alone, and he rather holds his grip for what the world has given him".
Seann William Scott, famous for portraying Steve Stifler in the 1999 film American Pie, was hired as a class clerk Billy Hitchcock. Scott admires the movie, and feels that "it's [dark] and scary as well as Twilight Zone." She laughs at her role, saying that "[she] lacks social skills, she does not have enough friends, and she is like an ordinary person". Scott was surprised when in the script his character was written as fat. The authors finally changed it to Scott.
Dawson's Creek star Kerr Smith plays the Carter Horton athlete. Smith identifies Carter as "the bullies of your high school whose lives depend on anger" and cites the fact that Carter is afraid Alex has no control over his own life.
Christian Cloke, Morgan's wife, acts as Valerie Lewton's teacher. "I respect them so much," Cloke said. "Jim is the type of director who knows exactly what he wants.As an actor, I can find a way to get there if I know specifically what I'm going to do, and Jim gives me that.The fact that he will not move until he get what he wants to create a safe environment, which allows me to experiment and try different things ". Cloke describes his part as "strong and presumptuous - in control.After the accident he came, maybe more than the kids, and that was a quick, drastic change, I have to understand the psychology of someone who can light a dime like that".
Newcomers Amanda Detmer and Chad E. Donella served as students Terry Chaney and Tod Waggner, respectively. "When I first read the script, the thing that struck me most was that the characters were well written and the relationships between them were strong and trustworthy," Detmer said. "That's important, because you have to care about these people to worry about what might happen to them". Detmer defines Terry as "very unified [and] content appears to be subject to [Carter] - not to make waves, but the pressure of what happens affects their relationships and is interesting enough brings a certain power within him". On the other hand, Donella observes how similar her role to herself is. "I believe in fate I think you came into this life with a few things to accomplish and you were expelled early or later depending on the game plan".
Tony Todd, who plays Candyman in the 1992 film Candyman, was selected as William Bludworth's heir. Morgan initially wanted Todd for the role because he felt his deep voice would give a frightening tone to the film.
Additional cast members include Daniel Roebuck and Roger Guenveur Smith as FBI agents Agent Weine and Agent Schreck; Brendan Fehr, Christine Chatelain and Lisa Marie Caruk as students of George Waggner, Blake Dreyer and Christa Marsh; Barbara Tyson and Robert Wisden as Barbara and Ken Browning, Alex's parents; and Forbes Angus as teacher Larry Murnau.
Filming
With Final Destination cast, filming takes place on Long Island for the plane scene and Vancouver Island for additional scenes. The cast members are filming another project during production, so the filming schedule has to be moved repeatedly for all players to appear. Sawa restrained her performance in The Guilty during the production, and even commented that "[she] had to share the trailer with Bill Pullman because it was bigger and would make her look more famous". Smith, usually at Dawson's Creek, had to hold an episode for this movie.
When main photography began on May 25, 1999, of the entire longest day Western Canada stage designer passenger plane production in hydraulic gimbal thousand people of death. all the acrobats and acrobats duplicate the player riggers all the fireworks. and Filming's final day was closed on Friday August 13, 1999, when the cast and crew were filming late.
According to Detmer, the scene of his death (hit by an oncoming bus) was first filmed because "it was easy but much anticipated". All death scenes were filmed using the lifecycle of the actual actor. Scenes of death, warnings, scenery and scenes in Paris are all filmed in Victoria. Additional scenes were filmed in Toronto and San Francisco. For the airport, the crew used Vancouver International Airport as a stand-in for John F. Kennedy International Airport, the airport mentioned in the film.
Effects
The behind-the-scenes plan is to create a visually appealing sign. To serve the subtleties of the script and to help bring about death, designer John Willet's production developed the concept of "deviant" sets. "What I'm trying to do with the set itself, with their design and with a wide selection of colors, is to make things a bit unnatural," Willet explained. "Nothing catches attention to itself, but instead creates anxiety - an uneasy feeling that something is not right". To achieve this mystique, Willet designed two versions of each set - one version was used before the crash and the other set was used for the scene after the jet exploded.
"On the oblique set I force the perspective either vertically or horizontally," Willet explained. "Nothing is square and, although you can not put your finger on it, it just makes you feel like something is not right". Skewing is also part of the overall design for the color palette used in decorating and designing the costume. "In the real world, the colors are bright and rich," Willet said. "In a slanted world, they are washed and faded, nothing is clear, and it's only in the overall effect that these subtle differences will work their magic".
The scene of the plane in which passengers died in the air was created inside a very large sound stage. Three-ton hydraulic gimbal is operated automatically. "We spent two months building this set of centers that weighed about 45,000 pounds and held 89 people," said special effects inspector Terry Sonderhoff. Used for filming on-board sequences, it can be shifted to dreadlocks to create a pitching movement of up to 45 degrees side-to-side and 60 degrees front-to-back, realistically conveying the horror of engine failure in the air. Sawa said that "the screams of the players in dreadlocks make it seem more real". Wong said, "You went into the studio and there was a huge dreadlock with the plane on it and you thought, 'What have I done?' I'm afraid we'll have 40 extra vomit. "
A miniature model of Boeing 747 aircraft was created for the explosion scene. The model, one of the most detailed miniature scenes in the film, has a length of about 10 feet and a width of 7 feet, and the landing gear is made of all machined metal. According to visual effects watcher Ariel Velasco Shaw, the miniature should be launched about 40 feet into the air to make it look like the original Boeing 747 exploded into a fireball. If the plane blew up four feet, the explosion should be at least eight feet in the air. To film the explosion in detail, the crew uses three cameras that run 120 frames per second and one camera runs 300 frames per second (if they have been filmed using real-time cameras, explosion successions will not be filmed in a particular sequence).
The railroad scene (where Carter's car was destroyed by a train) is one of the hardest scenes to take pictures of. The car used for the accident was an original replica, half cut off before filming. According to Sonderhoff, to ensure the safety of the actors, they must ensure that there are no original metal sheets in the car.
For the death scene, the crew uses several lifecasts of actor and chocolate syrup for fake blood. Created the Rube Goldberg effect for Ms. death scene Lewton is the most difficult to plan according to the crew. Perry said that "it is very difficult to create an atmosphere of fear, to create tension outside the usual scene".
Music
Soundtrack
There are no official albums accompanying the film. However, the six tracks featured in the film, the most prominent being "Rocky Mountain High" by John Denver, are highly highlighted throughout the film, reminding survivors that Denver died in a plane crash. This song sounds good before the accident or death of the character, and is also played by a street player (Alessandro Juliani) in French. Other songs featured in the film include "Hundred Grand" by Pete Atherton (during the Flight 180 scene), "Into the Void" by Nine Inch Nails (during the cafà © ©), "All the Candles in the World" by Jane Siberry (during Carter's car scene), and "And When I Die" by Joe 90 (during the final credits).
Score
Final Destination: The Complete Original Motion Picture Score was released on March 17, 2000. The film's score was performed by Daytime Emmy's winning composer Shirley Walker. Wong and Morgan originally wanted Walker to print the film after previously working with him on their science fiction television series. Space: Above and Out . Walker said, "[Morgan and Wong] are people who strongly believe in melodies and have music for the characters and situations they find.Of course, the atmosphere should also exist, especially for movies with a lot of tension like this movie.
His scores were mostly low, with the exception of tension and death scenes. It's done by a union orchestra, requiring New Line Cinema to give the film its own score. Walker describes his score as "theme-driven and conservative music that encompasses a range of strange animal sounds with a stronger visceral effect for moving emotional music with a well-defined melody developed through storytelling." The "Main Title" piece, used for opening credits, is rare to open a movie intended for teen audience at the time. "What's fun for me is to write the part that calls you into the movie and lets you know something bad is going to happen from the beginning", says Walker. According to Walker, "Main Title" spends most of its time, because "the dark theme and the melodic counter that brings the whole score".
The score was received positively by critics. Judge Harold Jervais from Verdict DVD wrote how "[the sound effects, dialogue and] Walker scores are amazingly creepy and effectively blended together to form a whole lot of fun, almost organic". Mike Long of the DVD Review said that "Shirley Walker's scary score is very strong with extensive spatial integration". Derek Germano from The Cinema Laser writes that "Walker's scary music score is really a winner, and is one of the things that will help make Final Destination a classic minor genre. on the road ".
Release
box office
The film premiered on March 17, 2000, in 2,587 theaters across the United States and Canada, generating $ 10,015,822 on its opening weekend, averaging $ 3,871 per theater. Final Destination is placed in No. 3 at the United States box office on its opening weekend, behind the biopic of Erin Brockovich and my science fiction movie Mission to Mars. The film stays at No. 3 during the second weekend, before dropping to No. 7 on the third weekend. Final Destination continued to fall in the next weekend to fall from the top-10 list on the eighth weekend. The film took place in theaters for 22 weekends, the last screening aired in 105 theaters and the best-selling $ 52,675, placed in No. 1. 56. Final Destination earned $ 53,331,147 in the United States and Canada at its total screening, and earned $ 59,549,147 in other territories, earning a total gross of $ 112,880,294 internationally. The film is often considered a sleeping hit.
Home media
Final Destination was released on DVD on September 26, 2000, in the United States and Canada. DVD bonus features include three audio comments, three deleted scenes, and two documentaries. The first comment featured Wong, Morgan, Reddick, and editor James Coblentz describing the ins and outs of minutes put in by the creative team throughout the film, which either offends death or the shadow of death in a movie that was not seen in early viewing. They also discuss how films were made and how they fought New Line Cinema executives for various factors.
The second comment includes Sawa, Smith, Cloke, and Donella discussing what is involved in certain scenes and how each of them is thrown. The third comment is Walker's isolated music score included in the movie score.
The deleted scene includes two Alex and Clear subplots, an alternate ending where Alex died after saving Clear from a live cable, Clear brought the baby he named Alex, and Clear and Carter resolved as the only survivors of the film.
The first documentary titled "A Look at Test Screening" runs for 13 minutes and describes the screening process of the test, giving an idea of ​​how the playback performed and got the score. Featurette shows a video recording of the screening test audience and a special comment as to why the deleted scene is either cut or reshot. The second documentary, titled Premonitions , explores the real-life intuitive investigator Pam Coronado, who has helped police solve many murders and missing persons cases with his psychic abilities. Featurette runs for 20 minutes. Some DVDs contain two non-DVD-ROM games - Death Clock and Psikic Test - in addition to trailers and movie movies from cast and crew.
Reception
Critical response
Aggregator website review Rotten Tomatoes reported 34% of critics gave positive reviews on the movie based on 101 reviews, with an average rating of 4.7/10. The consensus of site opinion is that "though the panel X-Files is at the helm and promising premises, fluctuating performance and poor execution remain Final Destination from ever taking off. ". At Metacritic, which gives a normalized ranking of 100 to reviews of major critics, the film has a mixed score/averaging 36 based on 28 reviews. On June 14, 2010, Nick Hyman of Metacritic included Final Destination in the website editorial 15 Critics False Films, , noting that "an elusive filming the tension/action of the first two films is more impressive than most other films. "
On the negative side, Stephen Holden of The New York Times says that "even by the rough standards of teen horror, Final Destination is very flat". Lou Lumenick of New York Post commented that "the premise of the film quickly deteriorated into a silly and misbehaving slasher movie - minus slasher". Kevin Maynard from Tn. Showbiz describes the film as "rough and unhappy", while Rita Kempley of The Washington Post wrote that "your own ultimate goal might be the box office, to ask for your money back".
Robert Cashill of Newsweek said that the movie "must be on video storage", and Jay Carr of The Boston Globe commented that it "started with deceiving the death and ended up cheating us ". Phoebe Flowers of Miami Herald felt the film "bending far below substituting style for substance", while Lisa Alspector of Chicago Reader described the film as "annoying - if less sophisticated than the best SF (science fiction) -horror TV ". Luke Thompson of Dallas Observer found him "wasting a worthy premise"; Ernest Hardy of LA Weekly said the film "failed to take itself too seriously and was not serious enough". Although Barbara Shulgasser of the Chicago Tribune says that "it meets the low standards of mediocre TV movies", Desmond Ryan of Philadelphia Inquirer commented that it "is full of bad acts because there is no tension ". Both Susan Wloszczyna of USA Today and Walter Addiego from the San Francisco Examiner thought it was "stupid, silly and bloody".
Instead, the film garnered positive reviews from top critics. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times enjoyed this film and gave it three out of four stars, stating that "Final Destination" will no doubt be a hit and inspire a mandatory sequel. "Like the original Scream , this movie is too good to be the end of the road I have my own vision". Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle praised the movie, saying "it's fun and energetic enough to keep the audience guessing". Joe Leydon of Variety praised the film, saying "it generates a fair amount of tension and takes some unexpected changes while covering familiar territory," while Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times > said it was "debuting a great theatrical feature for television veterans Glen Morgan and James Wong". Chris Kaltenbach of The Baltimore Sun found the film "very interesting", while Maitland McDonagh of the TV Guide defines the movie as "pretty handy, if you came there with quite simple expectations".
Although film acceptance is generally diverse, critics praise Sawa's performance as Alex. Holden commented that "Sawa's juvenile forecasters are colorless and charisma free." David Nusair of the Reel Film Review commented "Substitution of Sawa's personnel as a hero is matched by an effective supporting cast uniformly with familiar faces (ie Seann William Scott, Brendan Fehr, Tony Todd, etc)...," while Leydon states that "Sawa can be trusted as a second-faced Alex - unlike any other actor who plays a teenage protagonist, he really looks like he might still go to high school - but his supporters are an unbalanced group." LaSalle praised Sawa and Ali's partner Larter, said that "Larter and Sawa, who become more agile and wild when the movie takes place, make an attractive couple."
Viewers surveyed by CinemaScore gave this movie an average value of "B-" on a scale A to F.
Accolades
The film had a huge impact on horror movie audiences, earning Saturn Award for Best Horror Movie in 2000. Sawa won Saturn Award for Best Appearance by Young Actor in the same year, and Larter won the Young Hollywood Award for Breakthrough Performance by a Woman. At the 2001 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, both Sawa and Larter were nominated for Favorite Actor in Horror (Internet Only) and Favorite Actress in Horror (Internet Only), respectively. Both actors lost awards for Scream 3 actor David Arquette and Neve Campbell. In addition, cinematographer Robert McLachlan was nominated for Best Cinematography in the Theatrical Features at the Canadian Sinematographer Awards Society in 2001, but lost to Pierre Gill for his work on The Art of War.
The film's concept is listed in No. 46 in Bravo's 100 Greatest Scary Moments, in which Smith represents the film. The Flight 180 explosion scene is included in the list of best fictional plane crashes or disaster scenes by Break Studios, Unreality Magazine, New Movies.net, The Jetpacker, Maxim Online, and Filmsite.org. Filmsite.org also includes airplane scenes and the deaths of three characters (Tod, Terry, and Ms. Lewton) in the The Movie Moment and the Imaginable Scenes , and all the fatalities in the death of his best movie Scene . Detmer's death character entered the most shocking list of deaths in George Wales and Simon Kinnear of Total Film Films (No. 29 and No. 10, respectively), Simon Hill of Eat Horror (No. 10), and Dirk Sonningsen of Mania (No. 10).
See also
- Final Destination 2
- Final Destination 3
- End Destination
- Final Destination 5
- Final Destination franchise
- List of episodes that have not been created The X-Files
References
External links
- End Destination in IMDb
- End Destination in AllMovie
- End Destination at Rotten Tomatoes
- Final Destination in Metacritic
- End Destination in Box Office Mojo
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