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sri lankan director vimukthi jayasundara , who had shot a bengali film titled ' chatrak ' , is thrilled . the reason for this is one of his cast members from ' chatrak ' is now a part of the ' x - men : apocalypse ' !
although the nude scenes from ' chatrak ' are removed from the promotional videos , but they have already made paoli dam a hot cake .
' chatrak ' might prove to be a landmark for paoli dam , but she has also lost some of her friends due to it .
if rumours are to be believed then ' chatrak ' is going to create history in bengali cinema circuit due to its complete and extreme nudity .
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chatrak ( english : mushrooms ) is a 2011 indian bengali drama film directed by sri lankan director vimukthi jayasundara . it was screened at several film festivals
• mushrooms ( chatrak ) bengali movie story review : chatrak ( mushroom ) film story starts with rahul ( played by sudip mukherjee ) , who went to dubai for better career leaving his girlfriend ( role played by paoli dam ) alone . paoli dam engaged with another man ( role played by anubrata ) during her lonely period and finally when rahul returns they both reunited again . but , the story in between makes the chatrak ( mushroom ) movie interesting .
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the conscience of the audiences will also be in question after the release of ' chatrak ' , who are traditionally not very used to see indian actors in full frontal nude scenes .
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created quite a stir when her bengali film chatrak hit screens , as she had done a baring act in it . but that film worked to her advantage , says paoli , who landed her first
director manoj michigan feels that the
chatrak
controversy is ridiculous .
the kind of controversy
chatrak
has generated is regressive for any art form . vimukthi has his own credentials to showcase rather than fall on these cheap gimmicks . paoli has been victimised by certain groups . kudos to her for standing her ground . i hope this controversy works to broaden our own horizons ,
manoj says .
' screening row at nandan . the director , who had a trouble when he made ' chatrak ' with the moral police in bengal , is seeing a re - run of his own experiences now .
sri lankan scribe - helmer vimukthi jayasundara takes his pretty - pictures - meet - inscrutable - narrative approach to eastern india in
chatrak ,
the director ' s first foray into bengali - language cinema .
director manoj michigan feels that the
chatrak
controversy is ridiculous .
the kind of controversy
chatrak
has generated is regressive for any art form . vimukthi has his own credentials to showcase rather than fall on these cheap gimmicks . paoli has been victimised by certain groups . kudos to her for standing her ground . i hope this controversy works to broaden our own horizons ,
manoj says . - times of india
speaking to toi from sydney , jayasundara said , ' i am extremely disappointed to hear what ' s happened . nothing really has changed in kolkata since i made ' chatrak ' six years ago , ' he said .
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she created quite a stir when her bengali film ' chatrak ' hit screens , as she had done a baring act in it . but that film worked to her advantage and she landed her first bollywood film ' hate story ' .
bappaditya bandopadhyay is upset with the flak that the sex clips of
chatrak
is drawing now .
i am so disappointed with the way people are reacting . at this rate , bengali cinema will never mature ,
he says .
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while the whole of kolkata is still engrossed in the debate over paoli ' s sex clips from
chatrak
, one person has remained pretty much silent about the issue . he is none other than paoli ' s
good friend
- vikram chatterjee .
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sri lankan film - maker vimukthi jayasundara has reacted to the ' cosmic sex ' screening row at nandan . the director , who had a trouble when he made ' chatrak ' with the moral police in bengal , is seeing a re - run of his own experiences now .
debarati gupta says paoli is being made a scapegoat in the
chatrak
controversy . says debarati ,
i was present during the shooting of those scenes . i know how important those scenes are for the film . seen in the context of the cinema , these are not vulgar .
vimukthi jayasundara’s chatrak ( 2011 ) , screened at the director’s forum fortnight at cannes and at tiff alongside the pacific meridian festival in vladivostok , russia , was never released in india probably because it has too graphical detailed scenes of intimate sex which would never have passed the scissors’ test by the cbfc .
debarati gupta says paoli is being made a scapegoat in the
chatrak
controversy . says debarati ,
i was present during the shooting of those scenes . i know how important those scenes are for the film . seen in the context of the cinema , these are not vulgar .
- times of india
says the whole
chatrak
controversy is futile .
bengali cinema certainly will not progress if we are going to waste time over this issue . internationally , directors will never even bother to discuss nudity in their cinema . it ' s disturbing to see the way paoli is being attacked ,
bappaditya says .
pritam sarkar , the director of paoli ' s other film ' flop - e ' has officially removed her name from the promotional activities of the film , saying that her explicit sex - clips , which are doing rounds on video uploading sites , from ' chatrak ' can cause harm to ' flop - e ' .
bappaditya bandopadhyay says the whole
chatrak
controversy is futile .
bengali cinema certainly will not progress if we are going to waste time over this issue . internationally , directors will never even bother to discuss nudity in their cinema . it ' s disturbing to see the way paoli is being attacked ,
bappaditya says .
bappaditya bandopadhyay says the whole
chatrak
controversy is futile .
bengali cinema certainly will not progress if we are going to waste time over this issue . internationally , directors will never even bother to discuss nudity in their cinema . it ' s disturbing to see the way paoli is being attacked ,
bappaditya says . - times of india
on being told that nandan has had such guidelines since the art centre caters to a certain kind of aesthetics , he said , ' i don ' t know what tastes we are talking about . the moral police came down on my ' chatrak ' too . they are doing the same now . it only shows that bengal has learnt nothing . '
sri lankan scribe - helmer vimukthi jayasundara takes his pretty - pictures - meet - inscrutable - narrative approach to eastern india in “chatrak , ” the director’s first foray into bengali - language cinema . viewers familiar with jayasundara’s m . o . will be able to piece together a coherent if extremely slow - burning story that involves an architect looking for his lost sibling , and some vague commentary on the kolkata building [ … ]
no stranger to cannes or international acclaim , in 2005 jayasundara’s debut feature sulanga enu pinisa ( the forsaken land ) was awarded the camera d’or award for best first film and his second feature ahasin wetei ( between two worlds ) was officially selected for the competition section at the 66th venice international film festival and nominated for the prestigious golden lion . while the verdict on chatrak will be out at cannes next month , the movie releases in indian theatres only in october .
what has intrigued him further is that the film has been allowed a festival screening at nandan but denied commercial release ! ' in case of ' chatrak ' , the film wasn ' t screened at any festival at nandan . here , it was screened at nandan itself . this is just not done . i am utterly disappointed . it ' s shocking to see the moral police of kolkata kill an indie film this way . kolkata is going backwards , ' he concluded .
icelandic actor t ' mas lemarquis , who had played a soldier in ' chatrak ' , is playing a mutant called caliban in the film . in the film , caliban has the ability to track mutants . he can sense other mutants and then track them down . an excited vimukthi said , ' t ' mas is an excellent actor . we had a great time together in kolkata . he had become close friends of bappaditya ( bandopadhyay ) and paoli . i remember , paoli and
and where does sex figure in the new cinematic milieu ? paoli for one has earned a reputation for doing ‘daring’ roles . in vimukti jayasundara’s chatrak , her lovemaking scene created a huge stir . but paoli indicates that the sexual angles are overplayed and that critics should look at her role as ela in elar char adhyay . “ela is perhaps the boldest role i’ve played . she is a true rebel who defies institution . boldness is in the mind , ” says paoli , whose upcoming projects include debarati gupta’s hoi choi and ritabrata bhattacharya’s basanta utsab .
directed by sri lankan filmmaker vimukthi jayasundara , chatrak has been a critical success in the international festival circuit , including at cannes in may where it was screened to packed audiences . dam plays a lower middle - class woman whose husband stays abroad . her character gets involved in a relationship with a younger man , played by anubrata basu . but the film ' s talking point at puja pandals in kolkata is not its cinematic excellence . dam ' s sex scene with her co - star has catapulted her from a soap star into an internet sensation .
sri lankan scribe - helmer vimukthi jayasundara takes his pretty - pictures - meet - inscrutable - narrative approach to eastern india in “chatrak , ” the director’s first foray into bengali - language cinema . viewers familiar with jayasundara’s m . o . will be able to piece together a coherent if extremely slow - burning story that involves an architect looking for his lost sibling , and some vague commentary on the kolkata building boom . but the uninitiated looking for depth beyond the pretty ( rather than mesmerizing ) pictures will probably want to peep behind the screen at the select few fests where this’ll be playing .
chatrak is about rahul ( sudeep mukherjee ) , a bengali architect working at construction sites in dubai . he returns to kolkata after an absence of several years . his girlfriend , paoli ( paoli dam ) , has been waiting for his return . rahul’s seemingly successful life is overshadowed by the search for his brother ( sumeet thakur ) , who is said to be mad and living in the forest , where he sleeps in the trees and subsists on vegetation . a scene of the film with explicit frontal nudity and cunnilingus , featuring paoli dam and anubrata basu , was leaked on the internet in 2011 , causing uproar in india , especially in kolkata .
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does the quintessential indian male in him get bothered that people are talking about paoli in a certain way after those scenes were leaked ? does it have any impact on the fact that he might harbour feelings of getting married to her someday ?
i am not talking about marriage at all right now . in fact , that ' s not something either of us is thinking of . sure , i have feelings for paoli . but , as i said , i completely respect an actor ' s decision . when i decide to marry someone and if the person is from the film industry , i will never tell her not to do nude scenes should the film so demand . in case of
chatrak
, i am completely fine with paoli ' s nude act ,
he signs off .
not just his commitment to work , t ' mas had also saved his co - star sumit thakur ' s life while shooting for ' chatrak ' in bolpur . one scene from the movie had required both t ' mas and sumit to go full monty . while swimming nude , sumit had suddenly developed cold shoulder . t ' mas had spontaneously acted as sumit ' s saviour and rescued him ! ' i wish bappaditya was around today . he would have been so happy to hear this news about t ' mas ' casting in such an important film , ' the director said . the unpredictability of life is what makes it exciting and alarming in equal measure . while t ' mas ' journey from bolpur to hollywood wasn ' t anticipated then , neither did anyone have a nightmare that bappaditya too would quit the world of cinema so soon .
but how did he , being a sri lankan actor , end up casting t ' mas for a bengali movie that was shot in 2011 ? ' i was looking for an actor who could understand the art of cinema but also had mainstream experience in acting because he had to pay role of a foreign guard . so i was in touch with so many european and american actors . the casting process was long . bappa from kolkata gave me his opinion about the actor , ' vimukthi said . finally , t ' mas was cast in ' chatrak ' . ' at that time , he wasn ' t doing anything in holywood but had already done lot in european mainstream cinema . he was willing to do anything to come to india and make the film happen . he brought his military costume . his commitment to the film was amazing , ' the director said .
forlorn characters living desolate lives serves as an excuse for a bleak study in nihilism . twitter
sri lanka - born director vimukthi jayasundara ' s film is shot in dirty colors and dim enough lights that would make anyone depressed , in the movie or watching it .
a man with a “crack in his head” lives in a forest , sleeping in trees and foraging for food . he encounters a french soldier — no explanation why a french soldier is guarding some supposed border near calcutta from illegal immigrants — and the two become buddies and frolic .
meanwhile , a calcutta architect returns home after a number of years participating in dubai’s building boom to oversee the construction of a ghastly looking housing project on a former rice field . ( the forlorn buildings , in fact , look more like an old abandoned project the filmmakers used as a set . ) however , the architect is distracted by a long delayed search for a missing brother who is said to have gone crazy . so much so he scarcely has time for the beautiful girlfriend who has loyally awaited his return .
melancholia seemingly afflicts all these characters if not a strain of insanity . jayasundara and cinematographer channa deshapriya also shoot in dirty colors and dim enough lights that would make anyone depressed , in the movie or watching it .
the film’s abstract naturalism does create an austere portrait of a crass and careless human society but any larger meaning gets lost amid the film’s many non - events and preening nihilism .
venue : cannes film festival , directors’ fortnight sales : eastwest filmdistribution production companies : vandana trading co . in co - production with les films de l’étranger , wall paper productions , bear called dog cast : paoli dam , sudip mukherjee , tómas lemarquis , sumeet thakur director / screenplay : vimukthi jayasundara producer : vinod lahoti director of photography : channa deshapriya production designer : arup ghosh music : roman dymny costume designer : editor : julie béziau no rating , 91 minutes
after his brilliant between two worlds ( 2009 ) , sri lankan artist jayasundara goes to cannes with a bengali film .
after his brilliant between two worlds ( 2009 ) , sri lankan artist jayasundara goes to cannes with a bengali film , featuring bengali stars paoli dam and anubrata , in which he does not give in to any compromise with his stylistic and political standpoints .
strange encounters in the jungle , strange quests in the city . a european soldier ( icelandic actor tómas lemarquis ) lost in the jungle , an architect in kolkata involved in a great project , a lost soul who could be his lost brother , a woman , and angry folks expropriated because of the big architectural project—a story to be followed together with jayasundara ' s images . jayasundara creates images . not paintings , not graphics , not publicity : living visions . cinematic dreams and nightmares , visible intuitions of the world around , visual understanding of what corruption of the society and corruption of the soul can do .
jayasundara is a young relentless master , an example of what contemporary cinema can be : an art that ignores the frontiers between the so - called artistic disciplines only to reconcile them in a universal feeling of the current state of the world . remember apichatpong ' s boonmee : ghosts are among us . they ' re called history .
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talented young actresses are scorching the screen and stealing the show in urban bengali films . by angona paul , lubna salim and priyadarshini chatterjee
it’s called girl power and it is charming its way to centre - screen in urban bengali cinema . so , moviegoers will soon be taking their seats for the first ever bengali chick flick aami aar amaar girlfriends . the movie directed by mainak bhaumik stars a vivacious trio — swastika mukherjee , raima sen and parno mitra — who play best buddies dealing with boys , age and diet issues .
the three of them will also liven up the screen in his august - end release maach mishti ‘n’ more , a comedy about three brothers and their love interests , says bhaumik .
bhaumik’s not the only one putting big bets on womanpower . cut to last month and four actresses — raima , parno , along with mumtaz sorcar and tanusree chakraborty — turned out powerful performances in subrata sen’s koyekti meyer golpo that’s about a bunch of young girls trapped in the murky world of prostitution . also , last month paoli dam impressed audiences with her portrayal of a 1940s rebel in elar char adhyay .
hey , when did the sultry ladies of bengali cinema upstage the leading men who usually called the shots ? once upon a time the women stood behind men when it came to pushing the plot forward . not any longer it seems .
“in mainstream potboilers the hero is the crowd - puller but urban cinema requires both the male and female leads to be good actors , ” says rana sarkar , producer of bedroom . “and in recent times , our female actors have been outshining their male counterparts , ” he adds .
so , you have ananya chatterjee , raima , swastika , paoli , parno and mumtaz all making their presence felt on the screen . and moviemakers are acknowledging this by ensuring that bigger female roles are being written into the scripts in the latest urban bengali films .
to understand the way scripts have changed , take a look at parno mitra , one of the newer faces who has grabbed the attention of audiences . she made a dream debut in films in 2010 as the rock star ranjana in anjan dutt’s ranjana ami ar ashbona . she returned to the screen as a fashion photographer in bhaumik’s bedroom . and , she’ll be cornering eyeballs once again in the soon - to - be - released ekla akash , where she plays a wife who breaks up with her husband ( parambrata chattopadhyay ) , and becomes an actress .
“women’s roles have evolved . it’s not just about dolling up , ” says parno , who debuted on television in 2007 with soaps like khela , mohona and bou kotha kau .
or look at swastika , who has seen change take place around her , ever since her showbiz debut on tv in the early 2000s . a few years ago , she says , only a handful of leading directors made movies that gave prominent roles to women . says swastika : “earlier , one could expect directors like aparna sen or rituparno ghosh to create meaningful women characters , now more filmmakers are doing it . ”
swastika has cemented her position in the industry and has acted in many of the new genre of movies like kaushik ganguly’s brake fail in 2009 , birsa dasgupta’s 033 in 2010 and buddhadeb dasgupta’s janala in 2011 . more recently , she was one of the stars in the blockbuster bhooter bhabishyat . in the film , she plays the ghost of a 1930s movie heroine and she managed to reproduce to perfection the nasal tones and exaggerated mannerisms , common at that time . says the movie’s director anik dutta : “i asked swastika to practise the tone and instructed her on dialogue delivery . when she came back she’d also worked on the body language , which i’d forgotten to tell her about . ”
other youngsters too are landing plum roles . take a look at mumtaz who made her debut in 2010 with birsa dasgupta’s 033 as ria , a marwari girl who joins an all - male band . soon afterwards , she grabbed the lead role in pranab choudhury’s period film musalmanir galpo , inspired by a tagore story . but her biggest hit so far has been bhooter bhabishyat , in which she plays the ghost of a lovesick youngster , koel . “mumtaz has a very strong look that sets her apart from the quintessential feminine mainstream heroines , ” says director subrata sen . incidentally , mumtaz is a trained boxer and jazz dancer .
the bengali film world moves at high speed spending a month or two on a movie and then moving on to the next piece of celluloid action . and the female screen stars must also be able to make effortless transitions and portray any number of different roles . so , you have raima sen morphing from a tagorean heroine to a free - spirited runaway bride in maach mishti ‘n’ more . and paoli dam moves with alacrity from dissatisfied housewife to a nationalist movement activist in bappaditya bandopadhyay’s elar char adhyay . “paoli’s appeal lies in the fact that she has a timeless beauty and is also very cerebral , ” says bhaumik .
“it’s amazing how these girls keep re - inventing their looks , ” says rai sengupta ganguly of mojo productions , which has produced films like the bong connection , bhooter bhabishyat and maach mishti ‘n’ more .
says rudraneil ghosh , one of paoli’s co - stars : “the urban woman commands equal recognition of her ideas as the man and this is translated in urban cinema . ” “this , ” says bandopadhyay , “can be attributed to the new generation of directors , script writers , and even producers . ”
the new dynamics of urban cinema has also influenced the moolah factor . says one director : “unlike mainstream mass movies , actors and actresses in urban films get paid equally . ” the going rate is rs 2 lakh to rs 8 lakh , for a maximum of 25 days of shooting . and producers agree that the figure has doubled in the last three to four years . “an experienced actress like raima would be in the higher bracket , ” says the director .
raima’s credentials as an actress have been bolstered by her performances in four rituparno ghosh films — chokher bali , antarmahal , khela and noukadubi . her latest hit was srijit mukherji’s baishe srabon last year . “rituparno ghosh really turned my career around by giving me ashalata in chokher bali . i learnt a lot about the craft of acting while working with him , ” says the actress , who’s also done aparna sen’s the japanese wife and buddhadeb dasgupta’s swapner din .
the other actresses also insist that sex is being portrayed in a more natural way in bengali films . “if the script is about a married couple , it’s only natural that they will have intimate moments . no one makes a fuss anymore , ” says swastika . “we just make sure that we don’t have onions before a lip - lock , ” she adds , laughing .
in fact , the work atmosphere in general is more conducive to better performances . “with so many young , like - minded people working together , shoots are no - stress now . we don’t even realise when it’s time to pack - up , ” says swastika , who will soon be filming for suman mukhopadhyay’s upcoming shesher kabita , based on rabindranath tagore’s novel .
similarly , parno says : “in ekla akash , param’s and my characters have a fight , which leads to lovemaking . i have to be convinced about it being in the natural scheme of things and it has to be done tastefully . ” she , however , insists that she wouldn’t do full frontal scenes .
in fact , the actresses argue that sex isn’t enough to hook audiences anymore . says director kaushik ganguly : “to think that people would watch a film just because of sex is to undermine the urban audience . in laptop , there is a scene where ananya is ironing her clothes in a bra , but we never even considered making that into a poster to promote the film . ” in laptop , ananya plays a typist who assists a visually challenged novelist and a undefined relationship brews between the two .
raima points to how she prepared for her role in chokher bali . “i did workshops on body language and on how to be comfortable doing all kinds of chores in a sari without a blouse , ” she says .
the actress has just finished shooting for kaushik ganguly’s shobdo , where she plays the wife of a recording artist , who imagines he is hearing sounds . she will start work on anjan dutt’s ganesh talkies in december , and has two more rituparno films lined up . “one is an adaptation of tagore’s chitrangada and the other is a fiction documentary on the life of tagore , ” she adds .
parno too put in extra effort , and weight , for her role as nisha , mother of a little girl , in ekla akash . says sandipan ray , director of the film : “parno has an intensity that allows her to handle roles beyond her age . ”
and while parno took guitar lessons for ranjana ami ar ashbo na , mumtaz learnt how to drive a scooter in a week’s time for 033 . “i’d never even been on a cycle and there i was giving a shot on a scooty on the busy red road with my co - actor saheb riding pillion , ” she recalls . for musalmanir galpo , the actress learnt horse riding in five days . “i will soon start shooting for bandopadhyay’s next , kolkata 2012 , where i play a muslim athlete from metiabruz , struggling to survive in a male - dominated field , ” says the actress , who is currently filming for anjan das’s life in a zero .
for ananya , in rituparno ghosh’s abohoman , the film that won her the 2010 national award for best actress , the challenge was the different layers that her character had . “at one level , i was playing shikha , a struggling , unrefined theatre actress . then there was shikha , six years down the line , a successful and glamorous film heroine . and on a third level i played binodini in the film within the film , ” she says . ananya is currently shooting for kamaleshwar muk - herjee’s jwala , where she plays ritwik ghatak’s wife , surama . incidentally , mumtaz too will appear in jwala as bengali actress supriya devi .
ananya is also looking forward to the august release of agnidev chatterjee’s film teen kanya , where she plays a call girl who is raped .
will these women move into mainstream potboilers ? or , will they do item numbers if the movie calls for it ? nobody’s ruling anything out . and though the world of cinema has its constant ups and downs , chances are bright that bengal’s leading ladies will be making screen - scorching performances for some time to come .
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the low - down on all the films in directors’ fortnight & critics week , with international sales contacts for each project .
the directorial debut of the counterfeiters ’ lead actor markovics , breathing is the story of a young man’s search for his mother after he discovers the body of a nameless woman in a viennese morgue . produced by epo - film .
lanners’ previous two films , ultranova and eldorado , were feted for their aki kaurismaki - like laconic humour and dreamy pace . the giants could be the belgian actor - director’s most popular film yet , a summer - set movie about boredom interrupted when a teenager teams up with two home - alone boys . haut et court co - produced the film with belgium’s versus production and luxembourg’s samsa film , and will release in france .
one of the most intriguing titles in this year’s fortnight , porfirio is the humorous story of a bed - ridden man who dreams he can fly . this is the debut fiction feature from brazilian film - maker landes , who made 2007 documentary cocalero about a bolivian farmer .
this fourth feature from brazilian - algerian visual artist and writer - director ainouz , o abismo prateado stars alessandra negrini as a married dentist who receives a mysterious phone call which leads her on a romantic odyssey through the moonlit streets of rio . ainouz’s first feature , madame sata , screened in un certain regard in 2002 .
the directorial trio abel , romy and gordon premiered their near - silent , dance - based comedy rumba in critics’ week in 2008 and now return to the croisette withthe fairy , which follows a similar format . abel stars as a night porter who falls in love with a fairy , played by gordon .
set in the moroccan port of tangier , casablanca - born documentary maker kilani’s debut dramatic feature captures the lives of four female workers in a shrimp - packaging factory . the abu dhabi film festival’s sanad fund , aimed at arab world film - makers , was one of the film’s backers .
having collaborated on several short films , french writer and multimedia artist mréjen and writer schefer debut their first feature - length fiction . set against the backdrop of a provincial coastal town , irisin bloom follows a love affair between a bored teenager and a 40 - year - old paris - based photographer . up - and - coming french actress lola créton stars . the film is produced by aurora films ( which also made the fairy ) with le fresnoy , the national studio for contemporary arts .
edzard , who won a cinéfondation award in 2005 for his short la plaine , returns to cannes with this edgy thriller set in france’s remote mountainous region of vosges . following a family fight , a young man disappears into the forest with a rifle . emmy - winning thierry frémont and carlo brandt lead a cast which features several big - screen debutants . unlimited’s philippe avril produced the feature alongside a slew of french co - producers and austria’s dor film .
téchiné returns to the croisette with a loose adaptation of philippe djian’s novel impardonnables , transferring the action from france to venice . andré dussollier stars as a writer who hires a young offender to tail his lover , played by carole bouquet , whom he suspects of infidelity . said ben said produced unforgivable alongside co - producers italian crg and french broadcaster france 3 cinema .
the first film in the language of the palawan tribe of the philippines , from which solito hails , busong follows a disabled woman who is carried everywhere by her brother as they search for someone to heal her . ‘busong’ is the palawan concept of fate or instant karma . solito’s first film , the blossoming ofmaximo oliveros , won a raft of awards on the festival circuit in 2006 and he has since directed three other features . this is his first time in cannes .
sri lankan - born film - maker jayasundara won the camera d’or at cannes in 2005 for the forsakenland , while his second film , between two worlds , premiered in competition at venice in 2009 . his third feature , mushrooms , set in west bengal , follows a couple who take a trip into the forest where the man’s brother is said to have gone back to nature . it is co - produced by france’s les films de l’etranger , wallpaper productions and bear called dog .
it is not often a debut feature director arrives at a festival with such an impressive track record — two of runarsson’s shorts , 2 birds and anna , have been screened in cannes and his the last farm was nominated for a short film oscar . this iceland - set story follows an elderly man trying to adjust to life after retirement . iceland’s renowned zik zak produced with denmark’s fine & mellow .
two features in back - to - back quinzaines ? not bad for a 25 - year - old former skateboarder . van den berghe’s little baby jesus of flandr screened in directors’ fortnight last year . blue bird is a togo - shot drama loosely inspired by maurice maeterlinck’s play l’oiseau bleu about two children from a remote african village who search for a mysterious blue bird . the director says the film is the second part of his planned triptych about birth , the road and death .
antoniak’s second feature was selected for the cinéfondation atelier in 2010 and shot in berlin , amsterdam and copenhagen . the dark drama is about a middle - aged nurse , played by bien de moor , who is afraid of intimacy but engages with a neighbour after they witness a crime . antoniak directed 2009’s festival hit nothing personal , a prize - winner at locarno .
daly is the first female irish film - maker to be in contention for cannes’ camera d’or . the other side ofsleep is a thriller about a young woman prone to sleepwalking who becomes obsessed with a local murder investigation . antonia campbell - hughes , whose credits include bright star , plays the lead . daly developed the project while taking part in the cannes cinéfondation residence du festival in paris in 2008 , co - writing the screenplay with glenn montgomery .
rosa bosch’s tempesta film has produced this coming - of - age story about a teenager struggling to adapt to her family’s move back to southern italy after a decade in switzerland . this is writer - director rohrwacher’s first feature , and the debut film role for young yile vianello . look for a scene - stealing performance from calabrian housewife pasqualina scuncia .
linda cardellini plays a soldier who experiences an uneasy return to her home town after a tour of duty . michael shannon , who can be seen in critics’ week entry take shelter , also stars . return is the directorial debut of short - filmmaker johnson .
this first feature film from former assistant director turned writer - producer - director jauffret is set during one hot afternoon in the south of france as four lives intersect and hurtle towards potential tragedy . adele haenel , sylvie lachat , ulysse grosjean and yves ruellan star in the film , which is produced by explicit films .
laetitia casta stars as a woman who surprises her boyfriend ( thure lindhardt ) with a holiday to bulgaria only to discover he was born there , as secrets are subsequently revealed . bulgarian director kalev made a splash in 2009 with eastern plays which premiered in directors’ fortnight before impressing on the festival circuit .
clémence poésy stars as joan of arc in this historical drama from ramos . the director’s track record is quirky — his 2007 film captain ahab imagined the back story of moby dick — so his vision of joan of arc is one to watch . thierry frémont , liam cunningham and mathieu amalric co - star .
a drama about bullying , based on the real case of a group of young teenagers who robbed around 70 other children in gothenburg using intricate role - play rather than violence , this could be one of the hits of the fortnight .
zou’s second feature follows a group of people working in a sauna in the chinese city of guangdong , which is supposedly at the forefront of the country’s economic development and reforms . his first feature , a north chinese girl , played in the panorama section at berlin in 2009 .
this intense feature debut won the audience award at the adelaide film festival earlier this year , lining it up for the sort of buzz that kicked samson & delilah into international orbit . warp film australia’s first production , horror - thriller snowtown follows the true story of a teenage boy who falls under the spell of notorious serial killer john bunting . madman has australian rights and releases locally on may 19 .
the feature debut of argentina’s giorgelli , las acacias is set on the motorway between asuncion in paraguay and buenos aires in argentina and tells the story of a truck driver transporting a woman and her baby . written by giorgelli and salvador roselli , the film stars german de silva , hebe duarte and nayra calle mamani .
while hitchhiking to a funeral , a young man meets a 17 - year - old runaway who is looking for her drug - addicted brother . sold internationally by le pacte , the bulgarian - language avé is directed by bojanov , whose previous projects include invisible , an acclaimed documentary about heroin addicts in sofia . bojanov co - wrote avé with arnold barkus and produced alongside dimitar gotchev and geoffroy grison .
based on a true story , 17 girls follows a group of teens who decide to become pregnant at the same time . written and directed by delphine and muriel coulin , the film is produced by archipel 35 and co - produced by arte france cinéma . diaphana will release in france .
the widely admired young us film - maker nichols made waves with his 2009 debut shotgun stories and may have gone one better with take shelter , a sundance favourite starring michael shannon as a man plagued by apocalyptic visions . jessica chastain , who also stars in terrence malick’s competition title the tree of life , lends support . sony pictures classics will release later this year and holds north american , latin american , australian and new zealand rights .
directed , written and starring first - time film - maker ben asher , this exciting new israeli film is about a young mother who is considered promiscuous by members of the agricultural community in which she lives , and the man with whom she falls in love . ben asher wrote the script for the slut while at the cannes cinéfondation in paris , developing it from her short film pathways .
goteborg’s tv drama vision projects also include south pole thriller and second world - era drama .
twentieth century fox home entertainment in association with bulgari will premiere a restored version of the larger - than - life production in the cannes classics programme on may 21 .
world premiere of the first 8k narrative film , the comedic short film beauties à la carte [ pictured ] , to be screened by japanese public broadcaster nhk .
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heavenly bodies of one kind or another loomed large in this year’s main competition , most obviously in lars von trier’s melancholia and terrence malick’s the tree of life but also in naomi kawase’s hanezu ( japan ) , which features several close - ups of a misty moon threatening in its sheer bulk . whether or not the prevalence of this ponderous motif reflects the current economic doom and gloom is open to debate . on a brighter note , george méliès’s delightful 16 - minute - long le voyage sur la lune ( a trip to the moon ) of 1902 , superbly restored , was among the highlights of the cannes classics strand .
resolutely down - to - earth despite its ethereal title , alice rohrwacher’s feature debut corpo celeste ( heavenly body , italy / swiss / france , pictured above ) , premiered at the directors’ fornight and awarded cannes’ città di roma prize for emerging cinema from latin countries , offers yet another slant on this notion , this time metaphorical . a coming - of - age story doubling as a spiritual quest , the film is set in calabria , like last year’s festival hit le quattro volte . rohrwacher’s sensitive portrayal of local realities steers clear of stereotypes and captures something of the region’s gritty appeal through the eyes of a 13 - year - old girl , marta .
rohrwacher elicits yet another captivating performance by a young actor ( a signature note of this year’s festival ) from yile vianello , whose blond hair and otherworldly beauty set her apart from her peers . rohrwacher apparently eventually found the actress she had been looking for in a sealed - off , shangri - la - like community in central italy . the title alludes at once to marta’s pale body , on the cusp of womanhood , the body of christ , and earth itself , viewed from outer space as a heavenly body among many .
an advertisement filmmaker by profession , jayasundara is known for his very realistic and brilliant use of isolated set ups . serene and uninhabited settings are other conventional features of his films .
jayasundara was the first sri lankan filmmaker to win the prestigious cannes film festival camera d ' or in 2005 for his film ' the forsaken land ' .


it remains to be the only accurate documentation of the victims and families of the shooters involved in the columbine high school massacre , as well as the media and police coverage of the event .

released just over six months after the columbine event , it was written , produced , and directed by william hellfire and joey smack , who also starred .

the film is said to have helped pay for hellfire 's legal fees .

duck ! the carbine high massacre

the carbine high massacre . official authentic region 1 ( for usa / canada dvd players ) .
join us this week for the latest daily grindhouse presents : no - budget nightmares podcast where moe and myself will have a chat about duck ! the carbine high massacre .
can ' t wait to see that ! having grown up as a fundamentalist , i was particularly amused by your performance in duck ! the carbine high massacre . is that a part you look back on fondly ?
one of the first movies inspired by the columbine high school massacre , duck ! the carbine high massacre is a low budget independent film released less than a year after the shootings . if you like this consider buying the dvd : urltoken other movies in this same style : urltoken * disclaimer * i do not own anything . i ' m just passionate about school shootings
duck ! the carbine high massacre is a member of the following lists : american films , english - language films , satirical films , black comedy films , independent films , films about school violence , films shot in new jersey , films set in new jersey , 2000 films and 1999 films .
duck ! the carbine high massacre tongue - in - cheek film inspired by the events at columbine high . one of the first columbine - inspired movies to hit dvd . amateur - made and completely irreverent . it ' s not a movie for sensitive viewers or for viewers who want a film that takes the subject seriously . movie : ( 2000 ) directed by william hellfire .
duck ! the carbine high massacre is a 1999 american black comedy crime film about a fictional school shooting . it was one of the first films inspired by the columbine high school massacre . released less than a year after the columbine event , it was written , produced , and directed by william hellfire and joey smack , who also starred . after the film was released , hellfire and smack were arrested for possession of weapons on school property . wikipedia
some people think that elephant was tasteless . . . and those people did not see duck ! the carbine high massacre . i ' ve been meaning to see this movie for a long time , but i thought it would be exploitative without any redeeming value . i ' m pleased to find that it does feel redemptive .
the horrific massacre that occurred at colorado’s columbine high school is the inspiration for this controversial spoof with a plot similar to the ghastly event .
, just two months after the massacre . the developers , xatrix entertainment , became aware of the massacre and implemented a
safe
version
the book give a boy a gun is about two high school students who plan to shoot up their high school dance . the killers idolize harris and klebold and hope to outdo them with their massacre .
the book give a boy a gun is about two high school students who plan to shoot up their high school dance . the killers idolize harris and klebold , hoping to outdo columbine with their own massacre .
the black comedy exploitation film duck ! the carbine high massacre . released exactly one year after columbine , duck ! was the first film to be made about the killings , and without a doubt the most tasteless . the makers of the film were arrested and briefly imprisoned for bringing guns onto school grounds to shoot their movie - - something that they proudly boasted about on the film ' s cover . what else would you expect from a film made by two guys from jersey calling themselves william hellfire and joey smack ?
in 2007 , the massacre was documented in an episode of the final report .
and knelt down to fire several shots with his carbine at a duffel bag containing one of the 20 - lb propane bombs .
president ann richards chooses not to exploit the massacre for political gain and instead meets with victims of the massacre to listen to what they have to say .
since my buddy devilman had his fill of shot - on - video low budget american movies with the attack of the cockfaced killer ( reviewed elsewhere ) , i volunteered to step in and review duck ! the carbine high massacre for him . not having reliable access online myself , this is not something that i get a chance to do often , but anything to help save devilman ' s delicate sensabilities ( yeah , right ) .
the division : season 4 ep . 21 : zero tolerance deals with a high school student shot . makes a reference to the columbine high shootings . aired june 28 , 2004 .
the black comedy exploitation film duck ! the carbine high massacre , released exactly one year after columbine , was the first film made about the killings . it is also , without any doubt , the most tasteless of such films . the filmmakers were arrested and briefly imprisoned for bringing guns onto school grounds to shoot their movie—something that they proudly boasted about on the film ' s cover . what else would you expect from a film made by two guys from jersey calling themselves william hellfire and joey smack ?
) , which deals with a high school gunman , to fall out of print .
in 2004 the columbine high school massacre was dramatized on zero hour , with the killers being portrayed by ben johnson ( as eric harris ) and josh young ( as dylan klebold ) .
notably , the focus is not on high school dynamics , but on mass - murdering terrorists .
more than ten years after the fact , and with a slew of school shootings in its wake , the columbine high massacre still provokes a lot complex and passionate responses from the general public . even now the idea of a comedy based on such a tragic incident is enough to elicit looks of disgust , so you can imagine the response when duck ! the carbine high massacre actually found a home video release in 2000 . it remains difficult to watch , with some bad taste elements that are legitimately unpleasant , but it’s also a shockingly brave in a way that you rarely see in low - budget film - making . for viewers with strong stomachs , it’s a supremely rewarding viewing experience .
, a 9mm semi - automatic carbine rifle and a 9mm tec - dc9 semi - automatic pistol , they headed back to the school . they proceeded up the hill
the song
youth of the nation
by pod was inspired by columbine and the santana high shooting in california .
[ eric harris and dylan klebold ] did get a movie made about them , six months after their attack , not directed by steven spielberg or quentin tarantino , but by william hellfire and joey smack , the movie being
duck ! the carbine high massacre
. it ' s a
comedy
movie staring derwin ( william hellfire ) and derick ( joey smack ) . no one should watch it , not because of the theme , let ' s face it , it ' s because it ' s shite and unfunny .
.
massacre
a micro budget horror movie . make a movie for 500 dollars .
parents link suicide to massacre by neil h . devlin , denver post - may 19 2000
had its american theatrical release limited to just five theaters partly as a result of the columbine massacre .
harris and klebold were portrayed as daniel lynn and dara mcdermott in the film heart of america ; alex and eric in the film elephant by gus van sant ; [ 52 ] cal gabriel and andre kriegman in zero day by ben coccio ; [ 53 ] derwen and derrick in duck ! the carbine high massacre by william hellfire and joey smack ; [ 54 ] chance and will in american yearbook by brian ging ; [ 55 ] an unnamed shooter in home room ; devon browning in the only way ; [ 56 ] and as ben harris in april showers .
like when the two kids walked into the columbine high school on april 20 , 1999 and turned shotguns on their classmates .
april showers was written and directed by a man who was a senior at columbine when the massacre took place .
april showers , which was directed by a man who was a senior at columbine when the massacre took place .
parallels are drawn between columbine and the school massacre that freddy is responsible for in dreamspawn . the massacre was blamed on the now - insane protagonist and her dead friends because they were outcasts . this plot point is handled really anviliciously , though .
a number of indie films have been made that are basically retellings of the columbine massacre and the events that followed with the names changed .
chronicles the history of the game
super columbine massacre rpg ! .
the film traces back the 16 - bit role - playing game to its
the song
youth of the nation
by p . o . d . was inspired by both columbine and the santana high shooting in california .
trevor is a troubled high school student , thanks to the effects of bullying . this is the story of his fight to break free .
as with columbine , after a certain point the halls are cleared and everyone is hiding in locked rooms , cutting the massacre short .
trump on friday suggested that the orlando nightclub massacre victims could have stopped the attack or lessened its toll if they had been armed .
duck !
is definitely a satiric take on many things . it addresses the absurdity of the media , parent ' s perceptions of their children , the reasons why people are driven to kill , stereotypes , and family . this movie isn ' t for anyone who is offended by just about everything . the basic plot is that derwin and derek are outcasts at carbine high school . they encounter many abuses by bullies , society , and in some cases by parents . derwin and derek decide that they can no longer cope and that if they go anywhere , they ' ll just find the same thing , so they decide to plan a massacre at their high school . the movie boasts a cast of different stereotypes from the bully jocks , the bible thumper , the granola - girl folk singer , the goth kids , the geeky idiot , and the gearhead to name a few . the situa
parallels are drawn between columbine and the school massacre that freddy is responsible for in a nightmare on elm street : dreamspawn . the massacre was blamed on the ( now insane ) protagonist and her dead friends , because they were outcasts . its handled really anviliciously .
the original poster for the final was clearly designed to invoke the massacre . it ' s no surprise why it wasn ' t used on the dvd release .
but in a twist , the klebold - expy did not know that the harris - expy was serious , and ended up shooting him to put a stop to the massacre . a third guy also tried to back out , so the harris - expy murdered him prior to the massacre .
that ' s what the news media failed to see when examining the columbine massacre . they were quick to blame violent movies and videogames like
well , i found the movie . and if you write to me , i ' ll tell you where to get it . it ' s called
duck ! : the carbine high massacre ,
and it ' s told from the point of view of the two trenchcoat boys who went postal in the cafeteria . if i had to guess , it was put together by some friends who have spent their whole lives being called
freaks
- - punk kids , goth kids , headbangers - - and so wanted to point out a few things that might have motivated the suicidal mass murderers . of course , that just makes it all the more likely to be consigned to the dempster dumpster of low - budget direct - to - video failures .
the original poster for the final was clearly designed to invoke the massacre . the dvd release did not use it , and you should not have to guess why .
two best friends are filming a comedy about getting revenge on the bullies at their high school . one of them isn ' t joking .
featured a group of just - out - of - high - school boys who talked about doing what the columbine boys tried to do .
) the film ' s general theme is that no one has easy answers for the massacre . after all , both harris and klebold were bowlers—
eric david harris ( april 9 , 1981 – april 20 , 1999 ) and dylan bennet klebold ( september 11 , 1981 – april 20 , 1999 ) were the two american high school seniors who committed the columbine high school massacre . the pair killed 13 people and injured 24 others , three of whom were injured as they escaped the attack . [ 1 ] the two then committed suicide in the library , where they had killed 10 of their victims .
the columbine high school massacre saw the deaths of fifteen people - - twelve students , one teacher , and the killers themselves - - and the injury of another twenty - four people . after it happened , everybody ran around like a headless chicken trying to rationalize it . here ' s our attempt .
in the crapsack world setting of deus ex human revolution , another columbine massacre apparently happened , as an npc will mention
the second time
.
shot on the ultracheap , duck ! displays the low production values you’d expect from a camcorder flick – crude sound , and the attendant level of acting . most of the actors take on colorful fake names , like misty mundane and michael ovum . all the characters wear the same wardrobe every day , and a friend’s band performs at a party . however , the final massacre features gore effects surprisingly up to – um , snuff .
the matrix was released three weeks before the massacre . it was soon accused of inspiring the shooters due to the
action hero in a trench coat
look it popularized .
a journalist interviews a sixteen year old boy , who is in police custody after he shot and killed 42 people at his high school .
two bullied high - school students ( william hellfire , joey smack ) fight back against their oppressors in a hail of bullets and blood .
being released just ten days after the massacre is often cited as the reason why the horror - comedy idle hands flopped at the box office . its plot involves a boy ' s hand being possessed by a demon , causing him to kill his parents and his best friends , and the climax involves the hand going on a bloodthirsty rampage at the high school dance .
being released just ten days after the massacre is often cited as the reason why the horror - comedy film idle hands flopped at the box office . the film ' s plot involves a boy ' s hand being possessed by a demon , causing him to kill his parents and his best friends ; the climax involves the hand going on a bloodthirsty rampage at the high school dance .
although , in a grim irony , the worst - ever us school massacre remains the bombing of an elementary school in bath township , michigan , which happened in 1927 .
at columbine high , harris and klebold were active in school play productions , operated video productions and became computer assistants maintaining the school ' s computer server . [ 2 ]
has a comparatively low rate of gun violence despite gun ownership rates being almost as high as in the us . ( as the saying goes , guns don ' t kill people , people kill people . ) the film ' s general theme is that there are no easy answers for the massacre - - after all , both harris and klebold were bowlers , so
,
time bomb
, centred on a group of just - out - of - high - school boys who talked about doing what the columbine killers tried to do .
the anarchist cookbook was one of harris ' s favorite books . the bombs he and klebold used ( or rather , tried to use ) in the massacre were based on several of the book ' s instructions .
. but many fans of the film feel that lingering squeamishness over the film ' s subject matter—high school kids being forced to kill each other—also played a role in the 13 ( ! ) - year delay .
sociological investigation into the high school subculture was conducted in response to the killings , with the goal of determining what factors led to the event and whether or not future massacres in other schools could be successfully prevented . in the aftermath of the attacks , some north american high school students attended compulsory seminars that encouraged tolerance and condemned bullying . the effectiveness of this on bullying prevention is not clear and investigation indicated that bullying wasn ' t the sole cause of the shootings .
natural born killers , which was already a controversial film due to its violence , received heavier criticism after the massacre . the killers themselves called their rampage
nbk
as a reference to the movie .
had mike teavee—now a video game addict , as opposed to a tv addict in the original—come from suburban denver , colorado . this was possibly a subtle reference to the columbine massacre , particularly the role that
on another episode , lois tells peter to masquerade as a high schooler , and he appears in the kitchen in a trenchcoat holding a gun and saying he wants to get back at the popular kids who ignored him . lois tells peter that he is supposed to be acting like a normal high schooler and he calls someone named
lance
to tell him the plan is off .
the fanfic hit list is a legend of zelda high school au where a group of students , led by ganondorf , plant and detonate bombs around exits in the school and take hundreds of people hostage .
the emogame series makes a number of references to the shooting . in the first game , the hot topic store sells trenchcoat mafia fashion accessories ( including a columbine high t - shirt ) , and both harris and klebold appear in the second game .
the effect of the massacre is also discussed within the film itself . one of the producers of the film within a film stab 3 notes how violence in cinema has become a touchy subject recently , with columbine being the unstated - yet - obvious reason why .
another non - fiction account , dave cullen ' s columbine , details the lives of the two shooters , the massacre itself , and the aftermath . the book is , however , largely seen as biased and inaccurate by many people that have studied the case .
the gunmen left the library at 11 : 36 am . patti nielson , still on the phone with 911 , whispered to the operator that she had to go and then took opportunity to duck into the library ' s break room to hide in a cupboard . library technician carole weld and assistant lois kean hid in the television studio while teacher peggy dodd hid in the periodicals room , where all four remained hidden until the
has a comparatively low rate of gun violence despite gun ownership rates being almost as high as in the united states . ( as the saying goes : guns don ' t kill people , people kill people .
due to massive head injury secondary to a high energy gunshot wound involving the roof of his mouth , consistent with a shotgun . this wound is consistent with self - infliction . [ 15 ]
( about 3 miles from columbine high , between ken caryl and chatfield avenues ) . two backpacks loaded with pipe bombs , aerosol canisters and small propane tanks had been placed in an open grassy space three miles southwest of the high school . only the pipe bombs and one of the aerosol canisters detonated but the explosion and subsequent grass fire were enough to divert the attention of the jefferson county sheriff ' s office and the littleton fire department . police dispatch radioed the event out . (
the emo game series makes a number of references to the shooting . in the first game , the hot topic store sells trenchcoat mafia fashion accessories ( including a columbine high t - shirt ) , and eric harris and dylan klebold appear in the second game .
you might have read about these guys in new jersey who did a satirical movie about the columbine massacre within , like , four months of the event , which is faster than they got the amy fisher movies released .
the nightwish song
the kinslayer
is about the massacre . the lyrics even quote real dialogue between the killers and their victims . the fifteen candles mentioned near the end refer to those who died on that day—four pink ones for the female victims , nine blue ones for the male victims , and two black ones for the killers themselves .
violent video games became one of the most popular scapegoats for the massacre after the media learned that harris and klebold were fans of doom and wolfenstein 3 d . armchair psychologists claimed that the killers had become desensitized to , and obsessed with , realistic violence as a result of playing such games . infamous attorney jack thompson entered the public consciousness as an anti - video game activist because of the massacre , which began a career trajectory that would ultimately lead to his disbarrment . once people learned that harris had made various levels for the game , the media almost immediately began claiming that those levels had been based on columbine high school , with the demons replaced with students and teachers . neither of those claims held true . the most elaborate of the so - called
harris levels
, titled
uac labs
, can be downloaded at urltoken ( third down the list ) alongside commentary on the massacre and its effect on the gaming community .
at the same time the cafeteria was being evacuated , motorcycle patrolman deputy paul smoker was up on west bowles avenue north of columbine high school . hearing the dispatch report about the female down in the south parking lot of the school he radioed that he was responding to the call and headed that way .
kmfdm received a fair share of blame for the massacre , aided by the fact that harris was a fan of their music and posted the lyrics to some of their songs on his website . their album adios was released on the same day as the shooting .
the one - act stage play bang bang you ' re dead , about an imprisoned high school killer who is confronted by the ghosts of his victims , was written before columbine—though it was based on other , pre - columbine school shootings—to raise awareness about school violence . the timeliness of its subject matter caused it to become incredibly popular in the wake of the columbine shooting , with 15 , 000 performances taking place in the three years directly after the massacre . the play was later adapted into a film by the showtime network .
fox re - ran the
viva ned flanders
episode of the simpsons on the same day as the massacre . the episode has homer telling himself that barney ' s birthday is on the same day as adolf hitler ' s—april 20th . all future re - runs of the episode replaced the date with july 15th—the same birthdate as lassie .
an average guy of an estonian high - school decides to defend his bullied classmate . this starts war between him and the informal leader of the class . as teenagers ' honour is a touchy thing , everything ends in bloodshed .
though the satire is broad and corny , at it’s best , duck ! solidly shows the situation from the boys’ point of view . derrick and derwin see themselves romantically , as agents of change striking back at the absurd and oppressive world around them . analyzed in this way , the shootings become at heart a grotesquely exaggerated version of the usual teenage vandalism . who hasn’t fantasized , if only for a moment , about taking a flame - thrower to their high school assembly ? it’s all part of being a teen . some feel that way more than others – guess we’re lucky they don’t have access to a lot of firearms , eh ?
after being mis blamed for the massacre , marilyn manson proceeded to write the album holy wood ( in the shadow of the valley of death ) . most of the lyrics and subject matter were direct responses to columbine , with manson calling it
a declaration of war
on the moral guardians .
ultimately , one of the most popular culprits for the shootings was society in general . for the first time , there was genuine examination and criticism of the social hierarchy of high school—particularly the high status that athletes enjoy within it . schools began to crack down on bullying within their halls , and most people who were of school age soon after columbine will most likely recall all of the assemblies calling for tolerance and respect for fellow classmates . the fact that we still have the popularity food chain shows that such efforts were futile , and 1999 became ancient history for a new generation of high school students who were only in elementary school when the shooting took place . it took another cycle of bullying - related suicides a decade later before people started asking these questions again .
after being mis - blamed for the massacre , marilyn manson wrote the album holy wood in the shadow of the valley of death . most of the lyrics and subject matter were direct responses to columbine , with manson calling it
a declaration of war
on the moral guardians who had blamed him for the shooting .
not directly about the massacre , but
america ' s suitehearts
, a fall out boy song about people getting famous for unsavory things , was written partially in response to the cult of celebrity around the killers that emerged on my space in the early 2000s .
. however , many fans of the film can ' t help but feel that lingering squeamishness regarding the film ' s subject matter ( high school kids being forced to kill each other ) also played a role in the 13 ( ! ) - year delay .
as the cause of such a disaster . did they even think for a second of what it ' s like to be a social outcast in high school ? how the high school social structure can back those who aren ' t
normal
into a corner from which they feel they can ' t escape ? no way . if the media says it ' s movies , videogames , and marilyn manson driving kids to exterminate their classmates , then it must be true !
century part iii of alan moore ' s the league of extraordinary gentlemen features a parody of harry potter where the hero goes crazy and proceeds to massacre his entire supporting cast . the event is presented and compared in - panel to a classic school shooting .
from students and neighbors who lived near the school soon began to flood the dispatch as well as more people became aware that something was not right at columbine . on the police band dispatch informed officers that possible shots had been fired at the high school and that one female was down .
duck ! came out originally in 2000 after the real life columbine high school shootings . the film , supposedly touted as so controversial , it landed it ' s makers in jail , is loosely based on the events that took place in colorado . two young outsiders ( in this case named derwick and derwin instead of eric and dylan ) , grow tired of being picked on and decide to kill their classmates and in the end , themselves . yes , that ' s a gross oversimplification but this isn ' t the forum to rehash all of the outrageous reasons for school shootings , although that is probably one of the only uses for this film . but i ' m getting ahead of myself .
had mike teavee ( now a video game addict , as opposed to a tv addict in the original ) be from suburban denver , colorado . one can ' t help but feel that this was a subtle reference to the columbine massacre , particularly the role that
the plot is pretty much exactly what you might expect from what you know of the real incident . derwin and derick are classmates at carbine high who find themselves ostracized due to their odd appearance , attitude and interests . derick’s miserable home life leaves him distressed and suicidal , while derwin is more sarcastically aloof until he’s beaten terribly by a group of jocks ( and has the word “freak” carved into his stomach ) . using a combination of home - made bombs and purchased guns , the two eventually break into the school ( where at first the students barely notice them ) , before killing a collection of the students in a variety of grisly and bloody ways . as the media circus surrounds the school , the two finish their spree before committing suicide , leaving the survivors to search desperately for meaning .
at about 11 : 10 am eric and dylan -
reb
and
vodka
- arrived at columbine high school . they parked their cars flanking the exits and entrances to the cafeteria : eric parked his 1986 gray honda civic in a parking place in the junior student
and is slightly worse than the real life massacre ( harris and klebold succeed in burning the school down ) , with more media attention put on the killers ' alleged neo - nazi ties due to their acts being seen within the context of a series of far - right terrorist attacks .
the life before her eyes , starring uma thurman and evan rachel wood , is about a woman who survived a columbine - style massacre fifteen years prior and whose present - day life is falling apart due to her survivor guilt .
the life before her eyes , starring uma thurman and evan rachel wood , is about a woman who survived a columbine - style massacre fifteen years prior and whose present - day life is falling apart due to her survivor guilt .
the made - for - tv movie atomic train was not shown in denver out of apparent sympathy for the columbine massacre . the movie had absolutely nothing to do with schools , shootings , or anything like it ; it was a nuclear train , albeit one wherein the inevitable happens near denver .
revenge of the lutefisk ,
which is about the church accidentally being burned down , was scheduled to air on the day of the massacre but was pre - empted in denver by continuing news coverage about columbine . that episode was not shown or rerun for a long time there either .
tangentially related : after columbine , the music video for the song
jeremy
, both of which were based in part on the 1991 suicide of jeremy wade delle and were published years before the columbine massacre , was pulled from rotation on music video stations . the video was already controversial well before columbine , though .
after realizing that their bombs were duds , the killers broke out their guns ( a 9mm carbine and sawed - off pump shotgun for harris , and a tec - 9 and sawed - off double - barrel shotgun for klebold ) and headed to the school ' s west entrance . here , they took off their trenchcoats , killed two students and a teacher , and wounded nine others as they went through the halls . at 11 : 29 , they headed to the library , where the main body of the massacre took place . when they walked in , harris told everybody wearing a white baseball cap — a tradition amongst school athletes — to stand up . harris and klebold then killed ten people and wounded twelve others .
jodi picoult ' s nineteen minutes is the story of a boy who shoots up his high school after being bullied and his crush abandons him to join the in - crowd responsible . at his trial , a psychiatrist cites harris and klebold as an example of school shooters .
emanates the sort of raw filmic energy absent in films 100 times its budget . the necessary recycling of characters and setting , as well as its lo - fi , vhs origins , creates an absolutely singular visual dystopia , communicated in kubrick - esque slow zooms and sluggish , mismatched cutting , as well as the ever - present point of view shot , which manages a similar effect to van sant ' s approach in elephant ( placing us in the shoes of the kids ) . this whole thing should be disgusting , but there ' s a self - awareness to the proceedings that prevents it from slipping into distastefulness - - a reporter comments on the carnage unfolding in carbine high :
it ' s so exciting , i mean tragic ,
she corrects herself . hellfire and smack…
now , it’s in bad taste . in fact , it revels in its bad taste – from the juvenile comedy , to the exaggerated caricatures , to the blaring hardcore soundtrack . but a decade removed from the incident itself , it’s also a remarkably brave and occasionally poignant satire on an event that many americans have never been able to come to terms with . treating an incident that scarred so many like the material for a whacked out troma comedy makes for fascinating and occasionally jaw - dropping viewing , but it’s the quieter moments and smaller decisions that make duck ! so fascinating to watch . using the very combination of pop culture that was blamed for the incident to comment on it , even without any sense of delicacy , puts the film in a class and category high above most of its bad - taste low - budget brethren .
the basketball diaries movie about a hard - luck teen boy with a stunning dream scene of his shooting up his high school class room . was rumored to have inspired the columbine shooters , though there ' s never been proof of this . ( 1995 ) directed by scott kalvert .
saying that she might be paralyzed . deputy paul magor , who was en route to the diversionary explosion at wadsworth , was advised of this by dispatch . deputy gardner heard the dispatched message over the sheriff ' s radio as well and put his lights and sirens on as he headed to columbine high school .
investigation revealed that harris and klebold were only friends with one member of the group , chris morris , and that most of the primary members of the trench coat mafia had left the school by the time that harris and klebold committed the massacre . most did not know the shooters , apart from their association with morris , and none were considered suspects in the shootings or were charged with any involvement in the incident [ 40 ] .
but it’s smack and hellfire’s ability to wring actual emotion out of their scenes together that is the lingering memory of duck ! . the final moments between derick and derwin are horrifying , touching and sad , and the choice to make their eventual suicides messy and visibly painful is a reflection of a film that consistently refuses to take the easy route . the film ends with a series of satirical interviews with surviving characters , parents and other people of interest who seem more interested in their own profile or whether the “big game” is cancelled than the incident that just occurred . again , while it’s hardly subtle that one of the final lines come from a teenager watching the coverage and going “next year we should blow up our high school . we could be on tv . ” , it’s a reflection of a lot of the anger and confusion that was being broadcast at that time .
the harris family lived in rented accommodations for the first three years that they lived in the littleton area . during this time , eric met dylan klebold . in 1996 , the harris family purchased a house south of columbine high school . eric ' s older brother , kevin , attended college at the university of colorado at boulder . [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
columbinus ( a play ) play that addresses the bitter reality of high - school pecking orders and the basic human need for social interaction . contains dialog pulled from and inspired by interviews and news about the columbine shootings . play : ( 2005 ) conceived and created by the united states theatre project , written by stephen karam and pj paparelli .
harris and klebold affected u . s . culture in tangible ways . eminem mentioned the shooting in multiple songs from the marshall mathers lp most notably
the way i am .
marilyn manson dubbed them
the nobodies
in his song of that name from his 2000 album holy wood , echoing the reasons the pair gave for their spree in the lyrics . manson & eminem , who were blamed by the media in the wake of the columbine massacre , criticized their coverage of the event respectively with the lines :
the film dawn anna , starring debra winger in the title role , was about the mother of one of the victims of the shooting , detailing her struggles with brain cancer not long after meeting her future husband . after being cured of the disease , her daughter , lauren townsend , is killed in the columbine massacre . yes , it ' s a lifetime movie - - what , are you surprised ?
duck ! ' s story ? simple enough . the film follows the events leading up to the infamous massacre , showing the lives of derwick ( joey smack ) and derwin ( william hellfire ) , as well as the antics of their various two dimensional classmates . our two
stars
spend their days ordering nuclear weapons from china via online retailing , reading hate websites , and putting up with their clueless , self involved parents . one of the more entertaining gimmicks in this film is that all of the parents in the town are played by the same two actors . i suppose this is william hellfire ' s commentary on how all parents are essentially the same in how they treat their kids . as for these in particular , derwin ' s mom is ditzy , his dad is on prozac . derwick ' s parents are equally worthless . they ' re drunks and abusive , and so on .
the 2014 play the erlkings focused on—and was based on the journals and other information from—the killers .
according to early accounts of the shooting , harris and klebold were very unpopular students and frequent targets of bullying at their high school . [ 7 ] harris and klebold were reportedly members of a group that called themselves the
trenchcoat mafia
, although they had no particular connection with the group , and did not appear in a group photo of the trenchcoat mafia in the 1998 columbine yearbook . [ 8 ] harris ' s father stated that his son was
a member of what they call the trenchcoat mafia
in a 911 call he made on april 20 , 1999 . [ 9 ] klebold attended the high school prom three days before the shootings with a classmate named robyn anderson . [ 10 ]
the made - for - tv movie atomic train wasn ' t shown in denver out of apparent sympathy for the columbine massacre . the movie had absolutely nothing to do with schools , shootings , or anything like it , being about , y ' know , a nuclear train , albeit one wherein the inevitable wrong - going happens near denver .
. the massacre was covered on national news as it was happening , in a way that previous ones never were . future school shootings , including those with far greater body counts like virginia tech , sandy hook , and stoneman douglas , would always find themselves in columbine ' s shadow . the
the film dawn anna , starring debra winger in the title role , was about the mother of one of the victims of the shooting ; it detailed her struggles with brain cancer not long after meeting her future husband . after being cured of the disease , her daughter , lauren townsend ( played by a young tatiana maslany ) , is killed in the columbine massacre . are you surprised that it is a lifetime movie ?
episodes which dealt with mental illness , suicide , and death were not rerun on denver - area fox affiliates or syndicated on other area channels for some time after the massacre . these included the
propane boom
two - parter about the mega - lo - mart explosion , hank ' s ensuing fear of propane , and
both diaries make frequent reference to the oklahoma city bombing , the waco siege , and other disasters and massacres , noting how they wished to
outdo
these events . their codename for the massacre was
nbk
—a reference to one of their favorite films , natural born killers , in which the main characters go on a killing spree and become celebrities in the process .
the boondock saints wound up seeing its american theatrical release limited to just five theaters partly as a result of the columbine massacre [ 4 ] , which led him to burn all his bridges with miramax , his distributor . , causing it to become a direct to video film for all intents and purposes .
so , in closing , i admit , with the recent rash of new school shootings , duck ! might serve one purpose - it may get people talking . if it makes you and your friends talk about why these sorts of things happen in our society , then the film ' s worth at least one viewing . i guess that would probably make the filmmakers very happy . but i ' d suggest renting or borrowing the dvd from someone who already has it . i wouldn ' t recommend you spend your hard - earned cash on it .
the original theatrical poster for titan ae had cale tucker running around shooting a laser gun , followed by love interest akima . this was released during the fallout of the massacre , however , and movie studios were facing heavy criticism for violence in films . for the vhs and dvd box art , cale makes the same running pose , but this time shows akima the map with his hand outstretched toward it in place of the gun .
boston public : despite being a series primarily set in a school , this show had only one episode involving a school massacre plot . in that episode , a student ' s notes describing a plan to bomb the school were found , but nothing comes of the plan , nor is it ever mentioned again .
one of the most disturbing trends to happen after the shooting was the draco in leather pants aura that developed around harris and klebold , with many students on the bottom of the high school food chain calling them heroes and martyrs who stood up to the privileged jocks and bullies that ruled high schools across the nation . trenchcoats became a popular fashion accessary among such students , with schools responding by banning them under their dress codes . a series of copycat shootings took place , carried out mostly by people who wanted to get revenge on their classmates and , like harris and klebold , leave their mark on the world . even thirteen years later , a quick search will find a surprisingly large number of tribute sites and videos for
reb and vodka .
meanwhile , dylan crossed the room to the east side of the library where he shot out the trophy case near the door .
[ edit ] the harris levelseric harris created seven known levels for the computer game doom ( known as wads ) , and purportedly for the game quake . the largest and most popular level is called u . a . c . labs , and is still available for download . [ 49 ] [ 50 ] some of the harris level packs have graphical modifications that enhance the violent content of the game . the levels were not meant to be recreations of the interior of columbine high school as often rumored .
focuses on two high school outcasts : derwin ( william hellfire ) and derrick ( joey smack ) , who wear black trench coats every day just like the trench coat mafia implicated in the real - life incident . virtually every other character in the movie is a stereotype : there are the bullying jocks , a couple of friendless gothic kids , the jesus - loving christian girl , the wheelchair - bound retard , and the i - hate - everyone black kid .
the nightwish song
the kinslayer
is about the incident . the lyrics even quote real dialogue between the killers and their victims .
early speculation said a third man had been involved in the shootings , based on reports that a strange man had been seen on the roof on the school ( he was a repairman who had locked himself up on the roof after he heard gunshots ) . others claimed that the two killers could not have hauled all of the bombs into the cafeteria by themselves . all known evidence points to harris and klebold as the only culprits behind the massacre , but this has not stopped countless conspiracy theorists from speculating otherwise .
once the officers were able to get the terrified survivors out , they were all searched and then evacuated in groups of 10 . despite having been searched and cleared , the victims were told to keep their hands on their heads as they were hustled out of the damaged school . the news footage of the sight of kids being herded like prisoners out a broken window and past the bodies of rachel and danny was the first scene many would see of the shootings at columbine high as news crews were live and rolling by that time .
he also sharply criticizes the american media for doing nothing but broadcasting sensationalized stories and ramping up national paranoia and fear to the point where , rather than being a warning sign screaming for societal re - address , the massacre fuelled terror and finger - pointing by moral guardians that wouldn ' t be seen again until 9 / 11 made terror into a war .
by that time the other team had cleared the southeast section of columbine . williams ' group moved from the cafeteria to the second level of the of the school .
christian weston chandler—yes , chris - chan —shoots up his high school in midlothian , virginia , killing eighteen classmates ( fourteen of them female ) and three faculty members , one of whom was shonda rhimes ( her hollywood career fizzled out in polly ' s world and she became an english teacher ) .
he also sharply criticizes the american media for doing nothing but broadcasting sensationalized stories and ramping up national paranoia and fear to the point where , rather than the columbine massacre being a warning sign screaming for societal re - address , it fueled terror and finger - pointing by moral guardians that wouldn ' t be seen again until 9 / 11 made terror into a war .
boston public : surprisingly enough , despite being a series primarily set in a school , this show has had only one episode involving a school massacre plot . in one episode , a student ' s notes describing a plan to bomb the school were found , but nothing actually happens nor does this get mentioned again .
the one - act stage play bang bang you ' re dead , about an imprisoned high school killer who is confronted by the ghosts of his victims , was actually written before columbine ( although based on other school shootings ) to raise awareness about school violence . however , the timeliness of its subject matter caused it to become incredibly popular , being performed 15 , 000 times in the three years after columbine . the play was later adapted into a film by the showtime network .