hammer of the gods is a 2013 british action film directed by farren blackburn and released on 5 july 2013 .

in it , a dying viking king sends his son on a quest to seek out his older brother , the clan 's only hope for defeating an approaching enemy horde .

hammer of the gods ( 2013 film )

touches of class . . . hammer of the gods . photograph : luke varley
odin uses mjölnir , a hammer , to banish thor . a ban hammer .
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so hammer of the gods is that most unexpected and unlikely of films , a viking apocalypse then - but while it is an enjoyable enough romp , trying to out - hammer the impact of coppola ' s masterpiece is as foolhardy as challenging the gods themselves .
more like hammer of the mortals as there are no gods present . even if you are speaking metaphorically saying the humans are akin to gods , it is still not accurate as they were not godlike either .
hilariously , heimdall was described in myth as
the whitest of the gods .
hammer of the gods starring charlie bewley , clive standen , james cosmo synopsis : the true story of oscar , a 22 - year - old bay area resident , who crosses paths with friends , enemies , family , and strangers on the last day of 2008 . cast : charlie bewley , clive standen , james cosmo release date : july 5th , 2013 genre : drama director : farren blackburn check our website : urltoken click to subscribe : urltoken here you ' ll find movie reviews , movie trailers , celebrity interviews , movie and entertainment news and much more ! check out our network : - urltoken - urltoken - urltoken - urltoken - urltoken - urltoken - urltoken follow us on twitter : urltoken follow us on facebook : urltoken follow us on google plus : urltoken new movie trailers every day !
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sees a group of vikings going on a journey and no additional details are really needed . one of them is looking for his brother . blabla .
gray rain of depression : the rain when thor tries to lift his hammer and failed .
: odin ' s words for the hammer imply thor must become a worthy king to lift the hammer . instead , it comes flying to his hand the moment he
thor ' s story continues in the 2012 crossover film the avengers , the 2013 sequel thor the dark world , avengers sequel avengers age of ultron , the 2017 sequel thor ragnarok , avengers infinity war and the yet untitled fourth avengers film .
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[ blu - ray review ] this blu - ray disc of
hammer of the gods
looks aesthetically beautiful , brought to life in all its moody , fog - drenched glory . my only wish is that the film itself was better .
the package hammer of the gods arrived in 2013 . it had the misfortune to follow a plethora of similarly themed films like beowulf and grendel , 300 , black death , valhalla rising and centurion , and so didnít seem quite as novel or interesting as it might have 5 - 10 years earlier . it did , however , receive a limited theatrical release courtesy of magnet releasing . incidentally , the filmís producers rupert preston and huberta von liel teamed up for another medieval splatter - thon in 2015ís sword of vengeance , whose reception essentially matched that of hammer of the gods .
deus ex machina : thor comes back to life just as his father ' s
worthiness
decree comes true . justified as this is a film about actual gods ( or at least aliens called gods ) and it fits the tone .
hammer of plot advancement : once thor has proven himself worthy of wielding mjölnir , his powers and strength return .
the trailer for the first movie makes it seem like thor reclaims the hammer in awesome fashion in the rain .
subscribe to trailers : urltoken subscribe to coming soon : urltoken hammer of the gods official trailer # 1 ( 2013 ) - viking movie hd action epic sees a passionate young man transform into a brutal warrior as he travels the unforgiving landscape in search of his long lost brother hakan the ferrocious , whose people are relying on him to restore order to their kingdom .
in addition to writing about classic film , dileo hosts classic - film series , appears often on radio shows , and conducts film - history seminars .
loki subtly uses some at the beginning of the film . specifically , he says the
attempts a genuine selfless sacrifice , which eventually deems him worthy , and he gets his hammer back .
throwing your hammer always works : sure , when it comes back to you after you throw it .
bay shore hammer of the gods , rock . sept . 14 at 8 p . m . $ 40 and $ 45 . boulton center for the performing arts , 37 west main street . ( 631 ) 969 - 1101 ; boultoncenter . org .
extremely short timespan : the bulk of the film takes place over the span of two or three days .
near the end of the film , loki lays something akin to this on thor .
everything ' s better with spinning : the way the bifröst is opened . thor spinning his hammer also has quite awesome results .
jötunn soldier : run back home , little princess . [ thor smirks and readies his hammer ] loki : damn .
god guise : while the asgardians in the comic book are physical gods , in the movie they avoid that designation — fandral talks about humans
worshiping [ them ] as gods
, but doesn ' t claim to actually be one . ( jane specifically invokes sufficiently advanced technology ) .
legendary weapon : mjolnir is a one - of - a - kind hammer and can only be wielded by the person ( s ) deemed worthy .
comic which was made to be closer to the film than the regular comics .
the
whitest of gods
can never have been about his skin color , which the vikings must have been unconcerned with ; as a rainbow god he stands for purity .
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
southampton “2013 juried art exhibition , ” group show . sept . 10 through oct . 6 . southampton cultural center , 25 pond lane . ( 631 ) 287 - 4377 ; southamptonculturalcenter . org .
super cell reception : jane has no problem making a phone call despite being in the new mexican desert and thor ' s hammer scrambling electronics .
a film and theater scholar at brooklyn college and the graduate center of city university of new york traces the changing representation of new york city district , with particular attention to the gangster film . massood earlier wrote black city cinema : african american urban experiences in film and edited the spike lee reader .
stagnating under the heel of the secrecy - obsessed , budget - slashing , and culture - hating conservative minority government in ottawa , the national film board of canada no longer allows access for film scholars .
like game of thrones crossed with braveheart but stripped of most of the budget , this scrappy film tells an intriguing story without the usual hollywood bombast .
really , the first half hour of the film is a series of curb stomps as a way to show how awesome everyone is .
releases his grip on the spear at the climax of the film and hurtles across the universe . this is immediately followed by odin who
the bifröst bridge remaining open and causing destruction upon the world it links to is mentioned by heimdall in the beginning of the film .
at its core , the plot of hammer of the gods is no more than a quest film where the king sends his most deserving son off on a journey to recover a more ferocious force to save the clan . on the surface , the film is his trek across the countryside along with his closest warriors . they face a variety of dangers , meet new found friends and suffer surprising enemies . but , just below the surface , is a subtext that is far more interesting and satisfying , the personal journey of steinar . the blood , blades and babes along the way are all fun action beats , but the emotional cadence provides the depth bubbling to the surface during the final act when steinar returns to face the king’s earlier decisions and motivations . oddly , it becomes a viking coming of age film .
it can also be used to imprison anyone who isn ' t worthy , simply by putting the hammer down on them , which is how thor beats loki .
hollywood and the american historical film edited by j . e . smyth ( macmillan )
a cinema of poetry : aesthetics of the italian art film by joseph luzzi ( johns hopkins university press ) . antonioni , bertolucci , de sica , fellini , pasolini , rossellini… and film’s relations with literature .
in his “lucid and penetrating account , ” as film scholar steven shaviro of wayne state university puts it , dixon also describes what came next : the switch to television production and some distribution of independent film .
loki is a jerk , but putting thor on the throne of asgard at the beginning of the film wouldn ' t have ended well for anyone . he also accuses odin of
: in a flashback at the beginning of the film , we see odin telling young thor and loki about the war with jötunheim .
nothing to do with arthur c . clarke ' s the hammer of god , in which a giant asteroid smashes into earth , or hammer of the gods , a rock bio in which led zeppelin do pretty much the same thing , vertigo films ' hammer of the gods takes us back to the middle - ages for a good , old - fashioned bout of viking carnage . if you were to look at this new poster and think that there was just a hint of 300 and valhalla rising about it , you ' d not find any disagreement in these parts . valhalla , another vertigo joint , had mads mikkelsen as a one - eyed norseman on an existential journey . in this case it ' s charlie bewley , demetri of twilight fame , who ' s on a viking mission in 871 ad britain as steinar , the angry - looking dude on the poster . his father , king bagsecg ( james cosmo , braveheart ) , sends him on a quest to find his exiled brother ; a plot with shakespearean undertones and ,
a senior lecturer in spanish at newcastle university , uk ( carmen on film : a cultural history , 2007 ; daniel calparsoro , 2009 ) edited this collection of essays by leading scholars of spanish film on such topics as controversy over the provisions for film funding in the cinema act of 2007 , the role of short films in spanish cinema , and the contrasting approaches of two “biopics” of st . teresa of avila . also discussed are such issues as genre , auteurism , stardom , the relationship between film and tv , the horror genre as voice of conservatism , and recuperation through documentaries of memories of the civil war .
2011 saw cavill playing leading man , this time in the form of warrior theseus in the swords - and - gods epic the immortals . the next year cavill played a wall street trader in the thriller cold light of day , co - starring bruce willis and sigourney weaver .
a professor of media cultures at the college of staten island , city university of new york ( coauthor of global hong kong and coeditor of the encyclopedia of contemporary american culture ) explores the role of festivals in the film industry . she considers the constellations of art , business , and glamor represented by the gatherings of movies , stars , directors , and critics . she writes about the history of such events . she also situates festivals within changing global practices of film , and explores the events’ construction of cinema knowledge .
when thor , after beating through all of s . h . i . e . l . d . ' s security , stands before his hammer mjölnir ready to reclaim it .
hilariously , tadanobu asano had played genghis khan in the film mongol a few years earlier .
heimdall is now played by a black actor , idris elba . the film ' s version of heimdall was carried over into the
a malaysian legal scholar and independent film director and producer compares the film - censorship practices of the three countries , from the perspective of both censors and filmmakers . he examines the censorship laws , policies , guidelines , and processes and evaluates film practitioners’ and censors’ opinions of censorship , and ways of dealing with them . he then proposes changes to the malaysian system that would provide greater transparency and accountability to the system , to reconcile it with free speech , and to make it more responsive to the needs of filmmakers and the film industry .
john williams’s film music : jaws , star wars , raiders of the lost ark , and the return of the classical hollywood music style by emilio audissino ( university of wisconsin press ) . the neoclassicism of the composer , born 1932 .
precision crash : mjölnir ends up in the middle of the desert as the stinger in one of the iron man movies , nowhere important until thor ' s film itself starts .
the disney company has an extensive film library which i imagine is responsible for the post - mickey works .
a survivor of the great siege of rochester castle fights to save his clan from celtic raiders . a sequel to the 2011 film ,
ironclad .
i won’t beat around the bush . ‘hammer of the gods’ was a slog . a dull and infuriating slog . it takes a subject matter i am interested in and delivers it in such a tedious manner that i contemplated turning it off at least once every minute of its runtime . for some reason the creators felt that our viking protagonists needed to spout phrases such as “go fuck yourself” or that their poorly choreographed fight sequence would go down a treat with a dubstep score… . i… . i just… . ugh . this film drove me to the edge of my patience and then chucked me off . the characters spent half the film walking from one place to the next and that was probably…
an earlier version of these listings misidentified the film “any day now” being shown at the cinema arts center in huntington on sept . 12 . it is the 2012 film directed by travis fine , not the 2009 documentary directed by jeff wyatt wilson .
doing in the wizard : played with . while the comics firmly depict the asgardians as gods who are magical in nature . in the film , asgardians are explicitly aliens , with their powers kept ambiguous . some of it is attributed to advanced technology , but loki ' s powers are explicitly called magic . the asgardians do not draw a distinction between the two as modern humans do .
tech - noir film : a theory of the development of popular genres by emily e . auger ( intellect books , uk ; distributed in us by university of chicago press )
when all you have is a hammer : averted , but definitely worth mentioning partly because thor ' s weapon of choice is a hammer and partly because it ' s part of thor ' s character development . mjölnir is a fine example of a swiss army weapon , able to shoot lightning , return to its wielder ' s hand when thrown , and grant flight , just for starters . the trick is thinking of nonviolent uses for it , which doesn ' t occur to thor at the start of the movie .
figuring the past : period film and the mannerist aesthetic by belen vidal ( amsterdam university press , distributed by university of chicago press ) .
the ‘evil child’ in literature , film and popular culture , by karen j . renner ( routledge )
explores the documentary film and its contemporary media forms to reveal its status as factual , story , art , and political . cowie , a professor of film at the university of kent , addresses the seeming paradox between the pleasures of spectacle in the documentary and its project of informing and educating , through which it creates a new understanding of spectatorship . in the visible evidence series .
i had remarkable assistance from film archives throughout the country , but these are just some of the challenges facing independent scholars who are financing much of their own research .
: thor desperately tries to get his hammer back and his heartbroken when he can ' t lift it , but eventually accepts it . later , when loki sends the destroyer to earth , thor
too dumb to live : a frost giant soldier thinks it ' s a good idea to insult thor as
little princess .
thor responds him by striking the bastard with his hammer .
the rednecks trying to pull out thor ' s hammer act just like horny vikings —they bring on the food and booze , engage in competitions of strength , and laugh uproariously when things go wrong . that ' s a lot of real rednecks for you .
in a crossover phase , german folk music star heino covered well - known rock and pop songs , including rammstein ' s
sonne
( sun ) . in 2013 , the group invited heino to join them onstage at wacken open air . facing 75 , 000 metal fans and flanked by flames and smoke , heino sang together with rammstein - looking slightly startled . the periodical
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tweeted :
did heino know where he ' d landed ?
new austrian film edited by robert von dassanowsky and oliver c . speck ( berghahn books )
. a professor of film studies at concordia university , montreal , discusses “committed” documentary . the book collects for the first time his essays ( 1974 - 2008 ) which relate the media form to the history of the left , and address how the documentary film’s history and aesthetics bears on issues of the democratic performance of citizens and artists . waugh analyzes an international selection of films from the 1920s to the present – from those of the industrialized societies of north america and europe to those of 1980s india . he addresses such canonical directors as dziga vertov , emile de antonio , barbara hammer , rosa von praunheim , and anand patwardhan . includes discussions of lgbt documentary pioneers and the firebrand collectives that changed the history of documentary , such as challenge for change and act up’s women’s collective . in the
merchants of menace : the business of horror cinema ed . richard nowell ( bloomsbury academic ) . essays on horror - film production , style , marketing , and distribution : american horror cinema and horror literature of the late 1960s and 1970 ; how studios shaped zombie films from 1932 to 1946 ; hammer “heritage” horror in 21st - century britain , australian horror , psychiatry’s interventions into the postwar horror business…
the national archives also contain valuable legal records , enabling me to reconstruct in some detail the production history of one lost scottish film , the memorably titled football daft , which was the subject of a breach of copyright action .
hot blooded : thor is very much this , particularly at the beginning of the film . this is why he invades the frost giant world and gets banished .
leading scholars from film - related fields discuss the theoretical and historical contexts of films made about the american past , from silent film to the present . the book offers a fresh assessment of studio era historical filmmaking and its legacy across a range of genres in relation to such topics as giambattista vico’s “age of heroes” and john ford’s the man who shot liberty valance .
not using the z word : none of the asgardians ever claim to be a
god
— and all the modern - day humans seem to immediately categorize them as sufficiently advanced aliens — though odin and volstagg do reference the fact that at one time humans had identified asgardians as gods .
animating film theory ed . karen beckman ( duke university press ) . essays on e . g . neglect of animation .
an associate professor of english and film studies at the university of missouri–columbia ( native recognition : indigenous cinema and the western ) makes the case that smoke signals , a 198 feature film based on a short - story collection by sherman alexie , is a milestone in native american filmmaking . it was the first wide - release feature film written , directed , coproduced , and acted by native americans . it was also the most popular native american film of all time , and an innovative work of cinematic storytelling . she says it embeds , within a universal story of familial loss and renewal , a variety of uniquely indigenous perspectives : about political sovereignty , hollywood’s long history of misrepresentation , and the rise of indigenous cinema . she includes interviews with alexie and director chris eyre , among others , and explores the film’s audiovisual and narrative strategies . she examines the filmmakers’ appropriation of mainstream american popular culture forms to tell a native story . she also considers the production and reception of the film .
set in viking britain in 871 ad , hammer of the gods is a visceral , intense tale set in a world whose only language is violence . a young viking warrior , steinar ( charlie bewley ) , is sent by his father the king on a quest to find his estranged brother , who was banished from the kingdom many years before . steinar’s epic journey across terrifyingly hostile territory gradually sees him emerge as the man his father wants him to be – the ruthless and unforgiving successor to his throne .
a film and media scholar at indiana university and editorial - board member of film criticism examines the notorious 1946 cartoon film’s retelling of the stories of uncle remus . he analyzes the walt disney company film’s reception and relation to race relations over seven decades . the film used cartoon characters and live actors to retell joel chandler harris’s stories . in the movie , a kindly black uncle remus tells tales of brer rabbit , brer fox , and the “tar baby” to adoring white children , and it increased in popularity despite objections to its condescending and outdated depictions of black americans . disney has withheld the film from american audiences since the late 1980s . sperb explains how audience perceptions of sots have reflected debates over race in the larger society . he also explores why and how disney has repurposed and repackaged elements of sots such as the oscar - winning “zip - a - dee - doo - dah” to an enthusiastic fan base .
born on may 5 , 1983 , on the island of jersey in britain & apos ; s channel islands , henry cavill pursued acting as a teen before landing roles in the count of monte cristo and tristan & isolde . he later landed one of the lead roles in the showtime series the tudors and also worked with woody allen in the comedy whatever works . in the summer of 2013 , cavill starred as dc comics hero superman in zack snyder & apos ; s man of steel , reprising the role in 2016 for superman v batman : dawn of justice .
the records of the scottish home department were useful in reconstructing the debate over the sunday opening of cinemas , an ongoing debate across the first half of the century .
the pedagogical imagination : the republican legacy in twenty - first century french literature and film by leon sachs ( university of nebraska press ) . the works of agnes varda , erik orsenna , abdellatif kechiche , francois begaudeau , and others provide insight into french conceptions of national identity and values . sachs emphasizes less “what” literature and film say about education to “how” they say it , and argues that the most important literary and film treatments of french education explore questions of education through experiments with form .
cindy sherman’s office killer : another kind of monster by dahlia schweitzer ( intellect books , dist’d university of chicago press ) a study of office killer , 1997 , the american photographer’s only feature film .
green eyes : loki , in the posters ; ◊ in the actual film , his eyes are blue . he later admits he was envious of thor .
henry cavill is a tv and film actor known for his roles in ' the tudors , ' ' the immortals ' and ' man of steel . '
set in viking britain in 871 ad ,
hammer of the gods
is a visceral , intense tale set in a world whose only language is violence . a young viking warrior , steinar ( charlie bewley ) , is sent by his father the king on a quest to find his estranged brother , who was banished from the kingdom many years before . steinar’s epic journey across terrifyingly hostile territory gradually sees him emerge as the man his father wants him to be – the ruthless and unforgiving successor to his throne .
the black hole of the camera : the films of andy warhol by j . j . murphy ( university of california press )
masculinity and film performance : male angst in contemporary american cinema by donna peberdy ( palgrave macmillan ) .
when i began my doctoral research on czech and slovak cinema , i realized that tracking down films would present a challenge , and i found it necessary to cast my net – whether over the net or elsewhere – as wide as possible . screenings at film archives comprised a significant part , though by no means the bulk , of my viewing . i saw prints at both the bfi in london and the national film archive in prague ( an excellent archive and one of the world’s oldest , though many of its native holdings are of course unsubtitled ) . the libraries of these institutions , along with the library of the czech national film school famu , were also extremely useful as a source of film - related literature .
set in viking britain in 871 ad , hammer of the gods is a visceral , intense tale set in a world whose only language is violence . a young viking warrior , steinar ( charlie bewley ) , is sent by his father the king on a quest to find his estranged brother , who was banished from the kingdom many years before . steinar ' s epic journey across terrifyingly hostile territory gradually sees him emerge as the man his father wants him to be - the ruthless and unforgiving successor to his throne . ( c ) magnolia
a scholar of literature and film ( amorous acts : lacanian ethics in modernism , film , and queer theory ) applies psychoanalytic theory in a study of several films that present elaborate fantasies and prompt the viewer to project private fantasies onto them , including streitfeld’s female perversions , lynch’s mulholland drive , almodóvar’s volver , and haneke’s caché . she argues for taking julia kristeva as an important film theorist .
there had been very little work done on the primary documentation of scottish film or cinema prior to the book , so all sections made heavy reliance on archival resources .
spanish horror film by antonio lazaro - reboll ( edinburgh university press , distributed by columbia university press ) .
a senior lecturer in spanish at newcastle university draws on literature and film , viewed in the context of the variousness of spain’s terrains and their interactions – rural , urban , coastal – to explore modern spain’s sense of its its geographical and spatial understanding of itself .
a volume of essays on the work of austrian and austrian - trained filmmakers . authors contend that despite the accomplishments of filmmakers like of barbara albert , michael haneke , stefan ruzowitzky , and ulrich seidl , austrian film has been under - appreciated , to date , for its politically and aesthetically significant filmmaking over the past decade , achieved despite poor funding . one editor , robert von dassanowsky , a professor of german and film studies at the university of colorado at colorado springs , previous wrote austrian cinema : a history ( 2005 ) , the first english language survey of that nation’s film art . the other , oliver c . speck , an assistant professor of film studies at virginia commonwealth university , has written about narrative strategies and the representation of memory and history in european cinema in such books as funny frames : the filmic concepts of michael haneke ( 2010 ) .
to mark the release of dark relic on dvd and blu - ray april 16th , koch media have given us three copies of the movie to give away on dvd . thor ( zachary ty bryan – the fast and the furious : tokyo drift ) and his companions set out on a journey to discover foreign coasts , striving for fame and honor . but when a scout goes missing on a strange island , the search party meet the terrified inhabitants of the land , terrorised by wild beasts . thor begins to have recurring dreams , telling him to start a quest for the hammer of the gods – a mighty weapon that can save the island . to be in with a chance of winning this great prize , simply click next to be taken to the entry form and question… .
when near the end of the film , thor , sif and the warriors three return to asgard . they stay to look after a weakened heimdall , while thor goes to face loki .
really 700 years old : all of the asgardians would have to be hundreds , if not thousands , of years old . based on the dates given in the film , loki would be 1046 - 1047 years old .
in general , when working on recent contemporary film across different national contexts , the difficult issues concern less questions of access to archives but more so access to film festivals and the difficulty of locating small production and distribution companies to receive copies of films for research , either if they do not enter mainstream distribution at all or before they are publicly available .
isn ' t just a tease but is integrated into the narrative in this film . while in im it looks like maybe a bunch of scientists trying to study
does initially begin the fight by kicking him around , it ' s because thor refuses to fight his brother until loki starts threatening jane foster . at which point , thor tackles him through the bifrost ' s observatory and lays his hammer on his chest .
some interesting archive issues came up . i began working in the russian documentary film archive ( rgakfd , krasnogorsk ) in 2000 while researching the films of [ russian pioneer of political documentary and inventor of cinéma vérite ] dziga vertov [ for the book dziga vertov : defining documentary film , 2007 ] and towards the end of that research , around 2005 , i began to wonder how the many soviet films depicting nazi atrocities related to what we know as the holocaust and whether they were known and recognised by film historians beyond , or indeed , inside , russia .
essays on ways the life and work of jane austen is re - framed and re - imagined in literature and popular culture , including in the bollywood film bride and prejudice .
actor george reeves was best known as superman on the popular 1950s television show the adventures of superman . the series made him a household name , but brought an end to his film career .
while working on the book , i also went to paris , aix - en - provence , and avignon to visit their archives as they related to film , colonial documents , and photographs . i found it immensely enriching to review the archived documents surrounding a burgeoning film culture in colonial việt nam . however , these archival spaces only served to dramatically contrast with the kinds of spaces i visited in việt nam . my archival experiences in việt nam are an index of how film scholarship in the country is underdeveloped and uneven , mired in bureaucratic and financial problems . within a vietnamese context in which world cinema , film books , and even some classic vietnamese films are hard to find , an academic film culture has yet to find firm ground in this postwar country . the myriad conversations i had with students of film and writers and directors in the country only confirm this .
for documentaries on campion and her work , i needed to make use of the new zealand film archive in wellington . the margaret herrick library at the academy of motion picture arts and sciences also holds the screenplays of several of her films , and these are significant , because there are significant differences between the scripts and the eventual films .
averted in the case of the asgardian army which is capable of fighting frost giants perfectly well .
big good : odin is the king of asgard and the highest authority against laufey , the king of jötunheim . the fragile peace between them is the catalyst of the movie ' s plot .
a scholar of writing , literature , and cinema at virginia tech , michael bliss is the author or editor of eight books of film criticism , including justified lives : morality and narrative in the films of sam peckinpah , doing it right : the best criticism on sam peckinpah’s the wild bunch , and dreams within a dream : the films of peter weir .
battle in the rain : thor ' s battle against the s . h . i . e . l . d . agents to recover his hammer takes place on a cloudy night that rains harder and harder the closer thor gets to failure . culminating in a drenching downpour .
an assistant professor of music and new media at utrecht university analyzes the relations of music and sound to the gothic in literature , film , television , and video games – the spectral beings of early cinema , virtual terrors in video games – as well as the goth subculture .
an associate professor emeritus of communication and a professor emeritus of canadian studies at the university of calgary describe the history of film exhibition in the canadian prairie west from the first movie exhibition halls to the digital revolution . theyhighlight the pivotal role of amusement venues as both a social practice and commercial enterprise that shaped the leisure activities of working - and middle - class people across north america , and in particular propelled the canadian prairie west into modernity .
henry fonda was an award - winning american actor best known for him film roles in the grapes of wrath ( 1940 ) and on golden pond ( 1981 ) .
an assistant professor of communication at the university of tampa analyzes film documents of many varieties of music , from rock to experimental video art featuring modernist compositions . he explores links between moving images and musical movement to ask such questions as why performance is offered considered mere skill while composition is afforded the status of art .
cavill , an avid gamer in his off - hours , was playing world of warcraft when he received a call from director zack snyder that he & apos ; d won the part of superman in the christopher nolan –produced man of steel , with a u . s . release in june 2013 . the film co - stars russell crowe as the main character & apos ; s biological father jor - el ( cavill had met crowe as a teen ) , diane lane and kevin costner as adoptive parents martha and jonathan kent , amy adams as reporter lois lane and laurence fishburne as newspaper editor - in - chief perry white .
an associate professor of comparative literature and film studies at the university of california at berkeley examines important moments in japanese arts from the 1960s to the early 1980s , focusing on underground ( post - shingeki ) theater and on related works of experimental film and video , buto dance , and photography during an era of postwar activism and idealism in japan . she emphasizes the sophisticated theoretical grounding of the developments , and locates experimental arts in a sustained dialog with key issues in critical theory .
film festivals : culture , people , and power on the global screen by cindy hing - yuk wong ( rutgers university press ) .
same character , but different : jane foster , a nurse or similar role in most portrayals , is in the film an astrophysicist .
a film - studies scholar at the university of nebraska at lincoln who is the author of such books as 21st century hollywood : movies in the era of transformation ( with gwendolyn audrey foster ) , a history of horror , and film noir and the cinema of paranoia ( all rutgers university press ) , examines the final years of the studio system and such legendary bosses as louis b . mayer and jack l . warner . he assesses the last days of the “rulers of film” – such film - empire moguls as harry cohn at columbia , louis b . mayer at mgm , jack l . warner at warner brothers , adolph zukor at paramount , and herbert j . yates at republic . he asserts that because they made the studios through their sheer force of personality and business acumen , their deaths or departures hastened the studios’ collapse . why ? because almost none cultivated leaders to succeed them because they couldn’t imagine studios without them .
an associate professor of english at george washington university applies insights from neuroscience and communications psychology in a scene - by - scene analysis of four film versions of shakespeare’s play . he seeks to show how the films – by laurence olivier , franco zeffirelli , kenneth branagh , and michael almereyda – rework shakespeare’s play into powerful films by cannily deploying film devices .
wham episode : with the appearance of thor and the destroyer in new mexico , the existence of other worlds is known to the people of earth . the movie also introduces the tesseract , the macguffin of the avengers and an infinity stone , as well as loki , one of the universe ' s biggest villains .
bloodless carnage : when shown the view through the frost - monster ' s now - aerated head , the hole has little to no discernible dripping blood . likewise , thor is surprisingly clean for having flown through there hammer - first . inexplicably , when he flies through , you see a giant gush of gore out the exit wound .
sex scene : media and the sexual revolution ed . eric schaefer ( duke university press ) essays on film , television , recorded sound , and publishing involvement in “the sexual revolution” of the 1960 / 70s — sexploitation , sex - ed film , erotic - film festivals , sexual innuendo on the love boat , gay porn , and other evidence that sex circulated in the public sphere , from the mainstream to the fringe . scholars of cultural studies , history , and media studies highlight the increasingly fluid divide between public and private , the rise of consumer and therapeutic cultures , and the relationship between identity politics and individual rights .
by sean o’connell urltoken hammer of the gods ! marvel’s sequel to last summer’s hit , “thor , ” suddenly finds itself in search of a new director after “ monster ” helmer patty jenkins bailed over “creative differences . ” jenkins was set to replace original “thor” director kenneth branagh , who left to focus on smaller , more intimate fare . in a thr issue due to hit stands on thursday , jenkins – who was set to be the first female director of a marvel studios film – admitted , “i have a long love of superhero films and i’d been saying over and over again to my agents at caa that i’d like to do one . that’s the real revolution . the marvel guys are so brave in terms of who they choose overall , and i don’t think they had any pause about me being a woman . “i met with all the actors and to my surprise ,
essays that examine the exchange of asian identities taking place at the levels of both film production and film reception amongst pan - pacific cinemas . the authors consider films that exhibit “marked transnationality” and also the multiple meanings attributed to transnational films . topics include the innovation of hollywood generic formulas in 1950s and 1960s hong kong and japanese films ; the examination of thai and japanese raced and gendered identity in asian and american films ; the reception of hollywood films in pre - 1949 china and millennial japan ; the production and performance of asian adoptee identity and subjectivity ; the political implications and interpretations of migrating chinese female stars ; and the production and reception of pan - pacific co - productions .
as for “paper archives , ” my 10 essays benefited from the resources of such archives as the museum of modern art , the anthology film archives , the cinémathèque québécoise , the joris ivens archives then housed at the nederlands filmmuseum and more recently at the joris ivens european foundation , the national film archives of india , our own concordia university archive , the national film board of canada – not to mention private collections and community lgbtq archives in montreal , toronto , and san francisco , where one often went for stuff that official archives didn’t collect or hid ( accidentally or on purpose ) . some of these archives seemed underfunded at the time , but no doubt in the era of privatization and cutbacks , the situation may now actually be worse in terms of accessibility and resources – with the internet only partially compensating for the new austerity .
example ; the trailers for the film were regarded by many as somewhat underwhelming , but the scale and acting and dialogue have turned out to be closer to the comics than many feared .
turvey , who is an editor of mit press’s quarterly arts journal october , is also working with nyu’s richard allen on a book about “film and mind , ” examining the tradition of theorizing about their relations . according to a sarah lawrence college statement , turvey and allen “excavate this tradition and point out its flaws , such as the loose nature of the analogies that are drawn between film and mental phenomena . ” they also try “to clarify certain core psychological concepts in film theory , drawing on the ordinary - language philosophical tradition of wittgenstein , austin , and ryle . they define terms such as ‘imagination , ’ ‘see , ’ and ‘think’ – concepts which most film theorists misunderstand and misuse . ”
making a promised land : harlem in 20th - century photography and film by paula j . massood ( rutgers university press )
patrick stewart is an award - winning british star of stage and screen known for his roles in ' star trek : the next generation ' and the ' x - men ' film series .
a professor of english at james madison university and a professor of italian at the university of virginia consider how the study and reception of film has changed with the advent of movies on dvd “contextualized” with “extras” such as commentaries by directors , writers , and actors . the book draws on interviews with dvd producers , directors , and scholars to explore how the format can combine the enthusiasm of a fan , cinematic nostalgia , and scholarly insight . the book includes a chapter on the criterion collection as standard - setter and a case study of the films of atom egoyan .
the ultimate fate of the the destroyer and the casket of ancient winters remains unexplored . presumably s . h . i . e . l . d . took custody of the former while the latter is last seen in the bifröst
it attempts to acknowledge the pain of warfare within the framework of a story that lends it patronizing closure .
the film opens with a shot of a young boy on a beach . he sees a viking ship sailing out of the fog , its sail billowing and its oars out . i did not count them , but it looked like about ten or fifteen oars on each side , so a minimum crew of twenty . this being the case , why did only six warriors emerge onto the cliff top to fight the saxon levies ? for that matter , why was the ship obviously under full sail when the oars were being used too ? these things jarred at the start , and this sense of wrongness continued when the fight began and i noticed that none of the warriors had a shield and that several of the weapons were blatantly anachronistic . the lack of shields is an issue all the way through the film until the very last scene . other issues included the ‘saxons’ dressed like ninjas with skull face masks and the blue - painted cave people at the end . then there was the ignorance of what a runestone was ; steinar had to ask what it was . finally , there are few female characters in the film and almost all are completely incidental to the plot . although advertised as a viking film set in 870 - 71 , this film quite clearly was not that . in reality it is a fantasy quest film and the setting need not have been england in the ninth century , because the events were quite generic with nothing that made it specifically viking in nature .
all there in the manual : half of the characters ' names , a good half of the plot , and all of the mythology come from the ancient norse legends . subverted , in that most of it isn ' t canon in the mcu .
cavill also signed on to star as cia operative napoleon solo in guy ritchie & apos ; s remake of the man from u . n . c . l . e . , with an august 2015 u . s . release . the spy drama , set in the 1960s , co - stars armie hammer , alicia vikander and hugh grant .
two of those , both of which the society has restored , are the passing of the oklahoma outlaw and daughter of dawn . the first is a four - reeler made in 1915 by a u . s . marshal named bill tilghman , mostly because he and his fellow lawmen were upset with a film spawned by one of their local outlaws , al jennings , called beating back .
an associate professor of english at carnegie mellon university draws on literature , film , and other realms in what claims to be the first book to explore the role of the railway in the indian imagination since colonial days – as a transformative technology , a rational utopia , a moving box in which racial and class differences might be amalgamated under a civic , secular , and public order . she views the ubiquitous railway as a symbol of the tensions of indian modernity , from gandhi’s nineteenth - century tour in a third - class compartment to the recent cinematic shenanigans of wes anderson’s the darjeeling limited . she studies the partition of india , labor relations , rituals of travel , works of literature and film , visual culture , and the mumbai train bombings of 2006 to identify incongruities she terms “counternarratives of modernity” that present a microcosm of tensions within indian modernity .


fatal contact : bird flu in america is an abc two-hour tv movie which first aired may 9 , 2006 in which an american businessman visiting china is infected and carries the deadly mutated bird flu virus back via jetliner to the usa , soon it spreads throughout the country then the rest of the world .

before the movie ends , riots erupt , armed mobs try to hijack vaccines and authorities predict that up to 350 million people will die worldwide . "

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fatal contact : bird flu in america : 3 out of 10 : this movie is both funny and sad . the funny part is fairly obvious as this certainly isn ' t a sober look at a possible impending . . .
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fatal contact : bird flu in america ,
a made - for - television movie tonight on abc , imagines what could happen if bird flu mutated into a virus that was transmitted easily from human to human : millions die , the economy collapses , people riot , and there is almost nothing to be done .
may 10 , 2006 ( cidrap news )  the creators of the fictional abc - tv movie
fatal contact : bird flu in america
blended medical facts from the 1918 influenza pandemic with current predictions from flu experts to portray a contemporary flu pandemic , but they added a liberal dash of sensationalism .
ordinary american citizens rally , but
fatal contact
does not have a disney ending . just as the pandemic is beginning to slow in the united states , dr . varnack is summoned to angola to track a new and even more lethal strain of bird flu .
joely richardson , right , as a top epidemiologist dealing , somewhat vacantly , with a bird flu pandemic .
fatal contact
is not very elegantly filmed , but some scenes cannot help being striking : one night governor newsome sees garbage trucks dump piles of bodies , wrapped in plastic bags , into a giant landfill .
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fatal contact
is a may sweeps movie , not a public service message , so it is hardly surprising that it errs on the side of armageddon , but that does not mean it is irresponsible . it is a soberly and compellingly told tall tale , and quite alarming .
it is comforting to know that even in a global pandemic of flu , the french can be faulted .
most of the film ' s other assumptions are grim but not preposterous . its worst - case scenario led flu experts to express concern that the film was sensationalist and could needlessly panic viewers . but
fatal contact
is not harebrained science fiction . as many as 50 million people died in the 1918 spanish flu epidemic . there are plenty of experts who say that the strain of avian flu known as a ( h5n1 ) could mutate and spread efficiently among humans . in real life , scientists have said publicly what one movie epidemiologist says to another after the first human case is diagnosed :
it ' s not a question of if , but when .
a highly contagious , rapidly killing hemorrhagic mutation of bird flu slaughters people in hongkong . preventing its spread is virtually hopeless , as soon is proved in a us country village , which is strictly quarantined by the military . the white house prefers to ' prevent panic ' , even overrules zealous governor mike newsome and reneges earlier emergency plans .
an outbreak of avian flu mutates into a virus that becomes transmittable from human to human .
fatal contact
portrayed a number of difficulties and dilemmas that public health planners are envisioning now as they prepare for a pandemic . some examples include the necessity of rationing vaccine and ventilators , overwhelmed hospitals , the use of overflow hospitals , shortages of healthcare workers as staff members stay home to care for their families , shortages of ordinary drugs and medical supplies , such as insulin , and food shortages caused by disrupted transportation systems .
an american businessman on his way back home to virginia from hong kong becomes infected with a mutated bird flu strain which is now transmittable from human to human . american authorities attempt to contain the virus before it ' s too late . starring joely richardson , scott cohen , justina machado
ok , we need a protagonist , someone who can stand toe - to - clawed foot with our avian death - overlords . our heroine is a genetic scientist and one of the world ' s leading experts in bird flu ( that ' s helpful ) . her name is not important , but she looks like ann coulter and favors cashmere blouses and trendy soho jewelry . she ' s played by joely richardson , one of those
hollywood names
whose resume is not nearly as impressive as her familiar - sounding name . the doctor , as she will be known , is at the top of her game , fully knowledgeable in all things bird flu and well connected in political circles . she ' s also a frigid control - freak with intimacy issues , spurning lasting relationships for casual sex and distancing herself from any displays of empathy or care .
corpse management will be a real concern [ in a pandemic ] , but i can ' t imagine under any condition we would put bodies in the back of a truck and dump them in ,
said osterholm .
i have been researching the avian h5n1 flu for quite a while now , and was impressed with this film ' s accuracy .
secretary stacy keach now dies from the flu . gasp ! even rich and powerful white men can die ? oh no , this
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first off , i am fighting a cold today , so this movie done scared the poo out of me . by the time it was over , i was sure i had bird flu , and after spending the next three hours on webmd trying to find out if my persistent cough was the first sign of my lungs liquefying , i had just made myself sicker . i guess that ' s what makes for a powerful film , something that causes such a visceral reaction in the viewer , so in that respect this movie was awesome .
smilin ' bob then goes back to his idyllic suburban family in richmond , virginia and proceeds to infect everyone around him with this incurable killer virus . he eventually dies a horrible , blood - splattered death on the sales floor of a wal - mart , but not before he ' s spread his germs around town , to his family , his friends , his coworkers , even his mistress with the big hooters down in yorktown . smilin ' bob is patient zero , the typhoid mary of bird flu , and ground zero is the commonwealth of virginia .
but , sadly , that evil little chinese girl will have the last , cackling , blood - curdling laugh , stabbing us through the heart one last time with her jonas brothers pencil . the stinger is the doctor in sweltering equatorial angola , where the bird flu has mutated into a 100 % killer strain that snickers in the face of any vaccine , and now the fate of the human race is sealed . the closing credits roll with the ominous sight of a flock of infected birds flapping over the verdant jungles , surely heading off to kill off the rest of humanity .
in the early days grocers scandalously increase prices : a pound of coffee sells for $ 19 . within a few weeks supermarket aisles are as barren as russian stores in soviet times .
more bad news as the governor ' s child dies from the flu , even though he was sequestered in the bunker . the governor now sees the error of his ways and lifts the ( pointless ) quarantines in his state . he then visits a dumping ground for corpses , a powerful scene staged late at night ( though stolen from
the doctor goes to rural china to check on reports of the initial outbreak there ( this is before smilin ' bob comes home ) . quickly , her fears of a killer global flu are realized as it ' s learned that the virus has jumped from animal to human and on to other humans ( which means that this new strain is unknown to medical science and therefore ultimately dangerous to us all ) . she suggests rigorously isolating the town where it started , to cut off all contact with the residents , and hope that maybe this will stop the virus from spreading ( in vain , it seems ) .
in new york a nurse named alma ansen ( justina machado ) finds herself overwhelmed working at a makeshift flu center consisting of tents erected at the bottom of a subway station . her husband , curtis ( david ramsey ) , a national guardsman , is redeployed to new york from iraq to maintain order in the panic - stricken city . in richmond denise connelly ( ann cusack ) , the widow of patient zero , becomes a community organizer , helping stranded neighbors find scarce help and provisions .
the illness in the american businessman who has the first us case in the film clearly resembles the illness that struck many in 1918 . after fits of violent coughing , he suddenly collapses on the job , blood streaming from his nose . he later dies of acute respiratory distress . at his autopsy , a cdc doctor says ,
he coughed so violently he tore apart his abdominal muscles . he basically drowned in his own blood .
meanwhile , in fort lauderdale , fla . , the country ' s top epidemiologist , dr . iris varnack ( joely richardson ) , is in a black slip , smoking a post - coital cigarette and warning her lover not to expect much follow - up .
i ' m better in small doses ,
she tells him .
to steal a quote from my favorite band , it ' s the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine ( actually , according to this movie , if i had the bird flu , i ' d feel like shit , i ' d have
body aches so intense i would feel like my bones are breaking
and would be
coughing so violently that i ' d tear apart my abdominal muscles and my rib cartilage , and basically drown in my own blood
) . the nurse is part of a team of medical professionals treating flu victims who are massing in an ad - hoc hospital set up in a subway station ( a stunningly great visual image as the camera follows her down the escalator into the teaming morass of blood and mucus below ) . this is third world medical service , with no medicines , no machines , no sterilization , just helping hands and tearful eyes . the doctors and nurses can do little but try and comfort the dying and remove the dead .
our show starts in rural china with a young girl hiding her infected chickens from local cops who are rounding up everyone ' s roosters and hens to contain a suspected bird flu outbreak . as it turns out , little peggysue ' s chickens have the dreaded h5n1 bird flu virus and it ' s mutated where it can jump from animals to humans for the first time . as such , the first prime carrier is this seemingly innocent little schoolgirl , and all of what we see next is clearly totally her fault . her conscious decision to shack up with poultry will be the cause of a wave of untold death and destruction like the world has never seen , and she may very well be doing it on purpose for some nefarious reason known only to that unique demographic that likes hannah montana and pepperoni pizza rolls . i believe that she is the fifth horse ( wo ) man of the apocalypse , though as a ten - year old girl i ' m sure she ' ll be riding a sparkly talking unicorn with chiffon wings and a rainbow saddle , and beneath her quaking , paisley pink hooves humanity will be ground into dust .
in the drama , h5n1 avian flu begins to spread from person to person in china , signaling the start of a pandemic . an american businessman contracts the virus and brings it back to his home in virginia , where he spreads it to others before falling desperately ill . soon , cases are spreading across the united states . as panic spreads , the governor of virginia quarantines neighborhoods where cases have cropped up , and federal officials confess they have no vaccine and scant supplies of antiviral drugs . major socioeconomic disruption sets in , with shortages of food and medical supplies , power outages , and riots in the streets of new york . eventually ( after countless numbing commercials ) , the pandemic begins to subside . but in the final scene , the discovery that the entire population of an angolan village has died heralds a new mutation of the virus and a second wave of cases .
the bird flu is really beating up the world hard now , tens of millions are already dead , that number increasing at an insane rate daily . society is breaking down , economies are collapsing , and the very fabric of civilization is unraveling rapidly . the general mood is despair and terror , as everyone is sure this is the end of days . but , hey , relax , we ' ve been through this before , right ? the black death took away half of europe , but they survived , right , hell they even prospered . sure , the spanish flu killed 50 mil , but medical science back then was primitive , with today ' s technology that 1918 outbreak would have been easily contained .
he dies not long after he returns to his wife and children in richmond , va . , and becomes patient zero in a public health emergency so vast that no federal agency , state or community is even remotely prepared to handle it .
the doctor goes to see the governor of virginia in his command bunker to talk with him about the flu outbreak in his state and his response . she preaches to him about how his harshly - imposed isolation of infected neighborhoods in richmond is a terribly bad idea because it ' s a violation of peoples ' basic human rights to live free , make their own choices , and count on each other for help . hmmm . . . wasn ' t she all gung - ho for isolating that chinese town back in the beginning ? seems odd that she ' s now all
protect human rights
when before she was all
surround the town with an electric fence
.
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by now , the bird flu is popping up in isolated outbreaks all over the usa ( thanks , smilin ' bob ! ) . it ' s shaping up to be the worst case scenario of all worst case scenarios , the epidemic sweeping away all the carefully laid - out contingency plans and earnestly crafted operational guidelines . there ' s no vaccine , no hope , no time to react , no pause to allow the huge , ungainly machine that is the medical and pharmaceutical communities to come to grips with the fact that people are dying by the thousands hourly and there ' s nothing in their arsenal to fix it . governors band together to call for their national guard troops to return from overseas deployments ( best bit ) . did i mention that this is all that girl ' s fault ?
the 200 - plus human cases of h5n1 that have occurred over the past 3 years have been severe as well , of course , but just how closely the movie portrayal resembles them is not clear from our perspective . in any case , in depicting a 1918 - like illness , the producers deliberately chose a worst - case scenario . while disease experts agree that a flu pandemic is inevitable sooner or later , they don ' t believe it will inevitably be as severe as in 1918 . even if the h5n1 virus is the pathogen , in acquiring the ability to spread from person to person , it could become less virulent . the other two 20th century pandemics , in 1957 - 58 and 1968 - 69 , were far milder than 1918 . the fact is that no one knows how severe the next pandemic will be .
this is an excellent , well acted well thought out film . the scenarios are very real . i cannot help but surmise that when a major flu pandemic hits , we will react much the way . . .
a good movie that shows how pandemic diseases spread expotentially . as the movie progressed it became rather unrealistic and inconsistent in certain areas .
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i felt this was very well done , it did not pull any punches . it show what could very well happen if , not if but when a flu like this happens . a lot can be learned from this film .
u . s . officials scramble to maintain order and confront catastrophic results when a deadly strain of avian flu mutates into a global pandemic . joely richardson , stacy keach , justina machado , ann cusack . directed by richard pearce .
the end of the film , in which an entire angolan village appears to have been wiped out , is another example of sensationalism . osterholm , who previewed the film but was not involved in it , commented in a news conference this week that the scene
looks like the jonestown massacre , not something caused by infectious disease .
a 100 % fatality rate would be highly unlikely with any virus . in fairness , the producers told the new york times that the scene was meant to show a village that was emptied by a combination of evacuation and disease .
the governor of virginia , mike newsome ( scott cohen ) , decides he wants to be
proactive
and puts endangered neighborhoods in quarantine and barricades his staff and family in a guarded , bio - secure location that dr . varnack dismisses as a
fortress of solitude .
forget about hitchcock ' s birds , because in this made - for - television disaster film an outbreak of the dreaded avian flu mutates to cause a worldwide pandemic that will shake the very foundations of modern society . the worst case scenario has finally become a reality . born in hong kong and gradually adapting the traits which allow it to transfer from human to human , the avian flu causes mass panic as tens of millions of men , women , and children rapidly succumb to the its ravaging effects . as panic sweeps through the streets and entire cities are quarantined , humankind will discover that the dreaded black death of the 14th century was merely a minor precursor to the virus that would decimate the entire planet as it threatens the very existence of the human race .
[ editor pam : i ' ve heard medical experts say that in both those cases , the majority of deaths could have been prevented by modern medicine . of course , if modern sanitation had been in effect at the time of the black death , it probably wouldn ' t have happened . ]
premise : u . s . officials scramble to maintain order and confront catastrophic results when a deadly strain of avian flu mutates into a global pandemic . joely richardson , stacy keach , justina machado , ann cusack . directed by richard pearce . ( more )
the disease shown in the film , aired may 9 , bore a strong resemblance to the illness that killed an estimated 675 , 000 americans in 1918 and 1919 . and a good many of the issues raised came straight out of the us government ' s pandemic preparedness plans and recent news stories about possible pandemic scenarios . but some scenes and details went well beyond what happened in 1918 or what is plausible today . and along the way , important medical details were left out .
this one is right on the money . we have already seen this happen but not to the extent thats shown in the movie . it is a very real possibility
the governor , by the way , will end up playing a major role in this movie , getting just as much screen time and meaningful dialogue as the doctor .
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i watched this movie for the first time as a requirement in a microbiology class . i was pleasantly surprised how well made the movie was . my son was small at the time & hated shots - 3 hrs in the dr office to try to get them . he watched this movie with me and at the end said
mommy can i get my flu shot tomorrow
. this movie explains & showcases how easily a pandemic can happen , what could happen even with emergency preparedness , and leaves you with a sense of
wow . . .
to realize that once you think you have a hang on things - viruses mutate . all these years later i ' m still telling people about this movie . i was disappointed it ' s not offered in digital format but was thrilled i could still find it .
the production also gave birders and conservationists reason to complain . it began and ended with scenes of wild geese in flight , implying that wild birds are the main carriers of the h5n1 virus around the world . this question is hotly debated , but most experts would probably say that both wild birds and poultry handling practices play a role in spreading the pathogen .
a virus with no cure . a threat with no borders . a nation with no chance of escaping h5n1 , the avian flu . when a mutation of the virus is discovered in a local marketplace , china sends an emergency summons to dr . iris varnack ( joely richardson ) of the epidemic intelligence service . when she arrives , she discovers her efforts may be too late - an american businessman has become the first victim of a strain that is passed from human to human . as the flu begins its insidious spread , secretary of health and human services collin reed ( stacy keach ) races to combat the ensuing chaos . the victim ' s wife , denise connelly ( ann cusack ) , does what she can to help other infected people . it wasn ' t supposed to happen this way - until it did .
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an american businessman flies to hong kong . in guangdong province in southern china , soldiers storm an outdoor market , forcibly confiscating chickens from terrified peasants . the american visitor negotiates production rates with a manager on a factory floor ; a worker on the assembly line coughs . by the time the american is relaxing on the long flight home , his germs are spreading from paper napkin to martini olive to sleeve .
let ' s meet the nurse ' s husband , a big strapping soldierboy called back from iraq to do homefront duty in flu - ravaged nyc . they have some genuinely sappy couple - moments as they reconnect and share their fears and concerns about their uncertain future . there is some real on - screen chemistry here , and it wouldn ' t surprise me at all if they ended up dating after the film wrapped ( i hear that sort of thing is common in hollywood ) . the soldier wants his wife the nurse to stay home , worried that her job at the hospital is too dangerous , but she ' s dedicated to saving lives . as is he , clearly , and he knows she ' s only doing what he himself would do .
france is the first country to develop a vaccine , but its leaders refuse to share the patent ; finally , after the international community threatens sanctions , the french surrender . however gratifying , that fantasy is one of the sillier conjectures in the film . france would have no reason to prevent other countries from reproducing the vaccine , and even if it did , nearly all countries have laws that allow them to violate patents in emergencies .
for those interested in medical and epidemiologic details , the film left some major questions unanswered . there was no indication of the case - fatality rate , for one thing . it appeared that only two characters who had the disease survived ( the son of the businessman , and a soldier who got sick while in iraq ) , which implied a very high fatality rate . but no clear information was given . nor was there any indication of the age distribution of cases . was it the typical pattern , with the very young and very old most affected ? or did the illness hit young adults the hardest , as occurred in 1918 ? it wasn ' t clear .
[ editor pam : it ' s a dramatic movie , but in real life , plagues that kill people this quickly also tend to burn out quickly , because their carriers die too fast to spread the disease effectively . ]
another example was the film ' s grimmest scene , in which dump trucks back up to a large pit and dump mounds of shrouded human bodies into it . this too may have been inspired by the 1918 experience . in that pandemic , the city of philadelphia was overwhelmed by the number of corpses , and mass graves were used for a time . but there is no record of bodies being unceremoniously dumped , and such a scenario seems inconceivable today .
the 1918 pandemic produced similar reports : people collapsing suddenly , coughing up blood , and autopsies revealing lungs clogged with fluid , the imprint of the
cytokine storm ,
or immune system overreaction . the businessman ' s copious nosebleed might have seemed sensational , but it had a basis in fact .
the nosebleed was described in 1918 ,
said michael t . osterholm , phd , mph , director of cidrap .
they made it fairly extreme .
you know , i have to agree with the governor on this , he should totally isolate any infected areas while he still has some semblance of order in richmond . i don ' t have any problem with the government taking over in a crisis situation , this is why we pay taxes , and i have an expectation that my duly - elected representatives will do whatever needs to be done to preserve the union , even if it means sending troops into the streets and ringing an infected housing complex with barbed wire and claymores . in almost every situation imaginable that involves large - scale organization and execution of plans , the government / military do a vastly better job than us regular citizens ( suck it , ron paul ) . soldiers have the leadership , training , and material wherewithal to handle mega - crisis situations , plus they get inoculations by the gallon every year and their immune systems are surely better suited to survive in a flu outbreak . the government , both state and national , has the authority and command and control systems needed to do everything needed better , be it routing supplies to hard - hit areas to keeping the lights on and the trains running . i ' m all for temporarily giving up my constitutional rights if it means keeping society from collapsing . hell , stamp me with the mark of the new world order right now .
it is true that it showed almost like a documentary ; and i liked that about this movie . many disaster movies focus on several troubled relationship and the main theme of the disaster is only a back drop ; not so with this film . after watching this movie , i actually felt that i knew more about avion flu and how various government agencies might deal with the problems that develop .
the sex and tobacco are sweeps red herrings , however : once her pager goes off , dr . varnack is on her way to china to check out reports of human - to - human transmission of the avian flu . by the time she is summoned to washington by the secretary of health and human services , collin reed ( stacy keach ) , she has no good news to share .
visiting that very factory that very day is an american businessman , who looks frighteningly like smilin ' bob , the guy from all those enzyte male - enhancement commercials . smilin ' bob rolls in and throws his import company - given weight around , talking down to the chinese managers , issuing vague threats of cancelled orders and un - reimbursed warehouse expenses , and has the audacity to explain the just - in - time inventory system to them like they are children . thankfully , he gets infected by the dad .
on the vaccine front , the movie made a bad situation look even worse . it depicted the government as having no vaccine at all at the outset of the pandemic . in reality , the government is stockpiling a
pre - pandemic
vaccine based on the h5n1 virus . the supply is small , and studies have shown it takes two large doses to generate an adequate immune response , which occurs in only about half of those vaccinated . but this vaccine would probably be better than nothing if a pandemic began today .
her dad gets the flu but still does his shift at the local bottle factory . he is hacking and coughing all over everyone , not even having the common courtesy to cover his mouth with his sleeve or keep his germy egg salad sandwich off the break room table . this is why you have sick hours , so that you don ' t give other people your illnesses , in the long run you ' ll be saving the company much more costs from lost man - hours if you just stay home and get well before coming back to work ( i have this conversation all the time . . . ) . but if he did that , i suppose we wouldn ' t have much of a movie .
another scene in the film has armed men trying to seize a van carrying a supply of vaccine , only to be shot by soldiers . that looked extreme , but osterholm found it conceivable .
i don ' t think that one was necessarily unreal ,
he says .
serious now ! before , when it was just poor people and minorities ( and . . . shudder . . . foreigners ) , it was bad , but you know , not too bad , but now the flu is killing off well - connected princeton - educated white men who sip brandy and attend charity balls at the met . all is indeed lost ! the doctor even sheds a tear , the first actual sign that she ' s not a cylon cyborg .
the doctor then flies back home and meets with health and human services secretary stacy keach in washington to discuss the flu outbreak ( which she predicts will be here soon ) . it ' s a media circus , as a worried public is demanding both answers and solutions from the government , and they can ' t offer anything more constructive than
remember to wash your hands !
. i really thought this movie was going to make the government the bad guys , cardboard cut - outs of evil power - hungry politicians with unscrupulous agendas , but much to my surprise the majority of the governmental officials we see really truly care about what happens to the citizens of the country . they are shown as sympathetic and proactive , if understandably concerned about their own districts as well .
people were , you know , not white americans . having the heroine be a racist would certainly add an original note to a tv movie , but i bet this movie isn ' t going to go that far . this attitude of hers is probably just a sop to civil libertarians in the audience . ]
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the film begins with a flock of migrating geese in flight , their wings flapping to ominous hitchcockian music . ( this is not your parents '
birds .
) the film then locks on to a handful of central characters whose entwined experiences define and track the pandemic . some survivors are more resilient than others , but most overcome despair and rise to the occasion .
in some scenes , the movie clearly went over the top . one was the governor ' s decision to quarantine some neighborhoods behind chain link and barbed wire , an obviously futile measure with the pandemic well under way .
i can ' t imagine any elected official doing that ,
said osterholm .
i think pressure would be brought to bear by other government leaders
to prevent it .
meanwhile , the rest of world is beginning to die , though it ' s only seen through tv news reports playing in the background of scenes . i do appreciate the small - scale focus this movie takes , concentrating just on the outbreak ' s effects on richmond and new york city . it gives us a more intimate feel for the apocalypse than if they had tried to do location shoots scattered all over the place .
the long and lean ms . richardson (
nip / tuck
) looks terrific in a white hazmat suit , but her low - key , almost blank affect is a bit odd for the role . the stilted dialogue does not help .
there ' s going to be a long and brutal ordeal that will rip apart the fabric of society ,
she warns . dr . varnack is on the front line of the worst crisis of the 21st century , but most of the time she seems stoned .
off to new york city now to meet the nurse , a cute latina woman who will be our secondary female lead . her hospital is swamped under with sick / think - they ' re - sick people , they are out of everything , and half the other nurses have quit , but she ' s still trying to do what ' s right , still clocking in everyday and saving lives the best she can . her very human reactions to the death and dying all around her serve to balance out the cold , analytical detachment of the doctor . and she has pretty hair .
) . maybe i ' m heartless , but i ' m still of the ( admittedly unpopular and possibly heinous ) opinion that what the world needs is a serious thinning of the population if the environment is ever going to be allowed a chance to heal itself . i ' m a closet eco - terrorist and a firm believer in overpopulation being the number one danger to our planet ' s long - term survival , and i ' d be out there on the frontline of the fight against mankind raping mother nature if i didn ' t have to be at work at seven tomorrow and if i didn ' t have tickets to
to further swell our hearts with hope and encouragement , we hear that the nurse and the soldier are going to have a child ( yay , though who would want to have a baby in such an environment of loss and devastation ? ) . she surprises him with a book of baby names , and he surprises her with a candlelit dinner and an impromptu salsa dance on the rooftop while sappy music plays and strands of christmas lights twinkle . and this little ray of sunshine , this little green shoot of life , is the scene this movie should end with . a tear - stained reminder that , no matter what troubles befall us , love and family will endure .
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this tv movie is well worth watching especially if you are a disaster movie fan . the movie shows events from several points of view ( a nurse , soldier , politician , a family and a pandemic expert ) and builds on most of the characters quite well . the acting is acceptable as is how the story flows , the ending is clearly left that way to allow for a follow - up tv series which obviously did not go ahead , so does have a feeling of wanting it to continue to conclusion but the movie does progress far enough to make this a stand alone story . certainly thought provoking and one of the more believable and credible potential disasters that could occur .
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this movie was more of a documentary with several unrealistic scenarios . it was heavy on scary without being really scary .
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we were all going to die ( or at least that ' s what katie couric kept telling us ) . i was expecting a hokey crap - fest , but even with such a sensationalist title ,
turned out to be a really engrossing and well - made movie . the actors are uniformly good , the script is surprisingly free of most typical disaster movie awfulness , and the production quality was top - notch . sony pictures threw some money at this one , you can tell , and i had to struggle to find things to poke at to make an amusing review . how did i do ?
hi , i ' m the heroine , don ' t mind me , i ' m just going to sit over here , coolly detached from any real human emotion .
chinese doctor gives her the grim news that it ' s out of control .
nice to see they are still hitting the liquor stores , even as the world burns down around them , better than stealing tvs .
we need some action here , so we get a short scene of the soldier and his squad protecting a convoy of food and medicine as it works its way through the violent , deserted concrete canyons of manhattan . they are ambushed by a group of gangsters who wear baggy pants and like to hold their pistols sideways like tupac told them to , but they are no match for the soldiers and their training and discipline ( and their full - auto machineguns ) . this is actually a very well - done combat scene , and it seems that the soldiers are not just actors playing with guns , but maybe even men with real military training ( just an observation , and maybe untrue , but i ' ve watched enough crappy movies to tell the difference between a squad of soldiers who are just a gaggle of temp - worker extras who ' ve seen too many rambo movies , and a squad made up of former active duty infantrymen who have had some actual experience with firearms and small - unit tactical training ) .
for next friday night . honestly , caring about things is such a chore , who has the time ?
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at the very least , abc ' s disaster movie will encourage viewers to wash their hands more often .
we believe the ultimate global loss of lives could reach as high as 150 or 350 million ,
she says .
from then on , the film ticks off an exponential death toll . by week 2 , 157 have died worldwide . by week 12 , the number reaches 12 . 5 million .
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with : joely richardson ( dr . iris varnack ) , stacy keach ( collin reed ) , ann cusack ( denise connelly ) , justina machado ( alma ansen ) , scott cohen ( gov . mike newsome ) and david ramsey ( curtis ansen ) .
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