into the badlands is a 1991 american western horror film , released directly to tv .

it stars bruce dern , mariel hemingway , and helen hunt .

the film was directed by sam pillsbury and written by dick beebe , marjorie david , and gordon t. dawson .

it was nominated for a 1992 primetime emmy in cinematography for a miniseries or a special ( johnny e. jensen , director of photography ) .

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the cast of amc ' s martial arts drama into the badlands gets into the action with these new gallery photos .
the story continues when into the badlands returns for season 2 tonight on amc .
into the badlands premieres on amc in november . check out the first trailer below :
into the badlands airs sunday nights at 10 p . m . on amc .
into the badlands is a television series that airs on amc . [ 4 ]
into the badlands q & a — aramis knight ( m . k . )
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tonight is the season 2 premiere of ' into the badlands ' on amc . meet the cast here .
into the badlands received an expanded 16 - episode season 3 order last april for premiere in 2018 .
promotional image for amc’s action - adventure series “into the badlands” featuring daniel wu as the main protagonist , sunny .
yep . i thought so too . do you feel like into the badlands has found its audience this year ?
the third season of
into the badlands
is coming and the martial arts drama is getting more episodes than before . the renewal was announced after
into the badlands
season 2 episode 6 aired . so far , there is still no official news about the plot .
there are no featured audience reviews yet . click the link below to see what others say about into the badlands : season 2 !
amc has given den of geek an exclusive first look at the photos , which took a giant trampoline to pull off . click through the gallery above to see the cast of into the badlands literally jump into action .
watch full episodes of into the badlands on urltoken and amc apps for mobile , xbox one , apple tv , roku and chromecast .
this season has been gorgeous looking besides that . into the badlands ’ visual aesthetic has crystallized so well this year . all the colors are popping .
into the badlands ' deadliest clipper opens up about his journey so far and what lies ahead for america ' s premiere martial arts program .
into the badlands
is a genre - bending martial arts series very loosely based on the classic chinese tale journey to the west . in a land controlled by feudal barons , into the badlands tells the story of a great warrior and a young boy who embark on a journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment .
former rosewood co - star lorraine toussaint is set as a new series regular in the third season of amc ’s hit martial arts drama series into the badlands .
at comic con , the cast and creators of into the badlands revealed what can be expected from the six - episode amc series . below are bullet point highlights from the conversation and the first trailer .
amc’s martial arts drama series “into the badlands” to premiere sunday , november 15th at 10 : 00 p . m . et / pt - amc networks
into the badlands joins a 2018 scripted roster at amc that also includes both walking dead series and humans . the cabler ' s slate also includes the terror , the son , preacher and better call saul .
midway through its second season , amc has renewed its hit martial arts drama series into the badlands for an expanded 16 - episode season 3 for premiere in 2018 .
is the war coming to an end ? find out the fate of the badlands this sunday at 10 / 9c . on
amc just confirmed
into the badlands
season 3 and many fans are eager to know more about the coming season . with little explanation , what can fans expect from season 3 ?
miles millar and alfred gough , the co - creators and executive producers of into the badlands , discuss the final showdown between sunny and quinn , bajie’s true goals and how season 3 will be even bigger .
into the badlands
is an american action drama series starring wu who plays sunny , a character trying to make his way back to his family . season 2 is still currently airing on amc .
into the badlands
season 3 ' s release date is still unspecified . however , it is slated to get a total of 16 episodes .
from the very beginning of the first season finale of into the badlands , it’s clear that sunny has a plan . he delivers the head of someone he’s hoping looks like m . k . to the river king in exchange for passage out of the badlands . what isn’t clear , though , is whether such a shoddy plan will actually work .
into the badlands is produced in - house by amc studios and has helped amc collect four of the top five scripted dramas on cable , with better call saul joining it and both walking dead series .
what’s the story for the first season of into the badlands ? per ep miles millar “into the badlands is set sometime in the future of america after a mass extinction event . the world has gone through a new dark age and emerged as a feudal society divided into seven territories . each territory is run by a baron . the baron has an army of fighters – clippers – who keep the peace . the story focuses on the most powerful baron quinn , his family and the most badass clipper in the lands – sunny . the story is sunny’s journey when he meets a young boy named mk who has a special power and a connection to his past . ”
when you think of the post - apocalypse , the lush greenery of the irish countryside probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind , but for into the badlands season 2 , it’s the perfect setting to expand the world of alfred gough and miles millar ‘s vibrant martial arts series . while fellow amc series the walking dead paints a portrait of a grimy , urban post - apocalypse , into the badlands is set in a world regressed to feudalism and power earned through combat , complete with fortresses and courtly style .
when wu and csokas are off - screen and people aren ' t kicking each other in the face , into the badlands is deadly dull . and even when they are , you keep waiting for the next fight to break out .
it ' s not perfect , but into the badlands ' second season is a major improvement , juxtaposing martial arts sequences with intriguing drama ( and some much - needed laughs from nick frost ) .
maybe we ' ll figure out how old bajie really is in the process . that would be nice . anyway , after having completed two seasons and going into a third season with a boosted episode count ( congratulations , by the way ) , how is into the badlands different now than it was when you originally pitched it ?
marton csokas as quinn : the most powerful baron in the badlands , who spent his youth patrolling the badlands and killing . once a great fighter , he now reigns in power , and nobody who crosses him lives to tell the tale . [ 10 ]
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pilgrim is a zealous warlord from beyond the badlands looking to recover a mysterious artifact from azra . read full bio
waldo , now working with the widow , wants to leave behind a better world than the one he was born into . read full bio
if you ' re a martial - arts fan , you won ' t be disappointed . dramatically , into the badlands is all dressed up with places to go . whether it will arrive offers reason to watch .
season 3 of into the badlands finds sunny living off the grid , doing his best to provide for his infant son , henry , in the wake of veil ' s death . it is only when henry contracts a mysterious illness that sunny must join forces with bajie and journey back into the badlands , where the widow and baron chau are entrenched in a drawn - out war that has destabilized the entire region . no longer supported by tilda or waldo , the widow must find new allies in lydia and in nathaniel moon — the former regent who lost his hand to sunny and bajie in season 2 . but when a mysterious nomadic leader called pilgrim arrives in the badlands on a mission to restore azra and usher in a new era of
peace ,
old enemies must band together to defend the badlands .
into the badlands was created by executive producers / showrunners / writers alfred gough and miles millar and is executive produced by stacey sher and michael shamberg , along with david dobkin , stephen fung , michael taylor and daniel wu .
now entering into this dystopia - saturated media landscape , into the badlands , mixes martial arts and samurai film aesthetics into this gritty & bleak genre . created by al gough & miles millar ( smallvile ) , the story focuses on sunny ( daniel wu ) , a fearsome martial artist , who rescues a teenage boy ( aramis knight ) from a group of murderous nomads . the world has now regressed into a feudal state , ruled by cruel barons – the most fearsome of whom , quinn ( marton csokas ) enslaves and trains young boys into killing machines . his most prized pupil , of course , is sunny . but when sunny begins to question quinn’s motives and saves the young boy , it puts the two men on a path towards inevitable conflict .
toussaint had been in demand since she recently became available following a two - season stint on fox’s procedural drama r osewood . she fielded film tv and theater offers , ultimately sellecting into the badlands for her next tv series gig .
i’ll truly miss “into the badlands” when the second season is over —and to whet your appetite for the season finale , we’ve got an exclusive clip featuring lydia ( orla brady ) and quinn ( marton csokas ) , spouses and scrappers who just can’t seem to quit each other .
sunny and bajie seek help from lydia . the widow struggles to control m . k . pilgrim seeks to establish a new order in the badlands .
quinn makes decisions on loyalty . tilda seeks veil ' s help for the widow . m . k . and sunny face the consequences of their quest to leave the badlands .
a reformer and revolutionary , the widow has big dreams for the badlands that she isn ' t afraid to fight for with deadly force . read full bio
despite this , the series has been having some difficulty with ratings . since its pilot episode in 2015 ,
into the badlands
is only getting half of the average viewership it had back in season 1 . although this has been happening for some time now , amc remains to be hopeful about the series .
it ' s not a surprise that the drama got a third season with its massive popularity . amc reported the average viewership of the series at 3 . 6 million per episode .
into the badlands '
ratings are one of the highest recorded in the cable drama category , with the series only falling behind
the walking dead ,
fear the walking dead
and
american horror story
at no . 4 .
as “ into the badlands ” prepares to wrap things up for 2017 , the best news about this show , which ends its second season on sunday , is that it’s already confirmed to return in 2018 . by ordering a 16 - episode third season recently , amc delivered a vote of confidence to an underrated drama that absolutely and unequivocally earned one . “ into the badlands ” improved significantly from its promising first season , and at the moment , very few shows bring me more pleasure on a weekly basis . it’s a joy to behold .
it ' s gotten stronger for that . this season has truly been a step in the right direction , i feel . so i read a recent interview in which you discussed how into the badlands was created to emphasize the spiritual side of martial arts . do you feel this is now better reflected in the characters themselves ?
the widow and her daughters prepare for war , while veil offers quinn some hope . sunny trains m . k . and secretly plans an escape from the badlands .
one big problem with badlands is its punishingly dour tone , utterly devoid of humor or any fleeting moments of lightness .
last week i had a pleasant surprise : an interview daniel wu of into the badlands . as someone who has reviewed the show since it began airing , i jumped at the chance to pick his brain about how the show has matured this season , what ' s ahead for us next year , and how sunny ' s journey will change .
indeed , the badlands team sees the first season as something of a primer on the world of the show , and with season 2 , into the badlands can be fully unleashed as it explores that world with much more depth . “it was six episodes for people to understand the world and the tone and the characters . there was a lot for people to understand , ” he said . “this season , with the move and with more episodes has allowed us to really expand the show and make it more of a journey show , which was always our intention . it was never supposed to be a ‘stuck on a plantation’ show . but you need to understand the world and that’s why at the end of season 1 , we sent sunny in one direction and m . k . in the other direction and left the badlands in kind of a mess . ”
for the second season , into the badlands picked up production and moved from new orleans , louisiana to dublin , ireland , where i had an opportunity to visit the sets , speak with the cast and creative team , get an up - close look at the widow’s ( emily beecham ) gorgeous gowns , and see them in action as we observed filming on one of the series signature fight scenes . as with all things in the entertainment industry , the move was partially driven by financial incentives , but it also offered the right landscapes for season 2’s expanded story , which takes us out of the badlands and deeper into the show’s world as sunny ( daniel wu ) struggles to make it back to vail ( madeleine mantock ) and their newborn child . according to wu , the new locations give the show a “grand and epic cinematic feel . ”
loosely based on the chinese tale journey to the west and set in a land controlled by feudal barons , into the badlands tells the story of a ruthless , well - trained warrior named sunny ( daniel wu ) and a young boy , m . k . ( aramis knight ) , who embark on a journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment .
sunny and m . k . fight to escape quinn ' s grip once and for all , while the baron ' s enemies conspire to take him down and change the badlands forever .
from the narrative point of view , gough said they were also intent on tying the fight scenes into the story more naturally , with less of a stop - start feel between the drama and the ass - kicking , “i think what we’re doing this year is the fight sequences are more intertwined with the storytelling . this season , it’s a lot more intertwined in the action and the story . ”
halfway through its second run , into the badlands has been averaging 3 . 6 million total viewers including a 2 . 1 rating among adults 25 - 54 when factoring in three days of delayed viewing . all told , the series from creators al gough and miles millar ranks as the no . 4 scripted drama on cable as well as the fourth - ranked returning drama , behind only the walking dead , american horror story and fear the walking dead .
with bajie shackled to him , sunny faces a terrifying foe . meanwhile , m . k . takes an uncomfortable journey into his own history .
moved from the louisiana to outside the leafy hills of dublin , ireland for season two , giving the show a unique and diverse backdrop . at the end of a long set visit , the evening chill was coming in as a group of reporters watched the bundled - up cast file into the pool room of a vacant resort turned film studio to shoot promotional images for the upcoming season .
as “into the badlands” prepares to wrap things up for 2017 , the best news about this show , which ends its second season on sunday , is that it’s already confirmed to return in 2018 . by ordering a 16 - episode third season recently , amc delivered a vote of confidence to an underrated drama that absolutely and unequivocally earned [ … ]
“ into the badlands looks like nothing else on television , a literal high - wire act attracting passionate and dedicated fans by the millions , ” said amc president charlie collier . “thanks to series creators and showrunners al gough and miles millar , the terrific cast , led by daniel wu , the amazing martial arts team guided by the incomparable master dee dee and fight directors stephen fung and andy cheng , and everyone else involved who brings this thrill ride to the fans . ”
“we are excited and grateful to continue our journey into the badlands with charlie , joel , susie and all of our friends at amc , ” said gough and millar . “we also want to give a big clipper salute to our irish and chinese partners ! the thought of doing an expanded 16 - episode season is both thrilling and exhausting ! ! ”
season two of
into the badlands
finds sunny and m . k . separated and scattered to the wind , each imprisoned in unlikely places . while m . k . struggles to control his powers , sunny is determined to fight his way back into the badlands to find his family or die trying . on their journey , clipper and colt are assisted by mysterious , new allies whose motivations may be anything but pure . meanwhile , the widow continues to consolidate power against the other barons , while a dark and mysterious threat prepares to exact revenge on them all . alliances are struck , friendships betrayed , and by season ' s end , sunny and m . k . ' s lives will be forever altered with devastating consequences .
amc expressed their excitement over the coming season , with the president of amc , charlie collier , saying ,
into the badlands looks like nothing else on television , a literal high - wire act attracting passionate and dedicated fans by the millions . thanks to series creators and showrunners al gough and miles millar , the terrific cast , led by daniel wu , the amazing martial arts team guided by the incomparable master dee dee and fight directors stephen fung and andy cheng , and everyone else involved who brings this thrill ride to the fans .
into the badlands is filmed hong kong style , which means the choreography is doled out in tiny , bite - sized pieces as they’re filming , so the actors never have to memorize any lengthy routines . they simply have to do as they’re directed on the day , one block of movement at a time , guided by fight choreographers and coordinators who watch every move to make sure it is strong and steady . sometimes that means another take with the wrist held at a slightly different angle , or making smoother transitions , moving in one full motion . the hong kong style is both easier for the actors and keeps the choreography from feeling stale . the folks on badlands never know like their anticipating punches , because they can’t .
“‘into the badlands’ looks like nothing else on television , a literal high - wire act attracting passionate and dedicated fans by the millions , ” said charlie collier , president of amc , sundancetv and amc studios . “thanks to series creators and showrunners al gough and miles millar , the terrific cast , led by daniel wu , the amazing martial arts team guided by the incomparable master dee dee and fight directors stephen fung and andy cheng , and everyone else involved who brings this thrill ride to the fans . ”
we are excited and grateful to continue our journey into the badlands with charlie , joel , susie and all of our friends at amc , ” gough and millar said in a joint statement . “we also want to give a big clipper salute to our irish and chinese partners ! the thought of doing an expanded 16 - episode season is both thrilling and exhausting ! ! ”
a boy with mysterious powers is rescued by badlands clipper sunny , who is having doubts about what he does , despite being close to a powerful baron .
stephen harber is the editor and co - writer of occult generation . he used to work as a bouncer at a bar called badlands so this show has special meaning to him . kind of .
it may be strange to experience such positive emotions while watching a show about a post - apocalyptic world , but the tone of “into the badlands” has never been one of nihilism or despair . every single character on the show wants something , and though they may use underhanded methods — and ferociously precise fighting styles — to further their goals , their desires usually revolve around not just power and autonomy , but also personal connections and emotional bonds .
into the badlands
is set centuries from now , where a feudal society has emerged and the strongest and most brutal rose to wealth and power . this area came to be called the badlands , and is divided among seven rival barons who control the resources necessary to daily life and enforce their rule with the aid of loyal armies known as clippers . clippers enjoy status and comforts the general population can only dream of , and they are willing to sacrifice their lives in service to their barons . few clippers ever live to see their 30th birthday , but sunny ( daniel wu ) is no ordinary clipper . demonstrating lethal proficiency in martial arts , sunny rose swiftly through the ranks to become quinn ’s ( marton csokas ) head clipper and most trusted adviser .
if you loved bruce lee , the old tv series kung fu , the matrix , kill bill , road warrior and untold others i ' m probably forgetting , then you ' ll love the genre mashup
into the badlands .
i thought the ads were boring , but after seeing the first two episodes , it ' s pure epic tv . oh , and best of all , given the times , they banned guns in this futuristic post - apocalyptic society so everybody is highly trained with knives and swords . and with an asian in the lead role , cinema - level fight scenes , what ' s not to love ?
into the badlands
is set centuries from now , where a feudal society has emerged and the strongest and most brutal rose to wealth and power . this area came to be called the badlands , and is divided among seven rival barons who control the resources necessary to daily life and enforce their rule with the aid of loyal armies known as clippers . clippers enjoy status and comforts the general population can only dream of , and they are willing to sacrifice their lives in service to their barons . few clippers ever live to see their 30th birthday , but sunny ( daniel wu ) is no ordinary clipper . demonstrating lethal proficiency in martial arts , sunny rose swiftly through the ranks to become quinn ' s ( marton csokas ) head clipper and most trusted advisor .
the show looks incredible . the directors and directors of photography on “into the badlands” have outdone themselves this season — and not just because the show changed countries without missing a beat ( it’s now filmed in ireland after shooting its first season in louisiana ) . “into the badlands” uses color with thoughtful intent and to fantastic effect ; each baron has his or her signature hue , and even the monastery had its own palette ( scenes of initiates doing martial arts drills beside a waterfall while wearing purple robes are still etched on my memory ) . not since “mad max : fury road” has a post - apocalyptic world looked and felt this thought - through and wildly , riotously , strangely evocative . an orange - hued junkyard ; the saturated jewel tones of the widow’s mansion ; the cool , icy blues of baron chau’s satin ensembles ; the rich green of a maze contrasted with the intense red of a man’s well - cut coat ; the wintry , surreal flavor of an abandoned hotel decorated long ago for the christmas holiday : all these images will linger long after the season is over . as was the case with “penny dreadful” ( which was also shot in and around dublin , as it happens ) , this is a world that you can lose yourself in so thoroughly that it’s easy to forgive the occasional weak subplot or dull character .
while the show hasn ' t improved on every flaw from the first season , the change in scenery , the shifting balance of power and the generally increased scope of the series all result in a more compelling post - apocalyptic drama .
i actually feel like this season is the real season and last season was like the extended pilot . it was the backstory .
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for decades , quinn has been unchallenged as the badlands’ most powerful baron , but the territory’s newest baron , the widow ( emily beecham ) , has begun staging brazen attacks on quinn’s transport vehicles and is testing his appetite for a fight . one of those attacks leads sunny to m . k . ( aramis knight ) , a teenage boy who has survived a deadly ambush . sunny soon comes to understand that the teen harbors a dark secret and has a hefty bounty on his head . as the widow continues her campaign against quinn , the destinies of the stoic assassin and the impetuous teenager become intertwined . in their evolution as teacher and student , each will discover his true purpose ; together , they will embark on an odyssey that could mean the difference between chaos and enlightenment for everyone in the badlands . [ 5 ]
for sunny , that quest is deeply personal and one that puts him in the kind of dire straights he’s never faced before . a trained fighter since his youth , sunny has lived as the right - hand man to his baron as a fearful warrior known as a clipper , with all the luxuries that accompany such a status . but sunny was captured in last year’s finale and starts off the new season as a slave in the territories outside the badlands .
“i almost look at season 1 as the backstory or the extended pilot , where it sets up the world and this season we start to see the outlying territories and inside the badlands , ” said wu , echoing gough’s sentiments on the show’s newly expanded world . “we added some elements like nick [ frost ] that adds levity to the show that helps compliment the martial arts and all the other stuff that happens . but this season , things are much more broken up and all the characters are spread out . everyone’s got different storylines going on and it’s kind of a way to set up the climax of the end of the season . we’re all trying to get there and there’s a real journey this season and a real quest to make this happen . ”
for decades , quinn has been unchallenged as the badlands ' most powerful baron , but the territory ' s newest baron , the widow ( emily beecham ) , has begun staging brazen attacks on quinn ' s transport vehicles and is testing his appetite for a fight . one of those attacks leads sunny to m . k . ( aramis knight ) , a teenage boy who has survived a deadly ambush . sunny soon comes to understand that the teen harbors a dark secret and has a hefty bounty on his head . as the widow continues her campaign against quinn , the destinies of the stoic assassin and the impetuous teenager become intertwined . in their evolution as teacher and student , each will discover his true purpose ; together , they will embark on an odyssey that could mean the difference between chaos and enlightenment for everyone in the badlands .
as per the norm in science fiction , into the badlands will comment on the social issues of today . “you have brutality and inequality , ” millar stated “the barons are the one - percent and everybody else is the ninety - nine percent… the reason to do science fiction is so that it reflects our present times . so the show has a lot of big themes . one is power and what that means in this world of have and have - nots . but it’s about spiritual emptiness . it’s a guy who’s basically sick of doing what he’s doing which is killing . what’s my point in life ? is there more to it than this ? the idea of people escaping from what they’re doing feels like a universal theme . we have elements that reflect the brutality of isis . people who are misled in life , who believe things they shouldn’t believe…”
ag : we’ve actually just started the writers’ room this week . the good news is there really are a lot of stories to tell . we’ve left people in very interesting situations . we can really dive deeper into the characters and into the world and styles of fighting . it allows us to explore characters that we wouldn’t normally get the time to explore even in a 10 - episode season . season 2 was great , but there were so many things we wanted to do but you only have so much screen time . there are so many different things we want to showcase and we’re looking to make it even bigger and better than season 2 .
i noticed . the emotions are coming through during the fight scenes now more than ever .
daniel wu is an actor , director , and producer based in hong kong . he made his acting debut in 1998 , and since then , has gone on to star in over 60 films . wu was born in berkeley , california , and began playing sunny in into the badlands in 2015 . the actor splits his time between hong kong , shanghai , and beijing , and trains in a variety of martial art forms . he married his wife , who is from south africa , in 2010 . ( getty )
it isn ' t the greatest show : it ' s campy , the politics can be dull , and the acting is often stilted and awkward . but the action is consistently incredible .
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mm : we wanted the last shot of the show to be epic and there is no more epic location in the world than the cliffs of moher , which is the west coast of ireland . it was something i saw as a tourist and thought was amazing and had to have it on the show . if we were going to shoot in ireland , we had to showcase ireland . luckily , we planned it for months . we had to get special permissions to shoot that because it’s such a popular tourist attraction . we had the weather on our side because the winds there are notorious and people get blown off those cliffs ! getting a helicopter up there and getting that shot was no small feat , but it was worth it . what we’re looking forward to in season 3 is really exploring more of ireland , more epic locations and really showcasing the landscapes that are a big feature of into the badlands .
back at the fort , jade is recovering from her sickness , and lydia is by her side . it looks like the two are really bonding until quinn storms into the room and says that jade was poisoned and that it was lydia who did the deed . she staunchly denies it , but considering quinn found poison in her room and the “rumors” that have plagued her ever since quinn’s previous wife died , she doesn’t have much of a case . still , considering the slight smile jade gives her on the way out , it would seem she’s being framed .
for example , the moon and sunny fight , to me , was a metaphorical fight more than anything else . it was about two representations . one represents that [ sunny’s ] given into destiny . moon tried to break free of his destiny , but it drew him back in and he’s trying to tell me that the same is going to happen to me but i don’t believe that yet . so we’re on two different levels and we’re fighting each other with that mentality . i think that’s why the fights have a little more impact this season because they’re tied into characters fighting rather than just one guy annihilating a bunch of faceless dudes .
this period drama follows robert the bruce ' s battle to regain control after being made an outlaw by the king of england for taking the scottish crown .
its women kick butt , look great while doing so , and get to be as flawed as anyone else . i would probably kill ( or at least maim ) for the widow’s wardrobe , or for a chance to live in baron chau’s minimalist - regency mansion . and by the way , these women aren’t token ladies in a man’s world : there are important storylines for female characters all over this show , and none of them put the women in the boring position of having to act like aspirational role models . the women come into conflict with each other , strike up alliances , have romances , and make mistakes , just like anyone else . and like the men in this world , they have to be willing to fight and kill , and they occasionally betray each other . i do wish for stronger writing for sunny’s lover , veil ( madeleine mantock ) , who has been mostly limited to pining and reacting to quinn’s evil plotting all season . but in general , this is the rare action - adventure hour that does not turn the women’s quests and storylines into sloppy afterthoughts . you never know , the widow could end up ruling the entire badlands — or under the thumb of either quinn or even baron chau . in any event , i look forward to seeing even more smart development for most of the characters next season — women included .
let’s talk about the city of azra for a minute . there’s this lost - esque mystique about it ( and the book ) that appeals to me and a large portion of your fanbase . the way season two left off , it seems like we ' re closer than ever to gettng some answers . obviously we’re going to see more of this side of the show developed next year , but i ' m just wondering - can you give us any insight into what the actual heck is going on ?
which is strange to me , especially with having the walking dead as a lead - in . i tell people about it . lately i’ve noticed that it’s starting to slowly come into their awareness . they say , “oh yeah ! you ' re talking about that kung - fu show , right ? ”
mm : i really love the moon fight – it’s spectacular – and the parkour fight in the junkyard [ in episode 5 ] with the bus was a really fun one because it’s a different tone for us .
per millar : “everybody in the show’s universe is ambiguous in terms of their morality . there are no clear - cut heroes . “the ‘hero’ of the show has killed over four hundred people . in the pilot he kills fifteen people . in the second – he kills thirty . the show doesn’t deal with black and white…”
knowing it’s a martial arts show , some people get turned away from it . then they realize , oh there’s much more to it than that , and then they get back into it . hopefully that helps turn a bunch of other people who aren’t necessarily martial arts fans onto the show . i don’t think
the season 3 premiere : sunny and bajie go undercover on the widow ' s frontlines , seeking passage to a possible cure for henry . tilda confronts the widow .
enough action to satisfy martial arts fans but the story lacks any logic to justify the show ' s existence .
the hyper - stylized martial arts drama has been renewed for a third season , the cable network announced tuesday .
after an epic fight with the widow , tilda forges a new identity as the iron rabbit . read full bio
drama vs . fighting ? “we want the drama to be of equal importance to the martial arts . the drama should be just as compelling as the martial arts . they should all tie in together . ” director david dobkin compared the mix to conducting a symphony . there needs to be ebbs and flows between the action and story beats . lead daniel wu added if the show was just action all the time , it would become “white noise . ”
so it was like veil died at the end of the first episode and sunny goes on this revenge thing , right ? that totally changed . we drew it out over the course of two seasons , basically . i think it’s much better for that . we were trying to make a really sizzly pilot episode with a lot of stuff happening , to make the studio want more of us . but when we got the six episodes they told us we didn’t need to pack all that stuff into one episode , so then we drew it out over those six episodes and later over the second season as well .
ag : my favorites are the sunny - moon fight in episode 3 , the tilda - widow fight in episode 9 and then the final bunker siege with the sunny - quinn fight and bajie facing off against quinn’s number 2 .
' s favorite words towards the end of a take to the lead actors were
fabulous
and
beautiful
.
sunny works with the river king to secure passage to pilgrim ' s fortress . the widow faces mutiny from discontented troops .
on july 11 , 2014 , it was announced that amc gave a straight - to - series order to the then tentatively titled badlands , based on the classic chinese tale journey into the west , written by al gough and miles millar , and set to be executive produced by gough , millar , daniel wu , stacy sher , and michael shamberg . on november 24 , 2014 , david dobkin was announced as the director for all six episodes , as well as serving as an executive producer . as well as emily beecham ' s casting as the widow , sarah bolger as jade , and oliver stark as ryer . on december 19 , 2014 , daniel wu was announced as the lead character , sunny . on january 22 , 2015 , orla brady joined the cast as lydia . on april 15 , 2015 aramis knight was cast as m . k . , madeleine mantock as veil , and ally ioannides as tilda . on may 4 , 2015 , marton csokas was announced to be portraying quinn .
it stars an asian man as both the action - adventure hero and the romantic lead . the stereotypes that hollywood typically employs when it comes to asian characters are still , unfortunately , pervasive . there are a few exceptions like “master of none , ” but in the main , asian men are relegated to roles like the sidekick , the fourth detective on the team , or the one - dimensional tech geek . occasionally , they get to play a criminal or a silent killer , and that’s usually about it . “into the badlands” — which , it should be noted , has been very successful from a ratings standpoint — knew from the start that wu could bring his effective presence to bear on almost any kind of scene , and efficiently capitalized on it . sunny gets to be a fighter , a lover , a schemer , and the kind of complicated hero who , despite his blood - soaked past and his literal and figurative scars , can’t help but rescue less powerful people along the way . and because the show itself can be intentionally melodramatic and metaphorical , wu’s subtlety and quiet intensity are even more effective as balancing factors . and it’s not just that sunny gets all kinds of romantic and heroic storylines : this is a show that tends to be effortlessly inclusive on screen , and executive producers and showrunners miles millar and al gough deserve a lot of credit for that .
it’s really interesting the kind of audience we’ve drawn to us . when we’re live tweeting stuff it’s cool to see we’re reach out to people in africa and south america and all these places that love this show that we never really thought of because the first incarnation of the show , the idea was to put hong kong style martial arts on american television . we didn’t realize how much effect it would have globally . but also locally as well . it’s different types of people that get into this show . i mean we have the most diverse audience and the most diverse cast . al , our showrunner , said , “we’re probably one of the only shows that has equal amount of trump supporters as bernie or clinton supporters . ”
al gough : when we started the season , we knew we wanted to kill quinn at the end of the season . that was on the board early on . the veil death was something that came later in the season as we were looking at it . interestingly , it had kind of been foreshadowed through the whole season . moon and all these people tell sunny that if he goes back , he’s going to bring death to his family . this season for sunny has been this journey back to the badlands , but also through his own personal hell as well and trying to make amends for the killer he’s been . it felt like he had to pay a price . he gets veil for a minute and then she’s taken away from him and he’s left with the baby . he gets out , but there is a price he pays for his sins , and we see it . it’s heart - breaking when she’s gone .
speaking of which , i thought tilda had died at the end of that fight . in fact , i wrote that she bit the dust in my review of the episode . . . whoops .
while traversing the wilds , sunny and bajie cross paths with a formidable swordsman . the widow draws up plans for a critical confrontation .
the younger brother of baron chau , gaius becomes a reluctant player in his sister ' s war against the widow . read full bio
regent sunny , a highly - skilled fighter and the deadliest
head clipper
for baron quinn battles the nomads to rescue a mysterious boy named m . k . who harbors a dark secret about his past . but when he brings him back to the fort to train as a
colt
, a clipper - in - training , things quickly get out of hand with another trainee . when first blood is drawn , m . k . loses control of himself as if something takes over his body , making the boy valuable to an opposing baron , the widow . meanwhile , sunny discovers m . k . ' s pendant has the same image as the one on his childhood compass of a place called azra , the boy ' s home . in order to seek out the truth about his own past , sunny wants to know more of this city beyond the badlands , and must find a way out , especially now that his lover veil is illegally pregnant with his child .
how does the limited number of episodes ( six total ) affect how they approach the series ? “we look at the six episodes as a mini season or super pilot , where you’re able to set up the world , meet the characters [ as they begin their ] journey and hopefully leave the audience coming back for more , ” gough stated . millar added : “the aim is for people to watch this week to week on amc . if they hear word of mouth , people can then go and watch this — the four and half hours — in one night . it will be a very satisfying meal . though in the end , there will be loose ends that will be wrapped up in future seasons… there’s very much a cliffhanger at the end of the season…
yeah . the show is bloody and violent and all that stuff , but we’re also trying to show the spiritual journey , the spiritual side of martial arts . it’s not all about fighting . it’s not about the brutality of it all . that’s only one aspect of martial arts .
the widow , beecham’s ferocious but ever - charming and fashionable baroness , remains intent on claiming control of the badlands and bringing an end to the caste system of feudal law . “she’s still driven by that same rhetoric that she was in the first season , but things are advancing for her and she’s gaining more power and traction with her forces becoming stronger . ” said beecham , “people are starting to take her more seriously . so she’s trying to break that division between herself and barons and cogs and clippers and trying to help people recognize that there could be a different and alternative future and system . ”
nah fam , if this the future , let me perform seppuku now and be reincarnated in the horizon zero dawn future , yo . bordeaux mines aka the third year of a trump presidency is terrrrrrrrible , fam .
first of all , i just want to mention that season two finale was incredible . definitely the most cinematic episode of the series so far .
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definitely . actually , when we ' re [ training ] in the fight camp , i started to go for a different approach with the actors , because they aren’t originally martial artists . i told them while they were training to think about themselves as the characters . instead of saying “i’m ally” , or “i’m emily” , trying to do these kicks , like right now , you’re not ally , you’re not emily . you’re the widow , and that sidekick you’re throwing is to quinn right in the stomach . imagine that . do all those things . so in the training i add a level of acting to the training to the martial arts as well so they would have an emotional tie - in to what their actions were . then they tie in the emotional arc of the character with the way they fight .


around the world in 80 days is an australian 48-minute direct-to-video animated film from burbank films australia .

it was originally released in 1988 .

the film is based on jules verne 's classic french novel , around the world in 80 days , first published in 1873 , and was adapted by leonard lee .

it was produced by roz phillips and featured original music by simon walker .

the film imitated brb internacional 's spanish 1981 series , la vuelta al mundo de willy fog , in its use of anthropomorphic animals in the human roles .

the copyright in this film is now owned by pulse distribution and entertainment and administered by digital rights management firm nutech digital .

around the world in 80 days ( 1988 film )

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around the world in 80 days is an australian animated film about mr . phileas fogg and the young passepartout .
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around the world in 80 days is one more fore my collection , it is getting bigger with ever disc . thank you susan ann mary
araki describes the basis for part 3 as like a board game , traveling between a series of stops ; and further inspiration from the film around the world in 80 days . [ 2 ]
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1963 saw the release of the three stooges go around the world in a daze .
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phileas fogg’s journey ‘around the world in 80 days’ is one of those ultimate travel classics that has inspired a whole host of other journeys , trips and books . among the ones are :
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a furry version of jules verne ' s classic adventure story of a british gentleman ' s challenge to circumnavigate the world in 80 days .
to win a bet , an eccentric british inventor beside his chinese valet and an aspiring french artist , embarks on a trip full of adventures and dangers around the world in exactly 80 days .
but what is the original story actually about ? well it is about time to give you the full lowdown on the original and ever - inspiring ‘around the world in 80 days’ story by jules verne .
title around the world in 80 days year 1957 distributor ( s ) united artists corp . ltd classified date ( s ) 02 / 05 / 1957 submitted run time 187m 46s approved footage 16899 bbfc reference aff003121
the day the film had its premiere at the ziegfeld — aug . 12 , 1988 — hundreds of picketers were there . so were several television news crews .
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the legend of jules verne’s story keeps inspiring people and the use of the name ‘around the world in 80…… . . ’ keeps growing and growing . some of the more original takes on the name include :
at the reform club , fogg gets involved in an argument over an article in the daily telegraph stating that with the opening of a new railway section in india , it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days . he accepts a wager for £20 , 000 ( equal to about £1 . 5 million today ) from his fellow club members , which he will receive if he makes it around the world in 80 days . accompanied by passepartout , he leaves london by train at 8 : 45 p . m . on wednesday , october 2 , 1872 , and is due back at the reform club at the same time 80 days later , saturday , december 21 , 1872 .
' last days in the desert ' finds truth away from the path the most intelligent and engaging film about jesus since the last temptation of christ , rodrigo garcia ' s film finds jesus in the desert , where he faces doubts from within .
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around the world in eighty days ( french : le tour du monde en quatre - vingts jours ) is a classic adventure novel by the french writer jules verne , published in 1873 . in the story , phileas fogg of london and his newly employed french valet passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20 , 000 wager ( roughly £2 million today ) set by his friends at the reform club . it is one of verne’s most acclaimed works .
ewan mcgregor plays both jesus and satan in rodrigo garcia ' s last days in the desert .
following the book’s 1873 english translation ( by towle and d’anver ) , many people tried to follow in the footsteps of fogg’s fictional circumnavigation . the first one to successfully circumnavigate the world , following phileas fogg’s fictional route in under 80 days , was nellie bly in 1889 .
passepartout hurries to inform fogg , who reaches the reform club just in time to win the wager . fogg marries aouda and the journey around the world is complete .
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phileas fogg accepts a wager to prove his contention that a man can go around the world in 80 days . after betting his entire fortune , he takes his new butler ( a man hoping for a quite life ) on a tour of the world . however , just before the time he leaves , the bank of england is robbed and a detective believes that fogg is the guilty party and he sets out after him .
a victorian englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days .
fours years ago near the canary islands , a trio of treasure hunters bring up a casket bearing the engraving name
dio
around dusk . when the ship was found days later , only the empty coffin remained .
a victorian age english gentleman takes a wager that he can circle the globe in the unprecedented time of just eighty days .
in 1988 michael palin became a mondern day phileas fogg when he attempted to retrace verne’s imaginary journey in a tv - series for the bbc . he tried to stick as close as possible to the original jules verne route and in the end – amidst a whole lot of set backs and unplanned adventures – managed to accomplish the journey in 79 days and 7 hours !
in 1994 , when delegates from around the world gathered in cairo for the international conference on population and development , representatives from developing countries protested that a baby born in the united states will consume during its lifetime twenty times as much of the world ' s resources as an african or an indian baby . the problem for the world ' s environment , they argued , is overconsumption in the north , not overpopulation in the south .
ewan mcgregor plays both jesus and satan in rodrigo garcia ' s last days in the desert . gilles mingasson / broad green pictures hide caption
from 1988 to 1989 , [ 1 ] the story follows jotaro kujo and his friends as they journey from tokyo to cairo to save his mother ' s life by defeating his family ' s resurrected archenemy , dio .
basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him . riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you . …
what is worsening is the discrepancy in income between the wealthy and the poor . although world income measured in real terms has increased by 700 percent since the second world war , the wealthiest people have absorbed most of the gains . since 1960 the richest fifth of the world ' s people have seen their share of the world ' s income increase from 70 to 85 percent . thus one fifth of the world ' s population possesses much more than four fifths of the world ' s wealth , while the share held by all others has correspondingly fallen ; that of the world ' s poorest 20 percent has declined from 2 . 3 to 1 . 4 percent .
last days in the desert is the most intelligent , engaging film about jesus since the last temptation of christ . like martin scorsese ' s epic , which some christian leaders declared
blasphemous
upon its 1988 release , the movie invents a version of its hero not based on scripture , one who is allowed to express doubt and anger and , in general , act human . it is much smaller in scope : it meets jesus near the end of his 40 days of fasting and praying in the judaean desert , at the moment when satan appears to tempt him into straying from his path . throughout the film , we never see any sign that god is listening , that jesus ' path is indeed righteous , or that satan is anything but a hallucination brought on by the heat and lack of nourishment . there are no easy answers in the desert .
she managed to do the journey within 72 days , meeting jules verne face - to - face in amiens ( france ) along the way . her book
a film told through extended shots of various worldwide events , settings , and creatures , creating a dreamy , universal resonance .
consumption in industrialized nations
has led to overexploitation of the resources of developing countries ,
a speaker from kenya declared . a delegate from antigua reproached the wealthiest 20 percent of the world ' s population for consuming 80 percent of the goods and services produced from the earth ' s resources .
animated version of jules verne ' s classic novel . a victorian english gentleman , phileas fogg and his valet make a bet that they can circumnavigate the globe in only 80 days . they travel by almost every form of transport possible at the time , whilst being chased by an english detective who is convinced that fogg has robbed the bank of england .
jules verne ' s classic adventure is redefined in this animated version . phileas fogg , an english lord , has just become the main suspect in a daring bank robbery . meanwhile , he has made a wager with several other lords that he will be able to travel around this world in a mere 80 days . joined by his butler , passepartout , fogg begins his journey . however , hot on his heels is a detective from scotland yard , mr . fix . through the savages from the wilds of india to the pioneers in america , their journey is one filled to the brim with adventure , but mr . fix is quickly catching up and intends to cut fogg ' s adventure short .
the world resources institute , in a 1994 - 1995 report , referred to
the frequently expressed concern that high levels of consumption will lead to resource depletion and to physical shortages that might limit growth or development opportunity .
examining the evidence , however , the institute said that
the world is not yet running out of most nonrenewable resources and is not likely to , at least in the next few decades .
a 1988 report from the office of technology assessment concluded ,
the nation ' s future has probably never been less constrained by the cost of natural resources .
documentary about one man ' s round - the - world solo yacht race in 1969 and his mental descent as he sailed the globe .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…
in his new film , “silence , ” he returns to a subject that has animated his entire life’s work and that also sparked his career’s greatest controversy : the nature of faith .
alice stumbles into the world of wonderland . will she get home ? not if the queen of hearts has her way .
even john stuart mill , one of the principal authors of utilitarian philosophy , recognized that the natural world has great intrinsic and not just instrumental value . more than a century ago , as england lost its last truly wild places , mill condemned a world
the film had been pilloried by conservative christians for a dream sequence in which christ has sex with mary magdalene . in depicting christ’s life as a doubt - ridden struggle between his human and divine natures , scorsese had intended to make a film that was at once an act of doubt and an act of faith . in the novel he was reading , the priest was shown profaning an image of christ , and yet the act was an act of faith .
the world has the wealth and the resources to provide everyone the opportunity to live a decent life . we consume too much when market relationships displace the bonds of community , compassion , culture , and place . we consume too much when consumption becomes an end in itself and makes us lose affection and reverence for the natural world .
in his film , the heroine is so appalled by the snobbish behavior of her friends that she joins in a plot to murder them and disguise the deaths as suicides . what sets
heathers
apart from less intelligent teenage movies is that it has a point of view toward this subject matter - a bleak , macabre and bitingly satirical one . i imagine the film will indeed shock some adults with its cold - blooded treatment of death among the young , but after having weathered the eight - part
friday the 13th
series and countless other dead teenager movies , i have grown so hardened to the sight of adolescent movie corpses that this film seems only a little more cynical than most .
according to thoreau ,
a man ' s relation to nature must come very near to a personal one .
for environmentalists in the tradition of thoreau and john muir , stewardship is a form of fellowship ; although we must use nature , we do not value it primarily for the economic purposes it serves . we take our bearings from the natural world - - our sense of time from its days and seasons , our sense of place from the character of a landscape and the particular plants and animals native to it . an intimacy with nature ends our isolation in the world . we know where we belong , and we can find the way home .
teenagers don ' t have any trouble with it ,
the film ' s director , michael lehmann , has said of the movie .
it ' s always adults that are shocked .
this statement is intended , i assume , in praise of teenagers .
aquaculture produced more than 16 million tons of fish in 1993 ; capacity has expanded over the past decade at an annual rate of 10 percent by quantity and 14 percent by value . in 1993 fish farms produced 22 percent of all food fish consumed in the world and 90 percent of all oysters sold . the world bank reports that aquaculture could provide 40 percent of all fish consumed and more than half the value of fish harvested within the next fifteen years .
i ' m not a christian , but i talked to christian critics following the film ' s screening who said last days in the desert gets much closer to the heart of jesus ' dilemma than other recent biblical epics like son of god and risen . it ' s one of those wonderful paradoxes of fiction , the idea that only through invention , even of such well - worn material , can we uncover new emotional truths . but this is also why the ending , which gives us brief flash - forwards of the crucifixion , doesn ' t work as well . it pulls us back into the common literal interpretation of the new testament that garcía had so carefully veered away from . the film is best when , like its subject , it has the conviction to set off on its own course .
some of them saw a clip from wakolda ( the german doctor ) on tv recently and really wanted to watch it . so i thought i’d take a chance , not expecting them to watch the whole film but the majority were absolutely gripped .
the delegates who told reilly that the north consumes too little of what the south produces have a point .
with a few exceptions ( notably petroleum ) ,
a report from the world resources institute observes ,
most of the natural resources consumed in the united states are from domestic sources .
throughout the 1980s the united states and canada were the world ' s leading exporters of raw materials . the united states consistently leads the world in farm exports , running huge agricultural trade surpluses . the share of raw materials used in the north that it buys from the south stands at a thirty - year low and continues to decline ; industrialized nations trade largely among themselves . the world resources institute recently reported that
the united states is largely self - sufficient in natural resources .
again , excepting petroleum , bauxite ( from which aluminum is made ) ,
and a few other industrial minerals , its material flows are almost entirely internal .
filmed in california ' s anza - borrego desert , last days has an understated visual wonder . the film embraces the vibrant color palette and topography of its setting in a way few desert movies dare : reds , oranges and purples streak across ground and sky alike , and characters frequently peer over the edges of cliffs , with the camera following their gaze , moving at a meditative pace . renowned cinematographer emmanuel lubezki is much more restrained and unobtrusive here than in his recent hat - trick of looping , careening oscar winners gravity , birdman and the revenant , and his approach lulls us into the patterns ( both visual and behavioral ) of biblical life .
when scorsese returned from japan , he procured the film rights to “silence . ” as the years passed , hardly a day went by without his mentioning the project to the people around him : actors , friends and even his old parish priest , father principe . as he made “the aviator” and “the departed , ” “shutter island” and “hugo , ” he insisted that “silence” was the picture he really wanted to make . a jesuit was elected pope ; islamic terrorists began targeting christians in the middle east . in 2014 , with “the wolf of wall street” a hit , scorsese declared that “silence” would be his next picture : he wouldn’t commit to another until it was finished . twenty - six years in , filming began .
an article on nov . 27 about martin scorsese referred incorrectly to his involvement with “woodstock , ” the 1970 documentary about the 1969 music festival . he was one of several editors on the film , not the sole editor . the article also misidentified the company that released the 1986 drama “the color of money . ” it was released by touchstone pictures in association with silver screen partners ii , not universal pictures . the article also referred incorrectly to the title of a film . it is “the bridge on the river kwai , ” not “bridge over the river kwai . ” the article also misstated the given name of a jesuit poet . he was gerard manley hopkins , not gerald .
william reilly , when he served as administrator of the environmental protection agency in the bush administration , encountered a persistent criticism at international meetings on the environment .
the problem for the world ' s environment is your consumption , not our population ,
delegates from the developing world told him . some of these delegates later took reilly aside .
the north buys too little from the south ,
they confided .
the real problem is too little demand for our exports .
in response to problems of climate change , the world bank and other international organizations have recognized the importance of transferring advanced energy technologies to the developing world . plainly , this will take a large investment of capital , particularly in education . yet the
alternative for developing countries ,
according to josé goldemberg , a former environment minister of brazil ,
would be to remain at a dismally low level of development which . . . would aggravate the problems of sustainability .
the companions arrive at queenstown ( cobh ) , ireland , in time to reach london before the deadline . once on british soil , fix produces a warrant and arrests fogg . a short time later , the misunderstanding is cleared up—the actual robber was caught three days earlier in edinburgh . however , fogg has missed the train and returns to london five minutes late , certain he lost the wager .
cardinal hayes is a high school in the bronx , and after a year of minor seminary — a tryout for the priesthood ; once a regular stop for bright catholic boys of limited means — scorsese went there . ( don delillo , the novelist , was a few years ahead . ) rejected by fordham university because of poor grades , scorsese enrolled at n . y . u . ’s washington square college and its film program . from there , he plunged into the ’60s : a concertgoer at the fillmore east , an expatriate in england and holland , an assistant director at woodstock ( he became an editor on the concert film ) and then a maker of his own movies — “who’s that knocking at my door , ” about a young man in the suddenly liberated ’60s whose catholic principles keep him out of bed with his girlfriend , and “boxcar bertha , ” a film about a female rabble - rouser “free’er than most . ”
ewan mcgregor excels in a dual role as both jesus and the devil , and the double casting allows writer - director rodrigo garcía ( nine lives ) to reject the idea that doubt is some external , alien force we can overpower with enough good vibes . instead , the film hints that darkness and desperation can lurk within the best of us . mcgregor ' s jesus is a man who observes the world around him with quiet remove , but it ' s his and garcía ' s brilliant characterization of satan that pulls our attention . he is not a purely malevolent force , but an inquiring sort , asking the questions about god and the unknowable that give jesus pause . there are moments when we see him letting his guard down as he admits that , though he can see into the future , what he sees only makes him more perplexed by the ideas of selflessness and love . what good are they in such a cruel world , he demands of his alter ego ?
it ' s stunning , isn ' t it ,
he asks ,
how life ends ?
the man on the train was in a quandary , and the man in the novel he was reading was in a quandary ; and as he read the novel , it emerged that his quandary and the one in the novel were essentially the same .
tragedy strikes the following day when holy falls ill due to her own stand manifesting from dio ' s influence . without the necessary willpower that her son and father possess , holy is slowly being killed by her own stand . joseph and avdol determine that holy will die in fifty days unless they kill dio to break his influence .
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polnareff , iggy , and avdol enter the mansion and find themselves in an illusory maze , but easily dispose of the stand user . vanilla ice ambushes the group and kills avdol as he pushes his companions out of the way . cream , a stand that can swallow vanilla ice and create a portal into the void that disintegrates everything around it while remaining undetectable by the senses , is beyond polnareff and iggy ' s power to defeat .
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dio stops the flow of time and within the five
seconds
he ' s allowed , has the world punch through kakyoin . while the vampire gloats , kakyoin manages to grasp the power of his foe . unable to speak , he shoots a clock tower before dying , making joseph understand the world ' s ability . dio pursues joseph and just as the old man warns jotaro about dio , the latter stops time and launches a knife to his throat . joseph is stabbed and loses consciousness .
before the second world war the united states bought 40 percent of its vegetable oils from developing countries . after the war the united states protected its oilseed markets - - for example , by establishing price supports for soybeans . today the united states is one of the world ' s leading exporters of oil and oilseeds , although it still imports palm and coconut oils to obtain laurate , an ingredient in soap , shampoo , and detergents . even this form of
exploitation
will soon cease . in 1994 farmers in georgia planted the first commercial acreage of a high - laurate canola , genetically engineered by calgene , a biotechnology firm .
what happened next still stands as a central episode in the culture wars . as scorsese worked round the clock to edit the picture , the religious right moved against it . donald wildmon , a right - wing instigator and head of the american family association , organized a picketing campaign at universal pictures in los angeles . the rev . r . l . hymers jr . of the baptist tabernacle of los angeles did the same outside the home of lew wasserman , the chairman of mca , which owned universal . the leader of the campus crusade for christ , bill bright , offered to buy the film from universal in order to destroy it . universal moved up the film’s release date and took out full - page newspaper ads in its support . in an interview with reporters in rome , the italian director franco zeffirelli , who hadn’t seen the movie , called it “truly horrible and completely deranged . ” reports attributed to him a remark that the movie was the product of hollywood’s “jewish scum . ” zeffirelli denied this , but the notion took root that the movie was the sinister work of a cabal of jewish movie executives conspiring against the christian faith .
“silence , ” no less than scorsese’s informal new york trilogy — “mean streets , ” “taxi driver , ” “raging bull” — is rooted in his childhood . as a boy in little italy , he wanted to be a missionary . his parents were not religious , in part because their parents had felt the church’s heavy hand in sicily , but for him the church — a malign force in so many coming - of - age stories — was a portal to the world beyond family and neighborhood . “i trusted the church , because it made sense , what they preached , what they taught , ” he said . “i understood that there’s another way to think , outside the closed , hidden , frightened , tough world i grew up in . ”
fogg and passepartout reach suez in time . while disembarking in egypt , they are watched by a scotland yard detective named fix , who has been dispatched from london in search of a bank robber . because fogg matches the description of the robber , fix mistakes fogg for the criminal . since he cannot secure a warrant in time , fix boards the steamer conveying the travellers to bombay . fix becomes acquainted with passepartout without revealing his purpose . fogg promises the steamer engineer a large reward if he gets them to bombay early . they dock two days ahead of schedule .
the underlying dynamic in
heathers
comes out of movies like
bonnie and clyde ,
where the lovers back into crime almost absentmindedly , using it as a backdrop for the truly important things in their lives . another movie that comes to mind is
river ' s edge ,
based on the true story of a teenager who killed his girlfriend and then displayed her body to his friends , who did not inform authorities for three days .
discussions of the future of the planet are dominated by those who believe that an expanding world economy will use up natural resources and those who see no reasons , environmental or otherwise , to limit economic growth . neither side has it right .
probably the most persistent worries about resource scarcity concern energy .
the supply of fuels and other natural resources is becoming the limiting factor constraining the rate of economic growth ,
a group of experts proclaimed in 1986 . they predicted the exhaustion of domestic oil and gas supplies by 2020 and , within a few decades ,
major energy shortages as well as food shortages in the world .
a . o . scott , now a chief film critic for the new york times , once wrote that scorsese approaches filmmaking as “a priestly avocation , a set of spiritual exercises embedded in technical problems . ” so it was with “silence . ” “marty insists on having silence on the set , ” garfield told me . “the silence says : ‘something is happening here . ’ ” scorsese arranged the shooting script chronologically , so the cast could feel the characters’ emotions in sequence . finally garfield reached the scene in which rodrigues steps on the fumie , profaning the god he believes in and renouncing the faith he has come halfway across the world to preach . actor and director prepared the shot : a bare foot pressed to a piece of copper , the face of christ worn smooth by the feet of countless apostates before him . “it’s something we had both waited for , ” garfield said , “but marty had waited much longer — he had waited decades to film that scene . ” the director was ready ; the priest stepped — and then there was a technical difficulty . “i almost lost my mind , and i think marty did , too , ” garfield recalled . “he wanted it to be done in one take . ” there was a second take , and the priest profaned the image of christ once and for all .
the north not only balks at buying sugar and other crops from developing countries ; it also dumps its excess agricultural commodities , especially grain , on them . after the second world war , american farmers , using price supports left over from the new deal , produced vast wheat surpluses , which the united states exported at concessionary prices to europe and then the third world . these enormous transfers of cereals to the south , institutionalized during the 1950s and 1960s by u . s . food aid , continued during the 1970s and 1980s , as the united states and the european community vied for markets , each outdoing the other in subsidizing agricultural exports .
farmers worldwide could double the acreage in production , but this should not be necessary . better seeds , more irrigation , multi - cropping , and additional use of fertilizer could greatly increase agricultural yields in the developing world , which are now generally only half those in the industrialized countries . it is biologically possible to raise yields of rice to about seven tons per acre - - about four times the current average in the developing world . super strains of cassava , a potato - like root crop eaten by millions of africans , promise to increase yields tenfold . american farmers can also do better . in a good year , such as 1994 , iowa corn growers average about 3 . 5 tons per acre , but farmers more than double that yield in national corn growers association competitions .
jotaro and star platinum clashes with dio and the world . jotaro can move briefly during the stopped time and manages to wound dio . the vampire regenerates anyway and forces jotaro ' s bluff about how much he can move during the time stop by throwing a myriad of knives at him . jotaro is stabbed in multiple limbs and falls to the ground .
by now scorsese’s intentions for it were a good deal more complicated . “i told him that god can’t be only in the hands of the churches , ” he later said , recalling the meeting with hassanein . “there are so many obstacles in between us and the spirit . in a sense , to make this film was to try to make god accessible to people in the audience who feel alienated from the churches . i said : ‘i have had three divorces . does this mean i can’t speak to god because the church says i can’t ? no , no ! i can talk for myself because i’m me . ’ ”
the two flee to the second - floor gallery and try to ambush vanilla ice by using iggy ' s stand to mimic dio with a stand statue , but it fails and vanilla ice repeatedly and violently kicks him . polnareff is disabled and vanilla ice hides again inside his stand . scattering sand around the room , the frenchman manages to stab ice ' s throat , but ice has begun transforming into a vampire and breaks free while wounding polnareff .
“i don’t think i am called to be a priest , ” garfield said to me resolutely , as if making this film had spurred him to consider the prospect . “but i had the feeling that i was being called to something : called to work with one of the great directors , and called to this role as something i had to pursue for my spiritual development . ”
for a long time , we ' re not even sure of the point of view : is this a black comedy about murder or just a cynical morality play ? the traveler in the foreign country is not sure , but he knows the film inspires thought , and has the ability to shock - two qualities that make it worth considering . maybe it ' s true that teenagers will understand it best . maybe it ' s even true that they deserve to .
the world already produces enough cereals and oilseeds to feed 10 billion people a vegetarian diet adequate in protein and calories . if , however , the idea is to feed 10 billion people not healthful vegetarian diets but the kind of meat - laden meals that americans eat , the production of grains and oilseeds may have to triple - - primarily to feed livestock . is anything like this kind of productivity in the cards ?
the group splits in two : kakyoin and joseph luring dio while jotaro and polnareff will follow him . a car chase ensues between dio and joseph and kakyoin across the streets and then the roofs of cairo . risking his life , kakyoin probes the world ' s ability . kakyoin unravels hierophant green to attack dio from all sides , and the vampire finally uses his power .
simple compassion instructs us to give to relieve the misery of others . there is a lot of misery worldwide to relieve . but as bad as the situation is , it is improving . in 1960 nearly 70 percent of the people in the world lived at or below the subsistence level . today less than a third do , and the number enjoying fairly satisfactory conditions ( as measured by the united nations human development index ) rose from 25 percent in 1960 to 60 percent in 1992 . over the twenty - five years before 1992 average per capita consumption in developing countries increased 75 percent in real terms . the pace of improvements is also increasing . in developing countries in that period , for example , power generation and the number of telephone lines per capita doubled , while the number of households with access to clean water grew by half .
they come across a procession in which a young indian woman , aouda , is led to a sanctuary to be sacrificed by suttee the next day by brahmins . since the young woman is drugged with opium and hemp and is obviously not going voluntarily , the travellers decide to rescue her . they follow the procession to the site , where passepartout takes the place of aouda’s deceased husband on the funeral pyre on which she is to be burned . during the ceremony he rises from the pyre , scaring off the priests , and carries the young woman away . the two days gained earlier are lost , but fogg shows no regret .
for those who lament the decline of natural fisheries and the human communities that grew up with them , the successes of aquaculture may offer no consolation . in the pacific northwest , for example , overfishing in combination with dams and habitat destruction has reduced the wild salmon population by 80 percent . wild salmon - - but not their bio - engineered aquacultural cousins - - contribute to the cultural identity and sense of place of the northwest . when wild salmon disappear , so will some of the region ' s history , character , and pride . what is true of wild salmon is also true of whales , dolphins , and other magnificent creatures - - as they lose their economic importance , their aesthetic and moral worth becomes all the more evident . economic considerations pull in one direction , moral considerations in the other . this conflict colors all our battles over the environment .
things have not turned out as ehrlich expected . in the early 1990s real prices for food overall fell . raw materials - - including energy resources - - are generally more abundant and less expensive today than they were twenty years ago . when ehrlich wrote , economically recoverable world reserves of petroleum stood at 640 billion barrels . since that time reserves have increased by more than 50 percent , reaching more than 1 , 000 billion barrels in 1989 . they have held steady in spite of rising consumption . the pre - tax real price of gasoline was lower during this decade than at any other time since 1947 . the world energy council announced in 1992 that
fears of imminent [ resource ] exhaustion that were widely held 20 years ago are now considered to have been unfounded .
the movies , likewise , pointed to the wider world . his father , a presser in the garment district , didn’t make much but always had enough money to take him to the movies . a local tv station broadcast italian films on friday nights . he grew up watching the crucial works of italian neorealism , many of them with a strong catholic dimension — like roberto rossellini’s “rome , open city , ” in which a priest is executed for cooperating with the resistance .
do we consume too much ? to some , the answer is self - evident . if there is only so much food , timber , petroleum , and other material to go around , the more we consume , the less must be available for others . the global economy cannot grow indefinitely on a finite planet . as populations increase and economies expand , natural resources must be depleted ; prices will rise , and humanity - - especially the poor and future generations at all income levels - - will suffer as a result .
“silence” is a novel for our time : it locates , in the missionary past , so many of the religious matters that vex us in the postsecular present — the claims to universal truths in diverse societies , the conflict between a profession of faith and the expression of it , and the seeming silence of god while believers are drawn into violence on his behalf . as material for scorsese , then , “silence” is apt , and yet scorsese’s commitment to it has been extraordinary , even by his exacting standards . to understand that commitment , i spoke with the filmmaker , with members of the cast and the production team and with others who know the novel well — trying to grasp just what kind of an act of faith this film is .
in new york , having missed the sailing of their ship , fogg starts looking for an alternative to cross the atlantic ocean . he finds a steamboat destined for bordeaux , france . the captain of the boat refuses to take the company to liverpool , whereupon fogg consents to be taken to bordeaux for $ 2000 ( roughly $ 39 , 569 today ) per passenger . he then bribes the crew to mutiny and make course for liverpool . against hurricane winds and going on full steam , the boat runs out of fuel after a few days . fogg buys the boat from the captain and has the crew burn all the wooden parts to keep up the steam .
the group buys a cessna to cross the desert and are saddled with a baby . kakyoin and polnareff doze off and are attacked in their shared dream by death xiii again . they realize with horror that they cannot summon their stands to defend themselves . kakyoin engraves the words
baby stand
on his arms and struggles so violently it translates into the real world , and his agitation eventually causes a crash .
“even though i don’t consider myself a christian , i find your plugged in web site useful and thought - provoking . no one reviews movies like you do . instead of being judgmental , you put entertainment ‘on trial . ’ after presenting the evidence , you allow the jury of your readers to decide for themselves what they should do . in my opinion , you bring sanity and order to the wild world of modern day entertainment . keep up the good work ! ”
even if predictions of resource depletion and ecological collapse are mistaken , it seems that they should be true , to punish us for our sins . we are distressed by the suffering of others , the erosion of the ties of community , family , and friendship , and the loss of the beauty and spontaneity of the natural world . these concerns reflect the most traditional and fundamental of american religious and cultural values .
an article in foreign policy in december of 1995 observed that the biotechnological innovations that create
substitutes for everything from vanilla to cocoa and coffee threaten to eliminate the livelihood of millions of third world agricultural workers .
vanilla cultured in laboratories costs a fifth as much as vanilla extracted from beans , and thus jeopardizes the livelihood of tens of thousands of vanilla farmers in madagascar . in the past , farms produced agricultural commodities and factories processed them . in the future , factories may
grow
as well as process many of the most valuable commodities - - or the two functions will become one . as one plant scientist has said ,
we have to stop thinking of these things as plant cells , and start thinking of them as new microorganisms , with all the potential that implies
- - meaning , for instance , that the cells could be made to grow in commercially feasible quantities in laboratories , not fields .
scorsese assuredly will be there , and it’s striking to envision him sitting in the dark with the pope as his new picture plays . their boyhoods were a lot alike : six years older , jorge mario bergoglio was brought up in buenos aires in a family of italian immigrants who took him to the movies often , and he grew up cherishing italian cinema , especially fellini’s “la strada” — “a film about the possibility of sainthood , ” scorsese calls it . i asked scorsese how he would describe his work to pope francis . he paused , then replied , “i would say that i’ve tried , in my work , to find out how to live life — tried to explore what our existence really is and the meaning of it . ”
the novel was “silence , ” by shusaku endo , a japanese convert steeped in european literature and the history of catholicism in japan . published in japan in 1966 , “silence” sold 800 , 000 copies , a huge number in that country . endo was called “the japanese graham greene” and was considered for the nobel prize . greene referred to “silence” as “one of the finest novels of our time . ”
lovins and other environmentalists contend that pollution - free energy from largely untapped sources is available in amounts exceeding our needs . geothermal energy - - which makes use of heat from the earth ' s core - - is theoretically accessible through drilling technology in the united states in amounts thousands of times as great as the amount of energy contained in domestic coal reserves . tidal energy is also promising . analysts who study solar power generally agree with lester brown , of the worldwatch institute , that
technologies are ready to begin building a world energy system largely powered by solar resources .
in the future these and other renewable energy sources may be harnessed to the nation ' s system of storing and delivering electricity .
upon arriving in abu simbel the heroes buy a car and make a stop near some ruins in the desert . here they meet with agents of the speedwagon foundation who give the group supplies . in addition , they bring iggy , a boston terrier and the user of the fool , a stand made of sand . finally , they reveal the existence of nine additional stand users who await the joestar group in the country .
“all in god’s good time , ” he said to me philosophically as we sat together in his house in the near dark . it was one o’clock in the morning . “we don’t know why , but this is how this picture got made . it had to be this way . ”