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This article is about a poem by Oliver Goldsmith. For deserted settlements in general, see abandoned village.
Title page of the first edition
The Deserted Village is a poem by Oliver Goldsmith published in 1770. It is a work of social commentary, and condemns rural depopulation and the pursuit of excessive wealth.
The location of the poem's deserted village is unknown, but the description may have been influenced by Goldsmith's memory of his childhood in rural Ireland, and his travels around England. The poem is written in heroic couplets, and describes the decline of a village and the emigration of many of its residents to America. In the poem, Goldsmith criticises rural depopulation, the moral corruption found in towns, consumerism, enclosure, landscape gardening, avarice, and the pursuit of wealth from international trade. The poem employs, in the words of one critic, "deliberately precise obscurity", and does not reveal the reason why the village has been deserted. The poem was very popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but also provoked critical responses, including from other poets such as George Crabbe. References to the poem, and particularly its ominous "Ill fares the land" warning, have appeared in a number of other contexts.
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1 Background
2 Analysis
2.1 Synopsis
2.2 Genre, prosody and influences
2.3 Social commentary
3 Publication history
3.1 Illustrations and other artwork
4 Critical reception
4.1 Eighteenth-century reception
4.2 Later reception
4.3 Cultural references
5 Notes and references
5.1 Notes
5.2 References
5.2.1 Books
5.2.2 Articles
6 External links
Background[edit]
Oliver Goldsmith by Sir Joshua Reynolds (c. 1770)
Goldsmith grew up in the hamlet of Lissoy in Ireland.[1] In the 1760s, Goldsmith travelled extensively around England, visiting many small settlements.[2] In this period, the enclosure movement was at its height.[3]
The poem is dedicated to the artist Sir Joshua Reynolds. Reynolds and Goldsmith were close friends, and were both founding members, along with Samuel Johnson, of a dining society called The Club. Reynolds had helped to promote Goldsmith's play The Good-Natur'd Man to the actor and theatre manager David Garrick, and had facilitated Goldsmith's appointment as the historian of the Royal Academy.[1]
The Deserted Village condemns rural depopulation and the indulgence of the rich. This was a subject that Goldsmith had tackled in his earlier poem The Traveller; or a Prospect of Society (1764), which also condemned the corrupting influence of extreme wealth. Goldsmith also set out his ideas about rural depopulation in an essay entitled "The Revolution in Low Life", published in Lloyd's Evening Post in 1762.
There is no single place which has been identified as the village of the poem's title. While personal references in the poem give the impression of referring to the village in which Goldsmith grew up, the poem has also been associated with Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire. In "The Revolution in Low Life", Goldsmith had condemned the destruction of a village within 50 miles (80 km) of London in order to construct a fashionable landscape garden. Goldsmith reported that he had personally witnessed this scene in 1761.[2] In the same year, Nuneham Courtenay was removed to make way for Nuneham Park. Its owner—Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt—moved the village 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away.[4] There are a number of other concordances between Nuneham Courtenay's destruction and the contents of The Deserted Village. At Nuneham Courtenay, only an old woman was allowed to remain living in her house—Goldsmith's poem features an old woman who returns to the village, and she is depicted on the title page of the first edition. The position of both villages, on a hill near a river, was similar, and both had parsons who enjoyed gardening.[5]
However, Robert Seitz has argued that while "The Revolution in Low Life" greatly strengthens the case for identifying the deserted village as English, Goldsmith saw in this unnamed village "only what he wished to see", using it to fit a set of political and social ideas which were "made up largely of elements absorbed in Ireland".[6]
Analysis[edit]
Synopsis[edit]
The Deserted Village, engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi after a painting by Francis Wheatley. This image was used in the edition of Goldsmith's poem published in 1800 by F. J. du Roveray.[7]
The poem opens with a description of a village named Auburn, written in the past tense.
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain;
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed (lines 1–4).
The poem then moves on to describe the village in its current state, reporting that it has been abandoned by its residents with its buildings ruined.
Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all,
And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall;
And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,
Far, far away thy children leave the land
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay (lines 47–52)
Depiction of the parson, from an illustrated edition of the poem produced by the Dalziel Brothers
After nostalgic descriptions of Auburn's parson, schoolmaster and alehouse, Goldsmith makes a direct attack on the usurpation of agricultural land by the wealthy:
... The man of wealth and pride
Takes up a space that many poor supplied;
Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds,
Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds:
The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth
Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth (lines 275–300)
The poem later condemns the luxury and corruption of the city, and describes the fate of a country girl who moved there:
Where the poor houseless shivering female lies.
She once, perhaps, in village plenty blessed,
Has wept at tales of innocence distressed;
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn:
Now lost to all; her friends, her virtue fled,
Near her betrayer's door she lays her head,
And, pinched with cold, and shrinking from the shower,
With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour,
When idly first, ambitious of the town,
She left her wheel and robes of country brown. (Lines 326–36)
Goldsmith then states that the residents of Auburn have not moved to the city, but have emigrated overseas. He describes these foreign lands as follows:
Far different there from all that charmed before
The various terrors of that horrid shore;
Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray,
And fiercely shed intolerable day (lines 345–8)
The poem mentions "wild Altama", a river in Georgia, an American colony founded by James Oglethorpe to receive paupers and criminals from Britain. As the poem nears its end, Goldsmith gives a warning, before reporting that even Poetry herself has fled abroad:
Even now the devastation is begun,
And half the business of destruction done;
Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand,
I see the rural virtues leave the land.
Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail (lines 395–9)
The poem ends with the hope that Poetry can help those who have been exiled:
Still let thy voice, prevailing over time,
Redress the rigours of the inclement clime;
Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain,
Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain;
Teach him, that states of native strength possest,
Tho' very poor, may still be very blest;
That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay,
As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away;
While self-dependent power can time defy,
As rocks resist the billows and the sky. (Lines 421–30)
Genre, prosody and influences[edit]
The poem has 430 lines, divided into heroic couplets. This form features an "AABBCC..." rhyme scheme, with ten-syllable lines written in iambic pentameter. It is an example of georgic and pastoral poetry.[8] The poem is also an example of Augustan verse. In its use of a balanced account of Auburn in its inhabited and deserted states, and in its employment of an authorly persona within the poem, it conforms to contemporary neoclassical conventions.[9][10]
Goldsmith was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and had read Latin poetry since childhood. He would, therefore, have been aware of the criticisms made by classical writers such as Juvenal and Pliny of the displacement of the rural poor by the rich.[11] Furthermore, in the eighteenth century the decline of the Roman empire was attributed to the growth of luxury and pride in Rome. Goldsmith, in emphasising the danger that England faced from its increase in wealth, was drawing an obvious parallel.[12] Ricardo Quintana has argued that the poem takes Virgil's first Eclogue as its model.[13]
Quintana has also highlighted the way that the poem presents a series of contrasts. In the early parts of the poem, old "Sweet Auburn" and the deserted village are contrasted. Later in the poem, Quintana argues, Goldsmith places nature and art, frugality and luxury, "national vigor and national corruption", and the country and the city, in opposition.[14]
Social commentary[edit]
The Deserted Village condemns rural depopulation, the enclosure of common land, the creation of landscape gardens and the pursuit of excessive wealth.[15] In Goldsmith's vision, wealth does not necessarily bring either prosperity or happiness. Indeed, it can be dangerous to the maintenance of British liberties and displaces traditional community.[16] In making this argument, some have regarded Goldsmith not as a political radical, but as a socially-concerned "conservative".[17] Indeed, his emphasis on the corrupting effects of luxury fit closely with discourses associated with Tory writers of the time.[18]
Sebastian Mitchell has argued that Goldsmith employs "deliberately precise obscurity" in the poem, concealing the reason for the village's demise.[19] While this may detract from the authority of Goldsmith's social critique, it also allows readers to project their own concerns onto the poem.[19] Bell comments that while Goldsmith criticises enclosure in an indirect manner, he does not attribute Auburn's decline to it.[20] However, Bell also argues that commerce is clearly the "arch-villain of the piece", and it is the riches that a small minority have accumulated from international trade that allow rural people to be displaced from their lands so that country estates can be created.[21] Furthermore, Alfred Lutz has commented that Goldsmith's attacks on landscape gardening have a wider political significance, because enclosure's defenders sometimes compared enclosed fields to gardens.[22]
Mitchell also argues that criticism which focuses solely on the poem's historical accuracy misses its wider commentary on late-eighteenth-century social issues, particularly the question of "urban estrangement".[23]
Publication history[edit]
Title page of Goldsmith's poetical works, with vignette by Thomas Bewick and couplet from The Deserted Village, 1794
The poem was completed in 1769, and was first published in May 1770.[1] Appearing in quarto format, five further editions were released in the same year.[24]
It was published in eleven editions in the United States by the end of the century.[25]
Illustrations and other artwork[edit]
The title page of the first edition featured an engraving by Isaac Taylor.[26] The illustration depicts the old woman mentioned in the poem, standing in front of the deserted village. In the background a ship departs, presumably for America.
Thomas Bewick and his school also produced several depictions of scenes from The Deserted Village, some of which occurred as illustrations of published versions of the poem or Goldsmith's works. In 1794, Bewick produced woodcuts to illustrate a volume entitled The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith.[27] In the following year, Bewick and his brother John Bewick (1760-1795) again engraved illustrations for a volume entitled Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell.[28] The magnitude of this project meant that Bewick enlisted several collaborators to produce the illustrations.[29]
Bewick also depicted scenes from The Deserted Village which appeared in other places. An engraving of his edition of Fables of Aesop, published in 1818, features a scene depicting a quotation from the poem carved into a rock.[30]
The painter Francis Wheatley submitted two paintings to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1800, both of which depicted scenes from The Deserted Village. The paintings were copied by an engraver, and appeared in an edition of Goldsmith's poetry published in the same year by F. J. du Roveray.[31]
Critical reception[edit]
Eighteenth-century reception[edit]
Thomas Bewick's wood engraving Ill Fares the Land, a vignette showing a fragment of Goldsmith's poem apparently carved on a great rock
Alfred Lutz has argued that the poem generated two different types of reception.[32] Firstly, some readers admired Goldsmith's economic and social arguments, or at least reflected upon them in their own writings. Political radicals, such as Thomas Spence and John Thelwall quoted The Deserted Village in their own works, as did a number of other writers.[33] Secondly, readers and critics ignored the political content of the poem, focussing instead on Goldsmith's idyllic descriptions of Auburn.[34] This second type of reading was the most common.[35] Sebastian Mitchell states that some modern critics have seen the poem as appearing at a turning point in British culture, when public social and political opinions, and private emotional dispositions, diverged.[36] With the publication of texts such as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776) shortly after The Deserted Village, political and economic discussion increasingly became the preserve not of poetry, but of a "scientific" version of political economy.[37]
In the United States, a different reading occurred—while the English Auburn may have been deserted, the new world offered opportunities for the recreation of Goldsmith's idyll.[34]
Early critics also questioned the validity of Goldsmith's argument about rural depopulation and decline. In 1770, for instance, Thomas Comber argued that the population of rural England was not decreasing, and that enclosure could increase farmers' demand for labourers.[38] An early review in The Critical Review also defended the value of England's increase in wealth, and questioned whether rural depopulation had become an important problem.[39] Modern economic historians have supported Comber's comments about depopulation.[36] George Crabbe's poem The Village (1783) was written as a riposte to what its author saw as the excessive sentimentality of Goldsmith's verse. In his poem, Crabbe describes the hardships of the rural poor, in a way that Goldsmith did not.[40] Furthermore, Crabbe's poem encourages the interpretation of Goldsmith's bucolic depiction of old "sweet Auburn" in The Deserted Village as being a representation of the status quo in 1770, rather than a depiction of an idealised past through which current moral decline can be highlighted. The Deserted Village is, in this interpretation, "depoliticised"—an act that was reinforced by nineteenth-century interpretations produced by Thomas Babington Macaulay and two of Goldsmith's biographers.[41]
The poem also generated other responses in verse.[42] While Crabbe emphasised the misery and poverty of rural life, Robert Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy (1800) returned to the theme of the rural idyll, but without Goldsmith or Crabbe's political criticism. The Deserted Village was a major influence on Bloomfield, as was Alexander Pope's pastoral poetry.[43]
Later reception[edit]
The poem's reception in the Victorian era was largely positive.[36] The Irish playwright Edmund Falconer (c.1814–1879) adapted the work to suit as opera libretto for the three-act opera of the same name (1880) by John William Glover (1815–1899).
Cultural references[edit]
The poem has influenced the production of several notable cultural works. In 1825, Goldsmith's great-nephew—also called Oliver Goldsmith—wrote a response to his relative's poem, entitled The Rising Village.
The first half of line 51 from the poem ("Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey") has provided a title to several books and films, including Carey McWilliams's Ill Fares the Land: Migrants and Migratory Labor in the United States (1942) and Ill Fares the Land (2010) by Tony Judt.
A single line from The Deserted Village is inscribed on the plinth of a statue of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in Saxon Dress. The marble original with plinth is in the Royal Collection, and a copy of the sculpture is in the National Portrait Gallery in London.[44][45] The words on the plinth are "ALLURED TO BRIGHTER WORLDS, AND LED THE WAY".
In Ireland the village described in the poem is thought to be Glasson village, near Athlone. Signage around the village points out the association with Oliver Goldsmith. In American popular culture, and specifically that of Alabama, the poem's first line "Sweet Auburn, Loveliest village of the plain" is the basis for the term "Auburn Plainsman/Plainsmen" which is used to refer to an Auburn University student and is also the source for the name of the University student Newspaper, The Auburn Plainsman. Mount Auburn Cemetery in Watertown and Cambridge, Massachusetts, is also named after the village in the poem.
Notes and references[edit]
Notes[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c Dussinger 2004.
^ Jump up to: a b Batey 1968, p. 120.
Jump up ^ Lutz 1998, p. 175.
Jump up ^ Batey 1968, p. 111.
Jump up ^ Batey 1968, pp. 121–4.
Jump up ^ Seitz 1937, p . 408.
Jump up ^ Roberts 1910, p. 49.
Jump up ^ Mitchell 2006, p. 127.
Jump up ^ Jaarsma 1971, p. 450.
Jump up ^ Quintana 1964, pp. 205–6.
Jump up ^ Bell 1944, pp. 768–72.
Jump up ^ Bell 1944, p. 768.
Jump up ^ Jaarsma 1971, p. 449.
Jump up ^ Quintana 1964, p. 211.
Jump up ^ Bell 1944, pp. 474–9.
Jump up ^ Kazmin 2006, pp. 664–5.
Jump up ^ Miner 1959, p. 125.
Jump up ^ Miner 1959, p. 129–30.
^ Jump up to: a b Mitchell 2006, p. 129.
Jump up ^ Bell 1944, p. 748.
Jump up ^ Bell 1944, p. 749.
Jump up ^ Lutz 1998, p. 177.
Jump up ^ Mitchell 2006, pp. 124–5.
Jump up ^ Friedman 1960, p. 146.
Jump up ^ Lutz 1998, p. 192.
Jump up ^ Gilbert 2004.
Jump up ^ "The Bewick Collection". The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. Complete in one volume. With the life of the author. Hereford: D. Walker, 1794. The Newcastle Collection (Newcastle City Council). Retrieved 2013-06-02.
Jump up ^ "Discovering Bewick". John Bewick: The Sad Historian (from The Deserted Village) TWCMS:2000.515.7. Tyne and Wear Museums. 2004. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
Jump up ^ Uglow 2006, pp. 202–5.
Jump up ^ "The First Part of an Inventory of the Vignettes of Thomas Bewick and the Beilby-Bewick Workshop" (PDF). The Bewick Society. October 2012. p. 720. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
Jump up ^ Roberts 1910, p. 26.
Jump up ^ Lutz 1998, pp. 189–90
Jump up ^ Lutz 1998, p. 181.
^ Jump up to: a b Lutz 1998, p. 190.
Jump up ^ Lutz 1998, p. 182.
^ Jump up to: a b c Mitchell 2006, p. 124.
Jump up ^ Lutz 1998, pp. 183-4.
Jump up ^ Mitchell 2006, pp. 123–4.
Jump up ^ Jaarsma 1971, p. 447.
Jump up ^ Lutz 1998, pp. 184–5.
Jump up ^ Lutz 1998, p. 188.
Jump up ^ Lutz 1998, p. 183.
Jump up ^ Frederick Burwick (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, p. 744.
Jump up ^ "Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery".
Jump up ^ William Theed. "Queen Victoria and Prince Albert". Royal Collection Trust. Inventory no. 60778.
References[edit]
Books[edit]
John A. Dussinger, 'Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?–1774)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
W. Roberts, F. Wheatley, R. A., his life and works (London: Otto Limited, 1910).
Robin Taylor Gilbert, 'Taylor, Isaac (1730–1807)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Jenny Uglow, Nature's Engraver: a Life of Thomas Bewick (London: Faber & Faber, 2006).
Articles[edit]
Batey, Mavis (1968). "Nuneham Courtenay; an Oxfordshire 18th-century Deserted Village" (PDF). Oxoniensia. 33: 108–124.
Bell, Howard J. (September 1944). "The Deserted Village and Goldsmith's Social Doctrines". PMLA. 59 (3): 747. doi:10.2307/459383. ISSN 0030-8129.
Cole, Richard (1970). "Oliver Goldsmith's Reputation in Ireland, 1762-74". Modern Philology. 68 (1): 65–70. doi:10.1086/390210.
Jaarsma, Richard (1971). "Ethics in the Wasteland: Image and Structure in Goldsmith's The Deserted Village". Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 13 (3): 447–459.
Kazmin, Roman (2006). "Oliver Goldsmith's The Traveller and The Deserted Village: Moral economy of landscape representation". English Studies. 87 (6): 653–668. doi:10.1080/00138380600953336.
Lutz, Alfred (1998). "The Politics of Reception: The Case of Goldsmith's The Deserted Village". Studies in Philology. 95 (2): 174–196.
Miner, Earl (February 1959). "The Making of The Deserted Village". Huntington Library Quarterly. 22 (2): 125–141. doi:10.2307/3816319. ISSN 0018-7895.
Mitchell, S. (2006). "Oliver Goldsmith's the Deserted Village: Past, Present, and Future". English. 55 (212): 123–139. doi:10.1093/english/55.212.123.
Quintana, Ricardo (December 1964). "The Deserted Village, Its Logical and Rhetorical Elements". College English. 26 (3): 204. doi:10.2307/373591. ISSN 0010-0994.
Seitz, Robert W. (June 1937). "The Irish Background of Goldsmith's Social and Political Thought". PMLA. 52 (2): 405. doi:10.2307/458598. ISSN 0030-8129.
Storm, Leo F. (May 1970). "Literary Convention in Goldsmith's Deserted Village". Huntington Library Quarterly. 33 (3): 243–256. doi:10.2307/3816638. ISSN 0018-7895.
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Madden NFL 18
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Madden NFL 18
Xbox One cover art featuring Tom Brady
Developer(s)
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EA Sports
Series
Madden NFL
Engine
Frostbite 3
Platform(s)
PlayStation 4
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Release
WW: August 25, 2017
Genre(s)
Sports
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Single-player
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Madden NFL 18 is an American football sports video game based on the National Football League, developed and published by EA Sports for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The 29th installment of the Madden NFL series, the game features New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady on the cover, the second straight year a Patriots player has the distinction, following tight end Rob Gronkowski.
It was released worldwide on August 25, 2017, although those who pre-ordered the "G.O.A.T. Edition" were able to play it three days earlier. It is the first game of the series since Madden NFL 2005 to not be released on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360,[1][2] and also the first game in the main series to be available on only two platforms since Madden NFL '94.
Contents
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1 Gameplay
2 Longshot plot
3 Development
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links
Gameplay[edit]
Madden NFL 18 is the first game in the series to use the Frostbite engine.[3]
While the Madden series has typically featured a Superstar career mode, Madden NFL 18 introduces a story mode known as Longshot, the first such mode in the series.[4] Longshot follows Devin Wade, a quarterback from Mathis, Texas, as he tries to reach the NFL, and includes high school and college football games (the first appearance of the latter in an EA Sports game since 2013, when EA ended the NCAA Football series), as well as the NFL Scouting Combine.[5][6][7] The player's decisions and performances in the game determine Devin's career path, as dialog trees are used to help him make decisions.[8]
Madden NFL 18 also included many subtle game-play changes. One of the major changes was a new element to the overall difficulty of a game, introducing "game styles".[9] Game styles were an attempt to create a more enjoyable experience to the player, allowing them to choose (excluding Madden Ultimate Team solo challenges) one of three game styles to fit their enjoyment. The first game style was arcade mode, which was made for players who like an easy experience. Arcade mode made the game much easier for the user. The second game style was simulation mode. This game style was an attempt to make the game-play feel like an authentic NFL game.[10] This brought the difficulty up from arcade mode, but wasn't as intense as the third and final game style, competitive. This was created for the hard-core Madden players, making the AI increadibly skilled, and making game-play incredibly difficult.[11]
More minor game-play changes included the addition of Target Passing, a new game-play element when attempting a pass. The goal of this new feature was to give the user more control over the game and have more confidence in the pass going where it was intended to go. [12]
Other changes/additions included the creation of MUT Squads[13], and coaching adjustments in-game.[14]
Longshot plot[edit]
Quarterback Devin Wade, along with childhood friend and wide receiver Colton "Colt" Cruise, visit Indianapolis to participate in the NFL Regional Combine. There, Devin's performance catches the attention of TV producers Ross Fountain and Julia Vasco, who want him to be the star of a series titled Longshot, which would follow the story of a player with low odds of making it into the NFL and turn him into an NFL Draftee, receiving the assistance of coach Jack Ford, the presenter of the program. Devin and Colt leave without an answer to think. On the drive home, Devin reminisces about his successful high school career before his struggles at the University of Texas, which he left after just four games following his father's death in a car accident. To Devin, Colt, and Julia's surprise, Ross arranges for three other quarterbacks to compete with him on the show. Although Jack urges Ross to select another quarterback due to Devin's inability to call plays, Ross forces Jack to choose him for his better marketing potential and guilt tripping him by mentioning Devin's deceased parents.
Annoyed by what he considers boring television, Ross arranges an exhibition match for Devin in front of NFL scouts, scheduled to take place in two weeks. Devin is worried about the game, but Colt, who had been invited to the NFL Super Regional Combine, instead decides to join the show and help him. At a press conference the day before the game, Devin's confidence is shattered by questions about where he had disappeared after his Texas career. Devin asks Ross to postpone the game, but he and Julia are fired. Jack attempts to persuade Devin to stay, but he and Colt drive home.
In Texas, Colt tells Devin he is tired of helping him, only for Devin to quit whenever the situation proves to be too difficult. Devin starts working at his friend's construction business, where his coworkers and former Mathis teammates remember their high school days. That night, Devin is still working against his friends' interests as a Mathis High School football ceremony is taking place. Colt eventually arrives and makes amends with Devin. After the ceremony, Julia visits the two and convinces them to rejoin the show.
Returning to the Longshot studios, Devin reunites with Jack and apologizes for leaving, while Jack does so for failing to properly train him. At the meeting, the chairman of the TV network that Longshot is on, declares Ross' behavior onscreen inappropriate and allows the player to choose whether to demote or fire him. Following said meeting, Jack introduces Devin to his good friend, former Miami Dolphins great Dan Marino, who further coaches Devin. The two visit a military base in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, where Devin was stationed after enlisting in the Army following his time at Texas. There, Captain McCarthy explains he had helped Devin rediscover his love for football.
For the Legends Game, Devin's team is to progress through five challenges, with the first three based on moving the offense downfield from certain starting yard lines in an allotted time frame. In the fourth, Devin has to complete a scoring drive without throwing a pass to Colt. For the final challenge, rain falls on the stadium as Devin faces a 3rd and 15 situation, an atmosphere resembling his final game at Texas. After scoring, Devin is greeted by the cheers of Longhorn fans, having finally redeemed himself.
Devin and Colt's NFL futures vary based on the player's behavior in the Legends Game.[15] There are two possible endings related to the Draft: Devin gets drafted by his favorite team (which the player picked earlier in the game), or Colt gets drafted by Devin's favorite team's rival and Devin is undrafted.[16] In the former, Devin is selected in the seventh round, but Colt is not drafted. Devin tries to encourage him, but Colt tells him to enjoy the feeling. Devin leaves the house and shouts in glee before stopping to remember his childhood.
In the undrafted ending, Colt is drafted in the sixth round, but apologizes to Devin out of disbelief. As the seventh round concludes, Devin is not drafted and leaves the house, where he vents his frustration and sits on the porch. A flashback to his childhood days with his father takes place, where Cutter tells him while victory does not always occur, if one gives it their best, they have the right to feel like a winner. However, Dan calls Devin to announce two teams have expressed interest in signing him as an undrafted free agent: his favorite team and Colt's team. After telling Colt of his new team, the two celebrate.
Standing on his porch, Devin receives a text from Jack, who congratulates and thanks him for allowing him to be his coach. Devin returns to his room and looks at his Texas cap on the desk, telling his father he finally had something to be proud of before placing his NFL team's cap with it.
Development[edit]
Like Madden NFL 17, EA did not hold an open vote for who would appear on the cover, but personally selected and announced New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady in May 2017. EA Sports marketed the game with a trailer featuring Brady's entrance to Super Bowl LI.[17] Madden NFL 18 was released on August 25, 2017 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.[18][19][20] It was first game in the series not to be released on Xbox 360 since Madden NFL 06 and the first not to be released on PlayStation 3 since Madden NFL 07. The soundtrack for the game, which features 40 songs, includes Kendrick Lamar, Big Sean, Imagine Dragons, Steve Aoki, Waka Flocka Flame, Pharrell, Snoop Dogg, Young Jeezy, Rick Ross, Big Boi, Killer Mike, and ASAP Rocky among others.[21]
Written by EA Sports creative director Mike Young,[15] Longshot is split into three acts, the first discussing the Regional Combine, while the second and third follow the Longshot TV show and Devin's return, respectively.[22] While Longshot is comparable to story modes in other games like NBA 2K's MyCareer and FIFA's The Journey, Longshot is different in that the protagonist is not a rising star in their respective sport, but is instead a fringe player. Young described the story as like a "playable movie", rather than a "career mode with cutscenes".[4]
To develop Longshot, EA Sports used motion capture on the actors. Devin is portrayed by JR Lemon, a former Stanford Cardinal football player and member of the Oakland Raiders, while Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali plays Devin's father Cutter. Colt is played by Scott Porter, a cast member in the TV series Friday Night Lights and ex-high school football player.[23] Ross and Julia are portrayed by Ricky Wayne and Marem Hassler, respectively.[24] Rus Blackwell plays Jack;[23] Bill Cowher, who was originally considered for Jack's role,[25] along with former players like Marino, Chad Johnson, and Larry English are also involved in the story.[23] United States Army soldier and former Texas Longhorns long snapper Nate Boyer appears in the story as Captain McCarthy.[24] Like Boyer, Devin is a Texas Longhorn and soldier, which Boyer pointed out was a coincidence; an ESPN documentary about the long snapper was also named The Long Shot.[15] Unlike other characters, Jim Miller and Pat Kirwan appear in the game as live action analysts for the fictional Real Football show,[26] as do players Kirk Cousins and Josh Norman in Twitter videos.
NHL player Theoren Fleury and Phil Deschambault wrote the song "Longshot" for the story.[27] Colt also writes and performs the song in the game.[8]
Reception[edit]
Reception
Aggregate score
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Score
Metacritic (XONE) 82/100[28]
(PS4) 82/100[29]
Review scores
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Score
Destructoid 7.0/10[30]
EGM 7.0/10[31]
Game Informer 8.25/10[32]
Game Revolution [34]
GameSpot 9/10[37]
GamesRadar [33]
IGN 8.6/10[35]
Polygon 8/10[36]
Madden NFL 18 received generally favorable reviews from critics, according to review aggregator Metacritic. The new game mode Longshot, however, was met with a mixed reception, with some calling it "game changing" and praising the story, while others referred to it as an "ambitious disappointment" and criticized the lack of actual football gameplay in the mode.[34][33] In its 8.6/10 review, IGN wrote: "The shift to Frostbite doesn't refresh Madden NFL 18's gameplay much, but Longshot is a memorable single-player mode."[35] Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the game a 7.0/10, writing: "Although the new Longshot mode shines, Madden misses the mark with a few of its gameplay additions this year—so if you don’t immediately take a liking to them and choose to ignore them, the experience will feel a lot like last year’s."[31]
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Oppo
Native name
广东欧珀移动通信有限公司
Type
Subsidiary
Industry
Consumer electronics
Founded
2001; 17 years ago (2001) (company founded)
2004 (globally registered)
Founder
Chen Mingyong (陈明永)
Headquarters
Dongguan, Guangdong, China
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Chen Mingyong (陈明永) (CEO)
Products
Hi-fi, home theatre, Audio-Visual, smartphones
Parent
BBK Electronics
Divisions
OPPO Digital
Subsidiaries
OnePlus
Website
www.oppo.com/en
OPPO 欧珀
Simplified Chinese
广东欧珀移动通信有限公司
Traditional Chinese
廣東歐珀移動通信有限公司
Literal meaning
Guangdong Oppo Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.
[show]Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Guǎngdōng Ōupò Yídòng Tōngxìn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī
Oppo Electronics Corporation, commonly referred to as Oppo, is a Chinese consumer electronics and mobile communication company, known for its smartphones, Blu-ray players and other electronic devices. A leading manufacturer of smartphones, Oppo was the top smartphone brand in China in 2016 and was ranked No. 4 worldwide.[1]
Contents
[hide]
1 History
1.1 Controversies
1.2 Promoters
2 Products
2.1 Phones
2.1.1 Find 5
2.1.2 Find 7
2.1.3 N1
2.1.4 N3
2.1.5 A71
2.1.6 A77
2.1.7 R5
2.1.8 F1s
2.2 Blu-ray players
2.3 Headphones & amplifiers
3 References
4 External links
History[edit]
The brand name Oppo was registered in China in 2001 and launched in 2004.[2] Since then, they have expanded to all parts of the world.
In June 2016, Oppo became the biggest smartphone maker in China,[3] selling its phones at more than 200,000 retail outlets.[4]
In 2017, Oppo successfully won the bid to sponsor the Indian national cricket team and has achieved the rights to display their logo on the team’s kits from 2017 to 2022. Between this period the Indian national cricket team will play 259 International matches consisting of 62 Tests, 152 ODIs and 45 T20 Internationals. This number also includes the 2019 World Cup in England and 2020 T20 World Cup in Australia. The current base price for bilateral matches involving India has been set at Rs 4.1 crore (approx.) and for Asian Cricket Council (ACC) and International Cricket Council (ICC) matches, it is Rs 1.56 crore (approx.) - almost a four-fold increase from its earlier rate.
Controversies[edit]
In 2017 the company first saw protest over India's national flag insult row.[5] It was followed by a mass resignation of the Punjab service unit.[6]
Promoters[edit]
Korean boy band 2PM prepared a song known as "Follow Your Soul" in a promotional deal with Oppo for launching its brand in Thailand in 2010.[7] In June 2015, the company signed an agreement with FC Barcelona to become an official partner of the Catalan football club.[8][9][10]
Also in 2015, Oppo hired Yang Mi and Luhan as the product ambassador in China,[11] followed by Sarah Geronimo and Alden Richards, who was named as the first brand ambassador of Oppo in the Philippines.[12]
Oppo India hired actors Hrithik Roshan and Sonam Kapoor as their brand ambassadors. The cricketer Yuvraj Singh too has been featured in some of their advertisements. Oppo India has recently launched a campaign starring Bollywood couple Bipasha Basu and Karan Singh Grover for Oppo F1s Rose Gold edition.
Oppo Indonesia hired Isyana Sarasvati, Raisa Andriana, Reza Rahadian and Chelsea Islan as their brand ambassadors.
In 2016, PBA tied up with this company as its official smartphone partner starting from 2016 PBA Commissioner's Cup which was held on February 10.
Oppo also hires celebrity endorsers in Vietnam, especially Son Tung M-TP who endorses three smartphone units like Neo 5, Neo 7 and F1s. Oppo made a sponsorship to one of Vietnam's top-rated reality shows, The Face Vietnam.
In October 2017, Oppo Thailand launched a new ad of Oppo F5 smart phone with a new ad presenter: famous Thai actor, Nadech Kugimiya. Oppo Malaysia also launched a new Oppo F5 smartphone with Fattah Amin and Ayda Jebat as their brand ambassadors.
Products[edit]
Phones[edit]
Oppo has produced a numerous different phones some of their most notable phones are listed below.
Find 5[edit]
The OPPO Find 5 was released in America in February 2013, the OPPO Find 5 featured clean lines, a thin rectangular shape, and an overall elegant appearance.[13] The OPPO Find 5 had a pixel density of 441 ppi, which puts it in the highest range of the mobile phones with HD display at its release time. In July 2013, a refreshed OPPO Find 5 launched in China. The processor has been changed to Snapdragon 600 instead of the Snapdragon S4 Pro. The Android version was updated to Android 4.2.2 as well while other specifications remained the same.[14]
Find 7[edit]
The OPPO Find 7 is a phablet with 3GB of RAM and a 2.5 GHz Quad-Core processor.[15] The OPPO Find 7 is also available in another variant called the Find 7a, which has a 1080p screen and 2GB of RAM compared to the Find 7, which sports higher specs. It was announced on 19 March 2014 and was released in April 2014. It is similar in design to the OnePlus One released in April 2014.
N1[edit]
OPPO N1
On 23 September 2013, OPPO announced the N1, which has a 5.9″ 1080p display (373 ppi), 1.7 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor, 3,610mAh battery, 16GB or 32GB of storage, 2GB RAM, and a 13MP camera that can rotate, touch-panel on the back, and option to flash CyanogenMod.[16] It was released in December 2013.
N3[edit]
A successor, the OPPO N3, is priced at $449 as of early 2016.[17]
A71[edit]
Maintaining the reputation of launching newer mobile phones at a regular interval, Oppo introduced the Oppo A71 in India at an introductory price of Rs.12,490. The phone sported a 5.2 Inch display with 3GB RAM and Octa Core processor with latest the Android 7.1 Nougat.
A77[edit]
In May 2017, OPPO launched the A77 in Taiwan. It is fueled by a 1.5 GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6750T processor combined with 4GB of RAM and runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS.[18]
R5[edit]
The OPPO R5, which was launched in November 2014, was at the time the world's thinnest smartphone.[19] It is 4.85mm in thickness except for a slight bulge where the camera lens is located. The R5 has a 2,000 mAh battery which can be charged up to 75% in 30 minutes using OPPO's own VOOC Flash Charging technology.[20] The R5 uses a SnapDragon 615 octa-core processor, running at 2.1 GHz.[17][21] OPPO began shipping the R5 in the UK on 20 February 2015.[22] One of OPPO's older phones, the Finder, previously held the record for the world's thinnest smartphone.[23]
F1s[edit]
On 3 August 2016, Oppo launched the F1s in India.[citation needed] The Oppo F1s is a selfie-centric phone which succeeds the Oppo F1. The F1s sports a 13 MP primary camera at the back and has a 16 MP secondary camera on the front. There is a fingerprint scanner housed on the home button which can not only be used to unlock the phone, but, open apps as well. The Oppo F1s is powered by MediaTek's MT6750 octa-core processor which is coupled with 3 GB RAM and Mali-T860 MP2 GPU. It runs on ColorOS 3.0 based on Android 5.1 Lollipop and features a 5.5-inch HD IPS display which is backed by 3075 mAh battery.
Finder
Find 5[24]
U705T Ulike 2
U701 Ulike
R610
R811 Real
R817 Real
R819 / R819T
T29
N1
Find 7a
Find 7
R5
N3
R7
R7 Plus
R7 Lite
R7s
F1
F1s
Joy Plus/R1011
showR9
Dimensions
125 × 66 × 6.65 mm 141.8 × 68.8 × 8.8 mm 127 × 63.7 × 9 mm 123 × 64 × 9.7 mm 112.8 × 55.5 × 14.3 mm 115.2 × 61.5 × 10.9 mm 123 × 63 × 9.7 mm 136.5 × 68 × 7.3 mm 131.5 × 67 × 10.5 mm 170.7 × 82.6 × 9 mm 152.6 × 75 × 9.2 mm 152.6 × 75 × 9.2 mm 148.9 × 74.5 × 4.9 mm 161.2 × 77 × 9.9 mm 143 × 71 × 6.3 mm 158 × 82 × 7.75 mm 143 × 71 × 6.3 mm 151.8 × 75.4 × 7 mm 143.5 × 71 × 7.3 mm 154.5 x 76 x 7.38 mm 124 x 63 x 9.9 mm 151.8 x 74.3 x 6.6 mm
Weight
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Display
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Blu-ray players[edit]
Main article: OPPO Digital
Oppo's first universal Blu-ray Disc player was the BDP-83.[26][27][28][29]
The BDP-93 was released in 2010, featuring 3D compatibility and dual HDMI signal output.
This was followed by the BDP-95 whose video performance is identical in all respects with the BDP-93, but with an improved analogue audio output section.[30]
The BDP-103 and BDP-105 models were released near the end of 2012, featuring dual HDMI signal input in addition to dual HDMI signal output. T
The BDP-103D was released in October 2013. This new model is the first Blu-ray player worldwide featuring Darbee Visual Presence technology.
At the end of 2016 Oppo introduced their first 4K/UHD BluRay player, the 203. Backwards compatible (as with previous machines), the 203 supports playback of Ultra High Definition discs, along with HDR (high dynamic range) and Dolby Vision capability.
This was followed in 2017 by the 205 - similar to the 203 but, as with previous "5" designated players, had added audiophile features.
Headphones & amplifiers[edit]
In 2014 OPPO released a number of high end headphones and amplifiers. The flagship PM-1 and PM-2 headphones along with the HA-1 desktop amplifier have been heavily promoted in the audio community. One blogger declares the PM-2 is "near to perfect".[31]
Released in 2015, the HA-2, was a portable version of the HA-1 amp/DAC which featured a battery pack option as well as a stitched leather casing. The phone played music in real-time to the HA-2 (via the included Android or iOS micro USB cable, or USB cable if from PC). It also can be charged using an included "rapid charger" charging kit. The battery pack feature can only be used simultaneously while the HA-2 is used to play music if the playing (source) device is an Apple iOS device. In October 2016 an updated version was released with a new DAC chip and now named HA-2SE. Otherwise it was the same as the HA-2[citation needed]
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Jump up ^ Upstarts on top / How OPPO and Vivo are beating Apple, Xiaomi and the gang. Economist, February 4th-10th 2017, page 56.
Jump up ^ "National flag protest: Oppo halts production at Noida plant - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
Jump up ^ Sharma, Anurag (2017-07-20). "Oppo's Entire Punjab Service Team Resigns Over "Indians Are Beggars" Statement - Smartprix Blog". Smartprix Blog. Retrieved 2017-07-21. [unreliable source?]
Jump up ^ sanakujira6th (13 March 2010). "[M/V] 2PM for OPPO - Follow Your Soul". Retrieved 20 June 2017 – via YouTube.
Jump up ^ "Chinese phone maker Oppo signs sponsorship agreement with FC Barcelona". bestmobs.com. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
Jump up ^ "Oppo phones". bestmobs.com. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
Jump up ^ "Deals on latest model Oppo mobile phones from authorised Re-seller of Oppo mobiles in Australia". wireless1.com.au. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
Jump up ^ "Oppo unveils Chinese actress Mini Yang M as brand ambassador". GSM INSIDER. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
Jump up ^ "Oppo launches Mirror 5, reveals Sarah Geronimo as first local ambassador". The Summit Express. August 13, 2015. Retrieved February 10, 2016. This coincided with the contract signing of its first local brand ambassador, Sarah Geronimo on Thursday, August 13, 2015 at the SM Mall of Asia Atrium in Pasay City.
Jump up ^ "Oppo Find 5 is unlocked, stylish, and powerful". Retrieved 20 June 2017.
Jump up ^ Xiang, Liu (4 July 2013). "Refreshed Oppo Find 5 Upgraded To Snapdragon 600 And Android 4.2 Jelly Bean". GSM Insider. Archived from the original on 4 September 2013. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
Jump up ^ "Oppo Find 7 vs. Samsung Galaxy Note 3: Spec by Spec Phablet Comparison". Techmunchie. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
Jump up ^ "Oppo Announces the N1, Ships With Option to Flash CyanogenMod". Droid Life. 23 September 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b "Oppo N3 Online Product Page". OPPOStyle.com. Retrieved Mar 4, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Oppo A77 Release Date, Specification & Features".
Jump up ^ "Oppo N3 and R5 hands-on: First look". GSMArena. 27 October 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2014. OPPO pitched it as the world's slimmest smartphone
Jump up ^ "Oppo N3 and R5 hands-on: First look". GSMArena. 27 October 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2014. Luckily, the battery supports rapid charging and will charge up to 75% from 0 for just 30 minutes once hooked up on the new smaller OPPO Flash Charger (bundled in the package).
Jump up ^ "Stunning Oppo R5 Announced As The World's Thinnest Smartphone". Forbes. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
Jump up ^ "Oppo R5 Ready For Pre Order In UK". Android News. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
Jump up ^ "World's thinnest smartphone, the Oppo Finder, can now be pre-ordered". Phone Arena. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
Jump up ^ "OPPO Mobile for Smartphones & Accessories - OPPO Global - OPPO Global". en.oppo.com. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
Jump up ^ "OPPO VOOC Flash Charge, Quick Charge - OPPO Global - OPPO Global". www.oppo.com. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
Jump up ^ "Home Theater Magazine review of the OPPO BDP-83 Universal Blu-ray Disc player". Archived from the original on 9 July 2009. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
Jump up ^ "Page not found - Error 404 • Home Theater Forum". Home Theater Forum. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
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Jump up ^ "Stereophile: Music in the Round #37". www.stereophile.com. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
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Wild Things
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Directed by
John McNaughton
Produced by
Rodney M. Liber
Steven A. Jones
Written by
Stephen Peters
Starring
Kevin Bacon
Matt Dillon
Neve Campbell
Theresa Russell
Denise Richards
Daphne Rubin-Vega
Robert Wagner
Bill Murray
Eduardo Yañez
Music by
George S. Clinton
Cinematography
Jeffrey L. Kimball
Edited by
Elena Maganini
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company
Mandalay Entertainment
Distributed by
Columbia Pictures
Release date
March 20, 1998 (1998-03-20)
Running time
108 minutes;
115 minutes (unrated version)
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$20 million
Box office
$56 million[1][2]
Wild Things is a 1998 American erotic thriller film directed by John McNaughton, and stars Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Kevin Bacon, Denise Richards and Theresa Russell.
An "uncut" version, adding seven minutes to its runtime, was released on DVD in 2004 and includes a change to Kelly and Suzie's relationship[citation needed]. The film gained notoriety for featuring several sex scenes – in particular, one involving a man and two women simultaneously – that were more explicit than is typically seen in mainstream, big-budget Hollywood releases. The film includes three direct-to-DVD sequels, Wild Things 2 (2004), Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough (2005) and Wild Things: Foursome (2010).
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Plot[edit]
A popular Miami area high school guidance counselor, Sam Lombardo, is accused of rape by two female students, a wealthy and popular girl named Kelly Van Ryan and a poor outcast named Suzie Toller. He hires lawyer Kenneth Bowden to defend him. At trial, Suzie admits that she and Kelly had made everything up to get revenge on Lombardo: Suzie for him failing to bail her out of jail on a minor drug charge and Kelly for him having an affair with her mother, Sandra. Kelly's mother is humiliated by the scandal, and Lombardo and Bowden negotiate an $8.5 million settlement for defamation. In reality, Lombardo and the two girls were accomplices who used the trial as a way to get money from Kelly's wealthy family. To celebrate their success, the three accomplices have sex.
Police detective Ray Duquette, against the wishes of the district attorney's office, continues to investigate Lombardo. He suspects the trio are working a scam, telling both Kelly and Suzie that Lombardo has already transferred the money to an off-shore account. Suzie panics and goes to Kelly for help. Kelly assures Suzie they can trust each other, but separately tells Lombardo over the phone that they may have to get rid of Suzie. Suzie overhears and attacks Kelly in the pool. Both women fight, but eventually end up kissing and having sex in the pool, all witnessed by Duquette, still investigating the trio. A few nights later, Lombardo and Kelly take Suzie to the beach and he kills her while Kelly waits nearby. After wrapping the body in plastic, they throw it in the trunk of the car and drive out to the swamp, where Lombardo disposes of it.
Duquette and his partner, Gloria, are called in to investigate Suzie's disappearance. Her blood and teeth are found at the beach while her car is found at a bus terminal. The D.A.'s office again insists that he drop the case, but Duquette asks his partner to watch Lombardo. Lombardo confronts Gloria and invites her in to read his school files on Kelly. She discovers that Kelly is a deeply troubled and violent girl made worse by the suicide of her father. Meanwhile, Duquette goes to Kelly's house to confront her. When he arrives, Kelly attacks him, shooting him in the arm. Duquette is left with no choice but to kill her in self-defense. No charges are filed against Duquette, but he is dismissed from the force for disobeying orders.
Sam returns to his beach bungalow to find Duquette taking a shower. They were partners, setting everyone up so they could split the money just two ways. Although Lombardo is not pleased Duquette killed Kelly instead of framing her as originally planned, he agrees that they now have fewer loose ends. The two agree to go fishing on Lombardo's sailboat, where Lombardo tries to eliminate Duquette. When Duquette fights back, he is shot and killed by a very much alive Suzie. She kills Duquette as revenge for killing Kelly and her friend, Davie, and for arresting her on a drug charge when he realized she had witnessed the murder (the arrest from which Lombardo had not bailed her out). Suzie then poisons Lombardo's drink and knocks him overboard, so his body won't be found.
An ending sequence features a number of quick scenes that fill in details of the backstory. These scenes reveal that Suzie has a genius I.Q., near 200, and was the ultimate architect of the entire plot. She now has control of all of the settlement money and has taken her revenge on both Lombardo and Duquette. She had been sleeping with Lombardo yet could not get him to bail her out, had discovered that Lombardo and Kelly were now sleeping together, and used it to pull him into her plot, starting with having him befriend Duquette. As for Kelly's death, she had not attacked Duquette as he had claimed. In reality, she tried to escape the guest house when he entered. He shot her dead, broke into her gun case and used her hand to shoot himself in the shoulder. In a final scene Bowden meets with Suzie, whose financial affairs he is handling. She kisses him on the cheek and as she walks off, Bowden telling her to "be good".
Cast[edit]
Kevin Bacon as Sergeant Ray Duquette
Matt Dillon as Sam Lombardo
Neve Campbell as Suzie Toller
Theresa Russell as Sandra Van Ryan
Denise Richards as Kelly Van Ryan
Daphne Rubin-Vega as Detective Gloria Perez
Carrie Snodgress as Ruby
Jeff Perry as Bryce Hunter
Robert Wagner as Tom Baxter
Bill Murray as Kenneth Bowden
Reception[edit]
The film holds a 64% "fresh" rating among critics on Rotten Tomatoes, indicating a mixed-positive response.[3][4] The film received a 52/100 rating on Metacritic, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[5]
Variety praised the casting of Dillon, Bacon, Campbell, Richards, Russell, Murray and Snodgress: "[Y]ou have an ensemble that appears to be enjoying the challenge of offbeat roles and unusual material. There's not a wrong note struck by the game group of players." The magazine also praised the film as "original" with a "glossy, unreal quality that nicely dovetails with the pulse of the drama".[6]
George S. Clinton was nominated for Best Music at 25th Saturn Awards, but lost to fellow composer John Carpenter for John Carpenter's Vampires, another film from Columbia Pictures.
Sequels[edit]
Three sequels were released on direct to video, Wild Things 2 (2004), Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough (2005) and Wild Things: Foursome (2010). The sequels recycled much of the plot, dialogue, and direction of the first film, albeit with different actors. All three films, for example, take place in Blue Bay, as well as its high school, Blue Bay High and the Blue Bay Police Department (BBPD).
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Wild Things at Box Office Mojo Retrieved October 8, 2012
Jump up ^ "Wild Things". The Numbers. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
Jump up ^ Mathews, Jack (March 20, 1998). "Wild Things' Runs Rampant With Twists and Surprises". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-12-25.
Jump up ^ Wild Things (1998) Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
Jump up ^ Wild Things at Metacritic Retrieved October 8, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Wild Things" Variety. March 17, 1998.
External links[edit]
Wild Things on IMDb
Wild Things at AllMovie
Wild Things at Box Office Mojo
Wild Things at Rotten Tomatoes
Wild Things at Metacritic
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