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The Eye of the World
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The Eye of the World
Original cover of The Eye of the World, prominently featuring Moiraine and Lan
Author
Robert Jordan
Cover artist
Darrell K. Sweet
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
The Wheel of Time
Genre
High Fantasy
Publisher
Tor Books (U.S.) and
Orbit (UK)
Publication date
January 15, 1990
Media type
Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages
782 (U.S. hardback edition) &
685 (UK hardback edition)
ISBN
0-312-85009-3 (US hardback edition)
& ISBN 1-85723-353-0 (UK hardback edition)
OCLC
19723327
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 20
LC Class
PS3560.O7617 E94 1990
Preceded by
New Spring
Followed by
The Great Hunt
The Eye of the World is a fantasy novel by American writer Robert Jordan, the first book of The Wheel of Time series. It was published by Tor Books and released on January 16, 1990. The unabridged audiobook is read by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading. Upon first publication, The Eye of the World consisted of one prologue and 53 chapters, with an additional prologue authored upon re-release.
On January 2, 2002, The Eye of the World was re-released as two separate books aimed at a young adult literature market, with larger text and a handful of illustrations. These were From the Two Rivers and To the Blight. The former included an additional prologue entitled "Ravens", focusing on Egwene al'Vere. The American Library Association put The Eye of the World on its 2003 list of Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults.[1]
Contents
1 Plot summary
2 Themes and allusions
3 Release details
3.1 First Printing
3.2 Reprinting
3.3 Divided printing
4 References
5 External links
Plot summary[edit]
The Eye of the World revolves around protagonists Rand al'Thor, Matrim (Mat) Cauthon, Perrin Aybara, Egwene al'Vere, and Nynaeve al'Meara, after their residence of "Emond's Field" is unexpectedly attacked by Trollocs (the antagonist's soldiers) and a Myrddraal (the undead-like officer commanding the Trollocs) intent on capturing Rand, Mat, and Perrin. To save their village from further attacks, Rand, Mat, Perrin, and Egwene flee the village, accompanied by the Aes Sedai Moiraine Damodred, her Warder Al'Lan Mandragoran, and gleeman Thom Merrilin, and later joined by Wisdom Nynaeve al'Meara. Pursued by increasing numbers of Trollocs and Myrddraal, the travellers take refuge in the abandoned city of Shadar Logoth, where Mat is infected by the malevolent Mashadar. While escaping the city the travelers are separated; Rand, Mat, and Thom travel by boat to Whitebridge, where Thom is lost allowing Rand and Mat to escape a Myrddraal. In Caemlyn, Rand befriends an Ogier named Loial. Trying to catch a glimpse of the recently captured False Dragon, Rand befriends Elayne Trakand, heir apparent to the throne of Andor, and her brothers Gawyn Trakand and Galad Damodred. Rand is then taken before Queen Morgase and her Aes Sedai advisor, Elaida; and released without charge, in spite of Elaida's grave pronouncements regarding Rand.
Egwene and Perrin are guided separately to Caemlyn by Elyas Machera, a man who can communicate telepathically with wolves and who claims that Perrin can do the same. The three run afoul of the Children of the Light, where Perrin kills two for the death of a wolf at their hands, and is sentenced to death. Moiraine, Lan, and Nynaeve rescue Egwene and Perrin, and all are reunited with Rand and Mat. Thereafter Moiraine determines that Mat must travel to Tar Valon, the Aes Sedai's center of power, to overcome the influence of Shadar Logoth.
Loial warns Moiraine of a threat to the Eye of the World, a pool of Saidin untouched by the Dark One's influence, which is confirmed by vivid and disturbing dreams Mat, Rand, and Perrin have had. The Eye of the World is protected by Someshta (the Green Man) and contains one of the seven seals on the Dark One's prison, the Dragon banner of Lews Therin Telamon, and the Horn of Valere. At the civilized world's border, the group enters the Blight (the polluted region under the Dark One's control) to protect the Eye. After a pursuit they meet the Green Man and he reveals the Eye. The group is then confronted by the Forsaken Aginor and Balthamel. As battle ensues, Balthamel and the Green Man slay each other. Soon after, Rand defeats Aginor and uses the Eye to decimate the Trolloc army and defeat Ba'alzamon. As a result, Moiraine concludes that Rand is the Dragon Reborn, but her opinion and all other details of the final battle are kept from all the male members of the group except Lan.
Themes and allusions[edit]
Robert Jordan has stated that he consciously intended the early chapters of The Eye of the World to evoke the Shire of Middle-Earth in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.[2] Despite their similarities, these two works also differ in themes. For instance, both Jordan and Tolkien created narratives that explored power. However, the Eye of the World discussed how it can be deployed whereas The Lord of the Rings was more focused on its renunciation.[3] Rand needed to wield his power so he could successfully fight an emerging war with the Dark One. This theme is inimical to Frodo's quest to destroy the ring of Sauron, a source of immense power that also corrupted its wearer.
The Eye of the World also touched on the age-old theme of messianic deliverance, as the narrative involved the beginning of Rand struggles so he could fulfill his destiny as the Dragon Reborn. The novel also established a dominant feminist theme with the characterization of strong women such as Moiraine and the Two Rivers' Women's Circle, an all-female committee, headed by a Wisdom. This was also illustrated in the introduction of a world ruled by the White Tower, which represented an exclusively female group of powerful political players, the Aes Sedai. These women did not only wield the One Power but they were also manipulators of the world leaders, directing the course of history, and the lives of ordinary people.
Release details[edit]
First Printing[edit]
1990 (January 15), hardcover. Saint Martin's Press, United States. ISBN 0-312-85009-3
1990 (February), paperback. Tor Books, United States. ISBN 0-8125-0048-2
1990 (July 12), hardcover. Little, Brown, United Kingdom. ISBN 0-356-19068-4
1990 (July 12), hardcover. Orbit, United Kingdom. ISBN 1-85723-353-0
1992 (July 15), paperback. Orbit, United Kingdom. ISBN 1-85723-076-0
Reprinting[edit]
1993 (October), paperback. Tom Doherty Associates, United States. ISBN 0-812-51181-6
1995 (December), audio book. Gallant / Publishing Mills, United States. ISBN 1-879371-52-9
1999 (October), hardcover with library binding. Sagebrush, United States. ISBN 0-613-17634-0
2000 (September), paperback. Tor Books, United States. ISBN 0-8125-7995-X
Divided printing[edit]
In January 2002, Starscape Books released The Eye of the World into two halves, part one being titled From the Two Rivers (ISBN 0-7653-4184-0) and part two titled To the Blight (ISBN 0-7653-4221-9). ATOM, a British publishing house, printed these halves (ISBN 1-904233-20-1 and ISBN 1-904233-19-8) the following March.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "2003 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults". American Library Association. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
Jump up ^ An Interview with Robert Jordan (from Crossroads of Twilight Prologue). Tor Books. 2002. p. 134. ISBN 0-7432-4493-1.
Jump up ^ Westfahl, Gary (2005). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders, Volume 3. Westport: Greenwood Press. p. 1026. ISBN 0-313-32952-4.
External links[edit]
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The Ghost Writer (film)
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The Ghost Writer
US film poster
Directed by
Roman Polanski
Produced by
Roman Polanski
Robert Benmussa
Alain Sarde
Screenplay by
Robert Harris
Roman Polanski
Based on
The Ghost
by Robert Harris
Starring
Ewan McGregor
Pierce Brosnan
Kim Cattrall
Olivia Williams
Tom Wilkinson
Timothy Hutton
Jon Bernthal
Tim Preece
Robert Pugh
David Rintoul
Eli Wallach
Music by
Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography
Paweł Edelman
Edited by
Hervé de Luze
Distributed by
Summit Entertainment (United States)
Optimum Releasing (United Kingdom)
Release date
12 February 2010 (2010-02-12) (Berlin Film Festival)
19 March 2010 (2010-03-19) (United States)
16 April 2010 (2010-04-16) (United Kingdom)
Running time
128 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Language
English
Budget
$45 million[1]
Box office
$60.2 million[1]
The Ghost Writer (released as The Ghost in the United Kingdom and Ireland)[2] is a 2010 Franco-German-British political thriller film directed by Roman Polanski. The film is an adaptation of a Robert Harris novel, The Ghost, with the screenplay written by Polanski and Harris. It stars Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall and Olivia Williams.[3]
The film was a critical and commercial success and won numerous cinematic awards including Best Director for Polanski at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival and also at the 23rd European Film Awards in 2010.[4]
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
2.1 Non-fictional allusions
3 Production
4 Release
5 Reception
6 Awards
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Plot[edit]
A British ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) is hired by the publishing firm Rhinehart, Inc., to complete the autobiography of former Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan). His predecessor and Lang's aide, Mike McAra, has recently died in an apparent drowning accident. The writer travels to Old Haven on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, where Lang and his wife Ruth (Olivia Williams) are staying, along with Lang's personal assistant (and implied mistress), Amelia Bly (Kim Cattrall). Amelia forbids the writer from taking McAra's manuscript outside, emphasising that it is a security risk.
Shortly after the writer's arrival, former Foreign Secretary Richard Rycart (Robert Pugh) accuses Lang of authorising the illegal seizure of suspected terrorists and handing them over for torture by the CIA, a possible war crime. Lang faces prosecution by the International Criminal Court unless he stays in the US (or one of the few other countries that does not recognise the court's jurisdiction). While Lang is in Washington, the writer finds items in McAra's room suggesting he might have stumbled across a dark secret. Among them is an envelope containing photographs and a phone number the writer discovers is Rycart's.
During a bike ride, the writer encounters an old man (Eli Wallach) who tells him the current couldn't have taken McAra's body from the ferry where he disappeared to the beach where it was discovered. He also reveals a neighbour saw flashlights on the beach the night McAra died, but later fell down the stairs and went into a coma. Later, Ruth admits to the writer Lang had never been very political, and until recently always took her advice. When he tells her the old man's story, she suddenly rushes out into the rainy night to "clear her head." Upon returning, she reveals Lang and McAra had argued the night before the latter's death, and the ghost writer and Ruth have a one night stand while Adam is away.
The next morning, the writer takes the BMW X5[5] McAra used on his last journey. Unable to cancel the pre-programmed directions on the car's sat-nav, he decides to follow them. He arrives in Belmont at the home of Professor Paul Emmett (Tom Wilkinson). Emmett denies anything more than a cursory acquaintance with Lang, despite the writer showing him two pictures of the pair among photographs found in McAra's possessions, as well as another on the wall of Emmett's study. When the writer tells Emmett the sat-nav proves McAra visited him the night he died, Emmett denies meeting McAra and becomes evasive. The writer leaves, and successfully eludes a car that is pursuing him. He boards the ferry back to Martha's Vineyard, but when he sees the pursuit car drive aboard, he flees the boat at the last moment and checks into a small motel by the ferry dock.
With no one else to turn to, the writer redials Rycart's number, asking for help. While waiting, the writer does research on Emmett and links his think tank to a military contractor. He also finds leads connecting Emmett to the CIA. When Rycart arrives, he reveals McAra gave him documents linking Lang to so-called "torture flights," where terrorist suspects were placed on private jets owned by Emmett's company, to be tortured while airborne.
Rycart further claims that McAra found new evidence, which he wrote about in the "beginning" of the manuscript. The men cannot, however, find anything in the early pages. The writer discusses Emmett's relationship with Lang, while Rycart recounts how Lang's decisions as Prime Minister uniformly benefited US interests. When the writer is summoned to accompany Lang on his return flight by private jet, he confronts Lang and accuses him of being a CIA agent recruited by Emmett. Lang derides his suggestions.
Upon leaving the aircraft, Lang is assassinated by a British anti-war protester, who is in turn shot by Lang's bodyguards. Nevertheless, the writer is asked to complete the book for posthumous publication, as in light of Lang's death it will be a certain best-seller. Amelia invites him to the book's launch party in London, where she unwittingly tells him the Americans tightened access to the book, as the "beginnings" contained evidence threatening national security. She also tells him Emmett, who is in attendance, was Ruth's tutor when she was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard.
The writer realizes the clues were hidden in the original manuscript in the opening words of each paragraph, and discovers the message: "Lang's wife Ruth was recruited as a CIA agent by Professor Paul Emmett of Harvard University." He concludes Ruth shaped Lang's every political decision to benefit the USA under direction from the CIA.
The writer passes a note to Ruth revealing his discovery. She unfolds the note, and is devastated. When she sees the writer raising a glass, she is kept from following him by Emmett and other assistants. As the writer leaves the party he attempts to take a taxi, without success. As he crosses the street off-camera, a car accelerates in his direction to an impending collision. As witnesses react in horror, the pages containing McAra's manuscript are blowing in the wind, leaving the writer's fate unconfirmed.
Cast[edit]
Ewan McGregor as The Ghost, an unnamed ghostwriter.
Pierce Brosnan as Adam Peter Bennett Lang, a former British Prime Minister.
Olivia Williams as Ruth Lang, Lang's wife.
Kim Cattrall as Amelia Bly, Lang's personal assistant.
Timothy Hutton as Sidney Kroll, Lang's American lawyer.
Tom Wilkinson as Paul Emmett, a professor at Harvard Law School.
Jon Bernthal as Rick Ricardelli, the ghostwriter's agent.
James Belushi as John Maddox, Rhinehart's New York executive.
Robert Pugh as Richard Rycart, UN Envoy and former British foreign secretary.
Tim Preece as Roy Quigley, managing director of Rhinehart's London business.
David Rintoul as The Stranger, a grieving father who lost his son during the War in Afghanistan.
Eli Wallach as The Old Man at Martha's Vineyard.
Non-fictional allusions[edit]
Pierce Brosnan plays the character of Adam Lang, who has echoes of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The character is linked to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the war on terror and the special relationship with the United States. The author of the book on which the film is based has said he was inspired at least in part by anger at Mr Blair's policies, and calls for him to face war crimes trials.[6]
Robert Pugh, who portrayed the British Foreign Secretary, Richard Rycart, and Mo Asumang, who played the US Secretary of State, both physically resemble their real-life counterparts, Robin Cook and Condoleezza Rice. Like the fictional Rycart, Cook had foreign policy differences with the British Prime Minister. The old man living on Martha's Vineyard is a reference to Robert McNamara.[7] Hatherton Corporation alludes to real-life Halliburton.
Production[edit]
Polanski had originally teamed with Robert Harris for a film of Harris's novel Pompeii,[8] but the project was cancelled because of the looming actors' strike that autumn.[9][10]
Polanski and Harris then turned to Harris' current best seller, The Ghost. They co-wrote a script and in November 2007, just after the book's release, Polanski announced filming for autumn 2008.[11] In June 2008, Nicolas Cage, Pierce Brosnan, Tilda Swinton, and Kim Cattrall were announced as the stars.[12] Production was then postponed by a number of months, with Ewan McGregor and Olivia Williams replacing Cage and Swinton as a result.
The North Sea ferry MS SyltExpress that was used as the Martha's Vineyard ferry in the film.
The film finally began production in February 2009 in Germany, at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. Germany stood in for London and Martha's Vineyard due to Polanski's inability to legally travel to those places, as Polanski had fled the US in 1978 after pleading guilty to unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl. The majority of exteriors, set on Martha's Vineyard, were shot on the island of Sylt in the North Sea, and on the ferry MS SyltExpress. The exterior set of the house where much of the film takes place, however, was built on the island of Usedom, in the Baltic Sea. Exteriors and interiors set at a publishing house in London were shot at Charlottenstrasse 47 in downtown Berlin (Mitte), while Strausberg Airport near Berlin stood in for the Vineyard airport.[13] A few brief exterior shots for driving scenes were shot by a second unit in Massachusetts, without Polanski or the actors.[14]
On his way to the Zurich Film Festival, Polanski was arrested by Swiss police in September 2009 at the request of the US and held for extradition on a 1978 arrest warrant. Due to Polanski's arrest, post-production was briefly put on hold, but he resumed and completed work from house arrest at his Swiss villa. He was unable to participate in the film's world premiere at the Berlinale festival on 12 February 2010.[15]
Release[edit]
The film premièred at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival on 12 February 2010,[16] and was widely released throughout much of Europe during the following four weeks. It went on general release in the US on 19 March 2010 and in the UK on 16 April 2010.[17]
Reception[edit]
The film has received positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 83% of critics gave positive reviews based on a sample of 196 reviews with an average rating of 7.4/10.[18] Its consensus notes that, "While it may lack the revelatory punch of Polanski's finest films, Ghost Writer benefits from stylish direction, a tense screenplay, and a strong central performance from Ewan McGregor."[18] Another review aggregator, Metacritic, gave the film an average rating of 77% based on 35 reviews.[19] For Andrew Sarris the film "constitutes a miracle of artistic and psychological resilience."[20] Roger Ebert gave the film four stars and declared: "This movie is the work of a man who knows how to direct a thriller."[21]
Journalist-blogger William Bradley has dubbed it "one of the best films I've seen in recent years" in a review for The Huffington Post that dealt with the film's artistic and political dimensions.[22] The Guardian said: "Roman Polanski's deft take on Robert Harris's political thriller is the director's most purely enjoyable film for years."[23] Writing for LAS Magazine, Theon Weber gave the film a 6.8 (of 10) rating and called it "a thriller with topical ambitions; it takes place in a jittery, bomb-fearing Britain and America, often in airports or official buildings, where the weary rituals of security screenings refuse to let the characters or the audience relax."[24]
However, John Rentoul from the UK's The Independent, who describes himself as an "ultra Blairite with a slavish admiration for Tony", and John Rosenthal, from the conservative Pajamas Media, both denounced the film because it was made with financial support from the German government. Rentoul also launched a scathing attack on Polanski describing the winner of Berlin's Silver Bear as "propaganda" and a "Blair hating movie".[25] Still, what the critics did not explain was that although the production company, Elfte Babelsberg Film GmbH, received €3.5 million from the German state,[26] any major film production within Germany is entitled to apply for financial assistance from the German Federal Film Fund (de). Since the assistance is considered a grant, there is no requirement that it be repaid.[27] As a result of this funding policy, numerous English-language films have been at least partially shot in Germany over the last two decades, among them The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Aeon Flux, Valkyrie, The Pianist, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Constant Gardener, Unknown, Inglourious Basterds, and Anonymous.
Awards[edit]
Main article: List of accolades received by The Ghost Writer
The movie has won numerous awards, particularly for Roman Polanski as director, Ewan McGregor in the lead role, and Olivia Williams as Ruth Lang.
See also[edit]
2010 in film
British films of 2010
List of films set in London
List of films set in New England
List of thriller films
Roman de Gare (France, 2006), by Claude Lelouch (who appears as Hervé Picard), also about a ghost writer.
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "The Ghost Writer (2010)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
Jump up ^ Movies.ie 6 April 2010: "Free Preview Screening the Ghost in Dublin". Retrieved 30 January 2012
Jump up ^ IMDb: The Ghost Writer main details. Retrieved 30 January 2012
Jump up ^ Brooks, Xan (5 December 2010). "Roman Polanski film The Ghost Writer dominates European awards". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
Jump up ^ 2009 BMW X5 xDrive30d [E70] in The Ghost Writer, Movie, 2010 http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_325926-BMW-X5-E70-2009.html
Jump up ^ Barbara Plett (19 March 2010). "How Realistic Is New Polanski Film The Ghost?". BBC News. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
Jump up ^ French, Philip (18 April 2010). "The Ghost—Roman Polanski's Immaculately Crafted Adaptation of Robert Harris's Bestseller Is a Chilling and Sinister Study of Power". The Observer. London. Retrieved 5 March 2011. Oddly, as co-adaptors, Polanski and Harris have played down a character carefully signalled in the book. In the film, the 94-year-old Eli Wallach plays an elderly Vineyard resident who gives the ghost writer some vital information concerning the cove where the previous writer's corpse washed up. In the novel, he is clearly identified as the former secretary of state Robert McNamara by his rimless glasses and hairstyle, his statement about war crimes ("We could all have been charged with those. Maybe we should have been.") and a reference to a real event in 1972: "Hell, a guy tried to throw me off that damn ferry when I was still at the World Bank." This explains Harris's curious, ludic choice of the name McAra for the original ghost in the novel.
Jump up ^ Variety 1 February 2007: Polanski propels 'Pompeii'. Retrieved 30 January 2012
Jump up ^ Rotten Tomatoes 12 September 2007: Roman Polanski Flees Pompeii. Retrieved 30 January 2012
Jump up ^ Mr. Beaks (5 March 2010). "Mr. Beaks Interrogates The Ghost Writer Novelist-Screenwriter Robert Harris!". Ain't It Cool News. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
Jump up ^ Siegel, Tatiana (7 November 2007). "Roman Polanski returns with 'Ghost'". Variety.
Jump up ^ Fleming, Michael (25 June 2008). "Cage, Brosnan see Polanski's 'Ghost'". Variety.
Jump up ^ Database (undated). "Filming Locations for The Ghost Writer (2010)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
Jump up ^ The end credits list Wellfleet, Provincetown and Bourne, Massachusetts
Jump up ^ Verschuur, Paul; Pettersson, Edvard (28 September 2009). "Polanski Arrested in Switzerland on 1978 U.S. Warrant (Correct)". Bloomberg. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
Jump up ^ Berlin Film Festival Program
Jump up ^ IMDb: Release dates for The Ghost Writer. Retrieved 30 January 2012
^ Jump up to: a b "Ghost Writer Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
Jump up ^ "Ghost Writer, The (2010): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
Jump up ^ Filmlinc.com Archived 9 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ Ebert, Roger (24 February 2010). "The Ghost Writer". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
Jump up ^ Bradley, William (22 March 2010). "The Ghost(s): Of Tony Blair, Roman Polanski, and A War on Terror". HuffPost. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
Jump up ^ Bradshaw, Peter (12 February 2010). "The Ghost Writer". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
Jump up ^ Weber, Theon (9 March 2010). "The Ghost Writer". LAS Magazine. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
Jump up ^ Rentoul, John (26 May 2010). "I Was Wrong About The Ghost". Independent Minds (blog via LiveJournal). Archived from the original on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
Jump up ^ "List of grant approvals from the German Federal Film Fund (2009)" (PDF). Deutscher Filmförderfonds. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
Jump up ^ "German Federal Film Fund (DFFF)". Deutscher Filmförderfonds. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Ghostwriter.
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The Longest Yard (1974 film)
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The Longest Yard
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Robert Aldrich
Produced by
Albert S. Ruddy
Screenplay by
Tracy Keenan Wynn
Story by
Albert S. Ruddy
Starring
Burt Reynolds
Eddie Albert
Ed Lauter
Michael Conrad
Music by
Frank De Vol
Cinematography
Joseph Biroc
Edited by
Michael Luciano
Production
company
Albert S. Ruddy Productions
Long Road Productions
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures
Release date
August 21, 1974 (1974-08-21) (New York)
Running time
121 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$2.9 million[2]
Box office
$43 million[3]
The Longest Yard is a 1974 American sports comedy film directed by Robert Aldrich, written by Tracy Keenan Wynn and based on a story by producer Albert S. Ruddy. The film follows a former NFL player (Burt Reynolds) recruiting the group of prisoners and playing football against their guards.
The film was remade three times, including for the 2001 British film Mean Machine (a shortened version of the title used for the original's UK release), starring Vinnie Jones, the 2005 film remake, The Longest Yard featured Reynolds as coach Nate Scarborough, and as the 2015 Egyptian film Captain Masr. In the two non-American remakes, the sport was changed from American football to association football.
Though the film was billed as being based on an original story, some reviewers found parallels between this film and the 1962 Hungarian film Two Half Times in Hell, which was based on a real-life association football game in 1942 between German soldiers and Ukrainian prisoners of war during World War II, known as the Death Match.
The Longest Yard featured many real-life football players, including Green Bay Packers legend Ray Nitschke.[4] The film was shot on location at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Georgia. It had the cooperation of then-Governor Jimmy Carter. Filming had to be delayed from time to time due to prison uprisings.
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2 Cast
3 Release
4 Reception
5 Remakes
6 Awards
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Plot[edit]
Paul "Wrecking" Crewe is a former star pro football quarterback, who walks out on his wealthy girlfriend Melissa in Palm Beach, Florida. He takes her Maserati-engined Citroën SM without permission and leads police on a car chase, choreographed by Hal Needham. Crewe is arrested and sentenced to eighteen months in Citrus State Prison.
The convicts disrespect Crewe because he was dismissed from the National Football League for point shaving. A sadistic warden, Rudolph Hazen, is a football fanatic who manages a semi-pro team made up of prison guards and wants Crewe to help coach the team and clinch a championship. Responding to pressure from the guards' leader and coach, Captain Wilhelm Knauer, Crewe initially refuses, but eventually relents and agrees to form a prisoner team to play the guards' team in an exhibition "tune-up" game. Crewe forms a team that includes Samson, a former professional weightlifter, and Connie Shokner, a serial killer and martial arts expert.
With the help of the clever Caretaker, former professional player Nate Scarboro (changed to Scarborough in the 2005 remake) and the first black inmate willing to play, "Granny" Granville, plus long-term prisoner Pop — and with an assist from the warden's amorous secretary, Miss Toot — Crewe molds a team nicknamed the "Mean Machine". He agrees to play quarterback himself. After witnessing "Granny" being harassed by some of the prison guards without breaking, the black inmates decide to volunteer their services and join the team. Unger, one of the prison trustees, persistently asks Crewe if he can replace Caretaker as manager of the team, which Crewe refuses to do. In retaliation, Unger attempts to kill Crewe by fashioning a home-made bomb from a light bulb filled with a combustible fluid, designed to detonate inside Crewe's cell when he turns on the light. However, Caretaker is killed instead, when he enters Crewe's cell to retrieve some papers and Unger closes the cell door, locking him in and preventing rescue.
After Caretaker's memorial, Crewe's teammates are given a stern lecture from Hazen about the consequences of any attempted escape after the game. Afterward, Crewe re-energizes the team with a surprise - presenting them with professional uniforms (stolen from the guards by Caretaker before he was killed). They charge onto the field, to the shock of the guards and Hazen, in their new uniforms.
The "Mean Machine" starts out surprisingly well, and at halftime the game is close, with the guards leading, 15-13. Hazen threatens Crewe as an accessory to Caretaker's murder unless Crewe loses the game to the guards by at least 21 points. Crewe reluctantly agrees, but obtains a promise from Hazen that if he cooperates, the other prisoners will be unharmed. Hazen double-crosses him, telling Captain Knauer to order his players to "inflict as much physical punishment on the prisoners as humanly possible" as soon as they are ahead by 21 points. Crewe makes deliberate mistakes, putting the "Mean Machine" down by more than three touchdowns, 35-13, then takes himself out of the game. The Teammates feel betrayed by Crewe's actions. The guards then take out their anger on the prisoners, causing several injuries.
A depressed Crewe goes back into the game. At first, the prisoners provide him with no protection or co-operation, but he convinces them of his change of heart. The "Mean Machine" gets back into the game, trailing 35-30. Knowing that Crewe needs help, Nate, despite his bad knee, scores one of the touchdowns, but is immediately cut down at the knees by guard Bogdanski, crippling him. As he is wheeled off the field, Nate tells Crewe to "screw Hazen" and win the game. They turn the tables on the guards in terms of the violence, including a clothesline from Samson that apparently breaks a guard's neck.
Crewe scores the winning touchdown with no time left and the "Mean Machine" wins, 36-35. As the prisoners celebrate and Crewe walks across the field, appearing to escape, Hazen furiously orders Knauer to shoot him with a rifle; however, Knauer has developed respect for Crewe and refuses to fire. Crewe picks up the football and hands it to Hazen.
Cast[edit]
Burt Reynolds as Paul "Wrecking" Crewe
Eddie Albert as Warden Rudolph Hazen
Ed Lauter as Captain Wilhelm Knauer
Michael Conrad as Nate Scarboro
James Hampton as Caretaker
Harry Caesar as "Granny" Granville
John Steadman as Pop
Charles Tyner as Unger
Mike Henry as Rasmussen
Jim Nicholson as Ice Man
Bernadette Peters as Miss Toot
Pepper Martin as Shop steward
Robert Tessier as Connie Shokner
Richard Kiel as Samson
Anitra Ford as Melissa
Ray Nitschke as Bogdanski
George Jones as Big George
Joe Kapp as Walking Boss
Pervis Atkins as Mawabe
Ernie Wheelwright as Spooner
Sonny Shroyer as Tannen
Ray Ogden as Schmidt
Sonny Sixkiller as Indian
Michael Fox as announcer
A number of the actors had previously played professional football. Henry played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Los Angeles Rams. Kapp played quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings. Nitschke was a middle linebacker for the Green Bay Packers who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1978, four years after release, and Atkins played for the Los Angeles Rams, the Washington Redskins and the Oakland Raiders. Also appearing as prisoners are Wheelwright, who played with the New York Giants, Atlanta Falcons and the New Orleans Saints, and Ogden, who played with the St. Louis Cardinals, the New Orleans Saints, the Atlanta Falcons and the Chicago Bears. Sixkiller was a collegiate star as a quarterback for the University of Washington Huskies from 1970-1972, and briefly played pro in the defunct World Football League. Reynolds himself had played college football for Florida State University before injuries curtailed his career.
Release[edit]
The Longest Yard opened in New York on August 21, 1974.[5] This was followed by a release in Los Angeles on September 25, 1974 followed by a general release in October 1974.[5]
Reception[edit]
The film was popular and earned $22 million in North American theatrical rentals.[6][7] It had admissions in France of 200,738.[8]
The film received generally positive reviews, currently holding an 81% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[9]
MAD satirized this movie as "The Longest Yardbird" in issue #176 (July '75).
Remakes[edit]
The film has been remade three times:
Mean Machine (2001), starring Vinnie Jones, taking place in England and changing the sport from American Football to Association Football.
The Longest Yard (2005), starring Adam Sandler as Crewe and featuring Burt Reynolds in a supporting role (that of retired player Nate Scarborough).
Captain Masr, which translates to Egypt's Captain (2005), starring Mohamed Imam, taking place in Egypt and again changing the sport to association football.
Awards[edit]
The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy in 1975. Reynolds was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Albert was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture and James Hampton was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor. The film was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
See also[edit]
List of American films of 1974
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "THE LONGEST YARD (X)". British Board of Film Classification. September 27, 1974. Retrieved October 25, 2014.
Jump up ^ Alain Silver and James Ursini, Whatever Happened to Robert Aldrich?, Limelight, 1995 p 292
Jump up ^ "The Longest Yard (1974)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
Jump up ^ Gerhard Falk (2005), Football And American Identity, Haworth Press, ISBN 978-0-7890-2527-2
^ Jump up to: a b "The Longest Yard". American Film Institute. Retrieved September 2, 2016.
Jump up ^ Alain Silver and James Ursini, Whatever Happened to Robert Aldrich?, Limelight, 1995 p 38
Jump up ^ $21.3 million according to "All-time Film Rental Champs", Variety, 7 January 1976 p 20
Jump up ^ French box office results for Robert Aldrich films at Box Office Story
Jump up ^ The Longest Yard at Rotten Tomatoes
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Kathryn Beaumont
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Kathryn Beaumont
Born
(1938-06-27) 27 June 1938 (age 80)
London, England, U.K.
Education
University of Southern California
Occupation
Actress, voice actress, singer, school teacher
Years active
1944–2005, 2010
Notable work
Original voice of Alice in Disney's Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Original voice of Wendy Darling in Disney's Peter Pan (1953)
Parent(s)
Kenneth Beaumont (father)
Evelyn Beaumont (mother)
Awards
Disney Legend (1998)
Kathryn Beaumont (born 27 June 1938)[1] is an English actress, voice actress, singer and school teacher. She is best known for providing Disney animated films with the voices of both Alice in Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Wendy Darling in Peter Pan (1953), for which she was named a Disney Legend in 1998. Walt Disney personally cast Beaumont after seeing the film On an Island with You (1948), in which she had a small role. Beaumont reprised her voice acting role as Alice in two episodes of the animated series Disney's House of Mouse (2001–2003) and as both Alice and Wendy in the 2002 video game Kingdom Hearts.
In 2005, Beaumont retired as the voice of Alice and Wendy; the roles were taken over by Hynden Walch.
Filmography[edit]
It Happened One Sunday (1944) — Jill Buckland (uncredited)
On an Island with You (1948) — Penelope Peabody[1]
The Secret Garden (1949) — Muriel (uncredited)
Challenge to Lassie (1949) — Tenement Child (uncredited)
One Hour in Wonderland (1950) — Herself / Alice[1]
Operation Wonderland (1951) — Herself / Alice
The Fred Waring Show (1951, TV Series) — Alice
Alice in Wonderland (1951) — Alice[1] (voice)
Peter Pan (1953) — Wendy Darling[1] (voice)
TV Reader's Digest (1955) — Priscilla Mullins (The Voyage of Captain Tom Jones, the Pirate)
From All of Us to All of You (1958) — Alice / Wendy (voice)
Disney's Villains' Revenge (1999) (video game) — Alice (voice)
Kingdom Hearts (2002) (video game) — Alice / Wendy Darling
Disney's House of Mouse (2002) — Alice (in two episodes, "Mickey vs Shelby" and "Dining Goofy") (voice)
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2003) — Crystal (voice)
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (2010) (video game) — Kairi's Grandma (voice)
Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix (2013) (video game, archive footage) — Alice / Wendy Darling (voice)
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix (2014) (video game, archive footage) — Kairi's Grandma (voice)
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Kathryn Beaumont – Disney Legends, Voice". D23.com. Disney. Archived from the original on 13 December 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
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Kathryn Beaumont on IMDb
Kathryn Beaumont at the TCM Movie Database
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BNF: cb14154029m (data)
ISNI: 0000 0000 4675 5266
LCCN: no99067962
MusicBrainz: 3fda5f03-9f66-46c8-9c08-5cb20504a116
SUDOC: 162150091
VIAF: 49431729
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