And while aspects of Rollerball have dated as well as a sandwich left out in the sun, it has an intelligence and odd beauty that make it worth returning to. David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone are just two of the competitors in the nation-wide Death Race, in which drivers take souped up death machines across the country in as short a time as possible, killing as many innocent bystanders as they can.
Bartel treats the ludicrous premise with the cartoonish comic tone it deserves, creating an unforgettably warped, very 70s approach to bloodsport. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack ran out of money finishing King Kong , they returned to the sets with a plan to make a movie and raise some scratch in a hurry.
The film they made was the first adaptation of The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, the ultimate anti-colonialist narrative.
He quickly discovers that Zaroff only lives in the middle of the ocean because he has a fetish no one in the real world would understand - he likes hunting human beings and has turned his home into a hunting ground. Cooper and Schoedsack tell the tale with elegant simplicity, befitting a film about two cunning professionals who have to kill each other given only the barest essentials, a lesson that the makers of The Hunger Games paid close attention to.
This, as you might imagine, is quite difficult Katniss could relate in a big way to that dilemma. Brutal schoolyard killings in Kobe dominated the news. This generation of kids seemed rotten to the core. The movie is unflinching and brutal. No wonder no American distributor would even venture near the film for years after its release—especially with real-life school killings dotting the front pages of American newspapers. A shame because Battle Royale isn't only one of the best Japanese films of the past decade, but it's one of the best Japanese films ever made.
No wonder Quentin Tarantino admires this film so. While some in the West call Battle Royale a cult movie, in its native Japan, it was a mainstream flick by a well respected director. And it was incredibly controversial in Japan upon its release. Kinji Fukasaku directed Battle Royale when he was in his late 60s. The film seemed to come out of nowhere, as only a few years earlier he was enjoying career retrospectives at the American Cinematique in summer , putting around from meet-and-greets and talking about his horrific experiences disposing of dead bodies as a teen during World War II.
In , it seemed like Fukasaku's best work—such as the iconic Battles Without Honor and Humanity —was well behind him. No, the murder of children is by no means humorous; however, the exaggerated blood spurts and ways in which some of the students die is laugh inducing. See girls wielding guns aimlessly. And, don't even get us started on the cheesy lines offered between students.
When we saw the film, most of the audience had a chronic case of the sniffles after Katniss sang to the dying Rue in her arms. Collins provides background stories for a majority of the "Hunger Games" characters, so when they die, we actually feel something, as opposed to the quick offings of the children running around in "Battle Royale.
After 74 years of giving two dozen tributes up to sacrifice their lives in a game for the government, the citizens of the districts have had enough. You don't get a sense of this in the first film—save for a brief scene of one of the districts uprising; however, as Collins' series progresses, you see there's much more at stake in the countries than Katniss and Peeta's lives.
Think of the children! None of the kids appear interested in fighting back against the government as Gale does in "The Hunger Games. Their parents—some of which are dead—don't even know their kids are missing. Even with this knowledge, they don't have time to consider forming an alliance to overthrow the government's ridiculous act, they're too busy coping with the news of having to kill their schoolmates while simultaneously dodging axes, gunfire and bloody corpses.
Perhaps this will lead to rebellion one day down the line, but for now, there's no guarantee. In a sequel, one of the characters from the first film is hunted down as a murderer by a selected group of kids. In the "Hunger Games," tributes have the luxury—for the most part—of killing strangers.
It's a trite different when children in "Battle Royale" are forced to kill people they've grown up with their entire lives. The ones who don't want to fight give up almost immediately by committing suicide jumping off cliffs, hanging themselves, et al.
Murders break out over simple things—trust issues between friends, girl quarrels over boys really or just by accident. Sure, some of the "Hunger Games" crew becomes blood thirsty, but the main characters hold onto their identities and the victors can return to civilization without taking lives.
In "Battle Royale," we're hard pressed to find someone who hasn't become a killing machine, save two main characters. That's because you've most likely seen or heard this before.
Remember "Lord of the Flies"? You know, the book by William Golding that follows a group of British boys stuck on a deserted island. No one is forced to fight one another to the death; however, the book—and film adaptation—are filled with bloody combat. After surviving a plane crash, the boys are left to either thrive together or battle for survival amongst one another. Guess which conquers?
Hint: they don't form one giant, happy tribe "Lost" style. Primal instincts of savagery win out any chance of a budding civilization and the children begin killing each other—memorable character Piggy has a boulder thrown on him. The game is popular on Steam, Microsoft Windows, and Ps4. The game consists of 10 prisoners dumped onto a snowy post-apocalyptic landscape in Canada as the next Ice Age approaches. With access to six additional biomes, the prisoners must survive using only an ax and a bow as they forge fires, build camps, carve arrows, and forage for natural resources.
Additional tools include beartraps, tripwires, and snowballs. The final survivor wins the game. Developed and published by Xaviant in , The Culling is another free-to-play battle royale game that features 16 characters dropped onto an island or prison complex, where they must complete a series of tasks in order to collect a form of currency called F.
Players collect F. When they aren't killing each other for ultimate dominance, players must traverse caves, mines, faulty bridges, toxic gas, barrel bombs, and more. Available on all major platforms, ARK: Survival Evolved is an open-world survival action-adventure in which players must outwit and outlast a series of menacing prehistoric beasts, inclement weather, and dastardly human beings.
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