Event horizon: the plot of the film, actors and roles

Directed by Paul Anderson became known to the general public after such already become legendary in the fantasy genre films like "Shopping", "Resident Evil", "Pompey", "Soldier" and "Alien vs. Predator". In the list of works of this master shooting fantasy thrillers and horrors there is another quite interesting movie called Event Horizon. At one time he caused various reviews, since he contained quite frank scenes of brutal violence. At the same time, it was noted at many forums that all Event Horizon actors perfectly coped with their work and perfectly played their screen images. True connoisseurs of the genre, in which Anderson works, appreciated this director's work.

Event Horizon: the plot of the film

Since the film belongs to the genre of science fiction, the fact that events develop in 2047, no one from the audience is not surprised. According to the story, a doctor named William Weir, along with the brave crew of the ship "Lewis and Clark" goes to the planet Neptune, because it was there that the SOS signal was received from the second ship, called Event Horizon.

Weir is a scientist, designer and physicist, who once took part in the development of a secret project. A few years earlier, the government set a task for scientists to create a spacecraft that would be able to fly on very impressive distances and at the same time have a speed exceeding the speed of light. According to the doctor, such a ship was created and was called Event Horizon, which means "Through the Horizon".

For a long time he was considered missing, and only 7 years after the last flight from him, a distress signal was recorded.

The crew members, led by Captain Miller, are skeptical about the Weyr story and do not trust it, because they believe that the speed of light, according to the theory of relativity, can not be exceeded. But the doctor-physicist continued to insist on his own throughout the entire expedition inexorably. Weir explained such an incredible, at first glance, possibility that the ship created with his participation had an engine that artificially created a black hole. Its enormous energy was used by the ship in order to change the time and space in such a way that the final and initial points of the ship's voyage coincided when superimposed on each other. Thus, according to the doctor, there is a formation of a spatial tunnel, passing through which, the ship Event Horizon had the ability to instantly move to anywhere in the universe. During one of these movements on a planet called Proxima Centauri, the ship disappeared without a trace.

Scenes of horror

Special stress plot Event Horizon acquires after the heroes fly to Neptune and find the lost ship. It turns out that his entire crew disappeared without a trace, and only a mutilated corpse and bloody tracks remained on board. The tension is further aggravated after a breakdown occurs on board the Lewis and Clark ship, and Captain Miller finds himself in a situation that forces him temporarily to place his crew aboard the strange, horrified and horrified Event Horizon. Forced to appear on board the ship, crew members begin to see strange and eerie things.

For example, one of the lieutenants imagines a son who, instead of legs, has bloody pieces of meat covered with bleeding wounds.

Captain Miller begins to pursue his late friend, whom he once condemned to death, leaving him on the flaming ship "Goliath." Weyr is pursued by his late wife, who committed suicide many years ago and always calls him to her. These horrible scenes were only the beginning of the nightmare that the crew will experience.

The accusation of writers in excessive naturalism

After the release of the film on the screens of many viewers, who are not fans of the genre of horror and fiction, resented the scenes of violence shown below. According to some, they were removed too naturally. According to the plot of the film, after the first horrific visions the crew manages to learn the truth - the ship, missing 7 years ago, having opened the space-time tunnel, got into a completely different Universe, which was something similar to the Christian hell.

The videotape found on the ship showed that the missing members of the Event Horizon crew fell into a frenzy, they became participants in the horrible blood of torture, violent orgies and cannibalism. In this case, the ship itself is gradually turning into a conscious and thinking creature, which does not intend to release the expedition that arrived to Lewis and Clark, back.

The first under the punishment of the ship is a female Lieutenant Pitters. Constant visions of her son lead her into a planned trap. After Weir finds her corpse, the doctor visits the ghost of his deceased wife, which drives him completely mad. Staying in a state of insanity, in order to no longer see the nightmare surrounding him, he squeezes his own eyes. Completely losing control of himself, the doctor blows up the ship "Lewis and Clark", thus depriving all the other crew members of the opportunity to escape. Continuing to mad, Weir alive reveals the first assistant captain - Dee Jay.

Confirming their direct relation to the horror film, this tape is really full of naturalistic scenes of violence. It is for this reason that people who are not fans of this genre, it will be difficult to watch the tape.

At one time, director Paul Andersen even had to cut out about 20 minutes from the total time of the film, which were too overt violence. Otherwise the film would simply not be able to get on the wide screen and not get a rating in the R. category.

Feedback from viewers about an unexpected ending

In this article, we will not spoil the intrigue for those who have not yet seen the film "Through Horizon" (Event Horizon, 1997 release) and fully describe the finale. We only note that the end of this tape caused various reviews of the audience.

One does not quite understand the finale, and therefore after watching they have a feeling of some kind of inconsistency. Others, on the contrary, believe that the finale of this film turned out to be very worthy and makes you think about the essence of the cosmos incomprehensible to the human brain.

The opinion of critics about the plot of the film

It is known that the future criticism of the film is largely determined by the quality of their roles played by the cast. Event Horizon became that rare example when both selection of actors, and their actor's skill were highly appreciated both by usual spectators, and by professional critics.

The plot of the film no one dared to call banal, mediocre, predictable or boring. But practically in all assessments of the tape it is said that the film is uniquely designed exclusively for connoisseurs of the horror genre, psychological thriller and science fiction. Critics of this picture initially do not recommend looking at those who do not like these works, because it really can be too heavy for unprepared perception.

Opinion of film enthusiasts

Connoisseurs of similar things say that the script of the film somewhat resembles one of the stories of Ray Bradbury. Someone with their general atmosphere Event Horizon (the film, which was presented in 1997) resembles the film "Sphere". At various forums there is an opinion that he, according to general impressions after viewing, is a kind of symbiosis of "Pandorum" and "Intersteller".

Event Horizon: actors and roles

In this work the acting is really at a high professional level. Almost in all reviews, the audience notes this fact, despite the fact that at the time of the release of the movie almost all Event Horizon actors were considered secondary.

The role of Captain Miller went to a man who gained wide recognition and recognition a few years later, in 1999, after his legendary game in The Matrix. Everyone knows him as Morphius. Dr. Weir played quite strongly the New Zealand actor Sam Nill.

The odious doctor Weir

For the sake of objectivity, it is worth saying that the role that Nill was given is one of the most difficult, since it was his character who was obsessed with the ship, in whose development he himself took part. Then Sam Nill had to get used to the image of a man who completely lost control of his mind. Actor brilliantly coped with this task, largely due to the fact that at the time of filming already had considerable experience.

Until 1997, he managed to star in such film works as:

• "Scream in the dark";
• "Dead calm";
• "Confession of the Invisible";
• "Jurassic Park";
• "In the mouth of madness";
• "Forgotten silver."

The ideal role played by the captain

The image of the discreet and prudent leader of the spacecraft Miller went to Lawrence Fishburne. World fame came to him after filming in the "Matrix", and before that, he was generally considered a good vtoroplanovym actor. In his track record before the "Horizon of Events" was already participating in the filming of a large number of films, among which:

• "In search of Bobby Fischer";
• "Fair trial";
• "Apocalypse Now";
• "Under cover";
• "Othello";
• "The thirst for death";
• The Miami Police.

Excellent female roles

According to the plot of the film, on-board the ship among the crew there are women - lieutenants Peters and Stark. In the roles of Event Horizon, Caitlin Quinlan and Joely Richardson were involved in the implementation of these images .

The first actress played well Lieutenant Pitters, who suffers from the terrible visions of his son with bloody legs. The second actress successfully played the role of loyal and responsible crew member - Lieutenant Stark.

Interesting facts about the film

The film Event Horizon, the full version of which never got on the wide screen, as it contained too frank scenes of violence, was presented to the audience on August 15, 1997. Worldwide fees from the display of this tape collected a very considerable amount - 47 million dollars.

The timing of the film was quite short - all the material was shot in almost 4 months, from November 1996 to March 1997. But at the same time preliminary preparation for the shooting of the film and the construction of all the necessary scenery took about 1 month.

Concerning the scenery, it is also necessary to mention a well-known fact. During the design of the spaceship, which was the scene of all the main events of the tape, drawings of the world-famous cathedral of Notre Dame were taken as a basis.

The voice and editing took place in the UK. It is also worth noting that initially Anderson intended to release to the film a soundtrack performed by a well-known band Orbital, playing music in techno and electrostyle. But for some personal reason the management of the film studio opposed this idea, and as a result, the music for the tape was recorded in a kind of mix (techno and orchestral music). All musical themes are performed by Orbital in collaboration with Michael Kamen.

After the release of the film in free access, information appeared that the suits, which the actors put on during the filming, weighed almost 25 kg. An interesting fact is that if you carefully look at these spacesuits, you can see on each of them a small flag of the country from which the specific character comes from.