Deep Impact (film)

See also: Deep Impact

Deep Impact is an American film carried out by Mimi Leder, left in 1998.

Synopsis

Leo Beiderman, fourteen years, is pupil of the club of astronomy of its college. It takes a photograph of the starry sky through its telescope and discovers without the knowledge a comet which moves towards the Earth. Defendant, the president of the United States calls upon a former astronaut, Spurgeon Tanner, which is charged to direct an international mission on board experimental vessel Messiah . They must be posed on comet and try, by nuclear loads, to deviate it of its trajectory. On Earth, imminent cataclysm causes the most extreme reactions because the collision between comet and the planet ground could mean the end of mankind.

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Concerning film

  • the same year, in 1998, left the film Armageddon with a similar history (an asteroid moving straight towards the ground). Besides it was necessary to modify a part of speech of the President (Morgan Freeman) in whom it said: “ Life will go one, we will prevail. This is not Armageddon ” ( the life will follow its course, we will overcome this test. It is not the Apocalypse ). In its screen, Deep Impact is also different from Armageddon. Except for the final scene, the intimist point of view of of the various protagonists is privileged with spectacular and the special effects. The " part; sauvetage" and intervention on comet occupies finally little time, the realizer concentrating more on the human and social consequences of the catastrophe.

  • When Marcus Wolf (Charles Martin Smith) discovers comet, it is alone and eating a pizza pie, just like its character in Starman (1984) when it learns the landing from the extraterrestrial vessel.

  • When Marcus Wolf sends email in connection with comet, one can see the messages in its electronic box. One of them comes from " cshoemaker arizona.unv" , referring to Carolyn and Eugene Mr. Shoemaker, of the specialists in the comets which were engaged as advisers for film.

  • After the discovery of comet, one of the astronomers dies in an car accident. It is a direct reference to the accident which cost the life Eugene Shoemaker the July 18th 1997 in Australia.

  • One of the members of NASA in film is not other than Gerry Griffin, which is a former flight director of NASA. It directed the mission Apollo 12 and became then director of the Johnson Space center to Houston.

Original soundtrack

  • Bohemian the , interpreted by Mario Serini and Nicolai Gedda
  • The Hole , interpreted by Randy Travis
  • Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) , interpreted by Tom Jones
  • It Must Be Angel Day , interpreted by Larry Dean & the Shooters

Distinctions

  • Price of the best performance in a dramatic film by a young actor for Elijah Wood, at the time of the YoungStar Awards in 1998.
  • Nomination at the price of best science fiction film, by the Academy of science fiction films, fantastic and horror in 1999.
  • Nomination at the price of the best actor in a science fiction film for Robert Duval and Morgan Freeman, better actress in a science fiction film for Tea Leoni, male best supporting role in a science fiction film for Elijah Wood and female best supporting role in an action film for Vanessa Redgrave, at the time of the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards in 1999.
  • Price of the male best supporting role for Morgan Freeman, at the time of the Image Awards in 1999.

External bonds

  • Deep Impact on Internet Movie Database
  • Critical DevilDead

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