We recall the film "Mars Attacks!": Actors, plot, reviews, interesting facts

In 2016 marks the 20th anniversary of the premiere of the film "Mars Attacks!" Actors and roles, the plot, reviews and reviews - we will recall all about this remarkable product of the film industry.

Creating a movie and casting

During the shopping trip, the future screenwriter Jonathan James found the collection of cards from the '50s, "Mars Attacks!" These were mini-comic books about the attack of aliens. The cards of flying saucers and strange tart and stalking Martians were the brainchild of a whole team of artists and were attached to chewing gum.

Jonathan's head came up with a great idea - to create a film based on this story about warlike aliens. He shared his thoughts with the future director of the tape, Tim Burton. However, the work on the film was almost over, not even having time to start. According to initial calculations, the implementation of the scenario James would cost the studio a fantastic amount - $ 280 million.

James was even suspended for some time from working on the film, but in the end he was able to provide as many as 12 variants of the script, which would not require such monetary costs. As a result, the film cost the creators 70 million dollars. The bulk of this amount was spent on special effects.

The film "Mars Attacks!", Whose actors coexisted on the screen with funny painted Martians, was Burton's first experience in using computer graphics.

The creators wanted to parody the sci-fi movies of the fifties. What else is the film "Mars attacking"? The actors involved in the project, according to the director's plan, were to be diverse - the first-magnitude stars were neighbors with colleagues from films of the B category and even amateurs.

Actors and roles

We continue to remember the movie masterpiece "Mars Attacks!" The actors of the film and the role, the heroes, who are numerous in the film, were bright, characteristic and well remembered by the audience. And this despite the fact that because of the large number of characters for each had not so much screen time!

The actors of the movie "Mars Attacks!" In their seats: Pierce Brosnan is dressed in a perfect suit and wins the hearts of women in the manner of Professor Donald Kessler, Sarah Jessica Parker leads a women's fashion show about Natalie Lake, Michael J. Fox appeared as an ambitious TV journalist, Jack Nicholson - a somewhat insane US president James Dale (he also played an entrepreneur Art Land), and Denis de Vito is a joker, a player and a humorist.

Glenn Close played the first lady Marsha Dale, the rising star Natalie Portman - the daughter of President Teffi Dale. Martin Short played the role of spokesman Jerry Ross, Lisa Mary - disguised as an extraterrestrial. Annette Bening performed the role of Barbara Land, Lucas Haas embodied the image of Richie Norris, and Sylvia Sidney - his grandmother Florence. Jim Brown played boxer Byron Williams.

Plot

It's difficult to answer in a while, who is the main character of the movie "Mars attacks!" The actors embodied many images and several stories, which in the end are weaved into one.

In the center of the plot are the president of the United States with his family, a couple of tenacious journalists, a former heavyweight boxer, militaristic family Norris with his youngest son, a pacifist and a senile grandmother.

The inhabitants of the Earth learn that in the orbit ships of aliens are seen. Soon the first contact took place. The Martians said that they came in peace, but shot several dozen citizens.

Earthlings write off the incident for an accident and invite representatives of aliens to Congress, but the alien invaders again take up arms. While people are hoping for a peaceful outcome of the events, the Martians frankly laugh at them and put out stupid experiments on prisoners.

The aliens destroyed earthlings all over the planet, and humanity would be defeated, if not for the occasional discovery of Richie Norris and his grandmother. They learned that one of the popular songs in the 50's literally explodes the Martians brain.

Reviews

Spectators and critics quite coolly met the poisonous fantastic comedy "Mars Attacks!" Actors and filmmakers hardly expected that this movie will be watched and reviewed in 20 years, because he almost failed at the box office! The tape collected only $ 100 million with a budget of 70. In Europe, the picture was taken better than in the US.

Many perceived "Mars attacks!" As a parody of the newly released "Independence Day", although the creators set a goal to beat low-budget fantasy films. Many people were confused by the slightly complicated plot and the abundance of characters. However, the creators with ease and a good deal of black humor got rid of them.

The result

The film crew of the film "Mars Attacks!" Has done a great job. The tape was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Costumes, Special Effects, and received the award for the soundtrack. For the best performance, the team won the Hugo Award. But the most significant indicator of the high quality of the picture is its long-lasting success. And today the viewer easily recognizes amusing glaring Martians with plastic blasters.

Interesting facts about the work of the film crew

• The film's writers could not decide exactly how the aliens will sound, and during the work they marked it as ack, ack, ack, ack. As a result, this sound, pronounced in different ways, and became a Martian language.
• The dress of the Martian, penetrated into the White House, did not have fasteners, it was literally sewn on actress Lisa Mari.
• The sounds of the shots of the Martian blasters are taken from the film of the 50s "The War of the Worlds".
• The film used the frames of a real explosion. The director managed to shoot a construction detonation of a casino in Las Vegas.