《雪国列车》(朝鲜语:설국열차,英语:Snowpiercer)是一部2013年上映的韩国科幻电影,韩国导演奉俊昊的首部英语电影,并由朴赞郁监制,根据法国雅克·勒布(Jacques Lob)的科幻漫画《Le Transperceneige》改编,聚集美、英、韩三国多名影星演出。因为全球暖化,人类打造出一台名为CW7机器来调节气温,但是最后失败导致全球气温骤降。仅存的人类都乘坐在诺亚方舟般的列车里,这台自给自足,能永恒不灭地运转下去的列车却存在两种截然不同的生活,前区的人奢华度日,后区的人被压榨,只能劳苦工作。末节车厢的人们不堪忍受如战俘收容所般的恶劣环境,决定起来反抗。叛军领袖寇帝斯(Curtis)策划利用一场暴动来夺取神秘残暴独裁者威佛(Wilford)所掌控火车命脉的引擎区,首先他要解救被囚禁起来的掌钥人,也就是设计这辆列车的南宫民秀,不过暴动计划也因为横生枝节的意外变得更加险峻。本片在媒体试映后得到了大部分媒体的积极肯定,其中欧美媒体对影片的特效与独到风格予以盛赞,韩国媒体则认为影片价值观和故事性仍带有鲜明的奉俊昊烙印。《综艺》杂志称它是“一部野心勃勃、视效极佳、内涵丰富、非常令人满意的未来史诗”,并盛赞导演为“来自韩国的天才导演”。Twitchfilm网站认为“西方主流观众是否能接受这种黑暗残忍的类型还未可知,不过奉俊昊已经以自己的方式击败了好莱坞。《雪国列车》讲述了一个绝佳的末日科幻故事,是一次非常独特和令人激动的观影体验。”
Snowpiercer (Korean: 설국열차; hanja: 雪国列车; RR: Seolgungnyeolcha) is a 2013 South Korean science fiction action film based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette.[3] The film is directed by Bong Joon-ho,[4][5] and written by Bong and Kelly Masterson. The film marks Bong's English-language debut; approximately 80% of the film was shot in English.The film stars Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, John Hurt, and Ed Harris.
In 2014, an experiment to counteract global warming causes an ice age that kills nearly all life on Earth. The only survivors are the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a massive train powered by aperpetual-motion engine that travels on a globe-spanning track. A class system is installed, with the elites inhabiting the front of the train and the poor inhabiting the tail.
In 2031, the tail inhabitants prepare for the latest in a series of rebellions. Guards arrive periodically to deliver protein blocks for food, and take some of the children. During the guards’ next visit, Curtis Everett (Evans) leads the tail inhabitants in revolt, forcing their way through several train cars to the prison section. There, they release prisoner Namgoong Minsu (Song), the man who built the security system that controls the doors dividing each car, and his clairvoyant daughter Yona. They offer him uncut Kronole, a drug that both he and his daughter are addicted to, as payment for unlocking each of the remaining doors.
One of the cars is filled with armed men. Under the orders of Minister Mason (Swinton), the men battle Curtis' forces. Curtis' side prevails, and he captures Mason, but he is forced to sacrifice his second-in-command, Edgar, to do so. Mason agrees to lead the group through the high-class cars in exchange for her life. In the school car, the teacher points out seven frozen rebels through the window. She and a henchman then draw machine guns, slaughtering many of Curtis' followers, and executing his mentor Gilliam. Curtis then kills Mason.
Curtis, his few remaining followers, and Namgoong and Yona continue through the train, discovering the extravagance in which the elites have been living while the poor wallowed in squalor. One of Mason's henchmen, Franco the Elder, kills the rest of Curtis' followers, before the henchman is himself seemingly killed. Curtis resolves to complete his mission, accompanied by Namgoong and Yona. The trio moves through the remaining cars where the elite indulge in food, partying and Kronole; Namgoong steals much of this Kronole from the inebriated revelers. As they arrive at the Engine door, Namgoong suggests they use the collected Kronole, made from explosive chemical waste, to blow open the side of the train, and escape into the outside. Namgoong explains that every year, the train has passed a crashed plane buried in snow, which has become less buried with each passing year, suggesting that Earth is warming, and that survival outside is now possible.
Curtis explains why he must confront Wilford, creator of the train and its hierarchy. When the tail dwellers first boarded the train, they were deprived of food, water, and supplies, and in crowded conditions, forcing them to turn to cannibalism. Before the introduction of the protein blocks, Curtis had kidnapped an infant Edgar to eat him, and killed his mother, before Gilliam cut his own arm off and offered it in Edgar's place. Namgoong resolves to use the explosive, but the engine door opens, and Namgoong is shot and wounded by Wilford's assistant Claude, who forces Curtis inside. Curtis confronts Wilford, who explains that the revolution was orchestrated between himself and Gilliam as a means of population control, necessary to maintaining balance aboard the train for supplies, but Curtis was too successful and Wilford's own losses too great, so he executed Gilliam as punishment. The aging Wilford says that he wants Curtis to replace him as the train's overseer, while in the tail, Wilford's henchmen execute 74% of the inhabitants.
Meanwhile, Yona and the recovered Namgoong fight off the irate partiers and Franco (who survived the previous fight). Yona knocks Claude unconscious, gets inside the engine room and pulls up the floor to reveal that Wilford is using the tail children as slave labor, to replace the train's failing components. Outraged, Curtis sacrifices his arm to block the train gears, freeing one of the children, Timmy. Yona recovers the explosive from Claude and ignites it, before retreating into the engine with Namgoong. The damaged engine door fails to close, and Namgoong and Curtis sacrifice themselves to shield Yona and Timmy from the resulting explosive fire. The explosion sound wave causes an avalanche in the surrounding mountains that strikes and derails the train, destroying many of the cars. In the aftermath, Yona and Timmy step outside into the snow. In the distance Yona spots a polar bear, revealing that life exists outside the train.
Since its South Korean opening, the film has earned US$86.7 million worldwide.[169] As of April 2014, it is the tenth highest-grossing domestic film in South Korea with 9,350,141 admissions.[170] The film holds the domestic record for the fastest movie (domestic and foreign) to reach four million admissions, which it achieved in its fifth day after premiere, and another record for the highest weekend figure (from Friday to Sunday) for a Korean film, with 2.26 million viewers.[171] The film took in a total of $171,187 on its US opening weekend, averaging $21,398 per theater.[172] The film grossed US$59,802,711 in South Korea and its largest international market was China, with $11,100,000
James Rocchi of Film.com wrote that, "If the film has one element that never flags or falters, it's Evans." [184]
Scott Foundas of Variety wrote, "An enormously ambitious, visually stunning and richly satisfying futuristic epic from the gifted Korean genre director Bong Joon-ho." Foundas added that Beltrami’s original score was "among the generally impeccable craft contributions [to the film]."
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