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Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, Sean Connery
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Avengers |
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The classic British cult TV series from the 1960s reached the big screen in this glittering but not terribly coherent 1998 production. British Ministry agent John Steed investigates the diabolical plan of Sir August de Wynter to rule the world with his weather control machine. One of the suspects is the scientist, Dr. Emma Peel, but Steed eventually falls in love with her and they team up against de Wynter. Although the sets are dazzling and visual effects often imaginative, the story and acting are weak. Fiennes is fairly stolid as Steed, Thurman super hot physically but all wrong personality-wise for Peel, and Connery phones in his villain. A full hour was cut from the film after test screenings, so the 89-minute result may have lost much of its connective tissue. In any case, it's a poor tribute to the wacky, cheesy but loveably offbeat original. Fiona Shaw, Eddie Izzard, Eileen Atkins, and John Wood are among the cameos.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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This is about a British secret agent, John Steed. He is assigned to work with a doctor, Emma Peel, who worked on a top secret government project to control weather as a means of protecting England. When her lab was destroyed, they thought everything else was too. A very evil genius, Sean Connery, a man obsessed with the weather, is out to control the world with his weather machine. He doesn't care how many people have to die. The two heros act with typically cool British personas, and are the only ones who can save the world.
--Ed Phillips, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Avengers |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 45%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 45%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- main char doing spying/sabotage
- Preventing bomb/biohazard/disaster
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- government investigator
- spy
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- red
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- very skinny (woman)
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 60's-90's
Profession/status:
- not employed but independently wealthy
- mastermind
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
- 60%
Hair color
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Irish/McCourt
- British
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
City?
Yes
City:
- London
- wealthy
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- encouraged
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 5 ()
Kind of violence:
- mission to destroy something
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- frying (electrocuted)
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Subtitles?
- No
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
Is this movie based on a
- TV show
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