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Actors: James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams, John Beck, Moses Gunn, Ralph Richardson
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Rollerball (1975) |
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By the year 2018, the Corporate Wars have ended and crime has been eliminated around the globe. To entertain and divert the bored masses, the sport of Rollerball -- a cross between hockey, roller derby, and motocross -- has been invented and become wildly popular. Veteran player Jonathan E. (Caan) of the Houston team has become so big with the fans over his ten-year career that the corporate owners fear his stardom violates the team ideology of Rollerball and may inspire a revolution.
Personified by Mr. Bartholomew (Houseman), an executive with Energy Corp., the owners take away Jonathan's beloved Ella (Adams) and substitute various concubines, and loosen the rules of the game so it becomes even more dangerous. The Houston-Tokyo game is a near massacre. Increasingly suspicious, previously dumb jock Jonathan tries to investigate the history of the game and the corporations, but Zero, the world's most powerful computer, provides no answers.
In the final game of the season, against New York, there will be no penalties, no substitutions, and no time limit, and the owners are openly encouraging the NY players to kill Jonathan.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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ROLLERBALL is a movie directed by Norman Jewison in 1975. Screenplay directed written for the screen by William Harrison.
Jonathan E. is the best rollerball player of the Houston team. For ten years now, he's playing this violent game sponsored by huge corporative organizations. His employer John Houseman wants Jonathan to retire because he fears that Jonathan has got too much power over the shouting crowd and so could be a danger for the corporation. Jonathan refuses as the game becomes even more violent.
A classic.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 45%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 35%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- near future
Sports story?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- athlete
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard curly (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- cynical
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 20%
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 60's-90's
Profession/status:
- businessman, big
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Texas
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Switzerland
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Japan
Farm/Ranch?
Yes
Farm/Ranch:
- ranch
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
- concerned
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing nude male butt
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 ()
Kind of violence:
- karate chop
- hand to hand
Unusual forms of death
- run over
- flamed
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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