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Actors: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, Jeremy Davies
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Ravenous |
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Written by Ted Griffin, RAVENOUS is a film directed by Antonia Bird in 1999.
An old Indian legend claims that a person who eats human flesh becomes stronger and yearns for more flesh to eat. Eight soldiers guarding Fort Spencer, an isolated fort lost in the Sierra Nevada will be systematically killed and eaten by Robert Carlyle, a U.S. cavalry officer, once weak and feeble, who has discovered by chance that a human stew every night can do a lot for his health.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 19th century
Horror film?
Yes
Horror Plotlets:
- mad guy with knife likes to slice
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- longhair/girliemon (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (man) long, like a girl
Body type
- fat (man)
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- is very quick
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) long girliemon hair
Body type
- average (man)
unclothed?
- chest and buttocks
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
Mountains/Cliffs
Yes
Mountains:
- falling off
Forest?
Yes
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
- cave
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing nude male butt
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- guns
- knives
- swords
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- eaten
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- None
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- nasty human transformations
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