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Actors: Sean Garlick, Rachel Ward
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Fortress (1986) |
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Rachel Ward plays a teacher who teaches at a very small school in the Australian outbacks. One day, she and her eight students are kidnapped and taken hostage by four criminals in santa claus masks. They are all taken to a cave to be held hostage. The men block off the entrance with a boulder and leave the students and their teacher.
While being held hostage, she and the students build an oil lamp from some salad dressing from one of the students' lunches and go exploring the cave for a way out. They find a body of water with a light coming from somewhere. The teacher swims to the light and discovers an exit from the cave. All the students swim out of the cave.
While searching for help, they come across an old couple's home. But when they enter, they find the criminals are there and have already killed the old couple. The teacher and students are taken hostage again. But this time, they manage to con the criminals, knock one of them out, and escape. From there, they devise hand-made weapons from natural things (rock, sticks, etc) and then there is a show-down between the students and the criminals.
--Julie Angelos, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Fortress (1986) |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Wilderness adventure
Yes
Plotlets:
- surviving natural elements
- hunted by enemies
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- teacher/professor
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- long, wavey (woman)
Body type
- skinny (woman)
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Australian
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Main Adversary
Identity:
- gang
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Intelligence
- Dumb
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing nude female butt
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 4 (a fair amount)
Kind of violence:
- guns
- knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Subtitles?
- No
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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