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Actors: Chris Klein, Jean Reno, LL Cool J, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Rollerball (2002) |
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ROLLERBALL is a film directed by John McTiernan in 2002. It's the remake of the 1975 Norman Jewison film based on a short story by William Harrison.
Jonathan Cross accepts to sign a contract with Alexis Petrovich, the man who invented the rollerball game. Rollerball is a new and violent game involving motorcyclists and rollerbladers. It's played for the moment only in the former Russian republics but with a tremendous success. When Jonathan notices that Petrovich wants the game to become even more violent in order to get bigger TV market shares, he decides to leave his team and the country with his old friend Marcus Ridley. But Petrovich catches up with them just before the frontier, kills Ridley and brings Jonathan back to the city.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Rollerball (2002) |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
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:
- near future
Sports story?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- athlete
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- bald
Hair style
- (man) bald
Body type
- muscular (man)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- businessman, big
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- muscular (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Eastern European
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- The 'stans
City?
Yes
City:
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
- San Francisco
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- frustrated
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 6 (an above average amount)
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
Is this movie based on a
- book
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