Submarine Film 2010
Armanda Kicks
Submarine is a 2010 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Ayoade and starring Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine and Sally Hawkins. It was adapted from the 2008 novel Submarine by Joe Dunthorne, and is an international co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States. Submarine is Ayoade's directorial debut.[3]
Oliver Tate is an unpopular 15-year-old who is infatuated with classmate Jordana. After Oliver teases another girl to get Jordana's attention, she invites him to meet secretly after school and takes pictures of them kissing. Jordana uses the pictures to make her ex-boyfriend Mark jealous; Mark roughs up Oliver, but Oliver refuses to say that Jordana is a slut. Jordana becomes Oliver's girlfriend and, after a couple of weeks, they have sex in his bedroom while his parents are out.
At home, Oliver becomes concerned about his parents. His father, Lloyd, is depressed. New-age guru Graham, an ex-boyfriend of his mother, Jill, has moved in next door, and his flirtations rouse Oliver's suspicions.
Oliver's relationship with Jordana grows, but he learns that her mother has a potentially fatal brain tumour. At an early Christmas dinner at Jordana's house, he witnesses her father break down. Unsettled, he decides that the Jordana he loves is at risk because the emotional events surrounding her will "make her gooey in the middle." Rather than visit Jordana's mother in hospital, as he has promised to, he loses his nerve and cuts off contact.
Thinking that his mother and Graham are having an affair, Oliver attempts to repair his parents' relationship. While searching for his mother on the beach, he is stunned to see Jordana with another boy. Walking home, dejected, he sees his mother with Graham and assumes the worst. Enraged, he breaks into Graham's house, gets drunk, and commits minor acts of vandalism. When Graham comes home, he finds Oliver but returns him home with minimal fuss. The next morning, Oliver awakes to see that both his parents aren't angry with him and are reconciling.
Oliver remains distraught about losing Jordana; he is downhearted for weeks, until he sees her on the beach. He runs to her and apologizes, learning that Jordana does not actually have a new boyfriend. Together, they walk several inches deep into the sea, smiling.
The film was produced by Warp Films and Film4 Productions.[6] Principal photography began on 26 October 2009 and filming finished in December 2009. Filming locations in Wales included Swansea, Cardiff, Rhondda, and Barry.[7]
The film premiered at the 35th Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010.[9] Following a generally positive reception it was picked up by The Weinstein Company for a North American release.[10] The film also played at the 54th London Film Festival in October 2010 and was played out of competition at the 27th Sundance Film Festival in January 2011.[11][12] It was also screened along with 400 other films at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival the next month.[13]
Submarine received positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a score of 88% based on reviews from 156 critics, with an average score of 7.4/10. The website's critics consensus: "Funny, stylish, and ringing with adolescent truth, Submarine marks Richard Ayoade as a talent to watch."[14] At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 76 based on 37 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[15]
Critic Roger Ebert gave the film 3/4 stars saying "Submarine isn't an insipid teen sex comedy. It flaunts some stylistic devices, such as titles and sections and self-aware narration, but it doesn't try too hard to be desperately clever. It's a self-confident work for the first-time director, Richard Ayoade, whose purpose I think is to capture that delicate moment in some adolescent lives when idealism and trust lead to tentative experiments. Because Craig Roberts and Yasmin Paige are enormously likable in their roles, they win our sympathy and make us realize that too many movies about younger teenagers are filtered through the sensibility of more weathered minds."[16]
Last week I watched Yellow Submarine, a 1968 animated film following the members of Beatles as they travel from Liverpool to Pepperland, a beautiful undersea paradise. After a strange journey in the eponymous submarine, the band must fight the music-hating Blue Meanies, and return music to Pepperland.
Yellow Submarine received widespread critical acclaim. Released in the midst of the psychedelic pop culture of the 1960s, the film drew in movie goers both for its lush, wildly creative images, and its soundtrack of Beatles songs.
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen Released in 1981 after two years of filming 'Das Boot' (The Boat) was, at the time of production, the most expensive German film in history, costing 30 million Deutsche Marks (US$40 million). Location shooting included segments shot in the La Pallice bunkers. There were three models made of the U-Boat used in the film, one of which was an exact replica made by the company that originally manufactured the boats during WWII. Although they wanted to use an authentic one for the film, the only surviving VII-C Class U-Boat is now a national monument in Germany and could not be used for filming. The non-functional full-size replica U-boat was accidentally sunk during filming, later raised and used also in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'. A smaller-sized functional model 6-7m replica was used to film 'at sea' scenes. The original film set and models used during the making of Das Boot are open to the public as a part of the tour of the Bavarian Film Studios, Munich . The original U96 was a Type VII-C.
The original film set and models used during the making of Das Boot are open to the public as a part of the tour of the Bavarian Film Studios, Munich, Germany. There exists also a VIIC and a XXi as floating musea in Germany
For search in English, select web. Numerous pics, but none shows how narrow it is inside really. So your to go there to get that feeling. With several other visitors around you it comes more intense (similar a crew around you) and you think about, how to come out quickly if something unexspected happened. Against that the modern US-subs are luxus-liners.
This a great website for all things U boat, the amount of detail is incredible, it even has an 'on this day' rolling dairy of u boats lanched, attacked, lost, crew fates, allied ships attacked etc. it's facinating stuff.
This product of mash-up culture laces its tale of a bumbled first romance with Jean-Luc Godard-esque intertitles, occasional New Wave editing rhythms, and a healthy sprinkling of other film references. Godard himself famously said that all you needed to make a film was a gun and a girl. All Ayoade needs is the girl, a hilariously awkward young suitor, and a lot of other movies.
The latest in a long line of brainy, misunderstood teen protagonists, Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) is, of course, too smart, too weird, too anxious for his own good. Like many young outsiders, his problems come not from being bullied, but from the chance occasions where loneliness and desperation force him out of his fringe comfort zone, the awkward periphery from where he can make wry comments and skulk about morosely. One of these occasions occurs early on in Submarine, when social bewilderment leads him into a round of bullying, ending with his pushing a dowdy female victim, a friend and sympathizing eccentric, into a puddle. The ghost of this incident hangs over the rest of this impressively mature film, whose conception of suffering as a necessary element of emotional progress stretches far beyond its clear-eyed handling of adolescent growing pains.
The story was written by Lee Minoff (Erich Segal, who wrote Love Story, is also credited as a writer on the film). A utopian society that exists at the bottom of the sea, Pepperland, is suddenly attacked by hordes of Blue Meanies, who despise music. A mariner named Old Fred escapes in the Yellow Submarine and journeys to Liverpool. He encounters Ringo, who before Old Fred appeared was complaining that nothing ever happens to him. The two of them persuade John, George, and Paul to return to Pepperland.
I was too young to see Yellow Submarine in the theatre (I was five when it came out), but I remember seeing it when CBS first aired it. I loved it even as a kid. Of course, I have been a Beatles fan nearly since birth (I think the Saturday morning cartoon was probably my first exposure to them), so I was probably predisposed to love it! I own it on DVD and watch it every July 4. ?
I rented Yellow Submarine from our local library when our now 12 year old was 5 and he loved it! He watched it over and over again. Our family just returned from a vacation and in the car the most requested cds to listen to were all by The Beatles. Their musicianship was truly incredible.
Hi chap/chapess's, picked this up at the Bruntingthorpe show yesterday for a fiver. I'm always on the lookout for something a bit unusual, for the right price and this hit the mark. I had absolutely no idea what the heck it was, looking as it does like a cross between the Nautilus, the Mole and Fireflash I assumed it was a recent Japanese take on Gerry Anderson machinery, until I googled it and found it to be an original design craft from the 1963 film 'Atragon', (Kaitei Gunkan) released by TOHO in Japan in 1963 at the height of Godzilla mania.The ship's actually called the Gotengo, an all singing, flying, drilling battleship/submarine/rocketcraft. It's a Kaiten Gunkan, an Undersea Warship, also known as Atragon, and was based on a series of young adult adventure novels released in Japan in the early sixties. Basically, the ancient undersea continent Mu (essentially a version of Atlantis) rises from the deep and threatens Japan. They build the ultimate submarine (which may or may not be sentient) named Gotengo to combat it.
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