Joshua Tyler | renew
In 2016, Sony Pictures released a large budget space movie with all the right ingredients. It’s an excellent sci-fi concept, luxurious and breathtaking work, and the protagonist of the movie. It frys in their faces.
This is the reason passenger Failed.
The origin of the passenger
Scripted passenger It has been floating around Hollywood since 2007. Twilight Zone– Twisted style.
In it, one man wakes up alone on a deep space colonial ship, after a year of isolation, he awakens her secretly, destined another passenger to the same fate, but he doesn’t have to be alone. crawl? Yes. But it’s also bold.
The project has been stuck in nearly a decade of hard work in development hell, with Keanu Reeves and Reese Witherspoon once attached to dropouts. Finally, Sony and Imitation gameMorten Tyldum’s command and two Hollywood’s most impressive stars led the charge.
Instead of shying away from the challenging premise of the film, they try to soften it. That’s where the trouble begins.
Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence lead into space
Chris Pratt plays Jim Preston, whose mechanic wakes up for 90 years in the spacecraft Avalon. He was the only one who was awake and he could do nothing about it. He is alone.
After a year of space madness, extreme isolation brought it, he stumbled upon the sleeping cabin of Aurora Lane played by Jennifer Lawrence. Aurora is smart and beautiful. She was the girl he dreamed of.
Jim visits Aurora’s pods regularly to find comfort. He looked at her sleep, knowing that his hellish loneliness solution was right in front of him, and could end with a button press.
He considered suicide, and he resisted the temptation that awakened her for months until one day he snapped it up, but he didn’t. Jim awakened her. Don’t tell her it’s him. Let her think it was a malfunction, just like his.
So now Aurora is trapped in a huge empty ship, except for the guy who ruined her life, she is the only one who doesn’t know what he did, and no one spends time with it. Of course, they fell in love. Because what else will you do on a ship without other conscious humans? Then she discovered the facts.
Why passengers fail
passenger Globally, it requires more than $300 million, or even more than $300 million, which is almost not reaching the threshold of $303 million, including $100 million in China.
Release on December 21, 2016, opens to $14.9 million on Christmas weekend, but faces fierce competition Rogue One: The Star Wars Storydominates the holiday box office. Strong word of mouth may help, but the contrary.
The script works like a tragic love story, but it’s easy to use the story as a psychological drama with a budget of $150 million. Not only did the critics dislike the movie. They pretend to be scared of it. They did this because it was in 2016, and the #MeToo movement was only a few months after the explosion entered the mainstream.
Rational discussions about the ways women are treated have begun to give way to the whole, unconscious misunderstanding. Therefore, the militants used passenger With further agendas and further intensification of critics, it is always quick to jump on the latest Grifter Bandwagon, and it’s nice to use the film as a way to get into the group. However, this is not the movie.
How Sony makes the problem worse
The studio wanted a blockbuster that swept the romance. Instead, they built a smart, thoughtful, high-concept science fiction movie around the reality of human nature.
Not for the audience passenger Yes, Sony Photos decided to make things worse by creating trailers that completely hide the true story. They sold it to two people who accidentally woke up from hibernation and fought for survival, a tragic, sexy, slow-burning epic. When viewers find this marketing is a lie, it only makes it easier for them to open the movie.
What is the real passenger
The rebound does not represent the true nature of the movie. passenger It is mature and thoughtful, and this story fully explores its complex premise by realistically studying how a person, anyone behaves under specific stress. This is a script written around the ideas of human incentives and has nothing to do with the purpose of the #MeToo movement.
Tyldum is attracted by the project’s exploration of isolation and human connection. In the interview, he highlighted the “balanced behavior” portraying Jim’s desperate and unforgivable behavior. He did a great job.
Spaihts and Tyldum attempted to resolve the central dispute in post-release discussions, defending the plot as a deliberate moral dilemma designed to spark debates about human behavior in extreme cases. During a 2016 press conference, they highlighted how Pratt and Lawrence’s involvement bring depth to the characters, Lawrence pointed out the script’s challenge in blending romance and moral grey areas.
No one listened. Instead, the audience and the press are inserted into the naive pearls. Thus, a story about miserable acts of despair and forgiveness becomes the embodiment of misleading who oppose men.
Passengers can avoid rebounds and choose weaker
Ironically, the film may have avoided some backlash without the rewriting to give Aurora and Jim a happy ending.
In the first draft of the script, Jim died, saving the ship, and he died before Aurora forgives him. In the last movie, Jim survives and they make life together.
Jim’s death would turn the film into a tragedy, probably better with the morality of the time. But strangely, that would be an easy way out.
Now that she knows what Jim has done, she will avoid the question of what Aurora will do next. Jennifer Lawrence’s character must allow Jim to survive, have to deal with whether he lives alone or forgives the person who ruined it. Anyone who thinks he makes a different decision than Aurora may be lying to himself.
The audience at that time did not want to be mature. They want to fool themselves.
Other changes along the way may help with the declining cancel culture activists in the film. The earlier versions reportedly had different structures, starting with Aurora’s point of view to strengthening the reveal of Jim’s action. Instead, the final layoffs prioritized Jim’s sense of loneliness from the outset, especially more direct with the complex moral issues raised by the film’s premises.
How Passengers Destroy Jennifer Lawrence and Morten Telder’s Careers
fail passenger The backlash against it basically ended Morten Tyldum’s promising career in film directorship. He didn’t avoid it, and he found a way to make science fiction morally challenging, thought-provoking ideas. Today, he is a TV director who works in excellent Apple TV series Silo.
This also marked the beginning of Jennifer Lawrence’s decline in obscurity. Despite her incredible performance, she seems to be at the forefront. She has been working since then, but nothing is important.
Her last big lead was comedy No sad feelingwhich also caused her to get into hot water with the same group of people in the pearl sockets, and they messed her up passenger.
Reassess passengers
passenger There was never a hatred that deserved. It’s a bold, smart script that uses jaw-dropping special effects and gorgeous production design to create one of the best sci-fi movies in modern times.
As radical extremism destroys it, it’s time to take a step back passenger. It’s probably one of the best science fiction movies of the decade.
and that ship. Wow, what a ship.
