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CLOUD ATLAS: Lana Wachowsky & Tom Tykwer & Andy Wachowsky: OCT 26
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 08, 2012, 11:49:21 am ---This should win the makeup Oscar, for sure!
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Could be!
Tom Hanks is Dr. Henry Goose
Isaac Sachs
Dermot 'Duster' Hoggins
"Timothy Cavendish"
Valleysman Zachry
Old Zachry (30 Years Later)
a Narrator
and ?
Adam Siviter is Hoggins Impersonator
and ?
Halle Berry is Jocasta Ayrs
Luisa Rey
Meronym
an Island Native
an elderly (male)
Korean Doctor
and ?
Hugo Weaving is Bill Smoke
Nurse Noakes
a Korean Pervert
Old Georgie
and ?
Jim Sturgess is Adam Ewing
Hae-Joo Im
and ?
Doona Bae is Sonmi-451,
a clone 'fabricant'
Tilde Ewing
'Sonmi' (a goddess??)
and ?
Jim Broadbent is Vyvyan Ayrs
Timothy Cavendish
a Sea Captain
a blind Violinist
a Narrator
and ?
Robin Morrissey is Young Cavendish
and ?
Ben Whishaw is Robert Frobisher
a blonde woman
(Hugh Grant's wife??)
and ?
James D'Arcy is Rufus Sixsmith (young)
Rufus Sixsmith (old)
"Rufus Sixsmith"
and ?
Xun Zhou is Yoona-939
Rose
and ?
Keith David is Joe Napier
Kupaka
Ankor Apis
and ?
David Gyasi is Autua
and ?
Hugh Grant is Alberto Grimaldi
Timothy Cavendish's
brother
a Cannibal (Kona Chief)
and ?
Susan Sarandon is Ursula
Madame Horrox
a Narrator
and ?
SFEnnisSF:
--- Quote from: Luvlylittlewing on September 04, 2012, 01:29:34 pm ---Good Lord, this looks crazy! I'm all over it!
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:D
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 08, 2012, 11:49:21 am ---This should win the makeup Oscar, for sure!
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Again--could be!
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/our-lives-are-not-our-own-deconstructing-the-cloud-atlas-trailer-20120726?page=1#blogPostHeaderPanel
Our Lives Are Not Our Own:
Deconstructing The 'Cloud Atlas' Trailer
by Oliver Lyttelton
July 26, 2012 3:29 PM
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on September 04, 2012, 03:33:52 am ---Anyone read the book?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_(novel)
Cloud Atlas (novel)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cloud Atlas is a 2004 novel, the third book by British author David Mitchell. It won the British Book Awards Literary Fiction Award and the Richard & Judy Book of the Year award, and was short-listed for the 2004 Booker Prize, Nebula Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, and other awards.
Plot summary
The novel consists of six nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the nineteenth century to a distant, post-apocalyptic future. Each tale is revealed to be a story that is read (or observed) by the main character in the next. All stories but the last are interrupted at some moment, and after the sixth story concludes at the center of the book, the novel "goes back" in time, "closing" each story as the book progresses in terms of pages but regresses in terms of the historical period in which the action takes place. Eventually, readers end where they started, with Adam Ewing in the Pacific Ocean, circa 1850.
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The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing
Pacific Ocean, circa 1850. Adam Ewing, an American notary's account of a voyage home from the remote Chatham Islands, east of New Zealand.
The next character discovers this story as a diary on his patron's bookshelf.
Letters from Zedelghem
Zedelgem, Belgium, 1931. Robert Frobisher, a penniless young English musician, finds work as an amanuensis to a composer, Vyvyan Ayrs, living in Belgium, Letters from Zedelghem sees Robert Frobisher compose the Cloud Atlas Sextet, which consists of six nested solos arranged in the same manner as the narratives in Cloud Atlas. Mitchell has noted that the characters Robert Frobisher and Vyvyan Ayrs were inspired by Eric Fenby and Frederick Delius (Fenby was an amanuensis to the great English composer). The daughter of Ayrs appears in Mitchell's Black Swan Green as an elderly woman befriended by the main character.
This story is saved in the form of letters to Frobisher's friend (and implied lover) Rufus Sixsmith, which the next character discovers after meeting Sixsmith.
Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery.
Buenas Yerbas, California, 1975. Luisa Rey, a journalist, investigates reports that a new nuclear power plant is unsafe, with the help of Sixsmith who as a respected nuclear physicist has become a whistleblower.
The next character is sent this story in the mail, in the form of a manuscript for a novel.
The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish
United Kingdom, early 21st century. Timothy Cavendish, a vanity press publisher, flees the brothers of his gangster client. He gets confined against his will in a nursing home from which he cannot escape.
The next character watches a movie dramatisation of this story.
An Orison of Sonmi~451
Nea So Copros (Korea), dystopian near future. Sonmi~451, a genetically-engineered fabricant (clone) server at Papa Song's diner (a proxy for large fast-dining chains), is interviewed before her execution after she rebels against the totalitarian society that created and exploited her kind.
The next character watches Sonmi's story projected holographically in an "orison," a futuristic recording device.
Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After
Hawaii, post-apocalyptic distant future. Zachry, a tribesman living a primitive life after most of humanity dies during "the Fall," is visited by Meronym, a member of the last remnants of technologically-advanced civilization. This story is told when the protagonist is an old man, to seemingly random strangers around a campfire.
Structure and style
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Apart from the central (6th) story (Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin After ), which is uninterrupted, each story breaks abruptly off halfway through, to be followed by the first half of the next story. The interrupted story then appears within the next one, with the protagonist reading or watching the first half of its text; for example, in "An Orison of Sonmi~451," Sonmi~451 describes watching a film about the life of Timothy Cavendish, but she is only able to watch 50 minutes before her story is also interrupted. Each story ends with its protagonist finding the second half of this story, which is then printed after it.
Linking themes
Mitchell has said of the book:
Literally all of the main characters, except one, are reincarnations of the same soul in different bodies throughout the novel identified by a birthmark...that's just a symbol really of the universality of human nature. The title itself "Cloud Atlas," the cloud refers to the ever changing manifestations of the Atlas, which is the fixed human nature which is always thus and ever shall be. So the book's theme is predacity, the way individuals prey on individuals, groups on groups, nations on nations, tribes on tribes. So I just take this theme and in a sense reincarnate that theme in another context...
Film adaptation
The novel was adapted to film by directors Tom Tykwer and Lana Wachowski and Andy Wachowski. With an ensemble cast to cover the film's multiple storylines, production began in September 2011 at Studio Babelsberg in Germany. The film is scheduled to be released in the United States on October 26, 2012.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
1
The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing
directed by Lana Wachowski and Andy Wachowski
2
Letters from Zedelghem
directed by Tom Tykwer
3
Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery
directed by Tom Tykwer
4
The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish
directed by Tom Tykwer
5
An Orison of Sonmi~451
directed by Lana Wachowski and Andy Wachowski
6
Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After
directed by Lana Wachowski and Andy Wachowski
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