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I did some searching and couldn't find this already posted, so sorry if AP;
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18 Things You Should Know About "Battleship" Movie
So here we are, a $200 million film based on Battleship. You know, the matrix-based board game that mixes hide and seek With geometry class. And here’s 18 things you should know about Battleship according to ComicBookMovie. Read more after the cut.
In the movie, Rihanna stars as a Petty Officer (GM2) Raikes, Hopper’s best friend, crewmate and a weapons specialist on the USS John Paul Jones.
The story takes place In the Hawaiian Islands, where an international naval fleet at Pearl Harbor engage in a very dynamic and intense battle against an alien race known as “The Regents”. The aliens come to planet Earth, on a mission to build a power source in the ocean. Upon their visit, they come in contact with the navy fleet. The film is also purported to show both sides of the story, from the aliens’ perspective, as well as the humans’ so the audience knows exactly where the opponent’s ships are.
1. The film has a very strange sense of humor. During the meetcute between the romantic leads, a down on his luck Taylor Kitsch breaks into a convenience store and steals a frozen burrito in an effort to woo Brooklyn Decker. The burglary goes horribly awry and ends with repeated tasing. The scene is bizarre indeed, but it’s also fairly charming, at times even recalling the tone of Raising Arizona.
2. Kitsch’s protagonist may be a ne’er-do-well, but he is also the fastest promoted Naval Officer in the history of the United States of America.
3. The beginning of Kitsch’s character arc also reminded me of Don Quixote. The phase, “Tilting at windmills” appears several times in my notes. The angle of a rugged individual who saves the day through determination and pluck mixed with a quixotic archetype actually plays fairly fresh in the scenes we saw.
3. Kitsch has two primary dilemmas in the film. Obviously, he has to contend with the alien invaders, but he also has to get a marriage blessing from Decker’s father, Liam Neeson, who is also his commanding officer.
4. Needless to say, Neeson doesn’t approve of his daughter dating a man with a criminal record who also regularly picks fights on the ship. The dynamic between Kitsch and Neeson is established by way of a clever quote from Homer.
5. There is a scene with Kitsch and Decker on the beach where Decker looks Bridget Bardot hot.
6. During development of the film, Berg became fascinated by the interactions between Japanese Naval ships and their American counterparts as they sit docked next to each other as allies right next to Pearl Harbor. The ways in which bitter enemies become friends plays out in the film on both a macro and micro level with Japanese characters playing significant roles.
7. Despite the notorious history of Hollywood movies attempting to film at sea, the first week of Battleship included several sequences shot on the water.
8. The early interactions with the alien ships were filmed practically. The production built a giant set in the ocean allowing for massive vistas of the horizon and strange, slightly surreal cinematography assisted by the natural wave current.
9. During these scenes some of the cast members quoted Godspell in place of their dialogue during wide shots.
10. The alien ships, which also have cloaking devices, override compasses, radar and other reconnaissance tools, thus leaving the navy to shoot in the dark.
11. In the few moments shown, Rihanna proves herself to be a better actor than her ex-beau Chris Brown.
12. Berg is unafraid of the recent onslaught of alien invasion films. He saw and enjoyed Battle: Los Angeles and took from it only that the genre works when it is well executed.
13. Though there is a long tradition of alien invasion narratives functioning as a metaphor for international war and elements of imperialism, Berg, who previously directed The Kingdom, says that politics never crossed his mind during filming.
14. However, Stephen Hawking’s theory of “Goldilocks Planets” was an influence.
15. Berg on how the game influenced parts of the movie: “There’s actually a very interesting component of playing Battleship which is, if we’re playing against each other, you start out calling, “G8!” and random, and eventually something happens, and what that phenomenon is, is you go from being an unknown enemy to a known enemy and there’s a point of discovery in battleship and it’s actually kind of, it’s a hook and it’s actually why the game’s been around for so long. if you and I are playing I have absolutely no idea where you are and suddenly I start to realize where you are and it’s very satisfying. And the second I realize, ‘Oh that’s where he is! That’s his strategy!’ and as soon as I figure out where you are, what do I do? I try and destroy you as quickly and violently as I can before you kill me. There’s something very inherently dramatic about that.”
16. There are several different types of alien ships shown in the film and several types of aliens.
17. The aliens will not hidden in the shadows, “We’re a movie that puts it out there.”
18. Berg already has plans for a sequel. “I never go one and done. I’m always thinking, ‘Lets keep going!’ I love these characters and I love these [aliens] and I love the world they come from and I love the idea of the goldilocks planets.
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http://rihannadaily.com/2011/12/10/1...ie/#more-13717
(I just realised that #3 is there twice, so basically it is 19 things.)
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Someone fill me in.
