Snowpiercer Dvd

Snowpiercer (Korean: 설국열차; Hanja: 雪國列車; RR: Seolgungnyeolcha) is a 2013 science fiction action film based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette.The film was directed by Bong Joon-ho and written by Bong and Kelly Masterson.

Plot

After an attempt to stop global warming via climate engineering catastrophically backfires, creating a new ice age in 2014, the remnants of humanity have taken to a circumnavigational train, the Snowpiercer, run by reclusive transportation magnate Wilford. By 2031, the passengers on the train have become segregated, with the elite in the extravagant front cars and the poor in squalid tail compartments controlled by armed guards.

Urged by his father-figure Gilliam, Curtis and his second-in-command Edgar lead the tail passengers in a revolt after they realize the guards’ weapons have no ammunition. They free Namgoong, a captive security specialist, who insists that his clairvoyant daughter Yona is freed as well. Namgoong helps the tail army progress forward, but they soon end up in a standoff with guards with axes, overseen by Minister Mason. In the ensuing fight, Curtis has to choose between saving Edgar or capturing Mason. Curtis makes a difficult call to capture Mason in order to use her as a bargaining chip to end the battle, and Edgar is fatally stabbed. The tail army stays back, holding the guards captive, while Curtis takes Mason, Namgoong, Yona, skilled fighter Grey, and Tanya and Andrew (two parents who have had their children taken from them) toward the front of the train. They are unaware that Franco, loyal to Mason, escapes the tail army to rally more guards.

Curtis’s group travels through the first of several opulent cars. Namgoong and Yona recognize a landmark outside and consider that the ice may be thawing. They eventually reach a schoolroom, where a teacher is indoctrinating the children on Wilford’s greatness, just before they open eggs to celebrate the eighteenth “New Year”, each of which has marked one circumnavigation of the Earth. The teacher uses this as a distraction to attack and kill Andrew before Grey kills her. In the tail section, Franco uses the distraction to kill the tail army and capture Gilliam. Franco sends a live feed to the television in the classroom as he executes Gilliam; Curtis, in return, kills Mason. Curtis’s group moves on, but Franco soon catches up to them. Tanya and Grey are killed after fighting Franco, who is then seemingly killed by Curtis and Namgoong. The two along with Yona continue onward.

They reach the last car before the engine. Namgoong reveals he and Yona had been collecting Kronole, an addictive drug but also a potent explosive, which he wants to use to blow the door to the outside, believing they can survive. Curtis stops them, as he wants to meet Wilford; Curtis explains that when he was a youth, the tail section had resorted to cannibalism, and he had been nearly ready to eat the infant Edgar but Gilliam offered him his arm instead. Curtis wants to face Wilford to ask why he created this closed ecosystem. Just then, the engine door opens, and Wilford’s assistant Claude emerges and wounds Namgoong before inviting Curtis inside.

Curtis meets Wilford, and to his shock learns he and Gilliam conspired to stage Curtis’s rebellion to reduce the train’s population to sustainable levels. Wilford orders 74% of the tail passengers killed. He then offers Curtis his position leading the train. Curtis appears ready to accept when Yona overpowers Claude, rushes in, and pulls open a floorboard to reveal several children from the tail section, including Andrew and Tanya’s children Andy and Timmy, working the engine as slaves. Appalled, Curtis knocks out Wilford and rescues Timmy from the machinery, though he loses his arm in the process. Curtis gives Yona matches to light the fuse for the Kronole, while Namgoong fights and kills Franco, who had followed them. As the door to the engine room will not close, Curtis and Namgoong use their bodies to protect Yona and Timmy from the blast.

The explosion causes an avalanche that derails the train. Shortly after, Yona and Timmy escape the wreckage. They see a polar bear in the distance, indicating that life exists outside the train.

Cast

Chris Evans (top) and Tilda Swinton (bottom): the two received critical acclaim for their performances.
Chris Evans as Curtis Everett
The leader of the revolution. About the character of Curtis, Evans said, “I mean, for me, the tail section is, I think that’s Curtis. I think that’s who he is. The tail section is hard; it’s grinding; it’s tough; it’s real. So that’s where I had the most fun. Back there.” Casting directors suggested Evans to Bong, who initially had misconceptions of Evans before they met due to the “caricature of the American all muscle”, but quickly departed from that notion and described Evans as “… he’s actually very sensitive and has a quiet and introverted side. He’s a very, very smart person, and he’s a director.” Bong was introduced to the films Puncture and Sunshine where he described Evans’s performances as showing his “sensitive acting abilities”. Bong and Evans spent months talking about the dialogue, and Bong received help from the cast and crew including Evans due to it being his first English language film. Bong said that for the role of Curtis, hiding Evans’s muscular physique was the most difficult thing about working with the actor, explaining, “He’s supposed to be in the poor tail section for 17 years, eating only protein blocks, and it was tricky to hide all of that muscle mass with costume and make-up.” On whether he was surprised by the fan response, Evans said, “I’ve been surprised about everything about this movie. Every movie you make, you hope people will enjoy it, but this movie has surpassed all of my expectations across the board.”