Elephant

Elephant

  • Director: Gus Van Sant
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English, German
  • Release date: November 14, 2003
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Also known as: Fil
  • "Elephant" is a crime film directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Alex Frost, Eric Delen, John Robinson , Iris McConley, and Tims Bertems, in 2003 It will be released in the United States on October 24.
    The film tells the process of a vicious shooting in an ordinary middle school in the United States and the events of the first few hours   .

    Details

    • Release date November 14, 2003
    • Filming locations Whitaker Middle School, 5700 NE 39th, Portland, Oregon, USA
    • Production companies HBO Films, Fine Line Features, Meno Films

    Box office

    Budget

    $3,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $1,266,955

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $93,356

    Gross worldwide

    $10,012,022

    Movie reviews

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    • By Verna 2022-12-29 19:30:43

      "Elephant", Unconscious Youth Runaway and School Violence

      The story mainly takes place in an ordinary high school campus in the United States. John tried to skip class but was sent back to school by his drunken father. He was lectured by the principal, and Acadia comforted him; Issues; Elias took a couple walks outside the campus and went back to school to prepare photos for his photography exhibition; handsome Nathan and his girlfriend Carrie walked intimately in the corridor, being chatted with gossip by three female classmates next to them; The...

    • By Bailee 2022-12-27 07:30:09

      Elephants really show up

      Elephant, from a Western proverb. It's that when the elephant walks into the bedroom, people either think the elephant is fake, or the bedroom is fake. Often used to describe what people thought was impossible but happened.

           In such an extreme day, these children are living and studying in school as usual. Several named characters do not talk, but are intertwined in the same space or time. In the first half of the film, our audience is like a stalker, watching them secretly...

    • By Hildegard 2022-12-26 20:20:29

      Nazi eggs

      2008-10-08The

        movie tells the story of two teenagers who slaughtered in the campus with firearms. The
        teenagers were inspired by the shooting games in video games. The classmates under the mouth The handsome face of the
        young man has never had a single expression, relaxed and calm
        Couple, the principal's son, the relatives of the governor, the bald teacher, the beautiful school flower, a certain sports student, the annoying gangster, the quiet love of read

    • By Stanford 2022-12-26 10:31:14

      "ELEPHANT"

      "CRASH" feels a bit reluctant under its reputation, especially after watching a film like "ELEPHANT" that is calm and emotionless. The director makes the audience feel like they are just a pair of eyes in the time line, calmly and almost indifferently watching the characters in the event walk around or stop in the seemingly messy time relationship, and the rhythm does not change until the massacre begins. And it is this kind of emotionally flat, time-chaotic handling that gives viewers a...

    • By Antonina 2022-12-23 15:32:06

      My first viewing doubts

      Before watching the film, I didn't know the situation of this film, including the praise or plot or others, but I just saw the recommendation to download

      1. John and his old bean changed cars to drive, why? (The second time I saw it, I noticed that they still talked about guns and war.)
      2 After taking the photo, Elisa said that she would make a copy for the couple and passers-by, please don't even have contact information. (The second time I saw it, the couple man asked Elisa if...

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    • By Mariane 2023-09-29 07:10:53

      91/100, using trivial daily events and passers-by perspectives to cut the viewer's psychological defense line, and use a lot of following perspectives to strengthen the sense of substitution (like video games). At the same time, the disturbance of emotions and drama is removed, and the presentation is only done calmly, and then gives the audience a pure and violent impact, even "Flower and Alice" has become terrifying. It feels like there is no design, but in fact, there is design everywhere,...

    • By Camron 2023-07-27 19:28:26

      It was still in high school at the time. Still shopping for discs in the underground disc store. A short film. It's all violent, and I didn't actually see the picture on the cover. From the beginning to the end, two boys calmly used robbing to kill people on campus....

    • By Makenzie 2023-07-25 03:14:56

      I looked at the stills when I was in school, and contemptuously thought it was just a representative of the small freshness that emerged at that time. I saw it for the first time in 2018. Although the style of painting is indeed fresh and even clear, it is by no means so-called small freshness. The powerful aesthetic power of power, this kind of beauty does not seek expression because of confidence, it is really a very high talent, it is not surprising that he won two Cannes top prizes that...

    • By Frank 2023-07-24 12:18:30

      "I haven't kissed anyone yet, how about you?" Time should freeze at this moment, right, stop for the beauty of kissing; or stop when the blue-gray sky is stormy; or see a photographer at the door of the library when smiling. How beautiful the world is, everyone who passes by is so lonely and has its own story, but we live so indifferently. It was no accident that he beat "Dogtown" to win the Palme d'Or and best...

    • By Pedro 2023-06-11 10:04:50

      (7/10) Although it is only 80 minutes, it feels extremely long and depressing. It is worth mentioning that most of the main characters in the play have names with the same or similar pronunciation as the actors. The slaughter of people with little resistance in the school is an eternal pain that cannot be solved. Not long ago, there was a school shooting in China. Earlier, there were people who went to the kindergarten and slaughtered children. Is the school really a society? Fragile...

    Background creation

    Van Sant said that he originally wanted to film a shooting for the Internet TV station in the 1999 Columbine High School in the suburbs of Denver, but the executives expressed concern about showing violence on TV. Later, HBO signed a contract and decided to make a fictional film based on facts. So although the movie is fictitious, many of its details come from the shooting on the campus of Columbine Middle School. The name of the film...
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    Evaluation action

    The beginning of the film shows a youthful state of "young people do not know the sorrows" from different perspectives of the characters. However, under the cover of superficial peace, the negative emotions in the youth and adolescence exploded violently, turning the whole movie into a creepy movie depicting the shooting incident on campus (Timeline Review)  .
    Gas Van Sant reproduced the 1994 school shooting in a very casual and calm...
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    Movie quotes

    • [We've been following Benny down the hallway and watch as he comes upon Eric berating and standing over Mr. Luce]

      Eric: Yeah, you did, and I should shoot you right now for it, you know I should. But I think I just might let you live, maybe, because I want you to know this... and the next kids that come up to you with their problems... that they're being picked on, you should listen to them... no matter what twisted shit they say.

      Eric: [Turns and shoots Benny through the heart] Fuck! Anyway, Mr. Luce, whatever. You know there's other like us out there, too. And they will kill you if you fuck with them like you did me and Gerry. Get out of here, before I change my mind. Go!

      Eric: [Mr. Luce gets up and runs for his life. Eric changes his mind and shoots him down] Bitch!

    • Alex: [to Eric] The kids will be coming in all directions and we'll be able to pick them off one by one.

    • Alex: So how did you do?