The Quiet Earth

The Quiet Earth

  • Director: Geoff Murphy
  • Writer: Craig Harrison,Bill Baer,Bruno Lawrence
  • Countries of origin: New Zealand
  • Language: English, Maori
  • Release date: October 18, 1985
  • Sound mix: Dolby
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Quiet Earth - Das letzte Experiment
  • "The Quiet Earth" is a science fiction film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Pete Smith and Bruno Lawrence.
    The film tells the story of a man who wakes up and finds that he is the only one left in the world, so he goes around looking for other survivors to find out what happened. He suspects that he is involved in a government research project that is related to the disappearance of other people.

    Details

    • Release date October 18, 1985
    • Filming locations Clevedon, Auckland, New Zealand
    • Production companies Cinepro, Pilsbury Productions, Mr. Yellowbeard Productions Limited & Company

    Box office

    Budget

    $1,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $2,123,135

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $9,825

    Gross worldwide

    $2,123,135

    Movie reviews

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    • By Rachelle 2022-01-13 08:01:02

      Silent Earth-worth seeing

      From the name, it feels very romantic and musical. As a result, I found out that there is a Japanese ocarina master album called "The Quiet Earth". I really enjoyed it after listening to it. So I thought, what would be the effect of putting Ocarina music in a movie? Of course it is: no cure. The idea of ​​the film is very good. It is said that a man woke up and found that he was the only one left in the world, so he looked for other survivors everywhere to find out what happened. The final...

    • By Janice 2022-01-13 08:01:02

      The moment the blasting switch was pressed, it was flashed.

      1: In the laboratory, Perrin’s body touched the switch, and the radioactive leak caused severe ultraviolet radiation. At that time, Jacques (male protagonist) said, "You killed everyone, and you also killed me."
      2: Jacques finally drove the truck to blast When I was in the lab, there was a tumor on the sideburns of my right cheek. I don't know if it's related.
      3: At the same moment that Jacques finally pressed the blasting switch, he happened to encounter a flash of the sun and...

    • By Gertrude 2022-01-13 08:01:02

      Human nature or science fiction? I don't understand. After reading all the Douban film reviews, I still don't understand.

      The number of evaluations of this film does not exceed 400, and there are not many comments. It is considered a very small film.
      I didn't understand the last scene at all, so I watched the few film reviews...I still didn't understand.
      The film was shot in New Zealand, and there is a French poster in the poster. The name of the film in French is "le dernier survivant", which means the last survivor. According to the French film title, the last scene means that the male pig's foot is...

    • By Izaiah 2022-01-13 08:01:02

      I think I understand the end of the film

      I think I have roughly understood the ending: indeed, only the protagonist is left at the end. The moment he went to blow up the power transmission device, the moment he was about to die, a "catastrophe" happened, as can be seen from the front of the film, Only those who happen to be dying can escape the "catastrophe", that is, the other two people have disappeared. There is really only one lonely protagonist left in the world.
          (Also: I have dreamed of scenes similar to the end of the...

    • By Katheryn 2022-01-13 08:01:02

      Everyone's preferences are different, maybe try empathy?

      The film is not bad. The three people have very good personalities. If there are contradictions, they can communicate with each other and get back together.

      The male protagonist regards the sister and the fat man as characters in his imagination, and has no other impure ideas;

      The girl is a very thoughtful person. The first thing after meeting the male protagonist is to find other survivors. The male protagonist denied her this idea, but she still went to look for it. When the...

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    • By Cleve 2022-03-27 09:01:15

      If the script strictly followed the footsteps of the novel, it is estimated that there would not be so much controversy. It is precisely because the film version puts the narrative focus more on redemption, which gives the audience who are obsessed with the concept of SF much room for interpretation at the blurred boundary. The so-called sense of participation in Cult films is actually a microcosm of modern people's growing self-proclaimed...

    • By Crystel 2022-03-27 09:01:15

      A wonderful sci-fi masterpiece in the 1980s, you can fully go to nostalgia and understand the external form of Western society in the 1980s. If the lonely male protagonist in the film is replaced by John Malkovich, it will feel even more...

    • By Carter 2022-03-27 09:01:15

      so, the first job of the last man in the world should be a...

    • By Annetta 2022-03-27 09:01:15

      The 1985 New Zealand edition of The Last Man, eschews the theme of human evil with an otherworldly high morality. Near-death experience survivors, parallel universes suggest, charming new worlds after...

    • By Karlie 2022-03-27 09:01:15

      Has a wonderful title. The story is very cold. Besides it's...

    Movie plot

    Zach is a researcher at the Power Grid Research Institute. When he woke up one morning, he found that the street was empty and the people around him seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. So he looked for survivors while studying the cause of the accident. Hard work paid off, and eventually he met the beautiful girl Joanna and fell in love with her uncontrollably. But with the addition of Api, a man who didn't want to be directed,...
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    Movie quotes

    • Joanne: God blinked, and the whole world disappeared.

    • Joanne: Anything else, sir?

      Zac Hobson: Ah... more crumpet?

      Joanne: Sorry, love, crumpet's off.

      [She turns and leaves the room, revealing that she has cut the back of her skirt off showing her bare buttocks. Zac begins to get up to pursue her, but screams as he accidentally dumps his cup of hot coffee on his crotch]

    • [first lines]

      Zac Hobson: [trying to pay for gasoline] Hello... Hello... Hello?