Title Tomorrow When The War Began ◎
Year 2010 ◎
Country Australia/United States ◎IMDB link http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1456941 ◎File format HD BDRIP-RMVB ◎Video size 640 x 272 ◎File size 2CD 422MB ◎Length 104 min ◎Director Stuart Beattie ◎Starring Kate Lynn StaseyCaitlin Stasey....Ellie LintonRachel Hurd -Wood....Corrie MackenzieDeniz Akdeniz....Homer YannosPhoebe Tow Kim Phoebe Tonkin....Fiona MaxwellLincoln Lewis....Kevin HolmesAshleigh Cummings....Robyn Mathers
Chris Pang....Lee TakkamAndrew
Ryan....Chris Lang (as Andy Ryan)
Matthew Dale....Mr. Coles
Masa Yamaguchi....Sergeant
Andy Minh Trieu .. ..Tanker soldier
Andrew Liam Pringle ....Nolan Baumson
Julia Yon ....Mrs. TakkamColin
Friels....Dr. Clements
Pek Ang ....Mr. Takkam
◎Introduction Video
It tells the story of 7 high school students who went hiking and camping in a remote town. When they returned home, they found that Australia was at war. They had to take up arms to fight back...
Avery and his good friends Omo, Takam, Kevin, Cole Ray, Robion, and Fiona went camping together, and a week later, they returned from camp.
However, when they returned to the city, they found that people in the city kept disappearing, and the pets and livestock they kept were dying. At this time, this group of young people realized that their family members who went to commemorate the festival carnival may never return. Fortunately, Corey's father sent a fax back from the carnival earlier, in which he warned his children that his country was under armed invasion, the country was in chaos, and he hoped that his children would find a place hide. After seeing the fax, these young people immediately went to their own homes to see if there were still family members alive. But Robion and Katam never returned. Meanwhile, Avery, Kevin and Corey are pursued by the invading army. During the revolt, Ai killed three soldiers with a lawnmower, but wounded himself. In desperation, they had to hide in Kerui's house. At this time, enemy bombers began to bomb the area, and they seemed to want to exterminate these young people.
Eli and Omo finally decide to go to Robion and Katam. They found them in a low-lying ditch. The reason they were unable to return was that Katam was shot in the leg. In the process of fleeing, they found another surviving good friend, Chris. At the beginning of the invasion, Chris hid and finally saved his life. These five good friends have found the others hiding near Corey's house - from now on, they will join forces to deal with those intruders. The city was no longer safe, and they had to flee back to their campsite.
Omo thought of a way to temporarily save himself, burning down a wooden bridge leading from the city to the campsite. So they got a little fuel and were going to burn the bridge down. When they were about to carry out the plan, they found that Corey had been shot. While hesitating, Kevin volunteered to send Corey to the enemy's hospital, hoping they could deal with Corey's injury. In this way, the eight good friends were divided into two groups. Kevin took Corey deep into the enemy camp, and the remaining six drove a stolen car into the campsite and burned the wooden bridge.
One sentence review
This is a gripping, breathless film. Happily, director and screenwriter Stuart Beatty has stayed true to the original novel. He almost followed the novel and made the movie. ——IGN Entertainment
Stuart Beatty perfectly coordinated the relationship between the story development and the scenes in the film. It can be said that the plot is relatively complete, and the scene shooting is also remarkable. ——filmink.com.au
If Stewart Beatty can still make movies in this way, if he can put the next 6 novels on the screen like this, then this series of movies will definitely become an Australian film An all-time classic.
- Behind the scenes at crikey.com.au From novel to
screenplay
The film is based on Australia's best-selling popular novel "Tomorrow Series". From the publication of the first book "Tomorrow, When War Breaks Out" in 1993 to the publication of the last book "The Other Side of Dawn" in 1999, the novel was reprinted 16 times in Australia and sold more than 300 times. Thousands of volumes. It has set many records in the history of book distribution in Australia. In 1999, the "Tomorrow Series" came to an end. The "Avery Series" derived from the protagonist of the series has appeared on the bookshelf. However, this series is not as popular as the "Tomorrow Series", which only survived for 3 years from 2003 to 2006.
When it comes to the "Tomorrow Series" novels, it is definitely a wonderful work in the history of books, because very few novelists dare to write that their own country is invaded by another country for unknown reasons, and the whole set of novels is fighting, and the army of their own country is nowhere to be seen. , politicians have fled. The reader does not know who the enemy he is facing, what the army of his country is doing, how much territory his country is occupied, or when the war will end - the war in the entire novel is What Avery saw and knew, the war outside his perspective, was not written by John Marsden, the author of the original novel. Such an unknown, panic and frightening atmosphere is appropriately conveyed to the readers' hearts through the novel. It is true because of such a characteristic that the "Tomorrow Series", especially the leading book "Tomorrow, When War Breaks Out" " was well received by the public. The novel was translated into 5 languages and sold all over the world. Especially in Sweden, a small Nordic country, "Tomorrow, When War Breaks Out" in Swedish has sold 115,000 copies - only 9 million people in Sweden. In 2000, "Tomorrow, When War Begins" was included in the National Library's 100 Best Books for Teens.
When it comes to adapting such a well-known novel into a screenplay and making it into a movie, writer-director Stuart Beatty admits he's under pressure. He said: "This novel is a well-known and well-known work in Australia, and it is very good to bring such a novel to the screen, because many people have read it, the mass base will be very good, and people will go to the cinema to watch the film; There is also a drawback, that is, I want to write the script as close to the original as possible, because any small deletion will make the fans of the novel unhappy. Moreover, I also have to express the panic, The helplessness and the strength of those young people are all on display. If I don't do well on those two points, then the film is a failure." But judging from the final appearance of the film, Stuart Beatty did very good. Many loyal fans of the novel think that Stuart Beatty is very faithful to the original book, and every detail, every twist, and every line of dialogue in the original book is just right in the film.
In the face of praise from the outside world, Stuart Beatty said: "I know the difficulty of adapting this kind of work. The safest way is to write the script according to the routine and angle of the original book. The audience can tolerate the lack of some plots and stories in the film. However, the most unbearable thing is the screenwriter adding characters or modifying the plot for no reason. So I chose the most traditional and safest screenwriting method."
Entertainment films for young people
In today's Australia, young people are getting more and more They don't like reading, and they would rather choose to surf the Internet, go to the gym or go to the movies, rather than spend a certain amount of time every day reading. In this way, film audiences are divided into groups: one is the generation who grew up reading novels, and the other is young people who have heard of novels but have not read the originals. How can we take into account and reconcile the tastes of these two different audiences?
Faced with this problem, Stewart Beatty said: "I think, first of all, a film should be good-looking and fun. Especially such a commercial film should have Plenty of entertainment. If a movie like this is boring and boring, then it doesn't need to be shot. So my first thought when making a movie was to make this film with an adventurous element exciting and tense In fact, there are many people who told me that they have not read the novel, but they liked the movie very much. The movie is a very clear thing: death, bombing, guns, cannons, you can see it at a glance. So read it The novelist can recall the details of the novel in the film, and those who have not read the novel can also find fun in the film. Don't worry that you will not understand the film if you haven't read the novel, this is just an entertainment film, as long as the audience can watch the film If you are entertained in the process, then the purpose of the movie is achieved.”
In fact, in Stuart Beatty's heart, the main audience of this movie is still young people who are less than 20 years old now, because this is a movie made for young people. Those readers who grew up reading novels are now in their early 30s, and they watch movies purely for nostalgic purposes. Therefore, in the film Stuart Beatty has added a lot of popular elements: such as today's popular music, games, and some star topics and so on. And when writing the script, Stuart Beatty also communicated with many young people. He tried his best to capture the characteristics of young people's speech and write dialogues with the characteristics of the times. Beatty said: "For me, there is nothing more important than capturing the sense of the times in the film. The novel is written about a virtual war, and I don't have to shoot this war by the standards of 20 years ago. Moreover, the audience of the film is young people, so there is nothing wrong with making the film more contemporary, more real, and closer to their lives. I hope that the final effect of the film is as if the story happened in today's Australia is the same. I don't need my film to have that heavy 'Hollywood' feel, and it doesn't need to be too old and traditional. What Australia is like today, it has to be what it looks like in the film."
Another angle Speaking of which, in order to capture the appetite of young people, there are a lot of heavy-handed violence and action scenes in this movie. The existence of these scenes makes the film good-looking, but it lacks some of the horror temperament in the original novel. Beatty said: "After all, there is still a difference between the film and the novel, and I have retained the temperament of the original to the greatest extent possible. However, this is just an entertainment movie, as long as it can provide entertainment enough." The film is Stewart Beatty's directorial debut
. The investment of this film is more than 30 million US dollars, which is currently one of the highest investment films in Australia. · The entire film was shot in Australia. The main locations are the Hunter Valley, Blue Mountains and New South Wales. · The small town of Warrawee (Warrawee) that appears in the film is fictional, and its location is located in the Raymond Terrace area of New South Wales. ·The film started shooting on September 28, 2009, and the pre-production work ended on November 6.
The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Australian native author John Marsden. John Marsden has authored a total of 7 novels about these young people fighting against foreign invaders by fighting guerrillas. "Tomorrow, When War Breaks Out" is the first book in the series, published in 1993. The series of novels has been selling well in Australia, and has maintained a number of best-selling books so far.
The film topped the box office charts in both Australia and New Zealand in its opening weekend.
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