Avatar (2009)

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PLOT SUMMARY

   The lush alien world of Pandora is home to the Na'vi, primitive-looking but  highly evolved beings. Due to the toxic nature of the planet's environment, Human-Na'vi hybrids called Avatars must interact with human minds in order to roam freely on Pandora. 

    Paralyzed ex-Marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) regains his mobility through one such avatar and falls in love with a Na'vi woman (Zoe Saldana).

    As his bond with her deepens, he becomes embroiled in a struggle to survive in her world.

Cast

• Sam Worthington as Jake Sully 
• Zoe Saldana as Neytiri 
• Sigourney Weaver as Grace 
• Stephen Lang as Col. Miles Quaritch 
• Michelle Rodriguez as Trudy Chacon 
• Giovanni Ribisi as Parker Selfridge 
• Joel David Moore as Norm Spellman 
• CCH Pounder as Moat 
• Wes Studi as Eytukan 
• Laz Alonso as Tsu'tey 
• Dileep Rao as Dr. Max Patel 
• Matt Gerald as Corporal Lyle Wainfleet 
• Sean Anthony Moran as Private Fike 
• Jason Whyte as Cryo Vault Med Tech 
• Scott Lawrence as Venture Star Crew Chief 
• Kelly Kilgour as Lock Up Trooper 
• James Pitt as Shuttle Pilot 
• Sean Patrick Murphy as Shuttle Co-Pilot 
• Peter Dillon as Shuttle Crew Chief 
• Kevin Dorman as Tractor Operator 
• Kelson Henderson as Dragon Gunship Pilot 
• David Van Horn as Dragon Gunship Gunner 
• Jacob Tomuri as Dragon Gunship Navigator 
• Michael Blain-Rozgay as Suit #1 
• Jon Curry as Suit #2 
• Peter Mensah as Horse Clan Leader 
• Julene Renee as Ambient Room Tech 
• Luke Hawker as Ambient Room Tech 
• Woody Schultz as Ambient Room Tech 
• Sonia Yee as Link Room Tech 
• Jahnel Curfman as Basketball Avatar 
• Ilram Choi as Basketball Avatar 
• Kyla Warren as Na'vi Child

Vertical Limit [2000]

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Narrative

A thrilling story of a teenage climber named Peter Garrett who has to undertake a risky and remarkable rescue mission up K2, the second-highest peak in the world. Peter faces the formidable force of nature's unpredictable elements and his own limitations as he races against time to save his sister Annie and her summit crew. The group is imprisoned at 26,000 feet in an icy grave, which is a death zone above the body's maximum vertical endurance. In order to save her, Peter must climb the terrifyingly powerful peak in the world with the assistance of a group of fellow climbers, among them the eccentric and reclusive mountain man Montgomery Wick. Every second counts.

Barbarella

 

CAST

Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg,

David Hemmings, Milo O'Shea, Marie Therese Chevallier, Marcel Marceau

PLOT

    In an unspecified future, space adventurer Barbarella is assigned by the President of Earth to retrieve Dr. Durand Durand from the Tau Ceti planetary system. Durand is the inventor of the laser powered super weapon called the positronic ray which Earth leaders fear will fall into the wrong hands. Barbarella crash-lands on Tau Ceti's 16th planet and is knocked unconscious by two children. They bring her into the wreckage of a spaceship where she is bound and attacked by several dolls with razor-sharp teeth. Barbarella is rescued by Mark Hand, the Catchman who patrols the ice looking for errant children. Hand tells her that Durand is in the city of Sogo, and offers to take her back to her ship in his ice boat. She expresses her appreciation, assuring him that her government will certainly provide him recompense for his troubles and to let her know in the meantime whether there is anything he needs or she can do for him. Hand says "You could let me make love to you." Barbarella expresses confusion because for centuries people of Earth don't have intimate physical encounters unless "their psychocardiagram readings were in perfect confluence." She capitulates, but is skeptical and proceeds to ask him for pills which, on Earth, are used to enhance nonsexual sensual experience "until full rapport is achieved." Hand suggests having sex in his bed instead, which Barbarella is initially put off by. She tells Hand that on Earth only poor people who can't afford psychocardiagrams and pills engage in such a primitive, distracting, and inefficient activity, since other activities successfully provide ego support and self-esteem. However, she relents and discovers she enjoys it, although admitting she understands why, on Earth, sex is considered distracting.

    Barbarella leaves the planet and crashes into a labyrinth inhabited by outcasts from Sogo. She is found by Pygar, a blind angel who has lost the will to fly. Pygar introduces her to Professor Ping, who offers to repair Barbarella's ship. Pygar flies her to Sogo after she restores his will to fly after having sex with him. When they arrive, Pygar and Barbarella are captured by Sogo's Black Queen and her concierge. The concierge describes the Mathmos: living energy in liquid form, powered by evil thoughts and used as an energy source in Sogo. Pygar endures a mock crucifixion and Barbarella is placed in a cage, where hundreds of birds prepare to attack her. She is rescued by Dildano, leader of the local underground, who joins in her pursuit of Durand. Dildano offers her an invisible key to a chamber of dreams where the Queen sleeps, and sends her back to Sogo.

    Barbarella is promptly recaptured by the concierge; he places her in an excessive-pleasure machine, which induces fatal sexual pleasure. She outlasts the machine, which shuts down. The concierge, shocked at its destruction, is revealed as Durand (who has aged 30 years due to the Mathmos). He wants to become Sogo's new leader and overthrow the Black Queen, which requires his positronic ray and access to the chamber of dreams. Durand takes Barbarella to the chamber, locking her inside with the invisible key. She meets the Queen, who says that if two people are in the chamber, the Mathmos will devour them. Durand seizes control of Sogo, as Dildano and his rebels begin their attack on the city. The Black Queen retaliates, releasing the Mathmos to destroy Sogo. Protected by what the Black Queen calls Barbarella's innocence, they escape the Mathmos and find Pygar; the angel clutches them in his arms and flies off. When Barbarella asks Pygar why he saved a tyrant, he replies: "An angel has no memory."

Release date: October 22, 1968 (Italy)

Director: Roger Vadim

Adapted from: Barbarella

Box office: $5.5 million (North American rentals)

Music by: Bob Crewe; Charles Fox;

Distributed by: Paramount Pictures Studios

The Ten Commandments

CAST

Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter

PLOT

    After hearing the prophecy of a Hebrew deliverer, Pharaoh Rameses I of Egypt orders the death of all newborn Hebrew males. Yochabel saves her infant son by setting him adrift in a basket on the Nile. Bithiah, the Pharaoh Rameses' recently widowed daughter (and sister of the future Pharaoh Seti I), finds the basket and decides to adopt the boy even though her servant, Memnet, recognizes the child is Hebrew. Bithiah names the baby Moses.

    Prince Moses grows up to become a successful general, winning a war with Ethiopia and establishing an alliance. Moses and Nefretiri fall in love, but she must marry the next Pharaoh to preserve the royal line. While working on the building of a city for Pharaoh Seti I's jubilee, Moses meets the stonecutter Joshua, who tells him of the Hebrew God. Moses saves an elderly woman from being crushed not knowing that she is his biological mother, Yochabel, and he reprimands the taskmaster and overseer Baka.

    Moses reforms the treatment of slaves on the project, but Prince Rameses, Moses's adoptive brother and Seti's son, charges him with planning an insurrection. Moses says he is making his workers more productive, making Rameses wonder if Moses is the man the Hebrews are calling the Deliverer.

    Nefretiri learns from Memnet that Moses is the son of Hebrew slaves. She kills Memnet but reveals the story to Moses after he finds the piece of Levite cloth he was wrapped in as a baby, which Memnet had kept. Moses follows Bithiah to Yochabel's house where he meets his biological mother, brother Aaron, and sister Miriam.

    Moses learns more about the slaves by working with them. Nefretiri urges him to return to the palace so he may help his people when he becomes pharaoh, to which he agrees after he completes a final task. Moses saves Joshua from death by killing Baka, telling Joshua that he too is Hebrew. The confession is witnessed by the overseer Dathan, who then reports to Prince Rameses. After being arrested, Moses explains that he is not the Deliverer, but would free the slaves if he could. Seti I declares Prince Rameses his sole heir, and Rameses banishes Moses to the desert. At this time Moses learns of the death of his mother.

    Moses makes his way across the desert to a well in Midian. After defending seven sisters from Amalekites, Moses is housed with the girls' father Jethro, a Bedouin sheik, who worships the God of Abraham. Moses marries Jethro's eldest daughter Sephora. Later, he finds Joshua, who has escaped from the hard labor imposed on the Hebrews in Egypt. While herding, Moses sees the burning bush on the summit of Mount Sinai and hears the voice of God. Moses returns to Egypt to free the Hebrews.

    Moses comes before Rameses, now Pharaoh Rameses II, to win the slaves' freedom, turning his staff into a cobra. Jannes performs the same trick with his staves, but Moses's snake swallows his. Rameses prohibits straw from being provided to the Hebrews to make their bricks. Nefretiri rescues Moses from being stoned to death by the Hebrews wherein he reveals that he is married.

    Egypt is visited by plagues. Moses turns the river Nile to blood at a festival of Khnum and brings burning hail down upon Pharaoh's palace. Moses warns him the next plague to fall upon Egypt will be summoned by Pharaoh himself. Enraged at the plagues, Rameses orders that all first-born Hebrews will die, but a cloud of death instead kills all the first-born of Egypt, including the child of Rameses and Nefretiri. Despairing at the loss of his heir, Pharaoh exiles the Hebrews, who begin the Exodus from Egypt.

    After being taunted by Nefretiri, Rameses takes his chariots and pursues the Hebrews to the Red Sea. Moses uses God's help to stop the Egyptians with a pillar of fire and parts the Red Sea. After the Hebrews make it to safety, Moses releases the walls of water, drowning the Egyptian army. A devastated Rameses returns empty-handed to Nefretiri, stating that he now acknowledges Moses's god as God.

    Moses again ascends the mountain with Joshua. He sees the Ten Commandments created by God in two stone tablets. Meanwhile, an impatient Dathan urges a reluctant Aaron to construct a golden calf idol. A wild and decadent orgy is held by most of the Hebrews.

    After God informs Moses of the orgy, the latter descends from the mountain and reunites with Joshua. Enraged at the sight of decadence, he throws the tablets at the golden calf, which explodes, killing the wicked revelers, and causing the others to wander in the wilderness for 40 years. An elderly Moses later leads the Hebrews towards Canaan. However, he cannot enter the Promised land due to a mentioned previous disobedience to the Lord. He instead names Joshua as leader, and bids farewell to the Hebrews at Mount Nebo.

Release date: October 5, 1956 (USA)

Director: Cecil B. DeMille

Adapted from: The Bible

Distributed by: Paramount Pictures Studios