Snowpiercer is a 2013 science fiction action film based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette. It stars Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Go Ah-sung, John Hurt, and Ed Harris. The film is a South Korean-Czech co-production, and marks Bong Joon-ho’s English-language debut.
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Snowpiercer is a 2013 science fiction action film based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette. It stars Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Go Ah-sung, John Hurt, and Ed Harris. The film is a South Korean-Czech co-production, and marks Bong Joon-ho’s English-language debut. It received critical acclaim, and appeared on many film critics’ top ten lists of 2014 after its international release. With a budget of USD 40 million, it remains the most expensive Korean production ever. It was initially planned for a limited-screen showing in the United States, but the critical response prompted The Weinstein Company to expand the showing to more theaters and to digital streaming services. It is set on a globe-spanning track, carrying the last remnants of humanity after a failed attempt at climate engineering to stop global warming has created a new Snowball Earth. 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. In a revolt, Curtis and his second-in-command Edgar lead the tail passengers in a revolt after they realize the guards’ weapons have no ammunition. 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.
They reach the last car before the engine. Namgoong and Yona recognize a landmark outside and consider that the ice may be thawing. They meet Wilford; he explains that when he was a youth, the youth had resorted to cannibalism and he had been nearly ready to eat his infant son. He offers Curtis his position leading the tail section, leading Curtis to face Wilford. Wilford orders Curtis to reduce the train’s population to 74% of the population to sustainable levels. He then invites Curtis inside, inviting him to meet his assistant Claude, who reveals that he has been a member of the elite of the front section for more than a century. The two along with Yona continue onward. 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, but Franco soon catches up to them. Tanya and Grey are killed after fighting Franco, who is then seemingly killed by Curtis and Nam goong. Curtis wants to use a potent explosive to blow the door to the outside, believing they can survive as he wants to survive. He wants to ask Wilford to explain to him why he created this closed ecosystem, but Wilford offers Curtis a chance to ask him to face him in person. Curtis then meets Wilford, inviting Curtis inside.
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