Brief introduction to the story of the terminal

Brief introduction to the story of the terminal

Terminal is an American film adapted from the original by Sasha Djauhiri and andrew niccol. The following is the outline of the Terminal I compiled. Welcome to reading.

Introduction:

The story happened in the late 1980s. Victor Navoski is an Eastern European. In order to realize his father's wish, he decided to go to America and bought a plane ticket to America with simple luggage. He was stopped when he got off the plane at the Kennedy Airport Terminal in new york to get out of the airport. It turned out that there was a coup in his motherland.

This means that Victor's passport and identity documents are all useless, and he was detained at the airport. Standing in this country that doesn't belong to him, Victor can't help but feel confused when he looks at strangers coming and going. In desperation, he can only stay at the airport, sleep in the chair in the hall, take a bath in the bathroom and make a living by serving passing passengers. All he has is his illiberal body and a small suitcase with a change of clothes, a razor and an invalid ID card.

During his stay at the airport, Victor was tortured by Frank Dixon, an airport official. Dixon regards Victor as a symbol of bad luck and thinks he is a big trouble that is hard to control and desperately wants to solve. However, this did not cause too much trouble to Victor. This man happily discovered a huge and rich life world in such a narrow and concentrated physical space. He found that all kinds of people and their own joys and sorrows passed by here every day. He found that it was full of generosity and ambition, absurdity and surprise, status and status, conformity and unexpected adventures. He also had a romantic love affair with flight attendant Emily. In the end, Victor met everything in America and his happiness at this airport.

Role introduction:

Winner

Actor Tom Hanks.

Is an eastern European, in order to realize his father's wishes, came to the United States with simple luggage. Because of the coup in the motherland, Victor's passport and identity documents were useless and were detained at the airport. I also had a romantic relationship with flight attendant Emily at the airport.

Emily Yawarren

Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.

A stewardess met Victor by chance, but she didn't know that Victor was trapped at the airport and had a candlelight dinner with Victor, which finally helped Victor get a one-day visa to enter new york, fulfilling his father's wish.

Frank

Actor Stanley Twitch.

As an airport official, he tried his best to get rid of Victor for fear that he would ruin his political achievements.

Enrique (male name)

Actor Diego Luna.

It's the airport delivery guy, making out. The female employee who secretly loved the airport visa, when applying for the visa with Victor, kept getting the information of the secret lover, and finally got the beautiful woman back.

Dolores (F.)

Actor zoe saldana.

She is a female employee applying for a visa at the airport. She was meticulous about her work and finally married Enrique, an airport delivery man.

Gupta dynasty

Actor Kumar Pallana.

The old Indian cleaner at the airport is nagging and eccentric. Because he killed the police by mistake in India, he was numb when he saw the police and was afraid of being sent back to India.

Behind the scenes production:

Shooting background

The film is adapted from a true story. Iranian exile Merhan Karimi Nasseri disembarked at Terminal 1 of Charles de Gaulle Airport. However, due to the lack of refugee documents, the French authorities allowed him to stay at the airport, but he was not allowed to leave the terminal. Naseiri refused to leave, although he got a refugee document on 1996 and was free to leave.

For pilots, airport staff, fast food vendors and millions of passengers traveling around the world through the terminal, Naseiri has become a symbol of postmodernism. Naseiri's story aroused Steven Allan Spielberg's creative enthusiasm, and he bought the right to adapt the legendary experience of Naseiri. But Naseiri's story only inspired Spielberg, and this film is not about him.

playwriting

Jeff Nathanson, who adapted the script for Spielberg's "At large", participated in the script creation of the film. Finally, Jeff Nathan, Sasha Djauhiri and andrew niccol finished the script together. Spielberg read the script and found Victor's story very kind. Like Telephone Booth, Titanic and The Last Subway, the terminal is also a movie, in which the characters are confined to a certain space, but this space has been transformed into an airport.

Actor selection

Before Spielberg decided to become a film director, Tom Hanks had signed up to play the leading role of Victor. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Emily, who has an emotional spark with Victor, and Frank Dixon, an airport official, is played by Stanley Twitch.

Shooting process

Due to strict security measures, the crew could not shoot at the real airport. Alex mcdowell, the production designer, is responsible for designing and building a functional full-scale airport terminal, where almost all the filming is done. At the end of the main shooting, the crew filmed at Mirabel Airport in Montreal, and United Airlines also provided a Boeing 747 for the key scenes of the film.

In the design stage, janusz kaminski, Spielberg's long-term partner and photographer, worked with mcdowell to design a first-class lighting system. According to the design of the script, Victor's airport should be new york Kennedy International Airport. However, mcdowell hopes to integrate the characteristics of many international airports, so the design team has done a lot of research on the capital airports of the United States and European countries.

Theater installation

The airport in the film was built in a main hangar in California, and it took 20 weeks for 200 craftsmen to complete it. This three-story building is all steel structure with 60,000 square feet of granite floor. There are four escalators in the airport, which are specially installed in the studio for shooting.

Because the airport to be built must have its due function, every drawing completed by the art department must be carefully examined by professional engineers, and even every simple solder joint can not be ignored. Among all the design works, the biggest one is the huge background outside the airport glass window. The whole background is surrounded on three sides to create a night view of the airport, and 2000 miniature lights are installed in the whole background. The plane uses blue screen technology when approaching the terminal building.

In order to create the effect that sunlight shines on the terminal through the glass, the crew set up 65438+100000 watt lighting equipment on the steel beam above the studio. These lighting equipment will shine on the reflective materials covering the whole studio, and the reflected light will shine on the studio like sunlight. In addition, photographer kaminsky also used the colors in the light to convey the change of Victor's situation.

Airport shop

In order to present the "melting pot of American culture", the producers also invited many businesses to open stores in this simulated airport. In the end, 35 companies took root in this airport, including Swatch Watch, AmericanExpress, Starbucks and so on. Some businesses (such as Starbucks) even deploy employees to "show off" and really do business in this simulated airport. Even companies that employ extras as shop assistants have conducted surprise training for these extras so that they can act like real employees.

clothes design

Mary Zophres, a fashion designer who worked with Spielberg on The Road to Destruction, served as the fashion designer for this film. Sofres fully considered the background that Victor was born in the countryside and went to the United States for the first time, and designed the clothes that Victor wore when he got off the plane into mass-produced clothes. He wore them for at least five years. And according to the development of the plot, Victor's costume has undergone a series of subtle evolution, which echoes Victor's situation.

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