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Southland Tales

Southland Tales
Realization Richard Kelly
Main actors Dwayne Johnson (The Rock)
Seann William Scott
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Miranda Richardson
Janeane Garofalo
Mandy Moore
Jill Ritchie
Cheri Oteri
Amy Poehler
Kevin Smith
Scenario Richard Kelly
Photography Steven B. Post
Music Moby , The Pixies
Production Sean McKittrick
Bo Hyde
Kendall Morgan
Budget 15 million
Output Not distributed in France

Southland Tales is a thriller to science fiction American of 2006 , written and directed by Richard Kelly , director of , and starring Dwayne Johnson (The Rock), Seann William Scott and Sarah Michelle Gellar. The film's action in 2008 in the city of Los Angeles , while the United States are experiencing a major crisis on the ecological, economic and social development. The film, whose shooting began on 15 August 2005 , required a budget of approximately 15 million U.S. dollars.

The story, heavily inspired by the world of Philip K. Dick , takes place in Los Angeles on 4 July 2008 (U.S. national holiday). After the discovery of a new source of energy derived from the oceans, Earth's rotation begins to slow and the mental stability of the inhabitants of the Earth starts to crumble. The planet can not avoid the impending tragedy, she falls into chaos and anarchy.

Southland Tales, in competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival , was screened in the preview 21 May 2006. After this first public screening, the company Sony has asked the director to review the editing of the film before it is distributed in cinemas. The film was released in the United States November 16, 2007 and the United Kingdom December 7, 2007, he was not distributed in France.

Summary

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Addressing the shortage of fuels, a major American company is developing a generator of inexhaustible energy from a technology German which channels the flow of the ocean. This technology inexorably alters the rotation of the Earth , causing a rift in the space-time continuum that disrupts human behavior. An amnesiac actor ( The Rock ), an ex-porn star ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ), twin brothers, one senator and his team are particularly caught up in a struggle between the politico-military factions and neo-Marxist from Venice Beach.


Trivia

  • In Southland Tales, Santarosa Boxer ( Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock ) wrote a film script - proving to be a true prediction of the Apocalypse - entitled The Power, whose protagonist is supposed to be interpreted by itself, is named Jericho Cane. Jericho Cane is actually a reference to the film End of Days by Peter Hyams in which Arnold Schwarzenegger plays also the role of a character named Jericho Cane to save humanity from the end of time. In Southland Tales, the importance of Jericho Cane is the fact that it is basically a fictional character is materializing in the person of Boxer Santarosa.

Distribution

Comments

  • The film was never released in French cinemas.
  • The film was released in theaters has a different mount version of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. With an initial duration of 2:41, the final version lasts 2:24.

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