The most dangerous game exposition3/20/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s got the brutality that Von Wolf exposited about, backing up the claims of violence with some proof. The sequence is a bloody mess, with the man getting his head pounded into a pulp (though it’s not particularly explicit), Samuel taking a bullet, and Sanger knocked cold. Plot stuff and whatever passes for character development make up the first third of the movie, but once Von Wolf begins laying out his proposition for the hunt, the movie gets a jolt out of the death Rex. The Thrills: In a movie like The Most Dangerous Game, it’s not hard to tell what kind of paths the director and the script will take in order to make survival a plausibility and give downtime a level of prescience surrounding incoming adversaries, and Lee has no intention of challenging convention. Supporting characters are bland in the same way that Sanger is, making the huntsman the spark of the movie since the writing allows for a performance in a way that the rest of the cast didn’t receive. He’s a fine villain, crazy and cartoony enough, but has no place in this movie. He’s a bit over-the-top here, with a mean streak since childhood that continued across several different species of animals, leaving him with only one form of game to hunt although he’s already gone and done it, as shown by the wall of skulls in his abode. Zaroff’s character in Connell’s story wasn’t much different in all fairness – but the difference here is in the script’s efforts to comment on bloodlust – which doesn’t gel with the eccentricities of Von Wolf, a problem the short story didn’t have to deal with. Detachment from reality is attempted but it’s mishandled, making him seem more lazy than traumatized.īaron Von Wolf is very clearly a German stereotype. Backstory is lacking too, with brief flashbacks of the man running and some explosions being the only trait to identify. ![]() Nothing about his time overseas shows from his behaviour in that he doesn’t act like a soldier, encouraging sleeping instead of proactivity and demonstrating minimal survival skills. The Characters: Given the chance to properly expand on the characters of the original story, Lee instead shuffles the details and identities for largely semantic differences, trying to find something to say about post-war life, but his script doesn’t wring much from the idea and leaves the characters dry in the process.ĭeciding to set the movie some time after World War Two and making Sanger a veteran of the conflict at first seems like an interesting idea, but it backfires before long. ![]() It makes sense to stick close to the source in a direct adaptation, keeping the focus of the movie on Sanger’s survival, but the short story was just that this movie doesn’t fill the gaps with anything meaningful, making it an acceptable but generic offering Aside from adding in these extraneous characters for exposition and others like Mary (Dowling) and Benjamin (Berenger) for Sanger to assist, the deviations from the short story are minor. Getting some lengthy back and forth about the nature of the hunt out of the way, Von Wolf “offers” to make a getaway out of the sport and won’t take no for an answer, as seen by his execution of Rex for trying to opt-out. Audiences, on the other hand, will have already known that from countless renditions of the premise. Heading towards the sound of gunfire, the three men run into Von Wolf (Van Dien), who they come to discover doesn’t have the best intentions. See you later Dern, thanks for the 8-ish minutes of screen time. However, direct adaptations of the literary classic are far less common, making this outing a bit different though no less predictable.Ĭruising towards the Kodiak Archipelago to hunt the local brown bear, sportsmen Sanger (Tamburello), Marcus (Nelson), and Rex (Charach), along with friend Whit (Dern) are arraigned to their island destination via shipwreck leaving the trappers stranded and Whit dead. The Plot: Sometimes it’s reworked, other times its appearance is from influence the ubiquitous short story of man hunting man is no stranger to screens. It’s about a shipwrecked father and son fighting to survive being preyed upon by a big game hunter seeking a new thrill. The Most Dangerous Game was directed and written by Justin Lee ( Hellblazers, Hunters), who adapts his script from the short story of the same name by Richard Connell, and stars Chris ‘C.T.’ Tamburello (Habitual), Casper Van Dien ( Assailant, The 2nd), Elissa Dowling ( Slice and Dice, The Electric Man), Judd Nelson ( A Tale of Two Guns, Relentless), Randy Charach ( Zombie Tidal Wave, Beyond the Law), Tom Berenger ( Sniper, Eye See You), and Bruce Dern ( Mid-Century, Last Shoot Out).
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