Snowpiercer is a 2013/2014 (depending on country) movie based on the 1982 novel "Le Transperceneige". It's a great movie and you should all watch it, it (subtly) deals with all sorts of interesting topics while being an inventive action-drama combining typical Hollywood and Korean film elements.
I wanna talk about its themes concerning AN and how the general public reacted to it. I'm gonna SPOILER it completely. If you don't know the movie, watch it and come back after, as I'm even gonna SPOILER the ending.
Again, SPOILER warning. (Sorry, I hate spoilers, I wanna be clear.)
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Quick, what's the movie about? - Earth is frozen over and unlivable due to coldness after an apocalyptic event, but a small amount of people has survived and lives in a single train that cruises round after round on a circular track around the world. The passengers are divided into two groups of which one lives in the back and one in the front. The people in the back are treated like scum and are basically prisoners, they have to eat slimy protein-bars created out of some sort of waste and basically live in a crowded shit-hole. Regularly, a few of their children are abducted without explanation. The front-passengers have soldiers that control the back and that are very violent. They themselves basically live in decadency. Now one back-passenger decides to start a revolution and fight his way to the front of the train and take control over the engine. The back-passengers team up, kill the soldiers, fight their way through and gradually everybody who's come along dies. When the revolutionist arrives at the engine he is alone and meets the engineer who build the train and controls the engine. He finds out that the abducted children are used to literally power the engine and the engineer says something along the lines of: "The one single thing that is important is that humanity continues to exist. By trying to stop the train, you endanger humanity. It's important for me to control the population size." At the very end, the revolutionists manage to cause an explosion in the train and the train falls off a very high bridge. During the movie, one character realized that the earth was getting warmer and maybe habitable again. The last scene shows two survivors (a young woman and a little boy) coming out of the train wreck, in the middle of icy mountains where they see an ice bear - also, it's apparently warm enough for them not to freeze.
My question for the characters
... keep reading on reddit β‘I'm trying to find a version of this in English. Online if I have to. I checked amazon and it's only in French. Any ideas? Thanks!
Recently, I was watching the extra feature of the DVD for the movie, Snowpiercer and there was a fifty-six minute section talking about the original comic that the movie is based on, Le Transperceneige. One part was very interesting which was an interview with the living creator of the comic (the other guy has since died), Jean-Marc Rochette and the editor of it, Benjamin Legrand, who thanked South Korean pirates for illegally copying their comic. From my understanding, if the director of the film has never read the comic, which was illegally copied, then he never would have got the idea for the movie at all.
Since I'd never heard of such a thing before, I thought I'd take a video of this whole thing (which I can post if y'all want), and I took some screenshots from that video, which are here.
It really interested me because the execs in the movie industry really hate pirates and in this case the people involved with this comic from the 1970s are basically saying that pirates made the movie happen (indirectly of course). That in and of itself is a fascinating thing. Oh, before I forget, here's what Jean-Marc Rochette and Benjamin Legrand said:
> "Well anyway, we want to thank those pirates because this whole story would have never happened without them."
I just thought this was interesting and I'd share it.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies π
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
BamBOO!
Theyβre on standbi
A play on words.
Pilot on me!!
Christopher Walken
Nothing, he was gladiator.
My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.
Or would that be too forward thinking?
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
