Matheus Medeiros and yet Theo's first response: "That was even worse - everyone crying. I mean come on, 'Baby Diego' lets face it the guy was a wanker"
In the first 2 minutes this film: - perfectly establishes the setting and resulting fallout from its reality - sets the tone for the hopelessness felt by the characters in its world - shows the indifference of our main character. Establishing the beginning of his arc On top of that there’s an explosion which is p cool.
skankuser this is the only "dystopian future" movie I've ever seen where I actually believed the world they were portraying existed....so much fantastic detail in every shot that it actually feels like a real, living place. 10/10 directing for Alfonso Cuaron.
Holy crap, I can see the Shard behind St. Pauls. At the time the film was made, the Shard was just in planning stage and they got its location and silhouette all correct. That's the sort of attention to detail I love
@@foglias Haha yup, I remember that. Was mildly disappointed they didn't predict the "Lisa Simpson Giving a Blowjob" logo we ended up getting :p Still, I loved the many little touches that film had ^^
Y'know that ringing in your ears? That 'eeeeeeeeee'? That's the sound of the ear cells dying, like their swan song. Once it's gone you'll never hear that frequency again. Enjoy it while it lasts.
+My Profile Picture is by Hatomame, will all you perverts stop asking Pretty sure thats false, as everyone who works in clubs or music venues would be deaf pretty quick.
The bombing is exciting, but I also love how the movie sets the tone by reporting the death of the world’s youngest person, who was 18. Not only is it obscene for 18 to be the youngest, it adds to the sense of loss for the viewer. We feel the film world’s sense of loss before we even really know what the world is like. Extraordinary storytelling.
"A few weeks before they shot the first scene, in which a terrorist bomb blows up on Fleet Street and nearly kills Theo, real-life Islamist radicals detonated four bombs across London on July 7, 2005, killing 52 and wounding nearly 800. The government reluctantly honored its existing agreement to let the Children of Men crew film the scene, but there was no way it was going to grant them more than a day to do it. That day was, thanks to Cuarón, chaotic. “It’s a Sunday morning, it’s about 6 a.m., and Alfonso has already said, ‘We’re not shooting today,’ ” Newman recalls. “I said, ‘Why not?’ and he said, ‘Well, look at the cars!’ ” They were all new-looking models, which Cuarón found unacceptable for his worn-down dystopia. They needed damage. He walked up to one of them and reared back. “He jumps up on the hood and starts jumping up and down, smashing the hood,” Newman recalls. “He goes, ‘Eric, do we own these cars?’ I go, ‘Well, we own that one, that one, that one.’ And he just starts smashing them.” Newman said to him they could just insert the damage with CGI later. The new plan was to put orange stickers on the ones they wanted to tweak in post, so the effects supervisor started picking a few but was quickly interrupted. “Alfonso takes the sticker book and he puts stickers on every single car,” Newman says. “We probably had 30 cars, and he's just sitting there and going, This one and this one and this one. It was becoming a multimillion-dollar shot because of all of the animation. But Alfonso figured out a way to shoot it where all we had to do was digitally remove the tracking dots from the cars. He always made the camera work for him.”" www.vulture.com/2016/12/children-of-men-alfonso-cuaron-c-v-r.html?mid=twitter_vulture
Its 2015 and after spending an hour watching various news channels covering the Refugee crisis I am eeriely aware of the disturbing similarities between Children of Men's fictitious history and our own current condition in Europe and the middle East.
+Billie Achilleos You're right. I always felt this vision of the future could be coming true. Not of the human race becoming sterile but just a breakdown of society. The scene as he goes into The Mall always gets me.
+Billie Achilleos CLOSE THE BORDERS. Paris just learned that lesson this week. Funny how all these socialist countries like France allow these refugees in only to get blown up by them.
+Billie Achilleos Its called social engineering, this is the sole-purpose of Hollywood and the corporate run media. The vaccines are making people sterile and giving them cancer while making them stay alive long enough so big pharma and the insurance industry can make a killer profit from you dying...
+Daniel Burton I am working on a self replicating nano machine that will make all women and men sterile. It's only a matter of time before I make this movie come true.
+twatface mcgeee Not necessarily the part about human infertility, but definitely the world in general going to shit. On the other hand, the point could be made that the world has pretty much always been going to shit. Human history is just a series of tragedies.
i think its important to note that the bombing in this movie is later explained to be perpetrated by the government itself to perpetuate hate and solidify power...... much like the hate filled people in the comment section here have demonstrated.
Oh bullshit, the Fishes proved they're more than willing to keep carrying out violent shit like this through the course of the movie. There's ZERO reason to believe them claiming the government was behind it. It's ambiguous at best.
I feel like I was really lucky to have had zero context on this film’s plot before watching it. Right from the first lines, I was so wonderfully confused, baffled and fuckin shocked. It was the absolute perfect way to open one of the most thought-provoking films I’ve ever seen.
It's a perfect crime that this movie wasn't a big hit. Much more tragic than the entire human race going barren. Maybe if fertility rates around the world drop with no cure in sight, more people will watch and enjoy this masterpiece, and there will be justice.
+TheNotverysocial I just found out that this movie exists, I had no idea. Never heard of it, which is really weird, cause I watch a lot of films. I have kind of spoiled the movie for myself though, as I've been watching clips of it on youtube lol, but looks fantastic.. have to check it out.
+XaeeD you don't want to miss out on it man. When I first saw a trailer about this movie, I thought it would have been an averagely good movie, but I got more than that, and just watching clips won't do it justice, because there is a ton of content in this movie that beat out other great films.
Every time something big happens, or when something is about to or has left his life, the ringing happens. When people he cares about die, etc. Lots of hidden stuff in this movie.
Sure, the universal grief of not seeing youth anymore cuts across nationalistic identity, despite the Ultra-nationalistic environment they live in and the fact that Argentina and the UK had their own historical tussles in the past.
The “more” is that he was the last child ever born, so everyone was mourning it. The whole world is sterile in this movie so he would have been a celebrity of sorts due to being the youngest person alive
This opening actually waked me up during the midnight since its wonderful scene -The dark color covers the whole scene, which expressed sharply the hopelessness of human life -It focuses on the main character movements but not ignores to highlight the background -In the last minute, after the explosion, the cameraman ran near to the fire which makes the scene more realistic and thrilling
I have NEVER in my life had a film I knew absolutely nothing about, reel me in within the first 2 minutes to where I’m hooked and need to see the rest. Absolutely brilliant…
We had a civil war that only ended twenty years ago, that lasted over twenty years. No amount of hyperbole trumps instances of rebels destroying city blocks or the military slaughtering crowds of people. Don't reply to this comment if Britain ends up in another civil war. It will probably happen at some point and I'll have bigger things to worry about than what politically inclined American teenagers from 4chan think.
Me seeing the movie for the first time 5+ years ago: "Oh, this is insane, we all know bad the nazis were, we would never allow this sort of dehumanization to occur again" The US and China in 2019: "Okay, what if this but irl?"
I got to love how: Theo dont watch TV so he isnt in the explosion The police officer who's helmet has the royal engrams CR. Indicating that in the films future 2027 Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth Regina) has died and Prince Charles has now risen to the throne as King Charles III (Charles Rex).
While not everything in this film has been proven true, it's a warning that our future will be similar if change isn't made. A beautifully brilliant film
Steps on how to make sure humanity survives: 1. Find 1 baby (gender does not matter) 2. Find livable planet far away with younger star than the sun 3. Put baby in rocket 4. Put adult sized super hero costume in rockets storage compartments 5. Baby more powerful than the people on the planet
We're all Theo in this world of shitty news. The best symbolism I've seen is people staring at the tv in the coffee shop just because everyone else is. Then Theos like the world is going under, who gives a shit ?
This movie was so criminally underrated... and it was released way before anyone ever gave a shit about comic book movies. Now it's all anyone really cares about.
and even in face of extinction, people would rather go to war than have a last party together. That's who we are and that's the reason we'll end ourselves sooner or later.
I don't know if you guys know the game Deus Ex, but if it was ever to get the big screen treatment, it should be done by these guys. It's futuristic, but not flashy. It's depressing and dystopian. It's filthy and poor. It's bloody perfect.
I always go back and watch this film, its so good. When it first came out i was living downsouth and my hometown had been devastated by hurricand katrina which made everything look depressing, it looked like a bleak end of the world setting, all the leaves were missing off every tree, destruction debis littered the streets and alot of cloudy cold days. So to me this movie just fit the tone of what my world was already like, i related to if, the cinematography was amazing, and the dystopian setting seemed so real to me that it felt more like a glimpse into a future that was coming instead of a fantasy.
There's a very similar scene in the opening battle sequence of Saving Private Ryan, a soldier injured by a tank missile or a landmine, snatching his torn off arm from the ground and just walking away in pure shock. Such action has nothing to do with composing yourself. Yeah, it doesn't seem realistic but it has an enormous impact on the viewer.
After getting an obviously empty cup of coffee, he walks down the street & pours liquor into it. When it falls on the ground, only that ounce or so of liquid splashes out. Soured me on the whole movie.
The first line in this movie always hits home for me, "Day One Thousand of the Siege of Seattle" as I am born and raised in Seattle. I always loved this movie and wanted to look into the 'extended universe' of this world Alfonso Cuaron built, so I read the script of it online and it provided some interesting information on what happened in North America. Basically the US had fractured into 3 separate states, a Neo-Confederacy in the South, the Federal Government in the North East and a seperate Cascadian Independent state on the West coast. So the Siege of Seattle was part of an ongoing conflict between these 3 factions. Link to the Script: www.dailyscript.com/scripts/children_of_men-script.pdf
i'm still to this day to lazy to look up how they did this. I mean he left the shop and that was enough time to get everyone out of there before they did the either very real looking fake explosion or actual explosion. this movie is what I wish a whole lot of other movies now adays could be like, just plain great.
Sugar glass, some propane gas jets, and compressed air cannons full of cork. Reckon they got everyone inside to hit the deck too, heatlh & safefy. And rehearsing about 1000 times 'cos this must have been a bitch to set up.
adwiens Used to watch How Do They Do That?.. Otherwise just some knowledge of movie trickery. Apart from that, was this the real Fleet Street, and how long did they close it, one wonders..
Well he doesn't need coffee anymore because that sure as hell woke him up
Literally.
That lady holding her arm was his shot of expresso. He ain't sleepy any more.
But he certainly needs that shot of booze.
I got a Starbucks ad after he threw his cup lol
he might still need some of that alcohol though
This has to be the best opening scene for any movie ever. Got me hooked instantly in under 2 minutes.
totally, got instant goosebumps
Like the opening of die hard with a vengeance
True. When i first saw this movie i almost cried for Baby Diego.
Matheus Medeiros and yet Theo's first response: "That was even worse - everyone crying. I mean come on, 'Baby Diego' lets face it the guy was a wanker"
I think batman the dark knight and even lord of the rings
In the first 2 minutes this film:
- perfectly establishes the setting and resulting fallout from its reality
- sets the tone for the hopelessness felt by the characters in its world
- shows the indifference of our main character. Establishing the beginning of his arc
On top of that there’s an explosion which is p cool.
The cinematography and general feeling of this movie is amazing. You really can picture the bleak and dystopian future they're portraying here.
skankuser this is the only "dystopian future" movie I've ever seen where I actually believed the world they were portraying existed....so much fantastic detail in every shot that it actually feels like a real, living place. 10/10 directing for Alfonso Cuaron.
+Whoopity Doo Emmanuel Lubezki is the greatest cinematographer of all time.
+Whoopity Doo What?
Annnnd here we are now. Only 5 years to go and it's already like this.
And here we are...
Fuck yeah dude. That's how you open a fucking movie.
yeah broski, I totally agree! So fucking rad g, lets hook up and talk films ? x London Male 16
Holy crap, I can see the Shard behind St. Pauls. At the time the film was made, the Shard was just in planning stage and they got its location and silhouette all correct. That's the sort of attention to detail I love
Holy fuck, this is incredible. :O
holy shit!!!!!!
Later in the film he wears an old hoodie from London 2012 olympics...
@@foglias Haha yup, I remember that. Was mildly disappointed they didn't predict the "Lisa Simpson Giving a Blowjob" logo we ended up getting :p Still, I loved the many little touches that film had ^^
To all the people that posted 4 years ago that said this was predicting the future, wait until you get to 2020.
Oh my its 2021 now!
It's 2022 and it's even worse
2024 here, everything is worse
Y'know that ringing in your ears? That 'eeeeeeeeee'? That's the sound of the ear cells dying, like their swan song. Once it's gone you'll never hear that frequency again. Enjoy it while it lasts.
That's actually pretty fucking fascinating, thanks for that bro
The Noble Lord Cornelius Edward Horsedick Brother of Shrek Master of the Lord of the Thundercunts Quote from the movie.
+My Profile Picture is by Hatomame, will all you perverts stop asking Pretty sure thats false, as everyone who works in clubs or music venues would be deaf pretty quick.
Sorry to be that guy but my doctor said it’s not true oof
The bombing is exciting, but I also love how the movie sets the tone by reporting the death of the world’s youngest person, who was 18. Not only is it obscene for 18 to be the youngest, it adds to the sense of loss for the viewer. We feel the film world’s sense of loss before we even really know what the world is like.
Extraordinary storytelling.
I remember this opening scene rocked me! I was wide-eyed as fuck!
This film is a true work of art and a masterpiece. Up there with the greats.
amen. i think it is mirror of the christian birth story. maybe thats obvious dont know?
"A few weeks before they shot the first scene, in which a terrorist bomb blows up on Fleet Street and nearly kills Theo, real-life Islamist radicals detonated four bombs across London on July 7, 2005, killing 52 and wounding nearly 800. The government reluctantly honored its existing agreement to let the Children of Men crew film the scene, but there was no way it was going to grant them more than a day to do it. That day was, thanks to Cuarón, chaotic. “It’s a Sunday morning, it’s about 6 a.m., and Alfonso has already said, ‘We’re not shooting today,’ ” Newman recalls. “I said, ‘Why not?’ and he said, ‘Well, look at the cars!’ ” They were all new-looking models, which Cuarón found unacceptable for his worn-down dystopia. They needed damage. He walked up to one of them and reared back.
“He jumps up on the hood and starts jumping up and down, smashing the hood,” Newman recalls. “He goes, ‘Eric, do we own these cars?’ I go, ‘Well, we own that one, that one, that one.’ And he just starts smashing them.” Newman said to him they could just insert the damage with CGI later. The new plan was to put orange stickers on the ones they wanted to tweak in post, so the effects supervisor started picking a few but was quickly interrupted. “Alfonso takes the sticker book and he puts stickers on every single car,” Newman says. “We probably had 30 cars, and he's just sitting there and going, This one and this one and this one. It was becoming a multimillion-dollar shot because of all of the animation. But Alfonso figured out a way to shoot it where all we had to do was digitally remove the tracking dots from the cars. He always made the camera work for him.”"
www.vulture.com/2016/12/children-of-men-alfonso-cuaron-c-v-r.html?mid=twitter_vulture
2:14 Cafe Bomb Blast 💣 💥
What the hell
It was supposed to be a warning; not a prophecy.
+Kot Blini Predictive Programming.
Yup, Trump's child concentration camps look an awfull lot like those in the movie.
@@AtticTapes14 Universal 100th Anniversary
The way he makes his way to front and center of the coffee shop is just so wonderful ☺️
2:14 Coffee Bomb Blast 💣💥
Its 2015 and after spending an hour watching various news channels covering the Refugee crisis I am eeriely aware of the disturbing similarities between Children of Men's fictitious history and our own current condition in Europe and the middle East.
+Billie Achilleos In other words, we are fucked.
+Billie Achilleos You're right. I always felt this vision of the future could be coming true. Not of the human race becoming sterile but just a breakdown of society. The scene as he goes into The Mall always gets me.
+Billie Achilleos CLOSE THE BORDERS. Paris just learned that lesson this week. Funny how all these socialist countries like France allow these refugees in only to get blown up by them.
Thought of the same, and searched for Children of men, and this was the first comment I saw.
+Billie Achilleos
Its called social engineering, this is the sole-purpose of Hollywood and the corporate run media.
The vaccines are making people sterile and giving them cancer while making them stay alive long enough so big pharma and the insurance industry can make a killer profit from you dying...
Just watched this film last night... the opening scene absolutely shocked me.
Never have I been so enthralled in a film 2 minutes in
Pretty scary how close this movie is getting to reality now
how?? the population is incressing at a very high rate
+Daniel Burton I am working on a self replicating nano machine that will make all women and men sterile. It's only a matter of time before I make this movie come true.
+twatface mcgeee Not necessarily the part about human infertility, but definitely the world in general going to shit. On the other hand, the point could be made that the world has pretty much always been going to shit. Human history is just a series of tragedies.
It will plateau sometime in the next 20 years.
Zika is spreading, STI and human to human non sexual contact
"Seems that every time one of our politicians is in trouble a bomb goes off"
The place was London, 2016.
The elderly woman holding the dog is the author of the book. I think.
+bradlbe Sorry, but it ain't. Although she does look similar to P. D James.
i think its important to note that the bombing in this movie is later explained to be perpetrated by the government itself to perpetuate hate and solidify power...... much like the hate filled people in the comment section here have demonstrated.
yea bc its definetly the governments terrorising europe and not muslim extremists
Beppu Gonzaemon and who/what created said extremists dipshit?
a 1400 yr old book
Oh bullshit, the Fishes proved they're more than willing to keep carrying out violent shit like this through the course of the movie. There's ZERO reason to believe them claiming the government was behind it. It's ambiguous at best.
I thought the Fishes were behind the attack
I feel like I was really lucky to have had zero context on this film’s plot before watching it. Right from the first lines, I was so wonderfully confused, baffled and fuckin shocked.
It was the absolute perfect way to open one of the most thought-provoking films I’ve ever seen.
One of the best openings of all time. The movie gets better after 2-3 viewings. Definitely my top 5 movie.
Along with everything else that's good about this, can we take a moment to appreciate how damn great the sound design is?
yes
this film is so great and so perfect its actually being reenacted by our own society. lets hope Lubeskis behind the camera to document it....
It's a perfect crime that this movie wasn't a big hit. Much more tragic than the entire human race going barren. Maybe if fertility rates around the world drop with no cure in sight, more people will watch and enjoy this masterpiece, and there will be justice.
+TheNotverysocial I just found out that this movie exists, I had no idea. Never heard of it, which is really weird, cause I watch a lot of films. I have kind of spoiled the movie for myself though, as I've been watching clips of it on youtube lol, but looks fantastic.. have to check it out.
+XaeeD you don't want to miss out on it man. When I first saw a trailer about this movie, I thought it would have been an averagely good movie, but I got more than that, and just watching clips won't do it justice, because there is a ton of content in this movie that beat out other great films.
Something this bleak could never be a huge hit I feel.
@@ripelivejam Its bleakness is but one of many things that make it so great. And its continuing panning shots with minimal cuts, some subtle.
Every time something big happens, or when something is about to or has left his life, the ringing happens. When people he cares about die, etc. Lots of hidden stuff in this movie.
well, we've pretty much reached this point
You don't need to wait 11 years for London to look like this. More like 2.
sb12083 one more year to go
ChrisyPhus Nah it's already here
London is an awesome place it live, wtf are you talking about?
“Day 1000 of the siege of Seattle”
Universal 100th Anniversary
I find it ironic that many Britons would mourn the death of a young Argentine; there has to be some hidden message in this scene.
Sure, the universal grief of not seeing youth anymore cuts across nationalistic identity, despite the Ultra-nationalistic environment they live in and the fact that Argentina and the UK had their own historical tussles in the past.
The “more” is that he was the last child ever born, so everyone was mourning it. The whole world is sterile in this movie so he would have been a celebrity of sorts due to being the youngest person alive
only 11 years away and were looking right on track.
Ayup.
This opening actually waked me up during the midnight since its wonderful scene
-The dark color covers the whole scene, which expressed sharply the hopelessness of human life
-It focuses on the main character movements but not ignores to highlight the background
-In the last minute, after the explosion, the cameraman ran near to the fire which makes the scene more realistic and thrilling
I have NEVER in my life had a film I knew absolutely nothing about, reel me in within the first 2 minutes to where I’m hooked and need to see the rest. Absolutely brilliant…
One of the best opening scenes of all time.
Hey Britain, does this still seem like science fiction?
how about now?
We had a civil war that only ended twenty years ago, that lasted over twenty years. No amount of hyperbole trumps instances of rebels destroying city blocks or the military slaughtering crowds of people.
Don't reply to this comment if Britain ends up in another civil war. It will probably happen at some point and I'll have bigger things to worry about than what politically inclined American teenagers from 4chan think.
Do you include IRA attacks or just islamic terrorism?
Baby Diego turns 11 this year!
"The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel."
i used to think "Blade Runner" was an accurate description of things to come, until i saw this movie... and looked at the world around us.
well the UK just exited the EU. This movie is more relevant than ever
Little less so, tbh famalam.
Dream on.
Blocking economic migrants from Poland is not the same as blocking genuine refugees.
Britain soldiers on
Yup, just exited...
Something extremely terrifying and haunting about the screams and the woman holding her arm walking out.
I had to watch this opening scene for a class, but now I'm really interested in seeing the whole movie. It looks really fucking good, I'm hooked.
It is soooooo fucking good. You will not be dissapointed.
Fat to Fierce you must of had and awesome teacher!!
That little bastard Baby Diego.
Me seeing the movie for the first time 5+ years ago: "Oh, this is insane, we all know bad the nazis were, we would never allow this sort of dehumanization to occur again"
The US and China in 2019: "Okay, what if this but irl?"
I got to love how:
Theo dont watch TV so he isnt in the explosion
The police officer who's helmet has the royal engrams CR. Indicating that in the films future 2027 Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth Regina) has died and Prince Charles has now risen to the throne as King Charles III (Charles Rex).
Okay, now I have to see this movie. What an opening scene. INCREDIBLE!
is she really holding her torn off arm??
Nah she holding someone’s dick
Good news is she doesn’t need a hand
@ 1:56 you can see the shard in the distance.
This movie it's becoming more relevant
One of my favourite movie openings of all time, it tells you all you need to know in about 2 minutes.
What a sick intro, I specially like it cus I’m an Argentine person.
mickey rat same
While not everything in this film has been proven true, it's a warning that our future will be similar if change isn't made. A beautifully brilliant film
The constables hat has CR on it, Charles Rex, instead of ER, Elizabeth Regina.
Leaves, the wind scatters some on the face of the ground;
Like unto them are the children of men
Steps on how to make sure humanity survives:
1. Find 1 baby (gender does not matter)
2. Find livable planet far away with younger star than the sun
3. Put baby in rocket
4. Put adult sized super hero costume in rockets storage compartments
5. Baby more powerful than the people on the planet
Eerily timely.
We're all Theo in this world of shitty news. The best symbolism I've seen is people staring at the tv in the coffee shop just because everyone else is. Then Theos like the world is going under, who gives a shit ?
Britain, today.
This movie was so criminally underrated... and it was released way before anyone ever gave a shit about comic book movies. Now it's all anyone really cares about.
Funnily when this film was made not many people knew much of Theresa May. The opening lines are very much her thing.
The old lady holding the dog is P.D. James the author of the book this movie is based on.
She sure found her arm quickly!
one of my favorite opening scenes!
Even from the very beginning, no cut at all. Awesome.
there's a Ms P.D. james with a dog!
This is how my people felt with the fire on the "National Museum of Brazil"
This movie is so uplifting!
and even in face of extinction, people would rather go to war than have a last party together. That's who we are and that's the reason we'll end ourselves sooner or later.
I don't know if you guys know the game Deus Ex, but if it was ever to get the big screen treatment, it should be done by these guys.
It's futuristic, but not flashy. It's depressing and dystopian. It's filthy and poor. It's bloody perfect.
Exactly, similar time period too, this is set in 2027, Deus Ex HR is set in 2026 pretty sure and Deus Ex MD is in 2029
I always go back and watch this film, its so good. When it first came out i was living downsouth and my hometown had been devastated by hurricand katrina which made everything look depressing, it looked like a bleak end of the world setting, all the leaves were missing off every tree, destruction debis littered the streets and alot of cloudy cold days. So to me this movie just fit the tone of what my world was already like, i related to if, the cinematography was amazing, and the dystopian setting seemed so real to me that it felt more like a glimpse into a future that was coming instead of a fantasy.
I want to watch this! But I'm reading the book first...
Love this movie.
And love the way The Last Of Us structured their intro just like Children of Men
That woman collected her blown off arm and got out of that explosion REALLY fast.
A Utopia!
-People on r/childfree for some reason.
This movie is a f------ masterpiece.
I need to watch this movie again it's so good
The commercial for this video featured children playing on a beach. This disturbs me greatly.
There's a very similar scene in the opening battle sequence of Saving Private Ryan, a soldier injured by a tank missile or a landmine, snatching his torn off arm from the ground and just walking away in pure shock. Such action has nothing to do with composing yourself. Yeah, it doesn't seem realistic but it has an enormous impact on the viewer.
I think the ringing in the ear thing was also done in Saving Private Ryan, Rocky, Raging Bull...
This intro looks a theatrical trailer. It's Awesowe.
Considering that more people are having less sex these days This movie was way ahead of its time.
The explosion always makes me jump!
Coronavirus 2020 anyone?
After getting an obviously empty cup of coffee, he walks down the street & pours liquor into it. When it falls on the ground, only that ounce or so of liquid splashes out. Soured me on the whole movie.
He got the cup to hide his liquor??
You'd be surprised what you do when you're in shock.
Yes, darling, cry, cry for humanity's dark fate!
Shit, there's gonna be a siege of Seattle. I liked this city, man.
The first line in this movie always hits home for me, "Day One Thousand of the Siege of Seattle" as I am born and raised in Seattle. I always loved this movie and wanted to look into the 'extended universe' of this world Alfonso Cuaron built, so I read the script of it online and it provided some interesting information on what happened in North America. Basically the US had fractured into 3 separate states, a Neo-Confederacy in the South, the Federal Government in the North East and a seperate Cascadian Independent state on the West coast. So the Siege of Seattle was part of an ongoing conflict between these 3 factions.
Link to the Script: www.dailyscript.com/scripts/children_of_men-script.pdf
Vuela alto, Baby Diego...Te queremos...
dark movie
Coming home in a body bag?
That wasn’t a movie bro
Children of men that was a movie
I like coffee with my sugar
This movie still haunts me.
Thank you for posting this, came in handy!
Isn't that Bill Murray in the opening scene on the far left?
that's fleet street, london! (or more precisely right in front of the goldman sachs hq)
OH MY GOD IT'S SARAH FROBISHER SMYTHE
this looks like a mix of parts of Beijing and Gotham city.
I WANNA GET OFF MR. BONES WILD RIDE
i'm still to this day to lazy to look up how they did this. I mean he left the shop and that was enough time to get everyone out of there before they did the either very real looking fake explosion or actual explosion. this movie is what I wish a whole lot of other movies now adays could be like, just plain great.
They could have used compressed air rather than actual explosives
Sugar glass, some propane gas jets, and compressed air cannons full of cork. Reckon they got everyone inside to hit the deck too, heatlh & safefy. And rehearsing about 1000 times 'cos this must have been a bitch to set up.
arch9enius sounds like you might have some experience :D
adwiens
Used to watch How Do They Do That?.. Otherwise just some knowledge of movie trickery. Apart from that, was this the real Fleet Street, and how long did they close it, one wonders..
could be hidden edits