Loopersa well-executed sci-fi thriller
What if the best way to eliminate a troublesome witness was to send him to the past to kill him? This is what the mafia has set up for the foreseeable future and in which it takes place Loopers (2012). The science fiction film then imagines killers responsible for waiting for victims from the future and eliminating them without asking questions. Each time, the person to be eliminated is hooded and tied to prevent these “loopers” from changing their minds. They can thus eliminate themselves without knowing it. Because after years of service, a “looper” is sent back to the past by the mafia with gold bars on him, to offer the one from the past a short-term pension.
Everyone knows the rules of their contract with the criminal organization. One of them, Joe, will still hesitate when faced with one of his targets who is neither hooded nor tied up. Enough to allow his double from the future to take over. Joe will then be chased by his employers and will do everything to find his target in the hope of making everything right.
Bruce Willis surprised himself
With LoopersRian Johnson has delivered an effective, well-executed anticipatory thriller Joseph Gordon-Levitt e Bruce Willis. The first appears with an astonishing face. Having to be a younger version of Bruce Willis’ character, the actor underwent extensive make-up sessions before filming his sequences. It took three hours every day to fit the prosthetics.
Knowing that Joseph Gordon-Levitt was far from resembling Bruce Willis, the director and his team decided “isolate some essential characteristics of its physiognomy“. Like his nose, his jaw or even the color of his eyes (digitally edited). Enough woe betide Bruce Willis when he found himself facing Joseph Gordon-Levitt for the first time. The star would have”a little crazy” according to the filmmaker, who told this anecdote in the press kit.
A success that opens doors Star Wars to Rian Johnson
Made on a budget of $30 million, Loopers was Rian Johnson’s first big hit. Before that, the director was relatively little known, despite the cute comedy An almost perfect scam (2008). With over $176 million in worldwide revenue, his fourth feature film was largely profitable. Positive feedback from the press and public logically it attracted the attention of major film studios, including Disney. In fact, a few years later LoopersRian Johnson was entrusted with the production of Star Wars, Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017). A film that greatly divided fans of the saga, as well as the press, but which still grossed more than 1.3 billion dollars worldwide.
Since then, Rian Johnson has stayed away from saga Star Warsbut he is in charge of another. After At loggerheads (2019), the director directed a first sequel on Netflix with Glass Onion: a story of unsheathed daggers (2022). Benoit Blanc, played by Daniel Craig, will lead a third investigation in 2025 Wake Up Dead Man: A Mystery at Knives Out.
Source: Cine Serie
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