Movie: The League of Extraordinary gentlemen
Plot Type: Simple Plot
What is the Plot: The plot of the story is that terrorist
attacks are happening all around Europe that is causing nations to fight over
who is doing it and causing a treat of a world war. We join a man in Kenya who
is sent to grab, our main character,
Allan Quatermain
so that he can help protect Britain and the world from this threat. Quatermain at first refuses to help saying he
did not want to serve the crown after the lost of his son during a mission for
the crown. However at the club they were talking at the terrorist attacked.
They escaped but it resulted in the club they were in the blow up, killing the
people inside, and the only terrorist left committed suicide. Quatermain agreed
to go the England in order to protected Africa.
When
they arrived in England, Quatermain was introduced to his employer named “M”
saying that he needed him to lead a team known as The League of Extraordinary.
He then meets his team: A Pirate/Terrorist Captain Nemo, chemist Mina Harker,
and the invisible thief Rodney Skinner. They sent to recruit some members
before going to stop the Fantom latest terrorist attack in Venice that is
suspected to happen in a couple of days. They go recruit the friend of Nina
name Dorian Gray who is reviled to be an immortal. At first he is a bit
reluctant but when they are attacked by the Fantom and then saved by American
Secret agent Tom Sawyer, who agrees wishes to come along with them, he agrees
to come along too. It is also reviled that Mina is a vampire after her meeting
with Dracula.
They then take Captain Nemo’s ship, the Nautilus, to Paris
where they capture Mr. Hyde. They agreed to give him amnesty for his past
crimes if he helps them; he agrees and turns back in the harmless Dr.Jekyll.
During the trip to Venice they notice evidence that a spy is on board and
suspect Skinner but he has disappeared.
When they arrive in Venice the bombs located under the city
go off causing the buildings to fall in a domino effect. They figure out that
to stop the destruction they must destroy a building in order to interrupt the
chair reaction of destruction with one of the ship’s missile. Quatermain, Sawyer, Mina and Dorian take
Nemo’s automobile to outrun the chain reaction with Dorian and Mina leaping out
to fight the Fantom’s men. Quatermain also leaps out and confronts the Fantom
who is reveled to be M but then soon escapes before Quatermain can catch him.
Meanwhile Sawyer brings the car to the spot they need to fire at and signals
Nemo to fire the Missile save what is left of Venice.
A
phonograph record made by
M is found, M explaining his true goal was to gather physical elements of the
team (Skinner's invisible skin, Jekyll's Hyde formula, Mina's vampire blood,
and Nemo's technology, while he only needed Quatermain to capture Hyde) to make
superhuman formulas to sell to the highest paying countries, with Dorian
revealing bombs are hidden on the submarine. The bombs detonate, damaging the
sub, but Hyde drains the flooding water from the Nautilus’ engine rooms.
Skinner, who stowed away on Dorian’s pod, messages the group to follow his
lead.
When they meet
up with Skinner in Northern Mongolia they find out that they are producing
replicas of the Nautilus, as well as making the scientist make invisible spies,
an army of Hydes and Vampiric assassins. They the break into the lab and spilt
up into groups; Nemo and Hyde free the scientist and their families, Skinner
plants bombs around the factory to blow it up, Mina fights Dorian and kills him
by showing him his portrait, while Quatermain and Sawyer go after M who is
actuality is Professor James Moriarty. Quatermain has Moriarty on the ropes but
then shows him that one of his invisible spies has capture Sawyer. Quatermain
shoots the spies killing him but then Moriarty stabs him in the back and
escapes with his weapons. Sawyer uses Quatermain’s shooting teaching to shoot
Moriarty before he got away. Quatermain however, after talking to Sawyer, dies
do to the stab wound.
They bury Quatermain
beside his son in Africa. They recall the Quatermain always said the Africa
would never let him die due to him saving a witch doctor’s village but it seems
that it did not work. As they all leave to board the ship a witch doctor is
performing a ritual. Lighting strikes the grav then fading out hinting that Quatermain
is alive.
Characters:
Unfortunately
we don’t learn much about the characters and how they worked together unlike
the comic this is based off. So here are a quick summery of each main
characters. I will do the mian character,
Allan Quatermain, relationship with everyone
then cover off any other important relationships that are show. If the relation
ships are not talked about then they were either respected and trusted the
other but where not really friends or it is the typical villain to hero relationship.
(this was noted in other reviews of this
movie)
He is
very serious characters but can be calm and playful at certain moments. He is
very closed off to his team in the beginning as shown when he calls Nemo and
Pirate and straight out tell Mina he wants her gone after just meeting them. He
is also very mournful and angry towards the Britain Empire and himself because
during another Mission for the Empire he lost his son while he was leading the
mission. He and Mina do no really talk through out the whole except the movie
during the being and some other small parts in the moves that are not really
relevant to them; how every it does hint and show that these two do respect each
other as time goes on. He and Captain Nemo disliked each other from the very
beginning but they soon saw that they were both skilled and respectable men and
put their differences aside and became somewhat friends. They even apologized
to each other and shared some scenes that highlighted their characters and
their relationship to each other. Him and Skinner were on thin ice from the
very beginning, he never trusted him at all and with the suspicion of a spy he
was on of the first to suspect Skinner of being it but they soon learn to trust
each other after reviling who the true Spy was and Skinner tracking down the
villains. With Mr.Hyde and Dr.Jekyll he
was actually a bit more trust and even encourage Dr.Jekyll to trust and work
with his alter ego. With Sawyer he had more of a father son relationship with
him and even doing a couple of the thing that was hinted at he would have done
with his son. With Dorian Gray he appears the trust and respect him right away
but then later despises and hates after he had trusted him. With Mr.M he
doesn’t seemed to trust him at all and when he is reviled to be the criminal
master mind he then starts to despise and hate him.
Other notable relationships:
Dr.Jekyll seems to have a crush on Mina but it is only
showed during when he hears the conversation with Mina and Dorian and when he
watches Sawyer try to comfort her during when the fireworks go off. (but then
it is never spoken of again. This also helps with the little rivalry that Him
and Dorian kind of have)
Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde have an interesting relationship. At
first Jekyll lives in fear at what Hyde is doing of people but is powerless to
stop drinking the potion and is constantly tempted to it. While Hyde just wants
to destroy and kill anyone or anything that gets in his way. However they soon
come to peace with each other when the boat is sinking and stay somewhat
friends after wards.
Mina seems to not really interact with any other character
beside Dorian and Sawyer. She seems to like Sawyer though not in a romantically
way? Maybe? They made her very mysterious and hard to tell what she was
thinking. With Dorian it hinted at and shows that these two have know each
other for along time and even had a romantically relationship with each other.
She soon hates him after the betrayal (which has happened before between them)
and takes it too the point where she seeks him out and kills him.
Mina does not seem to trust Captian Nemo because he prays to
the god of Death Kali.
Skinner is not trusted by anyone in the group until after he
proves he is not the spy and follows the villains.
Captain Nemo is very respected by his crew and will do
things in order to protect his crew even if it means killing some of the crew
to save the whole ship and the rest of the crew. He also does not trust Hyde or
Jekyll till after he saves ship and the two become somewhat friends as show
during the break in at the factory when they constantly save each other.
Sawyer seems to be in love with Mina but it never gets past
a puppy dog love thing. He also seems to have great respect for
Quatermain
and possible revers him as a father figure; he was devastated by his death. He
also seems to have distain for Dorian due to him loving Mina and for
betraying them.
Here are the drawing I did for the S=scenes I liked and the scenes I wanted to change:
Good Scenes:
The first two good scenes I did actually come right after each other and actually shows not through dialogue but through light and position of the actors. In the first scenes with M in it we see a very dark and shade figure with a some what sinister stance while the hero looks at him with some light on him. This gives us the perfect picture of how evil and dark this man is. In the second picture we see a flip of the first we see our main character Quatermain showered in light while M's hand is completely dark. This show the noble and hero like qualities of our hero and show him in a dramatic pose making this hero seem pure and the our only way to survive in the dark time.
The next good scene was the scene when M stabs Quatermain in the back after Quatermain shoots the invisible spy.The lighting makes Quatermain look like a holy figure that has just been sturck down by evil. While M looks like the Evil of the world. I Also like the angle of the show as well as it clearly shows what is happening.
The next good scene show Quatermain is die from the stab wound he has just received from M. They hero is enveloped in light as he gives his final words making him look pure and at peace. It also gives us a good angle that help to show the love and kindness this man holds with in.
The final good scene shows the sorrow and pain the other character feels towards the death of his friend . He is cast in darkness to show his sorrow and pain as well as express to the audience how tragic this death is to him and everyone else.
Bad Scenes:
Captain Nemo is a very serious and strong will person who is not afraid of anything but in this scene he looks scared and for some reason Jekyll is in the corner of it which just bugs be so I zoomed in on him too look more serious and took out Jekyll. I also darken his shading to make him look more serious.
In the next scene we see the workers of Nemo unloading the ship so they can look for the bomb. For this scene I keep the nice light but I change the angle so their was not so much stuff in the way and we could actually see what was going on. it was also done so we can show off the suits in the backgournd more as well.
The next scene is of Quatermain listening and discussing what they should do about the bombs that had just gone off. This is suppose to be a dramatic scene and not a time to make him look angelic. so I closed in on his face to make him look more dramatic and I took off the extra light to make him look more serious and dramatic.
The next scene of is Mina as she looks down at the carnage below. I would have just token this scene out because really it's just a beauty shot which is what they did for a lot of her scenes but since I had to keep it in I just closed in on her face and darken her light so she looked more sinister and if I had drawn it better more demonic on the face.
The scene is of a worker of Nemo is who is noticing that the damage outside is threatening the safety of the boat a crew and he is looking worried. This picture suffer from another common thing in this move. Their is too much blurred stuff in the camera range that is making it too distracting for the audience to get the mood so I changed the view of it so it kept the dramatic look but made it more focus as well as kept the light for it as well, since it was kind of dramatic already.
