Car man. An impending disaster.
These are trivials of elements that repeatedly appear in films, as diverse as the debut thriller of Stephen Spielberg Debut Thriller (1971) and Keanu Reves Action Fest Speed (1994).
This is a suck suitable for everyone who drives. How often did you see the mobile path, where, at the key moment, the hero turns the key in ignition, and the engine cannot roll over? You can call this cliche, but it almost always works … Especially if you survived the Canadian winter.
Most of us were there.
This happens at a particularly important point in the new film of Greengrass “Lost Bus” (premiere on October 3 on Apple TV+), the Docudrama/Disaster film, based on the real story of a school bus driver, which fell into the northern California forest fire of 2019, known as CAMP Fire, one of the most destructive fires in the history of California. With a cargo of 22 primary school children and one teacher, a descending driver Kevin McCeem (Matthew McConahi), should navigate the bus through panic-induced traffic jams, looted and a spreading flame holocaust.
Greengrass is a director who brought a feeling of documentary immediacy to films such as United 93 and Captain Phillips, and he works a lot here. Its hyperactive camera simply flies everywhere (with curiosity it resembles Sam Raimi’s demonic shots in the films “Evil Dead”), capturing dry conditions in the Bietta district in Northern California, where barely settled power lines apply a spark that will lead to the Holocaust.
Divorced McCay finds himself at a figure intersection, trying to turn to his alienated son (Levy McConahi, yes, son Matthew) and take care of her adhed mother (Kay McCab, McConac, yes, mother of Matthew). When he is the only driver who can bring 22 primary schoolchildren to a safe shelter, he rises to a call, a solution that forces himself and teachers of the school Mary Ludwig (America Ferrer) in the middle of hell on earth.
The drama, which debuted on the big screen last month at the Toronto International Film Festival, is as intense as you can handle.
Despite a few minutes of gratuitous melodrama, it is, like Captain Phillips, exciting a portrait of the search for heroism in unlikely places.
The grandfather of this sugal is an existential film that Entek-Jarz Clizot 1953 “Salary of Fear” (“Criteria Channel”, “Internet Archive”), the French epic of 1953-147 minutes-OKOLO-OKOLO-Four Men, who are swore to a deadly mission to transport two nitroglycerin trucks to the place of oil.
This was redone, at first William Fridkin as a sorcerer (1977, on the criterion channel) and last year as a very modern French action movie called “Salary of Fear” (on Netflix), so smooth and stupidly as to rightfully be considered miracles -east.
The original, of course, is the one who sees. Filted in the glorious black -white, the unintentional IV Montan (his debut in the main role) in the role of Mario, the mysterious French emigrant, who hides time in sight in the Venezuelan city, where foreigners are trapped in poverty and a lack of visa, is removed in it. (Think: CASABLANCA for Rouchnecs.) Mario is originally impressed by the newcomer Joe (Charles Vanel), the alleged criminal king, looking for asylum. But when Joe and Mario subscribe to the other two to move Nitro, relationships boil in front of Joe's well -hidden cowardice.
You can consider the militant of 2021 The Ice Road (on the current) as another wage of fear. The British writer-director Jonathan Hensley saw this in an impressionable age and subsequently wrote films such as Armageddon, Jumanji and die with revenge, which are shown poorly adventurers who take a complex and deadly mission.
Hensley was also inspired by the reality series ICE Road Truckers (on StackTV).
But he was not so perfect that he wanted an anti -Hero. Consequently, Liam Nysison is a completely heroic driver appointed to help take three half -haired trailers loaded with cast -iron losers to the far northern manitobo, where the Almaz collapse threatens to slowly extinguish the life of miners caught inside.
Hensley is not Clouzet when it comes to the image of the dynamics of people and cars of the white peel. But even in this case, the film was clearly quite popular to give rise to a continuation. Ice Road: Revenge is currently rising to the most popular Crave graphs.
