Mars Attacks!

Titolo originale: Mars Attacks!
Regia: Tim Burton |
Anno: 1996
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Commedia Fantasy Fantascienza
Tag: usa president | the white house | planet mars | saving the world | cataclysm | total destruction | laser gun | ambassador | congress | flying saucer | dark comedy | parody | based on comic | alien | creature | alien invasion | marte | outer space | absurd |
Cast: Jack Nicholson | Glenn Close | Annette Bening | Pierce Brosnan | Danny DeVito | Martin Short | Sarah Jessica Parker | Michael J. Fox | Rod Steiger | Tom Jones | Lukas Haas | Natalie Portman | Jim Brown | Lisa Marie | Sylvia Sidney | Paul Winfield | Pam Grier | Jack Black | Janice Rivera | Ray J | Brandon Hammond | Joe Don Baker | O-Lan Jones | Christina Applegate | Brian Haley | Jerzy Skolimowski | Timi Prulhiere | Barbet Schroeder | Chi Hoang Cai | Tommy Bush | Joseph Maher | Gloria M. Malgarini | Betty Bunch | Gloria Hoffmann | Willie Garson | John Roselius | Michael Reilly Burke | Valerie Wildman | Richard Irving | Jonathan Emerson | Tamara 'Gingir' Curry | Rebecca Broussard | Vinny Argiro | Steve Valentine | Coco Leigh | Jeffrey King | Enrique Castillo | Don LaMoth | C. Wayne Owens | Joseph Moynihan | Roger Peterson | John Finnegan | Ed Lambert | John Gray | Gregg Daniel | J. Kenneth Campbell | Jeanne Mori | Rance Howard | Richard Assad | Velletta Carlson | Kevin Mangan | Rebeca Silva | Josh Philip Weinstein | Julian Barnes | Ken Thomas | Darelle Porter Holden | Christi Black | Sharon Hendrix | Frank Welker | Heidi Miller | JoAnn Bush |

La Terra viene invasa dai marziani. Sono verdi, cattivi e dotati di un perverso umorismo nero. I terrestri ripongono la loro fiducia nel Presidente degli Stati Uniti, ma la salvezza arriverà in un modo ben più bizzarro.

Approfondimenti

The film's producers wanted to use the Heat-Ray sound effect from Paramount Pictures' film La guerra [...] D
During the normal Warner Brothers title sequence, showing the company's trademark logo with the clou [...] D
The last theatrically released film in which Michael J. Fox physically appeared until 2014, although [...] D
To make the Martian Girl costume as smooth as possible, it had no zipper or buttons. Lisa Marie had [...] D
Michael J. Fox had been suffering from symptoms of Parkinson's disease of slowly but steadily increa [...] D
Producer/director Tim Burton called Pam Grier and asked her to fly to Los Angeles for an audition. S [...] D
Rance Howard and voice actor Frank Welker worked that same year in another alien invasion film, Inde [...] D
On a radio broadcast soon after the film was released on video, Howard Stern said he had finally wat [...] D
In a TV episode released on April 13, 1962, Ai confini della realtà: Hocus-Pocus and Frisby (1962 [...] D
While the film was set in the 1990s, the U.S. Army's uniforms and equipment date from the 1950s when [...] D
The first Tim Burton-directed film in which a character's name is not in the title. A previous film, [...] D
Jonathan Gems did not even realize that the 1962 "Mars Attacks" trading cards by Topps had a story o [...] D
Alec Baldwin was in late talks to join the cast shortly before filming, but dropped out. D
The film's writers were not sure what the Martians should sound like, so its script used "Ack! Ack! [...] D
Martin Amis worked on the film's script. He said, "I rather liked the film, though it contained not [...] D
The scene with the islanders before the stone heads of Easter Island are destroyed like bowling pins [...] D
Although Danny DeVito has billing above the title in most of the theatrical release posters, the DVD [...] D
Susan Sarandon was originally cast in the role of Barbara Land. D
Gen. Decker wears a Medal of Honor ribbon in the film. D
The Martians land in Pahrump, NV, the home of radio talk show host Art Bell. Bell is well known for [...] D
Tim Burton reunited with Danny Elfman after not working together on the film Ed Wood (1994). Burton [...] D
The following scenes were cut from the film but, for the most part, are in its tie-in novelization a [...] D
Barry Purves was originally involved with creating the Martians for the film using stop-motion anima [...] D
Out of the 22 people listed in the opening credits in the film, only seven survive by the end of it: [...] D
When Billy Glenn Norris says goodbye to Grandma Florence Norris in the film, she calls him Thomas, J [...] D
Along with Planet of the Apes - Il pianeta delle scimmie (2001), this is one of only two films direc [...] D
Producer/director Tim Burton's writers on the film Ed Wood (1994), Scott Alexander and Larry Karasze [...] D
At 9:00 into the film, an establishing shot of Lower Manhattan shows the World Trade Center, which w [...] D
Producer/director Tim Burton visited Tom Jones backstage after one of his Las Vegas performances to [...] D
The manner in which the Martians get "suited and booted" in the film (after the Martian Girl is kill [...] D
The Martian Girl never blinks throughout all of her scenes in the film. D
In the first drafts of the film's script and in its tie-in novelization, the Martians' ray guns had [...] D
Both Meryl Streep and Stockard Channing were considered for the role of the First Lady. Channing wen [...] D
Although this is the second film to feature Annette Bening and Michael J. Fox, they do not share any [...] D
Tim Burton: [dogs] The First Family's dog is disintegrated by the Martians and Nathalie Lake and her [...] D
During the Martians' attack in Pahrump, NV, none of the human soldiers fire their weapons. Only a fe [...] D
Tim Burton had wanted to bring the Martians to life in the film via stop-motion animation as an homa [...] D
The final film of Sylvia Sidney. D
The pinball machine that appears briefly in the background of the film is Bally's "Harlem Globetrott [...] D
The Martian Girl's image came from the rebooted "Mars Attacks Archives" trading card series released [...] D
When Gen. Decker (Rod Steiger) shouts at the Martian Leader "We'll never surrender, do you hear me? [...] D
The T-shirt worn by Richie Norris (Lukas Haas) in the film shows a variation of the front cover of A [...] D
Glenn Shadix, a collaborator with the film's producer/director Tim Burton, was offered the role of t [...] D
Tom Jones is featured in the film singing his hit song "It's Not Unusual". This song is also played [...] D
Diane Keaton was considered for the role of the First Lady. D
Originally, it was planned that Jack Nicholson would only play President James Dale in the film, wit [...] D
Producer/director Tim Burton co-wrote the film's screenplay, but asked to not receive credit for it. [...] D
The Martian Girl was modeled after a hybrid of Marilyn Monroe and La moglie di Frankenstein (1935). D
There were several scenes in the film's original script that were never made, which made it a lot lo [...] D
The Martians' mothership has a container holding the fat clown from the film Batman - Il ritorno (19 [...] D
One of Jack Nicholson's two characters in the film, President James Dale, is killed by a lethal hand [...] D
When a missile is launched at a Martian spaceship in the film, the music at one point sounds similar [...] D
This is the second of three films in which Pierce Brosnan (Professor Donald Kessler) and Joe Don Bak [...] D
In the early stages of filming, the film was supposed to have 60 major characters, but it was reduce [...] D
The music used to kill the Martians at the end of the film is that of country/western singer Slim Wh [...] D
The radio telescope shown in the film is in Parkes, New South Wales, Australia, and is the same one [...] D
Producer/director Tim Burton was told repeatedly that he could not kill Jack Nicholson's character i [...] D
When humans were disintegrated by the Martians' ray guns, the resulting skeletons were colored eithe [...] D
The scene in the film where the Martian Ambassador walks down the ramp out of the spaceship is very [...] D
When asked by Premiere magazine about the film's failure at the box office, Rod Steiger said that Wa [...] D
The design of the Martians' spaceships in the film was inspired by the film La Terra contro i dischi [...] D
Jack Nicholson accepted his role in the film without reading its script, since he had enjoyed workin [...] D
The scene in the film where the characters are wandering through a collection of old neon signs was [...] D
In real life, Lisa Marie (the Martian Girl) owns television hostess Nathalie Lake's pet Chihuahua. D
Tim Burton: [distorted female faces] Nathalie's head is incongruously grafted onto her pet Chihuahua [...] D
The appearance of the Martians in the film was taken from "Mars Attacks", a Topps trading card serie [...] D
Johnny Depp turned down the role of reporter Jason Stone. D
The sound of the Martians' ray guns seems to be very similar to the sound that aliens emitted when r [...] D
Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham used two Martian eyes from the film for his dummy "Achmed the Dead Terrori [...] D
Jack Nicholson and Danny DeVito have starred together in numerous films, but they do not share a sce [...] D
Cliff Curtis: as one of the Easter Islanders. D
This was Natalie Portman's first science fiction film. Her very next film was Star Wars: Episodio I [...] D
The film's cast includes three Oscar winners: Jack Nicholson, Natalie Portman, and Rod Steiger; and [...] D
Producer/director Tim Burton, Danny Elfman and editor Chris Lebenzon are Oscar nominees. Costume des [...] D
Hugh Grant was considered for the role of Professor Donald Kessler. D
An actual demolition in Las Vegas was filmed by producer/director Tim Burton and incorporated into t [...] D
Warren Beatty was originally cast as President James Dale in the film. Paul Newman was cast when Bea [...] D
When Jerry Ross, the White House Press Secretary (Martin Short), is courting the Martian Girl (Lisa [...] D
President James Dale's earnest line "Can't we all just... get along?" in the film is a paraphrase (a [...] D
Cedric and Neville Williams are on a school tour of the White House when the Martians invade it. One [...] D
Producer/director Tim Burton pitched the idea of this film to Warner Brothers by showing them the 19 [...] D