La guerra dei mondi

Titolo originale: War of the Worlds
Regia: Steven Spielberg |
Anno: 2005
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Avventura Thriller Fantascienza
Tag: daughter | new jersey | post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) | airplane | based on novel or book | underground | dystopia | alien | survival | disaster | apocalypse | creature | alien invasion | human subjugation |
Cast: Tom Cruise | Dakota Fanning | Justin Chatwin | Miranda Otto | Tim Robbins | Rick Gonzalez | Yul Vazquez | Lenny Venito | Lisa Ann Walter | Ann Robinson | Gene Barry | David Alan Basche | Roz Abrams | Camillia Monet | Michael Brownlee | Marlon Young | John Eddins | Peter Gerety | David Harbour | Miguel Antonio Ferrer | January LaVoy | Stephen Gevedon | Julie White | Marianne Ebert | Rafael Sardina | Amy Ryan | Ed Vassallo | Michael Arthur | Danny Hoch | Sharrieff Pugh | Erika LaVonn | Christopher Evan Welch | John Michael Bolger | Omar Jermaine | Robert Cicchini | Jim Hanna | Tracy Howe | Adam Lazarre-White | Vito D'Ambrosio | Laura Zoe Quist | Ana Maria Quintana | Lorelei Llee | Mark Manley | John Scurti | Becky Ann Baker | Mariann Mayberry | Ty Simpkins | Jerry Walsh | Tommy Guiffre | Daniel Franzese | Ed Schiff | Ellen Barry | Amy Hohn | Dan Ziskie | David Conley | Daniel Eric Gold | Booker T. Washington | Maggie Lacey | Eric Zuckerman | Daniel A. Jacobs | Asha R. Nanavati | Joaquin Perez-Campbell | Dendrie Taylor | James DuMont | Travis Aaron Wade | Benny Ciaramello | Ricky Luna | Columbus Short | Kent Faulcon | Kevin Collins | Terry Thomas | Clay Bringhurst | Jorge-Luis Pallo | Suanne Spoke | Kirsten Nelson | Melody Garrett | Lauri Johnson | Takayo Fischer | Shanna Collins | Elizabeth Jayne Hong | Art Chudabala | Jeffrey Hutchinson | Dempsey Pappion | Chris Todd | Johnny Kastl | Juan Carlos Hernández | Bruce W. Derdoski Jr. | John N. Morales | Morgan Freeman | Peter E. Tasciotti | David Gere | James Boss | Martin Dew | Joe Duffy | Freddie Johnson | Anthony Jennings | Ingrid Johnson | Tanda Kerín | Victor Magnusson | Robert O'Connor | Miho Nakamura | Vladislav Kozlov | Channing Tatum | Kyle S. Brown | Benjamin Popolukus | Jason Latief Anderson | Dustin Ardine | Cass Asher | Claudia Barroso | Alan Kemper Armani | Timothy Burd | Paul Bunnell | Stella Croxon | Joseph DeBona | Dannielle Rose |

I marziani hanno deciso di invadere la Terra perché il loro pianeta è diventato invivibile e la razza umana è costretta ad affrontare una dura guerra per la sopravvivenza. Anche Ray Ferrier, ormai da tempo separato dalla sua famiglia, si trova coinvolto nella battaglia per difendere a tutti i costi i suoi figli dai violenti attacchi degli extra-terrestri...

Approfondimenti

The organism seen in the opening sequence is known as a paramecium, being a unicellular pond water p [...] D
Justin Chatwin and Dakota Fanning had worked together previously before making the movie. They both [...] D
When the aliens are investigating the junk in the basement, one of them plays with a bicycle wheel. [...] D
Ray finds and uses bandolier of M67 hand grenades against a tripod. D
The words "alien" and "Martian" are never spoken in the movie. While it was plausible in 1898 to bel [...] D
Ogilvy's shotgun is a Winchester Model 1912. D
According to an interview with Miranda Otto, she originally turned down the part offered by Steven S [...] D
The convoy scene was filmed on one of 2004's coldest days in Virginia - so cold that "unfreezable" b [...] D
In 2005, the plane crash set was featured in Universal Studios Hollywood's public Studio Tour. The w [...] D
While filming in Bayonne, New Jersey, Paramount Pictures offered quick cash to residents who lived o [...] D
One of the only few films to be nominated for Oscars and Razzies D
The actors (including extras) portraying soldiers used real military firearms rather than the usual [...] D
DIRECTOR TRADEMARK (Steven Spielberg): (music): John Williams scores. A short sequence of notes, rep [...] D
Gene Barry, Ann Robinson: the grandparents appeared in "La guerra dei mondi (1953)" as Doctors Clayt [...] D
There are very few panoramic images in this movie. Almost all shots, especially during the tripod at [...] D
The sound of the tripods warning horn was created with a digitally enhanced didgeridoo, D
Justin Chatwin plays a character who has Dragonball toys on the shelf in his room. Chatwin would lat [...] D
The first time we see Ray, he is operating a towering crane, a structure similar to the aliens in th [...] D
Initially estimated to have a 2007 release date, this film was abruptly green-lit in mid-August 2004 [...] D
Shanna Collins's debut. D
The gun that the man puts to Ray's head is a SIG-Sauer P226. D
Ray's horror at discovering ash all over himself after stumbling home was influenced by September 11 [...] D
Ogilvy's yard was at a real farmhouse. Because the existing exterior cellar door was on the "wrong" [...] D
An actual out-of-use Boeing 747 was bought to be used as the crashed plane. D
Right before the Hudson Ferry scene, Ray and his children watch in horror as a locomotive speeds by [...] D
The scenes on and around the commercial plane wreckage were shot on the Universal Studios Hollywood [...] D
In 1987, Paramount made its first attempt to remake "La guerra dei mondi (1953)" with George A. Rome [...] D
Rachel is flipping through the channels and the first thing you hear is "Moon Gorgeous Meditation!" [...] D
Harlan can be seen lurking outside his cellar well before Ray and Rachel join him D
Real National Guard troops, mostly from Virginia, drove most Convoy Scene military vehicles. Extras, [...] D
This is one of the first movies to show The United States Marine Corps' new MARPAT digital camouflag [...] D
Tim Robbins' character is a combination of three different characters from the H.G. Wells novel: the [...] D
According to an interview George Lucas gave Time.com ("A Conversation with George Lucas", posted Tue [...] D
In the scene where the tripod first emerges from the ground, a street sign in the background says "V [...] D
The probing scene can be seen as one to the more famous (and infamous) scene of the kitchen in Juras [...] D
This is the first major motion picture to use real M1 Abrams tanks instead of other tanks dressed up [...] D
While scenes were being shot at the riverbank on the Connecticut River in Windsor, Connecticut, two [...] D
During the filming of the underwater scenes (where the ferry capsizes), director Steven Spielberg pl [...] D
At the beginning of the film, in the news broadcast about the apocalyptic lightning strike in the Uk [...] D
Ray drives a 1960s Ford Mustang in the film. When he and his family evacuate the house house, Ray ha [...] D
A segment of a scene early in the film, in which people are seen fleeing from a tripod (panic-strick [...] D
There were rumors of the movie's title being changed to "Out of the Night," but this was thought to [...] D
Due to Steven Spielberg's last minute post-production work, he had to drop out of a scheduled appear [...] D
Ray also drove a 1993 Plymouth Voyager [AS]. D
Some shots that were seen in the trailer were not in the finished theatrical release. The most notab [...] D
After her actions in the film, Dakota Fanning's character was voted 'most useless thing to have in a [...] D
Rachel gets a splinter in her finger early in the movie, and she explains to Ray that her body will [...] D
Steven Spielberg said after the shooting that he would never make a film with Tom Cruise again, beca [...] D
Steven Spielberg: [Signs] Using a sign with directions or instructions as a joke. In this case, as t [...] D
After Ray and the kids reach dry land when the ferry is attacked and sunk, air raid sirens go off. O [...] D
Steven Spielberg: [fathers] The main character is a divorced father whose children are angry at him, [...] D
One scene shows Ray running out of the house to find Robbie while dozens of people are right outside [...] D
When filming on a residential street in Howell, New Jersey, the actors took refuge in the garages of [...] D
Ray's posture just after Rachel is reunited with her mother at the film's end, is the posture taken [...] D
Tom Cruise's sixth consecutive film to break the 100 million dollar barrier domestically since 2000, [...] D
Ray carries a Charter Arms Off-Duty .38 Special revolver with pachmayr grips D
Steven Spielberg began filming Munich (2005) the day this film opened, and released it the same year [...] D
In the final scene, Ray finds his son Robbie alive and well with his grandparents, all of them havin [...] D
The "Ulla" war cry of the Tripods was made with a didgeridoo and computer effects. D
Ogilvy's farmhouse was on a still-active real farm. The tractor shed contained real farm machinery. [...] D
Even though they didn't share any screen time together, this is the first collaboration between Morg [...] D
This is the second collaboration between Morgan Freeman and Steven Spielberg. Freeman starred in Spi [...] D
Bill Murray was the original choice for Harlan Ogilvy but scheduling with The Life Aquatic With Stev [...] D
Reunites Tom Cruise with Tim Robbins after Top Gun (1986). D
When Ray and Rachel reach Boston and the soldiers are moving them along, saying the aliens have been [...] D
The convoy scene military vehicles were real and still had their white greasepencil convoy markings [...] D
The use of hand grenades may well be one to The Tripods, a trilogy of novels inspired by (and would [...] D
This is the third incarnation of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds Ann Robinson has appeared in, having [...] D
The crew started filming only seven months prior to its release. In order to finish all 500+ CGI eff [...] D
"Fallujah" was the name that make-up technicians gave to their original new "combat grime" coloratio [...] D
Wardrobe standards were so strict that soldiers in the Virginia scenes were not allowed to wear thei [...] D
US Army soldiers can be seen firing several Carl Gustav recoilless rifles at the tripod. Even though [...] D
The movie was shipped to some theaters under the title "Uncle Sam" and to others under the name "Par [...] D
The wide shot of the bridge exploding, followed by a tanker crashing into a group of houses as the m [...] D
After hearing Steven Spielberg make a remark about how catastrophes brought out the best in people, [...] D
Steven Spielberg owns one of the last copies of the Orson Welles radio script, which he purchased at [...] D
Ray drives a rare 1966 Shelby Mustang GT-350H, black with gold stripes. 1,001 were produced in total [...] D
When Ray and Rachel arrive in Boston, one of the first things they see there is a statue of a Minute [...] D
Wardrobe staff obtained hundreds of slightly-used military uniforms which had old regimental patches [...] D
Tom Cruise is in a minivan in both War of the Worlds and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back that in is the [...] D
Early in the movie when Robbie and Rachel are watching TV in Ray's house and Rachel is channel surfi [...] D
The opening voiceover monologue paraphrases and updates the first paragraph from H.G. Wells' novel. [...] D
The convoy scene used only around a dozen vehicles: mostly Humvees with a few trucks thrown in. Ther [...] D
Tim Robbins' character can be seen digging a tunnel to escape from the invading aliens. Tim Robbins [...] D
DIRECTOR TRADEMARK (Steven Spielberg): (rear-view window): important image seen in a rear-view mirro [...] D
While filming nearby, Tom Cruise, along with a twenty-member entourage including Steven Spielberg, v [...] D
Tom Cruise took two days off from working on the film, when he fell sick with flu. D
As Ray and Rachel run for cover toward Ogilvy's farmhouse basement door, a flaming military Hummer r [...] D
At least twenty civilian refugee and survivor extras were carefully made up to look horribly wounded [...] D
To illustrate the contentious relationship between Ray and Robbie, they are seen wearing New York Ya [...] D
The tripod design for the alien machines is based on H.G. Wells' original description from his book, [...] D
Tim Robbins's line, "It's not a war any more than it's a war between men and maggots", is a slightly [...] D
The song that Rachel sings to herself while Ray is killing Olgilvy is 'Hushabye Mountain' from Citty [...] D
Before David Koepp was hired, Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise asked J.J. Abrams to write the script. [...] D
Some army troops used were from the 29th Division (Maryland Army National Guard), known as "The Blue [...] D
Had a 72-day shooting schedule. This was the same amount of time used for Steven Spielberg's previou [...] D
This is the second film that Tim Robbins and narrator Morgan Freeman did since The Shawshank Redempt [...] D