Allucinazione perversa

Titolo originale: Jacob's Ladder
Regia: Adrian Lyne |
Anno: 1990
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Mistero Horror
Tag: vietnam veteran | new york city | post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) | experiment | nightmare | subway | 1970s | paranoia | hallucination | car bomb | grief | memory | chemist | demon | postal worker | figment of imagination | oneiric | chiropractor |
Cast: Tim Robbins | Elizabeth Peña | Danny Aiello | Matt Craven | Pruitt Taylor Vince | Jason Alexander | Patricia Kalember | Eriq La Salle | Ving Rhames | Brian Tarantina | Anthony Alessandro | Brent Hinkley | S. Epatha Merkerson | Suzanne Shepherd | Doug Barron | Jan Saint | Kisha Skinner | Dion Simmons | Sam Coppola | Patty Rosborough | Evan O'Meara | Kyle Gass | Gloria Irizarry | Lewis Black | Raymond Anthony Thomas | Christopher John Fields | Jaime Perry | Michael Tomlinson | A.M. Marxuach | Antonia Rey | John Capodice | John P. 'Jack' McLaughlin | Bellina Logan | Scott Cohen | Davidson Thomson | Bryan Larkin | B.J. Donaldson | Thomas A. Carlin | Carol Schneider | Becky Ann Baker | Diane Kagan | Billie Neal | Mike Stokie | James Ellis Reynolds | Dennis Rubin Green | Brad Hamler | Byron Minns | Reggie McFadden | Stephanie Berry | Chris Murphy | John-Martin Green | Arleigh Richards | Ann Pearl Gary | Barbara Gruen | Joe Quintero | John Louis Fischer | Alva Williams | Elizabeth Abassi | Nora Burns | Alison Gordy | Jessica Roberts | Holly Kennedy | Blanche Irwin Stuart | Perry Lang | José Alvarez | Robert Baglia | Steve Baker | Orson Bean | Macaulay Culkin | Ray DeFeis | Ed Jupp Jr. |

Nella guerra del Vietnam, durante un combattimento nella giungla, alcuni marines, fra i quali il caporale Jacob Singer, si agitano freneticamente come ossessi, finché Jacob viene gravemente ferito nell'addome con un colpo di baionetta. Trasportato in ospedale per essere operato, è tormentato da continue allucinazioni, popolate da creature mostruose o riguardanti terribili scene di guerra. Jacob cerca disperatamente una spiegazione razionale alle sue allucinazioni, perciò tenta di scoprire che cosa in realtà sia stato fatto ai suoi compagni nel Vietnam...

Approfondimenti

I 10 film più famosi sulla guerra del Vietnam D
Screen acting premiere of Scott Cohen, who portrays "Resident Doctor". D
Ving Rhames also starred in another Vietnam war movie, Vittime di guerra (1989). Incidentally direct [...] D
After initial test audiences reported that the film was overwhelming, director Adrian Lyne cut out t [...] D
All ads in the subway and Bergen Street station are anti-drug ads. D
Jacob Singer's (Tim Robbins) son Gabe was played by Macaulay Culkin, who was uncredited. D
In the original screenplay, writer Bruce Joel Rubin had created a typical Biblical hell, complete wi [...] D
The Bergen Street station in the film was actually an abandoned, lower level portion of the station, [...] D
Don Johnson and Mickey Rourke both turned down the lead role. D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider. D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Most [...] D
Certain imagery was inspired by the photographs of Joel-Peter Witkin. Most recognizably, the image o [...] D
Some additional scenes from the original script which were changed or removed by director Adrian Lyn [...] D
The film was released in the same year as Cadillac Man - Mister occasionissima (1990), that also sta [...] D
According to writer Bruce Joel Rubin, the script was heavily inspired by the Bardo Thodol (The Tibet [...] D
Sidney Lumet, Michael Apted and Ridley Scott all tried to get the project green-lit during its sever [...] D
The closing legend of the film mentions the testing of a drug named BZ in Vietnam. BZ is NATO code f [...] D
According to director Adrian Lyne, most of the dialogue in the opening scene between the soldiers wa [...] D
In original script, there was a scene where Jacob burns down some army headquarters building in fit [...] D
As Jake is going through his box of items from the war, we get a brief glimpse of his dog tags, whic [...] D
The James Brown funk song "My Thang", heard during the raucous party scene, appeared on a double alb [...] D
In a 2015 retrospective on the film, Tim Robbins said that one of the reasons he thought it didn't d [...] D
Teaser, theatrical and TV trailers show several scenes deleted from original cut; Disfigured man att [...] D
The film was green-lit by Paramount Pictures (with whom Adrian Lyne had made both Flashdance (1983) [...] D
It is possible that from in the opening scene when Jacob is stabbed with the bayonet, everything whi [...] D
Adrian Lyne turned down directorial duties on Il falò delle vanità (1990) so he could direct J [...] D
Writer Bruce Joel Rubin wrote the script for Jacob's Ladder in the early 1980s after he had a dream [...] D
Actors who were allegedly interested in playing the leading role of Jacob Singer included Richard Ge [...] D
Adrian Lyne also heavily rewrote the scene involving the biblical Jacob's ladder at the end of the f [...] D
According to the original script, after Jacob is nearly run over by the subway train, a sequence inv [...] D
For all of the chiropractor scenes, director Adrian Lyne ensured there was a real chiropractor on-se [...] D
The confrontation between Jacob and Geary originally takes place in a courtroom corridor. Lyne moved [...] D
According to director Adrian Lyne, the drug aspect of the story was inspired by the Martin Lee and B [...] D
All SFX were filmed live, with no post-production. For example, to achieve the famous 'shaking head' [...] D
Tim Robbins said the film presented for him "a great opportunity to go in a different direction. I l [...] D
Served as a major inspiration to the early games in the Silent Hill (1999) video-game franchise. D
Director Adrian Lyne used the art of painters William Blake, H.R. Giger, and Francis Bacon and photo [...] D
Prior to the commencement of filming, former US marine Dale Dye took actors Tim Robbins, Pruitt Tayl [...] D
According to the original script, the subway station Jacob arrives at in the beginning of the movie [...] D
The hospital gurney that carries Jacob was deliberately unbalanced by Adrian Lyne. He raised one whe [...] D
When Jacob Singer unfolds an old Army discharge certificate, the service number "US 21 719 365" can [...] D
Stephanie Berry's debut. D
In Bruce Joel Rubin's original screenplay, all of the demons who appear throughout the film were typ [...] D
Adrian Lyne made sure Jacob and his visions never appear together in the same shot. D