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| Year: | 2004 |
| Rating: | 6.3(40215) |
| Listed in: | Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| Directed by: | Kerry Conran |
| Actors: | Jude Law Giovanni Ribisi Michael Gambon Omid Djalili Gwyneth Paltrow Ling Bai |
| "The world will tremble." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Kerry Conran | |
| Actors | |
| Jude Law | as Sky Captain |
| Giovanni Ribisi | as Dex |
| Michael Gambon | as Editor Paley |
| Omid Djalili | as Kaji |
| Laurence Olivier | as Dr. Totenkopf |
| Trevor Baxter | as Dr. Jennings |
| Julian Curry | as Dr. Vargas |
| Peter Law | as Dr. Kessler |
| Jon Rumney | as German Scientist |
| Khan Bonfils | as Creepy |
| Samta Gyatso | as Scary |
| Louis Hilyer | as Executive Officer |
| Mark Wells | as Communications Engineer |
| James Cash | as Uniformed Officer |
| Tenzin Bhagen | as Kalacakra Priest |
| Thupten Tsondru | as Dying Old Man |
| Matthew Grant | as Crewman #1 |
| Steve Morphew | as Crewman #2 |
| Stuart Milligan | as Police Sergeant |
| Paul Canter | as Police Officer |
| Demetri Goritsas | as Radio Operator |
| William Hope | as American Broadcaster |
| Jonathan Keeble | as British Broadcaster |
| Stephane Cornicard | as French Broadcaster |
| Stephen Ballantyne | as German Broadcaster |
| Victor Sobchak | as Russian Broadcaster |
| Mido Hamada | as Soldier |
| Gerard Monaco | as Technician |
| Chris Robson | as Hindenburg Porter |
| Matthew Coulter | as Hindenburg Boy |
| Merritt Yohnka | as Construction Worker |
| Karl Champley | as Pilot |
| David Decio | as Pilot |
| Matthew Feitshans | as Officer |
| Sky Soleil | as Officer |
| Yee Tsou | as Buddhist Monk |
| Actresses | |
| Gwyneth Paltrow | as Polly Perkins |
| Ling Bai | as Mysterious Woman |
| Angelina Jolie | as Franky |
| Nancy Crane | as Receptionist |
| Charlotte Kyle | as Hindenberg Passenger |
Movie info
| Languages: | English, Tibetan, German |
| Filming dates: | 14 March 2003 - 8 April 2003 |
| Budget: | USD 40,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 37,760,080 USD (19 December 2004) UK - 628,808 GBP (3 October 2004) Italy - 707,777 EUR (14 November 2004) Netherlands - 96,735 EUR (24 October 2004) |
| Plot: | The lives of reporter Polly Perkins and her ex-boyfriend, Sky Captain Joe Sutton, intersect. For the past three years, large robots have been roaming the Earth, taking what they need, and vanishing as quickly as they appeared. Joe and his technical assistant Dex have been investigating and battling these mysterious robots. Meanwhile, many of the world's scientists have been systematically kidnapped. A Dr. Jennings, believing that he is the next target, tells what little he knows to Polly. His beliefs are that a Dr. Totenkopf, who has not been heard from in over thirty years, is carrying out a project he started prior to World War I, this project which may be associated with these robots. Polly and Joe, with Dex, join forces to find Totenkopf, which may not be easy due to their still antagonistic relationship. As they piece together Totenkopf's plot, Polly and Joe realize that stopping him from carrying out his grand plan of creating his version of a Utopian society may not be as easy as killing him. |
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"Over the Rainbow" Written by E.Y. Harburg and Harold Arlen Performed by Jane Monheit Used by permission of EMI Feist Catalog Inc. Jane Monheit appears courtesy of Sony Classical "Fairyland" by Herbert Stothart Used by permission of EMI Feist Catalog Inc. "Crystal Appears" by Herbert Stothart Used by permission of EMI Feist Catalog Inc. |
Goofs
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FAIR: The movie is plainly set in an "alternative" reality, so apparent errors of history and geography can be discounted. We don't know how many World Wars there have been in their reality, nor when films, etc, were released. Continuity: The first newspaper shown reports the Hindenburg III docking at the Empire State Building on October 6th, 1939. But in shots of the newspapers shown during the montage after the first attack by the robots, you can clearly see the date of publication was March 15th, 1939. And later, Polly says that the current date is March 2nd. Continuity: When Sky Captain and Polly are running across the log bridge, he fires a 1911-style semiautomatic pistol at one of the birds. When he falls and drops the gun, it's the revolver he used against the robots earlier in the film. Revealing mistakes: When Polly Perkins first exits the theater after meeting with the scientist, there are duplicates of the people in the crowd around her. Continuity: The bones of the doctor who was burned to the bones before Totenkopf's message are gone when the camera zooms in at the steel walkway. Continuity: In the sequence where the winged robots attack on the military base, Sky Captain chases the lead robot. During his pursuit, he flies his P-40 airplane over an exploding Zeppelin. He is clearly flying above the fiery Zeppelin in one shot, but in the next shot, the P-40 appears to be below the zeppelin. Continuity: When Polly reaches for her camera on the tree log, Joe grabs her right hand and the camera is in her left. In the next shot, he's holding her left hand and the camera is in her right hand. Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Franky gives the order to take the mobile airfield up to ten thousand feet right away, the clouds behind her in the window do not move as they should if the platform had started to rise. Fact errors: On board the Hindenburg III, Doctor Vargas asks the boy (in German) "Könnten Sie mir bitte versichern, dass dieses Packet überreicht wird". The subtitles translate this as "This parcel must be delivered the moment we reach port". In fact, the correct translation of the German is "Could you please assure me that this parcel will be delivered". Revealing mistakes: When the destroyed robot is delivered to the Sky Captain's base, we can see that CGI trucks carrying the robot have no drivers. CHAR: Polly is shocked when she wakes up in bed naked with Joe. But she doesn't react at all to seeing Kaji in the bed as well. Revealing mistakes: When Frankie ejects from her plane underwater, no rush of air bubbles escape the cockpit. Revealing mistakes: In the main hangar of Sky Captain's hideout, all the window panes show the exact same damage. CHAR: SPOILER: At the end of the movie, when Polly lifts her camera to take a picture of Joe, the lens cap is NOT on the camera, even though Joe states that it is after she snaps the picture. CHAR: SPOILER: On a camera like Polly's, accidentally leaving the lens cap on doesn't mean you've wasted the film. When she blew her shot of Joe at the end of the movie, she could have simply removed the lens cap, cocked the shutter, and tried again. SYNC: In the underwater scene where Joe's "submarine plane" is forced backwards, it makes a sound like an airplane flying through the air. CHAR: Polly never cocks the shutter on her camera and never seems to advance the film. In one close-up you can see her middle finger resting on the cocking lever in its uncocked position. SYNC: In the first thirty minutes, Polly Perkins is admonished about taking pictures. She has the trusty Forties Argus C-3 which had to be hand cocked every time. She is seen taking a photo, the sound man has added the proper shutter sound, but the cocking lever does not move and was seemingly never cocked as it remains in the "released" position. SYNC: When on his P-40 plane, Joe and Polly are not wearing headsets. Wind on the fuselage, vibration and engine noise would make it impossible to talk to control tower and they'd have to scream to be heard inside the plane. Yet they speak normally, as if they were sitting in their living room. Revealing mistakes: When Dex first tests his ray gun, the reflection of the beams in his goggles travel in the wrong direction. Revealing mistakes: At one point in the film, Polly takes a flash picture, but her camera contains no flash attachment. Revealing mistakes: Headlines in German newspaper shown after the attack of the robots is full of errors. Main headline is "Sehr Grosse Metallic Maschinen Stehlen Stehlen Reserven" which translates to "Very Big Metallik Maschines Steal Steal Reserves". Other headline says "Schlechten Desends Nach Landscape" which means "Bad ??? On Landscape" (the word "Desends" means nothing in German). This line was probably to mean "Evil Descends to the Land" in which case it should appear as "Das Übel kommt in das Land herab". The same goes for Russian newspaper that is titled "Voice People's" and shows headline full of semantical and grammatical errors ("Gigantic Metallic Nation's Reserves Steals Machines Coal, Oil and Uranium. National Leader Attempt To Protect Reserves"). FAIR: When Joe's plane dives into the sea and converts into a submarine, the force of impact with the water would have surely sheered the wings off of a normal P-40. However, as the plane is obviously been made watertight, as well as fitted with sonar, precautions must have also been made to brace the wings from impact. FAIR: SPOILER: Towards the end of the movie, under normal circumstances the g-forces from the rocket's high speed would cause it to be almost impossible to move as easily as Joe and Polly do. However, Totenkopf has invented anti-gravity devices, as is evidenced by the robots in the beginning of the movie. Therefore he may have created the rocket with some form of g-force protection to protect the animals inside. CHAR: The German rocket's display showing its height contains two spelling mistakes: "VERSTARKER" (booster, amplifier) should be written with A-umlaut and the plural of kilometer is simply kilometer, without s at the end. DATE: Though the story appears to take place in 1939, albeit a fictionalized one, Polly makes reference, while describing the career of a missing scientist, to his work prior to "World War One". Before the onset of World War Two, no reference to which is made in the film, it would have been called "the Great War". CHAR: In the scene where Joe and Frankie are talking to each other by radio from their "submarine planes," a buzz indicates that its a one way transmission and that they can only speak to each other one at a time. However, a moment later they both say "Protect the rabbits" at the same time. CHAR: Joe constantly wears goggles while piloting his plane. In fact pilots of the era were trained to lower their goggles when going into combat to preclude glass or perspex slivers from bullet hits on their canopies from getting into their eyes. Revealing mistakes: After the P-40 surfaces on Totenkopf's island, Polly sees the plane's registration "h-11-od" reflected in the water and it reads "po-ll-y". However a reflection flips the image upside down (like "y-ll-oq"), it does not rotate it 180 degrees. Revealing mistakes: In the final scene the joke is that the very last picture she chose to take was of Joe, but the lens cover was still on, yet when she brought her camera up it was clearly seen that the lens cover was off. DATE: (At 23:00) As Joe is laying down the ground rules to Polly, she sneaks a photo behind her back. The pennies on her charm bracelet are both the wheat cent and the Lincoln memorial type. The movie is set in 1939, but the Lincoln memorial cent was not produced until 1959. |
Quotes
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Polly Perkins: [after Joe wouldn't let her go back to get her case of film that was in cave that was about to explode] You should've let me go back for my film. Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: You're right, I should've. [after Dex unplugs the Telsa coils that previously electrocuted Dr. Kessler] Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Is it safe? Dex Dearborn: Well, there's only one way to find out. [Sky Captain and Polly cross the threshold together and are relieved to be unharmed] I meant throw something. Dex Dearborn: I thought you said this thing was big? Can I have it? Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: You find out where it came from and I'll buy you one for Christmas. Polly Perkins: It's been three years, Joe. You're not still mad at me, are you? Can't even remember what we were fighting about. Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: You sabotaged my plane. Polly Perkins: Right. Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: I spent six months in a Manchurian slave camp because of you. They were gonna cut off my fingers. Polly Perkins: Joe, for the last time, I didn't sabotage your damn airplane! Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Come in, Dex. Dex Dearborn: Look, whatever you do, don't shoot! Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Er... OK! Dex Dearborn: You shot it, didn't you? Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Yes. Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: It's a mobile airstrip. Dex had a hand in designing it. It's kind of a secret. You can keep a secret, can't you, Polly? Polly Perkins: [raising her camera to photograph it] Yeah. I can keep a secret. Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: It's a dead end. Some short cut! Polly Perkins: That's... not supposed to be there. Polly Perkins: You mean you knew this the whole time and you let me think we were going to crash? I thought we were gonna die! You should have said something! Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Look, Polly, it was your idea to tag along, not mine. If you can't take it, that's not my fault. Capt. Francesca 'Franky' Cook: Joseph Sullivan, I was sure you'd be dead by now. Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: It's good to see you too, Franky. Capt. Francesca 'Franky' Cook: This had better be important or one of us is in trouble. Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: It's important. Capt. Francesca 'Franky' Cook: *What* is *that*? Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: You be nice. Commander Cook, meet Polly Perkins. Capt. Francesca 'Franky' Cook: Polly Perkins. I've heard so much about you. It's a pleasure to finally meet the competition. Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Polly, this may be our last moment together. There's something I need to ask you. Polly Perkins: Yes, Joe? Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Did you cut my fuel line? Polly Perkins: Damn it! I didn't sabotage your lousy airplane! Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Fine. Polly Perkins: Our last moments on earth and this is all you have to say to me? Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Could we just for once die without all this bickering? [Sky Captain flies over the sidewalk where Polly is standing] Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Polly. [Polly snaps a picture of Sky Captain flying overhead] Polly Perkins: Joe. [first lines] Hindenburg announcer: Attention. Please prepare for docking procedure. Polly Perkins: [describing the robot invasion to her editor] They've reached Sixth Avenue. They've reached Fifth Avenue. They're a hundred yards away. Oh, my God. Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: This is Sky Captain. I'm on my way. Polly Perkins: It's only a movie, Mr. Paley. I'll bring you some popcorn. Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Is it safe? [Polly is in a phone booth when the robots invade] Polly Perkins: Wait a minute. I can see something now coming into sight above the Palisades. They're crossing Sixth Avenue... Fifth Avenue... they're a hundred yards away... Editor Paley: Polly. Polly! Polly Perkins: Oh, my God. Polly Perkins: Joe, I wanna ask you something and I want you to tell me the truth. I don't care one way or the other, I swear. I just need to know. The girl in Nanjing was Franky, wasn't it? Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Polly... Polly Perkins: How long were you seeing her? Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Look me in the eyes. I never fooled around on you. Never. Polly Perkins: I sabotaged your plane. Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Three months. [Sky Captain and Polly take cover behind a box, which is revealed to be labeled "DYNAMITE'] Polly Perkins: Oh, great... we're safe. [after Polly's faulty directions nearly crash them into a building] Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: "Shortcut.' Heh! Polly Perkins: I got us here, didn't I? Police Sergeant: They've broken through the perimeter. Send reinforcements... send everything you've got! Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Naked... you can say it, Polly. Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: What are you doing? You honestly think you're gonna find something more important than every single creature on Earth being led two by two inside a giant rocket ship? Polly Perkins: I might. Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Like what? Polly Perkins: I'll know when I see it! [last lines] [instead of taking a picture of the pods falling to Earth, Polly turns and snaps a shot of Joe] Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Polly... you... Polly Perkins: It's all right. You don't have to say anything. Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Lens cap. Polly Perkins: [after Joe marked Totenkopf's location on a map] There's nothing there. Are you sure you did it right? Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: I'm sure. If the old man was right, that's where Totenkopf is now. Dead center in the middle of nowhere. [marks another spot on the map] Polly Perkins: What's that point there? Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: That's where we run out of fuel. [repeated line] Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Good boy, Dex. Dex Dearborn: [walks in on Joe aiming a gun at Polly] Oh, great, we all made up! Capt. Francesca 'Franky' Cook: Alert the amphibious squadron! Polly Perkins: [after she breaks the window at Dr. Jennings office and unlocks the door] It's open. Capt. Francesca 'Franky' Cook: What have you gotten me into this time, Joseph? Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Nothing you can't handle, Franky. Polly Perkins: Doctor, you said you knew who was next. Dr. Jennings: Yes, well... don't you see it? There is only one left. Polly Perkins: Who? Who is it, doctor? Dr. Jennings: Me! He's coming for me. Polly Perkins: Who? Who's coming? Dr. Jennings: Totenkopf... it's Totenkopf! Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: [Polly laughs] What? Polly Perkins: I missed you. Thanks for saving my life today, by the way. Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Oh, were you down there? Polly Perkins: You missed me, too! How nice. Polly Perkins: [on Franky Cook] She's some kind of girl. Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Yes, I know. [Joe and Polly are preparing to take off along with Franky. Polly looks annoyed with Joe] Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: What? Polly Perkins: 'Nanjing'? Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: [shouts] I can't hear you, Polly! You'll have to speak up! [they take off] Capt. Francesca 'Franky' Cook: [over the radio] Keep your nose up, Joseph. You always were bad at the short takeoff. Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Keep up, Franky. I don't wanna have to come back for you. Polly Perkins: I thought your takeoff was just fine. Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Thank you, Polly. Polly Perkins: So you heard that, did you? [to the Mysterious Woman] Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Why won't you die? Dr. Totenkopf: Who dares come before me? Who dares enter this place? What has begun cannot be stopped. The time for this world is over. Polly Perkins: Totenkopf. Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Hello, doctor. Why are you doing this? Dr. Totenkopf: I have been witness to a world consumed by hatred and bent on self-destruction, watched as we have taken what was to be a paradise and failed in our responsibilites as its steward. I know now that the course of human race has set for itself cannot be changed. I am the last desperate chance for a doomed planet. Now, leave this place or die! Polly Perkins: [while crying] I took a picture of the ground! Editor Paley: I don't like it when you smile at me. Polly Perkins: You don't like my smile? Editor Paley: I don't like what's behind it! Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan, Capt. Francesca 'Franky' Cook: Protect the rabbits! Protect the rabbits! Polly Perkins: A man came to see me today, a scientist. He was terrified. Said someone was coming for him. I asked him who he was so afraid of and he repeated one name: Totenkopf. He nearly went white when he said it. Dex Dearborn: Totenkopf. Who is he? Polly Perkins: He's the invisible man. I've been through every library record twice, looking for anything. I've called every contact I have from Paris to Bangkok. This is the only thing I could dig up. He ran some kind of secret science unit outside of Berlin before the start of World War I. Something called Unit 11. It's been more than 30 years since anyone has spoken his name. Until today. |
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