But when i was a kid, after seeing that movie, i was obsessed with studying alien abductions and ufos. Apr 01, 2011 in the midst of sxsw, hobo with a shotgun writerdirector jason eisener and producer rob cotterill made some time to sit down with tfs for a few minutes and discuss the film. The author traces the crescendo of human emotions from panic. Weve written a treatment for a movie about the plague. It is sure to be a lovable movie for all ages and by that i mean maturemale audiences. Aug 09, 2018 this was the first book on the plague i read and i still think its a nice intro. Brooks is best known for her novel march, but she also wrote a novel set during the plague. Score a books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. One element of dahmes writing that stands out the most is the gritty, harsh description of the land that is the reality of a country consumed by the pestilence and overrun by grime and pests, which lends an air of. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Four years later, the featurelength version is here, promising to crawl under our skin the way only the worst. He is known for films such as hobo with a shotgun, the abcs of deaths y is for youngbuck segment and vhs2s. Well, in fire in the sky, the aliens have somewhat human features to them.
Easytoread, compelling text explores the history of the disease, how it spread, key players and happenings during the black death, and the events effects on society up through modern times. Now its finally on bluray and we couldnt be happier. I might have to make a bunch more flicks before someone lets us make a film starring bounty hunters from hell. Back when robert rodriguez and quentin tarantino foisted grindhouse upon us, they held a contest wherein fans made their own trailers for fake grindhouse movies. The story focuses on the outbreak of plague in oran in the year 194, as it reaches epidemic proportions. From the title, you know this book is about a plague. Interview jason eisener and rob cotterill on hobo with a shotgun. The plot is silly, most of the acting comes across poorly, the budget was shoe. Buy a cheap copy of the plague forge book by jason m. Existentialism and the plague in the mid 1940s, a man by the name of albert camus began to write a story. With a fantastic title like hobo with a shotgun, you can pretty much surmise what this retro exploitation movie has to offer comic book violence, a rad early 80s score, overthetop. Sep 19, 2011 by the frenchman who, with sartre, shares a leading position in european literature, this is a work of considerable significance and stature, distinguished by its clarity, its composure, and above all, its scrupulous classicism. The plague forge delivers an unbeatable combination of knockout action and kickass characters as the secrets to the ultimate alien mystery from the darwin elevator.
The plague is an interesting and rather different take on the lives of two young people affected by the plague in the year 48. Albert camus 191960 believed that human suffering is meaningless in itself but an individual can make his or her life meaningful by rebelling against suffering. May 10, 2015 the new historical drama, the great fire, on tv reignited ha, ha. Hobo with a shotgun by jason eisener jason eisener. Theres been a script written for the plague movie for years. Reviewed by johnny butane starring mischa barton, cameron bright, deborah kara unger driected by gilles paquetbrenner distributed by. Also, every preorder is counted on the day of the books release, meaning that if we get enough hopefully around 7,000 preorders it should end up on the new york times bestseller list. Hobo with a shotgun director jason eisener to direct. However, it is a modern masterpiece of allegory, symbolism and imagery. May 12, 2011 you are sure to have fun with this movie, if you want to have a good time with a movie, check it out. Jason eisener, director of hobo with a shotgun, did an interview with the film stage in which he shared his future plans. Gradually they realise that the plague is a collective tragedy and many of them choose to rise above selfish considerations and help fight the epidemic. This is a little more academic in nature, but gives a lot of context and rigor to discussions of the plague.
Yesterday i had a chance to hang out and see the sfx guys work on some elaborate squib setups with crazy huge blood packs for a scene. All blurbs taken from amazon or book depository plague 99 by jean ure. A hobo turned vigilante blows away crooked cops, pedophile santas, and other scumbags with a pumpaction shotgun while trying to save the life of a prostitute. The surface story is about plague in the early 1940s visiting the algerian coastal city of oran. The plot is pretty much explained in the title, a hobo with a shotgun.
In the plague he found a lens for projecting life at once suspended and more vivid. Hobo with a shotgun director to return with adaptation of. A novel of the plague by pulitzer prize winning geraldine brooks. Exclusive interview with hobo with a shotgun director jason. Or at least it was before the hope was painted over. While all those other directors have been turning to the earlytomid 1970s for inspiration, directorcowriter jason eisener grew up with splatterfests from the 80s, so hobo with a shotgun kind of comes across as the best movie troma never made. The new historical drama, the great fire, on tv reignited ha, ha. The characters in the book, ranging from doctors to vacationers to fugitives, all help to show the.
People infected with plague usually develop flulike symptoms after an incubation period of 17 days. Roger lowenstein, the washington post in camus the plague, lessons about fear, quarantine and the human. The book contains instructions for the queens emissaries in identifying towns struck by plague and then directs them in how to proceed with taxation, issues related to quarantine, and the handling of the clothing and bodies of those who died. A hobo with a shotgun the doctor will see you plague attack. May 22, 2012 this is for the read 180 book the plague. Hobo with a shotgun by jason eisener jason eisener, rutger. Just kidding, it is about the bubonic plague, really not very funny at all. Written in french, the novel became extremely popular and has since been translated numerous times into many languages. It occurs when plague bacteria infect the lungs, causing pneumonia. Existentialism and albert camus the plague essay bartleby. I pulled out every book from the libraries around here that i could on aliens. Pneumonic plague is the most serious of the three types of plague. Set in algeria, in northern africa, the plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it.
As always, feel free to add your suggestions in the comments. The montreal screwjob incident was the moment when fans realized the drama backstage is more outrageous than the drama in the ring. Gregory smith, left, and rutger hauer in a filmdirected by jason eisener about a homeless canadianvigilante with a soft spot for a hooker. By now, the story of jason eiseners hobo with a shotgun has taken on an almost mythic air. Jul 04, 2011 by now, the story of jason eiseners hobo with a shotgun has taken on an almost mythic air. Hobo with a shotgun blasts its way to hulu stream on demand. Would love to have seen the plague proper in that, but what we got was still fantastic. Camus believed that the actual historical incidents we call plagues are merely concentrations of a universal precondition, dramatic instances of a perpetual rule. Check it out below and see hobo with a shotgun on vod today tfs. Young adult books about plagues and pestilence read. Jason eisener plans hobo with a shotgun spinoff and kids. Interview director jason eisener on the reallife hobo with a. In siena, where more than half the inhabitants died of the plague, work was abandoned on the great cathedral, planned to be the largest in the world, and never resumed, owing to loss of workers and master masons and the melancholy and grief of the survivors.
By the frenchman who, with sartre, shares a leading position in european literature, this is a work of considerable significance and stature, distinguished by its clarity, its composure, and above all. As was reported on ainitcool, we had the great pleasure of having nat jones create some kickass concept art of the plague for us. His next film is a tournament martial arts film, and after that he may change directions by directing a childrens film. Jul 12, 2011 exclusive interview with hobo with a shotgun director jason eisener. This list of books about the plague is sponsored by the last hours by minette walter when the black death enters england in 48, no one knows what manner of sickness it is. When people start dying in the algerian city of oran the authorities are unwilling to accept that the city is in the grip of the bubonic plague. With that in mind, i thought id put together a list of young adult books about plagues and pestilenceincluding one of my favourites from when i was a teen. It won the contest and was actually screened along with some of the other faux trailers that were featured in grindhouse. Jason eisener is a director and editor, known for hobo with a shotgun 2011, vhs2 20 and death note 2017. Interview jason eisener and rob cotterill on hobo with. Check it out below and see hobo with a shotgun on vod today. Aug 15, 2017 the most common type is bubonic plague. The characters in the book, ranging from doctors to vacationers to fugitives, all help to show the effects the plague has on a populace. The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demonbiker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.
Features include a table of contents, a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Hobo with a shotgun blasts its way to hulu stream on. I watched the unrated trailer and it pretty much sums up the movie. While camus tells a complete tale of disease, fear, despair, compassion and selfless heroism. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition. For your next film, the martial arts movie, any ideas on the plot or what influences youll be. On july 22, 2009, a special meeting was held with twentyfour leading scientists at the national institutes of health to discuss early findings that a newly discovered retrovirus was linked to. Interview jason eisener and rob cotterill on hobo with a. The great comic book scare and how it changed america, author david hajdu attempts to examine the birth of the comic book in america and trace its childhood and adolecense up to the point where people generally freaked out about how this wicked, perverted, and macabre art form was mauling the morals of this great country.
He is known for his highconcept filmmaking style and use of color. The story is narrated to us by an odd, nameless narrator strangely obsessed with objectivity, who tends to focus on a man named dr. Director of dark side of the ring, hobo with a shotgun, vhs2, treevenge. Directed by jason eisener, the film was originally produced as a trailer in a contest a few years back when the rodrigueztarantino film grindhouse was released. Jason eisener, andrea raffaghello, chris bell, frank siracusa, kevin krikst. Hobo with a shotgun the deaths of ivan and grinder youtube.
Hobo with a shotgun director jason eisener to direct comic book adaptation new york city outlaws news. Turbo kid in a postapocalyptic wasteland, a comic book fan dons edit. Jason eisener, director of hobo with a shotgun and a segment in vhs2 will mount an adaptation of robert huszar and ken landgrafs selfpublished comic book series new york city outlaws. Plague is caused by the bacteria yersinia pestis, a zoonotic bacteria, usually found in small mammals and their fleas. Director jason eiseners top ten favorite nsfw movie deaths this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. With a fantastic title like hobo with a shotgun, you can pretty much surmise what this retro exploitation movie has to offer comic book violence, a rad early 80s score, over the top. Hobo with a shotgun director to return with adaptation of new. At the time, i was working in this comic book store, and this guy would come in. This title examines an important historic event the bubonic plague. Aroused a group of successful porn stars talk about their lives and their work as they pose for a. Well its like the plague chasing after these two ambulance drivers and theyre using everything that. Director jason eisener s top ten favorite nsfw movie deaths this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. By the frenchman who, with sartre, shares a leading position in european literature, this is a work of considerable significance and stature, distinguished by its clarity, its composure, and above all, its scrupulous classicism. I encourage you to preorder plague of corruption, as that determines how much my publisher likely to spend on the marketing campaign.
Hobo with a shotgun director jason eisener to direct comic book adaptation new york city outlaws by deleted. Originally concocted as a faux trailer for the quentin tarantino and robert rodriguez grindhouse trailer competition and later expanded in an utterly unhinged feature in its own right, hobo with a shotgun 2011 is a bloodspattered love letter to the grindhouse vengeance movie by firsttime filmmakers who, as spinal tap might put it, crank everything up to 11. It is based on a fauxtrailer of the same title featured in the quentin tarantino and robert rodriguez film grindhouse. At home with the plague abbys apparel abby takes a stand glory hole full of hobo abby strikes back lawnmower woman more bears more blood, more heart rutger thanks the crew commentary with jason eisener director and rutger hauer. At home with the plague abbys apparel abby takes a stand glory hole full of hobo abby strikes back lawnmower woman more bears more blood, more heart rutger thanks the crew commentary with. Apr 14, 2020 i encourage you to preorder plague of corruption, as that determines how much my publisher likely to spend on the marketing campaign. Nothin but the highest quality, adrenaline filled, family entertainment. Hobo with a shotgun is a 2011 canadianamerican black comedy action exploitation film directed by jason eisener, written by john davies, from a story by eisener, and starring rutger hauer.
Mar 09, 2014 on july 22, 2009, a special meeting was held with twentyfour leading scientists at the national institutes of health to discuss early findings that a newly discovered retrovirus was linked to. Exclusive interview with hobo with a shotgun director jason eisener. The black death was the second plague pandemic recorded, after the plague of justinian 542546. This work by james leasor is timeless and brings to life the horrors of the plague and the fire together with the resulting tragic consequences for so many. Archive of posts by johnny butane author at dread central. A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, the plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. This list is for fiction involving the bubonic plague. Jul 29, 2016 jason eisener, director of hobo with a shotgun and a segment in vhs2 will mount an adaptation of robert huszar and ken landgrafs selfpublished comic book series new york city outlaws. Septicemic plague occurs when the yersinia pestis bacteria the organism responsible for the disease multiply in the blood. Brooks recreates a year in the life of a remote british village decimated by the bubonic plague. It focuses on the ways in which medical care and the medical profession writ large were transformed by the plague. In the midst of sxsw, hobo with a shotgun writerdirector jason eisener and producer rob cotterill made some time to sit down with tfs for a few minutes and discuss the film.
The plague is the most popular work of nobel prize winning author albert camus. Plague, the disease caused by the bacterium yersinia pestis, is believed to have been the cause. Jason eisenera proud, selfacknowledged fanboy of all things genre. Jason eisener is a canadian screenwriter, editor and director. I talked to you on twitter about a month ago and you had said you had tried to get professional wrestler jake the snake roberts for a part in hobo. You are sure to have fun with this movie, if you want to have a good time with a movie, check it out. Exclusive interview with hobo with a shotgun director. Fear grips the people as they come to believe that the plague is a punishment for wickedness.
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