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It's much more of the box office than biology, but from Cujo onwards the needs of story outweigh any requirement for accuracy.
Roberts has cited Cujo as major inspiration, and just as many dog lovers found that Stephen King adaptation emotionally distressing, chimp sympathizers will likely flinch at this grisly bout of monkey madness.
…similar to the way we look at the rabid canine in Cujo…
When Primate hits its stride, it channels the sweaty, heart-pounding energy of Cujo or The Birds, but with a glossy modern sheen.
The whole idea of being "trapped" may have worked well in the context of "Cujo," where a mother and her young son are stuck in a car while a rabid dog lurks about, but here it merely makes a ridiculous situation even more silly…
There are several parallels with Stephen King’s story Cujo, which also featured a rabid animal as the antagonist.
With just one more (maybe two) punch-ups, The Lost City could have been a sweet and salty screwball adventure in the vein of its obvious inspirations: the twin 1980s hits Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile.
We’ve seen all varieties of attempts to recreate it since its blockbuster release, from Lewis Teague’s 1985 sequel The Jewel of the Nile , to Ivan Reitman's Six Days Seven Nights , to Jaume Collet-Serra’s Jungle Cruise (which, you’ll remember, just hit theaters last year).
One reason that film’s 1985 sequel The Jewel of the Nile was so disappointing was that it didn’t follow in its predecessor’s footsteps as closely as it should have.
But it’s a damn sight better than its sequel, The Jewel of the Nile!
Romancing the Stone was enjoyable, but hackneyed, and that franchise played out after the less-successful sequel, The Jewel of the Nile .
“X” is threaded with blithe references to key films — a car in a swamp like the one in “Psycho,” an ax through a door like the one that kicks off Jack Nicholson’s rampage in “The Shining,” an alligator borrowed from “Alligator” (ingeniously shot from high above in one jittery sequence), an ending that nods to the premise of Paul Schrader’s “Hardcore” (which came out in 1979).
Y es que, en su tramo final, No respires se transforma en un gozoso slasher cargado de sorpresas, ingeniosísimos giros de guion y algún detalle poético muy de agradecer –esa simbólica mariquita–, pero sin renunciar a guiñar el ojo a cintas de los 80 como Cujo (Lewis Teague, 1983) –es notorio el protagonismo del feroz perro que custodia la seguridad del invidente– o Noche de miedo (Tom Holland, 1985) –esa identidad oculta bajo la apariencia de vecino normal y un inmueble que alberga terribles secretos, aunque estos sean más terrenales que fantásticos en este caso–.
Even Stephen King’s Cujo is brought to mind more than once.
The cast also features the craziest dog in film since 1983’s Cujo!
She has found a great place, but even though the nice landlady (Dee Wallace, from E.T. and Cujo) gives her a break, she still doesn't have the cash.
A grail scholar, Teabing--who, with his two canes and feral, mad scientist energy, reminds me a lot of the middle stage of Brundlefly--is searching for the secret of the Holy Grail, which, The Da Vinci Code implies, is just like the Jewel in The Jewel of the Nile.
E.T. or Cujo’s domestic scenes, for example, aren’t cute or cloying, but vividly revealing of families on the brink of collapse.
A critical part of the series' DNA belongs to his 1981 novel It , but also The Mist , Firestarter , Needful Things , Carrie , Cujo and The Body .
It’s an odd realization about the cinematic works from “the king of horror,” but aside from Pet Sematary , Cujo , and a couple of others they’re a far from frightening bunch.
The story is one of the author’s signature achievements that sits alongside The Shining , Pet Sematary , Cujo and The Dead Zone in the literary horror pantheon, and for that reason alone it comes as no surprise Warner Bros has been trying to come up with a way to bring King’s 1,138-page tale to the big screen for over a decade.
More to the point, the movie industry needs the creator of Carrie, The Shining, Cujo, Stand by Me, and The Green Mile to squirt some high-octane rocket fuel into the nation's popcorn pits.
“Aquaman” is so much like parts of “Thor” and “Black Panther” and “Avatar” and “The Jewel of the Nile” and so reliant upon an ancient British legend that you don’t know why the people who made this movie bothered.
Woke enough, I guess, to forgive the rest of it for being a somehow more terrible and racially-insensitive remake of The Jewel of the Nile.
Alas, then the film jumps ahead 3 years, and that’s when Romancing the Stone becomes The Jewel of the Nile.
Red Notice (2021)
Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber
influenced by The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Plot
Actually, it feels more like a cross between The Jewel of the Nile , Assassins and the National Treasure movies, with hints of Entrapment and Smokin’ Aces , as each of the three highly paid stars – Wonder Woman herself, Gal Gadot, and Canadian wise-cracker Ryan Reynolds being the other points of the film’s triple-crossing triumvirate – attempts to earn their keep.
In 1983 alone, no less than three films were adapted from King novels: "Cujo," "The Dead Zone," and "Christine."
John Sayles' directorial debut has taken on the aura of a folk tale, the details of its genesis are that well known: with a $40,000 budget raised largely from the quadruple-threat's (writer/editor/director/actor) work for the scripts for Roger Corman's Battle from Beyond the Stars, Piranha, and Alligator, Sayles shot a film at a rented lake house with friends possessed of neither experience nor know-how and redefined the American Indie movie scene.
Using Boulle's novel as his blueprint, Burton and screenwriters William Broyles, Jr. ("Cast Away," "Apollo 13") and Lawrence Konner & Mark Rosenthal ("Mercury Rising," "The Jewel of the Nile") have fashioned a picture that, not surprisingly, comes across as quite similar in basic, underlying plot, yet feels different.