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Roger Donaldson (Ballarat, Austrália, 15 de novembro de 1945) é um cineasta, roteirista e produtor de cinema neozelandês nascido na Austrália. É um dos co-fundadores da New Zealand Film Commission. Biografia. Nascido na Austrália, cedo emigrou para a Nova Zelândia, onde se estabeleceu como retratista fotográfico.
Roger Lindsey Donaldson ONZM (born 15 November 1945) is an Australian and New Zealand film director, screenwriter, and producer. His 1977 debut film, Sleeping Dogs, is considered landmark work of New Zealand cinema, as one of the country’s first films to attract large-scale critical and commercial success. [1]
Roger Donaldson was born on 15 November 1945 in Ballarat, Australia. He is a director and producer, known for The World's Fastest Indian (2005), No Way Out (1987) and Species (1995). He is married to Marliese Schneider. He was previously married to Susan Hockley.
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The court of inquiry of Commanding Lieutenant William Bligh for the loss of HMS Bounty to mutineers, led by his friend Fletcher Christian, begins, with Admiral Hood presiding. Via a series of flashbacks, Bounty sets out from Portsmouth, England on 23 December 1787, on an expedition to Tahiti to gather breadfruit pods for transplantation in the Cari...
Casting
Anthony Hopkins was one of two actors considered for the role of Captain Bligh by David Lean. The other was Oliver Reed. Hopkins was approached as early as 1978. In April 1980, when David Lean was still attached, Christopher Reeve was the favorite to play Fletcher Christian. Lean had enjoyed Superman and Katharine Hepburn had recommended Reeve to Lean."It's not a remake", said Reeve. "The other versions were just remakes of the first movie. This is the true story based on the diaries of those...
Filming started 25 April 1983.The final script was completed only the day before filming began. The film was shot on location over 20 weeks in Mo'orea, French Polynesia, Port of Gisborne, New Zealand and at the Old Royal Naval College and the Reform Club, Pall Mall, London. Many of the shots of the ship were filmed in Opunohu Bay, Moorea, the bay w...
The Bounty was screened out of competition as the closing film at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival on 23 May. It was released in the United States by Orion Pictures on 4 May 1984 and in the United Kingdom on 5 October 1984 by Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment.Upon theatrical release in the U.K., the film received a 15 certificate rating.
The film is generally regarded as more revisionist as well as a more historically accurate depiction of the mutiny than earlier film versions.According to director Donaldson, Unlike earlier versions, the film did not portray Bligh as a villain. According to Gibson, "It was a kind of fresh look at Captain Bligh, and I think of all the renditions of ...
Box office
The Bounty grossed $8.6 million in the United States and Canada. In the U.S. and Canada the film grossed $2,622,306 in its opening weekend in 986 theatres.It earned theatrical rentalsworldwide of $18.3 million, against a production budget of $20 million.
Critical response
The film was generally well received by critics, with general praise for the film's realism and historical accuracy as well as Hopkins' performance. On the aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes it has received a 74% rating from 19 critical reviews with an average rating of 6.28/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Thanks in large part to its cast, and Anthony Hopkins in particular, The Bounty's retelling of the mutiny on HMS Bounty is an intelligent, engaging adventure saga." Roger Ebert gav...
The Bounty at IMDbThe Bounty at AllMovieThe Bounty at the TCM Movie DatabaseThe Bounty at Rotten TomatoesSpecies is a 1995 American science fiction horror film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Dennis Feldman. It stars Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina, Forest Whitaker, Marg Helgenberger, and Natasha Henstridge in her film debut role.
The World's Fastest Indian ( Brasil: Desafiando os limites / Portugal: Indian - O Grande Desafio) é um filme estadunidense de 2005, do gênero drama biográfico, dirigido por Roger Donaldson.
Roger Lindsey Donaldson is an Australian and New Zealand film director, screenwriter, and producer. His 1977 debut film, Sleeping Dogs, is considered landmark work of New Zealand cinema, as one of the country’s first films to attract large-scale critical and commercial success.
