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The Protagonist (any name is player-determinant; with Steve and Alex as the two default characters and models) are the main protagonists of the sandbox survival video game Minecraft (Survival/Hardcore Mode) and the deuteragonist of the 2011 poem End Poem used in the game's credits. They are the playable characters used by anyone who is playing the game, and can fully customize their own skin ...
Startled, he races to the back porch and sees the lawnmower running by itself and the naked lawnmower man following it on all fours and eating the grass. The lawnmower seemingly deliberately chases and kills a mole, causing Harold to vomit into a flower bed and faint.
Mar 24, 2022 · When Brett Leonard made The Lawnmower Man, released in 1992, he was adamant it was a cautionary tale about the advent of new immersive technologies and human interaction. Jump to 2022, and it turns out those concerns remain an issue in VR and beyond.
- Getting Things Off The Ground
- Bond, (Not Yet) James Bond
- Nervous First Days
- The VFX Boys
- A Pair of Chimps
- The Gyrosphere
- The Special Effects
- The World Reacts
Brett Leonard (director and writer): Santa Cruz had a lot of people running around it, like Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, and a guy named Jaron Lanier, who had actually coined the term virtual reality.” He introduced me to the technology very early, at this thing called the Cyberthon event: everyone stays up for 24 hours and checks out all the new ...
Brett Leonard:Sally and Patrick [casting directors] brought in numerous people to play the Pierce Brosnan role. They brought in Brad Dourif, who I loved from Cuckoo’s Nest.I was looking for a leading man. So Sally and Patrick said, “Look, there’s a guy — he just came off a television series; he actually was cast as Bond but then couldn’t do it beca...
Brett Leonard: Rolling up to the set, there were ten trucks there; the first scene was with Dr. Angelo. I drove up; I saw those trucks; I instantly put my head out the window and threw up my breakfast. Pierce was there and he was extremely nervous. Mark Bringelson: I remember the first day, sitting on the set, and I had a book — it was Brett Easton...
Brett Leonard: We were using these very advanced tools, but with companies that were emerging because it was not a big-budget film. Finding Xaos and Angel Studios was critical. Mark Malmberg (creative director, Xaos Inc): Brett came to Xaos and we were kind of a hot little company right then, and we were doing a lot of very artistic, organic work t...
Brett Leonard: Roscoe the chimp… we got a chimp that was at the edge of how old they can be to use them in a film. At a certain point, chimps become very belligerent, and they can bench-press 1600lbs. They can rip your arm off. Mary Jane Fort: We had two chimps, doubles in case one wasn’t interested in working on that particular day. They were fasc...
Brett Leonard: I thought a gyrosphere looked amazing, cinematically. It references The Vitruvian Man. Alex McDowell: I guess it was important to make a correlation between actor movement in real space and actor movement in virtual space — that’s why the gyrospheres are important narratively, although completely impractical because your subject woul...
Jimi Simmons: The director really sets the tone for everything. I remember we got off work one night, we were down in the basement, walking out through the parking garage, and he broke into some baritone aria from, I dunno, Les Miserablesor something. And I was just like, “Yeah, I like this guy.” Mark Malmberg: Most of our shots were executed in 3D...
Brett Leonard: One Sunday afternoon I get up and the phone rings. “Hey Brett; Steve King here! Stephen King! Stephen King! The author of Lawnmower Man!” Sweat starts pouring down my face. “Hi, Mr. King. How are you?” “Listen, I’m about to go watch your movie. I’m gonna call you right after and let you know what I think.” “…OK.” Wow. So that was the...
Feb 20, 2024 · Released on March 6, 1992, The Lawnmower Man borrows its name — and not much else — from a Stephen King short story. While King’s story is about a satyr with a penchant for human sacrifice,...
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The Lawnmower Man is a 1992 Science Fiction film starring Pierce Brosnan and Jeff Fahey. It was directed by Brett Leonard who wrote the screenplay together with Gimel Everett.
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Jan 14, 2014 · Directed by Brett Leonard, The Lawnmower Man came a full four years before Pierce Brosnan would strap on a Walther PPK for the role of James Bond, and his character here couldn’t be much more...
