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Movie.SportXtreme » Movie » Surrogates (2009)
Surrogates (2009) Online HD
Jonathan Mostow
Movie / Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Michael Ferris,John Brancato
Bruce Willis,Radha Mitchell,Ving Rhames
People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates -- sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It's an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.
Bruce Willis - Greer
Radha Mitchell - Peters
Rosamund Pike - Maggie
Boris Kodjoe - Stone
James Francis Ginty - Canter
James Cromwell - Older Canter
Ving Rhames - The Prophet
Jack Noseworthy - Strickland
Devin Ratray - Bobby
Michael Cudlitz - Colonel Brendon
Jeffrey De Serrano - Armando
Helena Mattsson - JJ the Blonde
Michael Philip - Uniformed Cop
Danny F Smith - Victim (as Danny Smith)
Brian A. Parrish - Hard Hat (as Brian Parrish)
2009 Bruce Willis Radha Mitchell Ving Rhames Jonathan Mostow
Because Bruce Willis refused to re-record several lines of dialogue when the movie was being restructured, a sound-alike voice-over actor had to be brought in.
During the opening montage showing the development of the surrogates, there is a shot of an Asian man with an android twin. This is actually footage of Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University and his creation -- Geminoid, a prototype android double of himself.
The film takes place in 2017.
The weapon appears to be based on an ozone generator -- with a bunch of added parts to make it look more exotic and weapon-like.
A close-up shot of Strickland's FBI file shows his date of birth as December 21, 1969, and birthplace as Lynn, Massachusetts. These are also the real date of birth and birthplace of actor Jack Noseworthy, who plays Strickland.
Radha Mitchell read the comic book while filming.
The exterior of the VSI building is a digitally altered version of the Dallas Bank of America Plaza (informally known as "The Green Building"). The interior is actually in Cambridge, MA, and is home to Genzyme and Momenta Pharmaceuticals. It was designed by Steven Ehrlich Architects & SMMA.
In the "beauty shop" where Maggie works, a device can be seen for holding the "faces" of surrogates. In reality, it's a Gorillapod, a flexible tripod for cameras.
Jonathan Mostow's first film since Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003).
The unusual shoulder patch worn by Colonel Brendon is the 26th Infantry Division. A former division of the Massachusetts Army National Guard, it has been deactivated since 1993. The insignia is actually a stylized "YD", for their nickname, "The Yankee Division".
The opening credits, interspersed with futuristic news footage, run to almost four minutes in length.
Ranger tab is worn on the left shoulder, the 1st Ranger battalion scroll on his right shoulder shows the unit in which he served in combat.
The country music heard at 1:17:34 into the film was also used in Breakdown, another one of Jonathan Mostow's films starring Jack Noseworthy.
Some scenes were filmed at the Draper Factory in Hopedale, Massachusetts.
Bruce Willis amc Ving Rhames would appear 15 years earlier in Pulp Fiction (1994)
A lot of the filming takes place in lynn ma central square
Hanna Hilton: The porn actress appears as Female Robot.
During the opening scene when Canter and his father are discussing Tosca, Canter Jr. says "Don't tell me how it ends" and Canter Sr. responds "Like they all do -- everybody dies". This can be seen as foreshadowing his plan.
The vehicle wrecked during the beginning of the movie is the same model of Jeep Grand Cherokee (ZJ) featured prominently throughout Breakdown (1997) also directed by Jonathan Mostow.
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Kulafyn
Surrogates is a sci-fi movie about a future where every human being can connect their bodies into machines & they instantly live a different life through their robotic human-looking surrogates. Anybody can just stay home all day while they are connected online with their surrogates that can just easily live outside in the real world. But when a surrogate was killed along with its user, FBI agent Greer unravels a conspiracy that can lead to the death of billions of lives.
The storyline of this movie falls somewhere around the categories where movies like Blade Runner, Minority Report, and I-Robot belong. A movie that talks about how future technologies can affect human life and provide some philosophical point-of-view that is worth pondering on. The idea of technology progressing into and reaching the boundaries that it becomes an abomination of nature. The movie tends to be thought provoking, but does not make it good enough to be worth an entire evening of discussion.
There were some moments that seemed preachy, but could have been delivered more effectively if given a proper execution or interpretation. I am talking about the moments when our main character realizes the beauty of a world free from technological complexities. We also have the minor subplot of a corporation just concerned about safeguarding their own products. And a main character coming to the realization that these products eventually diminish the humanity of a person.
It is surprising that the weaker point of this movie is the action. The terminator rip-off scenes seemed bland and there was a chase scene with a female surrogate that looked goofy because it employed a "superhero" type of action. To make it worse, there are some visual effects that look like they've been rendered 15 years ago.
With the main character of Bruce Willis running around in his actual human form for most parts of the movie, we realize that he basically is the weaker person in this world of robotic mannequins, and yes we do see him bleed a lot in this movie (it is funny to note that Willis is one of those actors that just look cooler when he gets more scars and bruises, it's like John McClane only without the crazy action). With him being the frail character, that alone clearly reminds you that this is not your regular Bruce Willis action flick. The movie just basically starts out as a futuristic detective-type movie then progresses into the same mood as Willis was in films like "Unbreakable" where he stumbles around a maze that leads him to some enlightening truth.
The high points of this movie lie in the storyline. Second is the way the movie creates this amazing-looking world of a future inhabited mostly by surrogates. The surrealism of the movie is not too far-out that most of what you see seem like they exist in the present world; there are no flying cars or rockets everywhere; its just the simple existence and presence of mannequin-like robots everywhere. The storyline may be good enough to be enjoyably satisfying, but it certainly is not the best, or perhaps not good enough to be groundbreaking.
All in all, SURROGATES is one of those good sci-fi movies that will simply entertain those who are fans of smart sci-fi movies. Action junkies may be a little disappointed though. This is a far cry from Blade Runner, but this certainly gives you a cheaper version of that kind of enjoyment. I loved it. But it is definitely not unforgettable.
Dorilune
I see many reviews here that denigrate the film, and a few that celebrate it. I believe it deserves neither fulsome praise nor vitriol, as it is a somewhat better than average film betrayed by bad choices.
I'll keep this short: The concept is decent, the execution is mediocre, the result is that I give it 7 out of 10 stars.
I would have graded this far higher had the creators spent more time making several of the characters more human (which is funny, given that "humanity" as compared to a more machine-like existence is a core concept of the screenplay), but they didn't. The only character in the film who achieves anything like true humanity is Bruce Willis', and this occurs only because the plot requires it.
When a film's construction and leverage depend on the very definition of humanity as it's core concept, leaving the humanity of most of the characters behind is something more than stupid -- it cripples the film.
This doesn't mean the film is unwatchable; it has enough elements of action, pathos, suspense & revenge to make it worth your time throughout.
But it could have been so much better, if not for so many poor choices.
TheJonnyTest
It's a great concept. In the future, the Sims style online gaming, where people live vicariously through characters, has evolved to living out real-life, in the real world, via surrogate robots. Everybody stays home all the time, 24/7. They work, play and travel via their surrogates, from the comfort of their home.
I'm not spoiling anything here -- this all happens in the first 5 minutes. The result of this new era of existence is the dramatic drop in violent crimes, sexually transmitted diseases, death by accident, etc.
Well, it's a great concept. And the CGI is good. Because of the plot, every character is insanely pretty, so the screen is filled with beautiful people.
But... it just... doesn't... quite... gel. The whole thing feels like a cool episode of Star Trek, or something on TV. The story is not riveting. I didn't really care about the characters. The timing was off; things either came too late (I was bored, expecting them) or so fast I couldn't really appreciate.
Surrogates lacks that wow-factor.
Example of bad timing: At the start, one wonders, "What do the users really look like? Anything like like their surrogate robots?" I would expect that, at first, we see Bruce Willis, just some facial hair which his robot doesn't have. Then, eventually, we see that he is older than his robot, so he's "cheating" on age too. Even later still, maybe we'd see an obese person at home posing as an athlete via a surrogate which looks nothing like him. Well, "Surrogates" skips all that build up and goes straight for the punchline: within 10 minutes we see a hot chick robot making with a young man; turns out the hot chick is actually slovenly a middle-aged man. Any twists to come later, in this variety, loses all punch.
Worth a rental.
Iesha
With the number of mainstream movies centered around a future human dependency on robots, it would be incredibly stupid if we actually let that happen. "Surrogates" is the latest of these concepts and surprisingly one of the more well thought-out ones. Based on the graphic novel by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele, "Surrogates" imagines a world where humans interact with the world solely through robot versions of themselves called surrogates. They don't have to leave their homes and are impervious to danger.
Writers Michael Ferris and John D. Brancato, who previously collaborated with director Jonathan Mostow on "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" and sadly also wrote the Halle Berry "Catwoman," do their best work with this script, which is of course not saying much. The positive here is that they truly embrace and explored the possibilities of a word where people don't interact with people -- just the robot versions of themselves. It's the saving grace of the film.
Bruce Willis stars as a homicide detective assigned to the very first case on record where the actual human operator of a surrogate died when the surrogate was killed. With nearly all of the planet using surrogates, any knowledge of danger would throw the world into panic. Willis -- Det. Greer -- must track down the weapon that did the damage. When his surrogate is destroyed, Greer begins to re-examine life through non-virtual eyes.
Without question, however, the concept and the setting are far more clever than the script. Ironically like robots, when you boil down the exterior of "Surrogates," it's composed of overused clichés and recycled components of Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick stories. The simple premise and thoroughly conceived world of "Surrogates" manages to override some lousy story lines and character development, but I'm not sure that most viewers who come to "Surrogates" looking for more action and less high-concept science fiction will be able to say the same.
The subplots and back stories given to Greer and other characters are throw-away. At 89 minutes long, "Surrogates" offers just enough in terms of story development to be a glorified TV detective show set in the future. The twists are foreseeable and the character motivations barely scratched at, but it keeps your attention and stays focused enough on the central story that you never have to actually dwell on the more hollow elements of the film. The venerable James Cromwell, who plays the disgruntled inventor of surrogates, has never looked more shallow in a role, but it's hardly of any consequence.
Sci-fi epiphany? None here, but a well-calculated exploration of a possible new technology - - yes. "Surrogates" is not mindless fun, but it's not artistic science fiction perfected to a tee either. It does just enough to intrigue the future-curious mind with a different cut from the same robot mold.
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Mikale
As with most films, the trailer made this look like it would be something good – an action movie with an interesting sci-fi concept behind the world created for us. For this reason I was a bit surprised to see the "finishing time" of the film being listed as barely 90 minutes after the start time because I thought it would be hard to do all the things that the trailer proposed in such a comparatively short time. Leaving the film at the end, I found it easily fitted into the 90 minute time period and sadly it achieved this by not actually doing a great deal that I had hoped it would. The plot sees us in a world where the majority of humans live their lives from the comfort of their homes, experiencing life through the android clones (surrogates). Although pockets of humanity have banded together to resist this, generally they are seen as weirdos rather than having any sort of point. Due to the surrogates, accidental death has been nearly eliminated while crime is at an all-time low. However when the destruction of a surrogate leads to the death of the user, Detective Tom Greer is assigned to the case – a case that becomes even more high profile when the victim turns out to be the son of the creator of the surrogacy system.
The potential is there in the plot and the various things they put in around it (Tom's marriage, the loss of a child etc) but it doesn't really deliver on much of it. The subject matter isn't really that thought provoking, partly because it doesn't hold out a lot for consideration by the viewer but partly because the film doesn't even seem happy with its own world creation. The whole idea is full of holes to the point that the film can't hide them or distract from them for very long and you get the sense that it is rushing a bit before it all runs out through its cupped hands. This is a shame because it niggles the whole way through and becomes worse whenever we see what surrogates can do (their speed, strength etc) because you wonder why the world looks the same as it does when full of "normal" people. Outside of this though it is still an action film of sorts so one hopes for thrills of that side.
Unfortunately this doesn't really spark either. The running/jumping effects are not perfect and the scale of some of the action sequences means that some come over as being remote and not engaging or thrilling – a bit like watching someone else playing an video game that you don't really care about. It isn't bad though – the effects do still work, the action is still noisy and the plot is decent enough to at least not irritate – but that is the sort of level of film we're dealing with, one where my "praise" of it includes me saying its not too irritating! The performances sort of match the patchwork feel to the world and the film – it doesn't seem to be sure of itself and neither are they. Willis does his best (despite the wig etc he has to wear) but doesn't manage to balance the action with the character stuff and, thanks to the material, doesn't really deliver on either. Mitchell is so-so, as is Pike, while Cromwell essentially dials in a character he has sort of played before (but it made sense in other films) and Rhames is just plain odd.
Surrogates is not an awful film – but it is a distinctly average one thanks to the amount of things it half does. Whether it is the action, the substance, the effects, the performances or whatever, it all appears to be "OK" but never pushing for more than that. Improved focus, a stronger script and a longer running time could have made this a better film but ultimately it was just average.
Alsalar
I first viewed Surrogates upon its home format release and positively found it very ordinary. Viewing it again, with focus and in solitude, it proved to be a far better experience.
The action scenes are what you would expect for a multi-plex appeasing popcorner, loud, colourful and owing great debt to modern technology. Yet to dismiss this totally as one of those easy money making blockbuster movies is most unfair.
Surrogates oozes intrigue, even if it doesn't quite deliver on the smartness written on the page. The idea that in the future robotic alter egos can carry out our everyday mundane functions is cracker-jack, and it opens up a whole can of berserker worms.
This is not merely an excuse to have Bruce Willis running around exploding surrogate robots, as much fun as that is of course, there's a deeper emotional core pulsing away as Willis fights the good fight to make sure being human is not cast aside like a thing of the past, that as flawed as we are, hiding away in a surrogate is not the answer.
This axis of the story is beautifully realised by the plot strand involving Willis and Rosamund Pike as his wife, with both actors doing fine work to give it the required emotional heft. It may ultimately lose itself to a standard conspiracy plot, but there's intelligence within to make Surrogates a better film than it first appears. 7/10
Ceroelyu
This film was an interesting twist on the robot as human concept, with a plot that managed to keep the viewer interested right up until the dramatic ending. A high tech company has specialized in mass producing surrogates, or personal robots, which are sold to the American middle class. They are quickly adopted to perform routine functions and then essentially perform high level functions (like one's job). The main theme was how the surrogates assumed people's lives and identities to such an extent the flesh & blood owner of the surrogate could stay home and presumably pursue higher level interests. The reality was most people simply fell into a spiritual stupor, resorting to alcohol or drugs to pass their time.
The actors were all very good and up to the task of portraying themselves in robotic fashion (this doesn't require great acting skill but the screenplay was quite good). I thought Bruce Willis did a good job in the lead role(s) as FBI Agent Tom Geer (he also played his "surrogate" as a very low key robot). Bruce's surrogate is investigating the death of the son of the founder of the corporation that invented and produced the surrogates. This kicked off the main plot, which centered around an armed resistance group opposed to surrogates and attempting to defeat the surrogates and the corporation that produced them.
If the plot sounds confused, at times it is, and the ending may be less than satisfying. But for a far fetched sci-fi movie about robots, this was one of the better ones I've seen.
Although this movie boasts a great Sci-Fi concept, there are a couple of elements in the setting that is just too flawed even for science fiction. I'll come to those flaws shortly.
Having accepted the implausible environment, i.e., a world where 98% of humankind stay at home with their minds plugged into their surrogate robots that they live their life through, the rest of the plot is pretty damn riveting. The mood of the film is more akin to Minority Report and certainly feels like a Philip K Dick narrative. The future depiction is not overly futuristic in technology other than the Surrogates themselves so don't expect a big budget effects ridden movie. Having said that, the Surrogates robotic power makes for a couple of excellent action scenes comparable with the Will Smith vehicle "I, Robot".
But as usual, it is the awesome Bruce Willis who carries the movie both as surrogate (a disturbingly young look with a frightening wig!) and in human form. Thank god he carries it though because there are hardly any significant supporting characters in the story as it focuses on him most of the time as he investigates a rise in rare human murders. There is just something re-assuring about watching him on screen, regardless of the film quality. Going into the 4th decade since Die Hard, he is still in my view a bona-fide movie star.
I said there were flaws in the whole concept. Well, I find it impossible to even speculate the possibility that 98% of humankind will love sitting at home plugging their minds into a surrogate robot that they can live their lives through and let their natural bodies wither away with no exercise or self esteem. It seems they prefer to have sex as robots, and flirt with young women surrogates who may be controlled by an old man or...well you get the gist. The appeal is supposed to be a 99% reduction in crime rate where accidents or crimes against a surrogate does not affect the human host. That concept is too flawed even for science fiction. What is stopping a surrogate from burgling a house killing its human owner for example? I don't knock the concept of surrogates itself, its an excellent one but I don't buy the social environment.
All in all this was a very very decent entry in the intelligent Sci-Fi movie library. Despite my gripes I enjoyed it and I expect most Sci-Fi lovers will too.
Rolling Flipper
The important thing to understand about this film is that it is not a prediction of something that is likely to happen. Rather, it is a metaphor for something that has already happened.
Television was the earliest foray into this phenomenon. How many of us form a significant portion of our impression of the world based on what we see through this artificial sense organ? With television, we are all 5% closer to the creature depicted in Surrogates. As I sit here at my computer writing from this remote location, I am 10% of the creature depicted in this film. When I get on a discussion forum with an avatar that represents my impression of myself or possibly the impression of myself that I wish to project, I am 20% of the creature depicted in this film.
I have begun to teach an online class. My students, instead of seeing me as a living flesh and blood person, now see me as an intellectual engine that they may visualize in any number of ways. I have the option of posting a picture, but have not gotten around to that yet. I now do part of my work from a safe remote location—as an abstract disembodied entity.
After leaving the theater, I had an overwhelming urge to spend more time with my dogs. They are very physical and can never relate to the concept I herein discuss. Actually I had a new insight into their possible impression of all the time I spend watching television: "Stop staring into the scrambly box and pay attention to us. Snap out of it!"
Hulbine
Finally saw this and I'm with the majority here... a solid 7/10 film.
This surprisingly compelling sci-fi film takes a while to set up its universe but delivers down the stretch. It's borderline whether they establish enough credibility so as to invest real emotion in to the characters and buy in to the premise. If you allow yourself to buy in to the bizarre concept of living life through android duplicates, then the film works on a few levels. It's somewhat weak on certain of those levels but raises interesting questions concerning the level of our technological dependency as we live our lives. The emotional aspect of this movie plays better thanks to a fine performance by Bruce Willis. His character's journey through this bizarre world is obviously the heart of the film and it's written and portrayed very well.
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With the action heroes of my generation all too old or M.I.A. (Ford, Hackman, Eastwood), I have consistently made the comment, "Thank God for Bruce Willis". Good ole Bruce, aging towards his mid-fifties, consistently brings action films to our local theatres year after year after year. As an actor, he has 70+ projects contained within his historical biography and the guy keeps making bad films mediocre and mediocre films watchable.
Surprisingly, he has but one credit to his name in 2009, Surrogates, a film that looks ripped from just about every other science fiction fantasy you have ever seen or read.
Extracted by a graphic novel by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele, Surrogates transports us to a future where people live through robotic surrogates from the privacy and safety of their own sanctuary and can manipulate their avatars into either copies of themselves or they can transform themselves into just about anything they want (I say just about anything because the world was not full of Megan Fox's). The opening credits give us a 14 year history of how we got to whatever future we are in at Present Day.
But when a murder – the first in an eon – occurs, FBI agent Greer (Willis) is assigned the case and his subsequent investigation outside of his own surrogate is filled with enough revelations to bring down the entire Utopian world.
I can't even begin to ramble of the countless movies the Surrogates borrows from in an effort to keep us entertained for the very swift 88 minutes of running time. Hell, there were even a few television programs I thought it copied for certain scenes.
That noted, Surrogates is not all that bad. Director Jonathon Mostow (Terminator 3 – which I actually liked) might not have put the most seasoned piece of sci-fi on the screen, but he could have done much worse with the cheesy premise.
The special effects are kinda few and kinda crappy. A scene with a surrogate riding on the hood of a car was blue screen embarrassment. But the special effects are kept in tow as Mostow tries for more of an atmosphere than he does an all out future world experience.
Bruce Willis always throws me off in movies where he has hair and Ving Rhames shows up as a human (?) who opposes the surrogate conglomerate. It's been 15 years since Rhames and Willis had screen time together and I was thankful there was no plastic ball in their mouth and a gimp parading in front of them while they approached their purpose in the script.
Surprisingly, for all the borrowing and lack of any true originality, Surrogates, is watchable. The ideas are all squished (think of a marshmallow being squeezed through a key hole) into an entertaining if not enthralling sit that might not exactly be worth $50 and a babysitter to make a night out of, but it can easily be a rewarding DVD rental in the new year.
Recommendation is clearly to rent it.
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Surrogates is just an entertaining science fiction film that is there to please movie-goers and not win any awards. This is good science fiction but I have to say Avatar and District 9 were much better. But still I like to enjoy Bruce Willis.
This is about how technology invaded human life. Most humans have their own surrogates which are robots they control and inhabit with their minds. Things begin to get out of hand when a weapon is used that will not only kill the robot, but the human occupying it. What will happen? The acting is pretty good.
I like Bruce Willis in anything so it's not surprising that I like this. James Cromwell is pretty good too.
Overall, this is a cool science fiction movie. I was entertained most of the time. I rate this film 8/10.
In a near future, with the development of the robotic, mankind stays at home operating surrogates with their signature to live their lives in the outside world and resolving issues like racism, complex and safety and reducing crime rates. Only a few people live in reservations the traditional way of life without the use of substitutes. When the surrogates of a man and a woman are destroyed by a sophisticated weapon, the FBI agents Tom Greer (Bruce Willis) and Peters (Radha Mitchell) are assigned to the case and sooner they discover that the operators have also died. Tom Greer goes further in his investigation and finds that there is a conspiracy involving the army, the company VSI that manufactures the androids, the FBI, The Prophet (Ving Rhames) leader of the humans and the scientist that had developed the surrogate technology Canter (James Cromwell).
"Surrogates" is a flawed but entertaining feature with an interesting concept but many plot holes. If the viewer does not think about the story, he or she will certainly enjoy a lot. But the screenplay does not explain many points, like for example, how could people live sitting on a chair without any sort of exercise have a safer and healthier life? Why Canter had not dedicated to destroy the surrogates only without harming the humans disconnecting them first? Why Peters did not get the access code by herself? What has happened with the humans when they discover that The Prophet was a machine? There are many other flaws but in the end I am a fan of Bruce Willis and Radha Mitchell and I found this movie is a good entertainment. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Substitutos" ("Substitutes")
Vizuru
Don't spend too much time or money on this movie if you are bothered by seriously inconsistent or unrealistic science in a science-fiction movie. Despite great production values and acting, the film is marred by a badly imagined technological world.
A world technologically capable of producing robotic avatars that convey complete sensory experiences to the users would not, as the world in this film does, resemble early 21st century in every other meaningful way. The technology necessary to accomplish such remote direct brain interface control and sensing is so advanced on so many levels; it would, by definition, be accompanied by other equally huge changes in technology.
In Surrogates, the world is basically "ceteris paribus" but for one enormous mind-bogglingly advanced change. We would expect, for example, far more advanced robotics in other areas, such as dangerous occupations such as law enforcement and tedious occupation such as low level sales. Yet there is no evidence of this in the film.
Similarly, the notion that the entire world's robotic avatars would be susceptible to a one-point attack is simply too absurd. The Web today has multiple redundancies in terms of DS servers as well as other protocols. Corporations and governments maintain multiple backups for important functions, with several levels of Internet available only to high level academic and military users. That a similar level of sophistication doesn't exist in Surrogate's world, despite having an economy dependent on the technology, is too implausible.
I can suspend my disbelief with the best of them, but the suspension necessary to enjoy Surrogates comes at too high a cost.
Ziena
When I first began watching the documentary-style introduction to Surrogates, I had to admit I was impressed because I'm a sucker for these openings (I loved District 9), but I was afraid I was in for another cool futuristic type movie like Minority Report or I, Robot. Admittedly, these were two great movies yet I feared this movie would bring nothing new to the table. We've already seen huge interactive ads, protests against machines, moral dilemmas, and conflicted leaders trying to make statements (James Cromwell plays almost the same character in both I, Robot and Surrogates!). What new things could the director of Terminator 3 show us? It turns out he could bring us what I, Robot failed to deliver as effectively: a good knockout resolution. In other words, this movie delivered a non-Hollywood type ending, similar in the vein of Watchmen (though that is thanks to the great Alan Moore). I always appreciate when a director is willing to go out and boldly create a vision (even if it is based on a graphic novel, some directors like Carter Smith still change the ending – as he did for The Ruins movie).
The film is the tale of a world where everyone's basically a couch potato. Technology is so amazing that we can create multiple robots of ourselves, in any form, and control them from the safety of our own homes! We're completely safe as long as we're plugged into the network and no one harms us as we operate the surrogate robot, or "surrey." But as usual, conflict arises and the characters are drawn into a world of corruption, rebellion, and sacrifices. The screenplay is full of twists and turns, all very smart and satisfying, though somewhat predictable. Doesn't really matter to me though; films like these are made for mindless action with parts that make you think. Or so I thought.
Mostow, a natural action director, handles the camera very well in action sequences. It's the usual Hollywood fare with great, fast-moving action and impressive special effects (though I keep thinking of Transformers 2 when I say that, so I probably won't mention CGI again). I also really liked how much he utilizes the element of surprise: there were many moments where I jumped back in shock, though there wasn't anything necessarily that scary. It's just the juxtaposition-ing of calm and BANG. It's clear Mostow is good with the action cam (nothing new in the era of Michael Bay), as he demonstrated in T3, but this time around I was impressed by how he directed the emotional scenes with Bruce Willis and his wife. He handled the feelings well. This in part has to do with Bruce Willis as an actor as well. He did a fine job with this movie, solid. There's also some good humor too, though I think I laughed too much. And it all led to the final punch.
These are all similar-sounding critiques for me. I tend to enjoy cinema for what it is: for pleasure. However, what was different was the ending. I was expecting the typical run-of-the-mill Hollywood ending, but it certainly wasn't (though there was a bit of a twist). I must admit I gasped a bit when I saw the end. I said, "Whoa." If a film, amidst good stuff, brings home something new (District 9, for example, was a seriously good commentary besides an action film), I'm impressed. I appreciate it very much: Mostow keeps the audience in mind. Sure, there were flaws (like its short running time, sometimes it takes itself too lightly) but overall it was a great viewing experience. I was enjoying it as I watched – as I usually do for movies – but the bold Watchmen-like finish really brought it home for me.
Oh, and Ving Rhames was pretty damn bad-ass.
I basically agree with Ebert's review on this one. This is definitely only a simple action flick, but it is well made, the acting is decent, the f/x very good, the film is never tacky, boring or overtly see-through. Enough to keep e viewer interested and entertained while lounging on a couch eating popcorn and drinking beer on a Sunday afternoon. What's wrong with that? In addition, it poses a couple of interesting questions about our current and especially future relationship with machines, the morality of it, etc. These questions will become more and more important as each day passes, and even though the movie does not even attempt to analyze or answer them, it is not unimportant to have posed them. A classical, typically Hollywood-ian ending offers no real solutions, all the wrong certainties and faulty answers, albeit populist ones.
Inth
'Surrogates' is a film that shows how the introduction of a new technology has radically changed the world we know. This new technology, which is freely available to everyone, has brought the crime rate down to almost zero, and united humanity in ways never before imagined, leaving a few filthy hard-line rednecks to wave the flag against progress.
So! What is wrong with this picture? Rather than think about what would REALLY happen with everyone using robots to do everything, the writers of this film have created their own reality for the sake of convenience. For example:
Why would giving everyone a mind-controlled robot to play with reduce crime? The robots allow anyone to do ANYthing, so surely EVERYone would be doing EVERYthing! Life would suddenly be like Grand Theft Auto. Also, while everyone's using their robot, they're practically asleep in their own homes, so home invasions and other related crimes have never been easier. - How does everyone get a robot? You *know* the poor ain't getting' one, but apparently abject poverty is no barrier to joining the robot revolution. - Why can't the FBI fly over the redneck camp? They can hack into people's robot feed and shut them down legally within 20 seconds, but fly a helicopter over some hippie's love circle? Forget about it, Willis, hand over your badge and gun.
And now, my other problems with this film:
the entire film was shot on a dutch tilt (i.e. the camera is askew; this device normally indicates something wrong in a scene). I noticed this about thirty minutes in, and after an hour I realised the director was probably trying to say something about his world (i.e. 'this world ain't right') and would likely have the camera right itself in the closing scenes. Sure enough, when Willis makes amends with his wife, the camera goes level, so all is right with the world once more.
This is the most pretentious conceit I have seen in film in a long time. Yes, a director must communicate through the language of film, but an entire movie on the dutch tilt is someone saying 'Look at me! I'm saying something important!'
Why didn't the bad guys send hit men or ninjas or something to James Cromwell's house and just kill him for real? He's in a wheelchair, so it ain't like he's going to outrun a ninja. So much simpler than using a super secret weapon and blah blah blah. Plus, the ninja could make it look like an accident or natural causes. - Why did James Cromwell commit suicide right before seeing everyone else die? And why a cyanide capsule? He had a perfectly good gun right there! - James Cromwell (in robot form) just happened to sneak into Radha Mitchell's house and see the EXACT MOMENT of recorded footage that would tell him how kill everyone on the planet? What are the freakin' ODDS of this, people? - We've got instantaneous mind control over robots that are miles (if not hundreds of miles) away, and yet we still use USB? Please.
Ah screw it, this movie was crap and I feel better now. :)
I really enjoy watching fast-paced thrillers and murder-mysteries. Unfortunately most films which are released these days do not put the time nor effort into flushing-out a story. Often times I resort to seedy little horror films to watch a good whodunit film. Therefore Surrogates was definitely a great surprise to me. I went in expecting some idiotic action film which should have gone straight to video and was very surprised at how engaging this film was!
The only reason I didn't give this film a 10/10 rating is because Brancato and Ferris most obviously got the idea for their script from the Wachowski Brother's of "The matrix" fame. The only difference is that instead of entering another reality people enter the body of a robot for which they use to interact with people in the world right from their homes, never having to leave the house. These Surrogates act and talk just like their counterparts back home, linked-up in their cyber-kinetic chairs, although as you will find in the first act, don't always look like them. The entire benefit of using a surrogate is to never be hurt or killed, and also to look the way you want people to see you.
Bruce Willis and Radha Mitchell play two FBI agents investigating the destruction of two surrogates and their operators who were connected to them at the time, which up until then has never been possible. Now, I won't ruin anything, but lets just say that if you can use a surrogate to be "anyone you want to be" you might not really always know who you are talking too...or what their ulterior-motives are!!
The storytelling, twists & turns, and fast-paced action really move this film along. Also, the special effects are so well put together that when you are watching people on the screen you really believe out of this world things are happening to them...but to me the best part or character of the film is Radha Mitchell. She is required to take on so many different things here and also be believable, and she pulled it off very well indeed!
I was actually surprised at how much I enjoyed this movie and at a midnight screening as well. "Surrogates" is definitely worth seeing on the big screen, so don't miss it!
Ndyardin
I went to an advance showing of Surrogates tonight and while it starts out a bit silly I ended up really liking it. The films strives for the mock realism of district nine but ends up falling short of that level of intensity. I have not read the graphic novel upon which the film is based, however knowing it's a multi part graphic novel is a bit odd since the film in incredibly short. I believe it clocks in at less than an hour and a half long. Rarely do I feel that the climax is reached TOO quickly in a film but everything seems to fall into place with little explanation as too how the characters know what's going on other than blind luck.
The movie sees Tom, played by Bruce Willis as a cop whose living through a surrogate. Think i-Robot but with less tension between the humans and the robots. Surrogates function in a way that humans can lie down with caps over their eyes and neurologically control attractive, boring versions of themselves. Curiously, Tom's surrogate is a cop with a blond comb over. Tom however is growing tired of relying on his surrogate. He wants to see his wife more often...his real wife.
In one of the film's many plot holes, a vagrant "meatbag" human (one who is against the idea of surrogates) uses a "device" to kill surrogates which somehow kills humans at the same time by making their brains exploded. If that sounds convoluted...that's because it is. There's many things in this film left unexplained including that aspect as well as the need for surrogates in the first place. Why bother? These thoughts are quickly erased once Tom is on a chase to find out who is trying to kill surrogates and why.
The film has a very fast pace like I said above with from the point of action to the climax very little digression. Within the title crawl you already what surrogates are, what their purpose is and the history of the surrogates. I wish they could slow down a bit and discuss more of the mentality behind the process, but I suppose that's up to the audience to decide.
Surrogates is a film that made me happy to be alive as I walked out and thought about it. It's an entertaining film but I can't help but feel that it falls into the same lines of action/drama/sci fi movies as recent ones like The Happening, I am Legend and i-Robot. It's definitely that kind of movie and if you enjoy that, then it won't disappoint.
This has to be the worst sci fi movie since Twister. I honestly cannot think of a single redeeming quality in this film. The starting premise itself was a stretch - 98% of the people in the future use surrogates. There is absolutely nothing in this world that 98% of the people agree on, not to mention a surrogate would be an expensive piece of machinery which not everyone could afford. The plot involves Bruce Willis playing a his tired "rebel-cop" persona (only looking strangely like Robbie Rotten from Lazy Town when he is in "surrogate self") and stumbling upon various conspiracies involving VSI (corporation producing surrogates), the military (of course), and the inventor of surrogates (who apparently in all his genius cannot figure an obvious explanation for his son's death and needs Bruce Willis to point it out to him). The subplot of the movie involves reservations where surrogates are not allowed and shot on sight, even if they are law enforcement surrogates. How the government decided to waive their sovereignty to a bunch of regressionist secessionists is not explained. The regressionist reservations are filled with clichéd fat hillbillies and are led by Ving Rhames with dreadlocks, who delivers his lines with a passion of a low level politician reading off a teleprompter. There are other problems that I can go into such as surrogates being strong enough to withstand collision with a car yet falling apart under the force of Bruce Willis' bare fists, as well as the non-nonsensical robot beauty salons, but if I describe every hole in the plot, I will probably have to post the entire film's screenplay. So I'll just cut to the chase: the story is absurd, the action is OK at best, the dialogue is bland in some parts, laughable in others, and the ending is meaningless.
If you want to see a decent sci fi movie, check out Pandorum instead.
One of the best CGI "upholstered" sci-fi flicks as yet. Very 80s, guess the idea (or even the entire William-Gibson-like script) slouched about for 20 years before it was realizable without appearing ridiculously B-grade. And Bruce Willis looks like Elton John for once, or vice versa :-) So much on the obvious.
Ah yeah, IMDb etiquette makes it hard to draw stringent conclusions to real occurrences, but all i can say is that if we web-nuts would turn off our machines for good, get up and simply walk outside our very flats, this world would be very different, and probably a better one, too.
Any artificial online identity, let it be 2ndlife or WOW, comprises a substantial momentum of addiction and unresistant devotion. To what? That's where this allegory jumps in quite helpfully.
We're no artificial surrogates yet, but already part of and surrounded by a more and more zombified public, where the MP3-downloads on our mobiles may actually mean more to our well-being than the unconcerned, indifferent, fear- and/or greed-powered ambition that accounts for most of our daily uprisings.
Crown of creation? Hell we are. Anyone noticed the missing comma?
Bad Sunny
Had I not known better, I would have said that the 2009 sci-fi/action film "Surrogates" was based on a work by cult author Philip K. Dick. And with its central premise of a futuristic society in which the bulk of humankind lies abed, while its mentally controlled robotic surrogates carry on the dangerous and tiring business of everyday life for it, the film really is reminiscent of something that Phil might have smiled on with approbation. But no, this picture is rather based on a graphic novel by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele. In it, federal agent Tom Greer (played by a typically excellent Bruce Willis) investigates a rare instance of homicide in this new society and unearths a plot that threatens the lives of billions. The film's entirely plausible central premise (who wouldn't want to safely lie in bed all day, whilst a mechanical surrogate of any description takes upon itself the rigors of life?) has here been used as the backbone for a supremely well-crafted and intelligent instance of modern-day science fiction; indeed, "Surrogates" may well be one of the finest sci-fi films of its decade. It features a compact screenplay, a twisty and surprise-laden plot, great-looking yet restrained use of FX, and several spectacular--yet remarkably lucid--action set pieces. The film has been well acted by all, especially Willis (in what almost amounts to a dual role: human and surrogate) and the yummy Rosamund Pike, who I have had a "thang" for ever since seeing her portray Miranda Frost in Bond 20, "Die Another Day." And this near-future world, in which one can role-play any fantasy via the use of male or female surrogates, sets us up for a great line from Willis. Speaking to a beautiful female lawyer, he says, "Honey, I don't know what you are. For all I know, you could be some big fat dude sitting in a stim chair with his dick hanging out." A wonderful line, in a wonderful picture. Highly recommended.
MilsoN
Although it felt immensely parallel to Mark Neveldine's Gamer, Surrogates explores the scarier side of avatar life when people opt for living through robots instead of their own bodies. With the charisma and macho swagger that Bruce Willis brings to the screen and the talents of Ving Rhames, James Cromwell and Boris Kodjoe, what really ended up disappointing me was the unimpressive graphics of the Surrogates themselves. Someone should have asked Milla Jovovich who did her makeup in Resident Evil Extinction because she looked more the part of a porcelain robot than the effect they tried on this movie, it was distracting and strange.
Plot: When a couple of Surrogate (robots created to replicate human beings) users are killed through their hosts, detectives Greer (Bruce Willis) and Peters (Radha Mitchell) set out to find the source behind the killings. What they find is that a new weapon has been introduced that kills the host and user behind the avatar. A threat that could potentially disrupt the 99% drop in world-wide fatalities that the surrogates originally brought. Greer has grown to dislike the daily routine of living through a Surrogate and before long ditches his avatar in lieu of walking around the city as a human (something that is unheard of). With his own eyes and wits about him, Greer is able to uncover the source of the weapon and the people behind it. With his only grip on human life being his Surrogate addicted wife, he must find a way to stop the weapon which could mean danger for her and everyone in the world that is plugged in.
While I can appreciate the sci-fi element to Surrogates, it offers nothing new in terms of plot, storyline and conclusion. It is the fear of a virtual world in the future exaggerated with the visuals of nasty, sweaty, pock ridden humans stuck to their bed-like structures. A world of pasty people plugged into a machine that gives them the control of a beautiful and flawless version of themselves. You have the stereotypical fat nerd in the guise of a hot, blond sexpot, the sex heavy Club scenes and the city filled with people who aren't really people. Think Blade Runner, Matrix and I-Robot and you know the particular shot of what I speak. Yet Greer's city did not feel like a city at all, it felt like a large set with fancy CGI painted all over it to make it look "futuristic". I couldn't shake the world in a glass bowl feeling as the streets seem to lead to nowhere and the shots of the external camps looked even worse. The warm and fuzzy feelings of the future that I received when I watched older movies like Minority Report, I-Robot and the 5th Element is missing in this one. There just wasn't enough authenticity in Greer's surroundings and it made it seem so staged.
This story seemed to be better suited for a comic book or graphic novel. The big screen does not seem like the right medium for Surrogates because the humanoid CGI look is a long way from being mastered. Still, if you can stomach the visuals to follow Greer in his quest for an answer, you may find a bland and unoriginal police story that ends up being solved a bit too easily. I would suggest that you wait this one out for an evening rental with the family since the violence is minimal (the Surrogates bleed green), there are no real sexual situations and the length is relatively short. I cannot recommend the box office version of this movie.
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Liarienen
Expensive but dull, sterile sci-fi adaptation of the graphic novels by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele concerns remote-controlled androids of the future, developed to obliterate crime in society, that are mysteriously being 'murdered'. These incidents, however baffling, should not being causing harm to the very-human "surrogate" owners, but is resulting in their deaths as well. Two FBI agents smell a rat, particularly when one of the dead units is discovered to belong to the son of the reclusive doctor responsible for inventing surrogates. Top-heavy with gadgetry, this lumbering thriller seems plastic and embalmed...what can you say about a movie so humorless that it adds in a belching technician just to rouse its audience? Bruce Willis, as both the head Fed and his lookalike surrogate (with a blond weave!), looks exhausted. Mechanically directed by Jonathan Mostow, who paces the conversational scenes like episodes from a TV detective series. Anything but entertaining. * from ****
Kelerana
Science fiction is often used to illustrate current problems. So, this movie seems to be a modern retelling of the story of the land of Cockaigne. And like the medieval stories it heavy-handedly drives home the lesson about the Land of Plenty being a blessing and a curse.
To start with, I liked the visual style, how the Surrogates look all polished and seem to correspond to how people would like to see themselves. I also liked the idea of anonymity, that - like Internet avatars - a Surrogate could be anyone and gives you no clue as to who is operating it. Interesting as these premises may be they quickly fell apart. There are so many things that do not seem to make sense, even within the plot's own world.
Without giving away too much here are a few points that may also occur to you during the early parts of the film.
If people depend on their Surrogates for everything, even household tasks, and hardly go out anymore why do their muscles not completely atrophy? Haven't they watched Wall-E?
How could this advanced robotic technology and neural interfaces (Surrogates are thought controlled) have been developed within 14 years (as stated in the opening) and have become so cheap that the average Joe or Jane can afford them? And if so why is this technology not used for controlling other machines?
Logically, for every new development there are those that oppose it. I thought they would be like everyone else just that they reject Surrogate technology. Why would they look like survivors of an apocalypse, live in abandoned building compounds, seemingly also reject all other technology and also be armed to the teeth and ready to go to war?
And why does the main character have to be coping with some family tragedy only to illustrate that using Surrogates is bad for you?
This was the list after about 20% of the film. Sadly it did not get any better. The science fiction setting has not been thought through. The murder mystery tries half-heartedly to be complex but offers few surprises and fails to deliver as little as a plausible motive. Characters just find clues because they do. In the end there is not even enough sci-fi action to support the film since Bruce Willis is not the youngest anymore and also plays a character who is very vulnerable among all the robots. Wait, does that not sound familiar? Actually, quite a number of elements seem to have been lifted straight from I, Robot. The inventor of the robots is even played by the same actor. Maybe that is it: go watch I, Robot instead.

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Dupree Reveals Tomlin's Early-Season Team Message, Secret To Improved Takeaway Defense
By Dave Bryan
Posted on December 5, 2019 at 11:39 am
The Pittsburgh Steelers have overcome more than their fair share of adversity this season and head coach Mike Tomlin deserves quite a bit of the credit for that. On Thursday, Steelers outside linebacker Bud Dupree was a guest on 'Good Morning Football' and early in his interview he was asked to disclose the message that Tomlin delivered to the team after the rough start to the 2019 regular season that has resulted in the team having a 7-5 record entering the final quarter of it.
"Well, Coach Tomlin is the same way every day," Dupree said. "Every morning he's the same. Always saying, 'Don't blink.' Always saying, 'We've got to engineer victory.' So, when all those guys went down, he came in and started saying, 'We've got to engineer victory.' So, what he meant by that is we've got to find a way to win. And then on the defensive side of the ball, we've got to step up that much more and go out and just make more plays to set the offense up so they can get in better field position."
The defense has certainly held up their end of things through 12 regular season games played as the unit currently leads the NFL in total takeaways with 30 after registering just 15 all last season. Because of that huge turnaround the Steelers has had in one season in the takeaway department, Dupree was asked on Thursday to give his opinion on why and how that's happened.
"You know, just putting an emphasis on that," Dupree said. "Going out every weekend knowing that we've got to get the ball for the offense. Knowing that we've got to make plays, knowing that we've got to make a lot of splash plays to get the offense going because they don't have as many guys over there. And also get ourselves going. You know, we've got so many talented guys on defense that we've gotta make those type of plays for us to gel together. And it's coming together real well. You know a lot of the guys are super excited about each week coming up. We're always competing and trying to see who can make the next big play."
Dupree has certainly responsible for making a lot of those big plays as he enters Week 14 having registered 50 total tackles, 8.5 sacks, 12 quarterback hits, three passes defensed, four forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries. Dupree's big season figures to result in a double-digit sacks season, which is something Steelers fans have witnessed quite often from past linebackers that have played in Pittsburgh over the years. Dupree was asked Thursday morning to describe what it's like playing for team that has the kind of linebacker legacy like the Steelers have at that position.
"You know, there's a lot of great guys that played before me," Dupree said. "There's a lot of legends that came before me. And also, just seeing the footprints that they left behind, following those guys. And the real Steeler way of football, you know, just puts that type of image in our heads to go out there and just ball the way they did. You know, try to make as many plays as they did. It always starts with those guys up front and then it trickles back to the other guys on defense and it makes the defense that much more fiery."
Dupree has made himself a lot of money this season as he's currently scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent in March of 2020. Hopefully he gets at least a few more sacks in the Steelers final four regular season games so that he can hit the double-digit mark in that statistical category. He and fellow Steelers outside linebacker T.J. Watt, who was named the AFC Defensive Player for the month of November Thursday morning, have a chance to become the first Steelers defensive duo to each register double-digit sacks since 2010 when outside linebackers James Harrison and LaMarr Woodley accomplished the feat.
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Ancylis tumida is a moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1912. It is found in Sri Lanka.

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Enarmoniini
Moths of Asia
Moths described in 1912
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick

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I'm slowly starting to gather the pieces that will finish the living room. Armchairs, storage pieces, a rug and draperies are some of the things on my shopping list. Since the dining room and living room are open to each other, I've also got to be sure that the furnishings in both rooms work together too.
The most difficult element to tie in is the bold wallpaper in the dining room. When we picked the wallpaper four years ago, we chose it purely on looks. I loved the large floral pattern; it fit with the breezy feel I wanted and worked with the plantation shutters and white wainscotting. One thing I did not really give much thought to: how I would carry the colour palette into the adjoining living room. Now, the living room not only has to tie in the yellow and brown tones of the dining room, but also the grey from the hallway. How to do that? Fabric.
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Women in South Sudan experience high rates of domestic abuse, but girls routinely fall victim to an even worse fate.
I tried to reason with them, but then they threatened me with a gun. She was given to a man for 15 cows.
Rachel and Helena live in one of the poorest countries in a region racked by decades of civil war. Their stories reflect the life cycle of violence experienced by many women in South Sudan, where 65 percent report abuse by an intimate partner—double the global average. In countries with a high prevalence of early marriage, families are likely to marry off daughters to relieve financial burdens.
Livestock is vital to survival in the region, a commodity, for some, more valuable than human life. Indeed, after her husband's death. Rachel's brother sold her first-born for five cows. The same fate would befall all her children, Helena being the last one bartered.
Helena was forced to leave primary school. "I liked mathematics … and playing volleyball," she says. "I liked to tell stories with my friends … and just be together." After just one month, the girl ran.
There were injuries to my insides—it was very painful. I thought that my intestines would come out. I did not know what was happening.
Rachel took her to the police. "They filled out a report and took her to the hospital. The man was arrested, and is in prison now. My brother in law is also in jail. But I know they will be set free."
Rachel does not believe her brother in law or the man he sold Helena to will be punished for more that the debt owed. "Helena's husband will pay a fine," she says, "one or two cows for mistreating the girl. But the uncle will end up receiving them."
For nearly three decades, the IRC has been there, providing life-saving services for South Sudanese women and girls like Rachel and Helena.
For survivors of sexual assault, the IRC provides clinical care. To help women recover from trauma, we offer the psychosocial support they need to develop coping skills. And we create women's safe spaces, which give women and adolescent girls an opportunity to share their experiences, learn new skills, and develop the social networks they need to face the adversities that life has in store for them.
Despite everything, with the right support women can overcome violence and trauma to rebuild their lives and those of their children.
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Atractus paraguayensis is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species can be found in Paraguay and Argentina. It is oviparous.

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Atractus
Reptiles of Paraguay
Reptiles of Argentina
Snakes of South America
Reptiles described in 1924
Taxa named by Franz Werner


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NHL Coaching
Jack Adams, the Man and the Award
By Tony Wolak November 18th, 2020
Few people have had a more transcending impact on the NHL than legendary coach and general manager Jack Adams. For 36 years, Adams led the Detroit Red Wings organization in some capacity, coaching the likes of Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay, Sid Abel and Larry Aurie.
Today, more than 100 years after Adams first became involved with the NHL, he is still very much a part of the game. Because of his accomplishments as the Red Wings' coach, the NHL honors its best head coach with the Jack Adams Award every year. (That, and his former employers just drafted a forward with the same name, guaranteeing references to the former coach and GM for years to come.)
From humble beginnings in Fort William, Ontario—now part of Thunder Bay—Adams rose through the ranks of junior hockey, enjoyed a lengthy playing career in the NHL and the defunct Pacific Coast Hockey League (PCHL), started his post-playing career in Detroit and never looked back.
Jack Adams – Professional Hockey Career
Adams began his professional hockey career as a 22-year-old center with the Toronto Arenas back in 1917. Before long, Adams joined the Vancouver Millionaires of the PCHL where he really hit his stride as a player. In his second season out west, Adams registered 30 points in 24 contests. The next year, he matched that total but managed to score 26 goals. What constitutes an assist has changed over the years, so it's possible Adams recorded more than four assists that season by today's standards.
Following his impressive third year with the Millionaires, Adams headed back to Toronto to join the St. Patricks – derivative of the Arenas and the direct predecessor of the Maple Leafs. There, he continued to flourish as a point-per-game producer before ending his career as a member of the first installment of the Ottawa Senators for one season.
In his time as a professional hockey player, Adams won two Stanley Cups – one in his first season and the other in his last. He would add more later in his post-playing career.
Jack Adams – The Coach
Following his 1927 Stanley Cup win, Adams was hired to become the Detroit Cougars' coach and general manager. After changing their name to the Falcons in 1930, Adams' franchise was purchased by long-time owner James Norris in 1932 and became the Red Wings. With a new identity, success soon followed for Adams and the Red Wings.
Jack Adams (THW Archives)
In 1936 and 1937, Adams led the Red Wings to Stanley Cup victories over the Maple Leafs and New York Rangers, respectively. After losses in the Finals during the 1941 and 1942 playoffs, Adams earned his third Stanley Cup as a coach in 1943, guiding a talented squad which included Abel, Syd Howe (no relation to Mr. Hockey), Mud Bruneteau, Jack Stewart and Ebbie Goodfellow.
Following the 1946-47 season, Adams relinquished his coaching duties to Tommy Ivan so he could focus solely on his general manager duties. In his 20 seasons as coach, Adams accumulated 413 wins, 15 playoff appearances, seven Stanley Cup Finals appearances, and three championships. Only Mike Babcock has won more games with the organization (458) than Adams. Additionally, Detroit's' 35% rate of reaching the Stanley Cup Finals during Adams' tenure as coach was only topped by the Maple Leafs, who made 10 trips to the finals in those 20 years.
Calling the Shots
The Jack Adams legend that most Red Wings fans remember today stems from his time as the team's general manager. "Trader Jack" was known to flip players left and right in an attempt to bolster his roster. Some trades worked out, others flopped.
Adams was also known as a fierce negotiator when it came time to re-signing his players. Back then, there was no Collective Bargaining Agreement, player agents did not exist and players negotiated their own pay. Given these circumstances, Adams took full advantage of his position of power. According to long-time Red Wings columnist Bob Duff in his book, 100 Things Red Wings Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, Adams would often play hardball when negotiating deals with players, with the ultimate goal of keeping the organization profitable.
Jack Adams and Gordie Howe negotiated many contracts in Detroit. (THW Archives)
In addition, Adams was aware of the influence he had over players. Duff noted that he would use scare tactics to get more out of players, such as carrying around bus tickets as a reminder that some were close to being sent down.
However, Adams was not always a monster. Like Scotty Bowman, he had his tough side, but also deeply cared for his players. In his book, Duff details stories of Adams giving Ted Lindsay tickets to Florida so he could kick a bad cold and letting Mud Bruneteau visit a dying family member during the stretch run. For as many tough love stories there are about Adams, there are just as many lesser-known tales of kindness.
After his infamous decision to trade Lindsay in 1957, the organization began to decline, resulting in Adams' firing in 1963. Heartbroken, Adams left the organization that followed his lead for 36 years.
Legacy & Award
As the NHL began to create individual awards based on seasonal performances, the choice was clear after whom the trophy for the best coach would be named. Adams had passed away a few years prior and the league felt it was right to honor the long-time coach because "his lifetime dedication to hockey has served as an inspiration to all who aspire to further the game."
Starting in 1974, the NHL presents its best coach, as voted on by the NHL Broadcasters Association, with the Jack Adams Award at the conclusion of every season. Each winner was "adjudged to have contributed most to his team's success" by the voters. During his tenure in Detroit, Adams added his fair share of success, whether it was his in-game strategy, player motivation or other tactics.
Related: Last Red Wings to Win Each NHL Award
Former Red Wings winger and present Vegas Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant took home the most recent Jack Adams Award. Legendary coaches Bowman, Al Arbour, Pat Burns, Red Berenson, and Joel Quenneville have all received the award as well. Each of these coaches have found ways to get the most out of their teams, regardless of the amount of skill their players had, just as Adams did nearly a century ago. Gallant certainly fit this description after leading an expansion team to the Stanley Cup Finals in their inaugural season.
Head Coach Gerard Gallant of the Vegas Golden Knights poses for a portrait with the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl (L) and the Jack Adams Award at the 2018 NHL Awards at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on June 20, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Brian Babineau/NHLI via Getty Images)
"The award is special and so was Adams. He's the only person to win the Stanley Cup as a player, coach and general manager," said Red Wings radio play-by-play broadcaster and Jack Adams Award voter Ken Kal.
Adams had a great impact on the game, one that will last for generations.
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The Pangu.io jailbreak seemingly came out of nowhere, but we can confirm that it 100% works. We tested the jailbreak on our device running iOS 7.1.1 and it worked just as advertised, burning two exploits in the process.
Pangu will eventually come in two flavors—a Windows version and a Mac version—however, the Mac version is still in development. Inside, we'll show you how to jailbreak iOS 7.1.x on your device using Pangu for Windows.
Step 3: Run Pangu_v1.0.exe on your Windows machine. If you see weird characters, it may be due to Windows not displaying the Chinese character-set correctly. Simply follow along in our video above to see what we mean.
Step 4: Make sure the checkbox is unchecked, and click the Start Jailbreak button.
Congratulations. You now have an untethered jailbreak on iOS 7.1.x. Pangu should automatically set your date setting in Settings > General > Date & Time back to Set Automatically.
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EU Defies Trump on Iran Deal and Trade
Europe stays in the Iran deal and conditions trade talks on a permanent exemption from tariffs.
Nick Ottens May 17, 2018 July 31, 2020
French president Emmanuel Macron, Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras and German chancellor Angela Merkel speak at a NATO summit in Brussels, May 25, 2017 (NATO)
EU leaders have closed ranks against the unilateralism of American president Donald Trump, announcing on the eve of a summit in Bulgaria that:
They will stay in the Iran nuclear deal so long as Iran abides by its terms. That means European companies will — for now — be able to continue doing business with Iran.
They are willing to start trade negotiations provided the United States exempt the EU from aluminum and steel tariffs.
Both decisions set Europe on a collision course with its ally.
Trump has withdrawn from the Iran deal and threatened sanctions against businesses, American or not, that remain active in the country.
His administration insists that permanent exemptions from tariffs depend on the EU addressing "unfair" barriers to American exports.
Such barriers, which include the EU's protectionist agricultural policy, could have been addressed under the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership — except Trump has withdrawn the United States from that agreement too.
Read more: Europe, Trade, Transatlantic Relations


Elle is Temple Beauty's Aesthetic Practitioner and has been developing in this industry since the age of 16. Elle specializes in improving the cosmetic appearance naturally, through various skills and techniques using non surgical treatments, this can include anything from scaring, aging, lack of collagen, unwanted hair, skin discoloration, to the removal of thread veins, moles or skin tags.
Elle is extremely passionate about her job which shines through into her treatments earning her 5 star customer reviews.
Nikita has been in the industry since she has left college. Nikita is a fully qualified Beauty Therapist and Aesthetic Practitioner. Nikita enjoys many aspects of her career especially bringing joy and confidence to her clients. Nikita is a very positive, kind and caring therapist and is passionate about exceeding her clients expectations. Nikita is a specialist in various different laser treatments such as Laser Tattoo Removal, Laser Hair Removal, IPL Advanced Laser Skin treatments and is a qualified Laser Safety Officer. She also specializes in advanced skin treatments such as AlumierMD.
Kylie has been working in beauty for 11 years gaining knowledge, skills and experience that have established her reputation and credibility amount her clients as one of the most sought after beauty therapists in St Albans. After leaving college, Kylie was recruited and worked along side the owner of Healing Hands for 11 years as a fully qualified beauty therapist during which time, Kylie gained beauty diploma's NVQ level 2 & 3 with honors! Throughout her time working in beauty, Kylie has continued to develop her passion for learning new valuable skills and experience in specialist treatments such as Dermalogcia, Medik8, HL peel, glotherapeutics, advanced electrolysis, dermal rollers, mesotherapy, laser hair removal (all laser services) guinot, skin ceucticals and much more. Kylie has a very positive, energetic and caring spirit and wants to make everybody feel good about themselves. Clients often refer to Kylie as a 'counsellor' as she loves to help others feel less stressed and of course she is a very good listener!
Kylie aims to provide the best results she can achieve for her clients and always aims to exceed her client's expectations to ensure they leave the salon happy. Kylie's mantra is "have courage & be kind".
Mr Carstea is a specialist in Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) surgery. He has gained significant experience through his work at Bedford Hospital, Luton and Dunstable Hospital, Lister Hospital and The Institute of Phono-Audiology and Functional ENT Surgery in Bucharest, Romania.
Before medical school he graduated from one of the three Military boarding schools in the country, the National Military College 'Dimitrie Cantemir' Breaza, Romania. There he won prizes in the National Olympiad of Biology three years in a row including his 2001 title of '1st place in National Olympiad of Biology'.
Mr Carstea then went on to study Military Medicine in one of the most prestigious medical universities in the country, 'Carol Davila' University of Medicine and Pharmacy – Bucharest, Romania. Now Mr Carstea currently works in Bedford and Luton and Dunstable Hospital.
His meticulous work ethic and attention to detail delivers a high standard to all his clients.
Mr Orhan Eskici, MD FRCS, is a specialist in Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) surgery.
He has qualified as MD from the Erasmus Medical University, Rotterdam/Holland and past his surgical exam (FRCS) in Edinburgh.
He has 15 years surgical experience and over the last years focussed around the Head and Neck region.
Trained and gained experience in several hospitals: Newcastle Freeman Hospital, Basildon & Thurrock Hospital, Wexham Park Hospital, Milton Keynes/Northampton General Hospital.
He has a deep core knowledge of the anatomy of the Face, Head and Neck region.
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Imagine looking back to the beginnings of our universe. Thirteen and a half billion years ago, to be more precise. That's exactly what astronomers will do when the James Webb Space Telescope launches in 2021.
It's "a giant leap for mankind" and towards a better understanding of how our universe and our home, planet Earth, began. More powerful than anything before it, this new astro-telescope will be retiring the incredible Hubble. The James Webb will allow us to study every phase of cosmic history: from those first glimmers of light to the formation of galaxies, stars, planets, and our very own solar system. It's a monumental endeavor and DuPont is playing a critical role.
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Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967
by Sidney Fine
Michigan State University Press, 2007
Paper: 978-0-87013-815-7 | eISBN: 978-1-60917-029-5
Library of Congress Classification F574.D49N4394 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 977.43400496073
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On July 23, 1967, the Detroit police raided a blind pig (after-hours drinking establishment), touching off the most destructive urban riot of the 1960s. It took the U.S. Army, the Michigan National Guard, the Michigan State Police, and the Detroit police department—17,000 men—more than a week to restore order. When all was done, the riot had claimed 43 lives (mostly Black) and resulted in nearly 700 injuries. Over 7,000 individuals were arrested, with property damage estimates over $75 million. Yet, Detroit had been lauded nationally as a "model city" in the governance of a large industrial metropolis. On the 40th anniversary of this nation-changing event, we are pleased to reissue Sidney Fine's seminal work—a detailed study of what happened, why, and with what consequences.
Sidney Fine is an award-winning Emeritus Professor of History at University of Michigan. He has received three honorary degrees; was named the state's Professor of the Year in 1986; was named an International Man of the Year for 2000–01 by the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England.
"Phooie on Louie"
The Model City
The "Divided City"
Detroit 's War on Poverty
"The Single Most Important Problem": Police-Community Relations
"The Riot That Didn 't Happen"
"A Little Trouble on Twelfth Street": July 23, 1967
"They Have Lost All Control in Detroit": July 24, 1967
"Law and Order Have Been Restored to Detroit": July 25–August 2, 1967
Rioters and Judges
"A Night of Horror and Murder"
"The Worst Civil Disorder"
"A Rough Community Division of Labor"
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Rioters, Counterrioters, and the Noninvolved
XV.
The Meaning of Violence
XVI.
The Polarized Community
XVII.
The Law Enforcement Response
XVIII.
The Ameliorative Response
XIX.
"God Help Our City"
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Our final full day in Boston was May 8th, and it sure was a delicious one. This post is basically all about food, so if you are hungry… you have been warned. We spent the entire morning on the North End Market Tour by Michele Topor, and it was one of the best parts of our entire trip. We got to learn all about Italian cuisine, cooking, and using authentic ingredients. You get to visit all different kinds of shops and taste various ingredients, while also having an expert foodie tour guide that knows all about not just cooking but the history of Italy and its food and wine culture as well.
Being Italian, this tour was extremely interesting and I learned a lot of new tips and history about cooking and Italy. As long as you have an interest in Italian food I think anyone will highly enjoy this tour, and it is one that I would definitely recommend if you are ever in Boston. Since the tour travels in a big group there is not much time to make any purchases in the shops that are visited, but my family returned to many of the shops after the tour. I will highlight some of my favorites of the different places we visited.
Our first stop was Maria's Pastry Shop. You have to have dessert first, right? We got to taste many delicious homemade sweets here, and this is also one of the places we returned to afterwards. One of my favorites was the freshly made crispelle that you can see in the picture below. It is an egg-dough pastry filled with honey and nuts. They also have "Boston's Best Cannoli," which they fill to order, and many more tasty homemade treats!
Next stop was… drumroll please… The Pasta Shoppe!!!! This day sure was starting off right. First dessert, now pasta?! We learned about finding authentic olive oil and balsamic vinegar and their correct uses. They had tons of different homemade pastas and various Italian meats. They even sold Sopressata, which my family makes homemade. And of course there was plenty of tasting! We returned back here to pick up some pasta, which I am planning on cooking next week!
One final stop I would like to highlight is Polcari's Coffee, a family owned business that has been around since 1932. They are a grocery store that supplies numerous authentic ingredients, beans, spices, and much more, many of which you cannot find anywhere else in the area. Once again, we made sure to stop back here to pick up a few items.. one of them being some licorice sticks! Yes, they are actually sticks. They are taken from the licorice plant and the flavor is extracted from these sticks to create the popular licorice candy most people are familiar with.
After being surrounded by and talking about food all morning, we headed to lunch at Quattro, a new North End restaurant that just opened in March. More amazing food of course!
After more walking and a short rest after lunch, we decided to have dinner at Trattoria di Monica. Being our last meal while in Boston we discovered it really is nearly impossible to find bad food in the North End. Just about everywhere you go will have great, fresh food.
To work off our dinner we went down to the harbor and walked along the water. It was a beautiful night with beautiful scenery, and to top it all off we ended the night with some gelato and then prepared for our flight the next morning.
Overall, going to Boston was a great trip and definitely someplace I would love to return to. I would mainly like to return to try all the restaurants we were not able to eat at during our short time there! If you will now be eating something after this very foodie-style post, buona appetito!


Artists from all over the world came to spread their music and their style on our Mountains. Born from the collaboration with Marco's Pub, famous pub in Livigno specialized in live music, Vibes in Line is a series of incredible acoustic performances executed in the "eagles" of Carosello 3000.
Born in Milan and moved later on in Russia with his family. At 6 years old he came back to Italy and he started attending the conservatory studying violin. At the age of 12 he moved again in Kuwait, where he started playing guitar by himself and learning the trumpet at the American school.
At 18 years old he started wandering on the streets playing his guitar, initially in the USA and later in Europe.
From 2013 he established in Livigno for the winter season, while during the summer he continues to bring his music on the streets of the european cities with his trusted camper "Mela".
Born in Denver and grew up in Salt Lake City (USA). Since he was a kid he was an outsider passionate in punk rock. He started playing at 12, and until 19 years old he played in various bands. After that he bought a van, he started travelling and he never looked back. Since then he's travelling around the world with his guitar.
Vibes in Line is a video series inspired by the youtube channel Gondola Session. The images of this video are owned by Panino Sgrò.


Shot-stopper puts pen to paper ahead of the new Football League season.
We are delighted to have captured the signature of highly-rated young goalkeeper Sascha Studer, subject to international clearance.
The 22-year-old, who was previously with FC Aarau and most recently Winterthur in Switzerland, joins us on a free transfer following a successful trial at the club.
Studer was between the sticks – and kept a clean-sheet – in our clash with Leeds United at One Call Stadium earlier this week – a match where we earned victory courtesy of two goals by debutant Liam Hearn.
Despite his tender years, Studer is the holder of a notable record in the Swiss Super League as he kept goal for FC Aarau in a match with Sion back in April 2007, aged just 15 years, 6 months and 18 days, which makes him the youngest player ever to start a game in the Swiss First Division.
The talented custodian, who stands at a towering 6ft 3in, has also enjoyed loan spells with Swiss clubs Concordia BS, Wohlen as well as a loan stint in Germany at SV Babelsberg. He has made over 50 first team appearances to date, including over 30 in the Swiss top flight, and has represented Switzerland Under 17s on four occasions.
Speaking to www.mansfieldtown.net: "I am so excited about this opportunity. I decided last year that I wanted to pursue a career in England, and now that it is finally happening I could not be happier.
"The Leeds game was an amazing experience for me, and the fans were brilliant and got behind me. The manager, staff and players here at Mansfield are great and I can't wait for the League to begin. Everybody has made me so welcome."


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Our main priority is to help you create the kitchen you've always wanted, using our extensive knowledge and skills. We are dedicated to providing you with quality craftsmanship. If you ever wish to sell your home in the future, a kitchen remodel is an excellent investment. Don't hesitate to contact us today at (202) 333-3422 (Washington DC office) or (703) 288-3090 (Northern Virgnia office) to discuss your kitchen remodeling options!


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US central bank to study Facebook virtual currency
The US Federal Reserve has created a "working group" that is coordinating with government agencies and other central banks to consider the implications of Facebook's planned virtual currency Libra, chairperson Jerome Powell said on Wednesday.
At a hearing at the US House Financial Services Committee, Powell told lawmakers that the cryptocurrency plan raises "serious" questions.
"Let me start by saying that we do support responsible innovation in the financial services industry as long as the associated risks are appropriately identified and managed," he told the panel.
"While the project's sponsors hold out the possibility of public benefits, Libra raises serious concerns regarding privacy."
Powell said the Fed was "coordinating with our colleagues in the government in the United States" and "with central banks and governments around the world."
The central bank chief said the review "should be a patient and careful one and not a sprint to implementation."
Last month Powell indicated that the Fed would carefully study the Facebook plan to create a global virtual currency which aims to lower transaction costs and bring more services to people without access to the banking system.
The Libra coin plan, backed by financial and nonprofit partners, represents an ambitious new initiative for the world's biggest social network with the potential to bring crypto-money out of the shadows and into the mainstream.
But the plan has already prompted calls in Europe for close regulatory scrutiny and several US lawmakers have said they need more information from Facebook.