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The Fountain (2006)

Drama, Mystery, Romance |

The Fountain is a American epic romantic drama film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. Blending elements of fantasy, history, spirituality and science fiction, the film consists of three storylines involving immortality and the resulting loves lost, and one man’s pursuit of avoiding this fate in this life or beyond it. Jackman and Weisz play sets of characters bonded by love across time and space: a conquistador and his ill-fated queen, a modern-day scientist and his cancer-stricken wife, and a traveler immersed in a universal journey alongside aspects of his lost love. The storylines—interwoven with use of match cuts and recurring visual motifs—reflect the themes and interplay of love and mortality.

Aronofsky originally planned to direct The Fountain on a $70 million budget with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in the lead roles, but Pitt’s withdrawal and cost overruns led Warner Bros. to shut down his production. The director rewrote the script to be sparser, and was able to resurrect the film with a $35 million budget with Jackman and Weisz in the lead roles. Production mainly took place on a sound stage in Montreal, Quebec, and the director used macro photography to create key visual effects for The Fountain at a low cost.

Conquistador Tomás Verde in New Spain fights a band of Mayans to gain entry into a pyramid, where he is attacked by a Mayan priest. The story intercuts to a similar looking man, tending a tall tree in a glass dome biosphere travelling through space, annoyed by a woman called Izzi. Finally, a third iteration, present-day doctor Tom Creo, is losing his wife Izzi to a brain tumor. Tom is working on a cure using samples from a tree found through exploration in Guatemala, which are being tested for medicinal use for degenerative brain diseases in his lab. Izzi has come to terms with her mortality, but Tom refuses to accept it, focused on his quest to find a cure for her. She writes a story called “The Fountain” about Queen Isabella losing her kingdom to the Inquisition and a commission given by her to Tomás Verde to search for the Tree of Life in the Central American forest in Mayan territory. As she does not expect to finish her book, Izzi asks Tom to finish it for her.

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Writers: Darren Aronofsky (screenplay & story), Ari Handel (story)

Stars: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Sean Patrick Thomas, Ellen Burstyn, Cliff Curtis, Donna Murphy, Mark Margolis

Cast:

Hugh JackmanTomas / Tommy / Tom Creo
Rachel WeiszIsabel Creo
Ellen BurstynDr. Lillian Guzetti
Mark MargolisFather Avila
Stephen McHattieGrand Inquisitor Silecio
Fernando HernandezLord of Xibalba
Cliff CurtisCaptain Ariel
Sean Patrick ThomasAntonio
Donna MurphyBetty
Ethan SupleeManny
Richard McMillanHenry
Lorne BrassDr. Alan Lipper
Abraham AronofskyLab Technician
Renee AsofskyLab Technician
Anish MajumdarDr. Spencer
Janique KearnsYoung Nurse
Boyd BanksDominican Monk
Alex BispingFoot Soldier Del Toro (as Alexander Bisping)
Kevin KelsallFoot Soldier Rivera
Patrick VandalFoot Soldier Galleano
Marcello BezinaFoot Soldier Borjes
Hugo Salvador Gutierrez AguilarMayan Warrior
Eric Carmelo Valenzuela BatzMayan Warrior
Elfego Vinicio Pena CastellanosMayan Warrior
Jose Maria Tol ChanMayan Warrior
Jose Panjoj CortezMayan Warrior
Juan Salvador LaresMayan Warrior
Jose Alfredo Conoz MacarioMayan Warrior
Tomas Tol NixMayan Warrior
Luis Alfredo Yac NojMayan Warrior
Mateo Martin PerezMayan Warrior
Edson Vasquez PixabajMayan Warrior
Marvin Leonardo Raxtun RaxtunMayan Warrior
Tomas Morales SacquicMayan Warrior
Santos Ajic SaponMayan Warrior
Xaijil SicajanMayan Warrior
Manuel Antonio Salvador TolMayan Warrior
Tomas Salvador TolMayan Warrior
Tomas Augustin Canil VenturaMayan Warrior
Carlos Enrique Ramos XalcutMayan Warrior
Octavio Guadelupe Zabala XitamulMayan Warrior

Sources: imdb & wikipedia

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