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A film review

    This is a well-researched, fact-based drama about Hellboy, the man who is a supernatural superhero, starring Ron Perlman and directed by Guillermo del Toro. The film is based on the Dark Horse Comics work Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola.In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before a demon - Hellboy - has already been conjured. Joining the Allied forces, Hellboy eventually grows to adulthood, serving the cause of good rather than evil.

     The challenge for the director is to present the big red hunk as a believable part of the real world, and here del Toro goes against the prevailing wisdom (cf: Hulk) that such characters can be realised only with CGI. Though perspective tricks are used to make the full-grown Hellboy tower over regular humans, he is almost entirely a physical presence -first found in a lair surrounded by pussycats and food, with the rasping sound of Tom Waits' 'Heart Attack and Vine' mixed in as a character touchstone.
       But the best thing about the film is that it successfully challenges. Hellboy is superb in the several action scenes, and we get as many locations for skirmishes as levels in a videogame: a museum of antiquities, a funfair at Halloween, the New York subway and an impressive world of traps and dungeons under Rasputin's supposed tomb outside Moscow. But it's to Perlman's credit that Hellboy works as well in the wry comedy moments and the temptation sequence when his horns regrow (with a flaming crown floating between them) and he has a vision of the position he might hold as a master of a ravaged world.
    What’s missing, however, is that Del Toro isn't always attentive to coherent transitions while warp-speeding through his storyline. Worse, he occasionally neglects to prepare uninitiated auds with context from the comic books.

        The film ends with a good win over evil. Hellboy does not return to the dark side.


Describe the following people contributed to the film





Film producer: Lawrence Gordon

    Hellboy was one of rare movies. It was not only based on a comic book, but also felt like a comic book. It was vibrating with energy, and the viewers could sense the zeal and joined in its making. It was also constructed of nonstop special effects and fantastic makeup.





Film director: Guillermo del Toro

       He prefessed that fall in love with freaks. He used to make Blade II film that made from a comic book and the viewers loved the film a lot.  HellboyI was adapted from several Hellboy books such as Seed of Destruction and The Corps. Many of contents were changed. For example, Hellboy's status was secret. It wasn't revealed in the book, and Liz Sherman was a teammate of Hellboy.




Director photographer: Guillermo Navarro

       By the size of the LCD it would appear as though was a D1 series. There was no white balance sensor on the pentaprizm so it definitely wasn’t a D2H. Also, the photo was taking pictures of a crime scene in a really dark room with no flash.



Sound director: Marco Beltrami

      Hellboy soundtrack collaborated on both Mimic and Blade II, with conjuring music that immersed itself in the mood of each film, instead of simply grafting on orchestral boilerplate. He seemed to understand that he was scoring not just Del Toro's film, but the collective conceptions of a thriving comic book.


Basic information about the film




        A demon, raised from infancy after being conjured by and rescued from the Nazis, grows up to become a defender against the forces of darkness.


Director:                    Guillermo del Toro
Produced by
:            Lawrence Gordon         
Screenplay by:         Guillermo del Toro 

Based on:                   Hellboy by MikeMignola

Genres:                       Action, Adventure,Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Narrated by:             John Hurt Rupert Evans
Music by:                    Marco Beltrami
Cinematography:    Guillermo Navarro
Editing by:                    Peter Amundson                                
Star:

                                      
                                     
 Ron Perlman                         Selma Blair                         Rupert Evans   
                    
     Hellboy                                           Liz Sherman                                    John Mayan  



                                     



  John Hurt                         Jeffrey Tambor                   Karel Roden
  Broom                                Tom Manning                  Grigori Rasputi


DETAILS

Official Sites:

  • Columbia Trister (France) , Hellboy.com-highlights, news, updates

Country:

  • USA

Language:

  •  English , Russian (only a few words)

Release Date:

  • 22 April 2004 (Thailand) 

Also Known As:

  • Super Sapiens 

Filming Locations:

  •  Barrandov Studios, Prague, Czech Republic

Budget:

  • $66,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

  • $23,172,440 (USA) (4 April 2004) (3028 Screens)

Gross:

  • $99,414,250 (Worldwide)

Company Credits

Production Co:

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Technical Specs

Runtime:

  • 122 min| 132 min (director's cut)

Sound Mix:

Aspect Ratio:   1.85 : 1