Samuels hissy fit_英文原版

 
the studio tried to change its name but there was no way the star of snakes on a plane was going to let that happen.

the studio tried to change its name, but no way was the star of snakes on a plane going to let that happen.

an early prediction regarding next year's oscars: the likelihood of snakes on a plane being nominated for best picture is even more remote than a person's chances of surviving a close encounter with a crate of deadly snakes while trapped in a confined space.

which is pretty much the plot of what's quickly become one of the year's most talked about films.
having exhausted almost every evil-assassin-prepares-to-strike scenario in the book, snakes' scriptwriters dreamt up a new way for their villain to dispatch his target - in this instance, sean jones (nathan phillips), a witness in protective custody.

fortunately for sean, he's under the watchful eye of fbi agent nelville flynn (samuel l. jackson) as he makes his way to los angeles to testify at a gangster's trial.

yet not even the coolly heroic jackson could have anticipated the hundreds of venomous reptiles nestled in the cargo hold, waiting to be released into the cabin once the plane is airborne.

as jackson's character later observes, it's not exactly a security scenario covered in the fbi handbook.

the refusal - both in the us and australia - to screen media previews of the film prior to its us release last week only confirmed the suspicion snakes on a plane is pure b-grade schlock.

yet that's been the filmmakers' intention from the very beginning, and one leading man jackson proudly wears as a badge of honour.

"i find myself a lot of times reading scripts and remembering a particular movie that i saw when i was a kid that it reminds me of, and i go, oh wow, i need to do something like this, because i remember how much fun i had going to see it," jackson says.

"i just want to be in something that's entertaining and fun and great for somebody's saturday afternoon escapism."

one of the factors that initially prompted jackson to sign on to the film was the spell-it-out title, so he reacted fiercely when the studio later toyed with the name pacific air 121.

"it should've been called snakes on a plane from the beginning - i mean that's the honest to god reason that i took the job," he says.

"it's like, i know what we're getting here. "and they were going, well, we don't want to give too much away." just as he does on screen, jackson prevailed and is clearly revelling in his victory over the studio's spin doctors.

reinstating the film's original title is but one of many ways in which jackson - and a horde of outspoken movie buffs - controlled the direction of snakes on a plane.

indeed online chatter about the project became so intense production was resumed after filming had wrapped to reshoot certain scenes in line with fans' demands. the snakes got sneakier, the deaths got bloodier, the passengers got raunchier and the language got bluer.

having taken the public's advice on board, so to speak, the revised snakes was deemed so grisly it was slapped with an r rating in america (it's rated m in australia). all of which is "very cool", according to jackson, who was permitted to drop the occasional four-letter word in the updated version.

"there were things that i wanted to do, but knowing we were shooting a pg film, couldn't do. and things i wanted to say that i ended up saying because we went back to shoot them. and no matter how much hell i raised or whatever, it wouldn't have happened unless you guys (fans) got on the bandwagon and helped me do that."

so could people power be the next big thing in movies? while the word-of-mouth campaign certainly has people talking, snakes performed below expectations at the us box office last weekend, despite slithering into top position.

jackson predicts fans will become increasingly proactive in influencing what appears on the big screen.

"and eventually somebody or some kid will be smart enough to say, 'ok, here's my idea for this movie, write a scene' and people will start writing scenes for the movie. and people will have a great kind of audience script that's created from that and they'll say, 'ok, now that we have the script, who do you want to see in it?' and they'll start to do that." 

snakes on a plane opens this week