Year: 2011 Runtime: 106 mins Disc Size: 42.68 GB (45827301048.32 byte) Language: Multi Country: USA All Genres: Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller Director: George Nolfi Writing By: George Nolfi Philip K. Dick Produced By: Michael Bederman Bill Carraro Isa Dick Hackett Jonathan Gordon Michael Hackett Eric Kripke Chris Moore George Nolfi Joel Viertel Music: Thomas Newman

In early drafts, the character Norris was changed from a real estate salesman, as in the short story, to an up-and-coming politician. Media Rights Capital funded the film and then auctioned it to distributors, with Universal Studios putting in the winning bid for $62 million. Variety reported Damon's involvement on February 24, 2009, and Blunt's on July 14, 2009. The film was released on March 4, 2011.

Nolfi worked with John Toll as his cinematographer. Shots were planned in advance with storyboards but changed often during shooting to fit the conditions of the day. The visual plan for the film was to keep the camerawork smooth using a dolly or crane and have controlled formal shots when the Adjustment Bureau was in full control, with things becoming more loose and using hand-held cameras when the story becomes less controlled. The final scene (on the rooftop) was filmed four months after the rest of the film had completed shooting and has a different ending than the original.

ITA Il film si basa su un breve racconto di Philip K. Dick intitolato Squadra riparazioni (Adjustment Team), pubblicato per la prima volta sulla rivista Orbit Science Fiction e successivamente incluso in diverse raccolte (pubblicate in Italia da Fanucci Editore).

Lo script del film è stato scritto da George Nolfi, già autore di diversi blockbuster, che con questo film debutta alla regia. Nel febbraio del 2009 la rivista Variety riporta che Matt Damon è stato ingaggiato per il ruolo da protagonista, nel luglio dello stesso anno viene annunciato che Emily Blunt sarà la sua partner sul set. Le riprese sono incominciate a metà settembre 2009, e sono avvenute prevalentemente a New York (la pellicola è ambientata a Manhattan).

CAST

Matt Damon as David Norris Emily Blunt as Elise Sellas Anthony Mackie as Harry Mitchell John Slattery as Richardson Anthony Ruivivar as McCrady Michael Kelly as Charlie Traynor Terence Stamp as Thompson Jon Stewart as himself

NOTE

The Adjustment Bureau is a 2011 American film loosely based on the Philip K. Dick short story, "Adjustment Team". A romantic thriller, the film was written and directed by George Nolfi and stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. The cast also includes Anthony Mackie, John Slattery, Michael Kelly, and Terence Stamp. The score was composed by Thomas Newman, with two songs by Richard Ashcroft ("Future's Bright" for the opening sequence; "Are You Ready?" for the closing credits).

ITA I guardiani del destino (The Adjustment Bureau) è un film del 2011 scritto e diretto da George Nolfi, basato su un breve racconto del 1954 di Philip K. Dick, Squadra riparazioni (Adjustment Team).

PLOT

In 2006, New York Congressman David Norris runs a promising but ultimately unsuccessful campaign for United States Senate. While rehearsing his concession speech in a hotel bathroom, Norris meets a woman hiding in a stall. The two share a surprisingly enjoyable conversation, ultimately leading to a kiss. Inspired, David goes off his prepared script and delivers a candid speech which is extremely well-received, making him an early favorite for the 2010 Senate race.

One month later, Norris is privately employed and preparing to run for Senate in 2010. At a park near David's house, Harry Mitchell receives an assignment from his boss: Ensure Norris spills his coffee by 7:05 AM; shortly thereafter Mitchell falls asleep while waiting and misses David, who boards a bus. On the bus David encounters Elise, the woman from the bathroom, who gives him her phone number. When Norris arrives at work, he finds his coworkers immobile and his boss (and campaign manager), Charlie Traynor, is being examined by unfamiliar men in suits. David attempts to run and the men give chase. Eventually, David is incapacitated and taken to a warehouse to meet Richardson and his men.

Richardson explains he and his men are from the Adjustment Bureau. Sometimes called angels, the job of the Bureau's "caseworkers" is to ensure people's lives proceed as determined by "the plan", a complex document Richardson attributes to "the Chairman." Charlie is fine and will not remember his adjustment, and Norris is warned that, if he talks about the Bureau, he will be "reset"—effectively lobotomized.

Finally, Richardson tells David he is not meant to meet Elise again, burns her phone number, and tells David to forget her.

For the next three years, David takes the same bus every day, hoping to see Elise. He encounters her one day and they reconnect. The Bureau tries to stop him from building his relationship with her, causing their schedules to separate them. David races across town, fighting the Bureau's abilities to "control his choices" to ensure he will meet Elise again. During the chase, The Bureau uses doors to travel, opening inconspicuous doors that lead to another location blocks away.

Richardson discovers that David and Elise "were meant to be together in an earlier version of the plan", and Harry speculates on whether or not the plan is always correct. David and Elise spend an evening at a party, connecting when David tells her he became a politician after the loss of his mother and brother. They spend the night together, expressing their bond the next morning.

The Bureau has Thompson ("The Hammer" ) take authority regarding David's adjustment. He takes David to a warehouse, where David argues he has the right to choose his own path. Thompson says that they gave humanity free will after the height of the Roman Empire, but humanity caused the Dark Ages. The Bureau took control again and created the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. When free will was returned around 1910 it resulted in two world wars and the near destruction of the planet with a nuclear conflict. Thompson releases him, and he runs to Elise's performance at her dance studio. Thompson follows, and tells him that if he stays with Elise, he will ruin his political future as President of the United States and also ruin Elise's future as a world-famous dancer and choreographer; with David, Elise will be limited to teaching dance to children. To make a point, he uses his adjustment power to cause Elise to fall and sprain her ankle. Overwhelmed with his future in jeopardy and faced with hurting Elise's future, David abandons her at the hospital.

Eleven months later, David runs for election again and sees an announcement of Elise's imminent wedding. Harry, feeling guilty for earlier events, contacts David via secret meetings in the rain and near water. David learns from Harry that the Bureau's weakness is water, allowing them to meet without the Bureau finding out. Harry reveals that Thompson exaggerated the consequences of David and Elise's possible relationship, and teaches David to use the doors so he may stop Elise's wedding. He gives David his hat, empowering David to use the doors. David finds Elise in the bathroom of the courthouse where she is to be wed. Initially furious and hurt after his earlier desertion, Elise is shocked when David reveals the Bureau's existence to her, and shows her how he travels through doors. They are chased across New York. When David and Elise find themselves on the base of the Statue of Liberty, David decides to find the Chairman. Elise vacillates, and follows David.

David and Elise make their way through Bureau headquarters, trying to find the Chairman so they can convince him to change the plan. Finally they are trapped on a rooftop above New York, with Bureau members closing in. They declare their love for each other, embrace into a passionate kiss, and await being reset. When they release each other, the Bureau members have disappeared. Thompson appears, but is relieved of duty by Harry, who bears a new, revised plan from the Chairman for David and Elise: a plan page; one half which shows where their paths were, heading side-by-side into a blank page starting just past their new current moment. Harry, after commending both of them for showing such devotion to each other, takes his hat back and tells David and Elise they are free to go. The film concludes with a voice-over from Harry, speculating that the Chairman's plan may be simply to get humanity to a point where they can write their own plan for themselves.

ITA David Norris, brillante ex alunno e già giocatore di basket della Fordham University, è un membro del congresso a cui si prospetta una brillante carriera politica. Dopo aver incontrato una bella ballerina di nome Elise Sellas, scopre che strane circostanze impediscono il loro rapporto. Norris scopre che alcune potenti e misteriose figure, chiamati "guardiani", tramano per tenerlo separato da Elise, decide quindi di scoprirne il motivo.

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