{"id":33184,"date":"2023-06-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33184"},"modified":"2023-06-28T08:18:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T12:18:45","slug":"elysium-2013-written-directed-by-neill-blomkamp-starring-matt-damon-jodie-foster-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33184","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Elysium&#8221; (2013) written\/directed by Neill Blomkamp, starring Matt Damon &#038; Jodie Foster \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z062823zview_elysium.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Elysium <\/em><\/strong>(2013)<\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Neill Blomkamp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Neill Blomkamp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, Diego Luna, William Fichtner, Faran Tahir <\/strong>and <strong>Adrian Holmes<\/strong><strong>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Rebel Against.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The year is 2154.\u00a0 The Earth&#8217;s rich have moved to a giant orbiting space station named Elysium.\u00a0 There things are great.\u00a0 The air is fresh, they have the best food, even parks with trees and grass.\u00a0 The advances in medical technology make it possible to cure most disease on Elysium.\u00a0 On Earth it is a different story.\u00a0 The population lives in poverty.\u00a0 The air is tainted, the food bad.\u00a0 A job, if you&#8217;re lucky to get one, pays poorly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Max Da Costa (Damon) is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation while at work, he is told he has five days to live and then fired.\u00a0 Da Costa, with nothing to lose, joins a rebel group planning a coup on the Elysium government,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I liked <em>Elysium<\/em>.\u00a0 It is filled with a cast of great actors.\u00a0 Matt Damon, the always-amazing Jodie Foster and William Fichtner are standouts.\u00a0 The story isn&#8217;t bad, but perhaps writer\/director Neill Blomkamp hit the nail on the head when he said,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I feel like I executed all of the stuff that could be executed, like costume and set design and special effects very well. But, ultimately, it was all resting on a somewhat not totally formed skeletal system, so the script just wasn&#8217;t there; the story wasn&#8217;t fully there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If <em>Elysium<\/em> sounds like something you&#8217;d like, you probably will.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not a bad way to spend a little less than two hours.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z062823zview_elysium2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elysium (2013) Director: Neill Blomkamp Screenplay: Neill Blomkamp Stars: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, Diego Luna, William<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33196,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33184\/revisions\/33196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}