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Vicenarian Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss. Excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it. John Hodge screenplay , Alex Garland novel.
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Learn more More Like This. Gangs of New York The Great Gatsby The Basketball Diaries Body of Lies What's Eating Gilbert Grape Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Hotel Receptionist Virginie Ledoyen Cleaning Woman Weeratham 'Norman' Wichairaksakui Travel Agent Peter Youngblood Hills Woman with Key Apichart Chusakul Farmer Kaneung 'Nueng' Kenia Edit Storyline Garland's novel centers on a young nicotine-addicted traveler named Richard, an avid pop-culture buff with a particular love for video games and Vietnam War movies.
English French Swedish Thai Serbian. Edit Did You Know? Goofs When Richard, Francoise and Etienne look over to the island judging its distance, the sunlight changes between long shots and close-ups. Quotes [ first lines ] Richard: My name is Richard. The special effects crew digitally added some of the surrounding mountains during the post-production phase. The actual beach was also transformed from its natural look.
Thailand bay made famous by The Beach closed indefinitely
It is reported that crew members flattened the beach with a tractor, much to the locals' dismay. The tsunami of , however, has reshaped the beach to its natural look. Boyle has been cited saying that the look of the jungle scenes in the film was inspired by the Nintendo game Banjo-Kazooie. The map in the film was illustrated by the author of the book that The Beach was based upon, Alex Garland.
He received credit for this as the cartographer.
The Beach is a English-language drama thriller film directed by Danny Boyle and based on the novel of the same name by Alex Garland, which was. The Beach is a novel by English author Alex Garland. Set in Thailand, it is the story of a young backpacker's search for a legendary, idyllic and isolated.
Controversy arose during the making of the film due to 20th Century Fox's bulldozing and landscaping of the natural beach setting of Ko Phi Phi Leh to make it more "paradise-like". The production altered some sand dunes and cleared some coconut trees and grass to widen the beach.
Fox set aside a fund to reconstruct and return the beach to its natural state; however, lawsuits were filed by environmentalists who believed the damage to the ecosystem was permanent and restoration attempts had failed. The lawsuits dragged on for years. In , Thailand's Supreme Court upheld an appellate court ruling that the filming had harmed the environment and ordered that damage assessments be made.
Defendants in the case included 20th Century Fox and some Thai government officials. After the film premiered in Thailand in , some Thai politicians were upset at the way Thailand was depicted in the film and called for it to be banned. The depiction of the drug culture was said to give Thailand a bad image and having a statue of Buddha in a bar was cited as " blasphemous ". Leftfield 's contribution to the soundtrack, "Snakeblood", was found to have sampled Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 's " Almost " without permission, leading to a lawsuit ; band member Neil Barnes said he forgot to remove the sample from the finished track.
The film score was composed by Angelo Badalamenti , and a separate album containing selections of his score was released as well. The website's critical consensus reads, " The Beach is unfocused and muddled, a shallow adaptation of the novel it is based on. Points go to the gorgeous cinematography, though. Critics suggested that DiCaprio's fame post- Titanic might have contributed to the financial success of this film, which came out less than three years after the James Cameron blockbuster.
The majority of the film displays the titanic-sized young heartthrob sans his shirt in this story about the pseudo-angst and alienation of a young man from the United States escaping civilization and his computer-obsessed generation. Director Boyle has spoken negatively of the film, telling a Philadelphia audience in that he realized halfway through filming that he "didn't like any of the characters. The standard DVD release included nine scenes that were deleted from the film, including an alternative opening which to an extent resembles the one in the novel, were later included in a Special Edition DVD release, along with Danny Boyle's commentary on what might have been their purpose.
There is also an alternative ending which depicts Sal committing suicide and everyone loading up on a boat from the raft. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Beach Theatrical release poster.
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