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How quaint, to imagine fan outrage in the days before social media! For the moment, stuff the subtext: The Kobayashi Maru is a scene about the Enterprise crew — highly-skilled space-naval pioneer coworkers — putting on a show. Khan fools Kirk with a performance, and Kirk fools Khan with three performances.
He quotes directly Moby Dick: How did they live, in such conditions? Imagine them, in year 12, edging further into despair. Imagine Khan inspiring them — performing Paradise Lost from memory, or assigning everyone parts in King Lear. Wrath of Khan is, not coincidentally, the best showcase for William Shatner as a performer and not just for William Shatner as William Shatner.
You remember Shatner in The Motion Picture — bored, stolid, his gestures grandly wooden? Set aside for a fact that, in that brief shot, Shatner exudes more emotions than in the entirety of Motion Picture.
Focus on his final facial gesture. Depressing BritLit, eyeglasses, contraband liquor built for extraterrestrial taste buds. You could study Wrath of Khan as a portrait of different performing styles. Consider William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, and a central paradox of their chemistry. Spock is the alien — a being who strives to rid himself of all emotion — but past a certain point, you notice how Nimoy is a much more natural performer, communicating so much with droll phrasing lilts and micro-gestures.
Khan is Shatner at his most wide-eyed. As a young actor, Nimoy learned the Method and idolized Brando; Shatner came up performing energetic Shakespeare. You may meet more people in your life who remind you of reserved, thoughtful Spock than boisterous, declamatory Kirk; some people think we elected Spock president in You can see this dissonance vividly — and you can see how director Nicholas Meyer keyed into the dissonance — in one of the greatest single shots in big-screen Trek. Khan has powered up the Genesis Device to explode. The Enterprise is weakened, its radioactive core leaking or something.
The camera frames Kirk alongside his son David — and you can feel how they are united , without any real epiphany or overwritten story point —but then it moves onto Spock. He turns from his control panel, and he thinks, and he realizes something, and he walks past David out the door.
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Only later will we understand: This is the moment when Spock decides to sacrifice himself for his friends. The consideration of all possibilities, the tilting-head moment of resignation. Does he think about telling Kirk? Does he realize that Kirk is too weak to let him go? But Meyer has a lovely strategy for shooting them, together yet separated. Meyer shoots the scene in a single take but with multiple levels. Notice, too, how Meyer frames Kirk and Spock in the final battle scene.
So near, yet so far away. Compare the Kirk-Spock dynamic to Kirk-Khan. The two characters famously never physically interact, and some scholars consider Wrath of Khan one of the great submarine movies, with two great captains holding court on their bridges. If, for some curious and profoundly unknowable reason, a filmmaker tried to make Wrath of Khan today, that filmmaker might consider this separation of protagonist and antagonist a problem to be fixed — might film lots of scenes with Kirk and Khan together, talking about their motivations, or just punching each other.
In earlier Wrath of Khan drafts, Kirk and Khan had a sword fight. And you could argue that Kirk defeats Khan with performance.
When Khan cripples the Enterprise , Kirk buys time with a bit of acting. Later, when he needs Khan to chase his ship into a nebula — something Khan has no strategic reason to do — Kirk torments Khan with a message.
Consider the single most famous moment of The Wrath of Khan. Kirk is screaming in retort. Khan has just doomed him we think to imprisonment in the core of a dead planet. Kirk needs to convince Khan that he has won. This is beyond Slash Fiction; this is pure ecstasy. Khan is a mirror for Kirk, maybe. What they had was long ago. I am not being critical of the actor or his talent, just the casting". One of the points of the movie is that we must be careful about the villain within US , not some other race". In an interview with Buzzfeed two years after the film's release, Abrams addressed some of the film's shortcomings.
And yet, I found myself frustrated by my choices, and unable to hang my hat on an undeniable thread of the main story. So then I found myself on that movie basically tap-dancing as well as I could to try and make the sequences as entertaining as possible Wrath of Khan director reveled in , to have been dissapointed with the film.
He was quoted saying: Star Trek Into Darkness was released as a digital download on August 20, In North America, the release is split into various retailer exclusives. Retailer Best Buy has an exclusive Blu-ray edition with 30 minutes of additional content, [] available on disc in Canada, and via streaming service CinemaNow in the United States. Online retailer iTunes' version comes with audio commentary for the film not available in the retailer exclusives. The split of the special features between various retailers has attracted criticism from fans.
Seriously, if Paramount is going to treat its Blu-ray customers like this, they should just get out of the business altogether. Or better yet, farm all their titles out to third party licensees who will treat these films and Blu-ray customers in general with greater care and respect. He suggested "[putting] together the true special edition that should have been delivered from the start, with all of the extras that got scattered around to different retailers, including the enhanced audio commentary, plus all-new content just for this release The Compendium , a box set that includes all of the previously retailer exclusive special features, plus additional features for such as a gag reel, alongside both the theatrical release of Star Trek and the IMAX 2D version of Star Trek Into Darkness.
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