District 9 Page #6

Synopsis: In 1982, a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled alien population, nicknamed "The Prawns," appeared over Johannesburg, South Africa. Twenty-eight years later, the initial welcome by the human population has faded. The refugee camp where the aliens were located has deteriorated into a militarized ghetto called District 9, where they are confined and exploited in squalor. In 2010, the munitions corporation, Multi-National United, is contracted to forcibly evict the population with operative Wikus van der Merwe in charge. In this operation, Wikus is exposed to a strange alien chemical and must rely on the help of his only two new 'Prawn' friends.
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director(s): Neill Blomkamp
Production: Sony Pictures/Screen Gems
  Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 30 wins & 110 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.9
Metacritic:
81
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
R
Year:
2009
112 min
$115,646,235
Website
5,545 Views


I can't wait to see our planet.

It's bigger than this one, isn't it?

Enough.

We go home now?

Not home. No.

This is where we must go.

See that tent there?

That might be ours.

I want to go home!

We can't go home.

Not anymore.

Hi, you don't wanna go to the tents,

they are not better.

They're smaller than the shacks.

Actually, more like

a concentration camp.

If I can get you that black fluid,

what happens then?

We go up to the mothership.

And you can start that thing?

-Yes.

Okay, so just to be clear:

this is gonna go back...

This is gonna go back

to human like this.

I can go home

and then you can go home.

You can take your boy,

you can take all the prawns,

if I can get you that fluid, right?

You said it was a suicide mission.

Maybe you were right.

We have no weapons.

They'll shoot us on sight.

Look, look... Christopher...

I know where we can get weapons.

Hi guys. Hello.

I would like to buy

some weapons, please.

How did you do this like that?

A doggie style with the demon.

I love it!

One brave white man, eh?

Were you wearing a condom?

I need to buy weapons, please.

You and I both know that there

are illegal weapons inside here.

I have money and I would like

to buy some of those...

Thank you sir for your time.

Thank you very much for seeing me.

I would like to buy some weapons.

AK-47, some grenades...

maybe tear gas canisters.

I see you have limpet mines

here aswell, and I..

also see you guys have alien

weapons there, which is great!

If I could have one or two of those.

I have money, okay?

Now, I'm...

Sir! Please, sir!

I've heard about you.

Where do you have it?

Show me!

Oh, sh*t!

Come here. Come.

No, no... don't please!

Why are you doing this?

What do you want?

Shut up!

Forget the weapons!

Forget the weapons!

I want the arm. Cut it off.

What is he saying?

I'll show you.

Holy sh*t!

You tell them to stand down!

You tell them to be quiet!

To back off!

Tell them to put the fokkin'

weapons in the bag!

Give me the fokkin' weapons, man!

Don't you, sir, look at me.

I said don't fokkin' look at me!

How did you get that hand?

Fokkin' hurry up there!

Look at me when I f***in' speak

to you. What is your secret?

What did you do? Tell me!

I want that f***in' arm.

What the f*** did you do?

You f***in' mazungo,

I'm coming for you!

I'm coming for you and

I'm gonna get you!

Drop your fokkin' knife.

Drop your fokkin' knife!

I know Layden,

he's useless to us there.

Would you relax?

For f***'s sakes, my men have

done this a hundred times before.

Maintaining a visual

on the location.

It's gonna be quick.

It's gonna be clean.

Best of all,

it's gonna be quiet.

Van De Merwe hasn't got a clue

what's coming his way.

It's empty!

-Where are they?

Target is gone.

The place is empty.

What do you mean, empty?

Where the f*** is he?

That little shithead has got

no idea what is coming his way.

I'm gonna find him.

There are the guards! At the gate!

Watch the guards at the gate, man!

Move! Get out!

They're going down.

Four stories down.

This is alien weaponry.

Give me a status report.

It's Van De Merwe.

He's on level four.

Switch to live, and

then we're taking him out.

Colonel, we weren't allowed

to use live ammunition.

They want him alive.

Stay here until I call you.

-I understand.

I need to get the door open.

No! I said stay until I call you!

F***!

I thought you said

not to kill them?

He shot at me!

F***! Get out!

Don't f***in' look at me!

Get out!

Get the f*** out!

Get out!

Everybody get the f*** out!

Get out! Go!

Move the f*** out! Go!

What is this place?

-Don't worry about that.

What do they do in here?

Check these boxes.

Any type of a box that looks like

it can hold a tube. Just check it out!

These f***ers!

Go, go, go...

Clear.

I got it! I got it!

Chris, I got it. Let's go!

Christopher!

Oh, f***!

Listen... I promise you,

I didn't know they were doing this.

Until they brought me here

the other day,

I swear to you I did not know

they were doing this to you guys.

But Christopher...

look at me. Listen to me.

We need to leave now. Okay?

The whole of MNU

is gonna come down here.

He's going to destroy us.

We can do this, okay?

We're gonna get out of here...

Fire!

Move, move!

Shoot at the prawn!

Christopher!

What the f*** are you doing?

Think of your boy,

for f*** sake!

What the hell are you doing?

Are you out of your f***in' mind?

You're gonna get us killed!

-What do we do now?

I thought you had a way out?

I didn't say anything

about the way out.

I promised you that we'll get in.

We're in! -I have an idea.

-Where are you going?

-Follow me!

What are you doing?

-Making a bomb.

Let's go!

Quick! Get in!

Go! Drive!

Okay!

Okay, hold on!

F***!

Reports are coming in of explosion

in downtown Johannesburg.

Well, there was a terrorist attack,

but I can assure you that we

dealt with it. Everything is fine.

Droop it down!

Droop it down! Decline!

They are really

close to us now!

Sh*t!

Let's go, let's go!

Don't drop that fokkin' thing!

Come on, move!

Get down there!

Go down and initiate

the binary commands.

Set it down right now!

When we get up to the mothership,

how long is this gonna take?

-To do what?

-The fixing. To fix me.

It's going to take a bit

longer than I thought.

Okay, that's fine.

How long do you need?

Three years.

Sorry, just go slowly

with the clicks there,

it sounded like you said

"three years", like human years.

Yes. Three years.

What? Three f***in' years?

I will fix you,

but first I must save my people.

The deal was:

you go home, I get fixed!

I will not let my people

be medical experiments!

I'm a fokkin' medical experiment!

You hear me, Christopher?

I'm a fokkin' medical

experiment, man!

I must go home and get help.

I must use all the fluid

to travel quickly.

I'll just stay here, Christopher?

I'll just stay here in this sh*t.

And I'll see you in three years time?

-I will come back. I promise.

Christopher!

Where the f*** is he?

Hey, you got Wikus

down there, my boy?

-Father?

-No, no, no.

Your daddy needs to stay here

to sort out a few things, alright?

We're gonna go. We're gonna

come back and fetch him, okay?

In here? -In there.

-Goes in here?

How the f*** do you

open this, prawn?

Father.

Show me, you f***er.

You want me to f***in' kill you?

Is that what you f***in' want, eh?

Right... let's think this over.

On!

Activate?

My teachers teach only:

One prawn, one bullet.

I can't believe

I get paid to do this.

I love watching you prawns die.

F***, man!

Father!

Get out! Get out!

This is remarkable.

It looks like something is

emerging from the ground.

Something is definitely

coming out of the ground.

Okay... steady!

Go sit down,

I can't play with ya now.

Uncle Wikus is flying.

Bug off. Bug off!

Lock the weapon at target!

Fire when locked.

It seems to be drifting towards

the center of the territory.

We have a lock on him. -Fire!

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Neill Blomkamp

Neill Blomkamp (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈnil ˈblumkamp]; born 17 September 1979) is a South African-born Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator. Blomkamp employs a documentary-style, hand-held, cinéma vérité technique, blending naturalistic and photo-realistic computer-generated effects. He is best known as the co-writer and director of the critically acclaimed and financially successful science fiction film District 9, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He directed the dystopian science fiction film Elysium, which garnered moderately positive reviews and a good box office return. He is known for his collaborations with South African actor Sharlto Copley. He is based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Time named Blomkamp as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2009. Forbes named him as the 21st most powerful celebrity from Africa. more…

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