District 9 Page #7

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


Something is fired upon...

it has been hit!

What the f*** is that?

One of the engines is billowing

smoke, it's out of control.

It's going down, boss. Should I

send the boys to f*** him up?

Now... it hit the ground,

the massive impact,

and it's come to a standstill.

My son!

My son's in there!

Shut the f*** up!

Get this f***er inside.

We're moving out.

Come, let's go, let's go...

Move!

We're banking around now, trying

to get a better view of the ship

which is absolutely wrecked,

waiting for some of the smoke to clear.

Somebody has been

brought out of the vehicle.

It looks like a human being.

We are getting unconfirmed

reports that this might be

Wikus Van De Merwe, a fugitive

that has been on the run

from MNU for the past 3 days.

They are loading him into

a vehicle now, and heading off.

What the f***?

Bring him to me.

Come on! Get back!

Oh, f***!

Control, we're taking enemy fire!

We need support. Backup, now!

F*** off! F*** off, man!

Get you hands off me!

F***in' get off me!

Get your f***in' hands off me!

Didn't I tell you...

that I'm gonna get you?

You came in here and you left

with something that belongs to me.

F*** you.

F*** you all!

I told you that

the day will come.

You've been running

around with my prize.

All I want is to eat that hand

and become like you.

No! It won't work...

Once I have that power,

no one will stop me.

It was your turn...

now it's mine!

Fighting MNU security forces,

this armed faction is doomed...

Now I'm gonna eat, my friend.

We're getting reports claiming that

the alien device is activating...

You see that prawn

back in the Casper? -Yeah.

He knows what the f***

is up with that ship.

Get that f***er out

and get him talking, now.

Three contractors are closing in

on the nigerian compound, and...

Come, alien!

What's your plan?

How are you doing it?

Who's moving that ship?

All right, that's very clever.

Wait for my command.

Make sure you f***in' shoot to kill.

F***! Move it! Move it!

Bring that f***er down!

Hold you fire! Hold your fire

and keep your positions!

It's Van De Merwe.

Hey, Dickus!

I'll come back for prawn,

alright guys?

Do you hear me, now?

-Run, Wikus!

-You hear me?

-Run!

And keep on running,

you f***in' coward!

Run! Run!

Get the air support up,

and get on his f***in' trail, now!

It's not gonna work, boss.

He's a tough one.

He's not gonna talk.

-Then just f***in' kill him.

He's not gonna talk.

-Then just f***in' kill him.

F***!

He's a tough one.

He's not gonna talk.

Then just f***in' kill him.

Hey, c'mon. Get up!

I'm gonna get you out of here.

-I can't... it's too far.

-It's not too fokkin' far. Get up!

I'm gonna get you there.

I'm gonna get you to your boy!

C'mon, stay behind me!

Go back!

Run, run, run!

Arriving at the location now.

We have a clearance to engage.

Prawns are coming,

get down, get down!

There is no other option.

Knock these f***ers off!

Come to mommy, come...

F***!

Sh*t!

Are you hurt?

We can make it.

I was shot in the arm.

We can make it, come on!

Listen, you go ahead.

You can make it.

I'm gonna just... hold them

off here, and I'll join you soon.

No, we stick together.

I'm not leaving you here.

Take your boy and go home.

You have to make it.

Don't make me go through

all of this and not make it.

Do you understand?

-I will come back for you.

Go! Go now before

I change my mind! Go!

Three years. I promise.

I'm not f***in' scared of you!

Quit f***in' with me!

You want me?

You want me?

Is that all you got?

Is that all you f***in' got?

Some kind of quite extraordinary

light from the mothership.

I've never seen anything like it.

It's a beam of light...

Full scan. Okay.

Fire!

Get to the vehicle, now! Get going.

-Yes colonel. -Go, go, go!

F***!

Quit playing with me, Koobus!

You f***er!

Go, Chris, go.

Go home.

We go home now?

Yes.

Unbelievable.

Now I know why everybody

wants a piece of you.

I can't wait for those

med boys to cut you up.

But you know what?

You're not gonna waste

any more of my time.

You half-breed piece of sh*t!

I'm gonna just f***in'

kill you myself.

Stay back, you f***!

Stay back!

Stay back!

The people everywhere

across Johannesburg

are flooding the streets and

pouring out of their offices

and all eyes are pointed up towards

the sky on this momentous day.

It's the first time, ladies and

gentlemen, in over two decades,

that the mothership has shown

any sign of movement,

and people are

tremendously excited.

The city had come

to an absolute standstill.

Everybody wants to know

what's going to happen next.

There's no way of knowing whether

or not Christopher Johnson will return.

We don't know if

he was simply escaping,

whether he will

effect a rescue plan...

...and, as the so called

free press says,

whether or not he will come back

and declare a war on us.

This is the last known footage

of Wikus Van De Merwe.

And we can only speculate

as to what has happened to him.

The more zany conspiracy

theories state that

he's been captured by MNU

or by another government.

Or by perhaps some

shady government agency

and he's actually

being held in captivity.

If we knew where he was,

we would try and help him,

and that is the most difficult part,

not knowing where he is.

Wikus, sadly, is gone but

I'm the one who stays behind

with all the questions.

I can't give the answers.

He died in my mind a long

time ago. And that's that.

Wikus Van Der Merwe is a name

that will become very widely known

because of this pivotal role

that he played in this whole event.

He was an honest man, and he didn't

deserve any of what happened to him.

I mean, I know. I looked into a

computer system and I found stuff.

I mean, the whole data

was there, you know?

They didn't even do

a good job of hiding it.

Fundiswa Mhlanga is

currently awaiting trial

for exposing MNU's illegal

genetic research program.

District 9 was demolished

after the alien resettlement

operation was completed.

District 10 now houses 2.5 million

aliens and continues to grow...

You guys haven't seen a picture of

my wife. Let me show you my wife.

She's my special angel.

She even looks like an angel

with veil, you want to see that?

Look, you see,

with the white veil over the...

she even looks like an angel.

Everyone says that his wife is angel,

but this is a real angel that you

see there, on the cameras.

They won't put that

in the video, I don't think.

I found this at my front door.

As tho somebody had

just left it there.

My friends say that

I should throw it away,

cause it's just a piece of rubbish.

That it couldn't possibly

come from him.

I know it's true.

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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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