Actors: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason , Lilli Palmer, Steve Guttenberg, Denholm Elliott, John Dehner, Bruno Ganz
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Boys from Brazil
THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL is a film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner in 1978. The movie earned three nominations for the 1979 Academy awards.
Dr. Josef Mengele is just launching the operation that will bring back the nazis to power. From a sample of Hitler's blood, Mengele had created perfect clones of the nazi leader 15 years earlier. These 94 children have been adopted then by families in Europe and in America. Now, in the same way Hitler's father died when the young Adolf was 15, the fathers of these boys are being killed. Mengele sends killers to do the job.
Ezra Lieberman, an old nazi hunter, has just been told, by a young Jewish militant, that Mengele is preparing something. It won't be easy for Ezra to understand the motives of the nazi doctor until the day he meets two of the young clones. They are absolutely identical and bear a tremendous resemblance to the nazi dictator.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Analysis of The Boys from Brazil
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Plot
Composition of Movie Actual chase scenes or violence - 30% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 60% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Medical Thriller?
Yes
Medical Plotlets:
- wild experiments on people
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
The terrorist enemy is...
- racists/kkk/nazis
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 60's-90's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- white
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Jewish
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- doctor
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Midwest
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- South
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing breasts
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- dropped from large heights
- eaten
- perforation--bullets
Is this movie based on a
- book
