You are watching now the Anaconda movie has Action Adventure Horror Genres and produced in Brazil, Peru, USA with 89 min runtime. Brought to you by Watch4HD.com and directed by Luis Llosa, When a documentary crew traveling through the Amazon jungle, picks up a stranded man, they are unaware of the trouble that will occur.

Anaconda is a 1997 American horroradventureaction film directed by Luis Llosa, starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, Jonathan Hyde and Owen Wilson. It focuses on a documentary film crew who are captured by a snake hunter as he is going after a legendary green anaconda, which is discovered in the Amazon rainforest. The film received mixed reviews but was a box-office success and was followed by a series of films.

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Plot[edit]

A poacher hides from an unknown creature in his boat. While it breaks through the boat and attempts to catch the poacher, he commits suicide by shooting himself dead to prevent the beast from killing him.

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Meanwhile while shooting a documentary about a long-lost indigenous tribe known as the Shirishamas on the Amazon River, director Terri Flores and members of her crew including cameraman and childhood friend Danny Rich, production manager Denise Kalberg, her boyfriend, sound engineer Gary Dixon, visionary Warren Westridge, anthropologist Professor Steven Cale, and boat skipper Mateo come across stranded Paraguayan snake hunter Paul Serone and help him, believing he knows how to find the tribe they are searching for.

Most of the crew are uncomfortable around Serone, and Cale clashes with him several times in regards to Shirishama lore. Later, while trying to free the boat's propeller from a rope, Cale is stung in the throat by a wasp inside his scuba regulator, which swells up his throat and leaves him unconscious. Serone performs an emergency cricothyrotomy, seemingly saving Cale's life. With that, Serone takes over as commander and captain of the boat and the crew. They are then forced to help him achieve his true goal: hunting down and capturing a giant record-breaking green anaconda he had been tracking.

Later, Mateo gets lost and is the first victim to be killed by the anaconda, which coils around him before it snaps his neck near the boat where the poacher had been killed. A photograph in an old newspaper reveals that Mateo, Serone, and the unnamed poacher were actually working together as a hunting pair to catch animals, including snakes. The others try to find him while Gary works alongside Serone, who promises if they help him find the anaconda, he will help them get out alive.

Later that night, the anaconda appears and attacks the boat crew. When Serone attempts to capture the snake alive, it coils around Gary and begins to crush him before killing and devouring the latter, causing Denise to mourn for the loss of her boyfriend. The survivors overcome Serone and tie him up for punishment. The next day, the boat becomes stuck at a waterfall, requiring Terri, Danny, and Westridge to enter the water to winch it loose. Denise confronts Serone and attempts to kill him in revenge for Gary's death, but he strangles her to death with his legs before dumping her corpse into the river.

When the anaconda returns, Westridge distracts the snake enough for Terri and Danny to return to the boat while he ascends the waterfall. Danny and the freed Serone battle, as Westridge is coiled by the anaconda. Before it can kill him, the tree supporting the anaconda breaks, sending the group into the water and waking up Cale in the process. With Westridge killed by the anaconda in the fall, the snake attacks Danny and coils itself around him, only for Terri to shoot it in the head. An enraged Serone attacks Terri, only to be stabbed with a tranquilizer dart by Cale, who soon loses consciousness again. Danny punches the drugged Serone, knocking him into the river.

However, Terri and Danny are soon captured when Serone catches up to them. He dumps a bucket of monkey blood on them and uses them as bait in an attempt to capture a second, much larger anaconda. The snake soon appears where it begins to coil itself around Terri and Danny and slowly suffocates them. They are caught in a net by Serone, but the snake breaks free. Serone tries to flee, but the anaconda manages to prevent him from escaping by coiling itself around him before suffocating Serone to death. Terri and Danny cut their bonds and watch as the anaconda swallows Serone's body whole.

Terri retreats to a building and finds a nest full of newborn anacondas, but the snake arrives and after it regurgitates Serone's still twitching corpse, it chases her up a smoke stack. Danny traps the anaconda by pinning its tail to the ground with a pickaxe and ignites a fire below the smoke shack which burns the snake. An explosion triggers which sends the burning anaconda flying out of the building and it plunges into the water, causing the snake to sink. As Terri and Danny recuperate on a nearby dock, the anaconda appears one final time. Somehow, Danny slams a splitting axe into the snake's head, finally killing it.

Afterwards, Terri and Danny reunite with Cale, who begins to revive on the boat. As the three remaining survivors float downriver, they suddenly locate the natives for whom they were previously searching. They realize that Serone was right and resume filming their documentary.

Cast[edit]

• Jennifer Lopez as Terri Flores
• Ice Cube as Danny Rich
• Jon Voight as Paul Serone
• Eric Stoltz as Dr. Steven Cale
• Kari Wuhrer as Denise Kalberg
• Jonathan Hyde as Warren Westridge
• Owen Wilson as Gary Dixon
• Vincent Castellanos as Mateo
• Danny Trejo as Poacher
• Frank Welker as Anaconda (voice)

Production[edit]

Gillian Anderson and Julianna Margulies were the first choices for the role of Terri Flores (whose last name was originally Porter), but they passed due to scheduling conflicts with both The X-Files and ER respectively before Jennifer Lopez signed on. Jean Reno was considered to play the part of Paul Serone, until Jon Voight was cast. The filming took place in the mid-spring and summer 1996.

Soundtrack[edit]

The soundtrack for the film was composed and conducted by Randy Edelman and released by Edel Records.^[2]

Track listing

1. Main Title (4:45)
2. Watching and Waiting (4:43)
3. Night Attack (2:47)
4. This Must Be Heaven (1:39)
5. Down River (2:43)
6. Seduction (3:27)
7. Travelogue (2:45)
8. Baiting the Line (2:47)
9. My Beautiful Anna.. (conda) (2:54)
10. The Totem's Scared Ground (2:26)
11. Sarone's Last Stand (3:00)

Sequels and crossover[edit]

A sequel, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid in 2004, which was released to theaters and followed by three films, Anaconda 3: Offspring (2008), Anacondas: Trail of Blood (2009) and Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (2015), a crossover film with the Lake Placid franchise.

Even though no characters from the first film appear in the sequels, in the second film they are referenced by the character Cole Burris, when he says he knows a man (Warren Westridge) and another man (Danny Rich) that took a crew down to the Amazon and they were all eaten by the snakes; in Lake Placid vs. Anaconda, another character Will 'Tully' Tull, spoke to Reba about the same incident of the snakes in the Amazon, but no mention of the characters.

Reception[edit]

Anaconda received generally negative reviews upon its release. Some critics did praise the film's effects, scenery, and tongue-in-cheek humor, but many criticized the acting, 'forgettable' or 'cardboard' characters, inaccuracies, and 'boring' start.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 'rotten' rating of 40%, based on 50 reviews.^[3] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 37 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating 'generally unfavorable reviews'.^[4]Film critic Leonard Maltin awarded the film a mixed 2 out of a possible 4 stars, criticizing the film's 'hokey' special effects and 'expositionless' script but complimented the film's use of Brazilian locale and Voight's campy performance.^[5]

Roger Ebert awarded the film 3 1/2 out of 4 stars and called it a '..slick, scary, funny Creature Feature, beautifully photographed and splendidly acted in high adventure style.'^[6]

Despite the initial negative reception, Anaconda has since become a cult classic, often viewed as being so-bad-it's-good. The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made.^[7]

Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of 'B-' on an A+ to F scale.^[8]

Awards and nominations[edit]

The film was nominated for six Razzie Awards in 1998 including Worst Picture (which lost to The Postman), Worst Actor (Jon Voight; which went to Kevin Costner for The Postman), Worst Director (awarded to Costner for The Postman), Worst Screenplay (lost to The Postman), Worst New Star ('the animatronic anaconda'; which went to Dennis Rodman for Double Team) and Worst Screen Couple (Voight and 'the animatronic anaconda'; where they lost to Rodman and Jean-Claude Van Damme for Double Team).^[9] It was also nominated for two Saturn Awards including Best Actress (Jennifer Lopez; who lost to Jodie Foster for Contact) and Best Horror Film (which went to The Devil's Advocate).

Box office[edit]

The film opened at #1 with $16.6 million in its first weekend ^[10] and remained at the top spot in its following week.^[11] In total, Anaconda went on to gross $136.8 million worldwide,^[12] making it a sizable box office success collecting more than three times its $45 million budget.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Anaconda (1997)'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
2. ^'Anaconda – Randy Edelman'. AllMusic. Retrieved April 16, 2018.
3. ^'Anaconda'. Rotten Tomatoes
4. ^'Anaconda'. metacritic
5. ^Leonard Maltin (2 September 2014). 'Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide'. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN978-0-698-18361-2.
6. ^Ebert, Roger (April 11, 1997). 'Anaconda'. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
7. ^Wilson, John (2005). 'The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's Worst'. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN0-446-69334-0.
8. ^'CinemaScore'. cinemascore.com.
9. ^'Razzie Award (1998)'. imdb
10. ^'Weekend Chart 1'. boxofficemojo
11. ^'Weekend Chart 2'. boxofficemojo
12. ^'Anaconda'. boxofficemojo

External links[edit]

• Anaconda on IMDb
• Anaconda at AllMovie
• Anaconda at Rotten Tomatoes
• Anaconda at Metacritic
• Anaconda at Box Office Mojo

These insights into anaconda lore come mostly from a character named Sarone, played by Jon Voight as a slimy river rat with a dangerous gleam in his eye. 'This river can kill you in a thousand ways,' he intones, and we get the feeling that he can, too. The propeller of his boat is broken, and he's rescued by a small expedition that hopes to make a documentary about the People of the Mist--a legendary lost Amazon tribe. 'I know them,' Sarone says. 'They saved my life.' And are probably still regretting it.

The leader of the expedition is Terri Flores (Jennifer Lopez, from 'Selena'), who will direct the documentary. Ice Cube plays Danny, her cinematographer. Eric Stoltz is Dr. Steven Cale, a scientist. The other members include Jonathan Hyde as their fastidious British narrator, Owen Wilson as the sound man ('Ever notice how the jungle makes you horny?'), Vincent Castellanos as the sinister boat pilot, and Kari Wuhrer as a production assistant. If the cast seems large, reflect that some, perhaps many, of these characters are required so that they can be eaten by snakes.

A movie like 'Anaconda' can easily be dumb and goofy (see 'Piranha'). Much depends on the skill of the filmmakers. Here one of the key players is the cinematographer, Bill Butler, who creates a seductive yet somehow sinister jungle atmosphere. The movie looks great, and the visuals and the convincing soundtrack and ominous music make the Amazon into a place with presence and personality: It's not a backdrop, it's an enveloping presence.

The acting is also crucial. Director Luis Llosa, whose 'Sniper' (1993) was another good thriller set in the jungle, finds the right notes. He gives the members of the expedition plausible backgrounds (Lopez and Ice Cube say they met in the USC film school), and he allows Jon Voight to take some chances with his performance. Voight's river rat is always on the delectable edge of overacting. He sneers, he frowns, he grimaces, he utters ominous pronouncements ('So young--and yet so lethal,' he says, as a baby snake sinks its teeth into a fingertip). This is a daring performance: Voight, a serious actor, isn't afraid to pull out the stops as a melodramatic villain, and his final scene, which he plays with a wink, will be remembered wherever great movie exits are treasured.

Now as for the snakes. Several kinds of snakes are used in the movie: Animated, animatronic and, for all I know, real. They are mostly convincing. There are a few moments when we know, if we bother to think about it, that special effects are being used (especially in a scene where a flaming snake attacks). But there are other moments that earn a gasp from the audience, including one where a giant snake captures its falling prey in mid-air. There are utterly convincing closeups of an anaconda's head, its bright eyes glistening, its mouth gaping open to reveal fangs, its skin gleaming with a terrible beauty. (Those shots are matched by a point-of-view shot from inside the snake, and by another in which we see the snake's belly skin stretched tautly over the body and face of one of its victims.) The screenplay has nice authentic touches. The Eric Stoltz character lectures on the dangers of going into the water. He's less afraid of the snakes than of 'the little catfish that swims up through your urethra, finds a nice warm spot, and spreads its thorny little spines.' A scuba diver finds a poisonous wasp in his mouthpiece. An emergency tracheotomy is performed with a pocket knife. There's a mysterious wall built across the river, which they blow up with dynamite that Voight happens to have with him ('Always good to be prepared'). And a protest that blowing up the wall will 'upset the ecological balance of the river.' Yeah, like the wall grew there.

'Anaconda' is an example of one of the hardest kinds of films to make well: a superior mass-audience entertainment. It has the effects and the thrills, but it also has big laughs, quirky dialogue and a gruesome imagination. You've got to like a film where a lustful couple sneaks out into the dangerous jungle at night and suddenly the guy whispers, 'Wait--did you hear that? Silence!'