Un homme simple d'esprit est transformé en génie suite à une expérience informatique.Un homme simple d'esprit est transformé en génie suite à une expérience informatique.Un homme simple d'esprit est transformé en génie suite à une expérience informatique.
- Récompenses
- 3 nominations au total
- Day Gate Guard
- (as Mike Valverde)
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- AnecdotesNew Line Cinema had obtained the rights to the Stephen King short story "The Lawnmower Man", and the producers also had an unrelated script called "Cyber God". For economical reasons, they simply placed King's title on the production of "Cyber God", and early promotional material with that claim even went public. King was furious at this abuse of his name, and he sued the studio to have his name and title removed from the film and promotion. The studio refused, but was eventually ordered to pay ten thousand dollars and full profits to King.
- GaffesTwice in the movie, the scenes at the cafe are identical. Both show the same girl sitting at the counter and the waitress has just finished serving the same couple. That scene is first used earlier in the movie before Jobe and Terry enter the cafe. Later the same scene is used again just before Jobe goes into the cafe with Peter.
- Citations
Dr. Lawrence Angelo: This is all so new.
Jobe Smith: It's not new. I realized that nothing we've been doing is new. We haven't been tapping into new areas of the brain - we've just been awakening the most ancient. This technology is simply a route to powers that conjurers and alchemists used centuries ago. The human race lost that knowledge and now I'm reclaiming it through virtual reality.
Dr. Lawrence Angelo: You're moving too fast. Even with all these new abilities, there are dangers. Man may be able to evolve a thousand-fold through this technology, but the rush must be tempered with wisdom.
- Crédits fousAt the start of the movie, just after the New Line Cinema logo, the following Virtual Reality 'statement' is given (the director stated that this was rewritten many times): By the turn of the millenium a technology known as VIRTUAL REALITY will be in widespread use. It will allow you to enter computer generated artificial worlds as unlimited as the imagination itself. Its creators foresee millions of positive uses - while others fear it as a new from of mind control...
- Versions alternativesA director's cut was released with 39 minutes of additional footage which included the following material:
- When Rosco 1138 was shot in the theatrical version he died, but in the directors cut he survived
- A scene when Jobe Smith is attacked by Rosco 1138, but Rosco looks at his pupils and sees he is not a threat
- Dr. Angelo gives some soldiers a briefing on capturing Rosco
- Jobe speaks to Rosco thinking he is a comic book super hero called Cyboman
- Father McKeen finds Rosco with Jobe and calls V.S.I., Dr. Angelo's place of work
- The soldiers go to Jobe's house and Dr. Angelo wants to get Rosco alive, but the soldiers kill Rosco and Jobe starts to cry
- Father McKeen talks to Jobe and tells him how he endangered the church by letting Rosco in his house
- Jobe and Terry McKeen are at the gas station and Jobe tells Terry and Jake about Cyboman and Jake makes fun of him
- Dr. Angelo talks into his audio journal and wonders why Rosco bonded with the retarded man Jobe
- In the theatrical version Dr. Angelo's wife leaves him, but in the director's cut she goes out with her friends. Dr. Angelo follows her to her car and she leaves; then he talks to Peter's mom [Carla Parkett] and they talk about how Peter reminds him of himself at that age
- Terry McKeen and Jobe are in a diner and Jake starts harassing him about Cyboman
- Father McKeen sees Jobe reading and yells at him and Terry defends him and tells Father McKeen to let Jobe be a man. Then Father McKeen leaves and tells Jobe he'll teach him to drive, but he learnt how already with the V.R. treatments he has been getting from Dr. Angelo
- Jobe is with Dr. Angelo on the way to V.S.I. and asks if he is going to do to him what he did with Rosco
- Jobe is scared because he can read minds; he asks Mrs. Angelo where Dr. Angelo is and he reads her mind
- Dr. Angelo asks his wife where Jobe is and she does not respond because she is under Jobe's control
- Dr. Angelo is tied up and his wife asks if he and Jobe need anything, still being under his control
- The agents are going to pick up Jobe and Dr. Angelo when Jobe tells Dr. Angelo "Now you will witness the impossible" and makes Dr. Angelo watch his wife kill an agent and then is killed by the other two while he watches through V.R.
- ConnexionsEdited into Beyond the Mind's Eye (1992)
- Bandes originalesJobe's Fury
Written and Performed by Sterling
So dissimilar is this film to Stephen King's original short story, that the author successfully sued the company that made it. Despite this, The Lawnmower Man still feels very much like a King product, especially with its dysfunctional characters, small-town setting, and occasional religious overtones. Since I deem anything King-related to be worth a watch, no matter how slight the connection, I had a reasonably good time with the film, although there no denying that its once cutting-edge visuals now look horribly dated, and render the film less effective overall (it's hard to be impressed by graphics that most of today's kids could do better on their laptop).
Watch to see a cyberchimp firing a pistol, Fahey transforming from a simpleton to super buff stud-muffin, an abusive father being chased by a big red lawnmower, Jenny Wright as a rich floozy, and a pre-Bond Brosnan with floppy hair pulling Semtex out of thin air. Don't watch expecting to be wowed by incredible special effects (the burning of a sadistic priest ranks amongst the worst CGI that I have ever seen).
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- The Lawnmower Man
- Lieux de tournage
- Sociétés de production
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Box-office
- Budget
- 10 000 000 $US (estimé)
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 32 100 816 $US
- Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 7 751 971 $US
- 8 mars 1992
- Montant brut mondial
- 32 100 816 $US