Divergent

"What makes you different makes you dangerous."

2014 2h 20m EN

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6.9

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★6.9TMDB · 13,779

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In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.

“What makes you different makes you dangerous.”

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Cast

Shailene Woodley
Tris
Theo James
Four
Ashley Judd
Natalie
Jai Courtney
Eric
Ray Stevenson
Marcus
Zoë Kravitz
Christina
Miles Teller
Peter
Tony Goldwyn
Andrew

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Neil Burger
Writers: Chris Wolfgang Mauch, John Davis, Vanessa Taylor
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Mid-budget at $85M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 3.4× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 12 years ago.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Divergent Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

CAST

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334+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Neil Burger, shot by Alwin H. Küchler. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Tom Holkenborg. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Nancy Richardson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Neil Burger directs. Alwin H. Küchler behind the camera. Tom Holkenborg scores. Nancy Richardson cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Mid-budget at $85M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Made its money back 3.4× over at the box office.
3Released 12 years ago.
4Part of the "Divergent Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5334+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by Neil Burger, shot by Alwin H. Küchler. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Tom Holkenborg. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Nancy Richardson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Shailene Woodley and Theo James and Ashley Judd carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "What makes you different makes you dangerous.".
11IMDB entry: tt1840309 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
1213,779 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
13Classified under 16 themes, including "mind control", "future", "based on novel or book", "dystopia".

The technical file

Cinematography: Alwin H. Küchler
Original score: Tom Holkenborg
Editing: Nancy Richardson
Production design: Andy Nicholson
Costume design: Carlo Poggioli
Makeup / hair: Kevin Haney
VFX supervisor: Matt Dessero
Sound: Mike Prestwood Smith
Stunt coordinator: Garrett Warren
Runtime: 140 min · 2h 20m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $85,000,000
Box office: $288,885,818
Return: 340% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Divergent (2014)

Part of

Divergent Collection

A series of dystopian science fiction action films based on the Divergent novels by the American author Veronica Roth. Set in a dystopian and post-apocalyptic Chicago where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues. Beatrice Prior (Tris) is warned that she is Divergent and thus will never fit into any one of the factions. She along with Tobias Eaton (Four) soon learn that a sinister plot is brewing in the seemingly perfect society.

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Dark Jedi2014-08-17
★ 5/10
I should probably mention right away that I have not read the book-trilogy that this movie is based on. Given the content matter I might actually have liked the books. The movie? Well to me the movie was a rather mediocre one. As the blurb states the story is set in a dystopian future but we do not really get to know how they got there except the standard explanation that “there was a war”. The world is a bizarre mixture of primitive post-apocalypse living and modern, futuristic tech. The division of people into factions…well to me it felt pretty dumb to begin with and the idea that some people could not possibly fit into more than one faction was absolutely ludicrous to me. How the hell was it supposed to keep peace by deliberately factioning people against each other? Okay, trying to get over these gripes, what about the rest of the movie. Well it was okayish I guess. It did give me the same feeling as when reading a young-adult book and I would say that this movie is most suitable for a younger audience. The story is rather predictable. There is the initial training part where Tris of course gets a few friends and in particular befriends one of her tutors. Not surprisingly there is also the obligatory jerk. The one thing that makes the movie a bit out of the ordinary are the induced dream sequences which are not too bad. Later in the movie Tris starts to discover the plot of the bad guys and of course goes off to save the day. Again these part are simple and predictable. The ease by which Tris and a few of her friends manages to infiltrate the lab/headquarters of the baddies is rather unbelievable. It of course helps that it seems like it is only the good guys who can shoot straight or fight worth a damned with a few occasional exceptions when the script calls for it. The movie is, as far as I understand it, based only on the first book in the trilogy so it is perhaps not very surprising that it ends with a lot of loose ends but, for Christ sake, they fight their way to stop the plot, taking down a lot of people on their way, and then they leave the chief mastermind of this despicable plot lying unconscious but alive on the floor just taking off. That just felt dumb! It is not a bad bad movie but I do not understand the high ratings some people seem to give it.
tmdb395137282015-02-09
Remedial Dystopia I'm not a big fan of YA lit. Nothing like it when I was young. I grew up with Kesey, Huxley, Salinger, Dickens and The Who. I probably would have liked a steady diet of teen vampires and young dystopians. I would have loved my comic book heroes on the big screen in 3D. And video games and smart phones and search engines. Oh to be a millenial! I was introduced to a truckload of Young Adult Lit during English Ed studies and found myself wanting to read Catcher in the Rye all over again. There was just something really amateurish and disposable about these novellas. Like the authors weren't fully-developed writers. Nor am I all that interested in movies adapted from these novels, unless they are packed with talent (The Hunger Games), or star someone I just can't get enough of. That someone at the moment is Shailene Woodley. A young woman who is just oozing talent. She has that authentic, subdued strain of self-consciousness, it makes you forget she's in a movie. In fact, her focus seems to come so unassumingly natural I wonder if she even knows she's in a movie. I watched The Fault in Our Stars, The Spectacular Now and Divergent in succession. Divergent is getting short-changed by the same critics who praise The Hunger Games. Yes, it's simplistic, essentially a shallow allegory. Factions representing classes, institutions and vocations. The coercion of the Dauntless by the Erudite as a military coup. And rebellious adolescents as heroic Divergents. But if this gets kids even remotely interested in politics and the social sciences, I'm all for it. I'd prefer this to bare-chested werewolves and forest warfare. Then again, there's no defending Divergent if it weren't for Woodley's splendid presence. Her inner strength mixing in with her vulnerability. She provides the suspense, as we are always awaiting her next reaction. Makes me wonder how she'll develop in the years to come? As well as Kate Winslow has I'm sure.
Andres Gomez2015-10-19
★ 5/10
Well, it seems we needed a clone of The Hunger Games because, you know, they give too much money to ignore. Stupid and foreseeable story with the typical action, romance and WTFs moments. Just ignore the whole saga.