The Last Starfighter

The Last Starfighter is an American science fiction/adventure film from 1984, directed by Nick Castle. It was directed by Lance Guest, Robert Preston (his last major film role before his death) and Then O'Herlihy.

The Last Starfighter is along with the Disney movie Tron one of the first films the CGIintensive, especially for displaying the spaceships.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The film revolves around Alex Rogan, a teenager who along with his mother and brother Louis in the Starlight Star-bright trailer park resident. Alex has not come a long way on school and spends his time largely by playing a Starfighter arcade game titled. After he one day this game knows to play off and in doing so achieves the highest possible score, he is approached by the maker of the game; Centauri. He reveals Alex that the game is actually a training simulator was to find new recruits for an intergalactic war between the Rylan Star League and the Ko-Dan Empire. Centauri is itself in reality an alien from a planet called Rylos.
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 Production
 * 3.2 Receipt
 * 3.3 spin-offs
 * 4 awards and nominations
 * 5 external links

Centauri takes Alex to Rylos, where he met other recruits. Alex gets an alien called Grig assigned as his partner and navigator and gets its own starfighter-unit assigned.However, Alex has trouble to adapt to all this. Codify his coming on much opposition there the Earth officially not involved in the conflict may be to humanity is ready for it.Alex also initially refuses to participate in this war. Centauri brings him back to Earth. These demonstrate that during his absence Alex ' place was taken by an Androidnamed Beta, which look exactly like Alex. He convinces Alex to still take part in the war.

In the meantime the Starfighter base attacked and almost completely destroyed by the Ko-Dan. Also send a Hitman (a Zan-Do-Zan) to Earth to Alex off in case he mind. Alex calls Centauri Zan-Do-Zan on those beats.The Ko-according to him will certainly more Zan-Do-Zams behind him directing, so Alex is there for nothing else than to be a Star Fighter. Alex agrees. Back in the Starfighter base they discover to their shock that this is attacked, and that Alex and Grig Starfighters are the only remaining. The two pull out with the ship "Gunstar" in an effort to turn the tide. What follows is a battle between the Gunstar and the Ko-Dan armada. Alex and Gir turn off the armada, including the Ko-Dan mother-ship.

After the fight to Alex agrees to stay and more recruits to the Starfighter team to train. He goes back to Earth to announce his departure and his girlfriend, Maggie, to pick up. While Alex, Maggie and a friendly, Louis turned his attention to the Gir leave arcade game also in an attempt to get the highest score. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Many of the spaceships in The Last Starfighter were computer animations instead of scale models such as in older science fiction films. Many of these ships were designed by artist Ron Cobb, who also worked on Alien,Star Wars and Conan the Barbarian .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The computer effects of the film were provided by Digital Productions with a Cray X-MP supercomputer. The company made a total of 27 minutes of footage for the film, something that was seen as a huge amount of time for CGI.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-OHS_1-0" len="176" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The spaceship by Centauri was a prop. This was later reused in Back to the Future Part II .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The music of the film was composed by Craig Safan. He used an unusually large Orchestra, including six trumpets and six trombones. ===Receipt<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Last Starfighter was financially a success. The film grossed $ 28 million against a production budget of $ 15 million.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Responses to the film were mixed. Roger Ebert gave the film a rating of 2.5 out of 4 stars. On Rotten Tomatoes the film 73% to positive reviews. ===Spin-offs<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There is a novel based on the film by Alan Dean Foster, as well as a video game based on the production. In 2004, the movie edited into a non-commercial musical. ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="84" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1985, "The Last Starfighter" nominated for four awards, but won none:


 * The Saturn Award for best supporting actor (Robert Preston)
 * The Grand Prize at the Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival
 * The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
 * The Young Artist Award for best young actress in a film (Chris Hebert)