Predator
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Directed by	John McTiernan
Produced by	Joel Silver Lawrence Gordon John Davis
Written by	Jim Thomas John Thomas
Starring	Arnold Schwarzenegger Carl Weathers Elpidia Carrillo Bill Duke Jesse Ventura Kevin Peter Hall
Music by	Alan Silvestri
Cinematography	Donald McAlpine
Editing by	Mark Helfrich John F. Link
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	June 12, 1987
Running time	107 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English Spanish
Budget	$18,000,000
Gross revenue	$60,000,000 (US)
Followed by	Predator 2
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Predator is a 1987 science fiction, action and horror film directed by John McTiernan and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers and Jesse Ventura. It grossed $60 million in the United States, generating the sequels Predator 2 in 1990 and Alien vs. Predator in 2004. Image File history File links Acap. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (503x755, 81 KB) This image is of a movie poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the movie or the studio which produced the movie in question. ... John Campbell McTiernan, Jr. ... Joel Silver (born July 14, 1952) is a successful Hollywood film producer. ... Lawrence Gordon (born March 25, 1936 in Yazoo City, Mississippi) is an American producer and motion picture executive. ... John Davis is an American film producer and founder of Davis Entertainment. ... James Jim Thomas is a screenwriter living in California. ... John Thomas is a screenwriter living in California. ... Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation IPA: ) (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-born American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of the U.S. state of California. ... cs|football team]]. This led to a brief career as a linebacker with the Oakland Raiders, where he played 7 games in 1970 and one game in 1971. ... Elpidia Carrillo (born 1963 in Michoacan, Mexico) is an actress who has participated in various acclaimed Hollywood films. ... Bill Duke (born February 26, 1943) is an American actor and film director. ... Jesse Ventura (born James George Janos on July 15, 1951), also known as The Body, The Star, and The Governing Body, is an American politician, retired professional wrestler, Navy UDT veteran, actor, and former radio and television talk show host. ... Kevin Peter Hall (May 9, 1955 - April 10, 1991) was an American actor famous for his roles as Dr. Elvin Lincoln in Misfits of Science (1985), the monsters in Prophecy (1979), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), Predator (1987), and Predator 2 (1990). ... Alan Silvestri (b. ... Donald McAlpine is an Australian cinematographer. ... Mark Helfrich is an ACE (American Cinema Editor)-certified film editor. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 163rd day of the year (164th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... USD redirects here. ... USD redirects here. ... Predator 2 (1990) is a science fiction horror film starring Danny Glover and Gary Busey. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Look up Action film in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... “Horror Movie” redirects here. ... John Campbell McTiernan, Jr. ... Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation IPA: ) (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-born American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of the U.S. state of California. ... cs|football team]]. This led to a brief career as a linebacker with the Oakland Raiders, where he played 7 games in 1970 and one game in 1971. ... Jesse Ventura (born James George Janos on July 15, 1951), also known as The Body, The Star, and The Governing Body, is an American politician, retired professional wrestler, Navy UDT veteran, actor, and former radio and television talk show host. ... Predator 2 (1990) is a science fiction horror film starring Danny Glover and Gary Busey. ... Alien vs. ...

Taglines

• Nothing like it has ever been on Earth before. It came from another planet for the thrill of the hunt. It picked the wrong man.
• We cannot see it, but it sees the heat of our bodies and the heat of our fear.
• Soon the hunt will begin.

Background

The Predator film utilizes a story of the hunter becoming the hunted. The creature, known as "the Predator" (known in spin-offs as being of the species Yautja), is an alien humanoid with advanced technology and a penchant for hunting difficult game. With interstellar travel capability, multi-spectrum vision enhancement and a light-bending armor suit with equally advanced weaponry, the Predator is supposedly able to travel anywhere, hunt anything and usually succeed. Much of the Predator's history and motivation are left open to the viewer, but after the success of this film, a franchise was created with a detailed back-story on the creature, complete with a battle-based society where young Predators are trained within a galaxy of fierce beasts documented in the third movie of the series Alien vs. Predator (2004). Hunting is, in its most general sense, the pursuit of a target. ... A creature is a created being, as opposed to a creator. ... This article or section may need to be cleaned up and rewritten because it describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ... Alien may refer to: // Alien (biology) Extraterrestrial life, in scientific context. ... The term humanoid refers to any being whose body structure resembles that of a human. ... By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a mastery of technology sufficient to leave the surface of the Earth for the first time and explore space. ... Artists depiction of a hypothetical Wormhole Induction Propelled Spacecraft, based loosely on the 1994 warp drive paper of Miguel Alcubierre. ... In most modern usages of the word spectrum, there is a unifying theme of between extremes at either end. ... Armor or armour (see spelling differences) is protective clothing intended to defend its wearer from intentional harm in combat and military engagements, typically associated with soldiers. ... A weapon is a tool used to kill or incapacitate a person or animal, or destroy a military target. ... This article is about the study of time in human terms. ... Look up Motivation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... i eat poop alot A media franchise is an intellectual property involving the characters, setting, and trademarks of an original work of media (usually a work of fiction), such as a film, a work of literature, a television program, or a video game. ... For other uses, see Galaxy (disambiguation). ... Alien vs. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Predator was the first of the series, as the creature descends on Earth interested in hunting exotic game (in this case humans). In background information released after the film, the Predator scans the Earth's broadcast frequencies and chooses Central America as a location. A U.S. Special Forces unit is also en route to the same location, and during their operations stumble upon the Predator hunting humans. The military unit possesses significant firepower, which attracts the creature's attention as a more sporting target. During the film's final conflict, only one American is left (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) and a cat and mouse game begins with each adversary hunting the other. This article is about Earth as a planet. ... This article is about the hunting of prey by human society. ... Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals which transmit programs to an audience. ... Sine waves of various frequencies; the lower waves have higher frequencies than those above. ... For other uses, see Central America (disambiguation). ... The United States Special Operations Forces is the official category where the U.S. Department of Defense lists the U.S. military units that have a training specialization in unconventional warfare and special operations. ... Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation IPA: ) (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-born American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of the U.S. state of California. ... Cat and Mouse, published in Germany in 1961 as Katz und Maus, is a novella by Günter Grass, the second book of the Danzig Trilogy. ...

Story

The film begins with a mysterious spacecraft entering the Earth's atmosphere. On the coast of Guatemala, a US Army Special Forces unit, led by Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer (Arnold Schwarzenegger), is ordered by General Phillips (R. G. Armstrong) to rescue a cabinet minister. Dutch is informed they will be on their own. Former teammember and current CIA agent Major George Dillon (Carl Weathers) joins the team and they travel by helicopters to their destination within the jungle. The Space Shuttle Discovery as seen from the International Space Station. ... For other uses, see Atmosphere (disambiguation). ... This article is about the U.S. Special Operations Force. ... Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation IPA: ) (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-born American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of the U.S. state of California. ... Robert Golden Armstrong, better known as R.G. Armstrong (born April 7, 1917) is an American actor and playwright. ... Alternate meanings in cabinet (disambiguation) A Cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of government, typically representing the executive branch. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... cs|football team]]. This led to a brief career as a linebacker with the Oakland Raiders, where he played 7 games in 1970 and one game in 1971. ... A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more large horizontal rotors (propellers). ... Box Log Falls, Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia Jungle usually refers to a dense forest in a hot climate, such as a tropical rainforest. ...

They are dropped behind the border where they find a crashed helicopter as well as traces of rebels being followed by U.S. soldiers. This unusual circumstance is noted by the team. They soon discover the slain U.S. soldiers hanging from a tree, all of them skinned and mutilated. Dutch reads the dog tags of one of the victims and realizes it to be his friend, Lieutenant James Hopper, a Green Beret squad leader stationed in Fort Bragg, and questions Dillon as to why Hopper's unit was in the jungle. Evidence from the pitched battle puzzles the team. For other uses, see Border (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Helicopter (disambiguation). ... A rebellion is, in the most general sense, a refusal to accept authority. ... This article is about a military rank. ... The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth. ... A dog might wear several different identifying dog tags. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Fort Bragg is a census-designated place and United States Army base, or post, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, near Fayetteville. ...

They find the guerrilla post, including multiple rebels and Soviet military advisers. The team attacks and destroys the base with little effort and with no casualties on their part, but the prisoners were marked as members of the CIA and assassinated in advance. Dutch puts together the intelligence items gleaned from his team members immediately following the attack, learning that not only was the "cabinet minister" story false, but the slain U.S. soldiers they'd discovered had been ordered to attack the base before disappearing. Dutch angrily confronts Dillon who states that Dutch and his team are "expendable assets". With a female prisoner, Anna, (Elpidia Carrillo) in their custody, the whole group proceeds to their Rendezvous point for extraction near the border. As they move through the jungle, they are unknowingly stalked by an unseen creature who views the group in infra-red and records certain phrases they speak. Guerilla may refer to Guerrilla warfare. ... CCCP redirects here. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... Intelligence (abbreviated or ) is the process and the result of gathering information and analyzing it to answer questions or obtain advance warnings needed to plan for the future. ... Elpidia Carrillo (born 1963 in Michoacan, Mexico) is an actress who has participated in various acclaimed Hollywood films. ... Look up Rendezvous in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Stalking (from Middle English stalk: from Old English bestealcian; akin to Old English stelan to steal) is a legal term for repeated harassment or other forms of invasion of a persons privacy in a manner that causes fear to its target. ... Image of a small dog taken in mid-infrared (thermal) light (false color) Infrared (IR) radiation is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength longer than visible light, but shorter than microwave radiation. ...

The team attempting to kill the Predator. Left to right: Dutch, Mac, Dillon, Poncho, Billy

The group halts when its tracker Billy (Sonny Landham) is disturbed by a mysterious presence hiding within the trees. When Anna attempts to escape, Hawkins (Shane Black) chases her but is killed by the stalking creature. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (937x493, 353 KB) Movie screenshot from the 1987 film Predator. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (937x493, 353 KB) Movie screenshot from the 1987 film Predator. ... ModPlug Tracker in Fast Tracker 2 colors mode Tracker is the generic term for a class of software music sequencers which, in their purest form, allow the user to arrange sound samples stepwise on a timeline across several monophonic channels. ... William M. Sonny Landham (born February 11, 1941 in Canton, Georgia) is an American movie actor and political candidate. ... Shane Black (born December 16, 1961) is an American actor, screenwriter and film director. ...

Blain (Jesse Ventura) is killed moments later while searching for Hawkins' body. When Sergeant "Mac" Eliot (Bill Duke) rushes to assist his fallen comrade, he sees what appears to be a large, transparent creature with flashing eyes. Eliot starts screaming and immediately opens fire and is joined by the remaining members of the unit. In what is known as a "mad minute", all members of the team saturate the jungle with bullets. They stop firing and to their shock, are unable to find any bodies. The team cannot locate Hawkins' body but takes Blain's body with them. What they did not know, but is realized by Anna, was that they had only managed to wound the creature slightly in the leg, leaving a small puddle of glowing green blood on a jungle frond. Jesse Ventura (born James George Janos on July 15, 1951), also known as The Body, The Star, and The Governing Body, is an American politician, retired professional wrestler, Navy UDT veteran, actor, and former radio and television talk show host. ... Bill Duke (born February 26, 1943) is an American actor and film director. ... See: transparency (optics) alpha compositing GIF#Transparency transparency (overhead projector) market transparency transparency (telecommunication) transparency (computing) For X11 pseudo-transparency, see pseudo-transparency. ... Look up flashing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Originally, Mad Minute was a pre-WWI term used by British riflemen for the act of getting 15 aimed bullets into a target at 300yds within one minute using a bolt-action rifle (usually a Lee-Enfield or Lee-Metford rifle). ... This article is about firearms projectiles. ... Human blood smear: a - erythrocytes; b - neutrophil; c - eosinophil; d - lymphocyte. ... A fern with simple (lobed or pinnatifid) blades, the dissection of each blade not quite reaching to the rachis. ...

That night they decide to set up a "night defensive position" with claymore mines, flares and trip wires. Later the flares go off and Eliot wrestles with what he believes to be the creature that killed his friend, but upon using a flashlight to examine his kill, sees that what he has actually been fighting is a wild boar. The team finds it funny at first, but stop laughing when they realize that the creature used the convenient distraction to come into the camp and make off with Blain's body. Now the remaining team members begin to realize they are dealing with a powerful alien creature. When questioned at daylight, Anna recalls a local legend of villagers disappearing in particularly hot years, much like this one, until their mutilated bodies are discovered. She says that the village women refer to whatever killed them as the "Demon who makes Trophies of Men." Dutch decides to lay a trap for the creature knowing now that they are all being hunted. After the various traps are set, Dutch walks out into the clearing to get the creature to move and expose itself. Suddenly a huge thing trips a net trap, but the creature struggles free, shooting in all directions and causing a dead fall log to swing down and seriously injure Poncho (Richard Chaves). Look up Flare in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For the Parliament song, see Flash Light (song). ... For other uses, see Legend (disambiguation). ... “Fiend” redirects here. ... Some loving-cup trophies seen in the London Irish clubhouse at Sunbury in 2002. ... A trap is a device or tactic intended to harm, capture, detect, or inconvenience an intruder. ... Richard Chaves (born October 9, 1951) is an American actor born in Jacksonville, Florida. ...

Mac and Dillon pursue the Predator claiming that they want "payback" for their lost comrades, only to find the creature waiting for them as they are killed by its advanced weaponry and tricked by its playback of phrases like "over here" in their voices. Dutch, Billy, Pancho, and Anna struggle through the jungle towards the extraction point. At a huge log bridge, Billy stays behind to make a suicide-stand against the Predator, which buys the survivors some time. The creature kills Billy easily and catches up with the rest and kills Poncho and slightly wounds Dutch. Realizing that the Predator will not kill an unarmed person as it would be "unsporting", Dutch refuses to give Anna a gun and tells her to flee towards the extraction location. Revenge is retaliation against a person or group in response to wrongdoing. ...

Although wounded, and with the creature catching up, Dutch escapes by sliding off of a cliff and dropping into a huge river eventually going over a large waterfall and crawling out through the mud at the water's edge. The Predator continues his pursuit, landing in the water seconds behind Dutch. Covered in mud, Dutch finally sees the creature when the advanced technology that warped visible light is damaged and waits for his own death. But the creature doesn't appear to see him. Once the creature leaves, Dutch realizes the creature couldn't see him because he was covered in mud. The mud blocked the heat from his body and made him invisible to infrared vision. The creature goes to where he had left Mac's, Dillon's and Billy's, bodies so that he could prepare his human trophies. Meanwhile Dutch, lacking firearms, prepares to fight the creature by creating a variety of primitive weapons, including bow and arrows, and two M203 grenades he has left, converting the shells into improvised explosive arrows. As Dutch arms himself for battle, the Predator cleans the skulls of his victims to display as trophies. The scene is set for the final showdown between the two. For other uses, see River (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about a type of online computer game. ... A bow is a weapon that shoots arrows powered by the elasticity of the bow and/or the string. ... M203 generally refers to the U.S. Militarys designation for a single shot 40 mm grenade launcher that attaches to the M16 assault rifle or the M4 Carbine. ... Trick arrows are fictional arrows found in the world of comic book superheroes. ... For other uses of Skull, see Skull (disambiguation). ...

After nightfall, Dutch starts a large fire and lets out an intense war cry and awaits the creature's arrival. Dutch surprises the creature using a modified explosive-tipped arrow once again making the creature visible and the creature fires his plasma caster energy weapon all over the jungle trying to flush Dutch out into the open. Dutch gets his two spears he had made and follows a trail of the creatures blood, but that is exactly what the predator wanted him to do. The creature circled around Dutch to find him in a little hole. Dutch makes a run for it but ends up falling in a river, washing away his mud disguise. The creature corners Dutch. The two face each other and the creature decides to remove his high-tech weapons in favor of more sporting hand to hand combat. The creature casts off its firearms and its mask, showing its true face and a fight follows where, because of the huge difference in size, Dutch seems to be getting the worse of the fight. But, Dutch tricks the alien into following him into a booby trap, springing a huge log which crushes the Predator. Look up Nightfall in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A slogan is a memorable phrase used in political or commercial context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose. ... This article is concerned solely with chemical explosives. ... Firearms redirects here. ... For other uses, see Mask (disambiguation). ... Look up size in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about an antipersonnel trap designed for use against humans. ...

The creature, now mortally wounded and covered in glowing blood, activates a self-destruct device attached to its wrist and begins to mimic a maniacal laugh patterned after Billy's voice which the creature had copied. Dutch immediately runs for cover as the creature self-destructs and a massive explosion ignites the jungle. As dawn breaks the rescue helicopter with General Phillips and Anna arrives on the scene (which shortly before had been hidden by a mushroom cloud) and encounters Dutch standing alone on the scorched plain. Flying back to safety, Dutch stares at the jungle in mournful silence. A self-destruct is a mechanism which causes a device to destroy itself under a predefined set of circumstances. ... In human anatomy, the wrist is the flexible and narrower connection between the forearm and the palm. ... Dawn in Peng Chau, Hong Kong. ... The atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945 A mushroom cloud is a distinctive mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke, flame, or debris resulting from a very large explosion. ...

Cast

• Arnold Schwarzenegger as Maj. Alan "Dutch" Schaefer
• Carl Weathers as Major George Dillon
• Elpidia Carrillo as Anna
• Bill Duke as Sgt. Mac Eliot
• Jesse Ventura as Sgt. Blain Cooper
• Sonny Landham as Billy Sole
• Richard Chaves as Jorge "Poncho" Ramirez
• Shane Black as Rick Hawkins
• R. G. Armstrong as Maj. Gen. Homer Phillips
• Kevin Peter Hall as The Predator and end scene helicopter pilot
• Edward J Sisto as end scene helicopter co-pilot

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Production

A close-up of the face of the Predator

Predator was originally titled Hunter (in behind-the-scenes pictures, this moniker can be seen on the film equipment).^[1] Predator was John McTiernan's first studio film as director. The studio hired screenplay writer Shane Black to not only play a supporting role in the film, but to keep an eye on McTiernan due to the director's inexperience.^[1] According to the Special Edition 2-Disc DVD, both director McTiernan and Schwarzenegger lost 25 pounds during the film.^[1] Schwarzenegger's weight loss was a professional choice. McTiernan lost the weight because he avoided the food in Mexico due to health concerns.^[1] In an interview on the Special Edition, Carl Weathers said many of the actors would secretly wake up as early as 3am to work out before the day's shooting, in order to look 'pumped' during the scene. Weathers also stated that he would act as if his physique was naturally given to him, and would work out only after all the other actors were nowhere to be seen. It was reported that actor Sonny Landham was so unstable on the set that a bodyguard was hired; not to protect Landham, but to protect the other cast members from Landham. [1] Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (812x509, 246 KB) Movie screenshot from the 1987 film Predator. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (812x509, 246 KB) Movie screenshot from the 1987 film Predator. ... Behind the scenes is a popular term that refers to the actual workings of an endeavor, as opposed to what is normally perceived in the public view. ... A moniker (or monicker) is a pseudonym, or cognomen, which one gives to oneself. ... John Campbell McTiernan, Jr. ... Shane Black (born December 16, 1961) is an American actor, screenwriter and film director. ...

According to Schwarzenegger, filming was physically demanding as he had to swim in very cold water and spent three weeks covered in mud for the climactic battle with the alien.^[2] In addition, cast and crew endured very cold temperatures in the Mexican jungle that required heat lamps to be on all of the time. Cast and crew filmed on rough terrain that, according to the actor, was never flat, "always on a hill. We stood all day long on a hill, one leg down, one leg up. It was terrible."^[2] Schwarzenegger also faced the challenge of working with Kevin Peter Hall who could not see in the Predator suit. The actor remembers, "So when he's suppose to slap me around and stay far from my face, all of a sudden, whap! There is this hand with claws on it!"^[2] Hall stated in an interview that his experience on the film, "wasn't a movie, it was a survival story for all of us."^[3] For example, in the scene where the Predator chases Dutch, the water was foul, stagnant and full of leeches.^[3] Hall could not see out of the mask and had to rehearse his scenes with it off and then memorize where everything was. The outfit was difficult to wear because it was heavy and off-balance.^[3] For other uses, see Temperature (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Kevin Peter Hall (May 9, 1955 - April 10, 1991) was an American actor famous for his roles as Dr. Elvin Lincoln in Misfits of Science (1985), the monsters in Prophecy (1979), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), Predator (1987), and Predator 2 (1990). ...

Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally cast as the alien hunter, the idea being that the physical action star would use his martial arts skills to make the predator an agile, ninja-eqsue hunter.^[1] When compared to Schwarzenegger, Weathers and Ventura, actors known for their bodybuilding regimes, it became apparent a more physically-imposing man was needed to make the creature appear threatening.^[1] Jesse Ventura's autobiographical book also alleges Van Damme intentionally injured a stunt man.^[4] Eventually, Van Damme was removed from the film and replaced by the late actor and mime artist Kevin Peter Hall.^[1] Van Damme redirects here. ... Jiraiya, ninja and title character of the Japanese folktale Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari. ... Jesse Ventura (born James George Janos on July 15, 1951), also known as The Body, The Star, and The Governing Body, is an American politician, retired professional wrestler, Navy UDT veteran, actor, and former radio and television talk show host. ... Cover of the first English edition of 1793 of Benjamin Franklins autobiography. ... Kevin Peter Hall (May 9, 1955 - April 10, 1991) was an American actor famous for his roles as Dr. Elvin Lincoln in Misfits of Science (1985), the monsters in Prophecy (1979), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), Predator (1987), and Predator 2 (1990). ...

The film's creature was originally designed with a long neck, a dog-like head and a single eye.^[1] This design was abandoned when it became apparent that the jungle locations would make shooting the complex design too difficult.^[1] Originally, the studio contracted the makeup effects for the alien from Richard Edlund's Boss Film Creature Shop.^[5] However, problems filming the alien in Mexico resulted in the makeup effects responsibilities being given to Stan Winston.^[5] According to former Boss Films make-up supervisor Steve Johnson, the makeup failed because of an impractical design by McTiernan that included 12-inch length extensions that gave the Predator a backward bent satyr-leg.^[5] The design did not work in the jungle locations. After six weeks of shooting in the jungles of Palanque, Mexico, the production had to shut down so that Winston could make a new Predator. This took eight months and then filming resumed for five weeks.^[5] Winston said the creature's famous mandibles make-up was originally an idea of noted film director James Cameron.^[1] R/Greenberg Associates created the film's optical effects, including the alien's ability to become invisible, its thermal vision point-of-view, its glowing blood, and the electrical spark effects.^[5] The invisibility effect was achieved by having someone in a bright red suit (because it was the farthest opposite of the green of the jungle and the blue of the sky) the size of the Predator. The take was then repeated without the actors using a 30% wider lens on the camera. When the two takes were combined optically, a vague outline of the alien could be seen with the background scenery bending around its shape.^[5] For the thermal vision, infrared film could not be used because it did not register in the range of body temperature wavelengths. The filmmakers used an inframetrics thermal video scanner as it gave good heat images of objects and people.^[5] The glowing blood was achieved by green liquid from chem-lite sticks used by campers.^[5] The electrical sparks were rotoscoped animation using white paper pin registered on portable light tables to black and white prints of the film frames. The drawings were composited by the optical crew for the finished effects.^[5] Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris The dog (Canis lupus familiaris) is a domestic subspecies of the wolf, a mammal of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. ... Richard Edlund (December 6, 1940) is a multiple Academy Award- winning US special effects photographer. ... Stan Winston (born April 7, 1946, in Richmond, Virginia), is an Academy Award winning special effects and makeup artist, and film director. ... A bald, bearded, horse-tailed satyr balances a winecup on his erect penis, a trick worthy of note, on an Attic red-figured psykter, ca. ... This article is about the human bone. ... For other persons named James Cameron, see James Cameron (disambiguation). ... This article needs cleanup. ... Thermography can refer to a printing process and a imaging process. ... Thermoregulation is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when temperature surrounding is very different. ... For other uses, see Wavelength (disambiguation). ...

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Plot theme

There are a number of parallels between the plot of Predator and the plot of the ancient Anglo Saxon poem Beowulf^[6]. In both stories, a group of elite foreign warriors arrive in an area suffering the depredations of a mysterious, almost invisible monster that has defeated native warriors on their own ground — in Beowulf, the great hall Heorot; in Predator, the jungle. The warriors' weapons and tactics prove ineffective against the monster, who is protected by near-invincibility (Grendel), and near perfect stealth (Predator). Picking off the warriors one by one, the monster takes, or returns to steal, the corpses of its victims, to keep as trophies. This article is about the epic poem. ... Heorot is the stronghold of king Hrothgar in the epic poem Beowulf. ... Grendel is one of three antagonists, along with Grendels mother and the dragon, in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf (c. ... Stealth can refer to several things: Look up stealth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

At one crucial point in the original script, the Predator flees the warriors after being wounded in the arm (in the final film, the monster has been wounded in the left thigh). In Beowulf the monster's arm is torn from his body by the hero, Beowulf. In both stories, the hero discards some of the potent weapons with which he has been equipped (firearms in Predator; the legendary sword Hrunting in Beowulf) when he realizes they are useless against the monster, and in the end he is protected by his own special armor (simple mud, in the Predator version). Ultimately, the hero uses ingenuity and cunning to protect himself and outwit the monster. Look up script in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Related media

Predator has inspired a number of comic books, video games and popular anecdotes within the media. A range of Predator comics expanded the mythology, detailing encounters with the Alien creature at different points in history. Predator: Concrete Jungle is a third-person action-adventure video game released in 2005. Sci-Fi and cyberpunk writer John Shirley authored the Predator novel Forever Midnight in 2006 for DH Press. It fuses a futuristic interplanetary story with the Predator mythology. There is also a series of novels, comics, computer games and a film connecting Predator with the Alien series titled Alien vs. Predator. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... This article is about computer and video games. ... The Predator comic books are part of the Predator franchise published by Dark Horse Comics. ... Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott, is an extremely popular and influential science fiction/horror film that spawned several sequels and imitators. ... Action-adventure games (British English: arcade adventure) are video games that combine elements of the adventure game genre with various action game elements. ... Computer and video games redirects here. ... 2005 2005 in games 2004 in video gaming 2006 in video gaming Notable events of 2005 in video gaming. ... Berlins Sony Center reflects the global reach of a Japanese corporation. ... John Patrick Shirley (born February 10, 1953) is an American science fiction and horror writer of novels, short stories, and television & film scripts. ... The Predator novels are an extension of the Predator franchise published by Dark Horse Comics under their DH Press imprint. ... // Events June 26, 2006: J.K. Rowling reaveals that two characters will die in the seventh book of the Harry Potter series. ... DH Press is Dark Horse Comics imprint that publishes novels. ... Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott, is an extremely popular and influential science fiction/horror film that spawned several sequels and imitators. ... Comic book series Film version of Alien vs. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Haufrect, Ian T. "If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It", 20th Century Fox, 2001. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Gire, Dan. "Schwarzenegger on Predator", Cinefantastique, December 1987. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} Gire, Dan. "Predator: The Man in the Suit", Cinefantastique, December 1987. 
4. ^ Ventura, Jesse. "I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up", Signet, June 12, 2000. 
5. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Robley, Les Paul. "Predator: The Original Makeup", Cinefantastique, December 1987. 
6. ^ BEOWULFIANA:MODERN ADAPTATIONS OF BEOWULF

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External links

• IMDB - Predator page