![]() ![]() Gradually, they learn that it contains a set of instructions and directions for an exit from the city in the pipeworks. At home, Lina (a descendant of the seventh Mayor) finds the opened box and enlists Doon's help to decipher its contents. Shortly afterwards, the two secretly exchange assignments and Doon is apprenticed to the elderly technician Sul. Doon Harrow, the son of inventor and repairman Loris Harrow, is assigned "Messenger" while his classmate Lina Mayfleet is assigned "Pipeworks". Several decades later, Ember's generator begins to fail, and food, medicine and other necessities are in dangerously short supply.Īt a rite of passage event for all graduating students of Ember City School, Mayor Cole stands before the students as their adult occupations are assigned by lottery. The box opens by itself at the allotted time, but it goes unnoticed. When the seventh Mayor dies suddenly, the succession is broken, and over time, the box's significance is forgotten. This box is entrusted to the Mayor of the City of Ember, and each Mayor passes it on to their successor. In addition, a small metal box intended for a future generation of Emberites is timed to open after 200 years. ![]() When an unspecified global catastrophe looms, an underground city known as Ember is constructed to shelter a large group of survivors. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a box office bomb, grossing only $17.9 million against a budget of $55 million. ![]() Produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone and Walden Media, City of Ember was theatrically released on October 10, 2008, by 20th Century Fox, two months after the release of the final book in the series, The Diamond of Darkhold. Directed by Gil Kenan in his live-action directorial debut, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray, Mackenzie Crook, Martin Landau, Mary Kay Place, Toby Jones and Tim Robbins. ![]() My vote is seven.City of Ember is a 2008 American science fantasy adventure film based on the 2003 novel The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. It is irritating the repetitive type of review that tells the obvious ("the book was better and better"). However, the unknown Saoirse Ronan steals the movie with a great performance. Unfortunately the fate of politicians in real world is not the same of his character. The cast has names like Martin Landau, Tim Robbins and a hilarious Bill Murray that performs the typical politician, corrupt, selfish and manipulative. The dark city is a sort of combination of the environment of "Brazil, the Movie" and "Metropolis". "City of Ember" is an original and engaging adventure and it was a great surprise for me. When they are hunted by the major's hoodlums, they have to find the way out of Ember to survive and save the populations from the imminent darkness and end of the city. They decide to explore the way out of the city and they discover that the corrupt major and his henchmen are stealing food of the population. Lina, who is the descendant of the seventh mayor, finds the box of instructions in the house of her grandmother and shows it to her friend Doon. On the Assignment Day, the teenagers Lina Mayfleet (Saoirse Ronan) and Doon Harrow (Harry Treadaway) are assigned to work with the pipework and as messenger, but they swap their job positions. The power generator has problems and the blackouts are longer and more frequent and the city is running out of food that needs to be rationed. However, the instructions are lost and the inhabitants stay in the city that is completely deteriorated. They leave also instructions for the future generations to return the surface of the planet in a steel box that should be kept by the mayors through the generations. In the end of mankind on Earth, the scientists build a self-sufficient underground city for a few people to preserve the human race for two hundred years. ![]()
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