Polar Express Christmas Events for Kids and Family
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| Directed by | Robert Zemeckis |
| Screenplay by |
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| Based on | The Polar Express past Chris Van Allsburg |
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| Narrated by | Tom Hanks |
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| Music by | Alan Silvestri |
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| Distributed past | Warner Bros. Pictures[1] |
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| Running time | 100 minutes[2] |
| Country | U.s.a. |
| Language | English language |
| Budget | $165–170 meg[iii] [four] |
| Box role | $314.1 million[5] |
The Polar Express is a 2004 American figurer-blithe Christmas musical fantasy adventure picture[1] co-written and directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the 1985 children's book of the aforementioned proper name by Chris Van Allsburg, who also served as ane of the executive producers. The film features human characters animated using alive-action motion-capture animation. It tells the story of a young boy who, on Christmas Eve, sees a mysterious train bound for the Northward Pole stop outside his window and is invited aboard by its conductor. The boy joins several other children equally they embark on a journey to visit Santa Claus preparing for Christmas. The film stars Tom Hanks, also one of the film's executive producers, in multiple distinct roles, with Daryl Sabara, Nona Gaye, Jimmy Bennett, and Eddie Deezen in supporting roles.
Castle Rock Entertainment produced the film in association with Shangri-La Entertainment, ImageMovers, Playtone, and Golden Hateful Productions for Warner Bros. Pictures, equally Castle Rock's start animated film. Its visual furnishings and performance capture were washed at Sony Pictures Imageworks. The film was made with a product budget of $165–170 meg, a record-breaking sum for an blithe feature at the time.
The Polar Express was released in both conventional and IMAX 3D theaters on Nov 10, 2004 and grossed $286 million worldwide during its initial run ($314 meg with subsequent re-releases) and was later on listed in the 2006 Guinness Globe Records as the offset all-digital capture film. The film also marks Michael Jeter's last acting office before his death, and the picture was thus dedicated to his memory.[vi]
Plot [edit]
On Christmas Eve night in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a steam locomotive passenger railroad train stops at the house a boy who is growing increasingly skeptical about the beingness of Santa Claus. He goes exterior to check it out and the conductor says it's the Polar Express and is on its way to the North Pole and encourages the boy to hop on. Although reluctant at kickoff, the boy climbs aboard and meets a spirited girl and a smart know-it-all boy. The train then stops to pick up a boy named Billy. At start, Baton refuses to lath, but he changes his mind, prompting the boy to apply the emergency brake, assuasive Baton to lath. The children are served hot chocolate by a team of singing and dancing waiters, and the girl saves a cup for Baton, who chooses to sit lonely in the observation car. The usher and the girl go to give Billy his loving cup, simply the boy notices that the daughter's ticket has not yet been validated. When he tries to take it to the girl, the wind takes it to the eagles and wolves, only it soon finds its way back into the train; after the girl discovers that her ticket is missing (although the boy offers his ticket, the conductor does not allow this), the conductor leaves with the daughter, presumably to throw her off. Before the male child can stop the train again, he finds the ticket and traverses the rooftops of the train to observe the girl.
The hero boy encounters a mysterious ghostly hobo that takes him to the engine, where the girl has been put in charge since the driver and fire fighter, Smokey and Steamer, are decorated replacing the headlight. Subsequently the light is replaced, they are forced to stop the railroad train when they see a herd of caribou blocking the tracks. The usher yanks on Smokey'southward beard, causing Smokey to cry out in pain, and the caribou clear the tracks. As the train continues on, information technology moves at an extreme speed due to the split pivot shearing off, and the railroad train starts rocketing down Glacier Gulch. One time they reach a frozen lake, Smokey uses his pilus pin to replace the split pin and Steamer narrowly gets the train onto the tracks on the other side of the lake later on the water ice breaks.
Once the hero boy and the girl are safe, the conductor takes them back to their seats. They go through an abandoned coach full of thrown away toys where the hobo uses a marionette puppet of Ebenezer Scrooge to frighten the male child. They soon find Baton singing to himself. The train arrives at the North Pole, where the conductor announces that one of the children will be chosen to receive the first gift of Christmas from Santa himself. Seeing Billy still lone in the observation car, the girl and boy persuade him to join them. However, the boy accidentally uncouples the car, sending information technology hurtling along a road towards an underground railway turntable within Santa's workshop. The children make their way through an elf command center and a gift-sorting office facility, where Baton finds a present in his proper noun, before sliding down a massive slide into a funnel and beingness dumped into a giant sack of presents, where they too find the know-it-all child. Subsequently the sack is loaded onto Santa'south sleigh, the elves escort them out before Santa and his reindeer arrive.
A bell flies loose from the galloping reindeer's reins; the boy initially cannot hear information technology ring, until he finds it within himself to believe. He returns the bell to Santa, who selects him to receive the first gift of Christmas. Santa agrees to allow him keep the bell, and the male child places information technology in his robe pocket. The rear automobile is returned to the train by the elves as the children board to go back home, just the boy discovers that he lost the bell through a hole in his pocket he unintentionally ripped while getting out of bed. As presently every bit Billy heads dwelling house, his nowadays is waiting for him inside the house. Hero Male child returns home, and the conductor reminds him that "it doesn't affair where you're going. What matters is deciding to go on." And wishes him a Merry Christmas. He awakens on Christmas forenoon to find a present containing his lost bell with a note from Santa. He and his younger sister Sarah joyfully ring the bell, merely their parents do not hear the bell since they don't believe in Santa and determine that the bell is broken. The boy reflects on his friends and sister eventually growing deaf to the bell over the years as their conventionalities faded. All the same, despite the fact he is now an developed, the bell still rings for him, every bit it does "for all who truly believe".
Cast [edit]
The pic marks the final functioning of actor Michael Jeter; Jeter died the year before the moving picture'due south release and is dedicated in his retentiveness.
- Tom Hanks as Hero Boy (adult voice), Hero Male child's father, Usher, Hobo, Scrooge puppet, and Santa Claus
- Josh Hutcherson every bit Hero Boy (motion-capture)
- Daryl Sabara equally Hero Male child (kid vox)
- Nona Gaye every bit Hero Girl
- Chantel Valdivieso equally Hero Girl (additional motion-capture)
- Meagan Moore every bit Hero Daughter (singing voice)
- Tinashe equally Hero Daughter (motion-capture model)
- Peter Scolari every bit Billy the Lonely Boy (motion-capture)
- Hayden McFarland as Billy the Lonely Boy (boosted movement-capture)
- Jimmy Bennett as Billy the Lonely Boy (voice)
- Matthew Hall as Baton the Lone Male child (singing voice)
- Eddie Deezen as Know-It-All
- Jimmy Pinchak as Know-It-All (additional motion-capture)
- Michael Jeter equally Smokey and Steamer
- André Sogliuzzo as Smokey and Steamer (boosted voice)[7]
- Leslie Zemeckis as Sis Sarah (movement-capture) and Hero Boy'southward female parent
- Isabella Peregrina every bit Sis Sarah (voice)
- Ashly Holloway as Sister Sarah (additional motion-capture)
- Dylan Cash equally Boy on Train (voice)
- Brendan King and Andy Pellick as Pastry Chefs
- Josh Eli, Rolandas Hendricks, Jon Scott, Sean Scott, Mark Mendonca, Marker Goodman, Gregory Gast, and Gordon Hart as Waiters
- Julene Renee as Red Caput Girl and an Elf
- Chris Coppola as Gus the Toothless Boy and an Elf
- Connor Matheus as Toothless Boy (additional motility-capture)
- Phil Fondacaro, Debbie Lee Carrington, Mark Povinelli, and Ed Gale as Elves
- Charles Fleischer as Elf General
- Steven Tyler as Elf Lieutenant and Elf Vocaliser
Production [edit]
Development [edit]
Hanks optioned the book in 1999 with the hopes of playing the conductor and Santa Claus.[8] I of the conditions of the sale was that the resulting movie not be blithe. Zemeckis, however, felt that a alive-activeness version was unfeasible, challenge that it "would await atrocious, and it would exist incommunicable – it would cost $1 billion instead of $160 1000000."[9] Zemeckis felt that such a version would rob the audience of the art fashion of the volume which he felt was "so much a part of the emotion of the story".[8] The two acquired the rights to the book the following year. In club to go on his vision a new process was created by which actors would be filmed with move capturing equipment in a black box stage which would then exist animated to make the resulting film.[eight] Hanks stated that this method of working was "actually a return to a type of acting that acting in films does not allow you lot to do", comparing the process to performing a play in the round.[10] The idea of a Scrooge puppet was conceived when Zemeckis looked at his toys he used to accept, one of which was a puppet.
Hanks plays 5 roles in the motion picture including that of a small kid (whose voice would later be dubbed in by Daryl Sabara).[eleven] Initially Zemeckis considered having him play every role, but afterward trying this, Hanks grew exhausted, and they whittled down the number.[10]
Principal photography [edit]
Master photography of the motion-captures sequences began in June 2003, and wrapped in May 2004.[12]
Soundtrack [edit]
The soundtrack of the film, titled The Polar Express: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack , was released on November 2, 2004 past Reprise Records, Warner Music Group and Warner Sunset Records.[xiii] The song, "Believe", written by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri, was nominated for Best Original Vocal at the 77th Academy Awards. It was sung at the 77th Academy Awards show by original performer Josh Groban with Beyoncé. Information technology gained a Grammy Award in 2006.
The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in November 2007. Having sold 724,000 copies in the United States, it is the best-selling motion-picture show soundtrack/holiday album hybrid since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking music sales in 1991.
Most of the original orchestral score featured in the film was non released on the soundtrack and has never been released. The soundtrack mostly comprises only songs featured in the film.[14] A limited number of promotional "For Your Consideration" CDs, intended to showcase the film'southward score to reviewers of the film, were released in 2005. This CD contained almost the complete score, only none of the pic'due south songs. Various bootleg versions of the soundtrack, combining both the official soundtrack album and the orchestral-just CD, accept since surfaced.
Architecture [edit]
Administration building of the Pullman Palace Car Company
The buildings at the North Pole refer to a number of buildings related to American railroading history. The buildings in the square at the metropolis'south center are loosely based on the Pullman Factory in Chicago's Pullman neighborhood.[fifteen]
The Polar Express Locomotive [edit]
Pere Marquette locomotive 1225, the basis for the Polar Limited.
The locomotive featured in the film is an American 2-eight-4 Berkshire blazon steam locomotive modeled later on the Pere Marquette 1225, which had spent many years on static display near Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan on the campus of Michigan Country Academy, where Chris Van Allsburg recalled playing on the engine when attention football games as a child. The engine in the movie, however, is noticeably different from the existent Pere Marquette 1225, and somewhat closer to looking like an S-i from the Erie Railroad. These include the headlight being mounted into the smokebox, like many Delaware & Hudson steam locomotives, instead of being on a platform or the moo-cow catcher, and the whistle beingness mounted on the upper correct manus side of the boiler mounted upright, instead of on peak of the boiler, mounted horizontally. It also lacks the feedwater heater, marking lights, number boards, and builders plates the existent Pere Marquette 1225 has. The moo-cow catcher is also bigger than it is in real life, with slats extending to the pilot beam, and it also lacks a coupler.[16]
In July 2002, Warner Bros. approached the locomotive's owner, the Steam Railroading Institute, to study the engine.[17] The engine in the film is modeled from the PM No. 1225's drawings and the sounds from recordings made of the 1225 operating under steam.[eighteen]
Marketing [edit]
Video game [edit]
A video game based on the film was released on November two, 2004 for GameCube, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2 and Windows, developed by Blue Natural language Entertainment and published by THQ.[19] [xx] The plot of the game is somewhat unlike than the pic version. Within the game, the Ebenezer Scrooge puppet—who is set up as the main antagonist of the game—attempts to foreclose the children from believing in Santa Claus by stealing their tickets and trying to cease the children from making it to the North Pole.[21] [22]
Toy trains [edit]
Model railroad architect Lionel continues to make Polar Express railroad train sets and equipment, including locomotives, traincars, and trackside buildings.[23]
Train trips [edit]
The picture show has as well spawned multiple real-world holiday railroad train-travel experiences based loosely on the film's train journey all over the United States, as well as Canada, and fifty-fifty the Britain under license from Rails Events Inc.[24]
These include the Polar Express railroad train ride held at the Grand Canyon Railway,[25] [26] the Polar Express Train Ride of the Keen Smoky Mountains Railroad,[27] the Polar Express Train Ride of the Texas Land Railroad,[28] The Polar Limited Railroad train Ride in Whippany, New Jersey, and The Polar Express Train Ride at Aspen Crossing.[29] The Pere Marquette 1225 itself pulls a similarly-themed Christmas train, albeit under the name of the North Pole Express.[30]
The Uk'southward offset Polar Express train rides were hosted on the Dartmoor Railway and the Weardale Railway which were both owned by the visitor British American Railway Services. These services were all diesel hauled, however in 2016, Telford Steam Railway became the starting time United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland line to run the Polar Express with steam,[31] [32] powered by one of two American-built S160 2-8-0 locomotive's No's. 5197 & 6046 courtesy of Churnet Valley Railway in Staffordshire.[33] Other steam operated Polar Express train rides in the UK are by Vintage Trains, which operated Great Western 4-6-0 Hall class No. 4965 Rood Ashton Hall for the ride, albeit being renamed Polar Star,[34] and PNP Events' Polar Limited Train Rides in Oxfordshire (Cholsey and Wallingford Railway), the Yorkshire Dales (Wensleydale Railway),[35] South Devon (S Devon Railway) and Imperial Tunbridge Wells (Spa Valley Railway). The Polar Express Train Ride also operates on the Mid-Norfolk Railway,[36] and the Seaton Tramway operate the "Polar Limited Tram Ride".[37]
Concert presentations [edit]
In 2021, CineConcerts in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products presented The Polar Express in Concert, being symphony hall showings of the movie backed by a alive symphony orchestra and choir.[38]
The Polar Limited Experience [edit]
In November 2007, SeaWorld Orlando debuted the Polar Express Experience, a move simulator ride based on the flick. The attraction was a temporary replacement for the Wild Chill attraction. The building housing the attraction was also temporarily re-themed to a railroad station and ride vehicles painted to resemble Polar Express passenger cars. The plot for the ride revolves around a trip to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. Guests feel the movement of the locomotive besides as the swinging of the railroad train on ice and feeling of water ice crumbling beneath them. The attraction was available until January 1, 2008,[39] and was open annually during the Christmas season. 2015 was the final twelvemonth of performance for the Polar Limited Experience and Wild Arctic has since operated on a year-round schedule.
The 4D film, distributed by SimEx-Iwerks, has been shown at other amusement parks around the world including Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, Stone Mount, Dollywood (during the almanac Smoky Mountain Christmas event), Vancouver Aquarium (2009—2010).[xl]
Release [edit]
The Polar Express premiered at the 40th Chicago International Film Festival on Oct 21, 2004.[41] [42] It opened on Nov 7 and went into wide distribution on November 10.[ane]
IMAX 3-D version [edit]
In addition to standard theatrical 35mm format, a iii-D version for IMAX was also released, generated from the same CGI digital models used for the standard version.[43]
Home media [edit]
The flick was released on DVD equally separated widescreen and full-screen versions in single and two-disc special editions (with bonus features) and on VHS on Nov 22, 2005, one year afterwards the pic originally came out in theaters.[44] [45] It was released on Hard disk drive-DVD with bonus features in 2006 and on Blu-ray with bonus features on October 30, 2007, both presented in the original widescreen aspect ratio.
Reception [edit]
Box office [edit]
The film opened at #2 behind The Incredibles, and earned $23.three million from approximately vii,000 screens at iii,650 theaters, for a per-theater average of $6,390 and a per-screen average of $3,332 in its opening weekend. It also brought in a total of $xxx.6 million since its Midweek launch. The weekend total likewise included $2.i 1000000 from 59 IMAX theaters, for an IMAX theater average of $35,593, and had a $three,000,000 take since Wednesday. In its second weekend, the film dropped 33%, and grossing $15.seven one thousand thousand, averaging $four,293 from 3,650 venues and boosting the 12-day cumulative gross to $51.v million. In its third weekend, which was Thanksgiving weekend, the movie increased by 24%, earning $nineteen.4 million, averaging $5,312 from 3,650 venues and raising the 19-mean solar day cumulative gross to $81.v million.[46] The pic has made $187.9 meg in North America, and $126.iii million overseas for a full worldwide gross of $314.two million (including all re-releases).[five]
Disquisitional response [edit]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 56% of 208 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of six.forty/10. The website'due south consensus reads, "Though the film is visually stunning overall, the animation for the man characters isn't lifelike enough, and the story is padded."[47] Metacritic, which uses a weighted boilerplate, assigned the picture a score of 61 out of 100 based on 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[48] The Independent reported in 2011 that the motion-picture show "is now seen past many every bit a classic".[49] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a rare average grade of "A+" on an A+ to F calibration.[l]
Roger Ebert gave the film his highest rating of four stars, saying, "There's a deeper, shivery tone, instead of the mindless jolliness of the usual Christmas film", and "it has a haunting, magical quality". Acknowledging comments past other reviewers, Ebert said, "Information technology'southward a picayune creepy. Not creepy in an unpleasant fashion, but in that sneaky, teasing way that lets yous know eerie things could happen."[51] Richard Roeper and Mick LaSalle also gave highly positive reviews to the moving picture, with the old saying that information technology "remains true to the book, right downward to the bittersweet final prototype"[ commendation needed ] and the latter giving it his highest rating of five stars, calling information technology, "an enchanting, beautiful and brilliantly imagined film that constitutes a technological breakthrough."[52] James Berardinelli gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars, stating that information technology is "a delightful tale guaranteed to enthrall viewers of all ages", and ranked information technology as the tenth best film of 2004, tying with The Incredibles.[53] Ian Nathan of Empire Mag gave the film three out of five stars, and said, "For all the fairy-lit wonder, some will rail at the idea of Back to the Future 's director dabbling with such a schmaltzy tale. Cynics volition sneeze in shock; children will cuddle up and dream forth."[54] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian likewise gave the film three out of five stars, proverb, "After a promising and distinctive start, a railway hazard to meet Santa runs off the rails."[55]
The character blueprint and animation were criticized for dipping into the uncanny valley.[56] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film i out of iv stars, and chosen information technology "a failed and lifeless experiment in which everything goes incorrect".[57] Stephanie Zacharek of Salon gave the film ane.5 stars out of 5 and said, "I could probably have tolerated the incessant jitteriness of The Polar Express if the look of it didn't give me the creeps."[58] Geoff Pevere of the Toronto Star stated, "If I were a child, I'd have nightmares. Come to think of it, I did anyway."[59] Paul Clinton from CNN called it "at all-time disconcerting, and at worst, a wee chip horrifying".[60] Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote, "There's no mode of knowing whether they drank the company Kool-Aid. Notwithstanding, from the looks of The Polar Express it's clear that, together with Mr. Zemeckis, this talented gang has on some fundamental level lost touch with the human aspect of pic."[61]
Accolades [edit]
In 2008, the American Pic Found nominated The Polar Express for its Top 10 Blithe Films listing.[62] The movie was nominated at the 77th Academy Awards in the categories of Best Sound Editing (Randy Thom and Dennis Leonard), Best Sound Mixing (Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis Southward. Sands and William B. Kaplan), and Best Original Song for "Believe" (music and lyrics by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri).[63] The pic was nominated at the 3rd Visual Effects Society Awards in the category of "Outstanding Performance by an Animated Grapheme in an Animated Motility Picture."[64]
See also [edit]
- List of Christmas films
- Santa Claus in film
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Further reading [edit]
- Cotta Vaz, Mark; Starky, Steve (2004). The Art of the Polar Express (1st ed.). Chronicle Books. ISBN978-0811846592.
External links [edit]
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Quotations related to The Polar Express at Wikiquote - Official website
- The Polar Limited at IMDb
- The Polar Express at the TCM Pic Database
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