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2009 film

9
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Shane Acker[4]
Screenplay by	Pamela Pettler[4]
Story by	Shane Acker[4]
Based on	ix by Shane Acker
Produced by	Jim Lemley[4] Tim Burton[4] Timur Bekmambetov[4] Dana Ginsburg[4]
Starring	Elijah Wood John C. Reilly Jennifer Connelly Christopher Plummer Crispin Glover Martin Landau Fred Tatasciore
Cinematography	Kevin R. Adams[4]
Edited by	Nick Kenway[4]
Music past	Deborah Lurie[4]
Production companies	Focus Features[4] Relativity Media[5] Lux Animation[6]
Distributed by	Focus Features[4]
Release date	September 9, 2009 (2009-09-09) [i]
Running time	79 minutes[7]
Countries	Usa[2] Grand duchy of luxembourg[three]
Language	English
Upkeep	$xxx 1000000[1]
Box office	$48.4 million[1]

9 is a 2009 computer-animated scientific discipline fiction film^[4] directed by Shane Acker, written past Pamela Pettler and produced by Jim Lemley, Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov and Dana Ginsburg. In the film, Elijah Woods voices a small-scale ragdoll-similar robot who awakens shortly after the terminate of mankind, and must find eight other robots to figure out the mystery behind humanity's destruction while tangling with the vicious creations of a massive soul-stealing machine. The film also features the voices of John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer and Crispin Glover, with Martin Landau and Fred Tatasciore.^{[8] [9]}

The film is based on Acker'southward CG-animated, Academy Award-nominated 2005 short film of the same name created at the UCLA Animation Workshop.^[10] Focus Features released it theatrically on September nine, 2009. The movie received more often than not mixed reviews from critics and earned $48.4 million on a $xxx million budget. It too received an Annie Honour nomination for Best Animated Effects in a Characteristic Production. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 29, 2009.

Plot [edit]

In an alternate 1940s world, a scientist is ordered past his dictator to create a robot in the credible name of progress, and so the scientist creates the B.R.A.I.Northward., a highly intelligent robot. The dictator seizes it upon its apparent completion and turns information technology into the Fabrication Machine, an armature that can construct an army of war machines to destroy the dictator's enemies. Merely the B.R.A.I.Due north. is seized before the scientist can requite it a soul, thus causing the Fabrication Car to decide to exterminate all of World's population. The Fabrication Machine reprograms the created war machines to attack humanity, and continue to wipe out all plant, animal and microbial life with toxic gas and chemical weapons. On the verge of destruction, the scientist uses alchemy to create ix homunculus-like rag dolls known as "Stitchpunks", giving them portions of his own soul via a talisman he created. He dies upon completion of the terminal doll.

Some time later, the final Stitchpunk, 9, awakens in the workshop. Taking the talisman with him, ix ventures into the devastated city and meets 2, a frail inventor who gives him a working phonation box and is surprised to see the talisman. The last active machine, the Cat-Beast, attacks the pair and abducts both ii and the talisman. 9 collapses, simply awakens in Sanctuary, the tower of an empty cathedral that is home to other Stitchpunks - the dogmatic leader one, his large babysitter viii, the cycloptic engineer five, and the mentally unstable oracle 6. one immediately declares 2 every bit dead, merely 9, having seen the condemned manufacturing plant where the Cat-Animal took him, decides to rescue him. 9 and five venture to the manufactory where they detect two. The True cat-Brute attacks the trio, but are saved by 7, the only female of the Stitchpunks. nine, drawn by curiosity, connects the talisman to the derelict Fabrication Machine, reviving it, and it subsequently kills two past sucking out his soul. nine, 5, and vii manage to escape the factory.

7 takes 9 and 5 to an abandoned library, where the silent scholar twins, 3 and iv, have taken residence, and bear witness nine the Fabrication Car's origins. v realizes the talisman's symbols match the clairvoyant drawings of six. 9 and 5 render to Sanctuary to investigate, but 1 intervenes and reprimands them for disobeying his orders. Meanwhile, the Fabrication Machine assembles new robotic creatures; one of them, the bird-like Winged Beast, attacks Sanctuary, leading to a battle between it and the Stitchpunks. 7 joins the fight, just is injured. The Stitchpunks win, defeating the Winged Creature, however, they lose their safe-house, as a fire had started during the fight.

As the group retreats to the library, 6, 3, and 4 cryptically explicate the talisman'southward origins, but ane reveals to the group that he sent 2 out of Sanctuary on a scouting trip to die. 7, shocked by this, attacks i, but flees when 9 intervenes. Meanwhile, the Fabrication Machine retrieves 2's corpse and uses it as a hypnotic lure for another one of its robot creatures, known as The Seamstress. The Seamstress attacks the library and captures both 7 and 8, merely 2'southward torso is recovered and given a funeral past the others. The others and so run to the manufacturing plant to destroy the machines. nine goes in lonely, kills the Seamstress, and rescues 7, just non before 8's soul is captivated by the Fabrication Machine. ix and 7 escape while the others destroy the mill.

The Stitchpunks celebrate the destruction of the factory, but the Fabrication Automobile, which survived, suddenly emerges from the ruins of the factory and absorbs five'southward soul. The Fabrication Auto attacks the group as they run abroad and manages to capture six. 6 tells 9 to get to the Scientist's workshop to find answers, before being captivated by the Fabrication Machine. nine follows vi's instructions, finding a holographic recorded message from the Scientist, explaining B.R.A.I.N.'s origins and that the Stitchpunks take his soul, making them the but hope for humanity. Following this revelation, 9 uncovers the purpose of the talisman and returns to his friends.

9 reunites with the other Stitchpunks and decides to sacrifice himself and then the others can recollect the talisman. Having had a change of heart, 1 redeems himself by saving nine, pushing him out of the way and allowing himself to be absorbed while 9 removes the talisman. 9 activates the talisman and reabsorbs the souls taken by the Machine, resulting in its final destruction. Afterwards, nine, 7, 3, and 4 free the souls of 5, 1, 6, 2, and eight from the talisman every bit they fly upward into the sky, causing it to rain. The final image shows that the raindrops comprise small flecks of glowing bacteria, bringing life back into the world.

Cast and characters [edit]

Stitchpunks [edit]

• 1 (Christopher Plummer) is the fearful, arrogant portion of the Scientist'south personality. He is the self-appointed leader of the group, demanding absolute loyalty from the others and frequently clashing with 9, who refuses to follow him. He is seen to be quite rude, lacking guilt for his actions when the others do not do every bit he is asked.
• 2 (Martin Landau) is the artistic and genius portion of the Scientist's personality. He is a kind, delicate former inventor. He is fascinated past garbage and scrap, and loves to explore the wastelands and look for parts for his inventions.
• 3 and 4 are twins, and the historians of the group and parts of the Scientist's personality. Both are unable to speak, but are capable of using flickering lights in their eyes to communicate with each other. They project images from their eyes to share data with the other Stitchpunks. They are very intelligent and energetic. They were establish alongside 5 by seven during a battle betwixt homo and machine. Their genders are unknown and unrevealed.
• 5 (John C. Reilly) is the healer function of the Scientist's personality. v is caring, nurturing, and the loyal, bighearted "common man" who always tries to play the peacemaker. He is seen equally the well-nigh frightened by the state of affairs, equally shown throughout the movie. He lost an eye during a battle betwixt human being and machine later on 7 found him with 3 and 4. Despite being afraid of conflict, he is skilled with his weapons of pick and is seen to mend the other members of the group when they are injure.
• 6 (Crispin Glover) is the artistic portion of the Scientist's personality. He sees things that the others in the group exercise not run across. vi'southward fingers are fabricated of ink pen nibs, which he uses to draw. His optics are asymmetric in size, possibly to represent his mental instability.
• 7 (Jennifer Connelly) is the fighter office of the Scientist's personality and (perchance) the only female of the grouping. A insubordinate and a loner, she is willing to take many risks for the good of her people. She seems very attached to iii and 4 and acts as a female parent or older sis figure to them.
• 8 (Fred Tatasciore) is the brutish ruffian from the Scientist'south personality. He is a master of weapons and wields one half of a scissor and a knife. He is the largest of the group, but the least intelligent. He is also responsible for protecting 1 equally seen in a boxing with the winged metal monster.
• 9 (Elijah Wood) is the youngest of the grouping that represents the Scientist'southward humanity, bigheartedness, thoughtfulness, and sincerity. He is very intelligent, simply he tin can make mistakes due to his curiosity. He seeks the truth in the history of his creation, and wishes to know the meaning of life.

Humans [edit]

• The Scientist (Alan Oppenheimer) invented the Fabrication Machine and later the nine stitchpunks to fight against the Fabrication Machine, hoping that they would continue the spark of life. Each of his creations contains a portion of his human soul, embodying both his qualities and flaws. The Fabrication Machine simply contains his intellect but no soul, which he later regrets not giving, equally it led to the Machine'southward corruption.
• The Chancellor (Tom Kane), who is the dictator of Deutschland, was responsible for causing the Fabrication Car to turn against humanity after refusing to award the Scientist's deal during the cosmos of the Fabrication Machine.

Music [edit]

9: Original Motion Flick Soundtrack
Soundtrack album past Danny Elfman and Deborah Lurie
Released	August 31, 2009 (2009-08-31) [11]
Recorded	2008-2009
Genre	Film soundtrack
Length	49:28
Label	E1 Music
Producer	Deborah Lurie
Danny Elfman and Deborah Lurie chronology
Terminator Salvation (2009) 9: Original Picture show Soundtrack (2009)

The film soundtrack was released simply on iTunes^[12] and on Amazon nine days before the film was released. Information technology includes the themes created by Danny Elfman, Deborah Lurie's film score and "Welcome Home" past Coheed and Cambria. The latter song was used in two trailers for the film, with minor censoring for the full song in the soundtrack. Forth with "Welcome Home", the teaser trailer also features an extract from "The Captain" past The Pocketknife, which was besides non included in the soundtrack. Other songs within the film that were not included in the soundtrack was the traditional "Dies Irae" chant, performed by Crispin Glover every bit office of the background score, and "Over the Rainbow", the vocal from The Magician of Oz and performed by Judy Garland. The song plays in a lighthearted scene when the surviving stitchpunks were celebrating the destruction of the factory and played it on a 78rpm phonograph record. Right after Deborah Lurie finished the score for the pic, she moved on to score Beloved John.

All music is composed by Danny Elfman and Deborah Lurie with soundtrack, except "Welcome Dwelling house" (lyrics by Claudio Sanchez, music by Coheed and Cambria).

No.	Title	Length
one.	"Introduction"	ane:42
ii.	"Finding Answers"	i:48
3.	"Sanctuary"	2:12
4.	"Winged Beast"	four:28
5.	"Reunion/Searching for Two"	2:12
half-dozen.	"The Machines"	0:58
vii.	"Out There"	ii:42
viii.	"Twins"	1:36
ix.	"Slaying the Beast"	ane:21
10.	"Return of the Machines"	2:47
11.	"Burial"	one:24
12.	"Reawakening"	iii:ten
13.	"The Aftermath"	one:41
14.	"Confrontation"	1:53
15.	"The Seamstress"	2:05
xvi.	"Return to the Workshop"	ane:54
17.	"The Purpose"	5:20
18.	"Release"	iv:00
xix.	"Welcome Home" (performed by Coheed and Cambria)	half-dozen:15
Total length:		49:28

Marketing [edit]

On December 25, 2008, a trailer was released on Apple.com that features The Pocketknife'south "The Captain" and Coheed and Cambria's "Welcome Home".^[13]

ix is the 2d animated feature film to be released by Focus Features, the first being Coraline, written and directed past Henry Selick and based on the book past Neil Gaiman. The trailer for 9 preceded Coraline when information technology was shown in theaters and released on DVD. A 2nd trailer for nine first appeared on G4's Assail of the Bear witness and was later shown before State of the Lost. It is an extensive trailer which includes a bit of the background story behind the existence of the creations. In Apr 2009, the flick'southward "Scientist" began making journal entries on a Facebook page called "9 Scientist", including essays about each of his nine creations. The "9 Scientist" Facebook folio seemingly references events leading upward to the release of the film.^[fourteen] A viral campaign promotional website for nine was launched. It shed some calorie-free upon the background of the 9 earth.^[fifteen] The trailer featured several machines: the Cat Beast, a catlike ambush predator that appeared in the original brusque picture; the Winged Beast, a pterodactyl-style automobile with movable blades in its oral fissure; the Seamstress, a hypnotic serpent; Steel Behemoths, large two-legged machines armed with a machine gun and poison gas missiles which can kill in a matter of seconds; the Fabrication Machine, a cyclopean, spiderlike automobile with many multi-jointed arms; and Seekers, aerial machines with searchlights.^[13] Later trailers also reveal the existence of several small spiderlike machines. Part of the film's marketing strategy was its release date of September 9, 2009 ("9/9/09").

Video game [edit]

Shortly before the picture's release, Life released a mobile game adaptation entitled nine: The Mobile Game for the iPhone and iPod Touch.^[16]

Reception [edit]

Critical response [edit]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an overall approving rating of 57% based on 187 reviews and average rating of 5.90/ten. The website'southward critical consensus states: "Although its story is perhaps too familiar and less complex than some might wish, nine is visually spectacular, and director Shane Acker's attention to particular succeeds in drawing viewers into the film's universe."^[17] On Metacritic, it holds a weighted average score of 60 out of 100 based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[eighteen]

Roger Ebert gave the motion-picture show iii stars out of iv, favorably comparing it to the works of Hayao Miyazaki and maxim that it is "beautifully animated and intriguingly unwholesome... withal worth seeing".^[19] The general sentiment by critics is that the film is "long on imaginative design just less substantial in narrative."^[20] Variety 'south Todd McCarthy says, "In the end, the motion-picture show'south impact derives mostly from its design and assured execution."^[21]

Box office [edit]

Its opening weekend landed it at #2 behind I Can Exercise Bad All By Myself with approximately $10,740,446 and $15,160,926 for its five-day opening.^[22] The film has grossed Usa$48,428,063 worldwide.^[1]

Awards and nominations [edit]

Awards

Honour	Category	Recipient(s)	Consequence	Citation
Annie Awards
	Best Blithe Effects in a Characteristic Product	Alexander Feigin	Nominated	[23]
	All-time Production Design in a Feature Production	Christophe Vacher
Producers Guild of America Awards	Producer of the Twelvemonth in Animated Motion Flick		Nominated	[24]
Visual Furnishings Society Awards	Outstanding Animation in an Blithe Feature Motion Moving picture	Ken Duncan, Jinko Gotoh, Daryl Graham, Joe Ksander	Nominated	[25]
Washington D.C. Area Moving picture Critics Clan	Best Animated Motion picture	Focus Features	Nominated	[26]
Motion Moving picture Audio Editors
	Best audio editing for music in a musical feature film		Nominated	[27]

Home media release [edit]

The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on Dec 29, 2009, three-and-a-half months afterward the film'south theatrical release.^[28] The DVD and Blu-ray contained special features such as the director Shane Acker'south original 2005 short motion-picture show of the same name, cast interviews, and commentary past the filmmakers.^[29]

Possible sequel [edit]

"I think there is definitely room. I hateful, the style we cease the pic, there is a slight suggestion that it may exist a new kickoff. And I call back we could continue the journey from where we left off and see how these creatures are existing in a world in which the natural surround is coming back and perhaps even threatening them in some way. Do they brand the decision to not affect it, or exercise they try to affect it in some way? And do they nevertheless try to hold on to that humanity within them or do they recognize themselves at being machines too and become off on a different trajectory? And so there'southward lots of idea that I retrieve that we could play with and make another story out of."[30]

— Director Shane Acker in a 2009 interview with Joblo.com.

No plans for a sequel have been made, simply possibilities were mentioned via the film'due south 2009 DVD commentary. Manager Acker has also mentioned the possibility of a sequel being made considering of the lack of darker animated films, claiming that everything is One thousand- and PG-rated with fiddling to no dark elements. In 2009 he said that he volition go along to make darker animated films, either doing so with a sequel to 9 or original ideas for future films.^[31] Before the theatrical release of the film, Acker and producer Tim Burton stated they were open up for a sequel, depending on how well the film was received.^[32] Since the film's home release, there have been no farther mentions of a sequel, with Acker focusing on projects announced in 2011 (The Adventures of Thomas), 2012 (Deep), 2013 (Beasts of Burden) and other 4 projects aimed for older audiences of which take not been released every bit of Baronial 2021^[update],^{[33] [34] [35]} until Crusoe, a comic science fiction curt film began to release 2021.^[36]

Despite the silence from Acker, in January 2017, the Facebook profile of the grapheme "the Scientist" was updated with a rather ambiguous message. The profile had been inactive since 2009, leading some to speculate the teasing of a sequel.^[37]

Come across also [edit]

• Listing of American films of 2009
• 9 (2005 motion-picture show) – The original short film on which 9 is based.
• Rag doll

References [edit]

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24. ^ "Motion Film Nominations for the 2010 PGA Awards Announced". Producers Guild of America. Archived from the original on April 10, 2012. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
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33. ^ Arrant, Chris (Baronial half dozen, 2012). "Managing director Shane Acker ("9"), Ireland's Brownish Bag Films, Producer Gregory R. Little and Author J. Barton Mitchell Launch Animated Undersea Adventure Film "Deep"". Drawing Brew.com . Retrieved December v, 2016.
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37. ^ "The light has faintly flickered on again beneath the ashes and I take begun the long awaited search for hope... I must find 9". facebook.com. January xx, 2017. Retrieved November thirty, 2017.

External links [edit]

• Official website
• ix at IMDb
• 9 at the TCM Movie Database
• 9 at Box Office Mojo
• nine at Rotten Tomatoes
• nine at Metacritic
• The Scientist's Laboratory - Link To Beauty Products
• 9 picture gallery
• Shane Acker's official website - Dead Link

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