Pathfinder (2007 film)

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Pathfinder

Promotional poster for Pathfinder
Directed by Marcus Nispel
Produced by Marcus Nispel
Mike Medavoy
Arnold W. Messer
Written by Laeta Kalogridis
Starring Karl Urban
Moon Bloodgood
Music by Jonathan Elias
Cinematography Daniel Pearl
Editing by Jay Friedkin
Glen Scantlebury
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) April 13, 2007
Running time 99 mins.
Country USA
Language English, Icelandic
Budget $31 million[1]
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Pathfinder is a 2007 action film directed by Marcus Nispel, starring Karl Urban and Moon Bloodgood. It was released on April 13, 2007 with the DVD released on July 31, 2007. It has been rated R by the MPAA for strong and brutal violence throughout.

The story involves a conflict between Vikings and Native Americans six centuries before Columbus came to the New World. In reality, the Vikings did briefly settle Newfoundland in present-day Canada around 1000. Dark Horse has produced a graphic novel adaptation of the same name.[2][3]

The movie is loosely based on a Norwegian film from 1987, with the same English title.

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The boy who would come to be named Ghost was with a group of Viking colonizers who planned to exterminate the local population. Their dragon ship was somehow destroyed with the passengers brutally killed, leaving Ghost as the traumatized sole surviver. A native woman finds Ghost in the wreckage and adopts him as her own son.

Years later, Ghost remains tormented by his dreams, which along with his different appearance, interfere with his ability to fully assimilate into the community. He has feelings for a young woman from an allied tribe named Starfire, the daughter of Pathfinder, a man searching for a worthy successor.

Later, while hunting and gathering with the group, a young girl from Ghost's tribe wanders off, encounters a Viking and is attacked. She escapes back to the village, but is followed by the Vikings. They raze the village and slaughter nearly everyone, except a few men whom they want to murder individually in "duels." Ghost arrives back at the village too late. The Vikings decide to make Ghost duel; he maims his opponent and escapes. Injured during the pursuit, he hides in a cave where he is found by the allied tribe's hunting party. They bring him home, and the warriors discuss taking the initiative against the Viking invaders. Ghost, however, warns them that their wood and stone weapons are no match for the Vikings' metal. Ghost advises the villagers that their only chance of survival is to flee, and he departs to take on the Vikings alone.

He finds that he has been covertly followed by an admiring brave who cannot speak. In an abandoned village, they set a series of traps. Starfire, meanwhile, has chosen to leave the tribe and finds Ghost and his colleague. The three kill the Vikings off individually, stealing armor and weapons. Pathfinder, like his daughter, also finds Ghost and joins the fight. Eventually, both the mute and Pathfinder are killed, and Ghost and Starfire are captured. Ghost is recognized as the son of a Viking. The Vikings threaten to torture Starfire if Ghost will not betray the location of other villages, so Ghost agrees to help the Vikings.

Having gained the Vikings' trust, Ghost leads them along a dangerous mountain path, where many are killed by Ghost's cleverness. Ghost returns to Starfire with Pathfinder's necklace. Ghost assumes his position as the Coast Watcher, bravest of their tribe.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Pathfinder (2007). The Movie Insider. Retrieved on 2006-12-21.
  2. ^ Dark Horse Comics > Profile > Pathfinder TPB
  3. ^ Studio Ronin | Comic Books

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