The Bumblebee Flies Anyway is a 1999 film starring Elijah Wood, directed by Martin Duffy. It was based on the novel of the same name by Robert Cormier Plot Barney Snow (Elijah Wood) wakes up in a hospital with no memory of why he is there. All he has is. BUMBLEBEE FLIES ANYWAY - 文學, -,,誠品網路書店. 首頁 〉外文書 〉青少年文學 〉文學 〉BUMBLEBEE FLIES ANYWAY. ![]() ![]() Elijah Wood - The Bumblebee Flies Anyway. The Bumblebee Flies Anyway. Elijah Wood release for the year 2. Chain of Fools, both films having limited release. ![]() ![]() The Fellowship of the Ring, Ash. Wednesday and The Two Towers. Unlike the dark farce of Chain. Fools, Bumblebee is an introspective film dominated by Elijah. Woods towering talent and ability to intelligently understand his characters. The film opens with a montagea flashback to an auto accident. Title: The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999) 6.4 /10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Login Show HTML View more styles Getting Started | Contributor Zone ». The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999) Trailer Starring: Elijah Wood, Rachael Leigh Cook, Janeane Garofalo. The Bumblebee Flies Anyway has 982 ratings and 47 reviews. John said: Robert Cormier is my favorite author.Barney Snow lives in the Complex, an institu. The Bumblebee Flies Anyway is a book about a sixteen year old boy named Barney Snow who lives in. The latest critic and user reviews, photos and cast info for The Bumblebee Flies Anyway. For a movie based on a Robert Cormier novel, this is surprisingly uplifting. I don't remember the book having nearly this positive an ending. Bernard Snow (Barney) age seventeen rides a red convertible downhill. There are ambulances, echoes of his mother. When Barney awakes, he lies on a gurney. We learn, as he meets with Dr. Harriman, played by Janeane. Garofalo, that Barney has agreed to be part of an experiment where he. He is also told that terminally. This detachment he practices by focusing his attention on a. Then. enter Billy, a young African American kidney disease patient, who confines. I don't want to walk." Billy. Barney to Umberto (Berto) Mazzo, who is rich, anti- social and. Barney Snow undergoes his treatment. He is hypnotized. Dr. Croft (research head), does word association and sees the auto. He gets that flashback again while awake in the. Allie Roon, a brain disorder patient. Barney tells Harriman (who hes nicknamed. Handyman) about his memories of the crash. She tells him to keep those.
He writes a note to himself"I am Barney Snow. I was in. a car crashred," and tapes it to his toe so he cannot forget. He. begins to doubt his ability to stay detached as he meets new friends. But he tries and earns the nickname, "The Ice Man."Mazzo makes a deal with Barney. He will let Billy use. Walkman phone if Barney will agree to meet Mazzos sister, Cassie. Italy. Barneys detachment is beginning to wane. He agrees to meet Cassie. Its a rouse to buffer Mazzo from family intimacy. But it serves to put Barney together with someone he likes. Hes attracted. to Cassie. Mazzo also begins to act more friendly to Barney. Barney complains. Dr. Harriman that he is beginning to remember things, but in some fog. Harriman begins to ignore her own predilection to stay. She begins to question whether Dr. Crofts approach is worth. After finding out his mothers name, Barney thinks hes. Cassie drives him to the location, but we learn that Barneys. While with Cassie, Barney becomes protective. Mazzo, when one of Mazzos friends acts like a real ass- hole. Barney has assumed a new family onto his blank memory. Mazzo emerges on the bad side of his experiment and tells. Barney how he loves to speed in fast cars and longs to do so again. He. asks Barney to pull the plug, something Barney cannot do. He could. if he had remained detached). Barney decides to fill in his days by building. Institutes attic using junkyard parts. This car is more. This focuses him (along with Billy and Allie). Mazzo has a seizure and Cassie (as his identical twin). She shows up at the institute, where Barney helps her. As Mazzo recovers, Barney builds this modified soapbox car in the. While roaming between the attic and his room, he finds the room. The car accident was not real. It. was staged as part of the experiment to give Barney a memory, built as. Harriman explains that they call it Project. Bumblebee because by the laws of nature, bumblebees should not be. The experiment is designed to shunt disease using the mind to heal. Barney. learns about his parents and also that he had terminal bone cancer (in. The blanks are gone. Barney Snow now faces a dilemma. In order to continue. He is. symptomatic again, the cancer returning. Cassie is leaving for Italy. He expresses his love for her and extracts a promise that "if the. I dont remember all this, tell me our story.". Then, there is Mazzo. Barney decides to give Mazzo his wish, but not by pulling. The. Bumblebee) and give him the thrill of his life down the roof"a small. He also decides, he will go as well. In the films. most poignant moment (a drama somewhere between Chekhov and ONeill). Barney hovers the Bumblebee and Mazzo on the roof trying to give Mazzo. He has a family now and cannot bear placing. In the end, he lets Mazzo. Dr. Harrimans) abandonment of their ability to stay detached. In the end. Cassie seeks Barney at a hospice. He does not remember her (but by his. The Bumblebee Flies Anyway is a quiet film filled. Elijah Wood being the master of subtlety, his face. Silent Films. The script. Ice to the rubber ball. Bumblebee itself. References to Elijah Woods previous film Radio. Flyer are there, although coincidental; and a forecast to another. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind are also there, more. Elijah Woods preference in film role choices. Because many. of Elijah Woods fans prize his James Dean look (and this film. Elijah in the shower. The Bumblebee Flies Anyway has attracted viewers far beyond. DVD release. It is one of this reviewers favorite films.
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