Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers massive radiation exposure in his laboratory that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry.
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Film Cast:
- Bruce Banner / Hulk: Eric Bana
- Betty Ross: Jennifer Connelly
- Thaddeus E. “Thunderbolt” Ross: Sam Elliott
- Glenn Talbot: Josh Lucas
- The Father: Nick Nolte
- Young David Banner: Paul Kersey
- Edith Banner: Cara Buono
- Harper: Kevin Rankin
- Young Ross: Todd Tesen
- Mrs. Krensler: Celia Weston
- Teenage Bruce Banner: Mike Erwin
- Security Guard: Lou Ferrigno
- Security Guard: Stan Lee
- Security Guard: Regi Davis
- Security Guard: Craig Damon
- President: Geoffrey Scott
- National Security Advisor: Regina McKee Redwing
- Aide: Daniel Dae Kim
- Edith’s Friend: Daniella Kuhn
- Bruce Banner as Child: Michael Kronenberg
- Bruce Banner as Child: David Kronenberg
- Betty Ross as Child: Rhiannon Leigh Wryn
- Pediatrician: Lou Richards
- Waitress: Jennifer Gotzon
- Delivery Doctor: Louanne Kelley
- Delivery Nurse: Toni Kallen
- Officer: Paul Hansen Kim
- Security NCO: John Littlefield
- Soldier: Lorenzo Callender
- Soldier: Todd Lee Coralli
- Soldier: Johnny Kastl
- Soldier: Eric Ware
- Colonel: Jesse Corti
- Colonel: Rob Swanson
- Technician: Mark Atteberry
- Technician: Eva Burkley
- Technician: Rondda Holeman
- Technician: John A. Maraffi
- Technician: Michael Papajohn
- Technician: David St. Pierre
- Technician: Boni Yanagisawa
- Tank Commander: David Sutherland
- Comanche Pilot: Sean Mahon
- Comanche Pilot: Brett Thacher
- Comanche Pilot: Kirk B.R. Woller
- F-22 Pilot: Randy Neville
- Atheon Technician: John Prosky
- Boy: Amir Faraj
- Boy’s Father: Ricardo Aguilar
- Paramilitary: Victor Rivers
- Davey: Lyndon Karp
Film Crew:
- Casting: Avy Kaufman
- Producer: Larry J. Franco
- Production Design: Rick Heinrichs
- Original Music Composer: Danny Elfman
- Art Direction: John Dexter
- Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
- Director: Ang Lee
- Story: James Schamus
- Editor: Tim Squyres
- Supervising Sound Editor: Eugene Gearty
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Gary Rydstrom
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Dennis Muren
- Set Decoration: Cheryl Carasik
- Director of Photography: Frederick Elmes
- First Assistant Editor: Craig Alpert
- Characters: Stan Lee
- Producer: Avi Arad
- Executive Producer: Kevin Feige
- Sound Design Assistant: Dee Selby
- Set Designer: Roy Barnes
- Stunt Coordinator: Charles Croughwell
- Screenplay: Michael France
- Costume Design: Marit Allen
- Post Production Assistant: Tora Chung
- Makeup Artist: Gretchen Davis
- Casting Associate: Maureen Whalen
- Art Direction: Greg Papalia
- Music Editor: Ellen Segal
- Conceptual Illustrator: Simon Murton
- Characters: Jack Kirby
- Production Illustrator: Mauro Borrelli
- Orchestrator: Steve Bartek
- Sound Effects Editor: Paul Hsu
- Scoring Mixer: Robert Fernandez
- Associate Producer: David Womark
- Additional Music: Kenneth Burgomaster
- Visual Effects Editor: V. Scott Balcerek
- First Assistant Director: Artist W. Robinson
- Graphic Designer: Susan A. Burig
- Foley Artist: Marko Costanzo
- Assistant Editor: Peggy Eghbalian
- Dialect Coach: Susan Hegarty
- Animation Supervisor: Colin Brady
- Pilot: Cliff Fleming
- Songs: Slash
- Songs: Duff McKagan
- Special Effects Supervisor: Michael Lantieri
- Songs: Matt Sorum
- Screenplay: John Turman
- ADR Voice Casting: Barbara Harris
- Conductor: Rick Wentworth
- Songs: Scott Weiland
- Standby Painter: Christian Zimmermann
- Visual Effects Producer: Tom C. Peitzman
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Bruce Holcomb
- Sequence Supervisor: Ian Christie
- Utility Stunts: Brian Brown
- Digital Compositors: Leah Anton
- Casting: Franklyn Warren
- Foley Editor: Frank Kern
- Musician: Maria Newman
- Makeup Department Head: Dennis Liddiard
- Songs: Dave Kushner
- Costume Supervisor: Pamela Wise
- Key Set Costumer: Wendy M. Craig
- Costumer: Anthony Almaraz
- Art Department Coordinator: Kirstin Mooney
- Production Sound Mixer: Drew Kunin
- Script Supervisor: Jayne-Ann Tenggren
- Assistant Camera: Mark Colicci
- Concept Artist: Aaron McBride
- Supervising ADR Editor: Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
- Construction Coordinator: John Hoskins
- Dialogue Editor: Richard Quinn
- Transportation Captain: Maxwell R. Johnson II
- Associate Producer: Cheryl A. Tkach
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: André Dias
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Mei-Ming Casino
- Unit Publicist: Rachel Aberly
- Aerial Director of Photography: Hans Bjerno
- Property Master: Jerry Moss
- Production Assistant: Kathleen Lynch
- Visual Effects Art Director: Alex Jaeger
- Hairstylist: Carolyn Elias
- Transportation Coordinator: Tommy Tancharoen
- Visual Effects Producer: Lindsay Hallett
- Chief Lighting Technician: James R. Tynes
- Still Photographer: Peter Sorel
- Assistant Art Director: Mariko Braswell
- Leadman: Ernest M. Sanchez
- Rigging Gaffer: Frank Dorowsky
- Key Hair Stylist: Janice Alexander
- Steadicam Operator: Dan Kneece
- Visual Effects Production Manager: Lori Arnold
- Lead Animator: Miguel A. Fuertes
- CG Animator: Rick O’Connor
- Sculptor: Jeff Frost
- Visual Effects Production Assistant: Peter Demarest
- Best Boy Electric: Steele Hunter
- Video Assist Operator: Bryce Shields
- Post Production Supervisor: Lisa Rodgers
- Apprentice Sound Editor: Rick Chefalas
- Foley Editor: Steven Visscher
- Makeup Effects: Norman Cabrera
- Conductor: Pete Anthony
- Color Timer: Bob Kaiser
- Craft Service: Raymond Bulinski
- Set Medic: David O. Krupnick
- Production Supervisor: Michael J. Malone
- Motion Capture Artist: Gary Roberts
- Sound: James J. Mase
- Technical Supervisor: Jon Sharpe
- Driver: Michael W. Broomer
- 3D Artist: Bryan Thombs
- Storyboard Artist: Jerry Bingham
- Second Assistant Camera: Steve Wolfe
- Set Production Assistant: Brian Dettor
- Location Manager: Rory Enke
- Software Engineer: Ryan Kautzman
- Art Department Assistant: Ethan Goodwin
- Construction Foreman: Clete Cetrone
- Greensman: Richard J. Bell
- Painter: Donnie Grant
- Additional Camera: Jamie Maxtone-Graham
- Camera Operator: Robert Hill
- Assistant Costume Designer: Tasha Le Mel
- Set Dresser: Christopher Casey
- Armorer: Chuck Rousseau
- Carpenter: Frank Kilmartin
- Loader: Mark Connelly
- Picture Car Coordinator: Paul E. Stroh
- Propmaker: Dan Colegrove
- Scenic Artist: Philip Metschan
- Stand In: Chris Daher
- Stunts: Eric Abrahamson
- Layout: Ian O’Connor
- Electrician: Sophie Shellenberger
- Lighting Technician: Chris Funk
- Rigging Grip: Noah Behar
- Production Accountant: Kathy Petty
- Production Coordinator: Jennifer Campbell
- Boom Operator: Mark Goodermote
- ADR Mixer: Dean Drabin
- 3D Supervisor: Asa Hammond
- Visual Effects: Jean-Paul Beaulieu
- ADR Recordist: Philip Rogers
- Casting Assistant: Jessica Daniels
- Digital Compositor: Robert Hoffmeister
- Negative Cutter: Gary Burritt
- Dolly Grip: Chris Gordon
- Ager/Dyer: Jack Taggart
- Assistant Property Master: Mark W. Brown
- Title Designer: Synderela Peng
- Key Grip: Gary Dagg
- Grip: Bryan Antin
- Key Costumer: Diana Wilson
- Second Assistant Director: Deanna Stadler
- Assistant Production Coordinator: Mark Hager
- Music Programmer: Clay Duncan
- Creature Technical Director: Andrew Anderson
- Assistant Production Coordinator: Julie Fay
- First Assistant Camera: Dennis Rogers
- Decorator: Craig T. Shordon
- Special Effects Technician: Bruce Allan Donnellan
- Special Effects Makeup Artist: Akihito Ikeda
- Second Second Assistant Director: Maria Battle Campbell
- Music Producer: Nick Raskulinecz
- Second Assistant Accountant: Coleen Aiello
- Compositing Supervisor: Dorne Huebler
- First Assistant Accountant: Kelli Gillam
- Assistant Accountant: James D’Damery Jr.
- Post Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Dean
- Stunt Double: Chris Branham
- Stunt Driver: Jeffrey Moon
- Senior Animator: Virgine d’Annoville
- Assistant Location Manager: Perri Fichtner
- Location Assistant: Amira Bailey
- Additional Production Assistant: Adam Schardein
- Assistant Chief Lighting Technician: Cricket Sloat
- Extras Casting Assistant: Peggy Baslow
- Generator Operator: Chris Lindsay
- Payroll Accountant: Tania Levin
- Production Secretary: Lisa Curtis
- Researcher: Lisa Jackson
- Researcher: Shaun Young
Movie Reviews:
- Cwf97: Ang Lee helped revolutionize superhero related films forever with Hulk (2003). Rather than just have the hero try to save the world, Lee and James Schamus decided to have Bruce Banner deal with his Freudian psychology, specifically the repressed memories he had thirty years ago about his father.
The acting talents of Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte, Sam Elliott and Josh Lucas are perfect for the five main characters. Bana was able to do intentional wooden acting to hide his character’s repressed emotions while Connelly conveyed kindness as her Oscar winning role from A Beautiful Mind (2001).
What I loved about Lee’s interpretation is that he did not care about faithfulness. He cared about showing a cerebral kind of superhero film that later got imitated with The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005-2012), Watchmen (2009), Logan (2017), Dawn of Justice (2016) and Suicide Squad (2016).
Ang Lee is one of the best directors to have ever lived and Hulk is one of many films he directed for great proof.
- lori007101: The Green Giant is awakening!
As a little baby, the Offspring Bruce Banner Genmanipulativ is changed. Later, as a young man, he is a scientist himself and is employed with gamma radiation. He wants to try to reach scar tissue and injuries, using the radiations, a healing method. Through an accident with the radiation, banners mutate when he has a tantrum, to a Green Giant: the Hulk!
Eric Bana plays the shy and vulnerable Bruce banner. Although he does not really trust the role, he mastered the insecurity in person, sovereign.
Jennifer Connelly plays Betty Ross. Connelly embodies Betty cool and sober. It is only when she experiences how banners mutate that she shares a helping emotion.
Josh Lucas plays Glen Talbot. Talbot is fully fixated on his career and is a smug Sesselfurzer. He wants to develop the invention of banners for the military and thus create super soldiers. He has every means right for that. Lucas was arranged as a little villain. Unfortunately, he doesn’t necessarily come across like that.
The military commander Ross, is portrayed by Sam Elliott. Elliott plays his character cool and iron. He really wants to protect his country. That is why he acts defending and patriotic for his country.
Although Nick Nolte has at least playtime, he plays his role most deeply. The few minutes of presence, is a pleasure of acting.
The visual language of the director Ang Lee is very special. His idea of using certain settings as a split screen is also closer to the Marvel Comics. So that you really also realize the Hulk is a comic book template.
The effects from the year 2003 are good, but you can already notice certain Unperfektheiten.
The animations are still kitschy. Which seems a bit ridiculous, too. The story leaves a lot to miss. On the one part, because Hulk belongs in the MCU, here the humor and sarcasm is very rare to see. The colourful and colourful MCU can not be classified here. The story is portrayed here rather as a fantasy drama. Which then looks rather dull for a comic book template.
In the last third, it is right to the point and it is going to be quite an effect thunderstorm. It’s really a pity that you have to wait more or less until the end until the Hulk drops off steam.
Conclusion: A down-to-earth stand of the character hulk of Marvel Comics. Unfortunately, it diminishes the story through seriousness and dramaturgy that happens! - tmdb44006625: I mean, what was everyone expecting? They hired a director who does mostly Asian art-house movies to helm a comic book movie about a green monster who smashes things when he gets angry. Of course Ang Lee was going to delve into Freudian concepts, overtones of Greek tragedy, and strange editing choices.
My issues with Hulk are more focused on its painfully slow pace and messy third act. Yes, the whole movie seems a bit pretentious, but you have to at least admire the intent and ambition to make this movie, even if the execution is wonky.