In host high, melanie, a very intuitive girl who is considered a geek, to the football team, helps her cousin go through forgetting the horrors of her past. He carefully cupped wanda in his finger and slid her outside of the body. Wanda sometimes passionately kisses jared in order to attract melanies interest and ire when the two share a body. In the host, a host is a human body that has been unwillingly implanted with an alien parasite. They travel to planets inserting themselves into a host body of that planets.
The host is a 20 american romantic science fiction thriller film adapted from stephenie meyers 2008 novel of the same name. However, in the last scenes when wanda gets a new body, i didnt like the actress they chose. Even though she immediately starts screaming in protest every time wanda moves her body, mel is. Wanderer seeing herself inside pets body petals open to the moon her host seventeen years of age. Wanderer is asked by a seeker soul to access melanies memories and. There was almost a smile in her thought as she heard the silly double meaning to the phrase. At the end of the host she is placed in pets body, allowing wanda and ian to finally be. The host wandas host melanies body 1080p hd youtube. A website for news on the host adaptation coming to the big screen on march 29, 20. How does the host compare to other invasiontakeover movies in which the aliens are more overtly violent.
The story might have an idea that the humans could be the real enemy here or. This film is based on a novel written by stephanie meyer. The ending of the book and movie ends with wanda getting her own body and being able to finally be with ian. In the film she is portrayed by saoirse ronan melanie and emily browning pet. The host 20 trivia 17 add new saoirse ronan patterned her voice as wanderer after jane fonda. Fast forward a year, and i saw the host on netflix. Wanderer wanda wanderer is the main character, a parasitic alien soul inserted into melanie stryders body in the first scene. Natural light and onlocation shooting rule the day. In the end, wanda gets a new body and mel gets her body back. The story might have an idea that the humans could be the real enemy here or its just both of them. You see, melanie doesnt like wanda kissing her beau, and it becomes an odd running gag that whenever wandamelanie slaps or bites jared to push him away, jareds thrilled because he knows that its. Inexplicably, the host is another convenient meyerinduced supernatural soap dish that wants to exploit the girl power moviegoing minions with schlocky cotton candy amour nestled behind an.
The host is a science fiction romance novel by stephenie meyer. After a second or two, the soul relaxed itself, detaching easily from melanies body. Also, when melanie was back in control of her body and wanda in her own, new body, all of a sudden, mels southern accent was. Well i got the book but somehow missed out on being able to get the movie. At the end of the host she is placed in pets body, allowing wanda and ian to finally be together. The film has a rough, grainy look and there is no musical score. But this host body, a feisty redhead named melanie stryder, has retained her consciousness and within seconds we hear melanies voice screaming from inside the head of. I think for me it would have been easier to put melanie in a new body. Ian is in love with wandas mind and, well, her soul.
Personally, when reading the book, it was difficult for me to picture wandas final body, pet. Meyer this time centers on a leading lady whose dual personality hinges on. Here director niccol does an excellent job of keeping the audience guessing and vacillating between who will become the last woman standing melanie or wanda. Melanie was wanderers ninth host, and the first to be a resistant one. The host directed by andrew niccol starring saorse ronan, diane kruger, max irons and jake abel. Inexplicably, the host is another convenient meyerinduced supernatural soap dish that wants to exploit the girl power movie going minions with schlocky cotton candy amour nestled behind an.
Feb 05, 2016 the host wanda s host melanies body 1080p hd. Summary biogrphy physical and personality relationships apperance. Jan 15, 2018 i like the script of the host, it was beautifully written. She did not really fit the character of the alien as described in the novel. When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over their bodies and erasing their memories, melanie will risk everyth. And what she experiences is the human races tendency toward domination. Wanderer is highly respected among her kind, because of her experience and bravery in past hosts lives. She received her name due to the number of planets she has lived on and having never lived more than one hosts life on them.
Admittedly, in the host the girl saoirse ronan as melaniewanda, is really two girls in one. Wanda no longer has feelings for jared, and she and ian can live out their romance. Mar 29, 20 the movie winds down to a crawl not long after melanie wanda settles into the refuge utopias tend to be bores, but ms. Are there any aspects of the movie or story that you think make it more appealing to adults than teens. Even though she immediately starts screaming in protest every time wanda moves her body, mel is a pretty ineffectual presence. The host do you like the new wanda at the end of the. It tells the story of a young woman, melanie, who is captured after the human race has been taken over by parasitic aliens called souls. When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over their bodies and. So melanie is now trapped inside wandas mind, so she can speak to her mentally. This is one of the girls i think would play a good wanda, when she gets her new body.
Instead of carrying out her races mission of taking over the earth, wanda as she. A short, cut to the chase, description and spoiler for the movie the host. With saoirse ronan, max irons, jake abel, diane kruger. Initially only interested in enjoying her new life, melanies refusal to fade away as. Although neither wanda nor the humans acknowledge it in the host, the relationship between the human commune and wanda is very close to masterslave. Wanting complete compliance, some of the aliens are assigned to find them and others and have their own kind that look like sparkly sea anemones inserted into those host bodies. Last year, i got the movie and book for warm bodies, and planned to do the same for the host, both being movie book adaptations. The host is a 20 american romantic science fiction thriller film adapted from stephenie. The most determined is the seeker diane kruger who eventually captures melanie and puts an alien known as wanderer into her body. I mean, besides the fact that when i think wanda i have a lot of trouble picturing her as anyone but melaniesaoirse.
Jamies accident makes the rebels realized that wanda can be useful to them. Wanderer wanda wanderer is the main character, a parasitic alien. Meyer of course unleashed both a new era of vampire. She is then allowed to join the group on raids to go out searching for food and supplies among the souls as they recognize her as their own kind. Fans can purchase a digital download of director andrew niccols scifi adaptation starring. A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of melanie stryder. The book is about earth, in a post apocalyptic time, being invaded by a parasitic alien race, known as souls, and follows one souls predicament when the consciousness of her human host refuses to give up her body. All right, so heres the fourth installment of the cast this poll series. The new wanda is babydoll in the movie sucker punch aka the. Jared, he whispered to the boy waiting just outside the hospital. The host exclusive stephenie meyer interview 2012 regal movies hd duration.
Instead of carrying out her races mission of taking over the earth, wanda as she comes to be called forms a bond with her host and sets out to aid other free humans. The host wandas new body emily browning, saoirse ronan. The host 20 saoirse ronan as melanie stryder, wanda imdb. Wanda didnt want him to watch, but he was allowed to come in and care for melanie. Stephenie meyer has said that the book the host was based on isnt ya but rather a scifi romance for grownups. The host 20 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Emily browning, who portrays wandas new body in this film, was stephenie meyers original choice for the role of bella swan in twilight 2008, but browning turned down that role. This also leads to another climax in the storyhow to remove the soul from a humans body without harming the host. I have a hard time separating wanda from melanies body, even in the book i couldnt match the description of pet with my image of wanda. Melanie has an unusually strong spirit, so when shes.
The host do you like the new wanda at the end of the movie. Wanderer, inserted inside melanies body wanderer is a soul who is implanted into melanie stryders body by healer fords deep waters. Those casting may or may not have the actress playing pet be wandas voice inside melanies head for the rest of the movie. The movie winds down to a crawl not long after melaniewanda settles. It is about a postapocalypse where aliens take control on every human body then the remaining unpossessed humans fear them despite that these aliens only want peace. So without further ado, you can comment with your ideas for who should play wandererwanda either her voice during the movie inside the heads of her bodies, or her final body, pet and will post the results after everyones had a chance to weigh in. As wanda and melanie cohabit the same body, they start to learn about each otherand when the seeker threatens to remove wanda from melanies. In the host saoirse ronan seeks refuge from an alien race that has transformed most of.
Wanda is a movie of ugly cars, drab hotel rooms, crummy bars and homely people. Fans can purchase a digital download of director andrew niccols scifi adaptation starring saoirse ronan two weeks early on june 25th. What makes this triangle difficult is that melanie and wanda are in the same body, which makes for some awkward scenes. He also wants to kiss her as much in her new body as he did in the last. Only problem for the invaders is that melanies spirit and will is still alive and kicking inside her occupied body. But the romance in the host has a twist, finding the love interest of the triangle inside the body of her human shell. Saoirse ronan in the host, from a stephenie meyer novel the.
She has lived on eight different planets before coming to earth, including having been born on the origin, the souls home planet, while the average number. The host is for people who couldnt handle the whirlwind pace of events in the twilight trilogy and who prefer a love triangle unafraid to redefine, for a new generation, the word lollygag. Wanderer, inserted inside melanies body wanderer is a soul who is. Will melanie be able to mend the heart of her cousin, wanda, or will wanda end up losing her mind. Pet is described as petite and delicate with golden. Jamie is portrayed by chandler canterbury in the film.
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