Spotlight on Fandoms: Hellboy
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It’s my turn to do a spotlight on Fandoms and for the next few minutes or so you get to read about one of the best superhero films made :)
Hellboy is a comic book series that was created by Mike Mignola and it is also a film that was released in 2004 and directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Hellboy is about the demon Hellboy and his struggle between good and evil. The essential plot of the movie is to do with Rasputin’s attempt to unleash the Ogdru Jahad (the Seven Gods of Chaos) into the world and his obsession with getting Hellboy to use his true power to achieve this goal. It also deals with his relationships and interactions with the people around him as he struggles with the idea of who he is, knowing that he fights for good even though he was born evil.
Overall Hellboy is an awesome movie (I am so not biased, really) and I’d recommend it to anyone :)
Characters:
Hellboy (Ron Perlman) - Hellboy is a demon who was summoned into the world by Rasputin towards the end of World War 2. He was discovered by Professor Broom after Rasputin’s failed attempt to bring forth the Seven Gods of Chaos. Following his ‘birth’ Professor Broom raised him as his son at the BPRD.
Abe Sapien (Doug Jones) - Abe is an Icthyo Sapien who was found in a Washington D.C hospital and shortly after his discovery he entered the BPRD. He is psychic, having the ability to know about a person without them telling him anything and he is capable of seeing the past or future of any object that he touches.
Liz Sherman (Selma Blair) - Liz is a pyrokinetic where her dangerous power has left her deeply troubled. A chance meeting with Professor Broom led her to joining the BPRD at the age of 17. Despite how many times she has left the BPRD she always returned on the account that it is the closest thing to a family that she has.
John Myers (Rupert Evans) - John is an FBI agent who is assigned to take over looking after Hellboy from Agent Clay. John is the only normal one out of the main group and sometimes this makes him feel awkward. John is the one who convinces Liz to return to the BPRD and falls in love with her much to Hellboy’s disgust.
Professor Trevor Bruttenholm ‘Professor Broom’ (John Hurt) - Professor Broom is a paranormal advisor and is the head of the BPRD. Professor Broom was able to stop Rasputin from releasing the Seven Gods of Chaos and after he found the demon Hellboy he raised him as his own son. In the film Professor Broom was murdered by Kroenen.
Tom Manning (Jeffery Tambor) - Tom Manning is in charge of keeping the public from finding out about the BPRD and the existence of Hellboy, which is a difficult task since Hellboy is infamous for his many escapes from the BPRD. After Professor Broom’s death Tom takes over as head of the BPRD.
Grigori Rasputin (Karel Roden) - Rasputin is a mystic who developed a dimensional portal device so that he could awaken the Seven Gods of Chaos that could help the Nazis win the war. He fails and is presumed dead until he is restored by his servant Ilsa and Kroenen. His main motive is to get Hellboy to fulfill his destiny and use his full power.
Ilsa von Hapustein (Biddy Hodson) - Ilsa is a close follower of Rasputin. On the night that Rasputin ‘died’ he granted Ilsa youth, beauty and the will to only serve him. With Kroenen’s help she succeeds in bringing Rasputin back to life.
Kroenen (Ladislav Beran) - A highly skilled assassin who apparently can’t be killed. Kroenen was responsible for the death of Hellboy’s father and he also critically wounded Agent Clay.
Links
IMDB page for Hellboy
wikipedia page for Hellboy
Random stuff
a music vid that I found about Liz set to Everything Burns by Anastacia and Ben Moody
another music vid I found set to No Fear by The Rasmus
It’s my turn to do a spotlight on Fandoms and for the next few minutes or so you get to read about one of the best superhero films made :)
Hellboy is a comic book series that was created by Mike Mignola and it is also a film that was released in 2004 and directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Hellboy is about the demon Hellboy and his struggle between good and evil. The essential plot of the movie is to do with Rasputin’s attempt to unleash the Ogdru Jahad (the Seven Gods of Chaos) into the world and his obsession with getting Hellboy to use his true power to achieve this goal. It also deals with his relationships and interactions with the people around him as he struggles with the idea of who he is, knowing that he fights for good even though he was born evil.
Overall Hellboy is an awesome movie (I am so not biased, really) and I’d recommend it to anyone :)
Characters:
Hellboy (Ron Perlman) - Hellboy is a demon who was summoned into the world by Rasputin towards the end of World War 2. He was discovered by Professor Broom after Rasputin’s failed attempt to bring forth the Seven Gods of Chaos. Following his ‘birth’ Professor Broom raised him as his son at the BPRD.
Abe Sapien (Doug Jones) - Abe is an Icthyo Sapien who was found in a Washington D.C hospital and shortly after his discovery he entered the BPRD. He is psychic, having the ability to know about a person without them telling him anything and he is capable of seeing the past or future of any object that he touches.
Liz Sherman (Selma Blair) - Liz is a pyrokinetic where her dangerous power has left her deeply troubled. A chance meeting with Professor Broom led her to joining the BPRD at the age of 17. Despite how many times she has left the BPRD she always returned on the account that it is the closest thing to a family that she has.
John Myers (Rupert Evans) - John is an FBI agent who is assigned to take over looking after Hellboy from Agent Clay. John is the only normal one out of the main group and sometimes this makes him feel awkward. John is the one who convinces Liz to return to the BPRD and falls in love with her much to Hellboy’s disgust.
Professor Trevor Bruttenholm ‘Professor Broom’ (John Hurt) - Professor Broom is a paranormal advisor and is the head of the BPRD. Professor Broom was able to stop Rasputin from releasing the Seven Gods of Chaos and after he found the demon Hellboy he raised him as his own son. In the film Professor Broom was murdered by Kroenen.
Tom Manning (Jeffery Tambor) - Tom Manning is in charge of keeping the public from finding out about the BPRD and the existence of Hellboy, which is a difficult task since Hellboy is infamous for his many escapes from the BPRD. After Professor Broom’s death Tom takes over as head of the BPRD.
Grigori Rasputin (Karel Roden) - Rasputin is a mystic who developed a dimensional portal device so that he could awaken the Seven Gods of Chaos that could help the Nazis win the war. He fails and is presumed dead until he is restored by his servant Ilsa and Kroenen. His main motive is to get Hellboy to fulfill his destiny and use his full power.
Ilsa von Hapustein (Biddy Hodson) - Ilsa is a close follower of Rasputin. On the night that Rasputin ‘died’ he granted Ilsa youth, beauty and the will to only serve him. With Kroenen’s help she succeeds in bringing Rasputin back to life.
Kroenen (Ladislav Beran) - A highly skilled assassin who apparently can’t be killed. Kroenen was responsible for the death of Hellboy’s father and he also critically wounded Agent Clay.
Links
IMDB page for Hellboy
wikipedia page for Hellboy
Random stuff
a music vid that I found about Liz set to Everything Burns by Anastacia and Ben Moody
another music vid I found set to No Fear by The Rasmus