Vin Diesel by Nancy Krulik

Author:Nancy Krulik
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2002-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

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Inside the Mind of a Killer

After the excitement of filming Boiler Room in New York City, Vin’s arrival on the Goober Pedy, Australia, set of Pitch Black was a shock. The small desert town wasn’t anything like what the urban Vin was used to.

“[Coober Pedy] was an amazing place in the middle of the desert,” Vin recalled on the DVD version of Pitch Black. “Not a tree, not a thing in sight other than dirt. A few houses make up the town of about two thousand people. I’m from New York. I grew up in a building of two thousand people!”

But being in a deserted part of Australia was just the beginning of Vins remarkable journey during the making of the sci-fi thriller. A more difficult part of the experience was the actor’s need to get into the mind of his character, a space-age killer who seemingly has no conscience.

In his past films, Vin had played an actor, a drug dealer, a soldier, and a stock hustler. Now he was about to portray the ultimate antihero. The challenge of playing him was intriguing. As Vin told Jay Leno, “I’m drawn to the anti-hero. They’re more fascinating to me. The picture-perfect heroes are unrealistic and hard to identify with.”

Pitch Black is aptly named. A sci-fi thriller, the movie looks at the darker side of the human instinct to survive. The story begins on a commercial space flight that is carrying a unique mix of passengers that includes a fussy wine collector, a young girl who is convincingly disguised as a boy, a female geologist, a Muslim cleric and his followers, a female pilot, a morphine-addict bounty hunter, and one very dangerous prisoner who was taken onboard the ship in shackles, to be transported to a far off prison. The prisoner’s name is Richard Riddick.

In the early moments of the film the ship is forced to make an emergency crash landing on a strange planet—one with three suns and constant daylight. This is a big problem for Riddick, whose eyes have been surgically altered to give him a remarkable characteristic: He can only see in the dark. Not a very useful trait on a planet with three never-setting suns.

Or is it?

The survivors of the crash soon discover that other travelers have been to this planet—and they’ve all been killed by mysterious predators, flying creatures with shark-like teeth. The winged murderers live underground, where it’s dark, since they can’t survive in light.

The knowledge that the creatures can only live in pitch-black darkness brings some relief to the stranded travelers. After all, there are three suns that never seem to set surrounding the planet.

But imagine the terror invoked in the group when they are suddenly faced with a total eclipse that leaves them in complete darkness. Now they are all dependent on Riddick, a man they fear almost as much as the flying killers.

Riddick is someone to fear. Unlike the other travelers, who at least try to give an appearance of working as a team, Riddick is quite clear about his own intentions.

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