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2012’s Cloud Atlas blew a lot of minds when it came out. Directed by Lana & Lily Wachowski plus Tom Tykwer, the generation-spanning omnibus was a cerebral ep...
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2 days ago · After “Cloud Atlas,” Grant said that his acting offers “completely changed.” His work on “Cloud Atlas” inspired directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods to cast Grant in “Heretic” more ...
- Tom Hanks
- Halle Berry
- Jim Broadbent
- Jim Sturgess
- Doona Bae
- Ben Whishaw
- Hugo Weaving
- Hugh Grant
- Keith David
- James D'Arcy
Tom Hanks' main role in Cloud Atlasis as Zachry Bailey, a man who lives on Big Island of Hawaii and meets Meronym. Zachry works with Meronym to help save the Prescients and ultimately marries her and starts a family with her on another planet. Hanks is originally seen in the 1849 story as Dr. Henry Goose, who tries to kill Adam Ewing. He also plays...
Halle Berry's primary role in Cloud Atlasis as Luisa Rey, a journalist in 1973 San Francisco investigating a conspiracy about Lloyd Hooks. She is nearly killed by a hitman but manages to expose Hooks' corruption. Her role in the 1849 story is as a slave on a plantation. She then plays a white Jewish woman named Jocasta Ayrs in 1936, an Indian party...
Jim Broadbent's main role in Cloud Atlasis as Timothy Cavendish, a publisher who achieves great success after a critic of a recent book is murdered, in the 2012 story. Cavendish is then tricked by his brother into committing himself to a nursing home, but he eventually breaks out and writes a script about his life that will later become a movie. Hi...
Jim Sturgess plays Adam Ewing, a young lawyer who travels to a plantation in the Chatham Islands, in Cloud Atlas' 1849 storyline. Ewing helps free a slave and eventually becomes an advocate to abolish slavery. He is later seen as a hotel guest in 1936 and the father of Megan in 1973. Sturgess then plays a soccer fan named Highlander in 2012 and a K...
Doona Bae's main role in Cloud Atlasis as Somni-451 in the 2144 storyline. Somni-451 is a clone created to be a worker drone and Bae plays a few different versions of this character before leading a revolution after seeing a movie about Timothy Cavendish's life. Somni-451 is killed by the Archivists after inciting a revolution. She also plays Tilda...
Ben Whishaw's main role in Cloud Atlasis as the bisexual composer Robert Frobisher in 1936, who has an affair with Jocasta Arys. Frobisher is busy writing "The Cloud Atlas Sextet," but is threatened by Vyvyan Arys to receive credit on the song. His story ends after finishing the sextet and killing himself. He also plays a cabin boy in the 1849 stor...
Hugo Weaving plays several supporting roles throughout Cloud Atlas. He plays Haskell Moore, the father of Tilda and father-in-law of Adam Ewing. He then plays a Nazi named Tadeusz Kesselring in 1936 and an assassin named Bill Smoke in 1973. Weaving then plays a female nurse in 2012, a government figure in 2144, and an imaginary figment of Zachry's ...
Hugh Grant also has multiple supporting roles during Cloud Atlas' various settings. He plays plantation owner Giles Horrox in 1849, a hotel worker in 1936, and the owner of a nuclear power plant named Lloyd Hooks in 1973. Grant later plays the brother of Timothy Cavendish, named Denholme Cavendish, in 2012. He also plays a Korean restaurant manager...
Keith David has several supporting roles in Cloud Atlas but doesn't appear in 1936 or 2012 storylines. He begins as a slave named Kupaka in 1849 and then a security guard for Lloyd Hooks in 1973. David is then An-kor Apis, a resistance leader, in 2144 and a member of the Prescients in 2321.
James D'Arcy begins his time in Cloud Atlasas Rufus Sixsmith, the lover of Robert Frobisher in 1936. He then plays Sixsmith again in 1973 and works with Luisa Rey. He then plays a nurse named James who is at the nursing home Timothy Cavendish goes to in 2012. D'Arcy also plays an Archivist in 2144.
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Cloud Atlas is a 2012 epic science fiction film written and directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer. [8] Based on the 2004 novel by David Mitchell , it has multiple plots occurring during six eras in time.
Oct 24, 2012 · Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives. Because we have minds and clouds do not, we desire freedom. That is the shape the characters in “Cloud Atlas” take, and how they attempt to direct our thoughts.
Oct 26, 2012 · Matt reviews The Wachowski Siblings and Tom Tykwer's Cloud Atlas starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Sturgess, and Hugh Grant.
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Sep 9, 2012 · Cloud Atlas spans across six stories in six different time periods with the lead cast playing different characters in most or all of the narratives (I will use the names of the corresponding...
