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For the 1969 film by Jim Henson, see The Cube (1969 film). For other uses, see Cube. Cube Theatrical Release Poster Directed by Vincenzo Natali Produced by Mehra Meh Written by André Bijelic Graeme Manson, Vincenzo Natali Starring Nicole de Boer Nicky Guadagni David Hewlett Andrew Miller Music by Mark Korven Cinematography Derek Rogers Editing by John Sanders Distributed by Cineplex-Odeon Films First Independent Films Release date(s) 9 September 1997 (Canada) September 1998 (USA) (limited) Running time 90 min. Country Canada Language English French Budget $365,000 (CAD) Followed by Cube 2: Hypercube Cube is a 1997 Canadian psychological thriller/horror film directed by Vincenzo Natali. The film was a successful product of the Canadian Film Centre's First Feature Project.[1] Despite its low budget, the film achieved moderate commercial success and has acquired cult status. Much of the film's appeal lies in its surreal, Kafkaesque settings – no extensive attempt is made to explain what the cube in which the characters are confined is, why it is created, or how the "inmates" were selected. Although the world "outside" is referred to, it is presented in an extremely abstract fashion – either a dark void or a bright white light. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 2.1 Character names 3 Production details 4 Mathematics 5 Sequels 6 References 7 External links // Plot The film opens with a man named Alderson (Julian Richings) waking up in a cube-shaped room with six hatch doors - one at the center of each wall, one on the ceiling and one on the floor. He begins to open doors and examine each, to find rooms that differ from the one he is in only by color. Alderson goes into an amber colored room and suddenly gets cut into large cubes. It is then shown that a large metal grate had dropped down and killed him. It then folds up into the ceiling. In another room, Quentin (Maurice Dean Wint), Worth (David Hewlett), Holloway (Nicky Guadagni), Rennes (Wayne Robson), and Leaven (Nicole deBoer) meet. None of them knows where they are, how they got there, or why they are there, so they decide to try and find a way out together. Rennes already knows that some of the rooms contain traps. He initially assumes that the rooms contain motion detectors, so he tests each room by throwing a boot into it before getting in. As they progress, Leaven notices series of numbers in the hatchways between the rooms. Soon after, Rennes jumps into a room previously tested with a boot but he is sprayed in the face with acid and is killed. The group decides that the room must have contained an electrochemical sensor which Rennes missed, and realize that they must find a better way of testing the rooms. Quentin asks everyone about their backgrounds, and comes to the conclusion that nothing is a coincidence, and each of them has a purpose in the Cube. Leaven reveals herself to excel at mathematics, and after looking at the numbers on a crawl space, she theorizes that when all of those numbers are not prime, the room is safe. Leaven thus makes it her purpose to decipher the Cube's code. They continue their progress through the Cube, and they eventually find a seventh person: Kazan (Andrew Miller). He is mentally challenged, but Holloway insists that they bring him along. The group starts speculating about the nature of the place they're in, and conflict arises between Quentin and Holloway. Quentin dismisses Holloway's ideas as conspiracy theories, and Holloway thinks that Quentin is naïve. Soon after this, Quentin enters a room without prime numbers and narrowly avoids death from a trap consisting of rotating razor wires, disproving Leaven's theory. Quentin begins suspecting Worth is a spy, and becomes increasingly irritated by Kazan's mental state. The group rests, while Leaven re-attempts to decipher the numbers. Quentin tricks Worth into revealing that he is one of the architects of the enormous cube-shaped shell which contains the cube-shaped rooms. When asked about who contracted him to do the job, he states that he doesn't know. Although the others begin to distrust Worth, he gives them information about the dimensions of the outer cube. Leaven then intuits that the numbers between the rooms could be encoded cartesian coordinates representing the position of rooms within the Cube. Based on this theory, the group starts moving trying for the nearest edge. The group finally reaches one of the ends of the Cube, seen as an endless black void. They conclude that there is a gap between the door and the outer shell. Fashioning a rope out of their clothes, Holloway volunteers to swing out on the rope to investigate. As she is suspended outside the room, the Cube trembles and Holloway nearly falls. Quentin catches her, but then lets her fall to her death, telling the others that she slipped. The group decides to rest before setting out again, but as they sleep Quentin carries Leaven into another room. He tries to convince Leaven to abandon the others, and makes sexual advances and becomes abusive when she spurns him. Worth and Kazan awaken and save Leaven. Quentin becomes paranoid, revealing his murder of Holloway, and becomes enraged, beating and then throwing Worth through a door in the floor, which contains the dead body of Rennes. At first, they think that they have been going in circles, but then, noticing that the "acid room" which killed Rennes is no longer adjacent to that room, Worth and Leaven realize that the trembling they felt before must have been the rooms moving, and they assume there must be a "bridge room" that connects the Cube to the outer shell. They also find out that rooms which have traps are marked with numbers which are not simply prime numbers, but prime powers, a much larger set of numbers. The prisoners then face the task of performing prime factorizations of three three-digit numbers for every room they enter. Kazan's purpose is revealed at this point: being an autistic savant, he has the ability to perform these factorizations quickly and easily. They calculate the position where they could meet the bridge room, and make their way towards it safely with Kazan's help. The exit turns out to be the same room they started in. Anticipating their escape, Worth devises a plan to incapacitate Quentin, who has gone completely mad. Worth fights Quentin into a room below them, where they leave him for dead. The bridge room eventually comes, and when they open its door, bright light shines into the room. Worth announces that he will not go, as there is nothing for him in the world outside. As he and Leaven share a moment, Quentin appears having somehow managed to catch up with the trio, and kills Leaven by stabbing her with a door handle. He also stabs Worth before turning to Kazan, who is already climbing out. With the last of his strength, Worth grabs Quentin's leg, and Quentin is crushed in the crawlspace between the cubes when the rooms shift. Having saved Kazan, Worth lies down next to Leaven and dies. In the final shot, Kazan is seen walking slowly into the bright light. Cast Maurice Dean Wint as Quentin. He claims to be a police officer and is strong and level headed. He takes on most of the dangerous tasks and claims to look for "practical solutions". Nicky Guadagni as Dr. Helen Holloway, a free clinic doctor. She is shown at the start to be bitter, paranoid, and melodramatic. She spouts conspiracy theories and believes that the government is responsible for the Cube. Nicole de Boer as Joan Leaven, who begins the film as a damsel in distress. She has expert mathematical skills (especially on little sleep) which aid the group. David Hewlett as David Worth. He maintains a doomed outlook throughout the first part of the film, and mocks Quentin's attempts at escape. Wayne Robson as Rennes, also known as "The Wren". He first appears to the group as the most knowledgeable of their surroundings, and the reluctant leader. He has a facial tic or spasm, but seems physically fit for an older man. He was an escape artist who "flew the coop" from seven major prisons. Andrew Miller as Kazan, an autistic man with the ability to rapidly and accurately perform prime number calculations. Julian Richings as Alderson, a fellow Cube prisoner who never meets the rest of the group. Character names All the characters are named after prisons. Quentin is named after San Quentin State Prison in California, Holloway after the Holloway Prison in London, Kazan after the prison in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. Rennes is named after a prison in Rennes, Brittany, France, Alderson after the prison in Alderson, West Virginia, and Leaven and Worth after the prison in Leavenworth, Kansas. Most of the characters' first names are either not given or not revealed until later in the film. Production details After writing Cube, Vincenzo Natali developed and filmed a short entitled Elevated. The short was set in an elevator and was intended to give investors an idea of how Cube would hypothetically look and come across. It eventually got the feature financed. Cube was shot on a Toronto soundstage.[2] Only one cube, measuring 14 by 14 by 14 feet, was actually built, with only one working door which could actually support the weight of the actors. The colour of the room was changed by sliding panels.[3] Since this task was a time-consuming procedure, the movie was not shot in sequence; all shots taking place in rooms of a specific colour were shot one at a time. It was intended that there would be six different colours of rooms to match the recurring theme of six throughout the movie – five sets of gel panels plus pure white. However, the budget did not stretch to the sixth gel panel and so there are only five different room colours in the movie. Another partial cube was made for shots requiring the point of view of standing in one room looking into another. An episode of the original The Twilight Zone television series, "Five Characters in Search of an Exit," was reportedly an inspiration for the movie.[4] Mathematics Natali states in the commentary that a professor was hired to work on the mathematics for Cube, and that one could actually build the structure as it is described in the film. This system is uncovered little by little by the characters who learn to use it to navigate. Leaven plays the greatest role in its induction. The following "clues" are gradually revealed as the film progresses. The characters realize quickly that the Cube maze consists of interlocking cubical rooms, each with six doors leading to another cubical room, with a narrow passageway connecting the two. Each door is opened manually from inside the room, with no visible mechanism on the other side of the door which we are shown briefly as Holloway first enters the scene. It is noted that there are two labels in any given passageway, marking each side of the passageway with a unique nine digit number. Leaven realizes the "decoded" Cartesian coordinates for the positions of the rooms are obtained by adding together the digits of each three digit number, so that a number "582 434 865" would become "5+8+2 4+3+4 8+6+5" or an x,y,z coordinate of (15,11,19). Worth reveals that the dimensions of the outer shell are "434 feet squared" (i.e. per face) and Leaven measures the inside length of one of the rooms by walking as 14 feet to a side and calculates the Cube must consist of 26x26x26 rooms, or 17,576 rooms. Leaven then theorizes that the trapped rooms factor into the maths. She notes that the labels of three of the known trapped rooms contained a prime number, and theorizes that any room containing a prime number is trapped, which holds true for a while. However, a trapped room that does not contain a prime number is later found, and she states that the numbers must be more complex than she thought. Eventually when the group lands back in a room already visited, Worth theorizes that the rooms are actually shifting positions. Leaven expands on her theory into a more complex one and reveals the following inductions to the group: The rooms cycle around before returning to their starting positions. There is a "bridge", a single room which sometimes connects the maze to the outer shell and provides the only known means of escape. The number of each room reveals "where the room is, how many times it moves, and where it moves to." The traps are "identified by numbers that are the power of a prime." - it seems there is an error made here as the number 384 is incorrectly stated by Kazan to have one factor when it actually has two - (27 * 3), it is not the power of a prime but Leaven says the room is trapped. The permutations by which the rooms move around are calculated by "subtracting the digits." To figure out which rooms are trapped, she must "calculate the factors in each set." Leaven concludes she cannot navigate because the math is too involved to do mentally in time. Then Kazan starts giving her the prime factors of the three digit numbers, which she uses in combination with her system to navigate their way to the bridge, which leads out of the Cube. Sequels Main article: Cube film series Cube is followed by the sequel Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) and the prequel Cube Zero (2004). References ^ Canadian Film Centre ^ CBC.ca ^ Sfgate.com ^ IMDb External links Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Cube Cube (film) at the Internet Movie Database Cube (film) at Allmovie Cube at the Canadian Film Centre website. v • d • e Cube film series Cube  • Cube 2: Hypercube  • Cube Zero v • d • e Films directed by Vincenzo Natali 1990s Cube (1997) 2000s Cypher (2002) · Nothing (2003) · Getting Gilliam (2005) · Splice (2009)