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73-542: Stormbreaker (also known as Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker and Alex Rider: Stormbreaker ) is a 2006 action spy film directed by Geoffrey Sax . The screenplay by Anthony Horowitz is based on his 2000 novel Stormbreaker , the first novel in the Alex Rider series . The film stars Alex Pettyfer as Alex Rider , and also stars Mickey Rourke , Bill Nighy , Sophie Okonedo , Alicia Silverstone , Sarah Bolger , Stephen Fry and Ewan McGregor . Stormbreaker

146-554: A jellyfish is a medusa, while a sea anemone is a polyp). All zooids in a man o' war develop from the same single fertilized egg and are therefore genetically identical. They remain physiologically connected throughout life, and essentially function as organs in a shared body. Hence, a Portuguese man o' war constitutes a single organism from an ecological perspective, but is made up of many individuals from an embryological perspective. Most species of siphonophores are fragile and difficult to collect intact. However, P. physalis

219-416: A Portuguese man o' war can result in severe dermatitis characterized by long, thin, open wounds that resemble those caused by a whip. These are not caused by any impact or cutting action, but by irritating urticariogenic substances in the tentacles. Treatment for sting pain is immersion in 45 °C (113 °F) water for 20 minutes. The cnidocyte found in the box jellyfish react differently than

292-426: A combination of exciting escapism , technological thrills, and exotic locales, many spy films combine the action and science fiction genres, presenting clearly delineated heroes for audiences to root for and villains they want to see defeated. They may also involve elements of political thrillers . However, there are many that are comedic (mostly action comedy films if they fall under that genre). James Bond

365-408: A deadly venomous sting to fish. This sailing ability, combined with a painful sting and a life cycle with seasonal blooms, results in periodic mass beach strandings and occasional human envenomations, making P. physalis the most infamous of the siphonophores. Despite being a common occurrence, the origin of the man o' war or bluebottle before reaching the coastline is not well understood, and neither

438-593: A distance. He notices it and realizes that it's not the end. Stormbreaker was intended by the novel 's author, Anthony Horowitz , to be the first entry in a film franchise based on his Alex Rider series. Horowitz, already an established and prolific screenwriter in British television , wrote the screenplay and worked very closely throughout the film's production with director Geoffrey Sax and producers Marc and Peter Samuelson . The Weinstein Company acquired

511-524: A giant Portuguese man o' war , but he escapes using the metal-disintegrating spot cream supplied by Smithers. Nadia is subdued when she is hit by the jellyfish, rupturing the tank in the process. Alex then hitches a ride on a Mil Mi-8 helicopter piloted by Mr. Grin, using a sodium pentothal arrow to gain Mr. Grin's obedience. Alex parachutes out of the helicopter and lands just as the Prime Minister

584-405: A number, and the beautiful foreign agent who comes to love the hero. Lang's Dr. Mabuse films from the period also contain elements of spy thrillers, though the central character is a criminal mastermind only interested in espionage for profit. Additionally, several of Lang's American films, such as Hangmen Also Die , deal with spies during World War II. Alfred Hitchcock did much to popularize

657-597: A painful sting powerful enough to kill fish, and even, in some cases, humans. Although it superficially resembles a jellyfish , the Portuguese man o' war is in fact a siphonophore . Like all siphonophores, it is a colonial organism , made up of many smaller units called zooids . Although they are morphologically quite different, all of the zooids in a single specimen are genetically identical . These different types of zooids fulfill specialized functions, such as hunting, digestion and reproduction, and together they allow

730-420: A remake of his 1934 film of the same name . He followed this up in 1959 with North by Northwest (1959), widely considered one of the most influential works within the spy genre. The peak of popularity of spy films is often considered to be the 1960s when Cold War fears meshed with a desire by audiences to see exciting and suspenseful films. The espionage film developed in two directions at this time. On

803-723: A role in the then-upcoming film Eragon but turned it down, noting that he preferred Stormbreaker because it would be filmed nearer home while Eragon would film in the Czech Republic . In June 2006, the producers signed a deal with Nintendo that made the Nintendo DS a prominent feature in the film, much like the Power Glove in The Wizard . This is an upgrade from the Game Boy Color that Alex used in

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876-486: A score of 42 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 20 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". BBC critic Neil Smith gave the film three out of five stars but criticised the "unsubtle turns" from both Bill Nighy and Stephen Fry . The Hollywood Reporter branded the film as "a lame and disappointing affair". Although likening it to both the Harry Potter and James Bond series, reviewer Ray Bennett said

949-481: A single Portuguese man o' war is followed by finding many others in the vicinity. The Portuguese man o' war is well known to beachgoers for the painful stings delivered by its tentacles. Because they can sting while beached, the discovery of a man o' war washed up on a beach may lead to the closure of the beach. P. physalis uses a float filled with carbon monoxide and air as a sail to travel by wind for thousands of miles, dragging behind long tentacles that deliver

1022-547: Is Charlotte Gray , based on the novel by Sebastian Faulks . Also during the period, there were many detective films ( The Thin Man Goes Home and Charlie Chan in the Secret Service for example) in which the mystery involved who stole the secret blue-prints, or who kidnapped the famous scientist. In the mid-1950s, Alfred Hitchcock returned to the spy genre with The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film) ,

1095-404: Is a 14-year-old orphan who lives with his uncle Ian and their housekeeper Jack Starbright. Ian is supposedly a bank manager and is, much to Alex's regret, often away from home. One day, Alex is told that Ian has died in a car crash, but quickly discovers that his uncle was actually a spy working for MI6 and was murdered. He is then recruited by Ian’s former employers, Alan Blunt and Mrs. Jones of

1168-453: Is about to press the button which will activate the computers. Alex uses a rifle to shoot the podium, which destroys the button, and ruins Sayle's plan. Furious, Sayle leaves to carry out his backup plan, and Alex, with the help of school friend Sabina Pleasure, pursues Sayle through the streets of London on horseback . Fifty floors up on one of Sayle's skyscrapers, Alex reaches him and unplugs his backup transmitter. Sayle chases him out onto

1241-549: Is blown. After attempting to escape from the facility, he is captured, and Sayle explains his true reasons behind Stormbreaker – each system contains a modified strain of the smallpox virus which, upon activation in the Stormbreaker release, will kill all of the country's schoolchildren. Sayle leaves Alex tied up and departs for the London Science Museum . Nadia drops Alex into a water tank to be killed by

1314-580: Is considered to be the same species as the Pacific man o' war or bluebottle , which is found mainly in the Pacific Ocean . The Portuguese man o' war is the only species in the genus Physalia , which in turn is the only genus in the family Physaliidae . The Portuguese man o' war is a conspicuous member of the neuston , the community of organisms that live at the surface of the ocean. It has numerous microscopic venomous cnidocytes which deliver

1387-486: Is donating free high-powered computer systems code named Stormbreaker to every school in England . MI6 is suspicious of his seemingly generous plans and sends Alex undercover as a competition winner to investigate. There, he meets Sayle himself and his two accomplices, Mr. Grin and Nadia Vole, and is shown the Stormbreaker computer in action. Later, while Alex is having dinner with Sayle, Vole steals his phone and tracks

1460-662: Is less than 3 metres (10 ft) long. In comparison, the typical man o' war has a float of around 15 to 30 centimetres (5.9 to 12 in), and several hunting tentacles that can reach 30 metres (100 ft) in mature colonies when fully extended. When combined with the trailing action of the tentacles, this left- or right-handedness makes the colony sail sideways relative to the wind, by about 45° in either direction. Colony handedness has therefore been theorized to influence man o' war migration, with left-handed or right-handed colonies potentially being more likely to drift down particular respective sea routes. Handedness develops early in

1533-441: Is the loggerhead sea turtle , which feeds on the Portuguese man o' war as a common part of its diet. The turtle's skin, including that of its tongue and throat, is too thick for the stings to penetrate. Also, the blue sea slug specializes in feeding on the Portuguese man o' war, as does the violet sea snail . The ocean sunfish 's diet, once thought to consist mainly of jellyfish, has been found to include many species, including

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1606-414: Is the most accessible, conspicuous, and robust of the siphonophores, and much has been written about this species. The development, morphology, and colony organization of P. physalis is very different from that of other siphonophores. Its structure, embryological development, and histology have been examined by several authors. These studies provide an important foundation for understanding

1679-426: Is the most conspicuous part of the man o' war. This large, gas-filled, translucent structure is pink, purple or blue in color; it is 9 to 30 cm (3.5 to 11.8 in) long and rises as much as 15 cm (6 in) above the water. The pneumatophore functions as both a flotation device and a sail, allowing the animal to move with the prevailing wind. The gas in the pneumatophore is mostly air which diffuses in from

1752-702: Is the most famous of film spies, but there were also more serious, probing works like le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold that also emerged from the Cold War . As the Cold War ended, the newest villain became terrorism and more often involved the Middle East . The spy film genre began in the silent era , with the paranoia of invasion literature and the onset of the Great War . These fears produced

1825-449: Is the pneumatophore. Three of these types of zooids are of the medusoid type ( gonophores , nectophores , and vestigial nectophores), while the remaining four are of the polypoid type (free gastrozooids, tentacle-bearing zooids, gonozooids and gonopalpons). However, naming and categorization of zooids varies between authors, and much of the embryonic and evolutionary relationships of zooids remains unclear. The pneumatophore or bladder

1898-416: Is the way it drifts at the surface of the ocean. The Portuguese man o' war is asymmetrically shaped: the zooids hang down from either the right or left side of the midline of the pneumatophore or bladder. The pneumatophore can be oriented towards the left or the right . This phenomenon may be an adaptation that prevents an entire population from being washed on shore to die. The "left-handed" animals sail to

1971-459: The James Bond novels by Ian Fleming were adapted into an increasingly fantastical series of tongue-in-cheek adventure films by producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli , with Sean Connery as the star. They featured secretive and flamboyant supervillains, an archetype that would later become a staple of the explosion of spy movies in the mid-to-late 1960s. The phenomenal success of

2044-471: The Alex Rider novels were "fairly slim" due to the film's underperformance at the box office. The Weinstein Company eventually cancelled their plans for a sequel, and Horowitz later expressed that the novels "do not translate well to the big screen". A rebooted television series beginning with the second novel Point Blanc was produced by Eleventh Hour Films and Sony Pictures Television . The series

2117-642: The Bond series leads to a deluge of imitators, such as the eurospy genre and several from America. Notable examples include the two Derek Flint films starring James Coburn , The Quiller Memorandum (1966) with George Segal , and the Matt Helm series with Dean Martin . Television also got into the act with series like The Man from U.N.C.L.E and I Spy in the U.S., and Danger Man and The Avengers in Britain. Spies have remained popular on TV to

2190-618: The Mr. Moto series, based on the books of John P. Marquand . In the 1940s and early 1950s, several films were made about the exploits of Allied agents in occupied Europe, which could be considered a subgenre. 13 Rue Madeleine and O.S.S. were fictional stories about American agents in German-occupied France. There were several films based on the stories of real-life British S.O.E. agents, including Odette and Carve Her Name With Pride . A more recent fictional example

2263-536: The SIM card to his home in Chelsea . She goes there and finds Alex's true identity; while there, she is disturbed by and consequently fights Jack. Despite being outclassed, Jack wins with the help of a blowfish , leaving Nadia to flee the scene. That night, Alex sneaks out of his bedroom window to observe a midnight delivery of mysterious containers to Sayle's lair. The next day, Alex finds himself in trouble when his cover

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2336-404: The nematocyst in the Portuguese man o' war; cnidocytes are inhibited by application of vinegar , but nematocysts can discharge more venom if vinegar is applied. The species is found throughout the world's oceans, mainly in tropical and subtropical regions, but occasionally also in temperate regions. P. physalis is a member of the neuston (the floating community of organisms that live at

2409-452: The tentacles of the Portuguese man o' war can paralyze small fish and other prey. Detached tentacles and dead specimens (including those that wash up on shore) can sting just as painfully as those of the live organism in the water and may remain potent for hours or even days after the death of the organism or the detachment of the tentacle. Stings usually cause severe pain to humans, lasting one to three hours. Red, whip-like welts appear on

2482-559: The British 1914 The German Spy Peril , centered on a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament , and 1913's O.H.M.S. , standing for "Our Helpless Millions Saved" as well as On His Majesty's Service (and introducing for the first time a strong female character who helps the hero). In 1928, Fritz Lang made the film Spies which contained many tropes that became popular in later spy dramas, including secret headquarters, an agent known by

2555-642: The Mediterranean. This model assumed the man o' war was advected by the surface currents, with the effect of the wind being added with a much higher wind drag coefficient of 10%. Similarly, in 2020 Headlam et al. used beaching and offshore observations to identify a region of origin, using the joint effects of surface currents and wind drag, for the largest mass man o' war beaching on the Irish coastline in over 150 years. These earlier studies used numerical models in combination with simple assumptions to calculate

2628-710: The North American rights to the film, which was filmed in Summer 2005 with six weeks on the Isle of Man and a further six weeks in London. Some of the scenes of the school were filmed in The Grey Coat Hospital and Ballakermeen High School , Douglas, Isle of Man. In 2005, Alex Pettyfer was cast as Alex Rider . He was picked out of 500 hopefuls who auditioned for the role. Pettyfer was originally offered

2701-463: The Portuguese man o' war. The man-of-war fish , Nomeus gronovii , is a driftfish native to the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is notable for its ability to live within the deadly tentacles of the Portuguese man o' war, upon whose tentacles and gonads it feeds. Rather than using mucus to prevent nematocysts from firing, as is seen in some of the clownfish sheltering among sea anemones,

2774-807: The Special Operations Division of MI6, who explains to Alex that Ian has been training him as a spy. Alex initially refuses to cooperate but agrees when they threaten to block renewal of Jack's visa and have her deported. Alex is then sent to a military training camp in the Brecon Beacons , the home of the British Special Air Service . At first, his fellow trainees look down on him because of his age, but he soon gains their respect with skills learned from his unwitting training. He sets off on his first mission, aided by gadgets from Smithers. Billionaire Darrius Sayle

2847-478: The United States, the film was distributed by The Weinstein Company in 221 theatres and grossed $ 215,177, with an average of $ 973 per screen and ranking No. 27 during its opening weekend. The film earned $ 677,646 in the United States and $ 23,260,224 internationally for a total of $ 23,937,870 on an estimated budget of $ 40 million. The Numbers reported a worldwide gross of $ 20.7 million. In Germany,

2920-582: The announcement. It was also revealed that the US premiere would take place on the Intrepid aircraft carrier at the Hudson River , New York City. The name of the villain also changed from Herod Sayle to Darrius Sayle, with his nationality switched from Lebanese (Egyptian in the US version of the novel) to American. This was because Mickey Rourke was already in talks to take on the role, so Horowitz adapted

2993-483: The character to suit him. Stormbreaker was distributed by Entertainment Film Distributors in the United Kingdom, where the film made $ 2,313,496 on its opening weekend , well below its expected target of blockbuster status. The film's grosses gradually declined each week for the remainder of its run, totalling of $ 12,872,046, making up more than half of what would become the film's final worldwide gross. In

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3066-403: The colony to operate as a single individual. The name man o’ war comes from the man-of-war , a sailing warship, and the animal's resemblance to the Portuguese version (the caravel ) at full sail. The bluebottle, Pacific man o' war or Indo-Pacific Portuguese man o' war, distinguished by a smaller float and a single long fishing tentacle , was originally considered a separate species in

3139-476: The colony's life, while it is still living below the surface of the sea. Since they have no propulsion system, the movement of the man o' war can be modelled mathematically by calculating the forces acting on it, or by advecting virtual particles in ocean and atmospheric circulation models . Earlier studies modelled the movement of the man o' war with Lagrangian particle tracking to explain major beaching events. In 2017, Ferrer and Pastor were able to estimate

3212-579: The cooperation of two types of zooids: tentacle-bearing zooids known as dactylozooids (or palpons), and gastrozooids. The palpons are equipped with tentacles, which are typically about 10 m (30 ft) in length but can reach over 30 m (100 ft). Each tentacle bears tiny, coiled, thread-like structures called nematocysts . Nematocysts trigger and inject venom on contact, stinging, paralyzing, and killing molluscs and fishes. Large groups of Portuguese man o' war, sometimes over 1,000 individuals, may deplete fisheries. Contraction of tentacles drags

3285-403: The drift of this species, excluding complex drifting dynamics. In 2021, Lee et al. provide a parameterisation for Lagrangian modelling of the bluebottle by considering the similarities between the bluebottle and a sailboat . This allowed them to compute the hydrodynamic and aerodynamic forces acting on the bluebottle and use an equilibrium condition to create a generalised model for calculating

3358-569: The film "lacks any kind of suspense" due to the script. He ended saying that Stormbreaker was unlikely to have a "license to kill at the box-office". Cinema Blend editor-in-chief Josh Tyler gave the film two and a half stars out of five, and said that, "Most of the problems with Stormbreaker all boil down to believability." Boston.com ' s reporter Wesley Morris also gave Stormbreaker two stars out of five, and said that "Geoffrey Sax's filmmaking holds few surprises... but it's swift and competent, despite too many shots of cars on roads that bloat

3431-458: The film didn't get given its shot in America. To this day I don't know why." On Rotten Tomatoes , a review aggregator , the film has a score of 35% based on 69 reviews with an average rating of 4.80/10. The critical consensus states " Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker is strictly children's fare, as it lacks originality, excitement, and believabiltity [ sic ]." The film also has

3504-476: The film was given a direct-to-video release. In a 2007 interview for Reuters , Horowitz blamed Stormbreaker ' s financial failings on The Weinstein Company's handling of the film's distribution on the American market, particularly their decision to not give it a wide release . According to the writer, " Harvey Weinstein decided not to distribute it. It is one of the most bizarre and annoying things that

3577-517: The first entry in a film franchise , Stormbreaker grossed between $ 20.7 and $ 23.9 million worldwide upon its theatrical release, failing to recoup its $ 40 million budget and making the film a box office bomb . According to Rotten Tomatoes , the film was largely criticized for its lack of originality and believability. As a result of these factors, plans to produce further Alex Rider films were dropped. A rebooted TV series, Alex Rider , premiered on Amazon Prime Video in 2020. Alex Rider

3650-417: The function of these is unclear). Man o' war individuals are dioecious , meaning each colony is either male or female. Gonophores producing either sperm or eggs (depending on the sex of the colony) sit on a tree-like structure called a gonodendron, which is believed to drop off from the colony during reproduction. Mating takes place primarily in the autumn, when eggs and sperm are shed from gonophores into

3723-482: The interface between water and air). This community is exposed to a unique set of environmental conditions including prolonged exposure to intense ultraviolet light, risk of desiccation , and rough sea conditions. The gas-filled bladder, or pneumatophore, remains at the surface, while the remainder is submerged. The animal has no means of propulsion; it moves passively, driven by the winds, currents, and tides. Winds can drive them into bays or onto beaches. Often, finding

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3796-433: The man-of-war fish appears to use highly agile swimming to physically avoid tentacles. The fish has a very high number of vertebrae (41), which may add to its agility and primarily uses its pectoral fins for swimming—a feature of fish that specialize in maneuvering tight spaces. It also has a complex skin design and at least one antibody to the man o' war's toxins. Although the fish seems to be 10 times more resistant to

3869-566: The morphology, cellular anatomy, and development of this species. Like all siphonophores, P. physalis is a colonial organism: each animal is composed of many smaller units ( zooids ) that hang in clusters from under a large, gas-filled structure called the pneumatophore. Seven different types of zooids have been described in the man o' war, and all of these are interdependent on each other for survival and performing different functions, such as digestion ( gastrozooids ), reproduction ( gonozooids ) and hunting (dactylozooids). A fourth type of zooid

3942-528: The most popular films include: Movie series ( franchises ) One-shots, sequels and remakes Some of the most popular television series include: Classic era Modern era Portuguese man o%27 war The Portuguese man o' war ( Physalia physalis ), also known as the man-of-war or bluebottle , is a marine hydrozoan found in the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean . It

4015-571: The novel version. A tie-in game , Alex Rider: Stormbreaker was also released on the said DS and its predecessor, the Game Boy Advance . In addition to the Nintendo marketing in the film, Alex's cell phone is a Nokia 7710 and uses a sodium pentothal pen to get to London, not a gun. In August 2006, the film was retitled Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker for North American release. A new poster and trailer were released along with

4088-481: The one hand, the realistic spy novels of Len Deighton and John le Carré were adapted into relatively serious Cold War thrillers that dealt with some of the realities of the espionage world. Some of these films included The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), The Deadly Affair (1966), Torn Curtain (1966), and the Harry Palmer series, based on the novels of Len Deighton . In another direction,

4161-489: The pain becomes excruciating or lasts for more than three hours, or if breathing becomes difficult. Instances in which the stings completely surround the trunk of a young child are among those that may be fatal. The species is responsible for up to 10,000 human stings in Australia each summer, particularly on the east coast, with some others occurring off the coast of South Australia and Western Australia . Stings from

4234-563: The pneumatophore (sail) and a single, early feeding zooid called a protozooid. Later, gastrozooids and tentacle-bearing zooids are added. Eventually, the growing pneumatophore becomes buoyant enough to carry the immature colony on the surface of the water. The Portuguese man o' war is a carnivore . Using its venomous tentacles, it traps and paralyzes its prey while reeling it inwards to its digestive polyps. It typically feeds on small fish, molluscs, shrimp and other small crustaceans, and zooplankton . The organism has few predators; one example

4307-671: The present day with series such as Callan , Alias and Spooks . Spy films also enjoyed something of a revival in the late 1990s, although these were often action films with espionage elements or comedies like Austin Powers . Some critics identify a trend away from fantasy in favor of realism, as observed in Syriana , the Bourne film series and the James Bond films starring Daniel Craig since Casino Royale (2006). Some of

4380-713: The prey upward and into range of the gastrozooids. The gastrozooids surround and digest the food by secreting digestive enzymes . P. physalis typically has multiple stinging tentacles, but a regional form (previously known as a separate species, P. utriculus ) has only a single stinging tentacle. The main reproductive zooids, the gonophores, are situated on branching structures called gonodendra. Gonophores produce sperm or eggs. Besides gonophores, each gonodendron also contains several other types of specialized zooids: gonozooids (which are accessory gastrozooids), nectophores (which have been speculated to allow detached gonodendra to swim), and vestigial nectophores (also called jelly polyps;

4453-522: The region of origin of a significant beaching event on the southeastern Bay of Biscay . They ran a Lagrangian model backwards in time, using wind velocity and a wind drag coefficient as drivers of the man o' war motion. They found that the region of origin was the North Atlantic subtropical gyre . In 2015 Prieto et al. included both the effect of the surface currents and wind to predict the initial colony position prior to major beaching events in

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4526-478: The right of the wind, while the "right-handed" animals sail to the left. The wind will always push the two types in opposite directions, so at most half the population will be pushed towards the coast. Regional populations can have substantial differences in float size and the number of tentacles used for hunting. The regional form previously known as P. utriculus has a bladder rarely exceeding 10 centimetres (4 in) in length and has one long hunting tentacle that

4599-580: The roof and pushes both Alex and Sabina off the roof, leaving them hanging by a dislodged cable. Unexpectedly, Yassen arrives in a helicopter and shoots Sayle (in the same manner he did Ian) before rescuing Alex. Yassen then tells Alex that Sayle had become an embarrassment to his employers, and that Alex should forget about him, but Alex refuses saying that the killing of his uncle means they are still enemies. Alex returns to school; he and Sabina are talking about what happened and he says that it will never happen again. The film ends with someone observing Alex from

4672-486: The running time." During a 2013 interview with the Financial Times , Horowitz stated that the Stormbreaker film was his greatest disappointment, stating that he "did not hate it but that it should have been the first of 10 and it wasn't." Prior to or after Stormbreaker ' s theatrical release, Horowitz had written a screenplay based on Point Blanc , but stated that the chances of further films based on

4745-455: The same genus ( P. utriculus ). The name was synonymized with P. physalis in 2007, and it is now considered a regional form of the same species. The man o' war is described as a colonial organism because the individual zooids in a colony are evolutionarily derived from either polyps or medusae , i.e. the two basic body plans of cnidarians . Both of these body plans comprise entire individuals in non-colonial cnidarians (for example,

4818-505: The skin that last two or three days after the sting. In some cases, the venom may travel to the lymph nodes and may cause symptoms that mimic an allergic reaction, including swelling of the larynx , airway blockage, cardiac distress and shortness of breath. Other symptoms may include fever, circulatory shock and in extreme cases, even death, although this is extremely rare. Medical attention for those exposed to large numbers of tentacles may become necessary to relieve pain or open airways if

4891-584: The spy film in the 1930s with his influential thrillers The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935), Sabotage (1937) and The Lady Vanishes (1938). These often involved innocent civilians being caught up in international conspiracies or webs of saboteurs on the home front, as in Saboteur (1942). Some, however, dealt with professional spies, as in Hitchcock's Secret Agent (1936), based on W. Somerset Maugham 's Ashenden stories, or

4964-401: The stinging tentacles, and for the Portuguese man o' war , the presence of these species may attract other fish to eat. The blanket octopus is immune to the venom of the Portuguese man o' war. Individuals have been observed to carry broken man o' war tentacles, which males and immature females rip off and use for offensive and defensive purposes. The stinging, venom-filled nematocysts in

5037-458: The surrounding atmosphere, but it also contains as much as 13% carbon monoxide , which is actively produced by the animal. In the event of a surface attack, the pneumatophore can be deflated, allowing the animal to temporarily submerge. New zooids are added by budding as the colony grows. Long tentacles hang below the float as the animal drifts, fishing for prey to sting and drag up to its digestive zooids. The colony hunts and feeds through

5110-403: The toxin than other fish, it can be stung by the dactylozooides (large tentacles), which it actively avoids. The smaller gonozooids do not seem to sting the fish and the fish is reported to frequently nibble on these tentacles. The Portuguese man o' war is often found with a variety of other marine fish, including yellow jack . These fish benefit from the shelter from predators provided by

5183-450: The water. As neither fertilization nor early development has been directly observed in the wild, it is not yet known at what depth these occur. A fertilized man o' war egg develops into a planula that buds off new zooids as it grows, gradually forming a new colony. This development initially occurs under the water, and has been reconstructed by comparing different stages of planulae collected at sea. The first two structures to emerge are

5256-520: Was an international co-production between companies and financiers from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany. The film's plot follows a teenage boy who is recruited by MI6 after his uncle, a secret agent , is killed in action . He is sent on a mission in Cornwall to gather intelligence behind Stormbreaker , an advanced computer system being provided to schools across Britain, and its creator, billionaire Darrius Sayle. Intended to be

5329-512: Was released on Amazon Prime Video and TVNZ OnDemand in June 2020. Spy film Spy films show the espionage activities of government agents and their risk of being discovered by their enemies. From the Nazi espionage thrillers of the 1940s to the James Bond films of the 1960s and to the high-tech blockbusters of today, the spy film has always been popular with audiences worldwide. Offering

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