Pitch Black story
Pitch Black (titled The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black on its DVD re- release) is a 2000 American science fiction action horror film directed by David Twohy and co-written by Twohy and brothers Ken and Jim Wheat from a story conceived by the latter. Synopsis: The dangerous criminal Richard B. Riddick is being transported to prison in a spacecraft. When the spaceship is damaged by comet debris and makes an emergency crash landing on an empty desert planet, Riddick escapes. However, when predatory alien creatures begin attacking the survivors, Riddick joins forces with the surviving crew and other passengers to develop a plan to escape the planet.
16 total · 8 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| character metamorphosis | major | The story pointedly concluded with Riddick stated that "he died somewhere on that planet", meaning that he'd left his old life as an infamous criminal and murderer behind there, and was now a reformed man. |
| desert planet | major | A main novelty of the film is the baked in perpetual daylight by three suns desert planet on which it is set. |
| human vs. desert environment | major | The surviving crew and passengers of the Hunter-Gratzner spaceship struggled to survive on the desert planet on which they crash-landed. |
| human vs. monster | major | Central to the story was the surviving crew and passengers of the Hunter-Gratzner spaceship trying to not get killed by the man-eating creatures that inhabited the desert planet on which they'd crash-landed. |
| monster | major | The desert planet was inhabited by grotesque, man-eating creatures. |
| speculative ability | major | A main novelty of the story was that Riddick had surgically altered eyes that allowed him to see in the dark. |
| stranded on a deserted planet | major | The story follows the efforts of the surviving crew and passengers of a crash-landed spaceship to get off a desert planet that was inhabited by hoards of man-eating creatures. [desert] |
| trust in a potential foe | major | Carolyn and Johns took a calculated risk by releasing the dangerous criminal Riddick and accepting him into their party. They remained suspicious and mistrustful of him throughout the course of the film, but needed his help to survive on the planet. |
| abandoning someone to save one's self | minor | Riddick forced Carolyn to choose between leaving her fellow marooned travelers for dead on the planet and escaping with him, and staying behind on the planet to die together with them. |
| cryogenic technology | minor | The Hunter-Gratzner spaceship was transporting 40 cryo-sleeping passengers. |