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{{Infobox Single
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| Name = We Didn't Start the Fire
name=Jason X|
| Cover = BillyJoel_Fire.JPG
image=Jason x.jpg|
| Artist = [[Billy Joel]]
caption=Film poster|
| from Album = [[Storm Front (album)|Storm Front]]
director=James Isaac|
| A-side =
writer= Todd Farmer<br>'''Characters:'''<br>[[Victor Miller (writer)|Victor Miller]]|
| B-side =
producer=Noel Cunningham<br>[[Sean S. Cunningham]]<br>Geoff Garrett<br>James Isaac<br>Marilyn Stonehouse|
| Released = [[November 10]] [[1989]]
starring=[[Kane Hodder]]<br>[[Lexa Doig]]<br>[[Lisa Ryder]]|
| Format = [[Single (music)|7" single]], [[12-inch single|12" single]], [[Compact disc|CD]]
music=Harry Manfredini<br>[[Ethan Wiley]]|
| Recorded =
cinematography =Derick V. Underschultz|
| Genre = [[Rock and roll|Rock]]
editing =David Handman|
| Length = 4:49
distributor=[[New Line Cinema]]|
| Label = [[Columbia Records]]
released=[[26 April]], [[2002]]|
| Writer = Billy Joel
runtime=93 min.|
| Producer = [[Mick Jones (Foreigner)|Mick Jones]], Billy Joel
country={{USA}}|
| Certification =
language=[[English language|English]]|
| Last single = "[[This Is the Time (song)|This Is the Time]]"<br/>(1987)
budget=$14,000,000 (est.)|
| This single = "'''We Didn't Start the Fire'''"<br/>(1989)
gross='''Worldwide:'''<br>$16,951,798|
| Next single = "[[Leningrad (song)|Leningrad]]"<br/>(1990)
preceded_by=''[[Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday]]''|
| Misc =
followed_by=''[[Freddy vs. Jason]]''|
amg_id = 1:260904 |
imdb_id=0211443|
}}
}}


'''''Jason X'''''(also know as '''Friday the 13th part X''') is a [[2002 in film|2002]] [[science fiction film|science fiction]] / [[slasher film]], and the tenth in the ''[[Friday the 13th (film series)|Friday the 13th]]'' film series, starring [[Kane Hodder]] as the [[mass murder]]er [[Jason Voorhees]]. The film made $16,951,798 worldwide with a $14,000,000 budget.<ref name="data">{{cite book | last = Bracke | first = Peter | title = Crystal Lake Memories | publisher = Titan Books | date = October 11, 2006 | location = United Kingdom | pages =314 | isbn = 1845763432}}</ref>
"'''We Didn't Start the Fire'''" is a song by [[Billy Joel]] that makes reference to a catalog of headline events during his lifetime, from March 1949 to 1989, when the song was released on his album ''[[Storm Front (album)|Storm Front]]''. The events are mixed with a refrain asserting "we didn't start the fire". The song was a number-one hit in the U.S.


The film was conceived as means of moving the franchise ahead while ''[[Freddy vs. Jason]]'' was still stuck in [[development hell]]. ''Jason X'' is set in the future (the opening scene being set in at least [[2010]], and Jason revealed as having been held captive since 2008) so as not to confuse the [[continuity (fiction)|continuity]] of the series. The film made $13,121,555 domestic, making it the lowest grossing film in the series.
The song and music video have been interpreted as a rebuttal to criticism of Joel's [[Baby Boomer]] generation, from both its preceding and succeeding generations, that they were responsible for much of the world's problems.{{Fact|date=October 2007}} The song's title and refrain imply that the frenzied and troubled state which others were criticizing had been the state of the world since long before his generation's time, but that this was being ignored by their critics. This message contrasts strongly with the song "[[Allentown (song)|Allentown]]", written earlier in his career, which blamed his parents' generation for contemporary problems.


==History==
==Plot==
In [[2008]], [[Jason Voorhees]] is captured by the [[United States|U.S.]] government. Rowan ([[Lexa Doig]]), a government researcher, leads several unsuccessful attempts to [[Capital punishment|execute]] him. In [[2010]], she decides to place him in [[Cryonics|cryogenic suspension]] to neutralize him. Unfortunately, the government has other plans, hoping to profit from research into Jason's rapid cellular regeneration. Jason escapes while being moved and kills several soldiers. Rowan manages to lure him into the cryonic chamber and activates it. However, Jason manages to stab her through the door, both wounding her and freezing them both inside the sealed room.
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Joel explained that he wrote this song due to his interest in history. He commented that he would have wanted to be a history teacher if he had not become a musician. Unlike most of Joel's songs, the lyrics were written before the melody, owing to the somewhat unusual style of the song. Nevertheless, the song was a huge commercial success and provided Billy Joel with his third Billboard #1 hit.


In the year [[2455]], Earth has become too polluted to support life and humanity has moved to a new planet. Five students on a field trip led by Professor Lowe ([[Jonathan Potts]]) enter the facility and find Jason and Rowan. They take them back to their spacecraft and reanimate Rowan. Jason is deemed deceased and left in the morgue. During a call to his financial backer, Professor Lowe explains that had hoped to exploit Rowan's status as the oldest person revived from cryostatis for profit, as he is in serious debt. The man dismisses this, but notes that Voorhees' body could be worth a substantial amount to a collector.
"We Didn't Start the Fire" was written by Joel after a conversation with [[John Lennon]]'s son [[Sean Lennon|Sean]]. Sean was complaining that he was growing up in troubled times.


In the morgue, Jason reanimates and kills Lowe's intern, Adrienne ([[Kristi Angus]]) by sticking her head in cryogenites and smshing it aganst a table nearby. Having been relieved of his machete, he takes a similarly-shaped surgical tool and moves on to kill another student. Professor Lowe, Rowan, and his students are sent to one of the ship's laboratories while the ship's contingent of soldiers attempts to kill Jason, in spite of Lowe's insistence that Jason be taken alive. All are apparently killed. Jason then kills the ship's pilot on its docking approach to a space station. The ship crashes through the space station, destroying it and one of the vessel's two pontoon sections. Jason then breaks into the lab and kills the professor while the students run away, the professor having attempted to reason with Jason by talking about the financial possibilities created by his existence and when that fails he gives him his machete back thinking he wont kill him if he gives it to him then he gets killed.
Although the song ranked #1 in the U.S., and #7 in the UK,'' [[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]'' magazine ranked "We Didn't Start the Fire" #41 on its list of the "50 Worst Songs Ever".<ref>[http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=786 Run for Your Life! It's the 50 Worst Songs Ever!] from ''Blender.com''. Retrieved on [[May 3]], [[2008]].</ref> "We Didn't Start the Fire" also appeared in the same spot on [[VH1]]'s ''50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever'', a collaboration with ''Blender'' in 2004.


With the ship badly damaged, Rowan and remaining students head for the vessel's shuttle. As the shuttle is being prepped, Jason intercepts them. The student left on board has a panic attack and attempts to launch the shuttle without releasing the docking clamps, causing it to immolate itself on the ship's hull. When it seems as if there's no escape, Sgt. Brodski ([[Peter Mensah]]), the leader of the soldiers, attacks Jason by surprise. He is easily overpowered, but another student has upgraded his android, Kay-Em 14 ([[Lisa Ryder]]), with an array of weapons and matching combat skills. She easily fights Jason off and apparently kills him, blasting off a portion of his head, his right arm, his left leg, and a portion of his right chest.
[[The Hoosiers]] covered the song as a B-side to their release, "[[Worried About Ray]]" and also performed it in their tour.


[[Image:Uberjason.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Über-Jason]]
This song could be classified as a [[patter song]] characterized by its moderately fast tempo with rapid succession of rhythmic lyrics.
The survivors send out a distress call and receive a reply from a patrol shuttle. As it is nearly an hour out and the ship will explode by then, the survivors begin setting explosive charges to separate the remaining pontoon from the main drive section. As they work, Jason, having been knocked into a [[nanotechnology]]-equipped medical station during his battle with Kay-Em 14, is brought back to life by the damaged computer. Furthermore, since much of his biological tissue is missing, the computer rebuilds him as an even more powerful cyborg. Kay-Em 14 is now no match for Jason, and has her head knocked off; her head remains functional despite the separation. Another student sacrifices himself by setting off the explosive charges while Rowan and the others escape.


The explosives do not stop Jason, instead propelling him through space to the pontoon. He punches through the hull, sucking out one of the students. As the shuttle prepares to dock, a power failure in the docking clamps forces Brodski to go [[Extra-vehicular activity|EVA]] to fix it. A [[Holodeck|simulation]] of Crystal Lake is used to distract Jason as Brodski works. Jason manages to see through the deception just as the docking clamp is fixed, and Brodski confronts Jason so the others can escape. As the shuttle leaves, the pontoon explodes, again propelling Jason at high-speed towards the survivors. Brodski intercepts Jason in mid-flight, using his jetpack to maneuver them both into the atmosphere of [[Earth 2]], apparently killing both by the heat of reentry. In the final scene, two teens beside a forest lake set off to find where the falling star fell; Jason's mask is shown sinking to the bottom of the lake.
==Music video==
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A [[music video]] for the single was directed by Chris Blum.[http://www.mvdbase.com/video.php?id=14662] It chronicles a middle-class husband and wife and their goal of the American Dream: a home, careers and children. This is juxtaposed with the tumultuous social times of the second half of the 20th century (e.g., [[bra burning]]). The singer acts as an omnipotent observer. The chorus shows Joel beating on a table while a backdrop of famous photographs ([[Lee Harvey Oswald]]'s assassination and [[Nguyễn Văn Lém]]'s execution, among others) are consumed in flames.


==Chart positions==
==Cast==
*[[Kane Hodder]] as [[Jason Voorhees]]
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*[[Lexa Doig]] as [[List of characters in the Friday the 13th series#Rowan|Rowan]]
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*[[Lisa Ryder]] as Kay-Em 14
!Peak<br>position
*[[Chuck Campbell]] as Tsunaron
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*[[Peter Mensah]] as Sgt. Brodski
|[[ARC Weekly Top 40]]
*[[David Cronenberg]] as Dr. Wimmer
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*[[Melyssa Ade]] as Janessa
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*Derwin Jordan as Waylander
|Austrian Singles Chart
*[[Jonathan Potts]] as Professor Lowe
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*[[Kristi Angus]] as Adrienne
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|German [[Media Control Charts]]
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|U.S. ''Billboard'' [[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]]
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|U.S. ''Billboard'' [[Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks]]
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|[[UK Singles Chart]]
|align="center"|7
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|}


==Other media==
==Historical items referred to in the song==<!-- This section is linked from [[Edsel]] -->
In 2005, [http://www.blackflame.com Black Flame], a subsidiary of [[Games Workshop]], began publishing a series of paperback books based on ''Jason X'' and aimed towards [[Young adult literature|young adults]]. While the first book adapts the film, the following books feature new storylines based on the character in the setting established by the ''Jason X'' film. The five books in the series are ''Jason X'' by Pat Cadigan, ''Jason X: The Experiment'' by Pat Cadigan, ''Jason X: Planet Of The Beast'' by Nancy Kilpatrick, ''Jason X: Death Moon'' by Alex Johnson and ''Jason X: To The Third Power'' by Nancy Kilpatrick.
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Avatar Press produced two comic book titles based on this film: ''Jason X'', a one-shot by [[Brian Pulido]] that picks up as a sequel to the movie, and ''Friday the 13th: Jason vs. Jason X'', a two-issue mini-series by Mike Wolfer that pits the two versions of Jason against each other.
[[Stream of consciousness writing|Stream of consciousness]] in style, the song could be considered a natural successor to songs such as "[[Subterranean Homesick Blues]]", "[[Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)]]" and "[[It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)]]", as it consists of a series of unrelated images in a rapid-fire, half-spoken, half-sung vocal style.


===Score===
The following events are in chronological order, the order as they appear in the song. In the actual song they are slightly reworded and are occasionally punctuated by the [[refrain|chorus]] and other lyrical elements. Events from a variety of contexts, such as popular entertainment, foreign affairs, and sports, are intermingled, giving an impression of the culture of the time as a whole. There are 121 items listed in the song
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The film score was composed and conducted by [[Harry Manfredini]]. It was released on [[Varèse Sarabande]].


==Trivia/Notes==
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*This and the previous film contain the Jason Voorhees characters and the series premise, but not the title ''[[Friday The 13th]]''. After a disappointing reception to ''[[Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan]]'', Paramount Pictures sold the Jason Vorhees character to New Line Cinema. Consequently, the New Line movies that feature Jason are ''[[Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday]]'', ''[[Jason X]]'' and ''[[Freddy Vs Jason]]'' which combines Jason and New Line mainstay [[Freddy Krueger]].
*When the character "Stony" opens the door and gets stabbed, and his blood sprays in Kinsa's face, she screams. According to the audio commentary, the effects guys were not supposed to spray the blood into her face. She was screaming not because she just saw her boyfriend die, but because the fake blood was burning her eyes.
*The "virtual '80s" scene was originally meant to be much more detailed, including a number of topless women playing [[volleyball]]. One idea even included the appearance of [[Pamela Voorhees]], Jason's mother, and even went so far as to have Jason attack her, showing the extent of just how evil he had become. The latter idea was dropped.
*The "sleeping bag death" scene was first done in ''[[Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood]]'', and was actually ad-libbed by [[Kane Hodder]] in that film out of frustration at re-shooting the same scene over and over.
*Originally, the bio-mechanical Über-Jason was meant to be a surprise for the film's finale. But because of early script reviews and foreign posters, [[New Line Cinema]] decided to make Über-Jason the major advertising [[gimmick]] for the movie.
*The idea of Jason in space was first conceived in a parody on [[MadTV]] entitled ''[[Apollo 13 (film)|Apollo the 13th: Jason Takes NASA]]''
*One of the abandoned script ideas had Jason in L.A. caught in the middle of a rival gang war.
*The film was announced in 1999, and completed in 2000, but was not released in America until 2002, well after many foreign countries had released it.
*According to one of the characters in the film, Dieter Perez, says that Jason Voorhees killed nearly 200 people. However, the back cover on both DVD/VHS, it says that Jason killed over 200 people
*In the TV show ''Andromeda'' Lexa Doig plays an Android with costar Lisa Ryder who plays a human. In this movie its the opposite.


==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.campcrystallake.com/thefilms/part10.htm Film page at the ''Camp Crystal Lake'' web site]
*[http://www.toxicuniverse.com/review.php?aid=1000281 "Inside ''Jason X''" With Screen Writer Todd Farmer] at ToxicUniverse.com.
*[http://www.toxicuniverse.com/review.php?aid=1000299 "Inside ''Jason X''" with Director Jim Isaac] at ToxicUniverse.com.


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'''[[1949]]'''
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* '''[[Harry S. Truman|Harry Truman]]''' is inaugurated as [[President of the United States|U.S. president]] after being elected in 1948 to his own term; previously he was sworn in following the death of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. He authorized the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan during World War II. [[August 6]], [[1945]] and [[August 9]], [[1945]] respectively.
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* '''[[Doris Day]]''' enters the public spotlight with the films ''[[My Dream Is Yours]]'' and ''[[It's a Great Feeling]]'' as well as popular songs like "[[It's Magic]]"; divorces her second husband.
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* '''[[People's Republic of China|Red China]]''' as the [[Communist Party of China]] wins the [[Chinese Civil War]], establishing the [[People's Republic of China]].
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* '''[[Johnnie Ray]]''' signs his first recording contract with [[Okeh Records]], although he would not become popular for another two years.
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* '''''[[South Pacific (musical)|South Pacific]]''''', the prize winning musical, opens on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] on [[April 7]].
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* '''[[Walter Winchell]]''' is an aggressive radio and newspaper [[journalist]] credited with inventing the [[gossip columnist|gossip column]].
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* '''[[Joe DiMaggio]]''' is injured early in the season but makes a comeback in June and leads the [[New York Yankees]] to win the [[1949 World Series|World Series]].
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* '''[[Joe McCarthy]]''', the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]], gains national attention and begins his anti-communist crusade with his [[Lincoln Day]] speech.
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* '''[[Richard Nixon]]''' is first elected to the [[United States Senate]].
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* '''[[Studebaker]]''', a popular car company, is beginning its financial downfall.
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* '''[[Television]]''' is becoming widespread (in black and white format) and becomes the most popular means of advertising.
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* '''[[North Korea]], [[South Korea]]''' engage in [[Conventional warfare|warfare]] as North Korea attacks on [[June 25]], beginning the [[Korean War]].
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* '''[[Marilyn Monroe]]''' soars in popularity with five new movies including ''[[The Asphalt Jungle]]'' and ''[[All About Eve]]'', and attempts suicide after the death of lover [[Johnny Hyde]]. Monroe would later (1954) be married for a brief time to Joe DiMaggio (the rhyme in the previous verse).
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'''[[1951]]'''
* '''[[Ethel and Julius Rosenberg]]''' were convicted on [[March 29]] for [[espionage]]. They maintained that they were innocent even at their executions.
* '''[[Nuclear weapon|H-Bomb]]''' is in the middle of its development as a nuclear weapon, announced in early 1950 and first tested in late 1952.
* '''[[Sugar Ray Robinson]]''', the [[boxing|boxer]], obtains the world's [[middleweight]] title.
* '''[[Panmunjeom]]''', the border village in Korea, is the location of truce talks between the parties of the [[Korean War]].
* '''[[Marlon Brando]]''' is nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Actor]] for his role in ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (film)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]''.
* '''''[[The King and I]]''''', musical, opens on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] on [[March 29]].
* '''''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]''''', a controversial novel by [[J. D. Salinger]], is published.

'''[[1952]]'''
* '''[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]''' is first elected as U.S. president, winning by a landslide margin of 442 to 89 electoral votes.
* '''[[Polio vaccine|Vaccine]]''' for [[polio]] is privately tested by [[Jonas Salk]].
* '''[[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom#Succession|Queen Elizabeth II]]''' (then Princess Elizabeth) succeeds to the throne of the [[United Kingdom]] and the [[Commonwealth Realms]] upon the death of [[George VI of the United Kingdom]].
* '''[[Rocky Marciano]]''' defeats [[Jersey Joe Walcott]], becoming the world [[Heavyweight champion]].
* '''[[Liberace]]''' has a popular 1950s television show for his musical entertainment.
* '''[[George Santayana]]''', [[philosopher]], [[essayist]], [[poet]], and [[novelist]], dies on [[September 26]].

'''[[1953]]'''
* '''[[Joseph Stalin]]''' dies on [[March 5]], yielding his position as leader of the [[Soviet Union]].
* '''[[Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov]]''' succeeds Stalin for six months following his death. Malenkov had presided over Stalin's purges of party "enemies", but would be spared a similar fate by Nikita Khrushchev mentioned later in verse.
* '''[[Gamal Abdel Nasser]]''' acts as the true power behind the new [[Egypt]]ian nation as [[Muhammad Naguib]]'s minister of the interior.
* '''[[Sergei Prokofiev]]''', the composer, dies on [[March 5]], the same day as Stalin.
* '''[[Winthrop Rockefeller]]''' establishes ''Winrock Enterprises'' and ''Winrock Farms'' atop [[Petit Jean Mountain]] near [[Morrilton, Arkansas]].
* '''[[Roy Campanella]]''', an African American baseball catcher for the [[Brooklyn Dodgers]], receives the National League's [[Most Valuable Player Award|Most Valuable Player]] award for the second time.
* '''[[Communist bloc]]''' is a group of [[communist]] nations dominated by the Soviet Union at this time.

'''[[1954]]'''
* '''[[Roy Cohn]]''' resigns as [[Joseph McCarthy]]'s chief counsel and enters [[Roy Cohn#Later Career|private practice]] with the [[Joseph McCarthy#fall of McCarthy|fall of McCarthy]].
* '''[[Juan Perón]]''' spends his last full year as [[President of Argentina]] before a September 1955 coup.
* '''[[Arturo Toscanini]]''' is at the height of his fame as a [[conducting|conductor]], performing regularly with the [[NBC Symphony Orchestra]] on national radio.
* '''[[Dacron]]''' is an early artificial fiber made from the same plastic as [[polyester]].
* '''[[Battle of Dien Bien Phu]]'''. A village in North Vietnam falls to [[Viet Minh]] forces under [[Vo Nguyen Giap]], leading to the creation of [[North Vietnam]] and [[South Vietnam]] as separate states.
* '''"[[Rock Around the Clock]]"''' is a hit single released by [[Bill Haley & His Comets]] in May, spurring worldwide interest in [[rock and roll]].

'''[[1955]]'''
* '''[[Albert Einstein]]''' dies on [[April 18]] at the age of 76.
* '''[[James Dean]]''' achieves success with ''[[East of Eden (1955 film)|East of Eden]]'' and ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]'', gets nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Actor]], and dies in a car accident on [[September 30]].
* '''[[1955 World Series]]''' as the [[Los Angeles Dodgers|Brooklyn Dodgers]] win the [[World Series]] for the only time. (There is cheering in the background of the song during this line.)
* '''''[[Davy Crockett#Television|Davy Crockett]]''''' is a [[Disney]] [[television series]] about the legendary frontiersman of [[Davy Crockett|the same name]]. The show was a huge hit with young boys and inspired a short-lived "coonskin cap" fad.
* '''''[[Peter Pan]]''''' is broadcast on TV live and in color from the 1954 version of the stage musical starring [[Mary Martin]] on [[March 7]].
* '''[[Elvis Presley]]''' signs with [[RCA Records]] on [[November 21]], beginning his pop career.
* '''[[Disneyland]]''' opens on [[July 17]] as [[Walt Disney]]'s first [[theme park]].

'''[[1956]]'''
* '''[[Brigitte Bardot]]''' appears in her first mainstream film ''[[And God Created Woman]]'' and establishes an international reputation as a French "sex kitten".
* '''[[Budapest]]''' is the site of the [[1956 Hungarian Revolution]].
* '''[[Alabama]]''' is the site of the [[Montgomery Bus Boycott]] which ultimately led to the removal of the last race laws in the USA.
* '''[[Nikita Khrushchev]]''' makes his famous [[Secret Speech]] denouncing Stalin's "cult of personality" on [[February 23]].
* '''[[Grace Kelly|Princess Grace Kelly]] ''' releases her last film, ''[[High Society]]'', and marries [[Rainier III, Prince of Monaco|Prince Rainier III of Monaco]].
* '''''[[Peyton Place (novel)|Peyton Place]]''''', the best-selling novel by [[Grace Metalious]], is published. Though mild compared to today's prime time, it shocked the reserved values of the '50s.
* '''[[Suez Crisis]]''' The Suez Crisis boils as [[Egypt]] nationalizes the [[Suez Canal]] on [[October 29]].

'''[[1957]]'''
* '''[[Little Rock, Arkansas]]''' is the site of an anti-integration standoff, as Governor [[Orval Faubus]] stops the [[Little Rock Nine]] from attending [[Little Rock Central High School]] and President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] deploys the [[101st Airborne Division]] to counteract him.
* '''[[Boris Pasternak]]''', the Russian author, publishes his famous novel ''[[Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]''.
* '''[[Mickey Mantle]]''' is in the middle of his career as a famous [[New York Yankees]]' outfielder and American League All-Star for the sixth year in a row.
* '''[[Jack Kerouac]]''' publishes his first novel in seven years, ''[[On the Road]]''.
* '''[[Sputnik 1|Sputnik]]''' is the first [[artificial satellite]], launched by the [[Soviet Union]] on [[October 4]], the start of the [[space race]].
* '''[[Zhou Enlai]]''', [[Premier of the People's Republic of China]], survives an assassination attempt on the Charter jet ''[[Kashmir Princess]]''.
* '''''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]''''' is released as a film adaptation of the 1954 novel and receives seven Academy Awards.

'''[[1958]]'''
* '''[[Lebanon]]''' is engulfed in a [[Lebanon Crisis of 1958|political and religious crisis]] that eventually involves US Intervention.
* '''[[Charles de Gaulle]]''' is elected first president of the [[French Fifth Republic]] following the [[May 1958 crisis (France)|Algerian Crisis]].
* '''[[California]] [[baseball]]''' begins as the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants move to California and become the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]] and [[San Francisco Giants]]. They are the first major league teams west of [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]].
* '''[[Charles Starkweather]] homicides''' capture the attention of Americans, killing eleven people before he is caught in a massive manhunt in [[Douglas, Wyoming]].
* '''[[Thalidomide]]''': Mothers taking the drug Thalidomide had children born with congenital [[birth defects]] caused by the sleeping aid and [[antiemetic]], which was also used at times (although not in the USA) to treat [[morning sickness]].

'''[[1959]]'''
* '''[[Buddy Holly]]''' dies in a plane crash on [[February 3]] with [[Ritchie Valens]] and [[The Big Bopper|J. P. Richardson]] ("The Big Bopper"), in a day that had a devastating impact on the country and youth culture. The event was immortalized by [[Don McLean]] as "[[The Day the Music Died]]" in his famous tribute song ''[[American Pie]]''. (As an intro to this stanza, Billy Joel mimics Buddy Holly's trademark "hiccup" style, singing a-UH-uh-oh...).
* '''''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]''''' wins eleven [[Academy Awards]] as a film based around the [[New Testament]] starring [[Charlton Heston]].
* '''[[Monkeys in space]]''': Able and Miss Baker are the first living beings to successfully return to Earth from space aboard the flight [[Jupiter IRBM#Biological Flights|Jupiter AM-18]].
* '''[[Mafia]]''' are the center of attention for the [[FBI]] and public attention builds to this organized crime society with a historically Sicilian-American origin.
* '''[[Hula hoop]]s''' reach 100 million in sales as the latest [[toy]] [[fad]].
* '''[[Fidel Castro]]''' comes to power after a revolution in [[Cuba]] and visits the United States later that year on an unofficial twelve-day tour.
* '''[[Edsel]]''': Production of this car marketing disaster (Ford spent $400 million developing it) ends after only two years.

'''[[1960]]'''
* '''[[Lockheed U-2]]''': An American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the [[Soviet Union]], causing the [[U-2 Crisis of 1960]].
* '''[[Syngman Rhee]]''' was rescued by the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] after being forced to resign as leader of [[South Korea]] for allegedly fixing an election and embezzling more than twenty million U.S. dollars.
* '''[[Payola]]''' was publicized due to [[Dick Clark (entertainer)|Dick Clark]]'s testimony before Congress and [[Alan Freed]]'s public disgrace.
* '''[[John F. Kennedy]]''' beats [[Richard Nixon]] in the [[November 8]] general [[U.S. presidential election, 1960|election]] amongst allegations of vote fraud.
* '''[[Chubby Checker]]''' popularizes the dance [[Twist (dance)|The Twist]] with his song of the same name (see "[[The Twist (song)|The Twist]]").
* '''''[[Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho]]''''': An [[Alfred Hitchcock]] thriller, based on a pulp novel by [[Robert Bloch]] and adapted by [[Joseph Stefano]], which becomes a landmark in graphic violence and cinema sensationalism. The screeching violins heard briefly in the background are a trademark of the film's soundtrack.
* '''[[Congo Crisis]]''': The [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] was declared independent of [[Belgium]] on [[June 30]], with [[Joseph Kasavubu]] as President and [[Patrice Lumumba]] as Prime Minister. The Belgians, however, had other plans (see [[Congo Crisis#Secession of Katanga|Secession of Katanga]]).

'''[[1961]]'''
* '''[[Ernest Hemingway]]''' commits suicide on [[July 2]] after a long battle with [[Clinical Depression|depression]].
* '''[[Adolf Eichmann]]''', a "most wanted" [[Nazi]] [[war crime|war criminal]], is traced to [[Argentina]] and captured by [[Mossad]] agents. He is covertly taken to [[Israel]] where he is put on trial for [[crimes against humanity]] in [[Germany]] during [[World War II]], convicted, and hanged.
* '''''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]''''': Written by [[Robert A. Heinlein]], is a breakthrough best-seller with themes of sexual freedom and liberation.
* '''[[Bob Dylan]]''': After a ''[[New York Times]]'' review by critic [[Robert Shelton]], Bob Dylan is signed to [[Columbia Records]].
* '''[[Berlin]]''': The [[Berlin Wall]], which forcibly separated [[West Berlin]] from [[East Berlin]] and the rest of [[East Germany]], was erected on August 13th to prevent citizens escaping to the West.
* '''[[Bay of Pigs Invasion]]''': Failed attempt by [[United States]]-trained [[Cuban exile]]s to invade [[Cuba]] and overthrow [[Fidel Castro]].

'''[[1962]]'''
* '''''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]''''': The [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-winning film based on the life of [[T. E. Lawrence]] starring [[Peter O'Toole]] premiers in America on [[December 16]].
* '''[[Beatlemania]]''': [[The Beatles]], a [[United Kingdom|British]] pop/rock group, gain [[Ringo Starr]] as drummer and [[Brian Epstein]] as manager, and join the [[EMI]]'s [[Parlophone]] label. They soon become the world's most famous group, with the word "Beatlemania" adopted by the press for their fans' unprecedented enthusiasm.
* '''[[University of Mississippi]]''': [[James Meredith]] [[desegregation|integrates]] the University of Mississippi (known as Ole Miss).
* '''[[John Glenn]]''': Flew the first American manned orbital mission termed "[[Mercury Atlas 6|Friendship 7]]" on [[February 20]].
* '''[[Sonny Liston]] beats [[Floyd Patterson]]''': [[Sonny Liston]] and [[Floyd Patterson]] fight for the world [[heavyweight]] championship on [[September 25]], ending in a round-one knockout. This match marked the first time Patterson had ever been knocked out and one of only eight losses in his entire career.

'''[[1963]]'''
* '''[[Pope Paul VI]]''': Pope Paul VI is elected to the papacy.
* '''[[Malcolm X]]''' makes infamous statement "The chickens have come home to roost" about the Kennedy assassination, thus causing the [[Nation of Islam]] to censure him.
* '''[[Profumo Affair]]''': The British Secretary of State for War has a relationship with a showgirl, and then lies when questioned about it before the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]. When the truth came out, it led to his own resignation and undermined the credibility of the Prime Minister.
* '''[[John F. Kennedy assassination]]''': President [[John F. Kennedy]] is [[John F. Kennedy assassination|assassinated]] on [[November 22]] while riding in an open convertible through Dallas.

'''[[1965]]'''
* '''[[Birth control]]''': In the early 1960s, oral contraceptives, popularly known as "the pill", first go on the market and are extremely popular. [[Griswold v. Connecticut]] in 1965 challenged a Connecticut law prohibiting contraceptives. In 1968, [[Pope Paul VI]] released a papal [[encyclical]] entitled ''[[Humanae Vitae]]'' which declared artificial birth control a [[sin]].
* '''[[Ho Chi Minh]]''': A [[Vietnam]]ese Communist, who served as [[President of Vietnam]] from 1954&ndash;1969. March 2nd Operation Rolling Thunder begins bombing of the "Ho Chi Minh Trail" supply line from North Viet Nam to the Viet Cong rebels in the south. March 8th first US combat troops, 3,500 marines, land in South Viet Nam.

'''[[1968]]'''
* '''[[Richard Nixon]]''': Former Vice President Nixon is elected in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1968|1968 presidential election of the United States]].

'''[[1969]]'''
* '''[[Space Race]]''': [[Apollo 11]], the first manned lunar landing, successfully lands on the moon.
* '''[[Woodstock Festival]]''': Famous rock and roll festival of 1969 that came to be the epitome of the [[counterculture]] movement.

'''[[1974]]'''
* '''[[Watergate scandal]]''': Political scandal involving a hotel break-in, eventually leading to President Nixon's resignation.
* '''[[Punk rock]]''': The [[Ramones]] form, with the [[Sex Pistols]] following in 1975, bringing in the punk era. The movement went beyond the music to a cultural attitude of rebellion against authority as a way of life, the reverberations of which are still being felt today.

'''[[1977]]''' (Note that these two items, while later chronologically than the two 1976 items, come immediately before them in the song.)
* '''[[Menachem Begin]]''' becomes [[Prime Minister of Israel]] in 1977 and negotiates the [[Camp David Accords]] with [[Egypt]]'s president in 1978.
* '''[[Ronald Reagan]]''': President of the United States from 1981 to 1989; first attempted in 1976 to run for president.

'''[[1976]]''' (Note that these two items, while earlier chronologically than the two 1977 items, come immediately after them in the song)
* '''[[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]''': The [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] is admitted as a member of [[Arab League]]; see [[history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict]].
* '''[[Aircraft hijacking]]''': Numerous [[aircraft hijacking]]s took place, specifically, the Palestinian hijack of [[Air France Flight 139]] and the subsequent [[Operation Entebbe]] in [[Uganda]]

'''[[1979]]'''
* '''[[Ayatollah]]s in [[Iran]]''': During the [[Iranian Revolution]] of 1979, the West-backed and U.S.-installed [[Shah]] is overthrown as the Ayatollah [[Ruhollah Khomeini]] gains power after years in exile.
* '''[[Soviet invasion of Afghanistan]]''': Following their move into [[Afghanistan]], Soviet forces fight a ten-year war, from 1979 to 1989.

'''[[1983]]'''
* '''''[[Wheel of Fortune (US game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]''''': A hit television [[game show]] which has been TV's highest-rated syndicated program since 1983.
* '''[[Sally Ride]]''': In 1983 she becomes the first [[United States|America]]n woman in space. Dr. Ride's quip from space "Better than an E-ticket," harkens back to the opening of Disneyland mentioned earlier, with the E-ticket purchase needed for the best rides.
* '''[[Heavy metal (music)|Heavy metal]], [[suicide]]''': In the 1980s [[Ozzy Osbourne]] and the bands [[Metallica]] and [[Judas Priest]] were brought to court by parents who accused the musicians of [[backmasking|hiding subliminal pro-suicide messages in their music]]. (Billy Joel himself has stated on his website that even though the two terms are separated by a comma they are collectively one item, similar to "North Korea, South Korea" above.){{Fact|date=December 2007}}
* '''[[Trade deficit]]''': Persistent US trade deficits.
* '''[[Homelessness|Homeless Vietnam veteran]]s''': Veterans of the [[Vietnam war]], including many disabled ex-military, are reported to be left homeless and impoverished, the country unable to yet handle its failure to succeed.
* '''[[AIDS]]''': A collection of symptoms and infections in humans resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus ([[HIV]]). It is first detected and recognized in the 1980s, on its way to becoming a [[pandemic]].
* '''[[Crack cocaine]]''': Refers to crack [[cocaine]], a popular drug in the mid-to-late 1980s.

'''[[1984]]'''
* '''[[Bernhard Goetz]]''': On [[December 22]], Goetz shot four young men who he said were threatening him on a New York City subway. Goetz was charged with attempted murder but was acquitted of the charges, though convicted of carrying an unlicensed gun.

'''[[1988]]'''
* '''[[Syringe Tide]]''': Medical waste was found washed up on [[beach]]es in [[New Jersey]] after being illegally dumped at sea. Before this event, waste dumped in the oceans was an "out of sight, out of mind" affair. This has been cited as one of the crucial turning points in popular opinion on [[environmentalism]].

'''[[1989]]'''
* '''China's [[Martial law]]''': On [[May 20]], China declares martial law, enabling them to use force of arms against protesting students to end the [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989|Tiananmen Square protests]].
* '''Rock and Roller, [[Cola wars]]''': Soft drink giants [[Coca-Cola|Coke]] and [[Pepsi]] each run marketing campaigns using popular music stars to reach the young adult demographic.
Of the 56 individuals mentioned by name in the song, the following nine are still alive as of September 2008: [[Doris Day]], [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]], [[Brigitte Bardot]], [[Fidel Castro]], [[Chubby Checker]], [[Bob Dylan]], [[John Glenn]], [[Sally Ride]], and [[Bernhard Goetz]]. [[Johnnie Ray]] was the first person mentioned in the song, still alive when it was released, to die (on [[24 February]] [[1990]]). The most recent to die was [[Floyd Patterson]], on [[11 May]] [[2006]].

Only two individuals, [[John F. Kennedy]] and [[Richard Nixon]], are mentioned by name twice in the song.

== Parodies and other cultural references ==
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*"They'll Never Stop The Simpsons": In the episode "[[Gump Roast]]", ''[[The Simpsons]]'' plays this parody while showing various stills from the series up to that point. It relived popular moments from "[[Mr. Plow]]" to [[Who Shot Mr. Burns?|Burns being "blown away"]].

*"We Like Barney Fife": a parody song by novelty group ''Guns 'N' Moses'' (one of many names used by IceMark, composed of [[Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine|Mark Jonathan Davis]] and Rob "Iceman" Izenberg<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mich.ideatown.com/mdemento.html |title=Dr. Demento Hits |accessdate=2008-04-09 |accessmonthday= |accessdaymonth= |accessyear= |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work=MJD's Intergalactic Comedy Hacienda |publisher= |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref>), centered around the characters and landmarks of ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'', primarily around Deputy [[Barney Fife]] of Mayberry. This then segues into an audio trailer for "Barney on the Fourth of July", a spoof of the movie ''[[Born on the Fourth of July (film)|Born on the Fourth of July]]''. (One notable clever point is the interesting counterpoint between the melody of the refrain of "We Didn't Start the Fire" and the Andy Griffith Show theme music, "The Fishin' Hole".)

*"Pet Names for Genitalia": a song listing increasingly absurd [[euphemism]]s for "penis" and circulated on the Internet. Though commonly misattributed to [["Weird Al" Yankovic]], [[Tom Green]], [[Dane Cook]], or [[South Park]], it is generally unknown who wrote it.

*Coca Cola (Coke) in [[Latin America]] launched a TV campaign about the [[2006 FIFA World Cup]], in which they use the score of this song like a chant.[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT5jo_d6NtM]

*On ''[[Late Night with Conan O'Brien]]'' Conan has occasionally suggested that the show will turn over a new leaf in terms of its comedic direction and stop doing comedy bits that don't make any sense. He then consults with the Cactus Chef playing "We Didn't Start the Fire" on the flute for confirmation. The Cactus Chef promptly plays "We Didn't Start the Fire" on his flute.

*In [[Ricky Gervais]]'s stand-up show ''[[Politics (comedy)|Politics]]'', he references the song, saying "It's basically a list", then quoting the first verse and commenting, "That's not a song. That is a conversation with ''[[Rain Man]]''."

*"Ryan Started the Fire": In ''[[The Office (U.S. TV series)|The Office]]'' episode "[[The Fire (The Office episode)|The Fire]]", Dunder-Mifflin Scranton catches fire. After the smoke clears, Michael and Dwight discover that it was Ryan who started the fire, after leaving a cheese pita in the toaster-oven. They then tease Ryan by singing "Ryan Started the Fire".

*Recently, [[JibJab]] released a [[video]] parody of the song called [http://www.jibjab.com/sendables/274/in_2007 In 2007], which is about the year [[2007]] in review.

*On [[Comedy Central]]'s ''Night of Too Many Stars'' benefit concert they sang a rendition of it titled "We Didn't Start Autism" in which they said the name of every person who had donated that night.

*On the [[April 17]], [[2008]] episode of ''[[30 Rock]]'', character Tracy Jordan dances to the song in his dressing room. Eventually, his CD begins to repeat [[Richard Nixon]] and Jordan pokes his stereo with a screwdriver, triggering a dream sequence where he meets Nixon who tries to persuade him to join the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]].

*A version created by the [[NBC|National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC)]] based on over forty years of television news footage is available on YouTube.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b-oGXbzXko YouTube - tv IS history (We Didn't Start The Fire)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In this version, however, Stranger in a Strange Land seems to refer to Jane Fonda in Vietnam as well as "suicide" referring to the televised suicide of [[Budd Dwyer]] during a press conference.

*[[Cornell University]] also boasts its own parody of the song entitled "We Didn't Go To Harvard" sung by Cornell's original A Cappella group, [[Cayuga's Waiters]]. This version references a number of well-known campus occurrences and places of note and is popular enough with the student body to warrant its own t-shirt.

*In light of the popular YouTube parody series ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series]]''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> second anniversary, a fan of the series put together a mock of this song featuring characters in the series and key highlights in the storyline from the beginning to more recent episodes. The song title is ''You'll Never Stop the Abridged''<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F7oIejPmTE]</ref>.

*Popular YouTube singer TomsterMusic wrote a parody "Tom's Bushes Are On Fire," describing the events of Tom's neighbors lighting his bushes on fire with fireworks.

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== External links ==
* [http://yeli.us/Flash/Fire.html Flash Version with lyrics, years and images]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A2700488 An in depth history from the BBC's h2g2 site]
* [http://www.school-for-champions.com/history/start_fire_facts.htm History Summary from 1949-1989 by Ron Kurtus]
* [http://www.flashplayer.com/music/fire.html The song with flash animation accompaniment]

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Jason X
Film poster
Directed byJames Isaac
Written byTodd Farmer
Characters:
Victor Miller
Produced byNoel Cunningham
Sean S. Cunningham
Geoff Garrett
James Isaac
Marilyn Stonehouse
StarringKane Hodder
Lexa Doig
Lisa Ryder
CinematographyDerick V. Underschultz
Edited byDavid Handman
Music byHarry Manfredini
Ethan Wiley
Distributed byNew Line Cinema
Release dates
26 April, 2002
Running time
93 min.
Country United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$14,000,000 (est.)
Box officeWorldwide:
$16,951,798

Jason X(also know as Friday the 13th part X) is a 2002 science fiction / slasher film, and the tenth in the Friday the 13th film series, starring Kane Hodder as the mass murderer Jason Voorhees. The film made $16,951,798 worldwide with a $14,000,000 budget.[1]

The film was conceived as means of moving the franchise ahead while Freddy vs. Jason was still stuck in development hell. Jason X is set in the future (the opening scene being set in at least 2010, and Jason revealed as having been held captive since 2008) so as not to confuse the continuity of the series. The film made $13,121,555 domestic, making it the lowest grossing film in the series.

Plot

In 2008, Jason Voorhees is captured by the U.S. government. Rowan (Lexa Doig), a government researcher, leads several unsuccessful attempts to execute him. In 2010, she decides to place him in cryogenic suspension to neutralize him. Unfortunately, the government has other plans, hoping to profit from research into Jason's rapid cellular regeneration. Jason escapes while being moved and kills several soldiers. Rowan manages to lure him into the cryonic chamber and activates it. However, Jason manages to stab her through the door, both wounding her and freezing them both inside the sealed room.

In the year 2455, Earth has become too polluted to support life and humanity has moved to a new planet. Five students on a field trip led by Professor Lowe (Jonathan Potts) enter the facility and find Jason and Rowan. They take them back to their spacecraft and reanimate Rowan. Jason is deemed deceased and left in the morgue. During a call to his financial backer, Professor Lowe explains that had hoped to exploit Rowan's status as the oldest person revived from cryostatis for profit, as he is in serious debt. The man dismisses this, but notes that Voorhees' body could be worth a substantial amount to a collector.

In the morgue, Jason reanimates and kills Lowe's intern, Adrienne (Kristi Angus) by sticking her head in cryogenites and smshing it aganst a table nearby. Having been relieved of his machete, he takes a similarly-shaped surgical tool and moves on to kill another student. Professor Lowe, Rowan, and his students are sent to one of the ship's laboratories while the ship's contingent of soldiers attempts to kill Jason, in spite of Lowe's insistence that Jason be taken alive. All are apparently killed. Jason then kills the ship's pilot on its docking approach to a space station. The ship crashes through the space station, destroying it and one of the vessel's two pontoon sections. Jason then breaks into the lab and kills the professor while the students run away, the professor having attempted to reason with Jason by talking about the financial possibilities created by his existence and when that fails he gives him his machete back thinking he wont kill him if he gives it to him then he gets killed.

With the ship badly damaged, Rowan and remaining students head for the vessel's shuttle. As the shuttle is being prepped, Jason intercepts them. The student left on board has a panic attack and attempts to launch the shuttle without releasing the docking clamps, causing it to immolate itself on the ship's hull. When it seems as if there's no escape, Sgt. Brodski (Peter Mensah), the leader of the soldiers, attacks Jason by surprise. He is easily overpowered, but another student has upgraded his android, Kay-Em 14 (Lisa Ryder), with an array of weapons and matching combat skills. She easily fights Jason off and apparently kills him, blasting off a portion of his head, his right arm, his left leg, and a portion of his right chest.

File:Uberjason.jpg
Über-Jason

The survivors send out a distress call and receive a reply from a patrol shuttle. As it is nearly an hour out and the ship will explode by then, the survivors begin setting explosive charges to separate the remaining pontoon from the main drive section. As they work, Jason, having been knocked into a nanotechnology-equipped medical station during his battle with Kay-Em 14, is brought back to life by the damaged computer. Furthermore, since much of his biological tissue is missing, the computer rebuilds him as an even more powerful cyborg. Kay-Em 14 is now no match for Jason, and has her head knocked off; her head remains functional despite the separation. Another student sacrifices himself by setting off the explosive charges while Rowan and the others escape.

The explosives do not stop Jason, instead propelling him through space to the pontoon. He punches through the hull, sucking out one of the students. As the shuttle prepares to dock, a power failure in the docking clamps forces Brodski to go EVA to fix it. A simulation of Crystal Lake is used to distract Jason as Brodski works. Jason manages to see through the deception just as the docking clamp is fixed, and Brodski confronts Jason so the others can escape. As the shuttle leaves, the pontoon explodes, again propelling Jason at high-speed towards the survivors. Brodski intercepts Jason in mid-flight, using his jetpack to maneuver them both into the atmosphere of Earth 2, apparently killing both by the heat of reentry. In the final scene, two teens beside a forest lake set off to find where the falling star fell; Jason's mask is shown sinking to the bottom of the lake.

Cast

Other media

In 2005, Black Flame, a subsidiary of Games Workshop, began publishing a series of paperback books based on Jason X and aimed towards young adults. While the first book adapts the film, the following books feature new storylines based on the character in the setting established by the Jason X film. The five books in the series are Jason X by Pat Cadigan, Jason X: The Experiment by Pat Cadigan, Jason X: Planet Of The Beast by Nancy Kilpatrick, Jason X: Death Moon by Alex Johnson and Jason X: To The Third Power by Nancy Kilpatrick.

Avatar Press produced two comic book titles based on this film: Jason X, a one-shot by Brian Pulido that picks up as a sequel to the movie, and Friday the 13th: Jason vs. Jason X, a two-issue mini-series by Mike Wolfer that pits the two versions of Jason against each other.

Score

Main article: Jason X (score)

The film score was composed and conducted by Harry Manfredini. It was released on Varèse Sarabande.

Trivia/Notes

  • This and the previous film contain the Jason Voorhees characters and the series premise, but not the title Friday The 13th. After a disappointing reception to Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Paramount Pictures sold the Jason Vorhees character to New Line Cinema. Consequently, the New Line movies that feature Jason are Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday, Jason X and Freddy Vs Jason which combines Jason and New Line mainstay Freddy Krueger.
  • When the character "Stony" opens the door and gets stabbed, and his blood sprays in Kinsa's face, she screams. According to the audio commentary, the effects guys were not supposed to spray the blood into her face. She was screaming not because she just saw her boyfriend die, but because the fake blood was burning her eyes.
  • The "virtual '80s" scene was originally meant to be much more detailed, including a number of topless women playing volleyball. One idea even included the appearance of Pamela Voorhees, Jason's mother, and even went so far as to have Jason attack her, showing the extent of just how evil he had become. The latter idea was dropped.
  • The "sleeping bag death" scene was first done in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, and was actually ad-libbed by Kane Hodder in that film out of frustration at re-shooting the same scene over and over.
  • Originally, the bio-mechanical Über-Jason was meant to be a surprise for the film's finale. But because of early script reviews and foreign posters, New Line Cinema decided to make Über-Jason the major advertising gimmick for the movie.
  • The idea of Jason in space was first conceived in a parody on MadTV entitled Apollo the 13th: Jason Takes NASA
  • One of the abandoned script ideas had Jason in L.A. caught in the middle of a rival gang war.
  • The film was announced in 1999, and completed in 2000, but was not released in America until 2002, well after many foreign countries had released it.
  • According to one of the characters in the film, Dieter Perez, says that Jason Voorhees killed nearly 200 people. However, the back cover on both DVD/VHS, it says that Jason killed over 200 people
  • In the TV show Andromeda Lexa Doig plays an Android with costar Lisa Ryder who plays a human. In this movie its the opposite.

References

  1. ^ Bracke, Peter (October 11, 2006). Crystal Lake Memories. United Kingdom: Titan Books. p. 314. ISBN 1845763432.

External links

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