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''The Beach'' is a 2000 adventure drama film directed by Danny Boyle and based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Alex Garland, which was adapted for the film by John Hodge. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and features Tilda Swinton, Robert Carlyle, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, and Paterson Joseph. It was filmed on the Thai island Koh Phi Phi. ==Plot== Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio), a geeky twenty four year old American man with a love of world travel, arrives in Bangkok, Thailand in search of freedom and adventure. At his guesthouse he briefly meets Daffy (Robert Carlyle), a mentally disturbed Scottish traveler who tells him of a pristine island in the Gulf of Thailand, uninhabited and forbidden, on which there lies a beautiful hidden beach and lagoon - walled in by cliffs and untouched by the tourist industry. He explains in vague terms that he settled there in secret with a group of others, but that difficulties arose and he chose to leave. Later, Richard finds a hand-drawn map showing the island's location left for him; he then enters Daffy's room to find him dead by suicide. Richard meets a French couple, Françoise (Virginie Ledoyen) and her laid back boyfriend, Étienne (Guillaume Canet), and persuades them to accompany him to the island, partly out of an attraction to Françoise. They travel from Bangkok to the shores of Ko Samui in the Gulf, where Richard befriends a pair of American surfers. They too have heard the myth of the beach, and talk excitedly of how it supposedly has a huge crop of natural-growing marijuana. Richard feigns ignorance, but the next morning decides to copy the map and slide it under their door before he leaves. Richard, Françoise and Etienne are dropped off in the island's archipelago, and swim a couple of miles to reach the island from its neighbour. When they first arrive, they come across an enormous marijuana plantation guarded by Thai farmers armed with AK-47 assault rifles. They barely manage to evade detection. After jumping off a high cliff and landing in a lake below, they are seen by Keaty (Paterson Joseph), who takes them to the beach community, which consists of around 30 backpackers who live self-sufficiently through gardening and fishing. They are cautiously interrogated by the island's charismatic leader Sal (Tilda Swinton) regarding their knowledge of the island, who explains that they guard their secret carefully because if word spread of the beach's location travelers would descend en masse and ruin it. The community must also avoid angering the weed farmers, who don't mind the community's current presence but insist that no more travelers may come, and that the current members must stay on their own side of the island. Eager to fit in, Richard lies that they have shown the map to no-one, which satisfies Sal. The trio are introduced to everybody and over the next few days go on to become integrated into the community and its hedonistic lifestyle. One night while Richard and Françoise are walking down the beach, she tells him that she is falling in love with him. They swim out into the ocean to look at a swarm of bioluminescent plankton, where Françoise kisses Richard and make love with him. Despite their attempts to keep the romance a secret, the whole island finds out about it, including Étienne. Although heartbroken, Étienne says he will not stand in their way if Françoise is happier with Richard. For a time, the island and Richard seem to live up to their idyllic reputation. Richard swims out into the lagoon to fish with a harpoon and is attacked by a young mako shark, but he stabs it to death with a knife, which gains him much admiration from the others - apart from Bugs, Sal's boyfriend, who insults and mocks him due to the small size of the shark. Soon after, when Richard is chosen to accompany Sal to the mainland to acquire supplies, due to his knowledgeable mindset and independent personality, Bugs threatens him and warns him not to touch Sal. During the trip Richard is inadvertently reunited with the American surfers who are preparing to go in search of the island with two girls. Sal overhears their conversation about the copy of the map and confronts Richard, who only partially admits his lies, still insisting that the surfers don't have their own copy. In exchange for Sal's silence and Richard's return to the island, Sal blackmails Richard into having sex with her that night. When they return to the island, things return to normal until two of the Swedes, Sten (Magnus Lindgren) and Christo (Staffan Kihlbom), are attacked by a shark while fishing in the ocean. Sten dies almost immediately and Christo is severely injured. Sal refuses to risk compromising the island's secret by bringing medical help, and insists that his options are to go to a hospital on the mainland via the supply boat or stay on the island and take his chances. Christo chooses to stay, not wanting to go near the water after his encounter with the shark. His condition worsens despite attempts to care for him, his constant moans of pain lowering the morale of the group, so they take him out into the jungle and leave him to die. Only Étienne objects to this, expressing his disgust with the others and vowing to stay with Christo. Later, Sal observes that the surfers and two females have arrived on the neighboring island and are camping while they gradually construct a raft to cross; thus exposing Richard's lie. Furious, she assigns him the task of watching them day and night from the hill in order to intercept them when they arrive, obtain the map and destroy it. While he is waiting, Françoise shows up, angry and heartbroken, saying that Sal has told everybody about how she and Richard had sex at Koh Phangan. Richard cannot cope with his task and retreats into the forest where over the next few days, due to lack of food and low blood pressure, he begins to lose his sanity, believing that he is communing with the long-dead Daffy. He stalks the weed farmers, playing at being a soldier, at times hallucinating that he is a character in a video game and declaiming (in voice over narration) "The longer I'm away from the community, the less I miss them". Keaty discovers him hiding in a storeroom and expresses his fears that Richard is becoming unhinged in the same way Daffy did, but cannot make him snap out of it. Richard later creeps into the farmers' camp at night and points a rifle at the sleeping leader; he cannot bring himself to pull the trigger, so replaces the weapon and sneaks out again. Meanwhile, the surfers reach the island but are discovered and killed by the farmers before they can get to the beach. Richard witnesses their executions and runs to evade getting caught by the farmers. After escaping, Richard finds that he has regained some sense of reality, and retreats to the community to convince Étienne and Françoise to leave the island, believing that all their lives are now in danger. Étienne refuses, not wanting to leave the emaciated Christo, whose leg has become gangrenous. When the other two briefly leave the tent, Richard tearfully suffocates Christo in a mercy killing. When he leaves the tent however, he is struck across the face by a farmer and knocked unconscious. He wakes up in a tent in pain, surrounded by the community and the farmers. The farmers approach Sal, with whom they made the agreement, and the lead farmer (Abhijati 'Meuk' Jusakul) gives her a gun loaded with a single bullet and an ultimatum: shoot Richard dead and be allowed to stay, or leave the island forever. Sal approaches Richard, angry that he ruined everything and fires an empty chamber, shocking the group with her willingness to commit murder. Richard in relief of fear, smiles as the community instantly disintegrates. Sal collapses in a flood of tears, as the group, now in hysterics, flees the room. Together, most of them swim back to the mainland and go their separate ways, leaving Sal and possibly some others behind. The film ends with Richard stopping by an Internet cafe to check his e-mail. He receives a message from Françoise entitled "beach life" which contains a photograph of the beach community and an animated handwritten inscription over the image: "Parallel Universe. Love, Françoise x". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Beach (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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