However, Bethlehem learns to his dismay that the postman's example has spread farther than he could have anticipated when his men capture a carrier from California, and he redoubles his efforts to find the postman. The postman also writes a letter to Bethlehem revealing the truth of his letter carrier deception. Feeling responsible, the postman writes his own fake letter from President Starkey, ordering the postman back to Minneapolis and that the postal service is to be disbanded. The postman discovers that Mercury has been forging letters from the postman and reading them to his recruits as a motivational tool.īethlehem continues to hunt and capture postal carriers, all of whom are executed and displayed publicly. ![]() They have established communications with other settlements, creating a quasi-society and inadvertently spreading hope. She reveals that Mercury has kept the postal service alive by recruiting other carriers and building more post offices. When spring arrives, they leave and run into a girl, who claims to be a postal carrier. A pregnant Abby and an injured postman ride out the winter in an abandoned cabin. As the postman is about to be executed Abby saves him, and the two escape into the surrounding mountains. The postman surrenders, but Bethlehem does not recognize him since he has shaved off his thick beard. He has the post office burned to the ground, kills Michael and Briscoe, abducts Abby, and raids Benning looking for the postman. When the postman leaves for the town of Benning, he carries a pile of mail left at the post office door by the townspeople.ĭuring a raid of Pineview, General Bethlehem learns of the postman's tales of a restored government and becomes afraid of losing power if word spreads. He fulfills their clinical request to impregnate her. The postman also meets spouses Abby and Michael who are unable to conceive a child. The postman inspires a teenager named Ford Lincoln Mercury, who asks to be sworn in as a member of the postal service and even helps him set up a post office for the town. He convinces Pineview's leader, Sheriff Briscoe, to let him in by showing a letter addressed to elderly villager Irene March. government based in Minneapolis and led by President Richard Starkey. ![]() With the postman's uniform and mail bag, he arrives in the settlement of Pineview claiming to be from the newly-restored U.S. ![]() When the nomad escapes from the Holnists, he takes refuge in a long-deceased postman's mail vehicle. Bethlehem is impressed with the nomad's knowledge of classic literature, referring to the nomad as Shakespeare, and each quote's lines from his plays. The Holnists, under their leader, General Bethlehem, are the de facto authority in the area, collecting tribute and recruits from local towns. At one town, the nomad is forced at gunpoint into the ranks of the Holnists, a neo-fascist militia, and is branded on his shoulder with their symbol, a figure 8. In 2013, an unnamed nomad wanders the scattered communities of the Utah flatlands, trading performances of long-forgotten Shakespearean plays for food and water. It was nominated for three Saturn Awards but won all five of its Golden Raspberry Award nominations including Worst Picture. The film was a box-office bomb, grossing a total of $20 million worldwide against a budget of $80 million. ![]() Costner's decision to cast himself in the film was also criticized. Released on Christmas of 1997 by Warner Bros., The Postman was panned by critics, who criticized the performances, screenplay, direction, and long runtime. Like the book, the film follows the story of a nomadic drifter (Costner) who stumbles across the uniform of an old United States Postal Service mail carrier, and unwittingly inspires hope through an empty promise of a "Restored United States of America" and starts his path to become a national hero. It is set in a post-apocalyptic and neo-Western version of the disestablished United States in the then near-future year of 2013, sixteen-plus years after unspecified apocalyptic events, followed by plagues, left a huge impact on human civilization and erased most technology. The film also features Will Patton, Larenz Tate, Olivia Williams, James Russo, and Tom Petty. The screenplay was written by Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland, based on David Brin's 1985 book of the same name. The Postman is a 1997 American post-apocalyptic action adventure film produced and directed by Kevin Costner, who plays the lead role.
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