document_title: Power Rangers (film)

question_text: who plays red power ranger in new movie

question_tokens: who plays red power ranger in new movie

text: Power Rangers (film)

text: Plot

text: In the Cenozoic era, six interplanetary warriors, the Power Rangers, are tasked with protecting life on Earth and the Zeo Crystal. The Green Ranger, Rita Repulsa, betrays them and plans to dominate the universe. The Red Ranger, Zordon, survives Rita's attack and hides five of the Rangers' power source, the Power Coins. He orders Alpha 5, his robotic assistant, to perform a meteor strike that kills him, the dinosaurs, and sends Rita to the bottom of the sea, foiling her scheme.

text: In 21st-century Angel Grove, high school football star Jason Scott is dismissed from the team and placed under house arrest after a failed prank. In detention, he encounters Billy Cranston and Kimberly Hart. After defending Billy from a bully, Billy offers to deactivate Jason's ankle monitor for help at an old gold mine that evening. Once there, Jason leaves to explore and runs into Kimberly. Billy detonates explosives to break some rock, attracting the attention of Jason, Kimberly and nearby students Trini and Zack. The five discover the Power Coins and each take one. While escaping mine security, their car is hit by a train. The five find themselves at home the next morning and discover that the coins have granted them superhuman abilities. Elsewhere, Rita's body is found. Waking, she goes on a rampage, hunting pieces of gold to raise her minion Goldar to find the Zeo Crystal.

text: The five teenagers return to the mine and discover an ancient spaceship where they meet Alpha 5 and Zordon's consciousness. They inform the teenagers about the Rangers history and Rita, warning that they have eleven days until Rita has her full power, finds the Zeo Crystal, and uses it to destroy life on Earth. The five leave the ship with no intention of returning until Zordon pleads with Jason to convince the team.

text: The five return to train the next day, but they cannot morph. They spend the next week training against simulated Putties and trying unsuccessfully to morph. To inspire the Rangers, Alpha reveals the Zords. Zack takes his Zord out for a joyride and almost kills the other Rangers when he crashes it. This angers Jason, and they fight. While trying to separate the two, Billy spontaneously morphs. However, when he becomes conscious of it, the armor disappears. Angered at their lack of progress, Zordon dismisses the group. Jason returns to the ship to confront Zordon and discovers that once the Rangers morph, it will open the Morphing Grid and allow Zordon to restore himself in a physical body. Feeling betrayed, Jason accuses Zordon of using the team for his own benefit. That night, the team camp at the mine and bond with each other.

text: Later that night, Rita attacks Trini and orders her to bring the Rangers to the docks. Trini informs them about Rita and they arrive to fight, but are quickly defeated. Rita forces Billy to reveal the location of the Zeo Crystal, which he'd figured out, kills him, and releases the others. The Rangers take Billy's body to the ship and ask Zordon to resurrect him. The Rangers agree they would give their lives for each other and resolve to defeat Rita. In doing so, they unlock the Morphing Grid. Zordon revives Billy, sacrificing being able to restore his physical self. With the team restored and confident, the Rangers morph into their armor.

text: Rita creates Goldar, raises an army of Putties, and attacks Angel Grove to find the Zeo Crystal. The Rangers battle the Putties and head to Angel Grove in their Zords. After the Rangers destroy the Putties, Goldar pushes the Rangers and their Zords into a fiery pit. In the pit, the Zords combine and form the Megazord. Rita merges with Goldar. The Rangers battle and destroy Goldar. After refusing Jason's offer to surrender, a defiant Rita tells the Rangers that more will come for the crystal and leaps at the Megazord only to be slapped into space. The Rangers are praised as local heroes, and with Rita's threats foiled, they return to their normal lives while keeping their powers.

text: In a mid-credits scene, in detention, the teacher announces that Tommy Oliver will be joining them, but the desk is empty save for a green jacket.[note 1]

text: Cast

text: The Power Rangers

text:
Dacre Montgomery as Jason Scott / Red Ranger, the leader of the Power Rangers. Jason was the former star quarterback of Angel Grove High School's football team before a failed prank led to a run-in with the law.[12]
Naomi Scott as Kimberly Hart / Pink Ranger, a former cheerleader. Kimberly took part in a cyberbullying incident by spreading a private image of her friend around school.[13][14]
RJ Cyler as Billy Cranston / Blue Ranger, an autistic and intelligent loner. Billy is the classic nerd who has become a bully magnet.[7][15]
Becky G as Trini Kwan / Yellow Ranger, a new girl in town who is struggling to make friends and having difficulty relating to her family. She is also questioning her sexual orientation.[7][8][16][17]
Ludi Lin as Zack Taylor / Black Ranger, a bilingual teen. Zack's mother is sick, and he lives in fear that he will return home one day to find her dead.[18][19]

text: Allies and villains

text:
Bill Hader as the voice of Alpha 5: The robot assistant to Zordon.[20][21]
Bryan Cranston as Zordon: He is the Power Rangers' mentor and former Red Ranger. Zordon lived millions of years ago before his consciousness became a part of the Morphing Grid at the time of his death.[20][22]
Elizabeth Banks as Rita Repulsa:[20][23] Millions of years old, she is the former Green Ranger who went rogue and killed her old team before being temporarily subdued by Zordon. She works to form the monster Goldar while attempting to steal the Zeo Crystal, an artifact that channels the Morphing Grid, a dimension that gives the Power Rangers their powers.[20]
Fred Tatasciore as the voice of Goldar, a gigantic winged monster made of gold.
Tatasciore also provides the vocal effects of the Putties who are depicted as stone golems that can be made from any Earth element.

text: Supporting

text:
David Denman as Sam Scott, Jason's father.[24]
Caroline Cave as Beverly Scott, Jason's mother.
Anjali Jay as Maddy Hart, Kimberly's mother.[25]
Patrick Sabongui as Trini's father.[26][27]
Erica Cerra as Trini's mother.
Kayden Magnuson as Pearl Scott, Jason's sister.
Fiona Fu as Zack's mother.
Sarah Grey as Amanda Clark[28][29]
Emily Maddison as Rebecca[30][31][32]
Wesley MacInnes as Colt Wallace, a school bully who is constantly picking on Billy.
Jaime Callica as Officer Bebe[33]
Matt Shively as Damo
Garry Chalk as Captain Bowen

text: Jason David Frank and Amy Jo Johnson, two of the cast members of the original TV series, make cameo appearances as Angel Grove citizens.[34]

text: Production

text: Development

text: Saban Capital Group and Lionsgate announced the film in May 2014,[35] with Roberto Orci originally attached to produce. Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz were hired to write the film's script.[36] Orci eventually left the project to work on Star Trek Beyond.[37] On April 10, 2015, TheWrap reported that Dean Israelite was in negotiations to direct the film.[38] Israelite told IGN in an interview that the film would be "completely playful, and it needs to be really fun and funny. But like Project Almanac, it's going to feel very grounded at the same time, and very contemporary and have a real edge to it, and a real gut to it, it's going to be a fun, joyful [movie] but one that feels completely grounded in a real world, with real characters going through real things".[39] Brian Tyler was brought on to compose the film's music.[40] Israelite has said that the film updates itself from the original series, being more character-driven and incorporating naturalism and a grounded nature.[41]

text: Casting

text: Actors began testing for the roles of the five Power Rangers on October 2, 2015.[42] On October 7, 2015, Naomi Scott was cast as Kimberly.[13] Newcomers Dacre Montgomery, Ludi Lin and RJ Cyler were then cast as Jason,[12] Zack,[18] and Billy, respectively.[15] At the month's end, Becky G was chosen to play Trini.[16] When it came to casting the Rangers, director Dean Israelite said, "From the very beginning, diversity was a very important part of the whole process," and that while the characters' races were switched around, he added that, "We made sure that the essence of each of those characters are who they were in the original show, and this really will be an origin story of those characters."[43] On February 2, 2016, it was announced that Elizabeth Banks would portray Rita Repulsa.[23] Four months later, Bryan Cranston, who voiced Twin Man and Snizard in the original series, announced he was cast as Zordon.[22][44] Cranston revealed that he would perform motion-capture and CGI.[44][45] In September 2016, Walter Emanuel Jones, the actor who played Zack in the original series, stated none of the original cast would cameo in the film.[46] Towards the end of the month, comedian Bill Hader was cast as Alpha 5.[21]  In March 2017, it was reported that Amy Jo Johnson and Jason David Frank, who played Kimberly and Tommy in the original series, would cameo in the film, despite Jones' earlier comments.[47]

text: Filming

text: Filming was originally set to begin in January 2016[48] but was rescheduled and began on February 29 in Vancouver.[49][50] On May 28, 2016, filming was complete.[51][52] Additional filming occurred in October 2016.[53][54] A cast member claims that the film has broken the record for the longest wire jump, but this has not been independently confirmed.[55]

text: The film was released in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos sound.[56]

text: Music

text: The official soundtrack, with music by Brian Tyler, was released digitally on March 24, 2017, and on CD on April 4, distributed by Varèse Sarabande.[57][58]

text:
Power Rangers (Official Motion Picture Soundtrack)Soundtrack album by Brian TylerReleased
March 24, 2017Genre
Film scoreLength
77:35Label
Varèse Sarabande

text: All music composed by Brian Tyler.

text: Power Rangers (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)No.TitleLength1."Power Rangers Theme"4:222."Seek Those Who Are Worthy"2:483."Zordon Awakes"2:134."It's Morphing Time!"3:195."Destiny"2:186."Confessions"4:227."Megazord"4:208."United"2:469."Birth of a Legend"4:1010."Metamorphosis"2:3911."Goldar"2:0112."The Morphing Grid"3:5813."The Zords"2:3314."Let's Ride"2:1915."You Were Born for This"2:0316."Reflection"2:1317."The Lost Ship"2:5918."Be Who You Want to Be"2:0619."Hold The Line"3:3620."This Is What Matters"2:0421."Trespassing"1:0322."Rita"2:2823."Square One"1:1124."Power On"2:3325."Together We Stand"2:1926."The Final Stand"2:4527."Go Go Power Rangers – End Titles"2:5928."Give It All (With You)" (Featuring Santigold and Vince Staples)3:14

text: Release

text:
Originally scheduled for release on July 22, 2016,[59] Lionsgate delayed it to March 24, 2017.[60]
The film received its world premiere in Berlin, Germany on March 17, 2017.[61] All five of the surviving actors who originally portrayed the Rangers in the series attended the film's Los Angeles premiere on March 22, 2017.[62] It was the first time they had been together publicly since 1995.[63]

text: Marketing

text: On March 3, 2016, Lionsgate released the first official photo of the five Rangers,[43] and the following month, the company released the first official photo of Banks as Rita Repulsa.[23] On May 5, the company unveiled the first official images of the Rangers' suits. Speaking of the suits, director Dean Israelite said that "The show was about kids coming of age, about metamorphosis, these suits needed to feel like they were catalyzed by these kids and their energy, their spirit", while production designer Andrew Menzies commented that the new suits are "an alien costume that grows on them, that’s not man-made. You can’t win everyone over, but we are trying to appeal to a more mature audience and gain new fans."[64] A teaser poster was released in June,[65] with additional character posters released in July, September, and October.[66][67][68] On October 8, 2016, a Discover The Power teaser trailer for the film was released.[69][70][71]

text: A fictional Angel Grove High School Newspaper website was created,[72] alongside the official Power Rangers website, which features a GIF creator that allows users to make a GIF out of scenes from the teaser trailer.[73][74] There is also an official toyline, produced by Bandai,[75] and an extensive merchandising range was produced to promote the film.[76]

text: Max Landis, who was fired from writing the film, criticized the trailer, saying that it looked like Chronicle, a film that he had written.[77] The trailer garnered mixed reactions, with some praising it for its darker, contemporary reimagining of the classic characters, while still looking action-packed and fun at the same time,[78][79] and others criticizing it for its lack of connection to the original series, saying it appeared "brooding".[80] The trailer received over 150 million views in the first two days after it was uploaded.[81] Lionsgate revealed the T-Rex zord toy, among others, on October 28, 2016,[82] and the Power Rangers Twitter account revealed the Megazord toy on November 4, 2016.[83] On November 15, 2016, Lionsgate revealed the toys based on the film's individual Zords.[84]

text: On December 8, 2016, a new poster debuted, as well as a photo of Rita Repulsa.[85][86] On December 19, 2016, Lionsgate and Boom! Studios announced that they would release a graphic novel titled Power Rangers: Aftershock, set immediately after the events of the movie.[87] An international trailer was released on December 22, 2016.[88][89][90] Qualcomm and Lionsgate produced a virtual reality mobile app of the film Power Rangers Movie Command Center that was exhibited at the CES 2017, from January 5–8, 2017,[91] and was released in the App Store on March 8, 2017.[92] On January 19, a second trailer, titled It’s Morphin Time!, was released.[93][94][95] Lionsgate debuted yet another trailer, which it called the All-Star Trailer, on February 17.[96][97][98] New TV spots were released on February 27, two about the Power Rangers,[99] and one about Rita Repulsa.[100] A clip was released on March 6, followed by two more on March 9.[101][102] Thirty-seven stills were then released.[citation needed] Another TV spot was released on March 10.[103] In the final week before the movie premiered, two more clips, as well as photos, were released.[citation needed]

text: A Build-A-Bear Workshop Power Ranger product range was announced on March 9, 2017.[104] Krispy Kreme released doughnuts to promote the film,[105] and served as an advertising partner.[106] Placement of Krispy Kreme products and locations were featured in the film numerous times.[107]

text: The group collaborated with YouTube sports entertainment group Dude Perfect ahead of the film's release, in a video titled Dude Perfect vs. Power Rangers.[106]

text: Video game

text: Lionsgate and Saban, in collaboration with nWay Games, released a PvP fighting mobile game called Power Rangers: Legacy Wars on March 24, 2017, to coincide with the film's release.[108] The game was featured on both Android and the Apple Store[109] and got to the top spot on the Apple App Store for both iPhones and iPads,[110] for two consecutive days and number two on the Google Play Store.[109]

text: Home media

text: Power Rangers was released on Digital HD on June 13, 2017, and was followed by a release on Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD on June 27, 2017[111] with retail exclusive variants being made available at Best Buy,[112] Target and Wal-Mart. The film debuted at the No. 1 spot on the NPD VideoScan overall disc sales chart, which tracks combined DVD and Blu-ray Disc sales; NPD’s dedicated Blu-ray Disc sales chart; and Home Media Magazine’s video rental chart for the week ending July 2, 2017.[113] The film retained the top spot on the NPD VideoScan’s overall disc sales chart for the week ending on July 9, 2017.[114]

text: Reception

text: Box office

text: Power Rangers grossed $85.4 million in the United States and Canada and $57 million in other territories for a worldwide gross of $142.3 million, against a production budget of $100 million.[5]

text: In the United States and Canada, Power Rangers opened alongside Life, CHiPs and Wilson, and was projected to gross $30–35 million from 3,693 theaters on its opening weekend.[115] The film made $3.6 million from Thursday night previews and $15 million on its first day.[116] It went on to debut to $40.3 million, finishing second at the box office behind Beauty and the Beast ($90.4 million).[117][118] The audience was notably diverse and mostly 18–34 years old.[119] In its second weekend the film grossed $14.5 million (a drop of 64%), finishing 4th at the box office.[120][121][122] In June 2017, Dean Israelite said that the film's PG-13 rating probably contributed to the film's underperformance at the box office.[123]

text: Critical response

text: Power Rangers received mixed reviews from critics.[124][125][126] On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 46% based on 149 reviews, and an average rating of 5.1/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Power Rangers has neither the campy fun of its TV predecessor nor the blockbuster action of its cinematic superhero competitors, and sadly never quite manages to shift into turbo for some good old-fashioned morphin time."[127] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a score 44 out of 100, based on 30 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[128] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale,[129] while PostTrak reported 66% of audience members gave the film a "definite recommend".[130]

text: IGN gave the film a 7/10, saying, "Power Rangers doesn’t quite pull off everything it wants to, but it’s a fun time at the theater nonetheless."[131] Mike McCahill of The Guardian wrote that "the film achieves a functioning mediocrity we perhaps might have thought beyond this franchise," and gave it 2 out of 5 stars.[132]

text: Mike Ryan of Uproxx gave the film a negative review, writing: "Power Rangers has one of the most zig-zagged tones of any big budget studio film I’ve seen in a long time. It’s jarring at times how often it goes back and forth between 'gritty' and 'silly'."[133] Writing for Variety, Owen Gleiberman also criticized the film's conflicting tones, saying: "...25 years ago, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was launched as superhero fodder for kids, and there was indeed a place for it, but we’re now so awash in superhero culture that kids no longer need the safe, lame, pandering junior-league version of it. They can just watch Ant-Man or the PG-13 Suicide Squad. Safe, lame, and pandering have all grown up."[1] In a review for The Telegraph, Robbie Collin gave it 1/5 stars, criticizing the "abjectly embarrassing frenzy of product placement".[134]

text: Accolades

text:
Award

Date of ceremony

Category

Recipients

Result

Ref(s)

Teen Choice Awards

August 13, 2017

Choice Sci-Fi Movie

Power Rangers

Nominated

[135]

Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actor

Dacre Montgomery

Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actress

Becky G.

Naomi Scott

Choice Scene Stealer

RJ Cyler

Choice Movie Villain

Elizabeth Banks

text: Planned franchise

text: In a May 2016 conference call to analysts, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer stated, "We could see doing five or six or seven."[136][137] On March 22, 2017, Haim Saban said that he and Lionsgate already have a six-film story arc.[138] However in May 2017, Forbes noted that due to the underwhelming performance of the film in most markets, it was unlikely any sequels would be made.[9] Later that same month, it was reported that the sequels could still be made thanks to record-breaking merchandise sales.[139] Prior to the home release of the movie, Israelite confirmed that talks were taking place regarding a sequel[140] and that he would like to include Lord Zedd in it.[141] The possibility of a sequel increased once more in early July 2017 when it was reported that the film held the number one spot in home media sales and rentals in its first week.[142] In August 2017, Saban abandoned its trademark for the film's logo.[143] A Saban Brands representative stated in October 2017 that "Power Rangers continues to own and renew hundreds of trademark registrations worldwide, including for the 2017 movie logo. The trademark registration process is very nuanced, and the status of the single application has no bearing on our ownership of or the future plans for Power Rangers. The franchise remains as strong and enthusiastic about its future as ever."[144] On May 1, 2018, Saban Brands agreed to sell Power Rangers and other entertainment assets to Hasbro (who came close but failed to buy Lionsgate[145]) for US$522 million in cash and stock with the sale expect to closed in the second quarter.[146]

text: On August 8, 2018, Hasbro announced they would be working with a film studio (it's unclear if it would be Lionsgate) to develop a follow-up to Power Rangers.[147]

text: Notes

text: Jump up ^ In the source material, Tommy Oliver was a male, but the cast of the film and the actor who played Oliver in the source material expressed interest in a female version of the character in a sequel.[10][11]


document_title: Forks, Washington

question_text: how often does it rain in forks washington

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text: Forks, Washington

text: History[edit]

text: Forks was officially incorporated on August 28, 1945, following an election of the constituents who would become its first town members.

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text: The city gained popularity for being a key setting in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series (2005 to 2008) and related film adaptations. The city's atmosphere and idyllic Pacific Northwest setting has inspired its being featured in film, literature, and video games.

text: Demographics[edit]

text:
Historical population

Census
Pop.

%±
19501,120—19601,1563.2%19701,68045.3%19803,06082.1%19902,862−6.5%20003,1209.0%20103,53213.2%Est. 20163,783[6]7.1%U.S. Decennial Census[7]2015 Estimate[3]

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text: 2010 census[edit]

text: As of the census[2] of 2010, there were 3,532 people, 1,264 households, and 849 families residing in the city. The population density was 967.7 inhabitants per square mile (373.6/km2). There were 1,374 housing units at an average density of 376.4 per square mile (145.3/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 67.7% White, 0.5% African American, 6.6% Native American, 1.2% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 18.1% from other races, and 5.9% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 25.9% of the population.

text: There were 1,264 households of which 40.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.0% were married couples living together, 13.5% had a female householder with no husband present, 7.7% had a male householder with no wife present, and 32.8% were non-families. 25.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.72 and the average family size was 3.16.

text: The median age in the city was 31.3 years. 29.2% of residents were under the age of 18; 10.3% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 27.6% were from 25 to 44; 23.2% were from 45 to 64; and 9.7% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 51.5% male and 48.5% female.

text: 2000 census[edit]

text: As of the census of 2000, there were 3,120 people, 1,169 households, and 792 families residing in the city. The population density was 854.8 people per square mile (330.2/km2). There were 1,361 housing units at an average density of 435.6 per square mile (168.4/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 81.47% White, 0.42% African American, 5.03% Native American, 1.51% Asian, 0.16% Pacific Islander, 8.49% from other races, and 2.92% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.54% of the population.

text: There were 1,169 households out of which 36.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.4% were married couples living together, 11.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.2% were non-families. 24.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.65 and the average family size was 3.15.

text: In the city, the age distribution of the population shows 30.4% under the age of 18, 11.1% from 18 to 24, 27.2% from 25 to 44, 22.1% from 45 to 64, and 9.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females, there were 111.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 108.9 males.

text: The median income for a household in the city was $34,280, and the median income for a family was $38,844. Males had a median income of $35,718 versus $23,690 for females. The per capita income for the city was $13,686. About 14.6% of families and 20.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 25.7% of those under age 18 and 12.4% of those age 65 or over.

text: Geography and climate[edit]

text: Forks has an oceanic climate in a temperate rainforest with very high rainfall. Although there is a drying trend in summer, rain is still abundant, just not as wet as the rest of the year. Forks averages 212 days per year with measurable precipitation.[8] The Olympic rainforest surrounds the town.

text: According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.65 square miles (9.45 km2), all of it land.[1]

text:
showClimate data for Quillayute Airport, Washington (1981–2010 normals,[a] extremes 1966–present)

Month

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Year

Record high °F (°C)

69 (21)

73 (23)

73 (23)

84 (29)

92 (33)

92 (33)

97 (36)

99 (37)

97 (36)

83 (28)

69 (21)

64 (18)

99 (37)

Mean maximum °F (°C)

56.9 (13.8)

60.9 (16.1)

64.0 (17.8)

71.7 (22.1)

78.2 (25.7)

81.1 (27.3)

84.9 (29.4)

85.7 (29.8)

82.0 (27.8)

72.0 (22.2)

59.5 (15.3)

55.3 (12.9)

90.7 (32.6)

Average high °F (°C)

47.1 (8.4)

49.1 (9.5)

51.4 (10.8)

54.8 (12.7)

59.5 (15.3)

63.1 (17.3)

67.4 (19.7)

68.6 (20.3)

66.2 (19)

58.2 (14.6)

50.3 (10.2)

46.0 (7.8)

56.8 (13.8)

Average low °F (°C)

36.0 (2.2)

35.2 (1.8)

36.8 (2.7)

38.6 (3.7)

43.1 (6.2)

47.5 (8.6)

50.5 (10.3)

50.5 (10.3)

46.9 (8.3)

41.8 (5.4)

38.1 (3.4)

34.7 (1.5)

41.6 (5.3)

Mean minimum °F (°C)

23.1 (−4.9)

22.7 (−5.2)

26.7 (−2.9)

28.9 (−1.7)

33.4 (0.8)

38.8 (3.8)

41.7 (5.4)

42.0 (5.6)

36.4 (2.4)

30.1 (−1.1)

25.7 (−3.5)

21.9 (−5.6)

17.9 (−7.8)

Record low °F (°C)

7 (−14)

11 (−12)

19 (−7)

23 (−5)

29 (−2)

33 (1)

38 (3)

36 (2)

28 (−2)

23 (−5)

5 (−15)

7 (−14)

5 (−15)

Average precipitation inches (mm)

14.61 (371.1)

10.35 (262.9)

10.83 (275.1)

7.85 (199.4)

5.11 (129.8)

3.50 (88.9)

1.98 (50.3)

2.49 (63.2)

3.82 (97)

10.49 (266.4)

15.52 (394.2)

12.99 (329.9)

99.54 (2,528.3)

Average snowfall inches (cm)

2.0 (5.1)

2.6 (6.6)

0.7 (1.8)

0.1 (0.3)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

1.4 (3.6)

2.1 (5.3)

8.9 (22.6)

Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in)

22.8

18.4

21.9

19.0

16.7

14.4

10.3

8.9

10.9

18.1

22.8

22.1

206.3

Average snowy days (≥ 0.1 in)

1.7

1.9

0.8

0.4

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.9

1.3

7.0

Average relative humidity (%)

88.5

86.4

84.4

81.2

80.3

80.3

79.9

82.3

82.5

87.0

88.9

90.0

84.3

Mean monthly sunshine hours

55.4

80.3

115.0

147.4

170.6

167.8

209.7

194.8

173.2

112.7

55.3

48.1

1,530.3

Percent possible sunshine

20

28

31

36

36

35

43

44

46

34

20

18

34

Source: NOAA (relative humidity 1966–1990, sun 1967–1990)[9][10][11]

text:
showClimate data for Forks 1 E, Washington (1981–2010 normals, extremes 1917–present)

Month

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Year

Record high °F (°C)

67 (19)

75 (24)

79 (26)

85 (29)

96 (36)

98 (37)

101 (38)

102 (39)

100 (38)

88 (31)

73 (23)

65 (18)

102 (39)

Average high °F (°C)

45.9 (7.7)

49.4 (9.7)

52.9 (11.6)

58.1 (14.5)

63.3 (17.4)

67.3 (19.6)

72.3 (22.4)

73.4 (23)

69.6 (20.9)

59.2 (15.1)

49.3 (9.6)

44.2 (6.8)

58.7 (14.8)

Average low °F (°C)

35.3 (1.8)

34.6 (1.4)

36.2 (2.3)

38.3 (3.5)

43.0 (6.1)

47.4 (8.6)

50.4 (10.2)

50.7 (10.4)

47.4 (8.6)

42.6 (5.9)

37.9 (3.3)

33.9 (1.1)

41.5 (5.3)

Record low °F (°C)

3 (−16)

8 (−13)

12 (−11)

21 (−6)

25 (−4)

30 (−1)

34 (1)

34 (1)

24 (−4)

21 (−6)

8 (−13)

3 (−16)

3 (−16)

Average precipitation inches (mm)

18.27 (464.1)

12.71 (322.8)

13.54 (343.9)

9.21 (233.9)

5.78 (146.8)

3.91 (99.3)

2.47 (62.7)

2.59 (65.8)

4.03 (102.4)

11.80 (299.7)

18.63 (473.2)

16.78 (426.2)

119.72 (3,040.9)

Average snowfall inches (cm)

2.5 (6.4)

1.7 (4.3)

0.6 (1.5)

0.1 (0.3)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

1.2 (3)

1.9 (4.8)

8.0 (20.3)

Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in)

23.3

19.1

22.5

19.5

16.8

14.4

10.1

8.5

11.0

18.2

23.4

22.7

209.5

Average snowy days (≥ 0.1 in)

1.5

1.2

0.7

0.1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.6

1.1

5.2

Source: NOAA,[9][12] WRCC[13]

text: Government[edit]

text: The City is organized under Washington State law as a Non-charter Code City. Its structure is that of an elected Mayor and a five-member elected City Council. Unlike other cities on the Olympic Peninsula, Forks operates under what is called a "strong Mayor" form of government with the Mayor being the Chief Executive Officer overseeing four department heads (Clerk/Treasurer, Public Works, Police, and Legal/Planning).[14]

text: Forks Municipal Airport[edit]

text: Forks Municipal Airport (IATA: S18, ICAO: KS18, FAA LID: S18) is located in Clallam County, 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Forks. The Airport has six based aircraft, including 3 single-engine aircraft and 3 helicopters. The latest available data indicate that the Airport had a total of 13,550 annual operations.

text: Runway 4-22 is Forks Municipal Airport's sole runway. This runway is 2,400 feet (730 m) long, 75 feet (23 m) wide, is equipped with medium intensity runway lighting, and has an asphalt surface. Approaches to both ends of this runway are visual.[15]

text: Public transportation[edit]

text: Forks is served by two public transit agencies. Clallam Transit route 17 provides local service in Forks, while three other routes provide connections to Port Angeles (14), La Push (15), and Clallam Bay and Neah Bay (16). Jefferson Transit runs an "Olympic Connection" bus that provides service on Highway 101 south of Forks as far as Lake Quinault. From there, transfers to Aberdeen are available via Grays Harbor transit. All five of these bus routes serve Forks six days a week, with no service on Sundays.

text: Radio stations[edit]

text: KFKB 1490 and KBDB-FM 96.7 are the two local commercial stations serving the area. Both are owned by Forks Broadcasting.

text: KNWU 91.5 is the public radio station serving the area.  It is a satellite station of Washington State University's statewide Northwest Public Radio network.

text: Education[edit]

text: Forks is a part of the Quillayute Valley School District, with Forks High School being the community's high school. Forks is home to the University of Washington's Olympic Natural Resources Center.[16]

text: Tourism[edit]

text: On the south end of town is the Forks Timber Museum. Constructed in 1989 by the Forks High School carpentry class, the 3,200-square-foot (300 m2) building provides a look into the local history of the timber industry, loggers of the past, and their tools of the trade. The museum has exhibits depicting local history dating to the 1870s.[17]

text: Forks serves as the hub for numerous day excursions to the Hoh Rainforest, the Pacific Beaches, and various wilderness trails.

text: Another source of tourism is Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, which is set in the town.[18] Tours are available of locations that resemble the places described in Meyer's books. The films were not shot in Forks.[19][20]

text: The average annual number of tourists visiting the town rose from 10,000 before Twilight to 19,000 in 2008, the year of the first film, and 73,000 by 2010.[21]

text: Fishing[edit]

text: Forks is well known for its winter steelhead fishing with the Quillayute river system - the Hoh, Sol Duc, Bogachiel and Calawah rivers. Other nearby Clallam, Sekiu and Hoko rivers are also good for king salmon fishing and steelheading as well. Local guides are available for both native and hatchery runs and for float trips. Fishing gear and clothing is available at local stores.

text: Tillicum Park[edit]

text: Forks displays one of a few Shay engines remaining in Washington. Shay locomotives are unusual in that they have a crank shaft running down the side, powering all wheels. They were designed to be used to transport lumber out of forests. Rayonier #10 (c/n 3348) was built for stock by Lima in 1930. It has three cylinders and three trucks. The Ozette Timber Company bought it 11 years later. In 1945 it was acquired by Rayonier for their lumber operation near Forks. It was retired near the north end of Forks in Tillicum Park in 1959.

text: The Forks Lions Club erected an attractive shelter over the #10 in 1999. It has also built and maintained most of the structures in the Shay Tillicum Park over the last 40 years.[22][23][24]

text: Community events[edit]

text: Rainfest, a celebration of the arts sponsored by the West Olympic Council for the Arts, occurs in April. It includes a combination of arts and craft related events. In recent years quilt classes and a quilt show have been sponsored by the Piece Makers Quilt Club.

text: In March of every year, the Quillayute Valley Scholarship Auction occurs. This annual fundraising event raises tens of thousands of dollars for scholarships. Since the first scholarship award in 1964, to Robert Henry (now D.D.S.), the Committee has awarded over US$1m in scholarships to Forks students.

text: In the summer, Forks hosts its traditional "Old Fashioned Fourth of July" celebration with a Grand Fourth of July Parade. The numerous events include a demolition derby and fireworks display. July is also the month for Quileute Days at La Push with its parade, traditional salmon bake, bone games, softball tournament, canoe races, and street fair. In August, the Forks Family Festival combines arts and crafts vendors with children activities.

text: In late September, the Forks Chamber of Commerce partners with the Quileute Tribe and the City of Forks to host the Last Chance Fishing Derby at La Push; cash prizes are offered to those wanting to fish for salmon on the Pacific Ocean. The first week in October is when the community celebrates its heritage during Heritage Days. One of the more celebrated events during this week-long festival is the "Old Timers Round Table;" this is a moderated conversation broadcast live via the local radio station, featuring longtime residents of the region talking about days long past.

text:
The Forks City Council passed a resolution in 2007 celebrating "Stephenie Meyer Day" in honor of the Twilight young adult novels and film series, set for September 13, the day before the fictional Bella's birthday.[25] In 2015 the event was still driving tourism, with visitor numbers peaking in 2010, then settling to 50% more than before the Twilight phenomenon.[26]
"Stephanie Meyer Day" has been replaced with the title "Forever Twilight in Forks Festival" which is still celebrated annually on the week of September 13th. [27][28]The festival includes activities such as a movie marathon, a blood drive, dance lessons, and more. The upcoming dates for Forever Twilight in Forks 2018 are from September 13th to September 16th.[29]


document_title: John Winchester (Supernatural)

question_text: when do dean and sam find their dad

question_tokens: when do dean and sam find their dad

text: John Winchester (Supernatural)

text: Plot[edit]

text: The father of series protagonists Sam and Dean Winchester, John Winchester first appears in the pilot episode of the series, but plot devices such as flashbacks and time travel detail his background in later seasons. Apparently abandoned by his father at a young age—his father actually died while serving a secret order known as the Men of Letters—John Winchester grew up hating the man.[3] John left high school to join the Marine Corps, eventually attaining the rank of corporal and receiving many medals for his service in Vietnam. After leaving the service, he found a job as a mechanic, and fell in love with Mary Campbell.[4]

text: In the fourth season episode "In the Beginning," Dean is sent back through time by the angel Castiel. Dean meets his parents' former selves, and ends up convincing John to buy the 67 Chevy Impala that he eventually inherits. Dean later watches John being killed by Azazel, though the demon then resurrects him in exchange for Mary's permission to enter her house in ten years.[5] When the angel Anna Milton travels back in time in the fifth season episode "The Song Remains the Same" to prevent the births of Sam and Dean, John agrees to serve as a temporary vessel for the archangel Michael to stop her. Michael subsequently kills Anna and erases John and Mary's memories of the incident.[6]

text: Azazel later uses his pact with Mary to enter their home in the pilot episode, and ultimately kills her.[7] The second season episode "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part One" reveals that she had witnessed the demon secretly feeding his blood to Sam.[8] John investigated the incident and learned of the existence of the supernatural. His desire to find and kill Azazel led him to become a hunter of supernatural creatures.[7] He took his sons with him during his travels, but often left them alone in motels for long periods of time during his hunts,[9][10] leaving Dean with instructions to "shoot first and ask questions later" while watching over Sam.[9]

text: As revealed in the fourth season episode "Jump the Shark," John slept with a woman he met while away on a hunt. Learning over a decade later that he had fathered her son Adam, John made occasional visits over the years to partake in father-son activities with him. He hid the truth from Adam to protect him, and never revealed to him the existence of Sam and Dean, nor vice versa.[11] Meanwhile, John trained Sam and Dean to become hunters. However, Sam later left this life to start anew in college, leading to a fallout between John and his son.[7]

text: Twenty-two years after Mary's death, John disappears while on a hunt, forcing Sam and Dean to reunite in an unsuccessful attempt to find him. Sam returns to the life of a hunter after Azazel kills his girlfriend.[7] John reluctantly chooses to avoid his sons throughout most of the season while he investigates something,[12] eventually reuniting with them in the episode "Shadow." However, the demonic Meg Masters attacks them and reveals that Azazel is after John. After escaping from Meg, the brothers split up from their father to keep him from the demons.[13] When vampires murder his old mentor and steal the Colt—a mystical gun capable of killing anything—John teams up with Sam and Dean in "Dead Man's Blood" to retrieve it. Because demons cannot be killed by conventional means, they hope that the Colt will be effective against Azazel.[14] In response, Meg begins killing the Winchesters' friends in "Salvation," and threatens to kill more unless they deliver the Colt. John is captured after trying to give her a fake gun,[15] and reveals himself to be possessed by Azazel when the brothers come to his rescue in the first season finale "Devil's Trap." However, he manages to resist the demon's control. Despite John's pleas for Sam to shoot him with the Colt, Sam cannot bring himself to do so and allows Azazel to escape. As the Winchesters flee in Dean's Impala, a demonically-possessed trucker crashes into them.[16]

text: In the second season premiere, "In My Time of Dying," Sam and John awake in the hospital with only minor injuries, but a dying Dean is comatose. John secretly summons Azazel, and seems to know what the demon's plans are. He then makes a deal to save Dean, giving up his life, soul, and the Colt.[17] Before dying, John instructs Dean to kill Sam should he become evil.[18][19] The fourth season episode "On the Head of a Pin" reveals that the demon Alastair tortured John in Hell for over a century, with John refusing the demon's offer to stop if he himself would torture someone else.[20] His soul escapes from Hell in the second season finale "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2" when a gateway to Hell is opened. He saves Dean from Azazel, and distracts the demon by temporarily forcing him out of his host, long enough for Dean to kill Azazel with the Colt when he returns to his usual body. John then gives Sam and Dean a loving smile before becoming engulfed in a white light.[19] However, the fifth season episode "Dark Side of the Moon" suggests that he might not be in Heaven.[21]

text: Characterization[edit]

text: Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan deemed John a "tormented soul," motivated by an "equal combination of revenge and protecting his sons." [22][23] Following the death of their mother, Sam and Dean became secondary to John's quest of killing the demon responsible, although Morgan believed that this aspect changed once John began spending more time with them again.[23] Though he thought that John was not the world's best dad and "definitely made a lot of mistakes," the actor noted that "he did things, even when they were wrong, for the good of his sons." [22] John Kubicek of BuddyTV felt that this reasoning extended to John's decision to hide the truth from Adam to protect him. Kubicek also suggested that John became involved in Adam's life to achieve "some level of normalcy" as a father, an opportunity he had previously lost following the death of Sam and Dean's mother.[24] Overall, Morgan felt that John "loved those kids more than he loved his own life," with the character's demonic pact with Azazel serving as "his way of finding redemption." [25]

text: Regarding his portrayal of the character, Morgan commented, "I played him with extra angst. I think what was on the page, what I foresaw—not knowing where it was going, because no one would ever tell me anything—there was always a lot more going on in his head than he was going to show anybody, including his sons. Because, indeed, there was a lot more going on."[22] Kripke later confirmed this, stating, "It's our view that John knew everything the producers of the show know. John knew stuff we're not even ready to reveal, that won't come out for a couple of seasons. He was an awesome hunter, and by the time he showed up in 'Dead Man's Blood,' he knew it all."[26]

text: Development[edit]

text: In writing the pilot episode, series creator Eric Kripke made several dramatic revisions to John's storyline. The first draft of the script had Sam and Dean being raised by their aunt and uncle, though this was changed when Kripke realized that the backstory became much less complicated by having John raise them on the road. Another revision had John dying at the end of the episode instead of Sam's girlfriend Jessica.[27] Though he survives in the final version of the pilot, the writers decided halfway through production of the first season that John did have to die, as they believed his separation from his sons "split the show" by having him away "doing more interesting things than the boys are doing."[28][29] Kripke also felt that John kept Sam and Dean away from the "front lines," his death being required to allow the brothers to "explore, investigate and confront the yellow-eyed demon directly." The writers initially intended for John to die in the car accident in "Devil's Trap," but they ultimately postponed his death to prevent the finale from becoming too dark.[30] Following the character's eventual escape from Hell, executive producer Ben Edlund stated that even the writers are unsure of where John's soul ended up.[31]

text: Evil Dead-actor Bruce Campbell was Kripke's first choice to portray the character. However, Campbell was unavailable, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan eventually received the role.[32] Due to the fact that Morgan's scene in the pilot episode takes place 22 years before the series, Morgan expected to be replaced by an older actor for subsequent episodes.[22] Being only 12 years older than Jensen Ackles, who portrays the eldest son Dean, Morgan was surprised when he was asked to reprise the role.[33][22] Ackles and Jared Padalecki often teased him about the age difference during filming.[34] Throughout the season, Morgan became frustrated at times due to his character's avoidance of his sons, stating, "It pissed off everybody, it pissed off us as actors, it pissed off the audience watching, because none of us really knew where we were gonna go." However, he reasoned that John's motivation for his actions was due to having knowledge that nobody else had.[23]

text: During production of Supernatural's first season, Morgan was also working on the shows Weeds and Grey's Anatomy, so he was often traveling back and forth between Los Angeles and Vancouver, British Columbia. This interfered at times with Morgan's acting, as he had trouble getting "Winchester-y enough" after portraying the nice character of Denny Duquette on Grey's Anatomy.[33] Morgan commented, "I was stuck in Denny-land, where I was being too nice. Winchester's harder to find. Denny's more me. He's an intense guy, John is. And Denny, for a guy who's having trouble living, he's just a charming dude."[33] Morgan was at first reluctant to return for Supernatural's second season due to his role on Grey's Anatomy.[35] Although he lent his voice for the third season episode "Long-Distance Call," future appearances of Morgan as the character after the second season have been hindered due to the actor's busy schedule.[36] Nevertheless, both Kripke and writer Sera Gamble have stated that they "would love to have him back."[36][37] The scheduling conflict has continued into the sixth season of Supernatural, with executive producer Robert Singer revealing that the writers had considered bringing the character back in the alternate reality episode "My Heart Will Go On" instead of Ellen Harvelle, but due to concerns that they would not be able to secure Morgan's return, they ultimately chose Ellen for the deceased character they would have (temporarily) return in the episode.[38] During the production of the fifth season, Morgan had an interview with MovieWeb in which he stated that no one from the show had contacted him about making another appearance, and expressed the desire to return for at least one more episode in what was then-believed to be the show's final season, as he had enjoyed working with on-screen sons Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki and he felt that John's storyline had ended too soon.[39]

text: Reception[edit]

text: While critics praised Morgan for his performance in the role, their reaction to the character has generally been mixed. Don Williams of BuddyTV felt that John is a "rather divisive character", with some fans not understanding John's motivation for keeping his sons in the dark. However, Williams himself found the character to be "completely fascinating". He chose "In My Time of Dying" as the second best episode of the series, mainly because of John's contributions, stating, "Even if you're not a huge fan of Poppa Winchester, I think it's impossible not to be moved by the final ten minutes of this episode... John's final speech to Dean, where he finally tells his son that he's proud of him, is one hell of a tear-jerker, and both Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Jensen Ackles knock that scene out of the park."[40] Williams praised Matt Cohen's performance of a younger version of the character in the time-travel episode "In the Beginning", believing that he "did an excellent job at portraying a more innocent John Winchester than we've ever seen before".[41]

text: Diana Steenbergen of IGN also criticized John for his lack of explanation, feeling that "it is not exactly easy to watch John treat Dean and Sam so dismissively, especially after they have been nearly killing themselves all season to find him".[42] However, Steenbergen praised Morgan for his acting, writing, "Even though he is used sparingly throughout the series, Jeffrey Dean Morgan is always effective as John."[43] She also felt that he brought "emotional weight" to the character, allowing the audience to "feel John's weariness, and his resignation that things will most likely not go well".[44] While Brian Tallerico of UGO enjoyed Morgan's performance, he was happy that the character was killed off because John's presence made Sam and Dean into "followers" that were "merely existing in the wake of their father". With their father gone, the brothers are no longer prevented from "heading up the battle with the other side".[45]


document_title: Banyan

question_text: what is the hindi name of banyan tree

question_tokens: what is the hindi name of banyan tree

text: Banyan

text: Characteristics[edit]

text: Like other fig species, including the common edible fig Ficus carica, banyans bear multiple fruit in structures denominated "syncarps. The syncarp of Ficus species supplies shelter and food for fig wasps and, in turn, the trees are totally dependent on the fig wasps for pollination.

text: Frugivore birds disperse the seeds of banyans. The seeds are small, and because most banyans grow in woodlands, a seedling that germinates on the ground is unlikely to survive. However, many seeds fall on the branches and stems of other trees or on human edifices, and when they germinate they grow roots down toward the ground and consequently may envelop part of the host tree or edifice. For this reason banyans bear the colloquial name "strangler fig". A number of tropical banyan species that compete for sunlight, especially of the genus Ficus, exhibit this strangling habit.[5][6][page needed][7]

text: The leaves of the banyan tree are large, leathery, glossy, green, and elliptical. Like most figs, the leaf bud is covered by two large scales. As the leaf develops the scales abscise. Young leaves have an attractive reddish tinge.[8]

text: Older banyan trees are characterized by aerial prop roots that mature into thick, woody trunks, which can become indistinguishable from the primary trunk with age. Old trees can spread laterally by using these prop roots to grow over a wide area. In some species, the prop roots develop over a considerable area that resembles a grove of trees, with every trunk connected directly or indirectly to the primary trunk. The topology of this massive root system inspired the name of the hierarchical computer network operating system "Banyan VINES".

text: In a banyan that envelops its host tree, the mesh of roots growing around the latter eventually applies considerable pressure to and commonly kills it. Such an enveloped, dead tree eventually decomposes, so that the banyan becomes a "columnar tree" with a hollow, central core. In jungles, such hollows are very desirable shelters to many animals.

text: Etymology[edit]

text: The name was originally given to F. benghalensis and comes from India, where early travellers observed that the shade of the tree was frequented by Banyans (Indian traders).[9]

text: In the Gujarati language, banya means "grocer or merchant", not "tree". The Portuguese picked up the word to refer specifically to Hindu merchants, and passed it along to the English as early as 1599 with the same meaning. By 1634, English writers began to tell of the banyan tree, a tree under which Hindu merchants conducted their business. The tree provided a shaded place for a village meeting or for merchants to sell their goods. Eventually, "banyan" became the name of the tree itself.[citation needed]

text: Classification[edit]

text: The original banyan, F. benghalensis, can grow into a giant tree covering several hectares. Over time, the name became generalized to all strangler figs of the Urostigma subgenus. The many banyan species include:

text:
Ficus microcarpa, which is native from Sri Lanka through New Caledonia, is a significant invasive species elsewhere.
The Central American banyan (Ficus pertusa) is native to Central America and northern South America, from southern Mexico south to Paraguay.
The shortleaf fig (Ficus citrifolia) is native to southern Florida, the Caribbean Islands, Central America, and South America south to Paraguay. One theory is that the Portuguese name for F. citrofolia, os barbados, gave Barbados its name.
The Florida strangler fig (Ficus aurea) is also native to southern Florida and the Caribbean Islands, and distinguished from the above by its coarser leaf venation.
The Moreton Bay fig (Ficus macrophylla) and Port Jackson fig (Ficus rubiginosa) are other related species.

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text: In horticulture[edit]

text: Due to the complex structure of the roots and extensive branching, the banyan is used as a subject specimen in penjing and bonsai. The oldest, living bonsai in Taiwan is a 240-year-old banyan tree housed in Tainan.[10]

text: In culture[edit]

text: Religion and mythology[edit]

text: Banyan trees figure prominently in several Asian and Pacific religions and myths, including:

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The banyan tree is the national tree of India. It is also called Indian or Bengal fig. This tree is considered sacred in India and can be seen near a temple or religious center. It is a big tree and gives shade to travelers in very hot summer months. An old custom offers worship to this tree.
In Hinduism, the leaf of the banyan tree is said to be the resting place for the god Krishna.

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In spoken Marathi, the tree is known as vad (वड), derived from the original Sanksrit word vaṭa for the tree. Married Marathi women observe a fast called Vat Savitri Vrat for the well-being and long life of their husband. Tying a thread around the banyan or vat tree is an important part of the ritual.[11][self-published source]
In modern parlance in the Hindi language, it is known as bargad, vatavriksh, and barh.
In Buddhism's Pali canon, the banyan (Pali: nigrodha)[12] is referenced numerous times.[13] Typical metaphors allude to the banyan's epiphytic nature, likening the banyan's supplanting of a host tree as comparable to the way sensual desire (kāma) overcomes humans.[14]
The Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees (林村許願樹) are banyan, and are a popular shrine in Hong Kong. They are located near the Tin Hau Temple in Lam Tsuen.
In many stories of Philippine mythology, the banyan (locally known as balete or balite) is said to be home to a variety of spirits (diwata and engkanto) and demon-like creatures (among the Visayans, specifically, the dili ingon nato, meaning "those not like us"). Maligno (evil spirits, from Spanish for 'malign') associated with it include the kapre (a giant), duwende (dwarves), and the tikbalang (a creature whose top half is a horse and whose bottom half is human).[15][self-published source] Children at a young age are taught never to point at a fully mature banyan tree for fear of offending the spirits that dwell within them, most especially when they are new to the place. Filipinos always uttered a respectful word or two to the spirits in the banyan tree when they are near one, walking near or around it to avoid any harm. Nearly every Filipino believes that provoking the spirits in a banyan tree can cause one great harm, illness, misfortune, untold suffering, and death.
In Guam, the Chamorro people believe in tales of taotaomona, duendes, and other spirits. Taotaomona are spirits of the ancient Chamorro that act as guardians to banyan trees.[16]
In Sabah, formerly North Borneo, Nunuk Ragang or Red Banyan is traditionally considered to be the site of the longhouse, sheltering the 10 families (immigrants from South China) who were the ancestors of present-day kadazan-Dusun population of 555,647 (2010 census).

text: Notable specimens[edit]

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Thimmamma Marrimanu is a banyan tree in Anantapur, located circa 35 km from town Kadiri in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is present in the Indian Botanical Gardens and is more than 200 years old. It is reported to be the world's biggest tree with a canopy of 19,107 m2. Its branches spreads over 8 acres, hence it was recorded as the biggest tree in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1989.
One of the largest trees, the Great Banyan is found in Kolkata, India. It is said to be more than 250 years old.
Another such tree, Dodda Alahda Mara, is found in the outskirts of Bangalore, India; it has a spread of circa 2.5 acres.[17]
One of the most famous banyan trees, Kabirvad was planted on an island in a river in Bharuch, Gujarat, India. Records show that Kabirvad is more than 300 years old.
Another famous banyan tree was planted in Jaipur distcrit of Rajasthan. Records show that it is more than 200 years old.
Maui, Hawaii has a banyan tree planted by William Owen Smith in 1873 in Lahaina's Courthouse Square. It has grown to cover two-thirds of an acre.[17]
In rural parts of India, many villages and towns have a traffic circle and a community gathering place around a big banyan tree. At night, many people come to sit, relax, and chat around it. Usually, a small deity is placed and worshipped at its foot.[citation needed]
Ta Prohm in the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia boasts giant banyans growing around and through its walls.
Several banyans grow near downtown Hilo, Hawaii, United States. Some of them were planted by celebrities in the 20th century and form Banyan Drive.
Banyans occur in areas of Australia such as the Daintree Rainforest in Tropical North Queensland. Well known is the Curtain Fig Tree on the Atherton Tablelands.
Thomas A. Edison planted the first banyan tree in the continental United States in Fort Myers, Florida, in an attempt with Henry Ford to find a more cost-effective way to produce rubber for car tires. The tree, originally only 4 feet (1.2 m) tall, now covers one acre of the estate.
One large banyan tree, Kalpabata, is inside the premises of Jagannath Temple in Puri. It is considered sacred by the devotees and is supposed to be more than 500 years old.[18]
A large banyan tree lives in Cypress Gardens, at the Legoland theme park located in Winter Haven, Florida. It was planted in 1939 in a 5-gallon bucket.[19]

text: Other[edit]

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The banyan is part of the coat of arms of Indonesia. It is meant to symbolize the unity of Indonesia - one country with many far-flung roots. As a giant tree, it also symbolizes power. Soeharto used it as a logo for his party, the Golongan Karya (Golkar), taking advantage of the deeply rooted belief of his fellow-countrymen and women in the sacred (sakti) nature of the banyan.
The Economist magazine features an opinion column covering topics pertaining to Asia named "Banyan".[20]
In southern Vanuatu, the clearings under banyan trees are used as traditional meeting places. The quarterly newsletter of the British Friends of Vanuatu Society is named Nabanga, after the local word for banyan.[21]
The Banyan Tree is the name of one of the most fiendishly difficult rooms in the 1984 ZX Spectrum game Jet Set Willy.[22]


document_title: The Magic of Belle Isle

question_text: where was the movie the magic of belle isle filmed

text: The Magic of Belle Isle

text: Plot[edit]

text: Monte Wildhorn (Freeman) is a famous Western novelist whose struggle to cope with the death of his wife six years earlier has sapped his passion for writing, and has caused him to begin drinking heavily. He takes a lakeside cabin for the summer in picturesque Belle Isle, and befriends the family next door—an attractive single mother (Madsen) and her young daughters, who help him find inspiration again.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Morgan Freeman as Monte Wildhorn
Virginia Madsen as Charlotte O'Neil
Emma Fuhrmann as Finnegan "Finn" O'Neil
Madeline Carroll as Willow O'Neil
Nicolette Pierini as Flora "Flor" O'Neil
Kenan Thompson as Henry
Kevin Pollak as Joe Viola
Fred Willard as Al Kaiser
Ash Christian as Carl Loop
Jessica Hecht as Karen Loop
Boyd Holbrook[2] as Luke Ford

text: Production[edit]

text: The Magic of Belle Isle was filmed in the village of Greenwood Lake, New York in July 2011.

text: Reception[edit]

text: The Magic of Belle Isle received negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 30%, based on 33 reviews, with a rating of 4.9/10.[3] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 46 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[4]

text: Home media[edit]

text: The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 18 2012, and is currently available on Netflix Streaming.[5]


document_title: Happy Death Day

question_text: who kills the girl from happy death day

question_tokens: who kills the girl from happy death day

text: Happy Death Day

text: Plot[edit]

text: Theresa "Tree" Gelbman wakes up on her birthday on Monday, September 18, 2017 in the dorm room of classmate Carter Davis after a drunken binge the previous evening. Tree goes through the day being self-centered, dismissive, and condescending to her classmates and previous hook-ups, ignoring her father's invitation to a restaurant, throwing away a birthday cupcake given to her by her roommate Lori Spengler, and having an affair with Dr. Gregory Butler, her professor. That night, while going to a party, Tree is lured into a tunnel where she is brutally murdered by a hooded figure wearing a mask of the campus mascot.

text: Tree wakes up the next morning back in Carter's bed with the previous day's events repeating. Unnerved, she relives the day and avoids the tunnel, instead heading to a fraternity house for a surprise party. However, after becoming intimate with her classmate Nick, the masked killer murders him before killing Tree once more. Tree realizes that she is in a time loop and tries to avoid her death by barricading herself in her room. However, she is murdered again when the killer hides in her bedroom.

text: Upon waking up again, she relays her story to Carter, who suggests that she take advantage of the loop in order to figure out who her killer is. She spends the next several iterations trailing suspected classmates and dying each time.

text: After Tree dies from being bludgeoned by a baseball bat, she passes out shortly after waking up. She awakens in the campus hospital where she learns that her body shows evidence of recovery from multiple, massive, traumatic injuries, meaning she has retained damage from her previous murders even after waking up fully healed every time. Tree escapes the hospital room only to be chased by the killer until she manages to flee in Butler's car. While driving, she is pulled over by a police officer and volunteers to be arrested in order to be spared. While held in the officer's squad car, the killer runs over the officer and blows up the squad car by igniting the fuel tank with a candle.

text: Waking up in Carter's bed again, Tree convinces Carter of her predicament by showing that she holds foreknowledge of the day's events. In Corky's, Tree admits to Carter that she does not like who she has become as she is distant from her father in the wake of her mother's death three years ago. Tree catches a local news report on John Tombs, a serial killer who is being held in the hospital on her campus. Concluding that Tombs is her killer, Tree rushes to the hospital to warn of his escape. Tombs breaks free and nearly kills Tree, but Carter follows and rescues her. Tombs snaps Carter's neck before chasing Tree to a nearby bell tower where she manages to subdue him with a crowbar. Realizing that Carter will remain dead if she doesn't restart the loop, Tree hangs herself in the tower.

text: During the next iteration, Tree sets out to be a kinder person by ending her affair with Dr. Butler and meeting with her father to resolve her inner grief. That night, she prepares to stop Tombs. He manages to get the upper hand on her until Tree utilizes a campus-wide blackout that occurs during the loop to disarm him and shoot him to death. Relieved to finally be free, she celebrates her birthday in Carter's room and eats the cupcake given to her by Lori.

text: However, the next morning Tree wakes up again on her birthday. Confused and distraught over the fact that killing Tombs did not stop the time loop, Tree returns to her room where Lori offers the cupcake again. Tree realizes that she had died in her sleep and also notes that this was the only time she had ever eaten the cupcake. Tree realizes that Lori is the true killer; Lori had poisoned the cupcake, but when Tree did not eat it, she utilized her job as a nurse in the hospital to frame Tombs for Tree's murder. Tree tries to coerce Lori to have a bite and when Lori refuses, Tree decides to take it to the police. Lori attacks Tree, locks the door and confesses that she was jealous of her affair with Dr. Butler. Tree manages to stuff the cupcake into Lori's mouth before kicking her out of a window, sending her falling to her death. Tree and Carter muse over the day's events back in the restaurant. He offers her his room for the night, also commenting her situation is a lot like the film Groundhog Day. Tree wakes up the next day believing herself to be in another loop, but it turns out to be a prank by Carter. The two share a kiss.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Jessica Rothe as Theresa "Tree" Gelbman
Israel Broussard as Carter Davis
Ruby Modine as Lori Spengler
Rachel Matthews as Danielle Bouseman
Charles Aitken as Gregory Butler
Rob Mello as John Tombs
Phi Vu as Ryan Phan
Caleb Spillyards as Tim Bauer
Jason Bayle as David Gelbman
Laura Clifton as Stephanie Butler
Cariella Smith as Becky Shepard
Tran Tran as Emily
Blaine Kern III as Nick Sims
Dane Rhodes as Officer Santora
Tenea Intriago as Student Protestor
Missy Yager as Mrs. Gelbman

text: Production[edit]

text: Pre-production[edit]

text:
"The movie was in pre-production or soft production at the time, and I came on and I loved the concept of the movie. I loved the idea of a girl, trapped in a time loop who has to solve her own murder."

– Director Christopher B. Landon about the concept of the film.[5]

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text: The film was first announced in July 2007, with Megan Fox attached to star. The film was originally titled Half to Death, produced by Michael Bay and Rogue Pictures, and directed by Antti Jokinen.[6] Christopher B. Landon was hired to rewrite the Scott Lobdell script, and while he liked the reworked script the studio decided to not move on with it. The project was only revived years later, as original producer Angela Mancuso had lunch with Landon and remembered about Half to Death. Landon decided to send the script to Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions, with whom he had worked in the Paranormal Activity sequels, and he approved it, leading to a green-light by Universal Pictures.[5] Blumhouse announced the project on October 11, 2016, with Landon directing and Jessica Rothe cast in the lead role of the film.[7] On November 8, 2016, it was announced that Ruby Modine, Charles Aitken and Rachel Matthews had joined the cast, alongside Rothe and Israel Broussard.[8] The film got eventually retitled Happy Death Day in June 2017.[9]

text: The mask was constructed by Tony Gardner, the same man who built the "Ghostface" mask from every Scream film, and its design was personal. Landon explains, "During preproduction... I was expecting my first son. I don't know if I just had babies on the brain, or if I was subconsciously scared to become a father, but that baby image was floating around in my head. Tony made us a pig mask, too, but when I wore the baby mask in the office, I scared a co-worker, and we thought... yeah, this is it. This is the one."[10] Scream itself was listed among the influences Christopher Landon took for the film, along with Halloween (1978), Groundhog Day and comedies of the 1980s such as Sixteen Candles and Back to the Future,[11] given he aimed to make a "fun, silly horror movie". He also aimed to emulate the protagonist's personal growth in Groundhog Day to comment on "this age of social media and all the crappy things that kids do to each other."[12]

text: Writing[edit]

text: Writer Scott Lobdell said he wanted to play with the tropes of the slasher genre, as according to him "every slasher film opens up with the mean girl getting killed and the good girl living till the end. And I thought, 'How can I make the mean girl and the good girl the same person?'" [12] In the original draft, Lori and Dr. Butler were the killers together. Landon says, "They were a psycho couple murdering Tree together. That ultimately didn’t work for me. I thought Gregory was a great opportunity to be a suspect. To make him a killer, it didn't help me. That was a change I really wanted to make."[13] Also, in the original draft there was no birthday,[13] and no romance, which Landon added to humanize Tree.[5] Landon decided to shorten the protagonist's name Teresa into Tree, which also conveyed her character arc as "trees need to grow and you see this character go from one person to another".[14]

text: Filming[edit]

text: Filming took place at and around Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana,[15] and it lasted 5 weeks.[16] The scenes where Tree awakens in Carter's bed after her death were filmed back to back in a span of two days.[17] The scene after Lori dies was supposed to be at the sorority house, but the filming permit was over before production was able to shoot there, forcing the location to be changed into a Los Angeles diner also featured in another Blumhouse production, Split.[14]

text: Alternate ending[edit]

text: In the original ending of the film, Tree is taken to the hospital after her encounter with Lori. The doctor instructs her to stay away from pain medication for at least a day due to the extent of her injuries. After he leaves, a nurse comes in and tells Tree she is giving Tree something for the pain and Tree informs the nurse of the doctor's orders. The nurse reveals herself to be Dr. Butler's wife Stephanie, who says it is for her pain and then murders Tree in revenge for the affair between her and Dr. Butler.

text: This version was shown in the test screenings for the film, and was received negatively by the audience, forcing the writers to come up with the theatrical ending. Director Christopher Landon also revealed Lori and Dr. Butler were the killers in the rough drafts, which later inspired the idea of the poisoned cupcake.[18]

text: Music[edit]

text:
Happy Death Day (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Soundtrack album by Bear McCreary

Released
October 13, 2017

Genre
Film score

Length
39:57 (Standard album)
44:16 (Bonus track version)

Label
Back Lot Music

text:
Professional ratings

Review scores

Source
Rating

Soundtrack Dreams

text: Bear McCreary is the composer of all tracks.

text:
Standard album[19]

No.
Title
Length

1.
"Day One"
5:26

2.
"Day Two"
6:05

3.
"Day Three"
4:18

4.
"Day Four"
2:17

5.
"Hospital Pursuit"
5:55

6.
"The Bell Tower"
3:30

7.
"Righting Wrongs"
3:40

8.
"Tree Takes Control"
4:30

9.
"The Cupcake"
4:16

Total length:
39:57

text:
Bonus track

No.
Title
Length

10.
"Happy Death Day End Title Credits"
4:19

Total length:
44:16

text: Reception[edit]

text: Box office[edit]

text: Happy Death Day grossed $55.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $67 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $122.6 million, against a production budget of $4.8 million.[1]

text: In the United States and Canada, Happy Death Day was released alongside Marshall, The Foreigner and Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, and was expected to gross $15–20 million from 3,130 theaters in its opening weekend.[20] It made $1 million from Thursday night previews at 2,450 theaters, similar to fellow Blumhouse release The Visit ($1.05 million in 2015)[21] and $11.6 million on its first day, increasing weekend projections to $26 million. It went on to debut to $26 million, topping the box office, making it the third Blumhouse Productions film of 2017 (after Split and Get Out) to do so.[4] It fell 64% in its second weekend to $9.4 million, finishing in third behind newcomers Boo 2! A Madea Halloween and Geostorm.[22]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 71% based on 119 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Happy Death Day puts a darkly humorous sci-fi spin on slasher conventions, with added edge courtesy of a starmaking performance from Jessica Rothe."[23] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 57 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[24] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave it a 52% "definite recommend".[4]

text: Critics noted that although the film makes laudatory attempts at merging genres—including romantic comedy, horror and "campus satire"—the end results were mixed.[3][25] Jamie East from The Sun likened it to a "slasher Mean Girls," while Chris Agar of Screen Rant said that the "fun, if silly, blending of genre tropes...ends up being a double-edged sword."[26][27]

text: Home media[edit]

text: The film was released on digital HD on January 2, 2018 and was released on DVD and Blu-Ray on January 16, 2018. The home release features the original ending.[28]

text: Sequel[edit]

text: Director Christopher B. Landon has talked about the possibility of a sequel, focusing on why Tree went into a time loop.[29] Jessica Rothe stated that while most horror sequels retread the original, Landon's pitch instead "elevates the movie from being a horror movie into a Back to the Future type of genre film where the sequel joins us right from where we left off, it explains a lot of things in the first one that didn’t get explained, and it elevates everything."[30] Filming is scheduled to begin in May 2018.[31]