Divergent (film)

Divergent is a 2014 American science fiction action filmdirected by Neil Burger, based on the novel of the samename by Veronica Roth. The film is the first installmentin The Divergent Series and was produced by Lucy Fisher,Pouya Shabazian, and Douglas Wick, with a screen-play by Evan Daugherty and Vanessa Taylor.[4] It starsShailene Woodley, Theo James, Ashley Judd, Jai Court-ney, Ray Stevenson, Zoë Kravitz, Miles Teller, TonyGoldwyn, Ansel Elgort, Maggie Q and Kate Winslet.[5][6]

The story takes place in a dystopian and post-apocalypticChicago[7] where people are divided into distinct factionsbased on human virtues. Beatrice Prior is warned thatshe is Divergent and thus will never fit into any one of thefactions and soon learns that a sinister plot is brewing inher seemingly perfect society.Development of Divergent began in March 2011 whenSummit Entertainment picked up the film rights to thenovel with Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher's productioncompany Red Wagon Entertainment. Principal photog-raphy began April 16, 2013 and concluded on July 16,2013, with reshoots taking place from January 24–26,2014. Production mostly took place in Chicago.Divergent was released on March 21, 2014 in the UnitedStates. The film received mixed reviews from critics, withpraise going towards its performances, and criticism fo-cused on its execution. Reviewers found the film to begeneric and unoriginal, comparing it unfavorably to otheryoung-adult fiction adaptations. Despite this, the film wasa financial success as it reached the #1 spot at the box of-fice during its opening weekend. After its release, thefilm earned over US$288 million worldwide against itsbudget of US$85 million.[8][9] It was released on DVDand Blu-ray on August 5, 2014.[10]

A sequel, The Divergent Series: Insurgent, was released onMarch 20, 2015 in the United States.[11]

1 Plot

In a futuristic dystopian Chicago, the society is dividedinto five factions: Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (thepeaceful), Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave),and Erudite (the intellectual). The remaining populationare the Factionless, who have no status or privilege in thissociety. When children reach the age of 16, they undergoa serum-induced psychological test which indicates theirbest-suited faction, then are allowed to choose any fac-tion as their permanent group at the subsequent Choosing

Ceremony.Beatrice Prior (Shailene Woodley) was born into Abne-gation, which runs the government. Her father, AndrewPrior (Tony Goldwyn), serves on the ruling council alongwith the head of Abnegation, Marcus Eaton (Ray Steven-son). Beatrice takes her test with a Dauntless womannamed Tori Wu (Maggie Q) as her proctor. Her resultsshow attributes of multiple factions, meaning she is Di-vergent. Her divergence includes Abnegation, Erudite,and Dauntless. Tori records her results as Abnegation andwarns her to keep the true result a secret, saying that be-cause Divergents can think independently and the govern-ment therefore cannot control them, they are consideredthreats to the existing social order.The next day at the Choosing Ceremony, Beatrice’sbrother Caleb Prior (Ansel Elgort) chooses Erudite, whileafter some hesitation, Beatrice chooses Dauntless. Afterthe ceremony, Beatrice meets Christina (Zoë Kravitz),Al (Christian Madsen), and Will (Ben Lloyd-Hughes),three other initiates from other factions who also choseDauntless. Christina and Al are from Candor and Willis from Erudite. The initiates’ commitment and fearless-ness are immediately tested, and Eric Coulter (Jai Court-ney), a brutal Dauntless leader, makes it clear that anyonenot meeting Dauntless’ high expectations will be expelledfrom the faction. Beatrice is the first to volunteer for aleap of faith from a tall building into a dark hole, landingin a net. When Four (Theo James), a transfer initiates’ in-structor, asks her name, she decides to shorten it to “Tris.”Tris initially struggles in Dauntless training, ranking farbelow the cutoff after the first evaluation, but slowly im-proves. Eric matches her against her nemesis — Peter(Miles Teller) in a fight. Tris is soundly defeated and endsup in the infirmary. When she discovers that she will missthe most important test, Capture The Flag, she breaks outof the infirmary and joins the other initiates, secures herteam’s victory, and makes the final cut.In the next phase of training, the initiates are subjectto psychological simulations where they face their worstfears. Tris’ divergence allows her to excel at the tests,defeating them in unusual ways, but Four warns her tohide her abilities and solve the challenges as a normalDauntless would. Divergents can also manipulate testsand serums.Tris visits her brother Caleb, who tells her that Erudite isplanning to overthrow Abnegation and become the rulingfaction. On her return to Dauntless headquarters, Tris isattacked by Al, Peter, and Drew before being rescued by

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Four. The next day Al pleads with Tris for her forgive-ness but she refuses, calling him a coward. He later killshimself by jumping into “The Chasm” rather than facefailure.To prepare her for the final test, Four takes Tris into hisown fear simulations, where she learns that his real nameis Tobias Eaton, the son of Marcus Eaton. After the sim-ulation, they kiss. Tris then passes her test and is officiallyinitiated into the Dauntless. The rest of the Dauntless arethen injected with a serum supplied by Erudite which issupposedly for tracking, but is actually for mind control.The next morning, the Dauntless prepare to execute Ab-negations by the orders of the Erudites. Divergents areunaffected by the new serum, so Tris must blend in toavoid suspicion. She finds Four, who reveals himself tobe a Divergent. While the Dauntless move to raid Abne-gation, Tris and Four separate from the group and attemptto locate Tris’ parents, but Eric sees that Four is not undercontrol and captures the two. Four is taken into custodywhile Tris is ordered to be executed. Her mother Natalie(Ashley Judd) appears and saves her but is shot and killedas they try to escape.Tris finds her father in hiding with Caleb, Marcus, andseveral Abnegations. The group sneaks into the Daunt-less headquarters, where Tris encounters Peter and forceshim to lead them to Erudite’s control center. Her fathersacrifices himself in a shootout, and Tris goes in alone tofind Four, who is now under stronger mind control and at-tacks her. Using her knowledge of his fears, she managesto wake him from the mind control and the two enter thecentral control room, where Erudite leader Jeanine (KateWinslet) is about to have the Dauntless army execute theentire Abnegation faction. Tris uses a sample of the mindcontrol serum on her to force her to cancel the program.The group escapes the compound and boards a train outof the complex.

2 Cast

See also: List of The Divergent trilogy characters

• Shailene Woodley as Beatrice “Tris” Prior

• Theo James as Tobias “Four” Eaton

• Ashley Judd as Natalie Prior

• Jai Courtney as Eric Coulter

• Ray Stevenson as Marcus Eaton

• Zoë Kravitz as Christina

• Miles Teller as Peter Hayes

• Tony Goldwyn as Andrew Prior

Shailene Woodley portrays Beatrice Prior.

• Ansel Elgort as Caleb Prior

• Maggie Q as Tori Wu

• Mekhi Phifer as Max

• Kate Winslet as Jeanine Matthews

• Ben Lloyd-Hughes as Will

• Christian Madsen as Al

• Amy Newbold as Molly Atwood

3 Production

3.1 Pre-production

In March 2011, Summit Entertainment picked up therights forDivergent with Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher’sproduction company Red Wagon Entertainment.[12] NeilBurger was announced as the director on August 23,2012.[13] Evan Daugherty, who co-wrote the screenplaywith Vanessa Taylor, said, “I get hung up on the tough-ness of the movie but of equal importance is the love story

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between Tris and Four. It’s inherently and inextricablylinked to Tris’s character journey. There will be plentyof sexual tension and chemistry, but it’s important that allof that stuff doesn't just feel like it’s thrown in, but thatit all helps Tris grow as a character.”[14] Daugherty fur-ther added, “It’s tricky because the book is a very packedread with a lot of big ideas. So, distilling that into a cool,faithful two-hour movie is challenging. Not only do youhave to establish five factions, but you have to acknowl-edge that there’s a sixth entity, which is the divergent, andyou also have the factionless. So there’s a world that reallyhas to be built out for the big screen... the movie is go-ing to do it a little more efficiently.”[15] Author VeronicaRoth said about the script of the film: “Reading a scriptis a really interesting experience. I'd never read a scriptbefore. I was really impressed by how closely it stuck tothe general plot line of the book.”[16]

Initially, the budget of the film was $40 million butLionsgate later increased it to $80 million (which finallychanged to $85 million) due to the success of The HungerGames. Analyst Ben Mogil said, “Divergent is more sim-ilar to Hunger Games in that the company owns the un-derlying economics (i.e. production) and the budget (at$80[million]) is more manageable.”[17]

3.2 Casting

Theo James was cast as Tobias “Four” Eaton, winning the roleover several other considered actors.

On October 22, 2012 it was announced that ShaileneWoodley had landed the lead role of Beatrice “Tris”Prior.[18] Lucas Till, Jack Reynor, Jeremy Irvine, AlexPettyfer, Brenton Thwaites, Alexander Ludwig and LukeBracey were all considered for the role of Tobias “Four”Eaton.[19][20] On March 15, 2013, it was announced thatTheo James had been cast as Four.[21]

Though James was 10 years older than the character whencast, Roth praised his casting: “I was sure within sec-onds: this was 'Four', no question. Theo is able to cap-ture 'Four’s' authority and strength, as well as his depthand sensitivity.” She also mentions the chemistry betweenhim and Shailene: “He is a perfect match for Shailene’sincredibly strong presence as Tris. I'm thrilled!"[22] Theproducers said about his casting: “We took our time tofind the right actor to fill the role of Four, and Theo is def-initely the perfect fit. Veronica has crafted a truly iconiccharacter in Four and we cannot wait to begin productionand bring him and this story to life for millions of fansaround the world.”[21]

On March 11, 2013, it was announced that the roles ofTori, Christina, and Caleb had gone to Maggie Q, ZoëKravitz, and Ansel Elgort respectively.[23] Ray Stevenson,Jai Courtney and Aaron Eckhart were announced to bein talks to join the cast on March 15, 2013.[24] Steven-son and Courtney joined the cast as Marcus Eaton andEric.[25] That same day, Miles Teller was cast as Peter.[26]

Kate Winslet was announced to be in talks on January 24,2013.[27] Later, it was confirmed that she would portrayJeanine Matthews.[28] Talking about playing the negativecharacter for the first time, Winslet said, “I'm no idiot.The idea went through my head that I have never playeda baddie before, I was almost kind of surprised.” SinceWinslet joined filming late, she used that distance fromher co-stars to appear aloof on the first day of her shoot.“I wanted to break it and say, 'It’s OK, I'm really fun.I promise.' But I thought, just for today, I'd let themthink that I am a complete bitch.”[29] Winslet was fivemonths pregnant during the shooting of the film and herpregnancy was concealed using various props. Accord-ing to Burger, “We had to be very strategic in the waythat we shot her. She always had some sort of file or casein her hand that was sort of protecting, you know, herbump.”[30] On March 25, 2013, Ben Lamb was cast asEdward, Ben Lloyd-Hughes as Will, and Christian Mad-sen as Al.[31] In April 2013, Ashley Judd and Tony Gold-wyn joined the cast as Natalie and Andrew Prior, Beat-rice’s parents.[32][33]

3.3 Filming

Filming began in Chicago on April 16, 2013 and con-cluded on July 16, 2013.[34][35][36] Virtually all produc-tion photography took place in Chicago; many of the in-terior locations were filmed at Cinespace Chicago FilmStudios.[37] Scenes for the “choosing ceremony” wereshot at 17th Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago on

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The Ferris wheel scene in Divergent was filmed at Navy Pier.

East Wacker in downtown Chicago,[38] with outdoor shotstaken at Pioneer Court.[39] Filming also took place atthe Navy Pier Ferris Wheel; the entire area was treatedwith dirt and rust to appear more dystopian.[40] Additionalscenes were shot at 57th Street and Ellis Avenue near theUniversity of Chicago,[41] at Federal Street where fake Ltracks were constructed[42] and at Michigan Avenue.[43]

Scenes were also filmed in the University of Chicago’sJoe and Rika Mansueto Library.[44]

For the Abnegation sector, the production team con-structed the set on Wells Street in downtown Chicago.[45]

In late June, filming took place at 1500 S Western Avenueand 600 S. Wells Street, Chicago.[46] In the last sched-ule, filming moved to the Chicago River and continuedat Lake Street Bridge, Wacker Drive and LaSalle StreetBridge.[47] Filming wrapped on July 16, 2013.[48] On Jan-uary 24, 2014, additional filming began in Los Angeles,finishing two days later, which officially became the lastday of shooting.[48]

3.4 Post-production

Post-production work began after filming wrapped.[49]

On July 18, Summit and Lionsgate issued a joint state-ment announcing the film would be released in IMAXformat: “We're delighted to continue our successful col-laboration with IMAX, with whom we have already part-nered on the global blockbuster Hunger Games and Twi-light Saga franchises, and we're especially pleased that wecan introduce our newest young adult franchise, Diver-gent, to the movie going public in the premium IMAXformat that celebrates its status as a special and memo-rable event.”[50]

4 Music

Main article: Divergent: Original Motion Picture Sound-track

The score for Divergent was composed by Junkie XLand executive produced by his longtime mentor HansZimmer. Randall Poster served as the film’s musicsupervisor.[51][52] The original soundtrack was releasedon March 11, 2014, while the Original Score of thefilm was released on March 18, 2014, by InterscopeRecords.[53][54]

5 Distribution

5.1 Marketing

The first image of Shailene Woodley as Beatrice “Tris”Prior was revealed by Entertainment Weekly on April 24,2013.[55] A few seconds sneak preview footage of the filmwas shown at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.[56] On June7, Entertainment Weekly released a still of Theo James(Four) showing the Dauntless initiates around their newheadquarters.[57] The magazine released several morestills on July 19.[58] On July 16, USA Today released thefirst image of Kate Winslet as Jeanine Matthews.[29]

On July 18, 2013 Summit held a sold-out San DiegoComic-Con panel in Hall H. Shailene Woodley, TheoJames, Maggie Q, Zoe Kravitz, Ansel Elgort, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Amy Newbold, Miles Teller, Christian Mad-sen, director Neil Burger, and author Veronica Roth at-tended the panel and answered fan questions, along withthe showing of exclusive film clips.[59]

On August 22, 2013, a sneak peek of the first teasertrailer was released by MTV.[60][61][62] The full teaserwas released on August 25, 2013 during the pre-showof the MTV Video Music Awards.[63][64][65] Two officialposters featuring Woodley and James as Tris and Fourand highlighting their tattoos were released on Septem-ber 23, 2013.[66][67] Neil Burger released the full offi-cial trailer on November 13, 2013.[68][69] On February4, 2014 Shailene Woodley and Theo James released thefinal trailer for the film during their appearance on JimmyKimmel Live!.[70]

The marketing campaign for the film cost at least $50million.[71]

5.2 Release

On its first day of advance ticket sales, the film sold halfof its tickets.[72]

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5.3 Home media

Divergent was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 5,2014.[10] Prior to its DVD release, a deleted scene fromthe film featuring Miles Teller as Peter Hayes and BenLamb as Edward was released on July 30, 2014.[73]

6 Reception

6.1 Box office

Divergent earned $150,947,895 in North America, and$137,800,000 in other countries, for a worldwide to-tal of $288,747,895.[3] Calculating in all expenses,Deadline.com estimated that the film made a profit of$71.87 million.[74]

On its opening weekend, the film attained the No. 1spot in domestic and worldwide box office rankings byRentrak.[75][76] The film grossed $4.9 million in late nightscreenings, on Thursday March 20, 2014.[11] On its open-ing day, the film grossed $22.8 million in the UnitedStates (including the Thursday night gross).[77][78][79] Di-vergent accumulated $54,607,747 from 3,936 theaters atan average of $13,873 per theater, on its opening week-end in the United States and Canada[80][81][82] and grossed$1.7 million internationally from four territories, with aworldwide total of $56,307,747.[83][84][85]

6.2 Critical response

Divergent received mixed reviews from critics. Reviewaggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 40% ratingbased on reviews from 198 critics, with an average scoreof 5.4/10. The site’s consensus states: “With an adher-ence to YA formula that undercuts its individualistic mes-sage, Divergent opens its planned trilogy in disappoint-ingly predictable fashion.”[86] Metacritic gives the film ascore of 48 based on reviews from 38 critics, indicat-ing “mixed or average reviews”.[87] Audiences surveyedby CinemaScore were more receptive to the film, givingit a CinemaScore grade of “A”. The survey group was69% female and half of the audience was over 25.[88][89]

The main criticisms of the film were its generic exe-cution and predictable plot.[90][91] Bruce Diones of TheNew Yorker called it, “barely diverting”,[92] and JordanAdler of We Got This Covered said it was a “ploddingand generic dystopian drama”.[93] Several critics havecompared the film unfavorably with other young-adultfiction adaptations such as Harry Potter and, predomi-nantly, The Hunger Games. Andrew Barker of Varietysaid, “Unlike the “Harry Potter” series’ tangible, fully di-mensional Hogwarts or “The Hunger Games’” colorfullyvariegated districts, “Divergent’s” vision of new Chicagodoesn’t have much to distinguish it from a standard-issuepost-apocalyptic pic.”[94] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone

wrote that, “At least The Hunger Games spawned two ter-rific movies and a breakthrough star in Jennifer Lawrence.Onscreen, Divergent ignites only indifference.”[95] How-ever, Peter Debruge of Variety considered it a much bet-ter adaptation writing that, "[although] it shares a fairamount of DNA in common with “The Hunger Games,”it ranks as far superior.”[96]

Though the film overall received a mixed reception, manycritics praised Shailene Woodley and Theo James fortheir portrayals as Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton. Ac-cording to Todd Gilchrist of The Playlist, “Woodleymakes for more than uncertain enough of a hero to adddetail and meaning to the implosion of this world”, addingthat “there’s little artifice to her performance, and themundane honesty of her reactions create a believabil-ity that the world would otherwise lack.” Speaking ofJames’s performance, Gilchrist adds that he “managesthe considerable accomplishment of seeming like a realgrown-up man” and that he “makes the character’s trans-formation from hardass to collaborator seem natural, ifinevitable”.[97] Drew McWeeny at HitFix said, “it helpsthat [they] got Woodley and James in the leads. [Wood-ley’s] like a walking empathy battery, wide-open emo-tionally, easy to read and enormously appealing”, alsoadding that James is “incredibly natural onscreen”.[98]

Andrew Osmond of SFX magazine was more receptiveto the film, calling it “an often entertaining, and some-times very interesting, piece of teen SF”.[99] Andy Lea ofDaily Star wrote that “the satire is not as sharp as that ofThe Hunger Games and the training scenes borrow heav-ily from the much smarter Ender’s Game. But it’s alsostylish, tense and surprisingly pacy.”[100] Orlando Weekly' s Sam Allard gave the film a 3/5 rating, praising ShaileneWoodley’s performance by saying she “rescues and thenraises up a film that could have been an utter disaster”.[101]

Christy Lemire of RogerEbert.com agreed with this sen-timent, writing, “the performances—namely from starsShailene Woodley and Theo James and Kate Winslet ina juicy supporting role—always make the movie watch-able and often quite engaging”.[102] Michael O'Sullivanof The Washington Post felt that the film surpassed itssource material, feeling that “it’s rare that a movie is asgood as the book on which it’s based. It’s even more un-usual when it’s better.”[103] Leigh Paatsch of the HeraldSun dubbed the film a “solid first-up effort for the Di-vergent franchise”,[104] and Margaret Pomeranz of At theMovies gave praise to director Neil Burger, stating that he“handles the action with aplomb”.[105]

The Playlist’s Todd Gilchrist gave it a mixed review say-ing that it has “great ideas ... and some terrific char-acter work, but it’s given such uneven attention, alter-nately languished upon and glossed over”.[97] IGN's MattPatches gave it 5.8 out of 10, citing its similarities toother young adult films and contrived Dauntless plot line.He praised lead actors Theo James and Shailene Wood-ley’s performances, judging that they “add personalityand physicality to the limp script they're acting out”.[106]

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Scott Mendelson of Forbes magazine echoed these sen-timents, arguing that despite Woodley’s excellent perfor-mance, “the generic story reduced a large portion of themythology to irrelevancy”. Mendelson believed that thefilm would please the novel’s fanbase.[107]

6.3 Accolades

7 Sequels

Main article: The Divergent Series: Insurgent

On May 7, 2013, Summit Entertainment revealed thata sequel based on Insurgent was in the works. BrianDuffield, writer of Jane Got a Gun, was hired to write thescript.[111] The sequel was released on March 20, 2015.The third film, based on the novel Allegiant, was initiallyannounced as a single film scheduled for release on March18, 2016.[112][113] In December 2013, it was announcedthat Neil Burger will not return to direct the sequel, dueto him still working on the first film.[114] On February11, 2014, it was announced that Robert Schwentke wouldtake Burger’s place for the next installment.[11][115][116]

Principal photography for The Divergent Series: Insurgentbegan in Atlanta on May 27, 2014[117] and concluded onSeptember 6, 2014.[118]

On April 11, 2014, Summit Entertainment announcedthat the third film would split into two films titled The Di-vergent Series: Allegiant – Part 1 and The Divergent Series:Allegiant – Part 2, with Part 1 scheduled to be releasedon March 18, 2016 and Part 2 scheduled to be releasedon March 24, 2017.[119] On December 5, 2014, it wasannounced that Robert Schwentke would return to directPart 1.[120] On September 10, 2015, it was announcedthat the two films would be re-titled, with Part 1 beingrenamed as The Divergent Series: Allegiant and Part 2 asThe Divergent Series: Ascendant.[121]

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9 Readings• Divergent: production notes, tour // Summit Enter-

tainment (copy of pdf)

10 External links• Official website

• Divergent at the Internet Movie Database

• Divergent at AllMovie

• Divergent at Box Office Mojo

• Divergent at Metacritic

• Divergent at Rotten Tomatoes

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