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->"In a far away galaxy, the planet Aeon is blessed by the light of six suns\\
Her people have never known\\
NIGHTFALL"
-->-- OpeningScroll
A 2000 ScienceFiction film directed by Creator/GwynethGibby, with screenplay by Creator/JohnWilliamCorrington, based on "Literature/Nightfall1941" by Creator/IsaacAsimov.
The OpeningScroll takes place over a stylized display of the stars around Aeon, just before they're all [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot covered in an eclipse]] in time for the title. The screen turns black and the opening credits cycle through names. The film begins with a KneeHighPerspective of Django (Creator/PradeepSinghRawat) digging with a pickaxe. The perspective pans around, completing [[TitleSequence the opening credits]] while more of the archeological dig site is revealed. Django has found something, and a crowd gathers to watch.
The foreman runs to the [[TitleIn Temple of the Watchers]], to inform Brother Kopton (Creator/AshishVisyarthi), leader of the Watchers, about the new discovery. On his way, he accidentally lets Sheerin (Creator/WinsomeBrown) know, and she goes to the [[TitleIn University of the Scholars]] to fetch her friend Illyra (Creator/JenniferBurns), who is currently listening to a lecture from Professor Gnomen (Creator/DavidCarradine), leader of the Scholars. He watches his daughter, Illyra, and her friend leave the University. The girls get a few moments to look around before the Watchers appear and they start arguing over the proper way to conduct an archeological dig.
Brother Koptin and his assistant, Ensinn (Creator/SushantKumar), eject the girls from the dig site, and they return to the University. Gnomen is again talking to people about [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the destruction of civilization]] that last happened [[ExactlyExtyYearsAgo almost 1,000 years ago]]. He forbids the girls from going back to the dig site, so Illyra naturally defies him almost immediately, sneaking back inside the newly discovered room. While collecting samples, she learns that in the intervening centuries, it's become [[SnakePit home to hordes of snakes]]. Metron (Creator/JosephHodge) rescues her with [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic powers]], helping her to escape, [[StealthHiBye and disappearing]].
Back at the Temple, Ensinn complains of Metron's inability to capture the intruders, but Brother Kooptin assures him his adopted son has done no wrong. Sending the boy away, he reveals that he believes God will cleanse the world soon because of the heretical Scholars. Back at the University, Gnomen takes a look at the artifacts Sheerin and Illyra recovered. Pointing out that the skull's injury is man-made, he disagrees that these deaths are related to the thousand year cycle.
Illyra and Sheerin go out to an open market, discussing the Tunnel of Mystery and coming across an old camera that is somehow more advanced than anything they've seen before. The merchant bought it from a Watcher who often visits a bar owned by Theremon (Creator/ManikRaj). They're introduced to Metron properly and Illyra pays him to lead her to the cavern where he discovered the camera. Together, they share secrets from the Temple and University, and discover what the SignsOfTheEndTimes mean and why the apocalypse is coming.
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!!''Nightfall'' provides examples of:
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The original ending has everyone [[GoMadFromTheRevelation lose their minds upon realizing how little they matter compared to the size of the universe]]. In this adaptation, however, it's merely blind fanaticism that sends the [[ApocalypseCult Watchers]] against the Scholars. Metron and Illyra manage to survive and watch the Stars appear while Saro city burns.
* AdaptationDeviation: Aside from the characters changing almost completely (two characters use names from the original, but [[AdaptationPersonalityChange really aren't the same at all]]), this adaptation adds in PsychicPowers and changes [[EternalRecurrence the cycle]] to last [[ExactlyExtyYearsAgo 1,000 years]] instead of 2,049 years.
* AdaptationNameChange: When adapting the story into a movie, the planet was renamed Aeon, the cast of characters was essentially replaced entirely, while still retaining the [[RomanticismVersusEnlightenment conflict between science and religion]].
* ApocalypseHow: Aeon is destroyed [[ExactlyExtyYearsAgo every 1,000 years]]. The actual effect is continent-wide collapse of infrastructure, caused by people desperate to bring back sunlight because they're afraid of the dark. The Watchers convince the crowds that killing the Scholars is the only way to bring it back.
* ApocalypseCult: The Watchers believe that the only way to bring back the sun is to kill the Scholars because it was their heresies and sinfulness that caused the suns to be swallowed whole.
* ApocalypticLog: The writing that Metron and Illyra discover in the caverns talks about darkness ''not'' being the danger faced by Aeon when the suns disappear. The words are based on [[MythologyGag the last words of Aton]] from "Literature/Nightfall1941".
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: One of the snakes chasing after Illyra opens its mouth to hiss and venom pours out of its mouth like water. Snakes do not drool like that at all.
* DesertSkull: There are two animal skulls just outside the caverns that Metron is showing Illyra.
* Epigraph: The [[Creator/RalphWaldoEmerson Emerson]] quote from the original story is the first part of the ending credits.
* ExactlyExtyYearsAgo: According to the archeological records, civilization was destroyed 1,000 years ago, and the University of Scholars believe this destruction [[EternalRecurrance will occur again]].
* GenderFlip: In the original story, the only scientists at the Observatory are male, including Sheerin, but in this film, she was changed into Illyara's platonic best friend in the University.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Despite what the ApocalypticLog says, the people of Aeon are panicking and destroying because [[ApocalypticCult the Watchers]] tell them the only way to bring back the light is to destroy the Scholars for their heathen beliefs.
* LostTechnology: Artifacts found from over 1,000 years ago are often more advanced than their modern-day counterparts. It doesn't mean the past made things better; they simply followed different tech trees.
* MythologyGag:
** Aton is name-dropped once or twice as another one of the Scholars. Aton's role from the original story ("Literature/Nightfall1941") was replaced by Gnomen for this movie.
** Theremon shows up as a bar owner, a reference to where he met Beenay the astronomer in ''Literature/Nightfall1990''.
** The ApocalypticLog quotes the last words of Aton from the original, "Literature/Nightfall1941".
* AMythologyIsTrue: In addition to the myths from the original story, are Darklings; boogeymen the Watchers use to scare children into behaving. They're also humans who have gone crazy and live their entire lives in darkness, killing anyone who intrudes.
* OneWordTitle
* OnlyOneName:
** All of the characters go by a single name, even though Sheerin is clearly Gnomen's daughter.
** In the [[{{ParaText}} credits]], many of the people involved in this movie were listed by only one name, either their personal or family name, sometimes including an initial for their first name.
* OpeningScroll: A summary of background information is provided over [[{{Montage}} several stylized displays]] of the stars around Aeon, just before they're all [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot covered by an eclipse]] in time for the title. The screen turns black and the opening credits cycle through names. Once Creator/IsaacAsimov is credited, the screen shifts to the movie proper, while continuing to display the occasional credit until the first line is spoken.
* PlayingWithFire: Metron uses PsychicPowers to start fires. The first time he does this, he calls it a little trick.
* PsychicPowers: Metron can [[PlayingWithFire set things on fire]] by concentrating on them, grabbing things [[MindOverMatter telekinetically]], as well creating illusions to frighten people. Using the powers too much gives him a headache.
* RayGun: Illyra tries to use a handheld laser pistol to defend herself against desert nomads, but her lack of confidence means they easily overpower her despite it.
* SexyDiscretionShot: While Illyra and Metron are out in the wilderness, he invites her to lay her head on his chest as a pillow. She does, and asks him if his behaviour was acceptable for a Watcher. He admits that it isn't, and they kiss, rolling over so that Metron is on top of Illyra.
* SignsOfTheEndTimes: The Watchers teach that when wind from the desert that goes on for days, a rain of suns fall from the sky, and during Twilight (only Beta is in the sky), [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot it will be swallowed whole]] and the world will end.
* SnakePit: The rooms uncovered by archeological dig has become home to hundreds of snakes in the centuries since it was inhabited by humans.
* StrippedToTheBone: The archeological site from [[ExactlyExtyYearsAgo 1,000 years ago]] is full of skeletons, [[SnakePit and snakes]]!
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: The sand searchers try to hit Metron with a thrown sword, but it misses and he [[GiveMeASword picks it up for his own use]].
* TitleIn:
** As the foreman of the archeological dig enters the Temple of the Watchers, the location's name appears in blocky font across the bottom of the screen.
** As Sheerin enters the University of Scholars, the location's name appears in blocky font across the bottom of the screen.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: The woman living in the cavern speaks with a strange reverberation, and tells Illyra and Metron about events from [[ExactlyExtyYearsAgo 1,000 years ago]].
* YoungLoveVersusOldHate: Professor Gnomen and Brother Koptin represent hate from ages past, but despite their parents, Metron and Illyra fall in love with each other.
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Her people have never known\\
NIGHTFALL"
-->-- OpeningScroll
A 2000 ScienceFiction film directed by Creator/GwynethGibby, with screenplay by Creator/JohnWilliamCorrington, based on "Literature/Nightfall1941" by Creator/IsaacAsimov.
The OpeningScroll takes place over a stylized display of the stars around Aeon, just before they're all [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot covered in an eclipse]] in time for the title. The screen turns black and the opening credits cycle through names. The film begins with a KneeHighPerspective of Django (Creator/PradeepSinghRawat) digging with a pickaxe. The perspective pans around, completing [[TitleSequence the opening credits]] while more of the archeological dig site is revealed. Django has found something, and a crowd gathers to watch.
The foreman runs to the [[TitleIn Temple of the Watchers]], to inform Brother Kopton (Creator/AshishVisyarthi), leader of the Watchers, about the new discovery. On his way, he accidentally lets Sheerin (Creator/WinsomeBrown) know, and she goes to the [[TitleIn University of the Scholars]] to fetch her friend Illyra (Creator/JenniferBurns), who is currently listening to a lecture from Professor Gnomen (Creator/DavidCarradine), leader of the Scholars. He watches his daughter, Illyra, and her friend leave the University. The girls get a few moments to look around before the Watchers appear and they start arguing over the proper way to conduct an archeological dig.
Brother Koptin and his assistant, Ensinn (Creator/SushantKumar), eject the girls from the dig site, and they return to the University. Gnomen is again talking to people about [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the destruction of civilization]] that last happened [[ExactlyExtyYearsAgo almost 1,000 years ago]]. He forbids the girls from going back to the dig site, so Illyra naturally defies him almost immediately, sneaking back inside the newly discovered room. While collecting samples, she learns that in the intervening centuries, it's become [[SnakePit home to hordes of snakes]]. Metron (Creator/JosephHodge) rescues her with [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic powers]], helping her to escape, [[StealthHiBye and disappearing]].
Back at the Temple, Ensinn complains of Metron's inability to capture the intruders, but Brother Kooptin assures him his adopted son has done no wrong. Sending the boy away, he reveals that he believes God will cleanse the world soon because of the heretical Scholars. Back at the University, Gnomen takes a look at the artifacts Sheerin and Illyra recovered. Pointing out that the skull's injury is man-made, he disagrees that these deaths are related to the thousand year cycle.
Illyra and Sheerin go out to an open market, discussing the Tunnel of Mystery and coming across an old camera that is somehow more advanced than anything they've seen before. The merchant bought it from a Watcher who often visits a bar owned by Theremon (Creator/ManikRaj). They're introduced to Metron properly and Illyra pays him to lead her to the cavern where he discovered the camera. Together, they share secrets from the Temple and University, and discover what the SignsOfTheEndTimes mean and why the apocalypse is coming.
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!!''Nightfall'' provides examples of:
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The original ending has everyone [[GoMadFromTheRevelation lose their minds upon realizing how little they matter compared to the size of the universe]]. In this adaptation, however, it's merely blind fanaticism that sends the [[ApocalypseCult Watchers]] against the Scholars. Metron and Illyra manage to survive and watch the Stars appear while Saro city burns.
* AdaptationDeviation: Aside from the characters changing almost completely (two characters use names from the original, but [[AdaptationPersonalityChange really aren't the same at all]]), this adaptation adds in PsychicPowers and changes [[EternalRecurrence the cycle]] to last [[ExactlyExtyYearsAgo 1,000 years]] instead of 2,049 years.
* AdaptationNameChange: When adapting the story into a movie, the planet was renamed Aeon, the cast of characters was essentially replaced entirely, while still retaining the [[RomanticismVersusEnlightenment conflict between science and religion]].
* ApocalypseHow: Aeon is destroyed [[ExactlyExtyYearsAgo every 1,000 years]]. The actual effect is continent-wide collapse of infrastructure, caused by people desperate to bring back sunlight because they're afraid of the dark. The Watchers convince the crowds that killing the Scholars is the only way to bring it back.
* ApocalypseCult: The Watchers believe that the only way to bring back the sun is to kill the Scholars because it was their heresies and sinfulness that caused the suns to be swallowed whole.
* ApocalypticLog: The writing that Metron and Illyra discover in the caverns talks about darkness ''not'' being the danger faced by Aeon when the suns disappear. The words are based on [[MythologyGag the last words of Aton]] from "Literature/Nightfall1941".
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: One of the snakes chasing after Illyra opens its mouth to hiss and venom pours out of its mouth like water. Snakes do not drool like that at all.
* DesertSkull: There are two animal skulls just outside the caverns that Metron is showing Illyra.
* Epigraph: The [[Creator/RalphWaldoEmerson Emerson]] quote from the original story is the first part of the ending credits.
* ExactlyExtyYearsAgo: According to the archeological records, civilization was destroyed 1,000 years ago, and the University of Scholars believe this destruction [[EternalRecurrance will occur again]].
* GenderFlip: In the original story, the only scientists at the Observatory are male, including Sheerin, but in this film, she was changed into Illyara's platonic best friend in the University.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Despite what the ApocalypticLog says, the people of Aeon are panicking and destroying because [[ApocalypticCult the Watchers]] tell them the only way to bring back the light is to destroy the Scholars for their heathen beliefs.
* LostTechnology: Artifacts found from over 1,000 years ago are often more advanced than their modern-day counterparts. It doesn't mean the past made things better; they simply followed different tech trees.
* MythologyGag:
** Aton is name-dropped once or twice as another one of the Scholars. Aton's role from the original story ("Literature/Nightfall1941") was replaced by Gnomen for this movie.
** Theremon shows up as a bar owner, a reference to where he met Beenay the astronomer in ''Literature/Nightfall1990''.
** The ApocalypticLog quotes the last words of Aton from the original, "Literature/Nightfall1941".
* AMythologyIsTrue: In addition to the myths from the original story, are Darklings; boogeymen the Watchers use to scare children into behaving. They're also humans who have gone crazy and live their entire lives in darkness, killing anyone who intrudes.
* OneWordTitle
* OnlyOneName:
** All of the characters go by a single name, even though Sheerin is clearly Gnomen's daughter.
** In the [[{{ParaText}} credits]], many of the people involved in this movie were listed by only one name, either their personal or family name, sometimes including an initial for their first name.
* OpeningScroll: A summary of background information is provided over [[{{Montage}} several stylized displays]] of the stars around Aeon, just before they're all [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot covered by an eclipse]] in time for the title. The screen turns black and the opening credits cycle through names. Once Creator/IsaacAsimov is credited, the screen shifts to the movie proper, while continuing to display the occasional credit until the first line is spoken.
* PlayingWithFire: Metron uses PsychicPowers to start fires. The first time he does this, he calls it a little trick.
* PsychicPowers: Metron can [[PlayingWithFire set things on fire]] by concentrating on them, grabbing things [[MindOverMatter telekinetically]], as well creating illusions to frighten people. Using the powers too much gives him a headache.
* RayGun: Illyra tries to use a handheld laser pistol to defend herself against desert nomads, but her lack of confidence means they easily overpower her despite it.
* SexyDiscretionShot: While Illyra and Metron are out in the wilderness, he invites her to lay her head on his chest as a pillow. She does, and asks him if his behaviour was acceptable for a Watcher. He admits that it isn't, and they kiss, rolling over so that Metron is on top of Illyra.
* SignsOfTheEndTimes: The Watchers teach that when wind from the desert that goes on for days, a rain of suns fall from the sky, and during Twilight (only Beta is in the sky), [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot it will be swallowed whole]] and the world will end.
* SnakePit: The rooms uncovered by archeological dig has become home to hundreds of snakes in the centuries since it was inhabited by humans.
* StrippedToTheBone: The archeological site from [[ExactlyExtyYearsAgo 1,000 years ago]] is full of skeletons, [[SnakePit and snakes]]!
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: The sand searchers try to hit Metron with a thrown sword, but it misses and he [[GiveMeASword picks it up for his own use]].
* TitleIn:
** As the foreman of the archeological dig enters the Temple of the Watchers, the location's name appears in blocky font across the bottom of the screen.
** As Sheerin enters the University of Scholars, the location's name appears in blocky font across the bottom of the screen.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: The woman living in the cavern speaks with a strange reverberation, and tells Illyra and Metron about events from [[ExactlyExtyYearsAgo 1,000 years ago]].
* YoungLoveVersusOldHate: Professor Gnomen and Brother Koptin represent hate from ages past, but despite their parents, Metron and Illyra fall in love with each other.
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