Ben also happened to be quite the smart student as well so he didn't fit the typical 'dumb jock' persona though he often made jokes about it that stayed with him to long after the arrival of the Others. Ben was the high school's football star and captain. He his known for his killer smile, said to light up whatever room he was in.īen's life preceding the First Wave was a relatively normal one as he attended the same high school as Cassie Sullivan. He is portrayed by Nick Robinson in the film adaptation.īen Parish is said to be very good looking, and quite buff, as he was the wide receiver on his football team. He and Evan have also become friends.īen serves as a narrator in The 5 th Wave and The Last Star He also has become the guardian of Sam and his friend Megan.
He and his squad have gone rogue and have been joined by Cassie Sullivan and Evan Walker in their fight.īen manages to survive the 5th Wave and lives alongside Ringer (now going by the name Marika) as he helps her raise her daughter Cassie. Ben was among the first to learn the truth behind The 5th Wave and who The Others really were. Throughout his time after the Arrival, Ben has tried to maintain a healthy sense of humor as a way to fight against the Others to show that they haven't stripped him completely of his humanity. He is Cassie Sullivan's childhood crush and a loyal friend of her little brother Sam. He had lost his whole family but still wears his little sister's locket as the final trace of them.īen had quickly become the squad leader of Squad 53 because of his leadership when he entered military training at Camp Haven. He is also one of the remaining human survivors of the ' waves' sent down by The Others to wipe out humanity. I give “The 5th Wave” three out of five stars.Benjamin Thomas Parish (also known as Ben and Zombie) is one of the main characters in The 5 th Wave trilogy by Rick Yancey. It was such a disappointment, even though that should have been expected.
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The movie took out so much of the emotion, drama and fear that made the book fantastic and turned it into a cliche. The actors probably would have been phenomenal had it not been for the writers, who left out so many details and tidbits that the book included. Everyone looked their part, but few could actually play the part, with the exception of Mortez, who did a spectacular job. The casting was OK considering the terrible character development. Without spoiling anything, “prepare to be underwhelmed” is the only thing to say. Unfortunately, many of the characters felt flat and uninteresting compared to the book. Messing with Evan’s character changed the ending drastically. They made him a lovesick puppy following Cassie around without any of his heartbreaking backstory. He starts off pretty dang close to what the book intended, but then the movie-writers decided to take him in an entirely different direction. Everything was changed, including very important revelations about certain characters. The last hour or so, however, was painful to watch. These scenes were only glossed over in the book, so it was really cool to see them in the movie. Though some very dramatic and emotional scenes were left out, clips of the four waves were included. The movie writers didn’t have the end yet. In the acknowledgements of his book, Yancey recognized the movie studio for beginning work on the movie before the book was even finished, so now it suddenly makes sense that the second half of the movie was so far off. The fifth wave, though Cassie didn’t know it yet, was already in progress. The forth wave, the aliens, also known as the Others, made it known that they were inhabiting human hosts. The third wave was an alien flu modified to be unstoppable, killing billions of people. The second wave was a massive earthquake that destroyed many cities and set off a tsunami that destroyed almost all the other cities. The first wave was an electromagnetic pulse that killed all power on the planet. “The 5th Wave” is about a normal 16-year-old girl Cassie Sullivan, played by Chloë Grace Mortez, who happened to survive four waves of an alien invasion and now has to find her brother, Sammy, who was taken by the military. For those who have read the book and anxiously awaited the day the movie came out, however, this was a chance to see Hollywood either succeed in bringing a wonderful book to life or once again disappoint book lovers everywhere. The movie was based on Rick Yancey’s novel, and for some, it seemed to be a fun, alien-invasion movie with a bit of action and, of course, forbidden romance. “The 5th Wave” hit the big screen last Friday.
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