The game (film)

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Movie
German title The game
Original title Gerald's Game
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2017
length 103 minutes
Rod
Director Mike Flanagan
script Mike Flanagan, Jeff Howard
production Trevor Macy
music The Newton Brothers
camera Michael Fimognari
cut Mike Flanagan
occupation

The game (original title Gerald's Game ) is a psychological and horror thriller by Mike Flanagan , which premiered on September 24, 2017 as part of the Fantastic Festival and was released in selected US cinemas on September 29, 2017. The film is based on The Stephen King Game from 1992.

action

Attorney Gerald Burlingame and his wife Jessie travel to the Maine forests for a romantic getaway . They want to spend some time together in their remote country house, because their sex life was recently revived by erotic bondage games. When Gerald handcuffed her to the bed with her consent , she changed her mind at the last moment and wanted to end the erotic game. An argument breaks out and Gerald suddenly dies of a heart attack while Jessie is still handcuffed to the bedpost. A dog enters the house through the open door and begins to eat Gerald's body.

Gerald and a self-confident version of herself appear to her as a hallucination and accompany her in her predicament. Jessie reflects on her life and her relationship with Gerald. Among other things, she remembers sexual abuse by her father in her youth. The conversations with the imaginary Gerald and her self-confident self strengthen her self-esteem. During her first night, a deformed figure appears on her bed, but Jessie thinks this is also a hallucination.

After two days, Jessie uses the glass over her bed that has been her only source of water so far. She smashes it and uses the broken pieces to free herself from the handcuffs. In the house, she meets the figure again. She drives away in the car to seek help , but the injury knocks her out and crashes the car into a tree. Local residents notice the accident and help Jessie. Half a year later, Jessie founded a self-help association for victims of abuse. In a newspaper article about an arrested serial killer, she recognizes him as her supposed hallucination from a photo.

production

Literary template and staff

The film is based on The Game by Stephen King from 1992. Gerald's Game , the book's original title, was long considered impossible to film because large parts of the plot only take place in the head of the protagonist Jessie Burlingame.

Netflix secured the rights to the film adaptation of the novel and also produced the film. It was directed by Mike Flanagan , who also worked with Jeff Howard to adapt King's novel for the film. Although there are a lot of creepy elements in the film, like King's novel it is not pure horror. First and foremost, it's about Jessie and her way of dealing with the situation based on her life so far, says Markus Fiedler of Focus Online , because some aspects of her personality that manifest themselves as Gerald and a cool version of herself in view of her dramatic situation were talking almost permanently on her.

Cast and dubbing

Carla Gugino played Jessie Burlingame in the film, Bruce Greenwood played her husband Gerald.

The German dubbing comes from TV + Synchron GmbH, Berlin and was created with a dialogue book and directed by Sabine Sebastian . Alexandra Wilcke speaks to her husband Gerald in the film Jessie Burlingame and Oliver Stritzel.

Film music and sound design

The Newton Brothers composed the score. The soundtrack for the film was released on September 29, 2017. While the film music is kept minimalist, similar to Flanagan's film Hush from 2016 and he refused to use musical references to the classic horror genre, the director in Das Spiel relied on silence and silence to create a frightening atmosphere and a heavy one and gloomy soundscape.

Filming and publishing

Filming took place in downtown Mobile and Point Clear, Alabama in the fall of 2016 , and ended in November 2016 after 23 days of shooting.

The film premiered on September 24, 2017 as part of the Fantastic Festival and was released in selected US cinemas on September 29, 2017.

reception

The film has so far won over 91 percent of Rotten Tomatoes critics and received an average rating of 7.6 out of a possible 10 points.

Mike Flanagan directed and adapted Stephen King's novel for the film

Andy Crump of The Hollywood Reporter says it took that certain something to write a story like Gerald's Game , and it took the same and an additional story to turn the book into a movie. This is Mike Flanagan succeeded and he obviously knew from the beginning what he did with Stephen King would begin template. According to Crump, it is a project that requires a willingness to torment the protagonist, and Flanagan torments Jessie with enthusiasm, physically but above all mentally.

Markus Fiedler from Focus Online explains that Carla Gugino has to handle large parts of the film all by herself, and she does it impressively well. While Bruce Greenwood plays the nasty husband, Gugino makes the development of Jessie and the individual phases of her martyrdom emotionally grippingly clear and makes the viewer a fighter at her side: “With slow tracking shots and regular gazing through Jessie's eyes, he keeps the audience feeling awake that something worse could happen than the woman had to endure. In doing so, he cleverly mixes reality with the fantasies that Jessie has more and more frequently, so that the audience regularly lacks the certainty of being able to say what exactly they are currently seeing. ”Only in the end does Flanagan deviate from his concept, sticking closely to the specifications of the novel and also add events that the film definitely would not have needed, says Fiedler. The director takes a little of the force of the basic idea and ensures a clearer ending than King apparently had in mind.

Brian Tallerico, a critic of Roger Ebert , says of the result that the film is further proof that this filmmaker is real: “He must have made the best version of Gerald's Game that could be made of it without the book "His film is the best Stephen King adaptation of the year to date, according to Tallerico, and Flanagans has also made his teenage dreams come true, because it was the author's favorite book. After The Dark Tower and It 's The Game, it is the third Stephen King film adaptation to be released in theaters in 2017 or published online.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alice Radlmaier: 'Gerald's Game': Mike Flanagan filmed Stephen King's horror novel 'Das Spiel' In: Filmstarts.de, May 19, 2014.
  2. ^ A b Greg Kennedy: How much Stephen King can our quivering hearts take? In: The National, September 26, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c Audra Schroeder: 'Gerald's Game' is a stunning adaptation of a novel deemed unfilmable In: The Daily Dot, September 26, 2017.
  4. ↑ Becky Fuller: How Gerald's Game Adapts Stephen King's 'Unfilmable' Novel In: screenrant.com, October 2, 2017.
  5. ↑ 'Gerald's Game,' Mike Flanigan's 'Unfilmable' Stephen In: inquisitr.com, May 16, 2017.
  6. ↑ Joe Leydon: Film Review: 'Gerald's Game' In: Variety, September 25, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b Markus Fiedler: Stephen King classic on Netflix: 'The game' convinces - but the end disappoints In: Focus Online, October 20, 2017.
  8. ↑ The Newton Brothers to Score Mike Flanagan's 'Gerald's Game' In: filmmusicreporter.com, October 25, 2016.
  9. ↑ Gerald's Game. In: Soundtrack.net. September 29, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Katie Rife: Stephen King adaptation 'Gerald's Game' is potent, horrific - and oddly cathartic In: avclub.com, September 24, 2017.
  11. ↑ Christian Jennings: Netflix movie filming now in Mobile and Baldwin Counties In: local15tv.com, October 20, 2016.
  12. ↑ Tom Deehan: Stephen King's Netflix feature now filming on location in Alabama In: thelocationguide.com, October 21, 2017.
  13. ↑ Gerald's Game In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 6, 2018
  14. ↑ Andy Crump: When Horror Movies Show Surprising Humanity In: The Hollywood Reporter, September 29, 2017.
  15. ↑ Brian Tallerico: Gerald's Game In: rogerebert.com, September 29, 2017.
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