Gulliver's Travels - Something big is ahead of us
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| German title | Gulliver's Travels - Something big is ahead of us |
| Original title | Gulliver's Travels |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 87 minutes |
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FSK 6 JMK 6 |
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| Director | Rob Letterman |
| script |
Joe Stillman , Nicholas Stoller |
| production |
John Davis Gregory Goodman |
| music | Henry Jackman |
| camera | David Tattersall |
| cut |
Dean Zimmerman Alan Edward Bell |
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Gulliver's Travels - Something big is about to happen (original title: Gulliver's Travels ) is an adventure and fantasy film by director Rob Letterman from 2010 with Jack Black , Emily Blunt and Jason Segel in the lead roles. Individual characters and plot elements are loosely based on the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and have been carried over into modern times.
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Lemuel Gulliver from Manhattan has been working in the postal department of the New York Tribune for ten years . Though he loves to say goodbye, he's too shy of travel reporter Darcy Silverman, with whom he is secretly in love, to ask if she wants to go out with him. When his newly hired colleague Dan is promoted to his manager after just a day and tells him to his face that he will never become anything, Gulliver begins to think about his life. When he decided to speak to Darcy that evening, he lost his courage at the last second and he took papers with him from her office as an excuse, which turned out to be an application as a travel reporter. To keep up appearances, he claims to Darcy that in addition to distributing mail, he travels the world and writes reports about it.
Darcy tells him to bring her a work sample tomorrow. Since Gulliver can't think of anything, he copies texts from other people's travel reports and outputs them as his own. Darcy is so impressed by the professionalism of the lyrics that she sends him on an exploration tour of the Bermuda Triangle. There Gulliver gets caught in a violent storm, is drawn into a whirlpool and later wakes up tied up in the land of Lilliput , where all residents are only a few centimeters tall.
He is tied up in a cave where he meets the prisoner Horatio. He's here because he gave Princess Mary, whom he is in love with, a lascivious look. Mary is promised to General Edward, and according to the laws of Lilliput, a common man like Horatio can only court a princess if one has accomplished a great deed.
When enemy soldiers from the country Blefuscu ( Blefuscia ) start a major fire in the castle and Princess Mary is about to be kidnapped, Gulliver rushes to help. He saves the princess and pees out the fire that had already trapped the king. From now on, Gulliver is no longer a prisoner, but the honorable savior of Lilliput. He is thanked by building him a house according to his wishes and reenacting his life story in the theater, which, according to his stories, is a mixture of Star Wars , Titanic and Avatar . He also makes everyone believe that at home he is the respected president of his country - the island of Manhattan - and that he is with Princess Darcy Silverman. From this he finds a few more messages on his mobile phone in which she angrily explains to him that she has since found out that he lied to her about the travel reports and that she now has to make the trip to the Bermuda Triangle herself.
King Theodore now appoints Gulliver as the new general, demoting Edward to vice-general. Due to the demotion, Edward shuts down the defense system off the coast of the country so that the enemy navy can approach the land and he can expose Gulliver as the leader of the army. But this time too, Gulliver manages to repel the attack. Meanwhile, Horatio and Mary get closer and finally Mary breaks off the engagement with Edward. Edward is so upset about this rejection and the transformation of Liliput into the land of Gulliver that he defected to the hostile kingdom of Blefuscu and gave their troops a blueprint for a robot that he found in a magazine that Gulliver brought with him.
Edward controls the robot, which is bigger than Gulliver, from the inside and challenges Gulliver to a duel. When the robot pulls out an underpants from Gulliver, Gulliver gives up and has to admit that he has done none of the glorious things he was boasting about. Liliput is taken by his enemies, the country is renamed New Blefuscu ( New Blefuscia ) and Edward becomes its general. Gulliver is banished to " the island we don't dare to go to ". There Gulliver is caught by a giant girl who keeps him as a living toy in her dollhouse.
Meanwhile, Darcy is also stranded in Lilliput. Horatio travels after Gulliver and informs him about it. Together they flee back to Liliput, where Gulliver finds Darcy and finally confesses his love to her. He also decides to free Liliput and face Edward's robot again for a duel. Now that Edward has electrocuted the robot, Gulliver is on the verge of defeat, but Horatio manages to sabotage the power supply. After Gulliver pulls an underpants on the robot, the robot folds up and is defeated.
Since Horatio has accomplished a heroic deed, he now receives the king's blessing and is also officially allowed to meet with Mary. And Darcy and Gulliver also become a couple. When the kings of Blefuscu and Liliput begin again to conflict and threaten war, Gulliver sings the anti-war song War , which everyone finally joins in. Together with Darcy, Gulliver takes the ship home, where he also becomes a travel journalist.
background
- The original author Jonathan Swift and his novel Gulliver's Travels are not mentioned in the opening and closing credits of the film. However, newspaper articles can be seen during the credits that make allusions to some of Lemuel Gulliver's adventures from the original novel, which do not appear in the film.
- In the original, Gulliver thanks Dan in German at the end, in the German dubbed version in Spanish.
- The short film Scrat's Continental Crack-Up , an offshoot of Ice Age , was shown as a supporting film in the theatrical version .
- Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, was used as the filming location for the Palace of Liliput .
- On March 23, 2010, 20th Century Fox announced that the film would be converted to 3D . The film had its theatrical release in the USA on December 25, 2010 (it was originally supposed to open on June 4, 2010, but the date was postponed), in Germany the film was shown on February 10, 2011.
- The cost of producing the film was estimated at $ 112 million. The film grossed around 237 million US dollars at box offices worldwide, of which around 43 million were in the USA and 10 million in Germany.
Reviews
The criticism was mostly negative. The Rotten Tomatoes website evaluated 118 reviews with a positive rate of 20%.
“When Hollywood films a classic of world literature, caution is advised: Jack Black has turned 'Gulliver's Travels' into a cracking comedy. Without any social criticism, of course. [...] All that remains of the historical model are the familiar set pieces. But Swift's sharp satire on the social conditions of the early 18th century has long since degenerated into a tame children's book. The latest film is just another trivialization of the subject. [...] The trick technique is worth seeing, but you can safely save yourself the 3D glasses and the surcharge for the third dimension: There is hardly any effect that makes this necessary. "
“Jack Black is not a man of low tones. He also enriches Jonathan Swift's famous model with a few flat jokes - probably a concession to younger moviegoers. Anyway, the result is an entertaining cinema adventure. However: lovers of the satirical novel could get a slight stomach ache with the disgraceful reinterpretation. "
“Gulliver's once culture-critical travels may smell a little like propaganda in the latest version. But this is extremely target group-oriented and so - voluntarily and involuntarily - funny that you are reliably entertained. Especially if, as a cinema-goer, you stick to the saying of Swift's companion Alexander Pope: “Blessed be the one who expects nothing. He will not be disappointed. ""
“Hardly anyone has ever read this book in its original form; it is already circulating in children's rooms, mostly in versions that have been adapted for young people. But what Joe Stillman and Nicholas Stoller, the two highly deserving screenwriters (Stoller recently wrote ' Männertrip '), have come up with, is certainly the most disrespectful dressing of the classic. [...] Because Jack Black is the ideal line-up for this very clever fun, one can definitely recommend 'Gulliver's Travels', provided that one does not want to overdimension the intellectual demands . "
Awards
For his portrayal in the film Jack Black received a nomination for the negative award Golden Raspberry 2011 in the worst actor category , as well as for a Kids Choice Award in the favorite actor category .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Gulliver's travels - Something big is coming . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2012 (PDF; test number: 125 668 V).
- ↑ Age rating for Gulliver's travels - Something big is coming up . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Financial data for the film according to Box Office Mojo
- ^ Gulliver's Travels (2010) . Rotten tomatoes . Retrieved January 1, 2011.
- ↑ Small, fat man really big in Stern from February 9, 2011
- ↑ Gong , edition 6/2011, p. 34
- ↑ America in Liliput in The Time of February 10, 2011
- ↑ A funny fairy tale for the whole family: preparation of a classic in Berliner Zeitung 10. of February 2011