Æon Flux
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Æon Flux |
| Original title | Æon Flux |
| Country of production | USA , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Karyn Kusama |
| script |
Phil Hay Matt Manfredi |
| production |
David Gale Gregory Goodman Gale Anne Hurd Gary Lucchesi |
| music | Graeme Revell |
| camera | Stuart Dryburgh |
| cut |
Jeff Gullo Peter Honess Plummy Tucker |
| occupation | |
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Æon Flux is an American - German science fiction film directed by Karyn Kusama . The film was shot entirely in Germany in 2005 at locations in Berlin and Potsdam as well as in the Babelsberg film studio . The main actress is Oscar winner Charlize Theron . The film opened in German cinemas on February 16, 2006.
action
The film is set in the year 2415. Most of the human race was killed by an insidious epidemic in 2011 . The five million survivors spend their lives in the last remaining walled city of Bregna , which is controlled and ruled by a council of scientists.
Æon Flux, agent of the underground movement "The Monicans", which no longer wants to accept the inexplicable disappearance of people, is supposed to kill the Prime Minister Trevor Goodchild. Even before the act is carried out, she discovers that not everything is what it seems. Suddenly she stands between the front lines and discovers that she can no longer complete the job without causing great damage. She also suddenly has strong feelings for Trevor and an inexplicable memory of him, which further complicates the situation.
She learns from Trevor what the citizens do not know: as a side effect of the cure for the disease, the survivors have become sterile . If a member of society dies now, it is cloned and sold as a naturally occurring pregnancy to a couple who appear suitable. The DNA needed for cloning is in the airship Relical , which hovers over the city. Only the members of the council know the truth and remember their past lives. Trevor has already been cloned seven times and has been looking for the cure for infertility for hundreds of years.
In the course of the story, Æon also finds out that she herself is a clone of Trevor's wife Katherine, that the residents of the city are now fertile again and that normal reproduction is therefore possible. Oren Goodchild, brother of the Prime Minister, tries to prevent this and to maintain the society based purely on clones, because he does not want to give up his quasi-endless life. He also sabotaged Trevor's experiments against sterility and commissioned the Monicans to murder his brother through winding channels. Æon Flux eventually kills Oren, destroying the Relical and opening the wall to the jungle outside the city.
background
The basis for this film is the MTV cartoon series Æon Flux from the first half of the 1990s. Karyn Kusama originally suggested Brasília , the capital of Brazil , as the location for the film, as the city's architecture suited her vision of Bregna well . However, since Brasília had infrastructural problems as well as a lack of technical expertise for the implementation of large film productions, the decision was made to film locations in Berlin and Potsdam .
Sanssouci Palace and the area laid out for the Federal Horticultural Show offered large areas . Scenes that were filmed in the Berlin water company created a dark tunnel atmosphere . Most of the scenes surrounding the film's government complex were shot at the Falkenberg animal shelter in Berlin . The condolence hall of the Baumschulenweg crematorium was used as the government meeting room . The aerodynamic park in Adlershof also served as a backdrop with its spin tower and large wind tunnel , which were used for aircraft development in the 1930s. In addition, the outdoor areas of the House of World Cultures and the Bauhaus Archive as well as the Mexican Embassy in Berlin and the Spandauer-See-Brücke were shooting locations. Director Karyn Kusama says about the set : "I wanted to show an organic world that is not so influenced by the hardware."
Differences to the template
- The film differs greatly from the original in some points, for example the city of Bregna is shown as the last refuge of mankind. In the animated series, however, Bregna is not a city, but a whole country, and Monica is also a nation and not an association of rebels and terrorists as in the film.
- The cool, logical character of Trevor Goodchild as a strong, determined leader in the series is actually the opposite of his film part: there Trevor appears as a guilty, ignorant and actually peace-loving scientist.
- The advanced technology of the series is shown in the film as a strange biotechnology without any form of hardware, whereas in the animated series computers and other machines play a more important role.
- Aeon Flux is a foreigner who breaks into Trevor's Land Bregna time and again and does secret assignments. In the film, however, she is a citizen of Bregna and therefore more of a terrorist than an agent.
- In the animated series, people own sophisticated cars, gliders and flying machines, but in the film the only vehicles that exist are just a kind of subway and an airship.
- In the animated series, Trevor has a huge army of loyal soldiers and citizens. In the movie, he only seems to control a few hundred soldiers.
- Trevor's military is much more developed and much better trained in the cartoon than it is in the film. Here the soldiers mostly just stand around and do not know how to react to an attack by Aeon Flux, while in the series they have a broad knowledge of martial arts and modern weapons.
- In the film, Trevor is the clone of a scientist who died 400 years ago. In the series, he's neither a clone nor 400 years old.
synchronization
The German synchronization was for a dialogue book of Sven Hasper and Markus Jahn under the dialogue director Sven Hasper on behalf of Berliner Synchron GmbH .
| actor | Role name | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Charlize Theron | Æon Flux | Bianca Krahl |
| Marton Csokas | Trevor Goodchild | Thomas Nero Wolff |
| Jonny Lee Miller | Oren Goodchild | Dennis Schmidt-Foss |
| Sophie Okonedo | Sithandra | Victoria Storm |
| Caroline Chikezie | Freya | Melanie Pukass |
| Pete Postlethwaite | Keeper | Friedrich Georg Beckhaus |
| Ralph Herforth | gardener | Ralph Herforth |
| Yangzom brows | Inari | Yangzom brows |
| Frances McDormand | Handler | Heidrun Bartholomäus |
| Amelia Warner | Una Flux | Ilona Brokowski |
| Nikolai Kinski | Claudius | Sven Hasper |
reception
Reviews
John Anderson derided in the Los Angeles Times on Dec. 5, 2005 that the film was something Charlize Theron could do to pay the bills while engaging in films like Monster and Cold Land . The film fails itself as an action or adventure film. The critic only praised the film sets inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni and Fritz Lang . On the other hand, he was particularly critical of the "frenetic" cut. The film also received rejection from many fans of the original series, who accused the film of having little resemblance to the original.
On Metacritic , the film received a Metascore of 36 based on 23 reviews.
Gross profit
Economically, the film was a failure. According to boxofficemojo.com, global gross box office income was $ 52 million, of which $ 26 million came from the US market. Production costs were $ 62 million. In Germany, the film had the comparatively small number of 127,000 visitors and did not even gross a million dollars.
Web links
- Aeon Flux in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Æon Flux atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Æon Flux at Metacritic (English)
- Discussion of the film music
- Æon Flux in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Æon Flux . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2006 (PDF; test number: 104 763 K).
- ↑ Aeon Flux Pictures: Image 7 of 117. (No longer available online.) IGN, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 1, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Berlin-in-Bildern.de: Cemetery and crematorium Baumschulenweg. Condolence hall. Retrieved January 1, 2011 .
- ↑ German synchronous files. In: synchronkartei.de. Retrieved January 2, 2016 .
- ↑ John Anderson film review , accessed September 19, 2008.
- ↑ on Flux. In: Metacritic. Retrieved January 2, 2016 .
- ↑ boxofficemojo.com: AEON FLUX
- ↑ mblnews.de: Aeon Flux ( Memento from June 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )