Alita: Battle Angel

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Movie
German title Alita: Battle Angel
Original title Alita: Battle Angel
Alita- Battle Angel teaser poster.jpg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2019
length 122 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
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Director Robert Rodriguez
script James Cameron ,
Laeta Kalogridis
production James Cameron,
Jon Landau
music Tom Holkenborg
camera Bill Pope
cut Stephen E. Rivkin
occupation

Alita: Battle Angel is an American cyberpunk - action film directed by Robert Rodriguez , who this in collaboration with James Cameron realized. It is a film adaptation of the manga Battle Angel Alita by Yukito Kishiro ; the eponymous title character is embodied by Rosa Salazar through Performance Capture . The film was released in German-speaking and US cinemas on February 14, 2019.

action

In 2563, about 300 years after the "Great War", the social systems on earth fell apart. Of the originally twelve rich heavenly cities, only one, Zalem, remains. People from all over the world have found refuge in the town of Iron City below, in the middle of which is the Zalems garbage dump.

In his search for cyborg technology, scientist Dr. Dyson Ido there the vital remains of the upper body of a female cyborg. He assembles it with a machine body. Except for your human brain, your body is made up of machine parts. Dr. Ido becomes a foster father for her. When she wakes up, she can no longer remember who she was or where she came from. Dr. Ido gives her the name "Alita" after his slain daughter, for whom he originally built her cyborg body. Alita tries to remember her old life to find out her destiny. In Iron City she meets Hugo, a young scrap collector who dreams of moving to the affluent sky city of Zalem. Hugo brings her closer to the racing sport "Motorball", in which cyborgs fight to the death.

Alita discovers that Ido is an officially licensed bounty hunter with police duties, a "Hunter-Warrior", when she follows him one night and they encounter three cyborg assassins led by Grewishka. When Ido is injured, Alita instinctively attacks the cyborgs, killing two of them and injuring Grewishka, who retreats. Although Alita has rediscovered her skills in ancient "tank art", Ido prevents her from becoming a Hunter-Warrior.

The next day, Alita finds a berserker body outside of town in an old, downed United Republics of Mars (URM) spaceship and brings it home. Ido refuses to install the URM body for her. He explains to her that she was a member of the URM that fought in the Great War against the Cities of Heaven.

Alita now registers herself as a Hunter-Warrior and visits the Kansas Bar with Hugo to ask other Hunter-Warriors to help her defeat Grewishka. They refuse because Grewishka is not officially wanted. Suddenly the armored Grewishka storms into the bar and attacks Alita. He was sent by Nova, a powerful scientist from Zalem, to destroy them. Despite her courage and her martial arts, Alita is inferior to him. Her body is sliced ​​apart by Grewishka's new weapon, the grinding cutter, until her friends arrive and force Grewishka to retreat. Ido now transplants Alita the berserker body, which automatically connects to her system.

Since she has fallen in love with Hugo, Alita takes part in a motorball test race in order to enable Hugo to climb to Zalem with the prize money. Ido discovers that the other participants are hunter-warriors and wanted cyborgs who have been hired by Vector, one of Nova's henchmen, to kill them. He warns Alita, and when the race begins, her superior skills destroy many of her opponents. Meanwhile, Hugo is being hunted down by a hunter-warrior named Zapan after he has unjustifiably accused Hugo of murdering a cyborg. Hugo calls Alita for help, and she leaves the motorball race to save him. She meets Hugo and Zapan, who tells her that Hugo has attacked cyborgs and cannibalized their parts for Vector's motor ball games. Zapan fatally injures Hugo and holds Alita up against the fact that Hunter-Warrior law requires that she kill Hugo either herself or through Zapan. Dr. Chiren, Ido's ex-wife and also a cyborg scientist, manages to save Hugo by connecting his head to Alita's heart. Zapan tries to stop Alita from leaving, but she injures him with his precious " Damascus Blade", made with the same advanced URM technology as her berserk body, and takes her away.

Ido transplants Hugo's head onto a cyber body and explains to Alita that Hugo acted under the false belief that he could buy his way to Zalem. Ido thinks this is one of Vector's lies and thinks the citizens of Iron City could only get to Zalem as motorball champions. He himself lived there with his wife and daughter. Alita decides to confront Vector, who is controlled by Nova from Zalem. Nova reveals to Alita through Vector that Chiren's organs have been removed and orders Grewishka to kill Alita. Alita fights Grewishka again, this time killing him with ease thanks to her new gear. She stabs Vector and blames Nova for making the mistake of underestimating her.

The wanted Hugo has fled and tries to climb a factory pipe to Zalem. Alita begs him to go back with her. Just as he agrees, a Zalem defense ring tears his body to pieces and tears it from the tube. Alita cannot prevent Hugo from falling to his death, but not before he can thank her for saving him.

Months later, Alita is the star athlete of the motorball tournament. While the crowd cheers, she points with her blade at Zalem while Nova watches from there.

production

Yukito Kishiro , artist of the underlying manga, at the Chinese premiere of the film (2019)

Alita: Battle Angel is the live version of the 9-volume Japanese post-apocalyptic manga Battle Angel Alita by the manga artist Yukito Kishiro . In Japanese, the book series is called Gunnm , which translates as "weapon dream ". The graphic novel was first implemented as an anime-style film by Hiroshi Fukutomi as early as 1993 .

Robert Rodriguez took over the direction after James Cameron resigned this position in 2015, but remained responsible for the script adaptation of the graphic novel together with Laeta Kalogridis . The soundtrack was composed by Tom Holkenborg alias Junkie XL. The singer Dua Lipa contributed the Swan Song .

Rosa Salazar took on the title role of Alita, Christoph Waltz plays her foster father Dr. Dyson Ido.

Filming took place in Austin , Texas from October 17, 2016 to February 9, 2017 (62 days). Panama City was chosen as the setting for Zalem and Iron City , although the sets were also created by some other Latin American influences. Since Zalem does not float, but is part of a space elevator, the place had to be physically and scientifically near the equator . Bill Pope acted as cameraman . The production costs are said to have been between around 150 and 170 (excluding subsidies 200) million US dollars.

The theatrical release in the US was postponed from the originally planned July 20, 2018 to December 21, 2018 and finally to February 14, 2019. The German-language cinema release was also postponed to this day; previously July 19 and December 20, 2018. The film celebrated its world premiere on January 31, 2019 in London.

The German dubbing came about after the dialogue direction by Christoph Cierpka and a dialogue script by Marius Clarén on behalf of Interopa Film GmbH, Berlin.

actor Voice actor role
Rosa Salazar Magdalena Höfner Alita
Christoph Waltz Christoph Waltz Dr. Dyson Ido
Mahershala Ali Torben Liebrecht Vector
Keean Johnson Sebastian Kluckert Hugo
Jennifer Connelly Alexandra Wilcke Chiren
Ed Skrein Leonhard Mahlich Zapan
Jackie Earle Haley Tilo Schmitz Grewishka
Derek Mears Milton Welsh Romo
Lana Condor Lena Schmidtke Koyomi
Jorge Lendeborg Jr. Kaze Uzumaki Tanji
Idara Victor Mia Diekow Sister Gerhad
Jeff Fahey Axel Lutter McTeague
Michelle Rodriguez Lara Trautmann Gelda
Jai Courtney Martin Kautz Jashugan
Leonard Wu Robert Glatzeder Kinuba

reception

Reviews and grossing results

Overall, the film received mixed feedback from the critics, but the film is much more popular with viewers.

Knut Elstermann from MDR Kultur writes that Christoph Waltz plays the engineer very sensitively as a modern Frankenstein who, despite the best intentions, also stands for human hubris, for our fantasies of omnipotence, a very current topic.

The film's worldwide revenue from theatrical screenings is currently $ 404.8 million. The film recorded 696,697 visitors in Germany.

Awards

Annie Awards 2020

  • Nomination in the category Best Character Animation - Live Action

Dragon Awards 2019

  • Nomination for best science fiction or fantasy film

Hollywood Critics Association Awards 2020

  • Award for Best Animated or VFX Acting Performance ( Rosa Salazar )
  • Nomination for the best visual effects

Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2019

  • Nomination for Best Score - Science Fiction or Fantasy Film (Junkie XL)

National Film & TV Awards 2019

  • Nomination for best animated film

Satellite Awards 2019

Saturn Award ceremony 2019

Seattle Film Critics Society Awards 2019

  • Nomination for Best Visual Effects ( Nick Epstein , Joe Letteri & Eric Saindon)

St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards 2019

  • Nomination for best action film
  • Nomination for the best visual effects

Visual Effects Society Awards 2020

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards 2019

  • Nomination for the best motion capture performance (Rosa Salazar)

Web links

Commons : Alita: Battle Angel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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