Batman Forever
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Batman Forever |
| Original title | Batman Forever |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 117 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joel Schumacher |
| script |
Lee Batchler , Janet Scott Batchler , Akiva Goldsman |
| production |
Tim Burton , Peter Macgregor-Scott |
| music | Elliot Goldenthal |
| camera | Stephen Goldblatt |
| cut | Dennis Virkler |
| occupation | |
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Batman Forever (dt. Batman Forever ) is an American comic book adaptation directed by Joel Schumacher in 1995. He continues to Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), the third part of the Batman series. It was continued with Batman & Robin in 1997 . The film opened in German cinemas on August 3, 1995.
action
Bruce Wayne sets out as Batman to confront Two-Face , who raids a bank in Gotham City and holds a hostage. Two-Face served as the city's attorney general until the left side of his face was disfigured by an acid attack . He sees the blame for this in Batman, who failed to thwart the attack, and has wanted to kill him ever since.
Batman learns of the hostage-taking by Commissioner Gordon and learns the psychologist Dr. Know Chase Meridian, who tries to understand Batman's motivations and builds a love affair with him. When Batman tries to free the hostage, he is ambushed by Two-Face, but can save himself with the hostage. Thereupon he takes up the chase of Two-Face, who tries to escape with a helicopter. However, Two-Face jumps off the aircraft and at the last moment Batman manages to escape from a collision with a statue.
At Wayne Enterprises, Bruce Wayne's company, the highly intelligent, eccentric Edward Nygma is working on a device that can manipulate brain waves so that you can send television signals directly into the human brain and see the images in three dimensions. In return, Nygma receives the thoughts of the respective users through the use of the device. Wayne has the project stopped on moral grounds; however, Nygma continues when Fred Stickley, the department head, hears about it. He wants to stop the project again, but is abused by Nygma as a test subject and then killed. Nygma can falsify the evidence and make the act look like a suicide . The next day and the following night Wayne receives a letter with a riddle from Nygma, which remains anonymous.
Wayne, who is in love with Meridian, tries to convince her to love him and not Batman. Both go to the circus when Two-Face storms in and threatens to destroy the venue with a bomb within two minutes if Batman does not reveal himself. The Flying Graysons family artist group was able to remove the bomb, but was attacked by Two-Face and only the youngest, Dick, survived. Wayne, feeling guilty for the death of Dick's parents, takes him in. He swears to take revenge on Two-Face.
After a chase with Batman, Two-Face is surprised by Nygma, who now disguises himself as Riddler . They team up on the terms that Two-Face will help Riddler fund his device and he in return will help him find out who Batman is. Nygma and Two-Face rob various high-end stores for this, while Wayne receives more puzzles from Riddler. Nygma meanwhile launches its device under the name Box , which can be found in most households immediately.
Dick Grayson now finds the Bat Cave , Batman's headquarters, and knows that Wayne is Batman. He asks Wayne for help in avenging his parents. The entrepreneur refuses the request and does not want Grayson as his partner.
At a Nygma event Wayne comes into contact with the box and Nygma receives his thoughts and learns who Batman is. The event is interrupted by Two-Face, who ambush Batman. This is buried under gravel, but Grayson can save it. Wayne decides to stop being Batman as he continues to reject Grayson's partnership.
During the night, Meridian and Wayne, who was able to talk Meridian's affection for Batman out of it, admit their love for each other. However, when he tries to tell her that he is Batman, they are attacked by the Riddler and Two-Face and the former prosecutor shoots Wayne down. They capture Meridian and Wayne decides when he comes to to put his mask back on. His butler Alfred Pennyworth was meanwhile able to convince him to take Grayson with him under the name Robin as Batman's partner.
On the island where Two-Face and the Riddler are, Robin moves away from Batman and a fight between Robin and Two-Face ensues. The villain is defeated, but Robin decides to save his opponent from death and saves him. Two-Face takes advantage of the situation, takes Robin hostage and brings him to the Riddler.
He lets Batman decide whether the life of Robin or Meridian is more important to him by letting both fall and Batman only being able to save one person. However, Batman can destroy a memory memory beforehand, and all thoughts flow into Nygma's brain. He then loses his mind.
Meanwhile, Two-Face drops the hostages and Batman jumps after them. He can save both of them on one platform. Two-Face then wants to kill Batman when he draws the former prosecutor's attention to his rule to decide between life and death with a coin. While Two-Face throws the coin in the air, Batman also throws more coins in the air, so that Two-Face loses his balance and falls into the depths.
Meridian is in the psychiatric Arkham Asylum launched since the patient Nygma thinks he knows who Batman is. When she asks who is behind Batman's mask, Nygma replies that he himself is behind the bat costume. Meanwhile, Wayne waits at the exit for Meridian and it turns out that she knows the true identity of Batman.
The film ends with the illustration of the Bat signal , a spotlight with a bat costume in the middle, from which Batman and Robin run towards the viewer.
synchronization
Dubbing company: Berliner Synchron GmbH Wenzel Lüdecke .
Dialogue book: Johanna Schneider.
Dialogue director: Thomas Danneberg .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Bruce Wayne / Batman | Val Kilmer | Torsten Sense |
| Harvey Dent / Two-Face | Tommy Lee Jones | Manfred Lehmann |
| Edward Nygma / Riddler | Jim Carrey | Stefan Fredrich |
| Dr. Chase Meridian | Nicole Kidman | Petra Barthel |
| Dick Grayson / Robin | Chris O'Donnell | Frank Schröder |
| Alfred Pennyworth | Michael Gough | Friedrich Schoenfelder |
| Commissioner James Gordon | Pat Hingle | Hans Teuscher |
| Sugar | Drew Barrymore | Sabine Jaeger |
| Spice | Debi Mazar | Martina Treger |
| Gossip Gerty | Elizabeth Sanders | Liane Rudolph |
| Dr. Burton | Rene Auberjonois | Georg Tryphon |
| Fred Stickley | Ed Begley Jr. | Lothar Blumhagen |
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was "enriched with the shrill, demonic comedy of the main actor Jim Carreys", an "almost inexhaustible material battle, in which the eyes and ears never find peace". The second sequel is "in their attempt to commercialize the dark concept of their predecessors" "less profound and most likely to be consumed as a camp movie ".
Cinema magazine wrote that the two previous films were “dark and snappy”, while this film was a “family-friendly, brightly colored action version”.
Awards
Batman Forever was nominated for three Oscars in 1996: Best Cinematography , Best Sound, and Best Sound Editing . In 1996 he was nominated for the song Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me ( U2 ) for the Golden Globe Award and for the Golden Raspberry .
The film received 1996 nominations for the Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film , for the make-up, for the special effects and for the costumes. Jim Carrey, Tommy Lee Jones, Nicole Kidman, Val Kilmer and the songs Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me and Kiss From a Rose ( Seal ) were nominated for the MTV Movie Award in 1996.
The song Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me and Elliot Goldenthal won the 1996 Film and Television Music Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers . Elliot Goldenthal was also nominated for a Grammy Award in 1996.
The film and Nicole Kidman were nominated for a Kids' Choice Award in 1996. The soundtrack won the Brit Award in 1996 . The song Kiss From a Rose won the BMI Film & TV Award in 1996 . Stephen Goldblatt was nominated for the American Society of Cinematographers Award in 1996.
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) gave the film the rating of particularly valuable .
Soundtrack
The soundtrack for the film was released by Atlantic Records in 1995 :
- Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - U2 - 4:46
- One Time Too Many - PJ Harvey - 2:52
- Where are you now? - Brandy - 3:57
- Kiss from a Rose - Seal - 3:38
- The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game - Massive Attack & Tracey Thorn (cover version, originally by Smokey Robinson ) - 4:06
- Nobody Lives Without Love - Eddi Reader - 5:05
- Tell Me Now - Mazzy Star - 4:17
- Smash It Up - The Offspring (cover version, originally by The Damned ) - 3:26
- There Is a Light - Nick Cave - 4:23
- The Riddler - Method Man - 3:30
- The Passenger - Michael Hutchence (cover version, originally by Iggy Pop ) - 4:37
- Crossing the River - The Devlins - 4:45
- 8 - Sunny Day Real Estate - 5:27
- Bad Days - The Flaming Lips - 4:39
Others
- Compared to the direct predecessor Batman's return, there are numerous changes in Batman Forever . After two Batman films, Tim Burton let Joel Schumacher direct . The leading actor Michael Keaton from the first two films did not return either and was replaced by Val Kilmer . The composer Danny Elfman was replaced by Elliot Goldenthal , who stylistically based himself on his predecessor. The look of the film is also in contrast to its two predecessors; While there was more emphasis on a dark look, in Joel Schumacher's Batman everything is bright and bright. Another change was the introduction of Batman's partner Robin.
- The film was made for a budget of $ 100 million. In the US he grossed around 185 million. Worldwide revenues were $ 336 million, making Batman Forever more successful than its predecessor.
- Despite the numerous breaks with its predecessors, Batman Forever was a huge hit at the box office, and another sequel followed. Batman & Robin came out two years later, but Batman's actor changed again.
- The film led to a lawsuit for copyright infringement. At the beginning of the film, Batman is set a trap in Gotham's second bank. This scene was filmed in Los Angeles, 801 Figueroa Street. There the artist Andrew Leicester had set up a work of art called Zanja Madre, a mixture of ancient myths and the representation of modern city life, which can be seen in part in the film. Even at the beginning of the scene in front of the bank, the tower-like formations of the work of art with their rings curved around the tip can be clearly recognized, without Leicester having given permission for this. The judgment of the second instance can be read in the American case law Federal Reporter .
- At the finale of the film, Chris O'Donnell says "Holy, rusty metal, Batman", which is very reminiscent of the typical lines of Burt Ward , the Robin from the Batman television series of the 1960s. (The joke was lost in the German version; in the film Robin means by holey ("holey"), while Robin in the series means holy ("holy").)
- The name of the Arkham Asylum psychiatrist, Dr. Burton, is a reference to Tim Burton, the producer and director of the first two parts.
- The novel adaptation of the film was written by Peter David ( ISBN 978-0-4466-0217-4 ) and published by Warner Books in 1995.
Web links
- Batman Forever in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Batmanforever atrotten tomatoes(English)
- Batman Forever at Metacritic (English)
- Everything about the Batman films on batmannews.de
- Comparison of the cut versions RTL 2 Afternoon - FSK 12 , BBFC PG - FSK 12 from Batman Forever at Schnittberichte.com
- Batman Forever in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Batman Forever in the German dubbing index ; accessed on August 16, 2016
- ↑ Batman Forever. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Cinema, accessed August 9, 2007
- ↑ Batman Forever on fbw-filmbeval.com
- Jump up ↑ Batman Forever on Box-office Mojo
- ↑ 232 F.3d 1212 (9th Cir. 2000)