Beetlejuice

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Movie
German title Beetlejuice
Original title Beetlejuice
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1988
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Tim Burton
script Michael McDowell ,
Warren Skaaren,
Larry Wilson
production Richard Hashimoto ,
Michael Bender,
Larry Wilson,
June Peterson
music Danny Elfman
camera Thomas E. Ackerman
cut Jane Kurson
occupation
synchronization

Beetlejuice (alternative German title: Beetlejuice ) is an American horror - Comedy planned from 1988. Originally a movie with supernatural subject and clearly morbid character under the title The Maitland , changed the director Tim Burton , the mood of the film after the Engagement of lead actor Michael Keaton in a black comedy . Originally, Sammy Davis Jr. was for the role . intended.

action

The young married couple Barbara and Adam Maitland are killed in a car accident. As ghosts, they do not come to the afterlife, but have to stay in their house for 125 years, which they cannot leave. If they try to do this, they will not end up outside, but on Saturn, which is inhabited by sandworms. The mills of the bureaucracy grind even more slowly in the hereafter than in this world, the authority for the “afterlife” is overflowing with files and papers lying around. The Deetz family of three move into the house and furnish it to their taste. The daughter of the family, Lydia, discovers the two ghosts after a failed attempt to scare the untalented artist Delia - Lydia's mother - and befriends them.

Barbara and Adam want to get rid of the Deetz, as the art enthusiast Delia in particular is furnishing the house in a horribly abstract way. But they can't do it themselves, because the Deetz face the ghost with humor instead of fear, and that's why they call the poltergeist and bio-exorcist Beetlejuice to free their house of the living. This appears when you call his name three times. But Beetlejuice's methods turn out to be very cruel, he is not afraid to even kill his victims by ghosts. So Barbara and Adam refrain from his help and try to haunt the intruders out of the house themselves during a party with Delia's agent Bernard. This fails completely, the Deetz even want to make a profit from the ghosts. When an incantation by Otho Fenlock, Delia Deetz's furnishing advisor, went wrong, Lydia Beetlejuice had to call for help in order to save the two dead from exorcization. He only agrees to the request for help when Lydia agrees to a wedding that would free Beetlejuice from the afterlife.

The Maitlands try everything to prevent this spontaneous wedding and chase Beetlejuice back into the afterlife, but this only succeeds with a sandworm ridden by Barbara, which throws itself across the house at Beetlejuice.

In the end, the Maitlands and the Deetz family live together in harmony. Barbara and Adam have taken on the role of parents for Lydia.

cartoon

From 1989 to 1991 a cartoon series of the same name was produced for the film, which came on four seasons with a total of 94 episodes and is known under the name Beetlejuice - An Extraordinary Spirit . Of the four seasons, three seasons were produced by ABC and then the fourth by FOX .

Beetlejuice cast in Universal Studios Hollywood (2006)

Others

  • You can see a TV commercial in the film. In this one sees the correctly spelled name Betelgeuse. You can also see the name Betelgeuse on neon letters when the Maitlands enter the model world for the first time.
  • The Beetlejuice lead actor Michael Keaton can only be seen 17.5 minutes in "his" film with a running length of 92 minutes.
  • Beetlejuice (literally "beetle juice") is a play on the word "beet juice" ( Beetroot Juice) and also a corruption of Betelgeuse, the English name of the star Betelgeuse .
  • The film was originally planned as a dark horror film, only because of Keaton the genre was realigned. 95 percent of his text was improvised. This is what gives this "spirit that has most to offer" the unique credibility.
  • Due to the comparatively low budget of around 15 million US dollars, tried and tested special effects were used. The sandworm scenes and the scene in which the Maitlands distort their faces were filmed in stop motion . For the scene in which Barbara moves the horse in front of the mirror to show that she no longer has a reflection, mirrors were used and a second horse moved behind the transparent mirror.
  • According to Tim Burton, the sandworm was an allusion to the well-known cult film The Desert Planet by David Lynch from 1984.
  • After the success of Beetlejuice, Tim Burton was offered the directorial work for the film Batman , which he accepted immediately, using Michael Keaton as the main actor and Danny Elfman in turn to write the music.

Original film version

Michael McDowell's original script differs from the revised script in many ways. The film was planned as a dark horror film that should contain more brutal scenes. The scene in which the Maitlands have a car accident is described more extensively in the original script: Barbara breaks her arm, the couple calls for help, and finally they drown.

The character of the Beetlejuice also differs from that of the film version. Originally, the figure should be created as an evil demon with wings, which causes a lot of harm, cannot be subdued and can take on different shapes. In the original version, Beetlejuice wanted to rape Lydia instead of marrying her. However, Beetlejuice is completely eliminated as Otho, the Maitlands, and the Deetz jointly conduct an exorcism.

Awards

synchronization

figure actor Voice actor
Betelgeuse / Beetlejuice Michael Keaton Ulrich Gressieker
Adam Maitland Alec Baldwin Pierre Peters-Arnolds
Barbara Maitland Geena Davis Ulrike Möckel
Lydia Deetz Winona Ryder Janina Richter
Charles Deetz Jeffrey Jones Knut Reschke
Delia Deetz Catherine O'Hara Evelyn Gressmann
Otho Glenn Shadix Georg Tryphon

continuation

Director Tim Burton is talking to screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith , who has previously worked as a screenwriter for Burton in Dark Shadows , for the planned successor . Beetlejuice actor Michael Keaton "would like to play the Lottergeist one more time," "but insists on Tim Burton's presence" in the film project.

Reviews

“Instead of elaborate computer effects, Burton relies on antiquated (but wonderfully eccentric) stop-motion tricks at the time of creation, and the villa and its surroundings are more reminiscent of a model railroad than a set committed to reality. Tim Burton already defines this look in the first shot: A bird's eye view of a small town turns out to be a miniature model - and the viewer involuntarily stepped into it, Tim Burton's idiosyncratic, but nevertheless commercially successful, cinematic reality. "

- Christian Horn : Filmstarts.de

"The special thing about the film Beetlejuice is that it casts a bizarre and perfectly staged view of the world."

- Desson Thomson : Washington Post

"[...] one of the best and funniest ghost films of all time."

- Jeffrey Westhoff : Northwest Herald

"Technically solidly staged horror grusical that, despite some successful approaches, largely lacks charm and parodic verve."

- Lexicon of international film

"[...] furious comedy, peppered with anarchic slapstick and witty special effects."

- TV movie

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/beetlejuice_mcdowell.html
  2. ↑ German synchronous files
  3. ↑ Beetlejuice 2 in development (?) ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , moviepilot.com , accessed August 24, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / moviepilot.com
  4. ↑ Beetlejuice on filmstarts.de, accessed on February 2, 2016
  5. ↑ Review in the Washington Post , accessed February 2, 2016
  6. ^ Beetlejuice in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed on April 14, 2012
  7. ↑ Beetlejuice on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 2, 2016