Blade (film)
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| German title | Blade |
| Original title | Blade |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 119 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Stephen Norrington |
| script | David S. Goyer |
| production |
Robert Engelmann Peter Frankfurt Wesley Snipes |
| music | Mark Isham |
| camera | Theo van de Sande |
| cut | Paul Rubell |
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Blade is an action film from the year 1998 , of the Marvel Comics of the same name is based. Wesley Snipes plays the leading role .
action
Young African American Vanessa Brooks is bitten by a vampire while pregnant. For them, any help comes too late, but their unborn son Eric is born as a half-being from human and vampire , a so-called daywalker , due to the unusual situation . He has the strength and thirst for blood of the night creatures, but is insensitive to sunlight, garlic and silver, the weaknesses of normal vampires.
Decades later he roams the dark streets every night as "Blade", always looking for vampires. He has set himself the goal of exterminating the bloodsuckers because he wants revenge for the murder of his mother. In his restless hunt, Blade is supported by a loyal companion: Abraham Whistler is a kind of " Q " for the vampire hunter; like his counterpart from the James Bond films , he keeps inventing new weapons for the fight against bloodsuckers.
Meanwhile, the vampire Deacon Frost is planning to revive the blood deity La Magra in order to usurp world domination. He is driven by an inferiority complex , because he is a changed man, i.e. a former person who became a vampire through a bite. In the vampire society ruled by purebloods (vampires born as such) this makes him a second class vampire. He wants to break the traditional principle of cooperation and inconspicuousness, according to which the majority of the vampire people lived in the past.
After medical practitioner Karen Jenson becomes involved in the battle, she joins Blade and Whistler in a quest to find a cure for her recent vampire bite. The three investigate until Whistler and Karen are attacked by vampires. Karen is kidnapped and Whistler is so badly injured that Blade can only say goodbye to him and give him the opportunity to relieve himself of his torments with a modified MAC-10 that Blade himself uses on his hunt. Blade then goes to Frost's headquarters and has to find out that his playmates also include his mother who was believed to be dead and who became a vampire. Her son is so shocked that he is surprised and overwhelmed by the vampires.
A little later, the resurrection of La Magra is to take place in a temple complex specially built for this purpose , during which Frost kills a number of vampire princes in order to conjure up the blood god. A large amount of Blades blood, which is mercilessly tapped from him, is also decisive for this. To regain his strength, he has to drink Karen's blood, which can free himself and him at the last second. It comes to a duel with the now possessed by the blood god Frost, which Blade wins with the help of the chemical EDTA , which brings vampire blood to a boil.
The vampire picture
In Blade , a modified image of vampires was designed and shown.
Biological aspects
- Vampires only die from UV radiation, garlic, silver or the destruction of a vital organ (e.g. heart).
- Garlic causes anaphylactic shock in vampires .
- In addition, the old tradition that vampires are deterred by Christian symbols was no longer taken up.
- Vampires need to suck blood to make up for their lack of hemoglobin .
- Female vampires can give birth like humans.
Social aspects
- Vampires have concluded secret contracts with unspecified human decision-makers, according to which the vampires have no global campaign to fear and are allowed to live covertly among humans (which also covers the procurement of food) as long as they do not launch devastating attacks on the human population in return.
- Vampires hold economic and political power as they transform influential people into physically healthier, stronger, and theoretically immortal vampires in return for supporting their interests.
- Vampires are organized in so-called houses, a kind of mafia clan, which includes their “relatives”, the vampires who are responsible for their formation, and their subordinates.
- The vampire society and its worldview is defined by a racist hierarchy, according to which purebloods are enthroned at the top of the society pyramid. These are born as vampires. Then follow the changed , i.e. vampires who are changed from a human to a vampire by the vampire bite. They are viewed as second class vampires and accordingly treated with disdain. This leads to attempted uprisings among the changed , who want to see their "race" as predominant. In third place are the familiars , i.e. people who put themselves in the service of the vampires and swear allegiance to them, because they promise to be transformed into vampires one day if they serve accordingly. Vampires actually see people as mere food, but in this case they approve of this state out of pragmatism. It is unclear whether the ominous human decision-makers with whom the vampires signed the secret treaties were or are themselves familiars , or whether they were simply aiming for a truce.
Soundtrack
The song, which can be heard in the club's opening scene is one of a TB-303 sequence-characterized Acid Techno - Remix by New Order song Confusion in 1983. He was entitled Pump Panel Reconstruction 1995 by pumping Panel released.
In 2000 this remix was covered three times, namely by
- Public Domain as Operation Blade ,
- Warp Brothers vs. Aquagen as Phatt Bass
- and from Voodoo & Serano as Blood is Pumpin ' .
These cover versions were each released as a single; the latter was reissued in 2005 under the name Blood Is Pumpin '2005 .
Cut versions
The original version of Blade was in Germany a Certificate from 18 years and is indexed ; it may therefore not be shown on free TV or publicly advertised. A version shortened by around seven minutes for broadcast on free TV was also released from the age of 18; Another version, shortened by almost 10 minutes, was approved for ages 16 and over and was released on DVD .
At the end of January 2019, the film was removed from the index. A re-examination by the FSK in August 2020 resulted in an age rating from 18 years for the uncut version.
synchronization
The German synchronization took over the Film & TV sync in Munich , for a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Horst Geisler .
| role | actor | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Eric Brooks / Blade | Wesley Snipes | Torsten Michaelis |
| Deacon Frost | Stephen Dorff | Alexander Brem |
| Abraham Whistler | Kris Kristofferson | Hartmut Becker |
| Dr. Karen Jenson | N'Bushe Wright | Susanne von Medvey |
| Quinn | Donal Logue | Kai Taschner |
| Dragonetti | Udo Kier | Erich Ludwig |
| Racquel | Traci Lords | Claudia Kleiber |
| Officer warrior | Kevin Patrick Walls | Florian Halm |
| Mercury | Arly Jover | Michèle Tichawsky |
Awards
The MTV Movie Awards 1999 Stephen Dorff was for his role in Blade in the category villain Best excellent. Wesley Snipes was also nominated for Best Film Fight.
criticism
“The film adaptation of a formally and thematically unusual comic book story as a striking commercial mix of brutal martial arts scenes, hip-hop music and computer-generated effects. Instead of gruesomely beautiful entertainment in the spirit of the drawn original, the film simply strings together set pieces from a supposed youth culture and loses itself in insubstantial superficialities. "
Sequels
The first sequel Blade II was released in 2002, and in 2004 Blade: Trinity completed the series of a trilogy .
Since June 28, 2006, the television series Blade - The Hunt Goes on based on the Marvel Comics has been broadcast in the USA on the cable channel Spike TV . In it, Blade is portrayed by Kirk Jones . The series is set after the third film. However, it was withdrawn after just 13 episodes .
In Germany, the series started on June 11, 2007 on ProSieben .
In 2011 a Blade anime series was released , directed by Mitsuyuki Masuhara.
Web links
- Blade in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Blade at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Blade at Metacritic (English)
- Blade in the online film database
- Blade in the German dubbing index
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 16 - FSK 18 , Pro7 from 18 - FSK 18 from Blade at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for blade . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 81062 / V).
- ↑ https://www.schnittberichte.com/ticker.php?ID=7879
- ^ Blade in the German synchronous file
- ^ Blade. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The Daywalker Gets Busy in Second Clip from Blade Anime