Blue Hawaii
| Movie | |
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| German title | Blue Hawaii |
| Original title | Blue Hawaii |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 97 minutes |
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| Director | Norman Taurog |
| script | Hal Kanter |
| production | Hal B. Wallis |
| music | Joseph J. Lilley |
| camera | Charles Lang |
| cut | Terry O. Morse |
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Blue Hawaii (Originally Blue Hawaii ) is an American musical film from 1961 . It was the eighth feature film in which Elvis Presley took a role and it is also considered Presley's most successful film. The theme song of the film is the English title of the same name Blue Hawaii .
action
After completing his two-year military service, Chad returns to Hawaii and is picked up at the airport by his girlfriend Maile Duval. Together they drive to the beach Wiki Wiki, where Chad owns a beach hut. On the way there, Maile asks if Chad has always been loyal to her during the two years and Chad replies, "Well, we say almost always." Then he sings the song Almost Always True .
After they changed their clothes in the beach hut and went to swim in the water, they were discovered by some Hawaiian friends who were sitting there in the boat and making music. Chad gets in the boat and sings Aloha Oe . Then the friends ask him how it was in Naples and Chad says that he brought a song from there. Now he's singing No More .
Chad spends the next five days in his beach hut and doesn't go home because he knows exactly what to expect: his parents want to give him a job in the family's pineapple plantation while he wants to set up something of his own and become a tour guide.
One of these evenings he drives Maile to her grandmother, who is celebrating her 87th birthday. As a present, Chad gives Grandma a music box that he brought back from Europe and that plays a European love song. He sings Can't Help Falling in Love to the melody of the music box .
After his parents have learned that Chad back on Oahu is, he must show himself at home, but a job refuses in the Great Southern Hawaiian Fruit Co. to compete. At the Welcome Home party organized for him, his mother sees his girlfriend Maile for the first time and thinks she is not befitting. In order to save Maile from a lengthy conversation with his parents, the Hawaiian band who are friends with the young couple sing the song Rock-a-Hula Baby , to which Chad comes on stage and sings.
The next morning, Chad takes a job at Hawaiian Island Tours , which Maile also works for, and takes on a tour group consisting of a teacher and four students. They drive together in the car to a pineapple plantation and sing Moonlight Swim . In the evening they go to a party and Chad sings the song Ku-ui-po . The Hawaiian Ito is not full during the fish meal afterwards and is still hungry after six servings, which Chad comments with the song Ito Eats . The dance number Slicin 'Sand follows immediately .
The following evening, the tour group visits a bar where Chad sings Hawaiian Sunset . In the course of the evening there is an argument between Chad and another guest, which initially results in a fight between them and finally ends in a mass brawl. All participants in the brawl are then sent to jail and Chad sings Beach Boy Blues in his grief .
After his father has paid the bail, Chad is released and can therefore visit the "love island" Kaua'i with his tour group the next day . During a tour of the island they sing Kauai - Island Of Love .
The following night events precipitate: First, the student Ellie Corbett stands up and knocks on Chad's door to seduce him. Just as he is about to evict her from the room, two other students knock on the door, missing their dressing gown or perfume, which Ellie borrowed without her knowledge. When Chad can convince everyone to go back to their beds, there is another knock on the door. This time it is the teacher, Mrs. Prentice, who tells Chad with a smile on her face that she has found the love of her life in Hawaii. Chad fears, based on her exuberant joy, that she might have chosen him, and Ellie, who is eavesdropping on the other side of the window, fears the same. In her disappointment, she steals a jeep, which she drives away at high speed. At the same time Mrs. Prentice puts her arms around Chad's shoulder when Maile, who is on the way to Chad, sees them through the window and also draws the wrong conclusions from this situation. Angry, she retreats while the two students knock on Chad's door and report on Ellie's behavior. To keep her from doing something stupid, Chad follows her and finds her by the sea, where she threatens to drown herself. Chad pulls her out of the water and carries her to the beach.
At breakfast the next morning, Chad learns that Mrs. Prentice has fallen in love with the older Jack Kelman. When the latter tells him that Maile seems to be in very bad shape, Chad rushes to his girlfriend, who accuses him of seeing him hugging the teacher the previous evening. When Chad tells her that Mrs. Prentice does love Jack Kelman, Maile grumbles, “You can't think of anything better? How stupid do you think I am? ”And expels him from the room. When she later looks out the window and actually finds Mrs. Prentice and Jack Kelman in a familiar hug, she realizes that Chad wasn't lying to her after all. Now the way is free for your wedding, which will be celebrated with the Hawaiian Wedding Song .
Locations
The film, shot between March 17 and April 17, 1961 within just one month, was filmed on locations such as the Coco Palms Resort Hotel in Kapaʻa , the Coconut Coast and Hanauma Bay Beach Park .
Anecdotes
After Ellie went into the water with her clothes on the night before, she has to sneeze the next morning at breakfast together. You wish - also in the original English version (!) - Chad and some of the tour participants "Health!" In the English version, Chad explains: “That's good when you see how many friends you got. Sneeze, and then count the “ Gesundheit ” .“ The German word is actually used by some people in the USA, although very few Americans actually use it know.
Reviews
"The nothing in action is a promotional tour of the Hawaiian Islands, which, with their traditional wedding ceremony, flower garlands and beautiful brochures, are as often in the picture as the King."
"Unfortunately," Blue Hawaii "was so successful that it became the blueprint for all of the following Elvis films: colorful, kitschy, a little exotic - filled with music and girls and sparsely populated with plot. The King (or his manager Colonel Parker) buried his hopeful film career under a sea of flowers. What remains is a happy Hulakitsch with a very relaxed star. "
Web links
- Blue Hawaii in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Notes and individual references
- ↑ How Stuff Works: Blue Hawaii (accessed July 24, 2013)
- ↑ Elvis Presley Movies: Blue Hawaii: Paramount 1961 (English; article from July 22, 2004)
- ↑ Helmut Radermacher: The great Elvis Presley film book . Medien Publikations- und Werbegesellschaft GmbH, Hille 2010, ISBN 978-3-942621-01-4 , p. 175.
- ↑ Basically: This is a good way to find out how many friends you have. You sneeze and count how many people wish you “health” .
- ↑ Exchange of views at Dict.Leo (accessed on July 24, 2013)
- ↑ Film review at kino.de
- ↑ Film review at cinema.de