Cool world
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Cool world |
| Original title | Cool world |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ralph Bakshi |
| script |
Michael Grais , Mark Victor |
| production | Frank Mancuso Jr. |
| music | Mark Isham |
| camera | John A. Alonzo |
| cut |
Steve Mirkovich , Annamaria Szanto |
| occupation | |
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Cool World is an American action comedy by Ralph Bakshi from the year 1992 . She combines the recordings in the real world with cartoon characters .
action
The action begins shortly after World War II . Infantryman Frank Harris returns to Las Vegas to live with his mother. He goes on a motorcycle ride with her; it comes to an accident in which she dies. Harris himself is transferred to the comic parallel world Cool World because the resident Doc Zauberbart had developed a device with which he wanted to travel to the real world and has now brought a real person into his world instead. The residents of Cool World call themselves Doodles and refer to real people as Nuide. Harris is taken in by the Doodles.
The cartoonist Jack Deebs is convicted in 1992 for the murder of his wife's lover. He dreams of Cool World and the blonde Holli Would who lives there. His visions become the basis of a comic series. After being released from prison, Would takes him to Cool World .
The depicted Would wants to have sex with Deebs so that she can become a real person. However, sexual relationships with real people are forbidden in Cool World , as in this case the boundaries between the worlds would dissolve. Harris - who became a cop in Cool World - and his partner Nails are monitoring the couple. Although Harris could return to his world at any time, he stays in Cool World as he has a girlfriend named Lonette here, even if he's not allowed to be more intimate with her. Despite all precautionary measures, sex between Deebs and Would occurs, whereupon Would turns into a nuide and returns to the real world with Deebs.
Harris decides to follow the two to stop the world from being destroyed. He says goodbye to Lonette and promises her to come back soon. Meanwhile, Would also noticed the effects of her actions as the two worlds increasingly merge. However, Would recalls the legend of the Sickle of Power, an item endowed with magical powers that allegedly a Doodle once left behind in the real world. She discovers the sickle on the roof of a casino and tries to steal it to really become a real person. Harris, Deebs and Doc Zauberbart, who has followed them into the real world, join them and want to stop Would, as the universe would collapse if Would managed to touch the sickle. When Harris follows her to the roof of the casino, he is pushed down by Would and killed in the process. She manages to touch the sickle and cause a catastrophe, but Deebs now transforms into a comic superhero and can put the sickle back into place, saving the worlds.
Nails and Doc Zauberbart bring the dead Harris to Lonette. However, this remembers a law of the Cool World : If a person is killed by a doodle, he can transform himself into a doodle. So Harris is actually reappearing as a cartoon character and he and Lonette can finally become a couple.
Would and Deebs have also landed in the comic book world, and while Would grieves over their failure, Deebs is making plans for the future. Presumably the two will get married.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on July 13, 1992 that the film was fraught with serious problems. Ebert doubted whether the director could explain the plot. The concept of combining animation with real footage is not bad, but the execution is wrong. The film is too complex, chaotic and hastily cut. The precision visible in the comparable film Wrong Game with Roger Rabbit is missing; the plot is badly planned. The critic scoffed that some cartoon characters would “ screech ” and “ grind ” “ race ” on screen for no apparent reason , just to kill time. The film was made “ surprisingly incompetent ”.
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a “ combination of animation and real film that did not develop any charm of its own ” and remained far “ behind its role models ”. The " hectic music and the mediocre acting performances " are disappointing.
Cinema magazine wrote that the director's comic world was “ anything but funny, it is in the tradition of underground and trash ”. The film seems " like a grotesque, satirical hell version of the real scene Las Vegas ", a " dark hole full of horny darklings, sluts and murderous little monsters ".
Awards
Kim Basinger was nominated for the MTV Movie Award and the Golden Raspberry in 1993.
background
The director wanted to first cast the role of Jack Deebs with Brad Pitt; Holli Would was to be played by Drew Barrymore . Kim Basinger was forced to cast the female lead on him.
The film was shot in Las Vegas . It grossed approximately $ 14.1 million in American cinemas .
Web links
- Cool World in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cool World atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Review by Roger Ebert, accessed on August 23, 2007
- ↑ Cool World in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on August 23, 2007
- ^ Cinema, accessed August 23, 2007
- ↑ "Rotoscoped Memories: An Interview with Ralph Bakshi" ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , performed on August 2, 2004, accessed on August 23, 2007
- ^ Filming locations for Cool World, accessed August 23, 2007
- ↑ Box office / business for Cool World, accessed August 23, 2007
