Cowboys & Aliens (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Cowboys & Aliens |
| Original title | Cowboys & Aliens |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jon Favreau |
| script |
Roberto Orci , Alex Kurtzman , Damon Lindelof , Mark Fergus , Hawk Ostby , Steve Oedekerk , Scott Mitchell Rosenberg |
| production |
Brian Grazer , Ron Howard , Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Damon Lindelof, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg |
| music | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| camera | Matthew Libatique |
| cut |
Dan Lebental , Jim May |
| occupation | |
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Cowboys & Aliens (original title: Cowboys & Aliens ) is an American science fiction film with Western borrowings (so-called Weird West ) by Jon Favreau from 2011. It is based on the comic book Cowboys & Aliens by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg . It was released in US cinemas on July 29, 2011, was presented at the Locarno Film Festival and opened in Germany on August 25, 2011.
action
In 1873, in the remote small town of Absolution, Arizona , a mysterious stranger with no name and no memory appears, wearing a strange metal cuff on his forearm and suffering from an unusual stomach injury. During an argument with Percy Dolarhyde, the trigger-happy son of the local cattle baron, a deputy sheriff is shot and Percy is arrested by Sheriff John Taggart. Using a profile, he finds out that the stranger is the wanted criminal Jake Lonergan, and arrests him too.
The sheriff wants to hand the two prisoners over to the judge in Santa Fe in a carriage. Shortly before departure, Woodrow Dolarhyde, known as "Colonel", appears with his men in town. He asks the sheriff to hand over his son and Jake Lonergan, who robbed one of his stagecoaches, to him. Just before the conflict breaks out, strange lights appear on the horizon that are rapidly approaching.
These turn out to be objects in flight that open fire. In the wild confusion, the flying objects hurl a kind of lasso at some people, pull them into the air and drag them away, including Sheriff Taggert, Percy Dolarhyde and Maria, the wife of the "Docs". Suddenly Lonergan's arm cuff becomes active and reveals a kind of holographic display. Lonergan can shoot down an aircraft with the cuff and thus stop the attack, but the non-human pilot escapes.
The next morning, some of the residents set off to follow the pilot's trail and to free the kidnapped people. After initial hesitation, Lonergan also rides when he remembers that the " demons ", as the attackers are called, were responsible for the disappearance of his girlfriend Alice in the past. After a long ride, they lose track in the heavy rain.
In the night camp, the mysterious Ella Swenson asks Jake again for help, just as she had previously done in town, but Jake doesn't understand why she turns to him of all people. Suddenly Jake's arm cuff flashes and they realize that the pilot must be nearby. He attacks the group, but can be scared away by Jake. After the group sees the attacker, a clawed monster, for the first time, Dolarhyde's men run away. This leaves only Jake, the Colonel, Ella, the Doc and a few others who go back to chase the next morning.
In a ravine, the group is ambushed by bandits who turn out to be Jake's former gang. In their camp, the new gang leader beats up Jake, but Jake kills him with his arm cuff. The small group flees on horseback and is pursued by the bandits when some aircraft attack and kidnap more people, including Ella. Jake jumps from the edge of a canyon onto the aircraft, crashing it into a river and freeing Ella, but the alien pilot seriously injures Ella before Jake shoots him with the cuff. Ella dies in Jake's arms.
Immediately afterwards the group of Indians is surrounded and taken prisoner. Ella's corpse is burned in the Indian camp and the Indians are preparing to kill the prisoners, as they blame them for the appearance of the "demons". Suddenly the fire flares up and out of it rises the "reborn" Ella, who is obviously also an alien. She says that she is the last survivor of a people whose planet was invaded by the monsters. She came to earth in human form to prevent humanity from being wiped out by the "demons" as well. These are an alien scouting party in search of gold that will soon return to their people and then be invaded. They are conducting experiments with the abducted people, so there may still be some alive. A shaman helps Jake fill the gaps in his memory. Jake remembers the location of the alien spaceship and how his friend Alice was killed by the aliens in an experiment just before he was able to escape with the cuff himself.
After Jake has convinced his former gang to rejoin him in the face of the impending extinction of mankind, they attack the alien spaceship, which is half hidden in the earth, together with the Indians. They climb up the spaceship and destroy the hangar of the aircraft with dynamite , so that the aliens can no longer attack from the air. Then some aliens storm out of the spaceship and attack the humans.
Meanwhile, Jake and Ella sneak under the spaceship through the same cave that Jake used to escape from the aliens. You will find the kidnapped people who look into a light as if hypnotized. When Ella destroys the light, the people slowly come to and escape through the cave into the open. Ella wants to stop the aliens for good. She says goodbye to Jake and climbs to the center of the spaceship with his arm cuff. Jake, who is attacked by an alien, manages to escape from the spaceship with the help of the Colonel, shortly before it ignites its engines.
People suffered significant losses fighting outdoors, but have since gained the upper hand. The aliens take off with their spaceship and quickly gain altitude. Ella has meanwhile reached the ship's power source. She sacrifices herself by triggering an explosion with the arm cuff that destroys the ship in the air. The liberated get together with their loved ones and slowly seem to be regaining their memories. Later in town, the Colonel tries to persuade Jake to stay, but Jake refuses and rides out of town alone.
background
Production and publication
The film was shot in California in Universal City and Randsburg , further recordings were made in New Mexico in Abiquiú and Santa Fe . Filming began on 10 June 2010 and ended on September 30, 2010. Production costs were approximately 163 million US dollars estimated. Cowboys & Aliens celebrated its world premiere on July 29, 2011 in Canada, India and the USA. The film was shown in Switzerland on August 6, 2011 at the Locarno International Film Festival . The film was launched in Germany on August 25, 2011. It grossed 36.4 million US dollars on the opening weekend in the USA. In total, US $ 100.2 million in revenue was earned in the United States and over $ 174.8 million in global revenue. On January 13, 2012, the film was released by Paramount Home Entertainment in Germany on DVD and Blu-ray Disc with FSK 12 approval.
Initially, Robert Downey Jr. was intended for the role of Jake Lonergan, but had to turn it down due to overlapping filming. This role was then given to Daniel Craig , as this has a visual similarity to Steve McQueen , who was seen in the Western The Magnificent Seven . Daniel Craig recommended that Eva Green be cast for Ella after the two worked together on James Bond 007: Casino Royale . However, she declined the role, after which it was awarded to Olivia Wilde .
Director Jon Favreau can be seen in a cameo on a wanted poster.
Effects
Cowboys & Aliens, along with Fright Night and I'm Number Four, are one of the films that didn't have the box office success they had hoped for, which meant that at the end of 2011 the DreamWorks studio was in dire financial straits.
marketing
At the San Diego Comic-Con 2010 the director Jon Favreau presented the film project together with the main cast. Favreau declared that he wanted to mix the genres of Westerns in the style of a Sergio Leone and science fiction films like Alien or Predator .
synchronization
The German-language dubbed version was produced by Film- & Fernseh-Synchron based on the dialogue book by Jan Odle , who also directed the dialogue .
| actor | German speaker | role |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Craig | Dietmar miracle | Jake Lonergan |
| Harrison Ford | Wolfgang Pampel | Woodrow Dolarhyde |
| Olivia Wilde | Maren Rainer | Ella Swenson |
| Sam Rockwell | Philipp Brammer | Doc |
| Adam Beach | Stefan Günther | Nat Colorado |
| Paul Dano | Roman Wolko | Percy Dolarhyde |
| Clancy Brown | Michael Brennicke | Meacham |
| Walton Goggins | Benedikt Weber | Hunt |
| Abigail Spencer | Jacqueline Belle | Alice |
| Julio Cedillo | Jan Odle | Bronc |
| Noah Ringer | Maximilian Belle | Emmett Taggart |
| Kenny Call | Erich Ludwig | Greavey |
| Ana de la Reguera | Solveig Duda | Maria |
| David O'Hara | Christian Weygand | Pat Dolan |
| Toby Huss | Tobias Lelle | Roy Murphy |
criticism
"Explosive and entertaining genre mix with powerful star power, but a little more humor would not have hurt"
“A good-humored invasion of science fiction motifs into the Western genre, which lovingly and nostalgically builds up character types and lines of conflict in the Western in order to confront them with elements of contemporary cinema with effects. The film can rely on a solid dramaturgy of tension, charismatic figures and impressive camera work. "
“[It seems ...] initially puzzling that more than a hundred years had to pass before western and science fiction merged. But if you 've seen the film Cowboys & Aliens [...] you know why: The two genres just don't go together, like humans and Klingons . A mash-up of men on horseback and flying saucers could have been a lot of fun, like Tim Burton with his sci-fi grotesque Mars Attacks! proved where the green men burst to hillbilly music in the end. Unfortunately, director Jon Favreau is very serious that his film adaptation of a graphic novel by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg was supposed to be just as thundering, thundering, and ending in a big computer effects spectacle as his Iron Man films . But what went wrong. "
Awards
Gary Wu and Lee Uren were nominated for an Annie Award in the Animated Effects in a Live Action category in 2012 . Scott Chambliss was nominated by the Art Directors Guild for the Excellence in Production Design Award - Fantasy Film that same year . The stuntman Brian Brown received a nomination for the Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture category at the Screen Actors Guild Awards that same year .
Web links
- Cowboys & Aliens in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Cowboys & UFO atrotten tomatoes(English)
- Cowboys & Aliens atMetacritic(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Cowboys & Aliens . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2011 (PDF; test number: 128 855-a K).
- ↑ Age rating for cowboys & aliens . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations
- ↑ a b c d Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results
- ↑ a b c Internet Movie Database : Start Dates
- ↑ a b c d e Internet Movie Database : Background information
- ↑ Marc Graser: Harrison Ford pleases Comic-Con crowds. Variety, July 24, 2010, accessed July 28, 2011 .
- ↑ Michael Cieply: Question for Big Film: It's Not a Comedy? The New York Times , November 29, 2010, accessed on July 28, 2011 (English): "Universal and DreamWorks have one of next summer's most highly anticipated movies"
- ↑ a b Cowboys & Aliens. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing files , accessed on February 27, 2012 .
- ↑ Cowboys & Aliens. In: Cinema . Retrieved August 21, 2011 .
- ↑ Cowboys & Aliens. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Christian Schröder: Play me the song from space. Film "Cowboys & Aliens". In: Culture. Die Zeit , August 21, 2011, accessed January 30, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Internet Movie Database : Nominations and Awards