Deep Impact (film)
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| German title | Deep impact |
| Original title | Deep impact |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Mimi leather |
| script |
Bruce Joel Rubin Michael Tolkin |
| production |
David Brown Richard D. Zanuck |
| music | James Horner |
| camera | Dietrich Lohmann |
| cut |
Paul Cichocki David Rosenbloom |
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The disaster film Deep Impact was released in 1998 . For the two Hollywood studios Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks led Mimi Leder directed. The film tells various parallel stories of people on earth who are threatened by a comet . The film opened in German cinemas on May 14, 1998.
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Leo Biederman, a young member of a hobby astronomer association , discovers an unusual bright spot in the night sky and the association shares this discovery with the astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf with. He realizes that it is a comet that is on a collision course with the earth. He tries to warn his colleagues, but he has an accident with a lurching semi-trailer truck and crashes his car down a slope, with Dr. Wolf dies.
A year later, while investigating Treasury Secretary Alan Rittenhouse's resignation, reporter Jenny Lerner came across an apparent affair with a lover named Ellie . The US President speaks to her at a secret meeting and explains the previous secrecy with the time needed to maintain national security. Two days later, at a press conference by the President, the public was informed that a comet (named after its discoverer Wolf-Biederman ) was on a collision course with Earth; Ellie was not a personal name, but the abbreviation ELE , for Extinction-Level Event . President Beck freezes prices and wages, bans hamster purchases and any panic action. There is still about a year until the impact.
A spaceship named Messiah , built in orbit by the USA and Russia, lands on the approximately 11 km large comet about two months later. The landing approach is controlled by the former Apollo astronaut Spurgeon Tanner, who was initially ridiculed by the younger crew members because of his old age. The landing team has about seven hours to drill four 100 m deep holes and place four nuclear warheads in them before the sun rises on the boreholes and allows the surface to evaporate. The team immediately begins drilling, but soon realizes that the soil is composed completely differently. The special drill gets stuck and can only be started again after a loss of time, but it no longer creates the required depth. As the sun approaches, Tanner and the pilot, who was also left behind in the spaceship, loosen the tethers that hold the spaceship on the comet's surface in order to fly towards the ground crew and get them out of the danger zone in good time. On the way back to the spaceship, the sun rises and gases emerge from the surface. Gas eruptions throw pieces of ice and rock up into the air, whereby the astronaut Gus Partenza is blown into space by a gas fountain suddenly evaporating ice and dies; at the same time, the mission commander goes blind from the intense sunlight and reflections from the comet. The spaceship takes off at the last second and Tanner takes command of the mission. At a safe distance he detonates the nuclear warheads (5000 kilotons each). The force of the explosion is sufficient to split the comet into a 2.5 km piece and the much larger rest, but not to pulverize the comet or bring it out of the collision path.
Meanwhile, preparatory measures have begun on earth in the event of the impact: In the lottery process, people in the USA are selected who are allowed to find shelter in a bunker in the mountains called " ark " in order to ensure the survival of humanity. Other nations are also taking similar measures. In addition to 200,000 soldiers, scientists and government officials, there is only room for another 800,000 people. Many families and relationships are torn apart. Leo's friend Sarah and her family are initially forced to hope for the results of the lottery. After her spontaneous wedding with Leo, she is allowed to come, but contrary to expectations, her parents are not. She stays behind with these. After the Biedermans have arrived at the bunker, he decides to look for his young wife and hitchhikes back to his homeland with other refugees. Because the draw excludes people over 50 years of age, Jenny's mother Robin decides to divorce instead of witnessing the end of the world.
The leading space and nuclear weapon nations are making another attempt to use ICBMs to throw the comet fragments out of their orbit. However, the attempt fails.
Meanwhile, Leo finds Sarah and her family on a highway. Jenny gives her place in an evacuation helicopter to a colleague with a toddler and drives to her father Jason Lerner's beach house to wait for the end. The smaller, 2.5 km large piece of the comet ( Biederman ) can no longer be stopped and enters the atmosphere over the Midwest , which is observed by numerous refugees. It crashes into the Atlantic after the flight off the North American east coast . It triggers a huge ring-shaped tsunami that moves at supersonic speed towards the east coast and piles up in shallower coastal waters at 400 to 450 m. New York is completely destroyed and hundreds of thousands are killed. The devastating tidal wave breaks deep into the Appalachian Mountains , with Leo Biederman's in-laws perishing. Leo, Sarah and their younger sister in infancy and many others can escape the floods by escaping into the mountains and thus survive.
In the meantime, Captain Tanner and his crew have made the decision to destroy the large fragment of the comet's wolf in a last attempt, sacrificing their lives . After the earth has been informed of this, the crew and the ship plunge into a gas-filled crater and the four remaining nuclear warheads cause an explosion that blows up the entire comet into innumerable fragments, which burn up in the earth's atmosphere without causing any further damage.
The film ends with a speech by the US President. The consequences of the comet's impact and the victims should not be forgotten. The survivors should honor the crew of the spaceship with every construction project in the destroyed areas, as the people with their victims have regained their home, planet earth. In the last shot you can see that the speech took place in front of the completely destroyed but already being rebuilt Capitol in Washington, DC .
Reviews
“Based on the motifs of a film from the 1950s, the lengthy film depicts the experiences of a reporter who discovered the phenomenon, a student who discovered the comet and the astronauts on board the spaceship in episodes that are too emotional and psychologically implausible. The special effects aren't convincing either. "
"End of the world without big bang effects"
Awards
The film was nominated for many awards and won several, including an ASCAP Award for Music, an Image Award for Morgan Freeman and a YoungStar Award for Elijah Wood.
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
There was a race between Deep Impact and Armageddon in 1998 for an earlier theatrical release because they both portray the same threat. Deep Impact won this duel, but lost out when compared to the global audience.
Voice actor
The German synchronization was created by the Berliner Synchron for a dialogue book by Oliver Rohrbeck under the dialogue director of Tobias Meister .
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Web links
- Deep Impact in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Deep Impact in the online film database
- Deep Impact atrotten tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b In various places (document and credit in the film, as well as e.g. online film database and dubbing files ) the spelling of the family name is Beiderman .
- ^ Deep Impact. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Deep Impact TV feature film . Retrieved January 25, 2018.
- ^ Deep Impact. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on October 28, 2015 .