Deepwater Horizon (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Deepwater Horizon |
| Original title | Deepwater Horizon |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Berg |
| script |
Matthew Michael Carnahan , Matthew Sand |
| production |
Lorenzo di Bonaventura , Mark Vahradian , Mark Wahlberg , Stephen Levinson , David Womark |
| music | Steve Jablonsky |
| camera | Enrique Chediak |
| cut |
Colby Parker Junior , Gabriel Fleming |
| occupation | |
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Deepwater Horizon is an American biographical disaster film from 2016. In the film, Mark Wahlberg plays Mike Williams, who escaped the burning oil platform Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 and thereby becomes the face of the ecological catastrophe.
The screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan is based on the 2010 New York Times article Deepwater Horizon's Final Hours by David Barstow, David Rohde and Stephanie Saul.
At the 2017 Academy Awards , Deepwater Horizon received two nominations.
action
Mike Williams is the chief electrician of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig , where he makes a living for his family maintaining the electrical equipment. His little daughter has only a vague idea of what her father is doing there, but knows that his work is dangerous and can also describe it from her naive point of view in simple words and even with the help of everyday objects such as a Coke can, honey and a pen, demonstrate.
There is a good working atmosphere on the drilling rig. The mood of the crew is only clouded every now and then by the bigwigs from BP who want to put pressure on the workers because they are 43 days behind schedule. Jimmy Harrell, the head of Deepwater Horizon , does not want to forego the necessary tests in order not to endanger the safety of the workers. Despite all the precautionary measures, after a sloppily conducted test by order, in which incorrect data was displayed on the computer screens, on April 20, 2010, on the platform, which is 40 miles southeast of the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico , one comes Explosion, and soon it burns brightly. In addition, the entire system is flooded with sludge, and gases also escape and enter the air shafts, where they set off a chain reaction. The crew must try to survive until the rescue workers arrive. Large parts of the platform are in flames, and it shows how dangerous the work really is for Mike Williams and the life and limb of the crew and how much the leaking oil threatens to become a danger to the ocean. Mike tries to get as many employees off the rig safely as possible. While 115 Deepwater Horizon workers were saved, 11 people lost their lives in the disaster. The final scene shows pictures of the 11 deceased workers.
background
The film largely depicts the true events of April 20, 2010, when, as a result of serious neglect, a blowout occurred on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform , which started a fire, killing 11 workers and sinking the platform two days later. Oil spills led to the worst environmental disaster of its kind in history, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill . Mike Williams, the Deepwater Horizon's chief technician trying to keep systems running on the burning rig, was one of the last to leave. Caleb Holloway, Dewey Revette, Wyman Wheeler, Jason Anderson and bridge officer Andrea Fleytas were also among the last members of the Deepwater Horizon's real crew before it exploded.
After explosions occurred on the Deepwater Horizon , a rescue operation was carried out by the United States Coast Guard . The CG Pompano was the first to arrive at the scene of the accident. Captain Joseph Paradis was the commanding officer of the Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit and Mary Landry served as Federal on Scene Coordinator during the disaster. At the end of the large-scale rescue operation, Williams was on the platform's helipad. To save himself, he ran and jumped in a high arc into the sea. Williams became the face of the disaster as a result of the following investigation and media coverage.
Later, a working group with representatives from various US authorities investigated whether criminal behavior contributed to the disaster. BP , the operator of the platform, did not comment directly on the allegations against former employees. Williams had already expressed concerns about the safety devices in the run-up to the disaster and later testified before a committee of inquiry in the state of Louisiana that the alarm on the oil rig had been switched off, which his superiors had also known. Curt Kuchta, the captain of the Deepwater Horizon , had insufficiently prepared the crew of the oil platform for such situations and was not qualified as a manager.
production
Rod
After JC Chandor was initially supposed to direct, it was announced in January 2015 that Peter Berg would take over the role. Matthew Michael Carnahan wrote the script adaptation of the December 2010 New York Times article Deepwater Horizon's Final Hour by David Barstow, David Rohde and Stephanie Saul. Chandor continued to work on the scriptwriting.
Cast and dubbing
| actor | Voice actor | role |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Wahlberg | Oliver Mink | Mike Williams |
| Kate Hudson | Bianca Krahl | Felicia |
| Kurt Russell | Manfred Lehmann | Jimmy Harrell |
| John Malkovich | Joachim Tennstedt | Vidrine |
| Jason Kirkpatrick | Tilo Schmitz Aaronwolf | Dale Burkeen |
| Joel Allen | Axel Lutter | old man Carl |
| Gina Rodriguez | Katharina Schwarzmaier | Andrea Fleytas |
| Juston Street | Fabian Oscar Vienna | Anthony Gervasio |
| Dylan O'Brien | Ozan Unal | Caleb Holloway |
| JD Evermore | Gerrit Hamann | Dewey A. Revette |
| Ronald Weaver | Nils Nelleßen | Donald Clark |
| Robert Walker Branchaud | Sven Fechner | Doug Brown |
| Jonathan Angel | Christoph Banks | Gordon Jones |
| Ethan Suplee | Dennis Schmidt-Foss | Jason Anderson |
| Jason Mathews | Matthias Klages | Jason Mathews |
| Brad Leland | Lutz Schnell | Kaluza |
| David Maldonado | Olaf Reichmann | Kuchta |
| Douglas M. Griffin | Wolfgang Wagner | Landry |
| James DuMont | Hans Hohlbein | O'Bryan |
| Henry Frost | Valentin Stilu | Shane M. Roshto |
| Joe Chrest | Thomas Schmuckert | Sims |
| Jason Pine | Viktor Neumann | Stephen Ray Curtis |
| Stella Allen | Anwen Ortiz | Sydney |
As early as August 2014, it was announced that Mark Wahlberg was taking on the lead role of chief engineer Mike Williams, who was trying to keep the systems on the burning platform up to the last. Kate Hudson plays his wife, Felicia Williams, and a child actress plays the role of their daughter, who helps shape the narrative of the film through telling stories from a child's perspective and her own ideas about what happens on an oil rig.
On April 10, 2015, it was announced that Dylan O'Brien would take on the role of the youngest member of the Deepwater Horizon crew , Caleb Holloway . The American actor, known from the television series Teen Wolf, plays a 28-year-old worker in the film who is responsible for general maintenance of the equipment. O'Brien had been named a Choice AnTEENcipated Movie Actor in the 2016 Teen Choice Awards even before the film was released .
Also in April 2015, Kurt Russell became known as part of the cast. Russell will play Jimmy Harrell in the film, the stepfather of Felicia Williams, who is also one of the bosses of the oil rig. David Maldonado plays Curt Kuchta , the captain of the Deepwater Horizon in the film . Gina Rodriguez took over the role of the bridge officer Andrea Fleytas , Ethan Suplee the role of the tool pusher and rig manager Jason Anderson , Garrett Hines the role of Wyman Wheeler , another tool slides, and JD Evermore the role of Drillers Dewey Revette . Robert Walker Branchaud plays Doug Brown, another chief mechanic in the film. Another member of the platform crew, Adam Weise, is played by Jeremy Sande . The BP employees were played by Rob Steinberg and Brad Leland , among others , who took on the role of supervisor Robert Kaluza . John Malkovich took on the role of BP board member Donald Vidrine.
The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book by Sven Hasper and the dialogue direction by Benedikt Rabanus on behalf of FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH, Berlin.
Filming and film music
Filming began in New Orleans in March 2015 and ended on August 14, 2015. The film was shot under the working title The Long Night . The production cost of the film was $ 156 million, according to Forbes , and around $ 110 million , according to The Hollywood Reporter .
The score was composed by Steve Jablonsky , who previously worked with Peter Berg for the films Battleship and Lone Survivor , which came out in theaters in 2012 and 2013. Gary Clark junior contributes the song Take Me Down , for which he took over the acoustic guitar , harmonica and the electric slide guitar in addition to the complete vocals . His touring band contributed music in the style of the New Orleans-typical Second Lines. Scott Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter , in addition to the sound and its editing in the film before its premiere, especially the work on Jablonsky's film music as Oscar-worthy, even if only a few passages were known. In December 2016, the soundtrack was included in the list of candidates (longlist) at the Academy Awards 2017 in the category Best Film Music , from which the members of the Academy will determine the official nominations. The song Take Me Down contained on the soundtrack was included in the longlist for Best Movie Song . The soundtrack includes 14 songs and was released on September 23, 2016.
Title list of the soundtrack
- Taming the Dinosaurs
- The Rig
- The monster
- Hope is not a tactic
- Negative pressure test
- Well from Hell
- Cut the pipe
- Mud
- Stop the crane
- Fire on the rig
- Burn or Jump
- Roll call
- Home
- Take Me Down - Gary Clark Junior
Marketing and Publishing
A first trailer for the film was published in March 2016.
The film celebrated its world premiere on September 13, 2016 at the Toronto International Film Festival . The film was released in cinemas on September 30, 2016 in the USA, on October 12, 2016 in French -speaking Switzerland, on November 24, 2016 in Germany and German-speaking Switzerland and on November 25, 2016 in Austria. In China, the film is one of the 38 foreign productions that were allowed to be shown there in 2016 according to a quota.
reception
Age rating
In Germany, the film received the age rating FSK 12 . The statement of reasons for the release states: “With the focus on an engineer heroically advocating the survival of his colleagues, the previous history is examined first, followed by the course of the disaster in the action-packed and exciting second half. Individual, drastic depictions can emotionally overwhelm children under the age of 12, but even 12-year-olds are able to classify these scenes in the context and genre of the disaster film that is characterized as historical . "
Reviews
The film was able to convince 83 percent of the critics of Rotten Tomatoes (of 253 critics in total, as of February 16, 2020). By consensus it says: "Deepwater Horizon uses effectively the catastrophe described in its title, man-to an unusually serious and yet reasonably exciting action - thriller deliver."
Kai Mihm from epd Film describes the film as a homage to the real role models of the film characters, with a harmonious balance between dignity and pathos, and even if he follows the tradition of classic disaster films, Berg shows his special class when he sees scenes of explosions and collapses show that are of breathtaking intensity, but without luridly exploiting the chaos. In addition, the script also casually incorporates a large amount of technical information into the film that is necessary to understand the disaster.
Thomas Grüter from Spektrum der Wissenschaft thinks that director Peter Berg also captures the human component of the accident very well, describes the hard life on board an oil rig and takes time to introduce the function of its components and the tasks of the crew: “Meticulously monitored he the initially small, but then avalanche-like increasing deviations from normality. When those responsible finally understand that the disaster is inevitable and can only be limited, they are taking their decisions too slowly. They cling to familiar processes and only initiate emergency procedures when they can no longer take effect. ”Instead of accusing the platform's occupation, Grüter continues, the film only shows their all too human failure and that the film dramatizes these events, Without exaggerating, his great strength is: “He does not analyze the structural problems of the business with the oil in the run-up to the disaster, nor the failure of BP to contain the oil spill. But it makes it clear to more people than any documentation how careless it is to loosen the regulations again. "
Scott Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter recognized potential Oscar nominees in film and director and a possible Best Actor in Mark Wahlberg ahead of the premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival . In his opinion, the film editing and a number of other technical works in the film are also Oscar-worthy. In December 2016, it was announced that the film had been shortlisted for the Best Visual Effects category at the 2017 Academy Awards .
Gross profit
The cost of producing the film of around US $ 110 million is offset by global revenues of around US $ 121 million. The film recorded 124,713 viewers in German cinemas.
Awards
At the 2017 Academy Awards , Deepwater Horizon received two nominations for sound design and visual effects.
- Nomination in the category Animated Effects in a Live Action Production
Australian Academy of Cinema and Arts Awards 2017
- Nomination for the AACTA Award for Best Visual Effects Or Animation (Jason Billington, James Whitlam and Linda Luong)
British Academy Film Awards 2017
- Nomination for Best Sound ( Mike Prestwood Smith , Dror Mohar , Wylie Stateman and David Wyman )
National Board of Review Awards 2016
- Received the Spotlight Award ( Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg , also for Patriots Day )
- Nomination for Most Popular Drama in Movies for the People's Choice Award
- Award in the Choice AnTEENcipated Movie Actor category ( Dylan O'Brien )
- Award in the category Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
- Award in the category Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project
Web links
- Deepwater Horizon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Deepwater Horizon in the German dubbing index
- Official Film Website (English)
- Deepwater Horizon - Production Notes from Lionsgate (PDF)
- David Barstow, David Rohde , Stephanie Saul: Deepwater Horizon's Final Hours. In: The New York Times . The New York Times Company, December 25, 2010, accessed January 5, 2017 .
- Report of Investigation into the Circumstances Surrounding the Explosion, Fire, Sinking and Loss of Eleven Crew Members Aboard the Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico April 20 - 22, 2010. (PDF; 19.9 MB) United States Coast Guard , April 22, 2011, accessed January 5, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Approval for Deepwater Horizon . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Age rating for Deepwater Horizon . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ BP is considering stopping additional sealing of the borehole In: Spiegel Online, August 13, 2010.
- ^ A b c David Barstow, David Rohde and Stephanie Saul: Deepwater Horizon's Final Hours In: The New York Times, December 25, 2010.
- ^ National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Offshore Drilling: Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling , 2011.
- ↑ Etan Vlessing: First Look: Mark Wahlberg as BP Oil Spill Hero in 'Deepwater Horizon' In: The Hollywood Reporter, May 18, 2015.
- ^ Ex-BP manager arrested in the USA In: handelsblatt.com, April 24, 2012.
- ↑ Technician reveals: the alarm on the oil rig was switched off In: Die Zeit Online, July 24, 2010.
- ↑ Bory's Kit: Peter Berg in Talks to Replace JC Chandor on 'Deepwater Horizon' In: The Hollywood Reporter, January 30, 2015.
- ↑ S. Scott Stanikmas: Peter Berg's 'Deepwater Horizon' Adds Kurt Russell to its Cast In: indierevolver.com. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
- ↑ David Barstow, David Rohde and Stephanie Saul: Deepwater Horizon's Final Hours In: The New York Times, December 25, 2010.
- ↑ Mark Wahlberg's Deepwater Horizon Trailer Is Explosive And Exhilarating In: cinemablend.com, April 2016.
- ↑ Anthony D'Alessandro: Dylan O'Brien In Talks To Board 'Deepwater Horizon' Opposite Mark Wahlberg In: deadline.com, April 10, 2015.
- ↑ Mike Scott: Kurt Russell joining 'Deepwater Horizon' cast; Dylan O'Brien in talks, reports say In: nola.com, April 11, 2015.
- ↑ Chillin 'With Garrett Hines In: chilledmagazine.com, October 23, 2015.
- ↑ Upcoming. The Long Night In: louisianaentertainment.gov. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
- ↑ Mike Scott: Kurt Russell joining 'Deepwater Horizon' cast; Dylan O'Brien in talks, reports say In: nola.com, April 11, 2015.
- ↑ Tim Daiss: $ 156 Million 'Deepwater Horizon' Movie Dramatizes Worst Oil Spill In US History In: forbes.com, September 17, 2016.
- ↑ Pamela McClintock: Box-Office Analysis: Can 'Deepwater Horizon' Be Rescued? In: The Hollywood Reporter, October 3, 2016.
- ↑ Steve Jablonsky to Score Peter Berg's 'Deepwater Horizon' In: filmmusicreporter.com, October 19, 2015.
- ↑ Gary Clark Jr. controls the new song 'Take Me Down' for the movie 'Deepwater Horizon' at In: warnermusic.de, 23 August 2016.
- ↑ Scott Feinberg: Feinberg Forecast: The First Look at the 89th Oscar Race In: The Hollywood Reporter, September 9, 2016.
- ↑ 145 Original Scores In 2016 Oscar Race In: oscars.org, December 13, 2016.
- ↑ 91 Original Songs Vie for 2016 Oscar In: oscars.org, December 13, 2016.
- ↑ Markus Trutt: Deepwater Horizon ": Mark Wahlberg in the first trailer for the drama about one of the greatest environmental disasters in the USA In: filmstarts.de, March 23, 2016.
- ↑ Deepwater Horizon In: tiff.net. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ Deepwater Horizon In: moviegod.de. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
- ↑ Fergus Ryan: China Exceeds Quota on Hollywood Films amid Box-Office Slowdown In: chinafilminsider.com, October 24, 2016.
- ^ Reasons for approval for Deepwater Horizon In: Voluntary Self-Control of the Film Industry. Retrieved January 11, 2017.
- ↑ Deepwater Horizon In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
- ↑ Kai Mihm: Critique of Deepwater Horizon In: epd-film.de, October 28, 2016.
- ↑ Thomas Grüter: Film review 'Deepwater Horizon': Oil from the deep sea: After the blowout is before the blowout In: Spectrum of Science, March 1, 2018.
- ↑ Scott Feinberg: Feinberg Forecast: The First Look at the 89th Oscar Race In: The Hollywood Reporter, September 9, 2016.
- ↑ Maane Khatchatourian and Dave McNary: Oscars: 10 Films Advance in Visual Effects Race In: Variety, December 16, 2016.
- ↑ Deepwater Horizon In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
- ↑ Top 100 Germany 2016 In: insidekino.com. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
- ↑ Here Are the 2017 Oscar Nominations In: time.com, January 24, 2017.
- ↑ Patrick Hipes: 'Zootopia' Leads Annie Awards Nominations In: deadline.com, November 28, 2016.
- ↑ AACTA Awards: Winners & Nominees In: aacta.org. Retrieved October 31, 2017.
- ↑ Leo Barraclough: BAFTA Film Award Nominations: 'La La Land' Leads Race In: Variety, January 9, 2017.
- ↑ Hilary Lewis: 'Manchester by the Sea' Named Best Film by National Board of Review In: The Hollywood Reporter, November 29, 2016.
- ↑ Hilary Lewis: People's Choice Awards: 'Captain America: Civil War', Kevin Hart Lead Nominations In: The Hollywood Reporter, November 15, 2016.
- ^ Allison Crist and Kimberly Nordyke: Teen Choice Awards: Winners List In: The Hollywood Reporter, July 31, 2016.
- ↑ Previous VES Awards ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2015 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. In: visualeffectssociety.com. Retrieved March 28, 2017.
