The Mask (1994)
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| German title | The mask |
| Original title | The Mask |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1994 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Chuck Russell |
| script | Michael Fallon, Mark Verheiden , Michael De Luca |
| production | Bob Engelman |
| music | Randy Edelman |
| camera | John R. Leonetti |
| cut | Arthur Coburn |
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The Mask (further cross-reference: The Mask - From Zero to Hero) is an American comedy film with Jim Carrey from 1994. The film opened on November 24, 1994 in German cinemas.
background
The film is based on the comic series of the same name . Several characters - including Stanley Ipkiss, Milo, Mrs. Peanman, Charlie Schumaker, Lt. Kellaway, Sgt Doyle and Peggy Brandt - taken from this. The action of the film takes place over five days. In 2005 the story continued with The Mask 2: The Next Generation .
action
The unlucky and humiliated bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss from Edge City receives an invitation from his buddy Charlie to the Coco Bongo nightclub. A short time later, the blonde Tina Carlyle enters the bench, who appears as a singer in this club. With the intention of opening a bank account, she turns to Stanley for advice. He is very impressed by her attractive appearance and is therefore nervous.
Tina has hidden a camera in her pocket because her friend, the gangster Dorian Tyrell, sent her to the bank to use the recordings to prepare a bank robbery. With this, Tyrell, an employee of Coco Bongo, plans to overthrow his boss Niko with a few others.
After work, Ipkiss wants to pick up his car from the workshop. Since the mechanics are not yet finished with this, they give him a junk truck. He takes it to the club, but the doorman of the Coco Bongo doesn't let him in. Ipkiss drives home disappointed, but the car stops on a bridge over the city river. In anger he kicks the vehicle, which is falling apart. In the river he finds an old, wooden mask that he initially assumed to be a person who was about to drown.
When he puts on the mask at home, he turns into a cartoon-like character with a green head, for whom the laws of physics do not seem to apply. In this form he can live out his desires and longings unhindered. After a cartoon-like scene in which he tries to silence his alarm clock with a mallet and knocks holes in the floor in the hallway, he gets into a confrontation with his landlady Mrs. Peanman, who thinks he is a burglar and shoots him . Then he blows the windows of a car with a hand horn. He buttoned a gang through the streets that had tried to harass him, as well as the two auto mechanics from the workshop.
The next morning, Ipkiss initially believes that he only dreamed the events of the previous night. A short time later, Lt. Kellaway calls Ipkiss and questions him about yesterday's incident at the house. Ipkiss claims not to know anything. He throws the mask out of the window, but it flies back into his apartment like a boomerang. A short time later, the auto mechanics are found badly battered. This piqued the interest of reporter Peggy Brandt, who interviewed Stanley at his workplace. In doing so, she makes advances to him.
Meanwhile, Tyrell is called by Niko. The latter had learned of the plans to overthrow him. Dorian is laid on the floor and Niko hits a golf ball on his mouth with a club. In this humiliating way, he tells him that he is through with him. He gives Tyrell a week's ultimatum to leave town or he will be killed.
The next night Ipkiss sleeps badly. He dreams of Tina, is then woken up by his dog Milo and puts the mask on again. Needing money to get into the club, he robbed his own bank and arrives at Tyrell's accomplice a few minutes before. With the help of the money, the mask gains access to the Coco Bongo. There he watches Tina's appearance and cannot hide his affection. He begins to dance masterfully with her. Tina falls in love with the masked man when he kisses her.
Tyrell learns that the mask forestalled his bank robbery. The mask is confronted by him and his men and tried in vain to shoot. When Kellaway enters the club, the mask flees and Tyrell is suspected to be the mastermind behind the bank robbery. However, Kellaway finds a piece of Ipkiss' pajamas (a shot down part of the mask's suit) in the club and suspects that it has something to do with the bank robbery.
The next morning Kellaway visits Ipkiss' apartment again. He knocks energetically and penetratively on his apartment door, so that Ipkiss, confused, first opens the closet in which he has stored the stolen money and can only hide it again with great difficulty. Kellaway confronts him with the scraps of fabric from his pajamas and asks him what he knew about the guy in the mask. Ipkiss claims the pajamas were stolen. Kellaway decides to watch him.
Meanwhile, Tyrell calls a meeting of his henchmen and promises whoever locates the mask a bounty of $ 50,000. After his working day is over, Ipkiss looks for mask expert Dr. Newman, whom he heard about on television two days earlier. He suspects that the mask represents the Nordic god of jokes and malice, Loki , who is only active at night and , according to myths, was banned from Valhalla because of his unpopularity . When Ipkiss tells him about the consequences of wearing them, he doesn't believe a word. Ipkiss tries to demonstrate it, but fails because the mask apparently doesn't work during the day. In the meantime, Kellaway receives the information that the fingerprints on the banknotes, which were left by the mask during the bank robbery, match those of Ipkiss.
To see Tina again, with whom he has arranged a meeting for his alleged friend, the "mask", Stanley puts her on again. However, the rendezvous does not go well because he is very pushy and so scares Tina to a considerable extent. He is arrested by Kellaway and his colleague Sergeant Doyle, but manages to escape with the help of Peggy Brandt, who promptly turns him over to Tyrell and receives the bounty. Tyrell picks up the mask and puts it on while he has Ipkiss tied up. His helpers first break into his apartment and take the money from the bank robbery. Stanley manages to get Milo's attention unnoticed. The dog runs after the car in which his master is being held. Ipkiss is pushed out of the car by Tyrell's henchmen in front of the police station wearing a green rubber mask, Kellaway at the feet. Kellaway locks him up.
Ipkiss receives a visit from Tina in prison. She tells him that Tyrell is planning an attack on a charity ball at Coco Bongo. Since she had learned in the meantime that he was the mask and that it is now in the possession of Tyrell, she asks him how it works. Ipkiss explains that it gives the wearer the opportunity to live out his secret desires unhindered, and it becomes clear to both of them what this means in relation to Tyrell. He then advises Tina to flee the city. However, since Tyrell got wind of Tina's visit, his accomplices intercept her in front of the prison. She tries in vain to flee and is forced to go along with the planned attack.
Milo was able to find his master in the meantime. Ipkiss encourages him to jump up on the outer wall of the prison, catches him, pulls him inside through the bars and lets him retrieve the keeper's keys. Ipkiss takes his weapon and Kellaway, who was on the way to his cell, as hostage. He drives with him and Milo to the Coco Bongo.
Tyrell puts the mask on again, blows up the gates of the Coco Bongo, challenges Niko to a shootout and kills him. Then he has Tina handcuffed, attaches an explosive charge and sets the timer for ten minutes. Ipkiss is discovered at the club by Tyrell's accomplice Orlando. Tina uses a ruse by asking Tyrell to kiss her again as "real" Dorian, without the mask. During the kiss, Tina frees her leg and kicks the mask through the air. Milo, who had opened the car door and walked into the club, catches the mask that wraps around his head as he lowers it after one of Tyrell's men held him by the back legs.
Meanwhile, Ipkiss and Tyrell have a brawl in which Ipkiss ultimately hurls his opponent with a targeted punch at a slot machine, so that he loses consciousness for a few minutes. Then Ipkiss puts on the mask he takes off from Milo one last time, swallows the bomb at the last moment with the help of his superpowers and flushes Tyrell into a conjured, huge drain. Then he takes off the mask. When Kellaway tries to arrest him again, he is stopped by the mayor, who tells him that he saw with his own eyes that Tyrell was the mask and that Ipkiss saved the lives of him and the others present.
In the end, Stanley, Tina, Charlie and Milo drive onto a bridge over the river. Stanley hesitates to throw the mask in. Tina takes it from his hand and throws it over her shoulder into the water. He doesn't need her anymore to please Tina. While the two are in each other's arms, Charlie jumps after the mask floating on the surface, but Milo is faster and swims away with it in his mouth.
Awards
- 1995 : Oscar : Nominated for Best Special Effects
- 1995 : Golden Globe Award : Nominated for Best Actor / Comedy-Musical (Carrey)
- 1995 : Saturn Awards : Nominated in the categories of Best Costume Design , Best Fantasy Film and Best Mask
- 1995 : BAFTA Awards : Nominated in the categories of best mask , best outfit and best special effects
- 1995 : MTV Movie Awards : Nominated for Best Comedy Actor (Carrey). Also nominated in the categories Best Young Talent (Diaz), Best Dance Scene and Most Desirable Actress (Diaz)
- 1995 : Golden Raspberry : Nominated for Worst New Actor (Carrey)
Trivia
In this film, Cameron Diaz made her cinema debut.
Production costs of $ 18 million offset more than $ 100 million in box office revenues, and the mask grossed more than $ 351 million worldwide.
From 1995 to 1997, an animated series based on the film was broadcast.
The film was continued in 2005 with The Mask 2 - The Next Generation (Son of the Mask) . However, without Jim Carrey's involvement, commercial success was not achieved.
Reviews
“This film has two stars: Jim Carrey and the digital effects for the George Lucas company ILM. Strictly speaking, 'The Mask' is not a feature film, but a comic. The story only serves as a link for Carrey's crazy, ludicrous jokes that literally ignite in machine gun beat. A historical effect masterpiece that even a small screen cannot harm. If Jim Carrey doesn't become a superstar in Germany, what then? "
“[…] Nobody other than Jim Carrey could have played the title role - because a large part of the film lives from his facial expressions. George Lucas' 'Industrial Light And Magic' took care of the special effects and received an 'OSCAR' nomination. Otherwise the whole thing is bright and colorful and in some places exaggeratedly funny. "
“If not Jim Carrey then who? Here the star comedian is once again allowed to let the child out and gives his role exactly what it is supposed to represent - a jumping, crazy, wacky figure from another world. One would like to say that this role is made for him - with or without a mask. And with the stylistic means of a comic-like world, the green-faced main character creates one gag after the other. , Roger Rabbit 'says hello ... And Cameron Diaz? She doesn't have much to do other than look pretty, but she does that damn well. It is incredibly sexy here and not only turns the (green) head of 'The Mask' once more. "
“A mixture of real and animated films produced with amazing computer technology, which relies entirely on its trick-technical effects and thus draws attention to the thin plot and the flat characters. Since the actors are also dominated by the technology, the entertainment value is limited. "
Web links
- The mask in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The mask at rotten tomatoes (English)
- The mask at Metacritic (English)
- The mask in the online film database
- The mask in the German dubbing file
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 12 DVD - FSK 12 by Die Maske at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Box office Mojo box office grossing, accessed August 4, 2007
- ↑ "The Mask" at amazon, accessed August 4, 2007
- ^ Film review by Moviemaster, accessed August 4, 2007
- ^ Review on Cineclub accessed on August 4, 2007
- ↑ The mask. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .