Disney's A Christmas Story
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Disney's A Christmas Story |
| Original title | A Christmas Carol |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 10 |
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| Director | Robert Zemeckis |
| script | Robert Zemeckis |
| production | Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke , Steve Starkey |
| music | Alan Silvestri |
| camera | Robert Presley |
| cut | Jeremiah O'Driscoll |
| occupation | |
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Disney's A Christmas Carol (Original title: A Christmas Carol ) is an American 3D animated fantasy film from 2009 and is based on the story of the same name by Charles Dickens . The main role was played by Jim Carrey , who represents other characters in addition to Ebenezer Scrooge. Directed by Robert Zemeckis .
action
Old Ebenezer Scrooge is a hard-hearted miser the likes of which you will hardly find a second time in venerable London . He regularly threatens his underpaid employee Bob Cratchit with dismissal if he even dares to take a look at the coal box, perhaps to heat up the bitterly cold office, he has only disregard for his needy fellow men and he thinks Christmas is money- and time- wasting humbug .
On the night of December 25th, however, he received an unexpected visitor. The ghost of his business partner Jacob Marley, who died seven years ago, comes to him to warn him of a terrible fate. The gruesome appearance is tied to a long, heavy iron chain. That chain he forged himself with his hard-heartedness, his greed and his greed in life. Marley now offers Scrooge a chance to mend himself and shed his own, now invisible, chain. For this purpose, three spirits will visit him.
At one o'clock in the morning Scrooge actually appears the ghost of Christmas past and takes him on a journey into his own past, where he sees himself as a lonely and abandoned boy, as his father could not forgive him for having his mother in his birth Child bed had died. The spirit also shows him his sister Fan, who loved him above all else. In addition, the ghost reminds him of his happy apprenticeship years with old Mr. Fezziwig, who gave a lavish Christmas party every year for his employees and their loved ones; and Scrooge sees his long-lost love Belle again. But the ghost not only shows him pleasant things, Scrooge also has to watch the disengagement of his engagement, since his young self has now succumbed to greed and his feelings for Belle have subsided.
Scrooge returns to his bedroom, touched and confused, and falls into a restless sleep. But at the stroke of two o'clock the second announced visitor appears, the spirit of the present Christmas . The gigantic journeyman leads Scrooge through Christmas Day directly to the modest home of his employee Bob Cratchit and his family. Scrooge notices Cratchits' youngest son Tiny Tim, who is very weak and dependent on a crutch. When he asks the ghost if the poor boy will survive, the ghost replies that he will probably die if the shadows of the future do not change. He also confronts Scrooge with his own lightly pronounced words that if he is about to die, he should do so soon to reduce overpopulation. Then they pay a visit to Scrooge's nephew, Fred. The friendly young man invites his uncle to have dinner with him every Christmas, but he has always refused. Fred and his wife celebrate in pleasant company and enjoy fun board games in which Scrooge even takes part, although he is actually invisible to the people around him. Finally the spirit leads him to a slum with poor families who lack even the bare essentials. When Scrooge asks the ghost if there are no charities these people can turn to, it has to hear its own words again, if there are no prisons or workhouses .
With these words the ghost was gone and Scrooge is left alone in the darkness. Shortly afterwards, however, the spirit of Christmas to come appears , a gloomy apparition hidden by a black hooded cloak. The ghost leads him to the London Stock Exchange , where some businessmen make fun of a colleague who has recently passed away. Then he leads the confused Scrooge into the shop of a rag dealer who is negotiating with a cleaning woman about the price of some items that she has stolen from the same dead man. Even his bed curtain and sheets are among the items. When Scrooge calls for an example of compassion in the death of a person, his shadowy guide takes him again to the house of the Cratchits, who mourn the late Tiny Tim.
Dejected, Scrooge asks the ghost to bring him home. Instead, however, they suddenly find themselves in a cemetery, where the apparition demands that Scrooge look at a certain tombstone. When he sweeps the snow from the simple stone slab and deciphered the inscription “Ebenezer Scrooge”, he has to realize that the unloved lonely dead was himself. Scrooge collapses and on his knees vows to reform himself and keep Christmas past, present and future in his heart.
Suddenly, on the morning of December 25th, Scrooge is back in his bedroom as if he had never been away. Relieved beyond measure, he leaps across the room, full of good resolutions for his "new life". And Scrooge more than lives up to his oath before the spirits. First of all, as an anonymous patron, he sends Bob Cratchit a huge turkey as a holiday roast and also increases his salary and two gentlemen who collect money for charity every Christmas and whom he gave a rough rebuff the day before, he now gives one more as a generous donation, which should also compensate for the past years.
He also makes up with his nephew and becomes like a second father for Tiny Tim, who is getting well again thanks to his generous help.
synchronization
The synchronous work took place at FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH . Theodor Dopheide wrote the dialogue book, Axel Malzacher directed the dialogue.
| role | actor | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Ebenezer Scrooge | Jim Carrey | Stefan Fredrich |
| Christmas past spirit | Jim Carrey | Stefan Fredrich |
| Christmas spirit present | Jim Carrey | Stefan Fredrich |
| Spirit of Christmas to come | Jim Carrey | Stefan Fredrich |
| Bob Cratchit | Gary Oldman | Udo Schenk |
| Jacob Marley's ghost | Gary Oldman | Udo Schenk |
| Belle | Robin Wright Penn | Alexandra Wilcke |
| Fred | Colin Firth | Tom Vogt |
| Nephew Silas Scrooge | Colin Firth | Tom Vogt |
| Mr. Fezziwig | Bob Hoskins | Mogens von Gadow |
| Old Joe | Bob Hoskins | Mogens von Gadow |
production
Disney's A Christmas Story is after Der Polarexpress and Die Legende von Beowulf Robert Zemeckis ' third film in the performance capture technique , in which all the movements and facial expressions of the actors are scanned and transferred to computer-animated characters. Similar to Disney's A Christmas Story , several characters were played by the main actor Tom Hanks in Der Polarexpress .
Even before the release of The Legend of Beowulf in February 2007, Zemeckis' production company ImageMovers was bought by the Walt Disney Company and has been operating under the name ImageMovers Digital ever since . In July 2007, Disney's A Christmas Story was announced as the first joint venture between ImageMovers Digital and Disney. The film is the first animated film produced by Disney using the performance capture process, and it is also the first animated film by Disney to be released using the IMAX- 3D process. The film is Disney's third adaptation of Dickens' story. Previously, the cartoon Mickey's Christmas Tale and the puppet film The Muppets Christmas Story were produced by the studio.
A preview of the film was shown at the Cannes International Film Festival in May 2009 . The world premiere took place on November 3, 2009 in London. Two days later, Disney's A Christmas Story started in German, Austrian and German-Swiss cinemas.
reception
The film critics has Disney's A Christmas Carol triggered mixed reactions. While the film's technical execution has been praised by many critics, many see it as rather emotionless. The reviewer for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung describes how Zemeckis sweeps the audience away with frenzied camera dips and a “dizzying 3-D picture frenzy”, but concludes that “with such a soulless high-tech haunted [...] the spirit of the Christmas fairy tale ”evaporates. Dirk Knipphals from the daily newspaper sees similar conceptual problems in the film, it is clear that “Zemeckis is all too compliant to the technology of motion capturing”.
Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Weekly , on the other hand, praises Disney's A Christmas Story as a “wonderful and touching Christmas toy” that revives the glamor of classic films. Roger Ebert even describes the film as an "intoxicating visual experience". Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal the other hand, sees Zemeckis adaptation disfigurement of Dickens' Christmas classic.
For the most part, Jim Carrey's performance is rated positively. Barbara Petsch from Die Presse describes Carrey as "wonderfully lively," according to AO Scott of the New York Times , Carrey Scrooge's transition to being a good-hearted person is excellent.
Even at the box office, the start of Disney's A Christmas Story was rather restrained. The film was the top-viewed film in the United States on the opening weekend, but the film fell short of expectations with revenues of $ 31 million on a budget of $ 175 million to $ 200 million. According to analysts , the early start of the film three weeks before Thanksgiving contributed to the low success on the opening weekend.
literature
- Diana Landau: The Art of Disney's A Christmas Carol . Disney Editions, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-4231-2104-6 .
Web links
- Official website
- Disney's A Christmas Carol in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- FBW report on filmbassy.com
- Disney's A Christmas Story at Kino.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Disney's A Christmas Story . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2009 (PDF; test number: 120 002 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Disney's A Christmas Story . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | A Christmas Story. Retrieved February 23, 2018 .
- ↑ ABC News : Disney, Zemeckis Form Company to Produce 3-D Performance Capture Films, February 5, 2007 (accessed November 15, 2009).
- ↑ Variety : Jim Carrey set for 'Christmas Carol' ( Memento of the original from April 30, 2009 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. dated July 6, 2008 (accessed November 15, 2009).
- ^ The Daily Telegraph : Cannes still has the clamor and the glamor, May 21, 2009 (accessed November 15, 2009).
- ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung : Verflogener spirit of 5 November 2009 (accessed 15 November 2009).
- ↑ Die tageszeitung : Conceptual Problems of November 5, 2009 (accessed November 15, 2009).
- ↑ Entertainment Weekly : Disney's A Christmas Carol, November 6, 2009 (accessed November 15, 2009).
- ↑ Roger Ebert : Disney's A Christmas Carol, November 5, 2009 (accessed November 15, 2009).
- ^ The Wall Street Journal : 'A Christmas Carol': Carrey, Disney Play Scrooge, November 6, 2009 (accessed November 15, 2009).
- ↑ Die Presse : "A Christmas Carol": Dear parents, pay attention ... ( Memento from September 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) from November 4, 2009.
- ^ New York Times : Ghosts of Technology Present, November 6, 2009 (accessed November 15, 2009).
- ↑ Los Angeles Times : 'Carol' opens at No. 1, but 'Precious' hits a high note dated November 9, 2009 (accessed November 15, 2009).
