Doctor Sleeps awakening
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| German title | Doctor Sleeps awakening |
| Original title | Doctor Sleep |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 152 minutes |
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FSK 16 JMK 14 |
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| Director | Mike Flanagan |
| script | Mike Flanagan |
| production | Trevor Macy, Jon Berg |
| music | The Newton Brothers |
| camera | Michael Fimognari |
| cut | Mike Flanagan |
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Doctor Sleeps Awakening (Original title: Doctor Sleep ) is an American horror film directed by Mike Flanagan from 2019 based on Stephen King's novel Doctor Sleep . It is also the continuation of the film The Shining by Stanley Kubrick from 1980. Starring Ewan McGregor plays the adult Danny Torrance.
The film was released in US theaters on November 8, 2019. In Germany, the film was released on November 21, 2019.
action
1980
Danny Torrance now lives in Florida with his mother, Wendy. He has not yet processed the traumatic experiences in the Overlook Hotel and has repeatedly encounters with the ghosts of the hotel. Danny is supported in coping with the "good ghost" Dick Hallorann, who teaches him to lock the ghosts that Dick says want to feed on his Shining in imaginary boxes in his head.
At the same time, the young girl Violet meets Rose the Hat , a member of the "True Knot". The companions in this group are a kind of vampire who instead of blood feed on "steam", a psychic essence extracted from people with shining by frightening, torturing or killing them. The group kills Violet.
2011
Danny, who now calls himself Dan, has become an alcoholic like his father and tries to suppress his shining by drinking. After a crash with a stranger, he wakes up disoriented and hungover in her apartment. Despite a small child in the apartment and a warning from Dick, he steals the last of her money and disappears.
Following an inspiration, he spontaneously gets on a bus and arrives in the small town of Frazier in New Hampshire . There he meets Billy Freeman. He immediately realizes that Dan is lost and needs help. Billy vouches for an apartment for Dan, gets him a job at the hospice, and becomes his Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor . In his apartment, on a wall painted with blackboard, he receives messages from Abra Stone, a young girl whose shining is even stronger than Dan's.
Meanwhile, the "True Knot" is recruiting Snakebite Andi , a 15-year-old girl who has the ability to control people telepathically. Andi is transformed using Violet's steam from 1980, which is stored in a container.
2019
The “True Knot” is hungry as steam is becoming increasingly rare. While searching for food, Crow Daddy , Rose's partner , becomes aware of the little boy Bradley. He presents his shining by hitting every ball in baseball, since he can always predict how and where the pitcher will throw. The group kidnaps, tortures, and eventually kills Bradley. Abra, meanwhile matured into a teenager, observes the event from afar and is in turn discovered by Rose, who recognizes Abra's potential and decides to find her and steal her steam.
Abra manages to find Dan personally, who has been dry for 8 years now, and tells him about the "true knot" and the danger posed by the group. Abra plans to use the dead Bradley's baseball glove to track down the perpetrators. Dan refuses to help and instead tells Abra to suppress her shining so she cannot be found.
The following night Rose channels Abra and enters her mind. But Abra sets a trap for her, can seriously injure Rose's hand and in turn penetrate her mind and steal information.
After Grandpa Flick , the leader of the "True Knot", starves to death due to the lack of steam, Rose sends the remaining members out as the new leader to kidnap Abra. Meanwhile, Dan confides in Billy, and the two men set off to find Bradley's baseball glove. With Abra's help, they find the scene of the crime, exhume the boy and get the glove into their possession.
Back at Abra's, she and Dan let their father Dave in on the incident. Thanks to Abra, who projects herself onto a campsite from home, the "True Knot" is ambushed. Dan and Billy manage to shoot all of the members, but Snakebite Andi is able to get Billy to take his own life shortly before she dies. Abra notices that Crow Daddy was n't at the campsite. At that moment, Abra is stunned and kidnapped. Crow suspected the ambush, drove to Abra's house, and killed her father.
Dan manages to contact Abra telepathically and take possession of her body with his mind. He manipulates Crow so that he steers his car into a tree and dies. Dan picks up Abra in the episode, and the two make their way to the Overlook Hotel. Rose, who is now the last remaining member of the “True Knot”, consumes the last of the steam supplies to gather strength and also makes her way to the hotel.
When he arrives at the Overlook Hotel, Dan leaves Abra in the car for her safety and security. He himself goes to the hotel and starts the boiler in the heating system. During his subsequent tour of the hotel, during which he visits, among other things, the rooms in which his father once tried to kill him and his mother, he awakens the spirits with his shining. In the hotel bar he meets the ghost of his father who tries to urge him to drink again, but Dan stands firm.
After the arrival of Rose, Abra and Dan manage to pull her into the mind of Dan, which has the shape of the maze of the Overlook Hotel. Dan's plan to lock Rose in one of the imaginary boxes fails. Back in reality, Rose discovers Dan's Shining and tries to win him over as a member of the "True Knot," but Dan refuses and a fight ensues. Dan is badly injured by a fire ax and Rose uses his pain to extract and inhale his steam. The ghosts of the Overlook that Dan freed from the boxes appear, kill Rose and take possession of Dan. Abra, who is now also at the hotel, is pursued with an ax by the possessed Dan. When Abra tells the ghosts that Dan has sabotaged the heating system, he can briefly suppress the ghosts and help Abra to escape.
Dan returns to the boiler room. Obsessed with the ghosts, he tries to shut down the heating system, but Dan can take control of his ghost again and prevent this. The boiler room is engulfed in flames and the entire hotel burns down. In the last moment before his death, Dan had a vision of himself as a child, being hugged by his mother, who had died of cancer years earlier. In the meantime, Abra has been able to leave the hotel and watches from the outside as the flames spread as rescue workers approach from a distance.
A few days later, Abra is talking to Dan's ghost in her room. They assure each other that everything is now and will stay that way. After Dan disappears, she tells her mother that everyone is fine, including her dead father, with whom her mother can continue to communicate thanks to Abra.
At the end of the plot, Abra discovers that one of the ghosts from the Overlook Hotel has been chasing her. Abra faces the situation and will lock the mind in an imaginary box just as Dan did some 40 years earlier.
production
In April 2016 it was announced that Warner Bros. the rights to a film version of the novel Doctor Sleep of Stephen King has secured. Akiva Goldsman was hired as a screenwriter and producer . In January 2018 it was announced that Mike Flanagan would direct and completely rewrite the script. Goldsman was no longer involved in the film at this point. In June 2018 it was announced that Ewan McGregor would star and play the adult Danny Torrance.
Filming began in September 2018 and took place in Georgia, among other places. Filming was finished in December 2018.
The Director's Cut is around 28 minutes longer than the European theatrical version of the film. Among other things, some of the supporting characters are shown in depth.
Deviations from the novel and interweaving with Kubrick's Shining
The showdown of the film adaptation differs greatly from the novel, which is partly due to the fact that the film is based on Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Shining, in which the Overlook Hotel is not destroyed, unlike King's novel. Accordingly, the Overlook in the novel Doctor Sleep no longer exists and the finale takes place on a campsite where the hotel used to be. The destruction of the Overlook Hotel shown in this film by the uncontrolled boiler pressure of the heating system corresponds to that which King already wrote down in the novel about Shining. In return, Jack Torrance's ghost, who in the novel supports his son and Abra in the fight against Rose, is omitted in the film.
There are a few things that are not told in the film when developing Abra Stone. Abra can already foresee things in the novel as an infant, for example the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . The character of Abra's great grandmother (Momo), which is not insignificant in the novel, is also not traced in the film. In the book, both Abra and her mother have a close relationship with Momo. Abra's grandmother died in an accident shortly after Lucy was born. Due to a premonition, Dan visits the terminally ill Momo in the hospital. Together, Dan and Momo find out that Lucy and Dan are half siblings. Lucy's mother had an affair with her English teacher, Jack Torrance, as a student. Dan is therefore Abras uncle. The relationship is not mentioned in the film and Abra only calls Dan uncle, otherwise it makes a strange impression when an old man has sex with a young girl.
Also omitted in the film was the disease, which gradually became fatal for the members of the "True Knot", with which they had contracted in the novel while consuming the steam of the baseball boy.
synchronization
The German synchronization was created under the dialogue direction by Tobias Meister, based on a dialogue book by Klaus Bickert on behalf of RC Production .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Danny Torrance | Ewan McGregor | Philipp Moog |
| rose | Rebecca Ferguson | Berenice Weichert |
| Abra Stone | Kyliegh Curran | Léa Mariage |
| Billy Freeman | Cliff Curtis | Johannes Berenz |
| Dick Hallorann | Carl Lumbly | Reinhard Scheunemann |
| Crow daddy | Tooth McClarnon | Torsten Sense |
| Snakebite Andi | Emily Alyn Lind | Laura Elßel |
| Dr. John Dalton | Bruce Greenwood | Oliver Stritzel |
| Wendy Torrance | Alex Essoe | Franziska Endres |
| Lucy Stone | Jocelin Donahue | Sonja Spuhl |
| David Stone | Zackary Momoh | Markus Pfeiffer |
| Jack Torrance | Henry Thomas | Dirk Bublies |
| young Danny | Roger Dale Floyd | Vicco Clarén |
| Barry | Robert Longstreet | Sven Brieger |
| Charlie | George Mengert | Jürgen Kluckert |
| Violet | Violet McGraw | Isa Kunze |
| magician | Shane Brady | Marius Clarén |
| elderly patient | Nicholas Pryor | Fred Maire |
reception
criticism
Internationally, the film received rather positive reviews. As of November 24, 2019, Rotten Tomatoes had 219 positive and 67 negative reviews. Metacritic listed 23 positive and 3 negative of 46 reviews.
In general, however, it was repeatedly pointed out that the film does not stand up to the obvious comparison with Stanley Kubrick's Shining .
"The" Shining "sequel, which appears 39 years after the original, is a pleasantly ambitious horror sequel with a great Rebecca Ferguson, but at the same time it is too long and too short to actually meet its own high standards."
"Doctor Sleep" is not a real sequel despite many well-known components and attractively reconstructed backdrops. Because while Kubrick's "The Shining" was just grandiose mysterious, this is just a simple story about a kind of vampirism and eternal life. "
"When the confused, overloaded, over-ambitious and completely fear-free story finally ends in the legendary hotel from the first part after two tough hours, then one becomes painfully aware again how perfectly Kubrick mastered the economy of horror."
"Doctor Sleep" is not a Stephen-King-scares-the-pants-off-you kind of movie. It's a Stephen-King-invites-you-to-ponder-the-nature-of-evil kind of movie. "
“Doctor Sleep is not a Stephen King scares you-to-death film. It's a Stephen King-invites-you-to-think-about-the-nature-of-evil-film. "
Gross profit
The film grossed around $ 67 million worldwide.
Awards
Hollywood Critics Association Awards 2020
- Nomination for Best Horror Film
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards 2019
- Nomination for the best performance by a young actor ( Kyliegh Curran )
- Nomination for Villain of the Year ( Rebecca Ferguson )
Web links
- Doctor Sleeps awakening in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Doctor Sleeps awakening at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Doctor Sleeps awakening at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Doctor Sleep's Awakening . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 194315 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for Doctor Sleep's awakening . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Doctor Sleep: The Shining sequel from Stephen King set for movie adaptation . In: The Independent , April 4, 2016, accessed April 6, 2016.
- ↑ Mike Fleming Jr: Mike Flanagan To Helm Stephen King's 'The Shining' Sequel 'Doctor Sleep' . In: Deadline Hollywood , January 26, 2018. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
- ↑ Stephen King's Horror Family: Ewan McGregor stars in "The Shining" sequel . In: Spiegel Online . June 14, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed June 14, 2018]).
- ↑ Jonathan Marc: Ewan McGregor's 'Doctor Sleep' to begin shooting in Atlanta at the end of September . In: Geeks WorldWide , July 10, 2018. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
- ↑ Staff: 'The Shining' sequel 'Doctor Sleep' films scenes on Georgia coast . In: ABC 33/40 , WBMA-LD , September 26, 2018. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
- ↑ Michael Nordine: 'The Shining' Sequel About Grown-Up Danny Torrance by 'The Haunting of Hill House' Director Wraps Production . December 1, 2018. Accessed December 2, 2018.
- ↑ Comparison of the theatrical version with the Director's Cut on schnittberichte.com, accessed on March 1, 2020
- ^ Doctor Sleeps awakening in the German dubbing file
- ↑ Critique of the FILMSTARTS editorial team , accessed on November 24, 2019
- ↑ Review on Filmtab.de , accessed on November 24, 2019
- ↑ Stephen King's Doctor Sleeps Awakening , accessed November 24, 2019
- ↑ 'Doctor Sleep' Review: A Duller 'Shining' , accessed November 24, 2019
- ^ Doctor Sleep. Retrieved December 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Karen M. Peterson: LAOFCS Announces New Name and 2019 Nominations In: awardscircuit.com on November 25, 2019, accessed November 26, 2019.
- ↑ Jessica Peña: 'Parasite' and Bong Joon-Ho Win Top Awards From Seattle Film Critics Society In: awardscircuit.com on December 16, 2019, accessed January 4, 2020.