Extremely loud & incredibly close
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Extremely loud & incredibly close |
| Original title | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 129 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Stephen Daldry |
| script | Eric Roth , based on a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer |
| production | Scott Rudin |
| music | Alexandre Desplat |
| camera | Chris Menges |
| cut | Claire Simpson |
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a 2011 American drama film directed by Stephen Daldry . The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer and was nominated for two Oscars (Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor) in 2012 . The film was released in German cinemas on February 16, 2012.
action
The behavioral problematic Oscar loses his father Thomas in the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 in New York . Oskar follows what is happening in the media while his father is in one of the skyscrapers and desperately tries to reach his family by phone.
Father and son had often played a kind of scavenger hunt together , the aim of which was to bring Oskar into contact with as many people as possible in order to overcome his shyness . After his father's death, Oskar begins to follow a clue that he finds in a vase in his father's cupboard. It is a key whose case is labeled with the word "Black".
Because Oskar believes the key is meant for him, he decides to go see anyone named Black on the New York phone directory to find out which lock the key opens. So he meets a number of people who usually tell him a story about themselves, but cannot help him with the key. In the course of the search, Oskar befriends his grandmother's silent lodger, who supports him in his search and tries to alleviate some of the boy's fears. Oskar also plays some messages for the man that his father left on the answering machine shortly before his death and that not even Oskar's mother knows anything about the existence of this. Oskar draws the conclusion that the subtenant is his grandfather.
Following another hint from his father, Oskar ends up with William, the divorced husband of Abby Black, whom he had already visited. It turns out that William has been looking for the key for a long time. It belongs to a safe deposit box and was accidentally sold to Oskar's father along with the vase. Oskar is disappointed that the key is not for him. In grief he first destroys everything that has to do with his search. Then, however, he learns from his mother Linda, from whom he had become estranged since his father's death, that she knew about his search and had informed the people he met beforehand so that they would be kind to him.
When Oskar is back at the swings in Central Park at the end of the film, he finds a hint from his father that says that the scavenger hunt is long over because Oskar has overcome his fear. In an inter-scene, we learn that Oskar's grandfather is returning to his grandmother and that she is taking him back. Oskar sits down on one of the swings and takes a swing, so that the film ends when Oskar enjoys full swings on the swing.
production
publication
Director Stephen Daldry hoped to finalize the film for the public in the fall of 2011 to relate to the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks . In the cinemas, however, the film was only shown in January ( United States ) and February ( Germany ) 2012. A DVD and Blu-Ray version was released in Germany on June 22, 2012.
reception
criticism
Critics received the film mixed. The reference to the World Trade Center attack on September 11th was often criticized. On the metacritic service Rotten Tomatoes , the film received a critical rating of 47 percent, the audience gave an average rating of 62 percent (as of March 19, 2012).
“The film skilfully combines the boy's grief over the loss of his father and his feelings of guilt with the mood of mourning in the USA after the attacks (of course without even going into the terrible consequences of 9/11) with the story of a family who have to find each other again after a stroke of fate. The tragedy of the subject, which Daldry repeatedly translates into sweetness, is at least softened a little by the almost incidentally interspersed fairytale-like motifs and the charming bizarre of the boy, who is probably the most unusual nine-year-old in cinema history. "
“Rather, it is due to the banality of the implementation, which seeks a realistic framework for Foer's fairytale stylization and then only finds sentimental manipulation formulas. Tom Hanks plays in flashbacks as a (too) perfect dad: Even mourning depends on a fantasy figure, while the opposite pole is the traumatized mom (Sandra Bullock) who acts surprisingly irresponsibly - which is just one of the script tricks by Forrest Gump author Eric Roth with which a series of "uplifting" emotional excesses is orchestrated at the end. "
“The film adaptation of the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer […] is a remarkable attempt to come to terms with and overcome the trauma that has moved the American nation to this day. Sensitively staged and excellently played, the film sometimes goes close to the edge of sentimentalization, but always convinces with the seriousness of its concern. "
Grossing results
The film grossed about 55 million US dollars a.
Nominations and Awards
Extremely loud & incredibly close was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Picture in 2012 . The subtenant's Swedish actor , Max von Sydow , was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
In 2012 the film also received the Hessian Film Prize for “Best International Literary Adaptation” (Prize of the Frankfurt Book Fair ).
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW awarded the film the title “Particularly valuable”.
synchronization
The German-language dubbing comes from FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron from Berlin. Dialogue director led Marius Clarén .
| actor | speaker | role |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Horn | Luisa Wietzorek | Oskar Schell |
| Tom Hanks | Arne Elsholtz | Thomas Schell |
| Sandra Bullock | Bettina White | Linda Schell |
| Viola Davis | Anke Reitzenstein | Abby Black |
| William Youmans | Frank Röth | barkeeper |
| Adrián Martínez | Matthias Klages | Hector Black |
| Zoe Caldwell | Gisela Fritsch | Oskar's grandmother |
| John Goodman | Klaus Sunshine | Stan the porter |
| Stephen Henderson | Jörg Döring | Walt the locksmith |
| Jeffrey Wright | Oliver Siebeck | William Black |
| Max von Sydow | (mute) | The lodger |
Web links
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of the film at Warner Bros. (English)
- Expert opinion of the German film and media rating
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b German title is written with "&" instead of "and" according to the official German film poster
- ↑ Release certificate for extremely loud & incredibly close . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2012 (PDF; test number: 130 853 K).
- ↑ IMDB Trivia
- ↑ Information on Blu-Ray release on amazon.com
- ^ Collection of film reviews on RottenTomatoes
- ↑ Review on kino-zeit.de
- ↑ Review on diepresse.com
- ↑ Extremely loud & incredibly close. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Box office Mojo box office results
- ↑ Extremely loud & incredibly close. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on June 10, 2020 .
