Fame - the way to fame
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Fame - the way to fame |
| Original title | Fame |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 128 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alan Parker |
| script | Christopher Gore |
| production |
David De Silva , Alan Marshall |
| music |
Dominic Bugatti , Michael Gore |
| camera | Michael Seresin |
| cut | Gerry Hambling |
| occupation | |
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Fame - The path to glory is an American movie about teens at a New York School for the Performing Arts from the year 1980 . Directed by Alan Parker .
action
Parker's film is divided into five acts. It starts with the entrance exam for school, then shows the experiences of some of the admitted students in the first, second, third and final year of school.
- Entrance Exam - New York's High School of Performing Arts accepts students in three departments: music (for instrumentalists), dance, and drama. So u. a. the talented dancer Leroy, who comes from a New York “ghetto” district and appears armed with knives for examination. (Actually, he only accompanies a friend and does not originally plan to be examined.) Furthermore, Doris (with her overprotective mother, which Doris is very embarrassing) and Montgomery, who is so nervous that he forgets his text, apply.
- First Year School - Doris and Montgomery befriended in the acting department. Coco befriends the talented musician Bruno. The ambitious Coco would like to perform together with Bruno, and Bruno should write the songs. The aggressive Leroy is virtually illiterate , which causes problems with his English teacher.
- Second school year - Montgomery comes out gay to Doris and Ralph. Bruno composed a song for Coco. His father, a taxi driver, is so proud of his son that he equips his taxi with speakers, drives in front of the school and plays his son's music. The students come home from school and dance to it on the street and on the roofs of the cars. This scene is the most famous dance scene in the film. The dancer Lisa is to be kicked out of school. Depressed about it, she wants to take her own life, but then decides to move to the acting department.
- Third grade - love experiences. Leroy is with the dancer Hilary. Doris has her first night of love with Ralph.
- Fourth grade - Studies are nearing the end and students are already preparing for life after school. An alleged filmmaker offers Coco test shots. However, it turns out that he only wants to get nude pictures of her. Hilary is pregnant by Leroy and wants to have an abortion. The stand-up comedian Ralph appears in a dive bar where - after initial success - nobody is interested in his jokes anymore. Then he gets drunk and insults Doris. The students prepare for the final concert. You have changed over the four years, grown up, and learned how difficult life as a performing artist can be.
background
Alan Parker selected students from the New York School of the Performing Arts to show the lives of New York youth with artistic talent. They are all around 20 years old and practically play their own lives. For most of them, it was their first ever film work. Irene Cara already had experience with small film roles as a teenager. It was also she who later had the greatest career. In 1982 Fame was also turned into a television series of the same name , in which some of the actors again participated and which ran until 1987 with a total of 136 episodes.
On 24 December 2009, appeared remake of Fame , in which Tancharoen Kevin has directed.
synchronization
The German synchronized editing was created in 1980.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
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| Angelo | Eddie Barth | Hubert Suschka |
| Coco | Irene Cara | Madeleine proud |
| Bruno | Lee Curreri | Benjamin Völz |
| Lisa | Laura Dean | Claudia Marnitz |
| Hilary | Antonia Franceschi | Susanna Bonaséwicz |
| Ralph | Barry Miller | Stefan Krause |
| Montgomery | Paul McCrane | Torsten Sense |
Reviews
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Lexicon of international film : musical with dazzling music and dance scenes, which is able to capture some of the young people's attitude to life without any particular social problems. Technically perfect.
Awards
For the first time in the history of the Oscar , two songs from a film were nominated for the Oscar. Michael Gore's songs Fame and Out Here On My Own . The song Fame then got the Oscar and before that already the Golden Globe Award .
Fame - the musical
The musical of the same name, based on the movie, premiered in 1988 at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami. In the UK alone, 3.5 million people visited it. In Germany it was the initial spark for the musical wave. It ran u. a. 2006 at the Theater Magdeburg under the direction of Matthias Brenner , also until June 2007 in the Wagenhalle Griesheim . From April 2008 Fame took place in Nuremberg at the EWF. In the 2017/2018 season, the Kiel Theater is showing a production of the musical.
As the largest production of Hamburg's First Stage Theater, Fame was staged in over 60 performances from June 2018 to September 2018.
Web links
- Fame - The path to glory in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Bräutigam : Stars and their German voices. Lexicon of voice actors . Schüren, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-627-0 , CD-ROM
- ↑ a b Fame - The Road to Fame at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed October 20, 2014
- ↑ Fame - The path to glory in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Fame - The Road to Fame. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 13, 2017 .