Fire, Ice & Dynamite
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| German title | Fire, ice and dynamite |
| Original title | Fire, Ice & Dynamite |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language |
English , Italian |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Willy Bogner |
| script | Willy Bogner, Tony Williamson |
| production | Willy Bogner, Bernd Eichinger |
| music | Harold Faltermeyer |
| camera |
Tomas Erhart , Charly Steinberger |
| cut | Peter Davies |
| occupation | |
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Feuer, Eis & Dynamit is a German film by Willy Bogner from 1990. The film is the continuation of Feuer und Eis . The film opened in German cinemas on October 18, 1990.
content
Sir George, a wealthy entrepreneur, faces the wreckage of his empire and the breakdown of his businesses. To prevent this, he starts a bold plan. He's faking suicide to give all of his legacy to the Megathon Foundation.
This foundation wants to start a competition in which all creditors can put together a team. The winner of the competition will receive it all - the full $ 135 million.
In addition to the creditors, the three illegitimate children - Dudley, Lucy and Alexander - are allowed to take part and put together their own team, which consists exclusively of amateurs. The corporations, on the other hand, have equipped their team with world and Olympic champions and also shine with all sorts of technical tricks. As a courtesy, a guru team may also take part, which, according to the chief guru, has been promised a large donation from Sir George. The two villains, Magda and Victor von Schrott, sneak into this team. In addition to winning the money, they also plan to destroy the heirs.
The races are carried out like a relay race . One baton is always passed between the athletes. Each of the participants has to contest a discipline themselves.
The opening ceremony
As with the Olympic Games, there is also the invasion of teams in the megathon. In addition to a lot of advertising, the teams were also given prominent sponsors. There are guest appearances by Buzz Aldrin , Niki Lauda , Walter Röhrl , Keke Rosberg , Jennifer Rush and others.
The three days of racing
The first day begins with a descent in the Pyrenees . The athletes have to come down a scree slope. Some try their hand at skis , snowboards or skibob . Others have technical gadgets like ice spray on their skis. Once at the bottom, the staff changes to the mountain bikers who have to drive down a breakneck slope into the valley. From narrow rock ledges to impassable forest slopes, everything is given. When they reach their destination, they fall down a slope into a lake.
The second day starts at the dam of the Lago di Vogorno . Competitors must climb the dam from a platform. Some of the athletes simply climb with muscle strength, others float with meditation or use suction cups. There are also no rules here. Cutting off the ropes or gluing the handholds is permitted and will be carried out. Once at the top, the handover to a runner is carried out. This brings the rod to a bridge under the kayaks waiting. The runner hands the baton to a bungee jumper who jumps to the waiting boats. Some use rope ladders or parachutes. The kayaks go down white water with heavy chicanes and great speed. In the end the goal is waiting.
In contrast to the first two, the third and final day has three major parts. It starts with a rapid descent on skis or snowboards. Some also use other subsets. The athletes race between advertising flags at unbelievable speed, only to find a loop at the end that they have to drive through. A skier uses a rocket drive , which is why it has even the smallest problems to make the loop. The baton is then handed over to a rally group , each of which drives their VW Golf into the valley. Here, too, various gimmicks are used. One of the cars can put its tires sideways to drive sideways. Another has fog cannons on the stern or a harpoon on the radiator. Once in the valley, the kamikaze race starts. Participants must go down the bobsleigh run on ice skates. There are no rules here either.
Sir George's children
Alexander is the oldest of the three children and the only one who you know from the film that he knows the existence of the other two. In one opening scene , however , he calls them bastards , which shows his disdain. He calls himself a cashmere man to underline his extravagance . You quickly get the idea that he could be homosexual , which is underlined by the way he speaks (he pokes something) and his behavior. However, you don't get a confirmation of this. On the contrary, towards the end you have the feeling that he is interested in his trainer.
Lucy is a singer who likes to let her life happen at night. The (apparently) deceased Sir George addressed her in a video message and asked her to go to bed before 5 a.m. She is the tomboy of the family, which, however, brings the siblings together through mediation.
Dudley, the youngest, is a businessman. He always has his cell phone with him (a rarity at that time) in order to keep track of the current price movements on the stock market and, if necessary , to be able to make purchase decisions immediately .
Product placements and teams
Even at the start of the film in 1990, the advertising of the companies involved was a thorn in the side of the film critics. Willy Bogner himself justified this in the making-of with the fact that he would hardly have been able to make the film without these sponsors, because the advertising income was about half the costs. Furthermore, in his opinion, the companies were not always shown in an advantageous manner in the film and the sponsorship was firmly linked to the sports business. The following teams were represented:
- Volkswagen
- Adidas
- Milka
- Bayer chemistry
- Chiquita Brands International
- Kamei
- mistral
- Club Med
- Paulaner
- AEG
- Grundig
- Fire & Ice (Sir George's Children)
- Guru sect (a fictional sect)
Although Agfa also placed advertising in the film, it did not set up its own team. Volkswagen made the then current VW Golf II GTI available for the car race. There were only deviations at Bayer and Chiquita, which used a VW Caddy , and Team Bogner, which used a Golf I convertible . VW launched a Golf Fire & Ice at the start of the film.
Publications
Theatrical release
Because of the product placement in the film, numerous cinema operators did not want to show the film because they saw the source of income for cinema advertising endangered by increased advertising in the film. The production company Willy Bogner GmbH & Co. KGaA and Constantin Film, as distributors of the film , sued this performance ban in several instances. First before the Munich Regional Court , then before the Higher Regional Court up to the Federal Court of Justice , which ruled on July 6, 1996 that the performance ban was inadmissible. Nevertheless, the film could be shown in 30 countries and in Germany there were 746,193 moviegoers and in 1990 it was 31st.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was released on LP, CD and cassette by Ariola. It was produced by the successful composer Harold Faltermeyer. A Sony PCM 3324 and the Synclavier Digital Music System were used for the recordings .
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DVD
The DVD was launched by Bogner's company in 2006 and contains, among other things, a making-of of the shooting, audio commentary by Bogner and Ochsenknecht , deleted scenes and the report from the ZDF program Tele-illustrated .
Reviews
“Entertainment tailored entirely to sporting attractions and excellent landscape shots with a richly thin plot enriched with sentimentality and slapstick. The audacity with which the sponsors of the film are advertised is unabashed. "
"After his successful ski ballet show" Fire and Ice ", Willy Bogner, who is famous for his spectacular stunt camera work, dares to make a sports film, packaged in a hair-raising framework that has been enhanced by prominent actors."
Web links
- Fire, Ice and Dynamite in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fire, ice & dynamite at filmportal.de
- Fire, Ice & Dynamite in the All Movie Guide (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Detlef Dreßlein; Anne Lehwald: Bernd Eichinger: the biography . Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-64053-5 . , P. 126
- ↑ TOP 100 DEUTSCHLAND 1990 , insidekino.com (accessed on March 16, 2013) .
- ^ Fire, Ice & Dynamite. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Fire, Ice & Dynamite at video.de ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 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.
