Final destination
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| German title | Final destination |
| Original title | Final destination |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | James Wong |
| script |
Jeffrey Reddick Glen Morgan James Wong |
| production | Glen Morgan Craig Perry |
| music | Shirley Walker |
| camera | Robert McLachlan |
| cut | James Coblentz |
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Final Destination is an American horror film from director James Wong from the year 2000 . The beginning of the film is based on a true story (related to the cause of the crash), the accident of a Boeing 747 off Long Island in 1996 (see TWA flight 800 ).
The basic theme of the final destination series is outwitting fate. Visions of individual affected persons enable them to foresee the future. In this way, the death of different people is always prevented at first, but since the death was predetermined, death takes all of the victims one after the other.
action
Alex is supposed to go on a school trip to Paris with his school class . As he was sitting in the plane shortly before take-off , he suddenly had a tremendous premonition: He saw vividly before his eyes how the plane exploded . He wakes up in panic and tries to get his classmates to disembark, whereupon he is expelled from the aircraft by the flight crew . A teacher and a few students accompany him to catch up with the next flight when Alex has calmed down while the others stay on the plane. In the airport building, the others are trying to find out what the exact cause of Alex's panic attack was when you can see in the background through the panorama window how the plane just taking off actually explodes in the air. Everyone is shocked and initially distance themselves from Alex.
When after some time some of the survivors of Flight 180 die in a gruesome way and Alex was always nearby, he comes under increasing suspicion. Alex finally suspects the connections: Death itself is behind the mysterious and bizarre deaths. Her death was predetermined, and Alex's vision prevented it from happening. He is sure that death will still want to get them one after the other. He tries to prevent this by warning the others, but makes himself even more suspicious and is soon at the center of an FBI investigation .
When the causes of the plane crash come to light, Alex discovers the order in which the passengers perish. Soon only Alex, Clear and Carter will be left alive. When Clear escapes their death, the three believe they have ruined death's plan. Together they go on vacation six months later to Paris, where Alex theorizes that the order might not be correct and that they did not escape death after all. Shortly afterwards, Carter saves Alex from an advertising sign that had been detached in an accident, but is struck dead when it flies back. Before it hits, however, the movie ends.
synchronization
The German dubbing was done by Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH in Munich . Peter Stein wrote and directed the dialogue.
| actor | role | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Devon Sawa | Alex Browning | Alexander Brem |
| Ali Larter | Clear Rivers | Karoline Guthke |
| Kerr Smith | Carter Horton | Johannes Raspe |
| Amanda Detmer | Terry Chaney | Anna Carlsson |
| Tony Todd | William Bludworth | Oliver Stritzel |
| Kristen Cloke | Ms. Valerie Lewton | Kathrin Simon |
| Seann William Scott | Billy Hitchcock | Hubertus von Lerchenfeld |
| Brendan Fehr | George Waggner | Jakob Riedl |
| Chad E. Donella | Death of Waggner | Dirk Meyer |
| Daniel Roebuck | Agent wines | Michael Schwarzmaier |
| Roger Guenveur Smith | Agent Schreck | Gudo Hoegel |
Types of death in film
- Tod Waggner: Water runs out of the toilet and forms a puddle. He slips and is strangled by the clothesline .
- Terry Chaney: She got run over by a bus while crossing the street for carelessness.
- Valerie Lewton: Vodka is dripping into your computer monitor through a crack in the coffee cup . This then implodes and a piece of glass from the display hits your neck. As she staggered dazedly into the kitchen, there was a gas explosion , caused by the trail of vodka that dripped from the cup and caused her to fall to the floor. She tries to grab a hanging kitchen towel. However, since this is on a knife block, she tears it down with her, whereupon a knife digs into her chest . If there is another explosion, a chair is knocked over and hits the knife. This penetrates so deep into the chest that Valerie dies from the injuries.
- Billy Hitchcock: A sheet metal part of Carter's wrecked car is thrown through the air by an iron chain hanging from a passing train and decapitates him.
- Carter Horton: A bus that got out of control knocks over a stake on the side of the road, which loosens the holder of a sign, which then kills him (the film ends shortly before Carter dies, but in Final Destination 2 it turns out that it kills him Life came).
- Alex Browning: In Final Destination 2 , Clear tells that Alex was killed by a falling brick. Before that, however, this is mentioned by the investigation of the police officer.
background
- The film is based on a script that Jeffrey Reddick wrote for the television series The X-Files , but was never produced. Director James Wong was an intermittent producer on the X-Files .
- Many characters are named after directors and actors from the horror and thriller genre: William "Billy" Hitchcock after Alfred Hitchcock , Alexander Chance Browning and Tod Waggner after Dracula director Tod Browning , Larry Murnau after Nosferatu director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau , Agent Schreck after the actor Max Schreck and George Waggner after the horror film producer George Waggner .
- Clear should be named Kimberly first. However, the name was later changed, and the protagonist from Final Destination 2 was given that name.
- The song that is played before almost everyone dies is the song Rocky Mountain High by John Denver , who was killed in a plane crash in real life. In other parts of the series, too, a special song is played before a death.
- There is an alternate ending to the film. This can be viewed on the DVD under Extras. In this alternate ending, Alex burns to death while saving Clear. Clear, who previously found out she was pregnant from Alex, has a baby nine months later. The film ends with Carter and Clear standing at the memorial stone for the victims of Flight 180 with their baby and dog. Then a leaf falls from the tree and the film ends.
Reviews
"They haven't made a great or distinguished film, but working within a tired genre with a talented cast, they've brought unusual substance and impact to the DTM."
"They (the producers) didn't make a big or significant movie, but working with a talented cast in a worn-out genre, they brought an unusually large amount of substance into the 'dead teenage movie'."
“Debut director James Wong, who has previously appeared as a screenwriter for several 'The X-Files' episodes, presents an imaginative genre work with 'Final Destination'. Wong shows tough shock elements that really deserve the name. The tension remains at a constantly high level. Quite macabre and not recommended for the faint of heart are the bizarre ways of death. The black humor is not neglected either. "
"'Final Destination' is well thought out, sometimes over-engineered and staged with a sovereignty that is unusual for a debut."
Awards
Final Destination received a Saturn Award for best horror film in 2001. Devon Sawa also received the award for best performance by a young actor. Ali Larter received the Young Hollywood Award in the Breakthrough Performance category .
Sequels
The film has been followed by four sequels so far:
The first sequel, Final Destination 2 , was produced under the direction of David R. Ellis and opened on January 31, 2003 in US cinemas and on March 6, 2003 in German cinemas. Ali Larter and Tony Todd returned to their roles for the film.
The second sequel, Final Destination 3 , opened in theaters on February 10, 2006 in the USA and on April 13 in Germany. This third part was produced by the director of the first part, James Wong . The only person who played in all three parts is Tony Todd, who this time can only be heard as the original voice of the devil.
Final Destination 4 was released on September 3, 2009. As in the second part, David R. Ellis directed. This part was - as it should have already happened in part 3 - produced in 3D .
Final Destination 5 was released in German cinemas on August 25, 2011. At the end of this film, the use of excerpts from the first part makes it clear that this is not a sequel, but a prequel of the same. This in turn shows that the incidents of the fifth part are the origins of the remaining parts, which explains the connections that are already conspicuous in almost all parts. In other words: the incidents in the fifth part trigger a chain that generates the incidents from parts one to four and partially merges seamlessly into one another (e.g. part five to part one).
Web links
- Final Destination in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Final destination in the online film database
- Final Destination atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Final Destination at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Final Destination. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on August 7, 2019 .
- ^ Roger Ebert: Film review of Final Destination . In: Chicago Sun-Times. March 17, 2000, accessed April 28, 2019.
- ^ Carsten Baumgardt: Film review of Final Destination. In: Filmstarts.de. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
- ^ Film review from Final Destination. In: Cineclub.de. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Final Destination 4 Trivia. In: Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Retrieved April 28, 2019 .