Final Fantasy: The forces within you

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Movie
German title Final Fantasy: The forces within you
Original title Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Country of production United States ,
Japan
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK / JMK 12
Rod
Director Hironobu Sakaguchi
Motonori Sakakibara
script Al Reinert
production Jun Aida
music Elliot Goldenthal
camera Motonori Sakakibara
cut Christopher S. Capp
occupation

Original English voices

German speakers

Final Fantasy: The Powers in You (English title: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within ; Japanese title: フ ァ イ ナ ル フ ァ ン タ ジ ーFainaru Fantajī or FINAL FANTASY ) is a film by the Japanese director Hironobu Sakaguchi from 2001. It is the first fully computer-animated feature film with a largely realistic representation of people. The film opened in German cinemas on August 23, 2001.

action

In 2031 the earth is overrun and almost completely devastated by an invasion of extraterrestrial beings called phantoms , whose own world has been destroyed (the film is set in 2065, Dr. Ross mentions that the phantoms reached earth 34 years ago) . The last big cities are under huge protective shields.

The scientist Dr. Aki Ross has set himself the goal of destroying the aliens. Your mentor, Dr. Sid, found out that the phantoms create a specific bio-etheric wave pattern. He believes that this pattern can be neutralized by a mirror-image counter-pattern and thus the phantoms can be destroyed. To create this wave pattern, he and Dr. Ross, however, has the eight matching components, which he calls spirits ; bio-etheric wave patterns created by organisms. While Dr. Ross isolates the sixth spirit in New York, is attacked by the phantoms and can only barely be rescued by a group of marines, the "Deep Eyes". Captain of the Marines is her ex-boyfriend, Gray Edwards.

While Dr. Ross and Dr. While working on the acquisition of the spirits, the military has also developed a weapon against the phantoms: the Zeus cannon. At a council meeting, General Hein, the head of the Zeus project and the two doctors discuss the use of their respective plans with the council members. Driven into a corner by Hein's argumentation - he demands proof of the theory - Dr. Ross that she was infected by a phantom, but that the infectious particles in her body are prevented from spreading by the partial wave pattern. Hein has exactly what he needs to imprison those who stand in the way of his plan. When getting the next spirit, he lets Dr. Shadowing Ross. His people are killed, but actually arrested when they return. While in custody, they puzzle over the real reason the phantoms are on earth. It turns out it was never an invasion. The phantoms waged a war on their planet that ended with the destruction of the planet. A large chunk of the planet, on which phantoms still lived, flew through space and hit earth after a long journey. From the once living phantoms only their spirits are left, who now walk on earth.

In order to obtain approval to use the Zeus cannon, Hein sabotages the New York barrier. However, since the phantoms only consist of their bio-etheric field, they do not remain in a section of the city, as Hein had planned, but spread out by moving through the bio-etheric energy lines. Due to a partial failure of the energy supply, Dr. Ross, Dr. Sid and the "Deep Eyes" escape and make their way to the hangar to leave and get the last remaining spirit. At the time of take-off, however, only Captain Edwards of the "Deep Eyes" is still alive; all others have fallen victim to the phantoms.

While Hein is leaving for the Zeus station, Dr. Ross and Dr. Sid the last spirit in the area of ​​the crater where the phantoms are. As Hein shoots at the crater, the vehicle from which Dr. Ross and Captain Edwards attempting to project the wave pattern are destroyed. Only Dr. Ross's breastplate, which emits the wave to contain the infection, is still available. Since direct contact with the phantoms Dr. If Ross would kill, Captain Edwards sacrifices himself by offering himself as an "antenna" for the wave. Dr. Ross projects the wave, and Captain Edwards makes direct contact with the phantoms. He is killed, but the wave has the desired effect and neutralizes the phantoms.

production

The film caused a sensation during its production, as it was the first time that computer-generated people were presented in a largely lifelike manner. The intensive use of motion capture , by means of which the movements of real actors can be transferred to virtual characters, played an important role .

Production costs were around $ 130 million, plus another $ 30 million for advertising and marketing. Due to its worldwide revenue of around $ 85 million, the film became a commercial failure, but it was defeated by a belated success v. a. cover the production costs in DVD format. A sequel and a prequel were originally planned.

criticism

“Computer-generated actors with photo-realistic features are the specialty of the science fiction film, which visually tries to transfer the principles of a popular video game onto the big screen. The graphically quite ambitious attempt, however, clearly suffers from the repetition of uniform battle scenes, which is all too tiring in the long run. "

- Lexicon of international film

Others

  • Although the film has "Final Fantasy" in its title, there are only vague thematic relationships to the series of games of the same name .
  • The figure of Dr. Sid continues the Final Fantasy tradition of always having a character named Cid (read with "s" in this case). The absence of Wedge and Biggs breaks with this tradition.
  • The film ran for the first time on German television on July 18, 2004 on ProSieben .
  • In 2005, another Final Fantasy film was made with the title Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children , which, however, has nothing in common with "The Powers in You".

literature

  • Patrick Steinwidder: “Perfect Girls. Discourse analysis using the example of computer game films ”, in: Medien-Impulse 12 (2003) 46, pp. 39–47.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Final Fantasy: The Powers Within You. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used