Flatland (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Flatland |
| Original title | Flatland |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ladd Ehlinger Jr. |
| script | Tom Whalen |
| production | FX Vitolo |
| music | Mark Slater |
| cut | Ladd Ehlinger Jr. |
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Flatland is an American computer animation film from 2007 and a film adaptation of the book Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott , published in 1884 .
action
The inhabitants of Flatland, a world with only two spatial dimensions , are regular polygons , with the number of corners representing the social rank. Triangles form the social lower class and squares form the middle class.
One night the main actor in the film, A Square, dreams of a one-dimensional world. In this world, points and lines of different lengths live on a straight line. A Square tries to explain the principle of two dimensions to the king of this world, but is met with ignorance.
A short time later, a mysterious guest from the third dimension appears in Flatland. He takes A Square into the three-dimensional world and gives it the task of spreading the good news of the third dimension in its two-dimensional world.
When A Square tries to spread the message of a third dimension in his two-dimensional world, he is persecuted as a heretic.
Production and publication
The film was based on a script by Tom Whalen and directed by Ladd Ehlinger Jr. The specially founded Flatland Productions functioned as the studio. The responsible producer was FX Vitolo . The music was composed by Mark Slater and the editing was done by director Ehlinger himself, as was the lead role, A Square. A Hexagon was voiced by Megan Colleen , President Circle by Greg Trent, and A Sphere by Simon Hammond .
Work on the film began in 2004 and lasted three years, with the animations largely being made by Ehlinger himself. The project was based on Ehlinger's initiative. He wanted to implement Edwin Abbott Abbott's book in a modernized way, preserving the social criticism, but updating the topics that he perceived as Victorian. In his film adaptation, he focused on technological development and fear of war - especially in Spaceland.
A first version was released on DVD on January 14, 2007, and was shown on May 12 at the New Haven Underground Film Festival. Demonstrations also followed in Canada, Great Britain and Russia. Ehlinger, who initially took on this task himself, also used social networks such as YouTube and MySpace to market the DVDs . International sales have been with IndieFlix since 2010 .
reception
At SciFi.com, Paul Di Fillippo wrote about Flatland that Ehlinger's team had succeeded extremely well in implementing the template as a film. Flatland is "entertaining, enlightening and educational". Despite Ehlinger's limited possibilities, the visual implementation of the various-dimensional figures is "well thought out, beautiful and easy to understand". Only the too frequent use of textual explanations is disturbing. Overall, the implementation is still true to its template and carefully adjusts it to the present day. Aylish Wood, who reviewed the film for Science Fiction Film and Television, found the subtitles equally disturbing . Despite the well-functioning use of color and music to convey the characters' emotions, the film was only mediocre due to the occasionally unsuccessful cut, too long and overloaded content.
Lila Marz Harper compares the film in Mathematics in Popular Culture with the short film Flatland: The Movie : Ehlinger's work, which was released in the same year, is more radical in that it is closer to the original and shows the characterization of children and discrimination against women addressed in it, as well as more Details from everyday life of geometric shapes.
Web links
- Flatland in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Paul Di Fillippo: Flatland (review) . SciFi.com. March 1, 2007. Archived from the original on March 4, 2009.
- ↑ a b Ladd Ehlinger Jr .: From Alabama to “Flatland” (interview). In: http://filmthreat.com . March 7, 2007, accessed May 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Aylish Wood: Flatland the Film (review) Archived from the original on November 29, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Liverpool University Press (via muse.jhu.edu) (Ed.): Science Fiction Film and Television . 1, No. 1, 2008, pp. 167-171. doi : 10.1353 / sff.0.0003 . Retrieved October 29, 2012.
- ↑ Lila Marz Harper: Flatland in Popular Culture . In: Mathematics in Popular Culture: Essays on Appearances in Film, Fiction . McFarland & Company , 2012, ISBN 978-0786449781 , p. 300 (accessed October 29, 2012).
