Fletcher's visions
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Fletcher's visions |
| Original title | Conspiracy Theory |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 135 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Donner |
| script | Brian Helgeland |
| production |
Joel Silver Richard Donner |
| music | Carter Burwell |
| camera | John Schwartzman |
| cut |
Kevin Stitt Frank J. Urioste |
| occupation | |
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Fletcher's Visionen (Original title: Conspiracy Theory ) is an American feature film from 1997 . The director was Richard Donner , with Julia Roberts and Mel Gibson in the lead roles .
action
The New York taxi driver Jerry Fletcher has been stalking prosecutor Alice Sutton for some time, harassing her with apparently confused conspiracy theories. One day he is kidnapped and tortured by a man. Fletcher escapes after biting his tormentor's nose. Fletcher is arrested in the Justice Department foyer and taken to a hospital.
When Sutton arrives at the hospital, representatives from numerous federal agencies and organizations are already gathered there. Agent Lowry introduces himself as an FBI agent . Dr. Jonas is introduced as a psychiatrist working for the CIA , his nose is injured. He anticipates Alice's question about the injury by saying on his own initiative that it came from his dog. Fletcher asks Sutton to swap his medical records with those of his roommate, as he fears for his life. At first it remains unclear whether Sutton has granted him this wish.
The next morning Fletcher's roommate actually passed away. Fletcher escapes and gets stuck in a shaft. Sutton helps him break free. He escapes his pursuers from the hospital and hides in Sutton's car, which accompanies him to his apartment. This is soon visited by Jonas' men, whereupon Fletcher sets fire to the apartment, which has been prepared with fire accelerators, and escapes with Sutton. On the run, she sees a large picture of herself in a secret room under Fletcher's apartment, on which she is riding a horse. Having given up riding several months earlier, she realizes that Fletcher must have been watching her for a long time.
Sutton attempts to contact the five subscribers to Fletcher's publications on conspiracy theories. However, four of them have died under mysterious circumstances in the past 24 hours. The fifth address has a forwarding order to the Manhattan Criminal Court building . When Sutton wants to visit the subscriber, Dr. Jonas received.
It turns out that Jonas conducted secret and illegal mind control experiments for the CIA . Jerry Fletcher was among his victims, who were deliberately turned into murderers through torture and mental manipulation. The experiments were halted when someone used the technique to get John Hinckley, Jr. to attempt an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan . Dr. Jonas tells Sutton that he has to find out who was behind this attack. He then claims that Fletcher murdered her father a few months ago and is dangerous. As proof, he gives her a photo found in Fletcher's safe deposit box, which she shows with her father and which belongs to him.
Fletcher gets in touch with Sutton again and drives her to her father's farm. Once there, Fletcher remembers and confesses that he was programmed to kill and that Dr. Jonas was sent to kill her father. However, he couldn't do it and instead even made friends with the man. The act was carried out by someone else who was led by Dr. Jonas was commissioned. Fletcher could not prevent this. Then, with his last breaths, Sutton's father gave him a photo with the request to protect her. Fletcher had forgotten most of the events afterwards, but the memory of Sutton remained.
In the meantime, Jonas and his team have located Sutton's cell phone and can kidnap Fletcher. When Sutton's superior is shot, Sutton flees. The attempt to shoot them also fails. Meanwhile, Fletcher is held captive in a hospital wing that has not been used for years. Sutton finds him and calls Agent Lowry for help. He is also noticeably interested in Jerry Fletcher. Sutton discovers that Lowry is not really working for the FBI, but that his organization is "the uncle in the secret service family who is never talked about." There is an exchange of fire between Lowry and Jonas' men. Fletcher is led by Dr. Jonas shot down. Sutton then shoots Dr. Jonas. Fletcher, who is in mortal danger, is transported away in the rescue helicopter, but apparently succumbs to his injuries. Alice Sutton later visits his grave and places a badge on it that Fletcher gave her earlier. When she found this badge on the saddlecloth of her riding horse a short time later, she knew that Fletcher was alive and that his death was only faked to prove that he and Sutton were important witnesses to the remaining accomplices of Dr. Protecting Jonas.
background
- The film was produced by Warner Bros. and shot in large part in New York City. Production costs amounted to about 75 million US dollars .
- The secret project MK ULTRA of the CIA mentioned in the film really existed.
- In the torture scene, Fletcher is exposed to flashes of light, which is why moviegoers have been warned that the strobe effect could trigger epileptic seizures .
- In the middle of the film, Fletcher flees from his pursuers to an Orpheum Theater . The film Ladyhawke (German title Der Tag des Falken ) is shown in this cinema, also produced by Warner Bros. , also directed by Richard Donner .
- Fletcher is compulsive to buy copies of the novel Catchers in the Rye - a book referred to by some particularly well-known criminals, including Lennon assassins Mark David Chapman and Charles Manson .
synchronization
Fletcher's visions were dubbed by FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron .
| actor | German speaker | role |
|---|---|---|
| Mel Gibson | Elmar Wepper | Jerry Fletcher |
| Julia Roberts | Daniela Hoffmann | Alice Sutton |
| Patrick Stewart | Ernst Meincke | Dr. Jonas |
| Cylk Cozart | Stefan Fredrich | Agent Lowry |
| Peter Koch | Hartmut Neugebauer | Fire chief |
| Terry Alexander | Flip | |
| Mik Scriba | Manfred Erdmann | Hospital policeman |
| Alex McArthur | Philipp Moog | cynic |
Reviews
Mick LaSalle wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle on August 8, 1997 that the film began to disappoint after 20 minutes. The fun was destroyed by Fletcher's role as a victim. The direction makes up for the "limp" plot in part. LaSalle praised the performances by Julia Roberts and Mel Gibson.
SPIEGEL ONLINE wrote on November 7, 2011: "Fast-paced soul trip with two great stars"
The lexicon of the international film judged: "What begins as an ironic puzzle about the American conspiracy mania turns out all too quickly to be an experienced, quite conventional thriller, whose filigree picture compositions find no correspondence in the course of the plot."
Awards
Mel Gibson , Julia Roberts and Patrick Stewart won the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for their roles . Brian Helgeland was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for the script .
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating "valuable".
Web links
- Fletcher's vision in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fletcher's vision at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Fletcher's vision at Metacritic (English)
- Fletcher's visions in the online film database
- Fletcher's visions in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fletcher’s visions. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on October 5, 2016 .
- ^ Film review by Mick LaSalle
- ^ Criticism from SPIEGEL ONLINE
- ↑ Fletcher's Visions in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Fletcher's visions on fbw-filmbeval.com