The Navigator's Flight
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Navigator's Flight |
| Original title | Flight of the Navigator |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Randal Kleiser |
| script | Mark H. Baker |
| production |
Dimitri Villard , Robert Wald |
| music | Alan Silvestri |
| camera | James Glennon |
| cut | Jeff Gourson |
| occupation | |
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The family film The Flight of the Navigator is an American science fiction film directed by Randal Kleiser from 1986 . Production took place in Fort Lauderdale and Norway. Co-producer was Viking Films. The German cinema premiere took place on July 21, 1988.
action
The twelve year old David is supposed to pick up his little brother. To do this, he has to walk through a forest. David sees an unusual luminous phenomenon. Curiously, he wants to look at them and falls down a slope where he passes out.
When he comes to, he walks home unsuspecting. Another family, unknown to him, now lives there. The distraught boy is handed over to the police, who eventually identify him as David Scott Freeman, who disappeared in 1978. However, David thinks he is still in 1978, the day he fell in the woods. But in fact it is already 1986.
The police track down David's parents and hand him over to his family. The Freemans are happy to have it back. But everyone is wondering where David has gone over the past eight years and why he hasn't aged. That's why some tests are being carried out on him at the local hospital, when suddenly schematic representations of a spaceship appear on the computer screens, which are clearly being sent out by David's brain.
Meanwhile, a UFO is found and recovered by NASA . This also learns from David. A connection is quickly suspected. David is brought to NASA for further investigation. Additional, mostly incomprehensible information appears on the computers. David cannot do anything with this information either. At night he is called by a voice looking for the "navigator".
David quickly realizes that he is being held captive by NASA. With the help of an employee, he finally manages to escape. The voice directs him to the spaceship, which is hidden in a hangar on the NASA site. NASA had not yet managed to get inside. But as soon as David stands in front of it, a hatch opens. He gets in before the guards can prevent this. The spaceship flies out of the hangar and initially hides in the sea from the radar .
The ship is equipped with a talking computer , which David simply calls Max. The computer was programmed to examine living things from other planets. These are brought to Max's home planet for exploration and then normally dropped back at exactly the same point in time as they entered the spaceship by means of a time jump. But the human condition might not be able to withstand this stress, so David was only brought back to earth eight years later.
However, Max has been damaged. He needs the information from David's brain to get back home. After the computer scans David, he brings him back to his parents. But NASA and the police are already waiting in front of the house. David realizes that in this timeline he will never be able to lead a normal life. He would be held captive and investigated all the time. So he asks Max to make the dangerous leap in time, even if it would cost his life.
David survived the leap in time . And so, when he came back in 1978, he could go on with his life. The memory of the adventure was not erased by Max, however.
criticism
“A science fiction adventure that cleverly balances emotion, suspense and comedy, whose technically excellent effects never come to the fore. A pleasure for young and old alike, with sometimes quite crazy ideas. "
Awards
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
He was also nominated for:
- 1987 Saturn Award: Best Science Fiction Film, Best Young Actor, Best Director
- 1987 Young Artist Award: Best Family Film
background
The Flight of the Navigator is one of the first films in which the process of morphing was used, seen in the scene in which the spaceship changes shape and in the one in which David boards the spaceship in the NASA hall. The film production almost failed in the middle of the film when the independent Producer Sales Organization went bankrupt in 1986. Walt Disney Productions secured all rights to the film.
Remake
In May 2009, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Disney was preparing a remake of the film. In November 2012 it was announced that Disney had hired the director of Journey of Love , Colin Trevorrow , and the producer Derek Connolly for the remake.
Web links
- Flight of the Navigator in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Navigator's Flight [1986 ]. A review by Jens Adrian on treffpunkt-kritik.de. Posted on July 25, 2014
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles Solomon: Commentary: Computer Graphics Shows Its Stuff , Los Angeles Times . August 1, 1987. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ↑ The Navigator's Flight. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 3, 2017 .
- ↑ imdb: Flight of the Navigator (1986) Trivia
- ↑ Borys Kit: Disney, Mandeville file new 'Flight' plan . May 26, 2009. Retrieved September 8, 2013.
- ↑ Jeff Sneider: Disney taps 'Safety' duo for 'Navigator' rewrite . Variety . November 27, 2012. Retrieved September 8, 2013.