Frankenweenie (2012)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Frankenweenie |
| Original title | Frankenweenie |
 | |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 10 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tim Burton |
| script | John August |
| production |
Allison Abbate , Tim Burton |
| music | Danny Elfman |
| camera | Peter Sorg |
| cut |
Chris Lebenzon , Mark Solomon |
Frankenweenie is an IMAX - 3D stop-motion film in black and white from 2012 . It is a remake of the short film of the same name from 1984, which was also directed by Tim Burton . Frankenweenie contains elements from the genres of comedy , horror and science fiction and parodies the novel Frankenstein . The film was produced by the Walt Disney Company and marketed by its subsidiary Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group .
Premiere Frankenweenie on 20 September 2012 at the Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. The film opened in United States cinemas on October 5, 2012; Frankenweenie was published in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on January 24, 2013.
action
The student Victor Frankenstein is a young filmmaker who lives with his parents in the city of New Holland. While Victor is playing baseball , his dog Sparky runs after the ball, is run over by a car and dies. Inspired by his science teacher Rzykruski, who uses electrical impulses to move the muscles of dead frogs, the depressed Victor tries to revive his dead dog in the same way, which he succeeds.
Victor's school neighbor Edgar Gore notices this and wants to find out how Victor worked the miracle, also because a science competition has been called that Edgar and others are determined to win. Edgar threatens to expose Victor's act. Inevitably, Victor now carries out another experiment together with Edgar. They bring a goldfish to life, which is invisible, which Edgar then shows to his classmates. The students bring more animals to life, but they become monsters, while Victor's parents are dismayed to find that Sparky is alive again.
When Victor notices that the resuscitated animals are attacking people, he helps his classmates. The animals can be eliminated or returned to their original behavior by electric shocks . Meanwhile, the townspeople find out about Sparky and hunt the dog. He runs towards a windmill to help the mayor's niece, Elsa, and her poodle Persephone, who were kidnapped by a mutation from the cat Mr. Whiskers and a bat, and Victor also runs after them. While Victor is at the mill, the mob accidentally set it on fire. Victor passes out and is saved by Sparky. However, Sparky is dragged back to the mill by the creature. After a short fight, a beam pierces it. Shortly thereafter, the mill collapses and Sparky dies again. The neighbors, realizing their mistake, bring Sparky back to life with their car batteries.
background
production
The film was filmed with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera at 3 Mills Studios, a studio in East London . The images were later converted to 3D and IMAX formats. Burton, who had the animation film shot in black and white, got Disney's approval without any problems. According to him, this gives the film “an additional, slightly strange emotional depth that would have been different in color”.
As in many of Tim Burton's films, the music was composed by Danny Elfman . The individual figures were made by hand. In total, more than 200 dolls were built for the film, including 18 Victors and 15 Sparkys. The duplicates were necessary because several animators were always working on different scenes at the same time and repairs had to be made to the puppets every now and then. The locations were modeled on areas from Burton's childhood.
synchronization
The synchronization was commissioned by FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH in Munich. Solveig Duda wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue. Christine Roche translated the lyrics into German, Thomas Amper directed the musical recordings.
| role | Original synchronization | German dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|
| Mrs. Frankenstein | Catherine O'Hara | Melanie Manstein |
| Weird girl | Catherine O'Hara | Farina Brock |
| Victor Frankenstein | Charlie Tahan | Niklas Münnighoff |
| Mr. Frankenstein | Martin Short | Jakob Riedl |
| Nassor | Martin Short | Benedikt Gutjan |
| Mr. Rzykruski | Martin Landau | Erich Ludwig |
| Elsa Van Helsing | Winona Ryder | Laura Maire |
| bob | Robert Capron | Leonard Rosemann |
| Mr. Burgemeister | Tom Kenny | Alexander Duda |
marketing
The first images for the film were released in October 2011. The first cinema trailer was released on March 6, 2012. The first teaser trailer was released shortly beforehand.
Gross profit
In the United States came Frankenweenie opening weekend with a box office earnings of 11.5 million dollars in fifth place. With a total box office income of almost 50 million US dollars so far, the film flopped, which required 39 million for production costs.
Reviews
"FRANKENWEENIE is an enchanting introduction to older horror classics especially for the younger cinema audience and shines with a sympathetic puppet ensemble, in which Sparky in particular was able to win the hearts of the audience. It is refreshing to see Tim Burton on the big screens again with such a heartwarming work of art after rather mediocre film productions like DARK SHADOWS or ALICE IM WUNDERLAND. True to the motto: Back to the roots! "
“There's a lot to discover and enjoy about 'Frankenweenie', its 1950s small town populated by grotesque cartoon characters, or its flirts with the trash and B-movie history that is so essential for Burton. Monster and science fiction films, old-fashioned horror, slapstick humor: very different from Hazanavicius and Scorsese , Frankenweenie is absolutely lowbrow, he does not mourn the decline of a great, valuable culture, but celebrates the resistance of a cheap one. "
“It's nice that Tim Burton's long dry spell with films as outrageous as they were unsuccessful, whose aesthetic digital gloss no longer showed any of the material resistance of earlier Burton films and instead merely told of technical feasibility in every sealed picture, after the first glimmer of hope, 'Dark Shadows' can finally be regarded as finished ... With this, Burton not only succeeds in making one of the most beautiful homages to classic horror cinema, but also to the art of hand-made film, which was threatened with extinction a few years ago. The signs are mounting that the stop-motion film is not yet a case for the graveyard of film history. People like to join in the cheers: 'It's Alive!' "
“Tim Burton succeeds impressively in combining his outsider theme with a coming-of-age image and the flair of a horror film from the early last century. The dreamy seriousness is interwoven with the love-bursting devotion to his characters from 'Edward Scissorhands' and the casual playfulness of the adventures from 'Pee-Wee's crazy adventure' - and ultimately develops a cinema experience like Tim Burton's still was never the case. "
“Like the seamed Sparky, Burton's film is patchwork. He packs the many familiar motifs into a predictable dramaturgy without adding anything new. But just like the resuscitated dog, FRANKENWEENIE is bursting with life. The elements are so tightly interwoven with so much charm, the sets and dolls are so lovingly designed, the story is told so stringently that nothing begins to smell. The typical mixture of gothic and humor has been a long time since Burton got that right. "
Awards (selection)
- 2012: New York Film Critics Circle Award ( Best Animated Film )
- 2012: Boston Society of Film Critics for best animated film
- 2012: Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards / Best Animation
- 2013: Oscar : Nomination in the Best Animated Feature Film category
- 2013: Golden Globe Awards 2013 : Nomination in the category Best Animated Film
- 2013: Saturn Awards 2013 : Best Music and Best Animated Film
Web links
- Official website
- Frankenweenie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Expert opinion of the German film and media rating
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Frankenweenie . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2012 (PDF; test number: 135 600 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Frankenweenie . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b Oliver Lysiak: A visit to Frankenweenie. moviepilot.de, October 21, 2012, accessed January 4, 2013 .
- ↑ Technical specifications for Frankenweenie. IMDB, accessed January 4, 2013 .
- ↑ Carmine Carpenito: Frankenweenie - Tim Burton's stop-motion adventure also starts in 3D IMAX cinemas. BlairWitch.de, March 6, 2012, accessed January 4, 2013 .
- ↑ a b 'Frankenweenie' only in black and white. spielfilm.de, October 7, 2012, accessed January 4, 2013 .
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Frankenweenie. Retrieved February 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Torsten Schrader: Frankenweenie - The first pictures for the stop motion adventure by Tim Burton. BlairWitch.de, October 27, 2011, accessed January 4, 2013 .
- ↑ Angelina Rieger: Frankenweenie by Tim Burton - German trailer. (No longer available online.) Negativ-Film.de, March 6, 2012, archived from the original on November 24, 2012 ; Retrieved January 4, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Saskia Rohrmann: Frankenweenie by Tim Burton - first teaser trailer. (No longer available online.) Negativ-Film.de, March 2, 2012, archived from the original on July 19, 2013 ; Retrieved January 4, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Frankenweenie - budget and box office results. IMDB, accessed January 4, 2013 .
- ^ Josephine Drews: Review: Frankenweenie. Kino7.de, January 21, 2013, archived from the original on January 23, 2013 ; Retrieved October 16, 2013 .
- ↑ Klingler: Frankenweenie. critic.de - the film page, November 6, 2012, accessed on January 3, 2013 .
- ↑ Thomas Groh: Shaky life of its own. Perlentaucher, January 23, 2013, accessed January 23, 2013 .
- ↑ Maximilian Kosing: The dark side of the moon. CEREALITY - Magazine for Film Culture, June 4, 2013, accessed on October 3, 2013 .
- ^ Patrick Seyboth: Frankenweenie. epd-film.de, January 1, 2013, accessed April 8, 2015 .
