Free Willy - Call of Freedom
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| German title | Free Willy - Call of Freedom |
| Original title | Free Willy |
| Country of production | France , United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK o. A. |
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| Director | Simon Wincer |
| script | Keith A. Walker |
| production | Jennie Lew Virtue , New Regency |
| music | Basil Poledouris |
| camera | Robbie Greenberg |
| cut | O. Nicholas Brown |
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Free Willy is a animal feature film directed by Simon Wincer and shot in the United States in 1993 .
action
The film is about the friendship of the boy Jesse with the orca (killer whale) Willy. The orca was captured as a cub. After Jesse leaves smears in an amusement park, he has to clean them up and becomes friends with Willy and the park staff. The boy teaches the orca, which is considered difficult, tricks and is allowed to perform with him. But the performance fails and Jesse decides to run away from his foster parents to look for his mother.
When Jesse says goodbye to Willy, he discovers that the park owner wants to kill Willy in order to get insurance money. Together with Rae and Randolph, who are friends of the park, he saves the orca in a dramatic action and releases it in the sea. When the pursuers block his way into the open sea, Willy manages to escape to freedom with a giant leap.
background
The real name of the Orca Willy was Keiko and was discovered by the producers of the film at the Reino Aventura amusement park in Mexico City . The great success of the film led to the formation of the Free Willy Keiko Foundation , which fought for the release of the orca. Although the group succeeded in buying Keiko with donations after the third film and abandoning it in the Atlantic , the orca was not used to life in freedom and died a year and a half later of pneumonia off the coast of Norway .
criticism
“ Elaborately staged family film that takes time for its story and its people. Due to the convincing performance of the acting, the sentimentality emerging towards the end is absorbed. "
Sequels
The film received two sequels :
and another non-consecutive sequel:
In addition, a cartoon series was created in 1994 .
Awards
- In 1994 the film received a gold screen .
- Jason James Richter received the Young Artist Award in 1994 in the Best Youth Actor Leading Role in a Motion Picture Drama category.
- Composer Basil Poledouris won the BMI Film Music Award .
- The film received the EMA Award in 1994. He also received the Genesis Award .
Others
There was a reference to Free Willy twice in the Simpsons :
- In the episode Bart Unpacks (Season 5), Homer Simpson sees the film in a hotel. However, Willy fails the leap into freedom, instead he crushes Jesse.
- In the episode DD-Der GG-Geister DD-Dad (Halloween episode of season 12) Lisa Simpson frees a dolphin named Snorky from a dolphinarium. This has fatal consequences: The dolphins then band together and drive people into the sea.
Web links
- Free Willy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Free Willy - Call of Freedom atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Sound carrier with the film music
Individual evidence
- ↑ Free Willy - Call of Freedom. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .