Fritz the Cat (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Fritz the Cat |
| Original title | Fritz the Cat |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 75 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ralph Bakshi |
| script | Ralph Bakshi |
| production | Steve Krantz |
| music |
Ed Bogas Ray Shanklin |
| camera |
Ted C. Bemiller Gene Borghi |
| cut | Run Reynolds |
| occupation | |
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Fritz the Cat is a 1972 cartoon directed by Ralph Bakshi . It is based on the comic Fritz the Cat by Robert Crumb .
action
The film adaptation was a satire on college life in the 1960s : while Fritz does not attend lectures, he is actively involved in the sexual revolution . He invites several girls to an orgy in his booth, consumes drugs and escapes a police raid. He is hiding in a synagogue where those present are approving the US decision to send more weapons to Jerusalem. Then he returns home. After deciding to turn away from his "boring" life by setting fire to the apartment, he escapes to Harlem and mingles with the African Americans (shown as black crows). There he met the crows Duke, with whom he befriends, and Bertha, an ex-prostitute and drug dealer. Drugged by several joints , he lives out his sexual fantasies with full-blown Bertha in a junkyard before, still in a drug intoxication, animating the residents of Harlem to revolution, without having a clear reason or goal. This ends in an argument between the African American and the police, in which Duke is shot. He later made the acquaintance of the hare Blue, a biker and neo-Nazi . He is a member of a terrorist group that is planning an attack on a power plant and uses Fritz to do so. Fritz watches as the members rape Blue's girlfriend, who tries to take him away from the meeting to have dinner with him. When he stands up for her, he is hit in the face with a candle. Soon after, he is sent to the power station to put the dynamite there. Fritz suddenly changes his mind and tries to remove it. However, he does not make it and is killed in the explosion, but at the end he is shown again in a hospital in a last sex orgy, probably only as a dying fantasy.
background
The film was rated in the USA for the first time for an animated film with an X (adults only). Still, it was a commercial success and attracted audiences not only because of its shock potential, but also because of its appeal to the "love generation" of the 1960s. The film was initially approved by the FSK for ages 18 and over in Germany , but was downgraded to age 16 and over in a later video release.
Robert Crumb has distanced himself from this implementation. To prevent further exploitation against his will, he let Fritz become the victim of an assassination attempt in a comic, in which he is murdered by an ostrich with an ice ax. Critics and audiences were more benevolent of the film, however, and it is considered to be the trailblazer for animated films aimed specifically at adults.
Neither Bakshi nor Crumb were involved in the sequel, published in 1974 under the title The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat , and the film could not follow the success of the predecessor. Directed by Robert Taylor and written by Taylor, Fred Halliday and Eric Monte . Both films shared the voice of Skip Hinnant as Fritz. In contrast to the first part, scenes in the German version of the second part have been cut out and falsified by the synchronization.
synchronization
| role | English speaker | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Fritz the Cat | Skip Hinnant | Norbert Langer |
| Blue | John McCurry | Stefan Behrens |
| Duke | Charles Spidar | Heinz Theo branding |
| Groupie 1
Groupie 2 |
Mary Dean | Almut Eggert |
| police officer | Phil Seuling | Edgar Ott |
| Policeman Ralph | Ralph Bakshi | Gerd Duwner |
| Winston Schwartz | Judy Engels | Gisela Fritsch |
| Ruark | ? | Harry Wüstenhagen |
| Big Bertha | Rosetta LeNoire | Tilly Lauenstein |
| Gay in the park | John McCurry | Horst Gentzen |
| Pub goers | John McCurry
Rosetta LeNoire |
Martin Hirthe |
| Harriet | Judy Engles | Ursula Heyer |
| Chief revolutionary | ? | Friedrich W. Building School |
| Rabbis | ? | Eduard Wandrey |
| students | ? | Hans-Werner Bussinger |
| Truck driver | ? | Hans-Dieter Zeidler |
reception
Fritz the Cat inspired many animated filmmakers through his unconventionality and cheeky portrayal, including the Belgian Picha , who often bowed quietly but noticeably to Ralph Bakshi and Robert Crumb in his three films Tarzoon - Schande des Jungle , The Missing Link and The Big Bang .
Even with the Simpsons joined Fritz the Cat as part of an Itchy - & - Scratchy episode already, which it also takes on the style of the original.
Individual evidence
- ^ Stay Up Late with the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Summer Midnight Movies Series , accessed May 5, 2012
- ^ OFDb - version of Fritz the Cat (1972) , accessed on May 5, 2012
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Fritz the Cat. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Itchy and Scratchy meet Fritz the Cat in Simpsonspedia
Web links
- Fritz the Cat in the Internet Movie Database (English)