Guardians of the Galaxy
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| German title | Guardians of the Galaxy | ||
| Original title | Guardians of the Galaxy | ||
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| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 2014 | ||
| length | 122 minutes | ||
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| Director | James Gunn | ||
| script | James Gunn, Nicole Perlman |
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| production | Kevin Feige | ||
| music | Tyler Bates | ||
| camera | Ben Davis | ||
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Guardians of the Galaxy is an American science fiction - action film from the year 2014. It is the film adaptation of a comic book of the same name of the publisher Marvel and is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe . James Gunn has both directed and written the script. The film premiered in Los Angeles on July 21, 2014 . The official theatrical release in the USA was on August 1, 2014, in Germany on August 28, 2014.
action
In 1988, little Peter Quill's mother died of a brain tumor. Before she dies, she indicates that Peter's father, whom he himself never met, was a "being made of light" and gives him a gift. When Peter, desperate about his mother's passing, runs out of the hospital, he is kidnapped by a spaceship.
26 years later, Peter, who is now cockyly calling himself Star-Lord , has become a Ravager , a space looter and smuggler who is part of the gang of the alien Yondu Udonta. Very little of his life on earth has survived, including the last present from his mother, which he has not yet opened, as well as an old Walkman and a cassette of old songs that his mother put together for him. One day he and Yondu are given the task of recovering a metal ball, the so-called orb , from a ruined city. But as soon as Peter has the ball in hand, he is attacked by Korath and his men, followers of a certain Ronan. Peter manages to escape; he betrays Yondu and wants to sell the orb to the fence who commissioned the recovery on his own account. In revenge for this betrayal, Yondu offers a high bounty for Peter's capture.
Peter has no idea that behind Ronan is the character Ronan the Prosecutor , a member of the Kree people and a fanatical enemy of the inhabitants of the planet Xandar. The inhabitants of this influential, advanced world negotiated a peace treaty with the Kree some time ago, but Ronan does not want to accept this because he lost his father and grandfather in the previous war against Xandar. In order to satisfy his thirst for revenge, Ronan has concluded an agreement with the insane conqueror Thanos : Thanos has promised to destroy Xandar for Ronan in order to obtain the orb. As a guardian and pledge for this alliance, Thanos has placed his adopted daughters Gamora and Nebula, assassins converted into cyborgs , at Ronan's side. When he learns that Korath has failed in his task of recovering the orb, he gives in to Gamora's urging and sends her to retrieve the object.
Meanwhile, Peter meets the fence in his shop on Xandar. When he hears that Ronan is after the Orb too, he abruptly breaks off the conversation and pushes Peter out of his shop. Outside, Peter is attacked by both Gamora, who wants to take the Orb, and the bounty hunters Rocket and Groot. The two, a hyper-intelligent, selfish raccoon and a tree-like creature, are after Yondu's premium for Peter's capture. In the end, all four are arrested by the Nova Corps, Xandar's security forces, and put in Kyln, a prison in the middle of space. There, Gamora, who has a bad reputation for her connection to Thanos and Ronan, is threatened with death by several other inmates, including Drax, who lost his family to Ronan and swore revenge on him for it. Peter, who has taken a liking to Gamora, frees her from this situation. Gamora, who hates Thanos from the beginning for the death of her people at his hand, suggests in return that the Orb be sold to someone she knows and that the substantial reward be shared among themselves.
After an adventurous rescue operation devised by Rocket, the four manage to break out of prison with Drax. You go to Knowhere , a crime- riddled mine colony, and there come into contact with Gamora's customer, the collector Taneleer Tivan , who hoards the rarest and strangest things in the universe. Tivan explains to them that the orb is actually a casket for an infinity stone, one of six jewels that absorbed the concentrated energy of the cosmos before the big bang and therefore represent a source of priceless energy, but which only very few Being can be controlled. One of Tivan's servants tries to take the stone, but is destroyed by the energy of the jewel along with the collector's collection. Determined not to let the stone fall into the wrong hands, Gamora decides to hand the stone over to the Nova Corps. Peter agrees to this request.
Meanwhile, Drax, drunk and grieving over the loss of his family, has radioed Ronan to challenge him to a fight. Ronan, who is now personally looking for Gamora and Orb, immediately sets off for Knowhere. At the same time, Yondu also followed Peter's trail to Knowhere. Drax attacks Ronan, but is far inferior to him and is left to die by his enemy, but is saved by Groot. Gamora, supported by Peter and Rocket, tries to reach Peter's ship with the orb in a small spaceship, but is pushed out into space and shot down by her sister Nebula. While Ronan retrieves the orb, Peter selflessly saves Gamora, who is unconscious in the vacuum, before the two are picked up by Yondu's gang. The angry Yondu finds it difficult to convince Peter to ally himself with him against Ronan and prevent him from wiping out the galaxy with the power of the Infinity Stone. Together they work out a plan to board Ronan's ship and stop the mad warlord.
Meanwhile, Ronan, drunk by the temptation of the power of the Infinity Stone, has given up his trade with Thanos and now wants to destroy Xandar personally. Peter manages to warn the xandarian authorities of the impending danger and, with the support of the Nova Corps, confront Ronan's forces. Peter, Gamora, Drax and Groot manage to break into Ronan's ship and get through to him, but the infinity stone has made it practically invincible. Rocket comes to the aid of his friends by breaking into Ronan's ship with his glider. However, critical systems are destroyed and the ship crashes on Xandar's surface. Groot grows a cocoon of branches to protect his friends from the impact, but he himself is destroyed in the process. Thanks to the power of the Infinity Stone, Ronan also survived the crash unscathed. As he prepares to destroy Xandar now, Peter distracts him so that Rocket and Drax can remove the stone from Ronan's hammer. Peter manages to get to the stone in front of Ronan and takes it in his hand, whereupon his energy flow passes through him. Gamora, Drax and Rocket make physical contact with Peter, so that the energy is divided between them and thereby weakened. Eventually, Peter can use the Infinity Stone to destroy Ronan.
Following their heroic deed, Peter and his friends are pardoned by Xandars Chancellor Nova Prime and the Infinity Stone is deposited in Chancellor Nova Prime's safe. Peter's ship, which was destroyed in battle, will be restored and given to him as a thank you gift. Rocket has found a member of Groot who over time will grow into a new version of his old friend. At the same time, it is revealed that Peter's father is an alien and that Yondu, who was actually commissioned to bring Peter to his father after his mother's death, broke the agreement. In the end, Peter finds the courage to open his mother's present: another cassette with old pop songs. He and his new family, now known as the Guardians of the Galaxy , set out on new adventures.
In one post-credit scene , the collector sits despondently in the ruins of his collection and has to put up with a few snappy remarks from one of his surviving collectibles, Howard the Duck .
production
Staff and cast
The director took James Gunn . Kevin Feige was the producer .
Chris Pratt has taken on the role of Peter Quill, who calls himself Star-Lord. Zoe Saldana and Karen Gillan took on the roles of Thanos' adoptive daughters Gamora and Nebula. Lee Pace took on the role of Ronan, Djimon Hounsou that of his follower Korath and Benicio del Toro that of the artifact collector Taneleer Tivan. Dave Bautista plays the revengeful Drax, Glenn Close Xandar's chancellor Nova Prime, Mikaela Hoover her assistant and John C. Reilly the corpsman Rhomann Dey. Michael Rooker took on the role of gang leader Yondu Udonta and Peter Serafinowicz that of Denarian Saal. Vin Diesel lends his voice to the bounty hunter Groot and Bradley Cooper to his colleague Rocket in the film . Nathan Fillion lends his voice to a prison inmate.
Chris Pratt plays Peter Quill / Star Lord
Zoe Saldana plays Gamora
Lee Pace plays Ronan
Dave Bautista plays Drax
Glenn Close plays Nova Prime
John C. Reilly plays Rhomann Dey
Benicio del Toro plays Taneleer Tivan
Djimon Hounsou plays Korath
Karen Gillan plays Nebula
Mikaela Hoover plays Nova Prime's assistant
Nathan Fillion lends his voice to a prison inmate
Peter Serafinowicz plays Denarian Hall
Producer Kevin Feige
Director James Gunn
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Remarks
The Collector belongs to a group of cosmic villains called Elders of the Universe and first appeared in Avengers # 28 (1966). In one scene, the collector explains to the Guardians what an Infinity Stone is. Two other artifacts from earlier Marvel films can be seen in the background: the Tesseract from Marvel's The Avengers and the Aether from Thor - The Dark Kingdom . As in many Marvel films, Stan Lee makes one of his cameo appearances . He can be seen in the first Xandar scene in the film when Rocket is watching him through a telescope.
synchronization
The German dubbing of the film was done by Film- & Fernseh-Synchron in Berlin. The dialogue book is by Klaus Bickert , the dialogue director was Björn Schalla .
After Chris Pratt was initially spoken of by Daniel Fehlow in the first trailer , who had already dubbed Pratt in several films, Leonhard Mahlich finally took over the dubbing of the main role. Zoë Saldaña was spoken by Tanja Geke as usual . Two of the protagonists are computer-animated, the raccoon Rocket, originally spoken by Bradley Cooper and dubbed by Fahri Yardım and Groot, a living tree that only speaks one sentence with one exception (“I am Groot”). Vin Diesel did the dubbing in the original English version and in five other languages.
| role | actor | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Quill / Star-Lord | Chris Pratt | Leonhard Mahlich |
| Gamora | Zoe Saldana | Tanja Geke |
| Groot | Vin Diesel | Hans-Eckart Eckhardt |
| Rocket | Bradley Cooper | Fahri Yardım |
| Drax | Dave Bautista | Alexander Duda |
| Ronan | Lee Pace | Sascha Rotermund |
| Thanos | Josh Brolin | Klaus-Dieter Klebsch |
| Nova Prime | Glenn Close | Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif |
| Corpsman Dey | John C. Reilly | Michael Iwannek |
| Collector | Benicio del Toro | Torsten Michaelis |
| Korath | Djimon Hounsou | Daniel Zillmann |
| Denarian Hall | Peter Serafinowicz | Axel Malzacher |
| Yondu Udonta | Michael Rooker | Tobias Lelle |
reception
Gross profit
On its opening weekend in the United States, the film grossed over 94 million US dollars, surpassing The Bourne Ultimatum from 2007 (69 million dollars) as the best premiere to date in the cinema month of August, and thus far exceeded expectations from $ 65 to $ 70 million. In the weeks that followed, the film stayed at the top of the box office, with first place consistently in weeks 3 to 6. It is the first Marvel movie to be number one for four weeks, beating the records of Marvel's The Avengers and The Return of the First Avenger , which were each number one for three weeks.
The film grossed $ 773 million worldwide. Half of this comes from the USA, where it was ranked third among the most successful films of 2014 with over $ 330 million.
In the list of the world's most successful films of all time, Guardians of the Galaxy currently ranks 100th (as of August 8, 2020).
Reviews
Guardians of the Galaxy received mostly positive reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes, 91% of the reviews were positive.
“The Guardians of the Galaxy may sometimes conjure up associations with Joss Whedon's Serenity or Star Wars , but they don't need to hide from other space operas. And that's not only due to the rousing action or the spectacular effects, but rather to a good helping of heart, which should basically be the trademark of such films. At most, it could turn out to be annoying that the film sometimes presses the lacrimal gland properly. "
“Similar to what the Avengers did, the title-giving hero in Guardians also succeeds in becoming a team after an introductory phase, whose deeds only increase the tension on the following films [...]. Only Marvel manages to continuously produce films with so many protagonists without ever losing the overview. "
“'Guardians Of The Galaxy' is pure fun - a modern nostalgia trip, so peppered with retro quotes that even the arcade over-classic Asteroids is recreated with real spaceships. A must-attend event not just for all Marvel fans! "
Sequels
Even before the film was released, the production of a second part entitled Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 was announced. James Gunn once again directed the film, and the shooting lasted from February 17 to June 16, 2016. The German theatrical release took place on April 27, 2017.
A third part was announced, with James Gunn initially no longer directing after disagreements with Disney, but was later brought back on board.
In addition, the Guardians of the Galaxy appear in Avengers: Infinity War and its sequel Avengers: Endgame .
The plot of the first part was also continued in the animated series Guardians of the Galaxy , but this is not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Awards (selection)
The film was nominated for dozens of film awards in 2015 and has won several awards. In addition to Oscar nominations in the categories of Best Visual Effects and Best Make-up and Best Hairstyles , the production received a Saturn Award in three categories and Karen Gillan won an Empire Award and the Curt Siodmak Prize for best film.
Soundtrack
In addition to composed music, the film relies on already existing pop songs from the 1970s, which Star-Lord hears on his Walkman in the form of the so-called Awesome Mix Vol.1 , which his mother put together for him. The album was released on July 29, 2014 by Hollywood Records . It includes songs by Blue Swede and Norman Greenbaum , among others . As a special marketing campaign, the soundtrack was partly sold as a cassette . In 2014, it was the second best-selling soundtrack album after that of the movie Frozen - Totally Unabashed .
| No. | title | Interpreter |
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| 1. | Hooked on a feeling | Blue Swede |
| 2. | Go all the way | Raspberries |
| 3. | Spirit in the Sky | Norman Greenbaum |
| 4th | Moonage Daydream | David Bowie |
| 5. | Fooled Around and Fell in Love | Elvin Bishop |
| 6th | I'm not in love | 10cc |
| 7th | I want you back | The Jackson Five |
| 8th. | Come and Get Your Love | Redbone |
| 9. | Cherry Bomb | The Runaways |
| 10. | Escape (The Piña Colada Song) | Rupert Holmes |
| 11. | Ooh child | Five stairsteps |
| 12. | Ain't No Mountain High Enough | Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell |
Web links
- Guardians of the Galaxy in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Official German website
- The Production of the film (English)
- Guardians of the Galaxy atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Guardians of the Galaxy at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Guardians of the Galaxy . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 273 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Guardians of the Galaxy . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Guardians of the Galaxy Hollywood Premiere , accessed July 23, 2014
- ^ A b Guardians of the Galaxy. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on August 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Pamela McClintock: Box Office: 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Amazes With Record $ 94.3M US Debut . In: The Hollywood Reporter . August 3, 2014. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
- ↑ Anthony D'Alessandro: Among Marvel Titles, 'Guardians' Has The Most No. 1 weekends . In: Deadline.com . September 6, 2014. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
- ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=marvel2014a.htm
- ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2014&p=.htm
- ↑ Top Lifetime big things. Box Office Mojo, accessed August 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Dimitrios Athanassiou: Criticism at the film portal Moviemaze.de. Retrieved August 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Awesome Mix Vol. 2 (review of the film on unique-online.de). Retrieved August 18, 2014 .
- ^ Björn Becher: Film review for "Guardians of the Galaxy" on Filmstarts.de. Retrieved August 18, 2014 .
- ↑ marvel.com: Marvel Studios Begins Production on Marvel's 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2' More on Marvel.com: http://marvel.com/news/movies/25742/marvel_studios_begins_production_on_marvels_guardians_of_the_galaxy_vol_2#ixzz4ENwzoFYT. Retrieved July 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Director James Gunn, on Twitter. Retrieved July 14, 2016 .
- ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/226995.html
- ↑ spiegel.de: Director James Gunn fired for pedophile jokes
- ↑ Keith Caulfield: Taylor Swift's '1989' Beats 'Frozen' As Top Selling Album of 2014 . In: Billboard . Prometheus Global Media . December 31, 2014. Accessed January 4, 2018.