Heavy metal (film)

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Movie
German title Heavy metal
Original title Heavy metal
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1981
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
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Director Gerald Potterton ,
Jimmy T. Murakami
script Len Blum ,
Dan Goldberg ,
Corny Cole ,
Richard Corben ,
Juan Giménez ,
Angus McKie ,
Bernie Wrightson ,
Dan O'Bannon
production Leonard Mogel ,
Ivan Reitman
music Elmer Bernstein and others
camera Claude Lapierre ,
Brian Tufano ,
Ron Haines
cut Janice Brown ,
Mick Manning ,
Gerald Tripp
occupation

Speaking roles

synchronization

Heavy Metal (Alternative title: Heavy metal) is a Canadian science fiction - Cartoons from the year 1981 . One of the producers was Leonard Mogel, the editor of the comic magazine Heavy Metal , the US version of Métal hurlant , on which the film is based. With Ivan Reitman as a further producer and Gerald Potterton in the director's chair, the workflow was accelerated by different animation companies working on different parts at the same time.

action

Soft landing
The framework of the film begins with the astronaut Grimaldi, who leaves the hatch of a space shuttle in a Corvette C1 Convertible and crosses the earth's atmosphere with it. He lands on a braking parachute near a manor house , where his young daughter greets him.
Grimaldi
When he arrives at the house, he shows her a hermetically sealed container in which there is a green ball. A short time after he has opened it, the sphere begins to glow, floating and painfully dissolves the astronaut. The ball introduces itself to the horrified girl as "The 'Loc-Nar', the sum of all evil". Before killing the girl, the bullet wants to show her how she has influenced society through time and space. The Loc-Nar then forces the girl to watch several sometimes very frightening stories in which the green ball always plays a central role as the evil driving force.
Harry Canyon
In a dystopian New York in 2031, taxi driver Harry rescues a young woman who is being chased by gangsters. Their father has already been killed because he owned the green spherical artifact called Loc-Nar . Harry and the young woman start an affair, eventually the young woman wants to sell the artifact to the gang boss Rudnick. When she receives the amount of money, she doesn't want to share it with Harry as agreed. This “disintegrates” you without further ado and drives away with the money.
The
A young scientist finds a green meteorite in the garden and brings it into the house. After a lightning experiment, the man is catapulted onto a strange planet, where he finds himself as the muscular hero Den . He can save a beautiful woman there who was almost sacrificed. He is cleverly able to defeat his numerous opponents and decides to stay on the planet with his new girlfriend.
Captain Sterrn
During a trial on a space station, Captain Sterrn is accused of all kinds of offenses. Under the influence of the Loc-Nar , a witness mutates into a brutal berserk . After a sum of money has been paid out, the fighting machine calms down again, but is catapulted into space by Sterrn.
B-17
The Loc-Nar appears in the air during a difficult war mission of an American Boeing B-17 in World War II . The killed soldiers then turn into zombies . The pilot can save himself with the ejection seat . He lands on an island, but there are heaps of wrecked planes and numerous zombies waiting for him.
So beautiful and so dangerous
A huge spaceship appears over the Pentagon and tries to kidnap a scientist with the help of a suction pipe. The on-board robot discovers that a pretty secretary has been "vacuumed" with. After a night of love, the two decide to get married.
Taarna
Bloody conflicts arise on an archaic planet. The elder calls the defender Taarna, the last of her people, to help. She could not prevent the massacre of the townspeople, but seeks revenge. She is able to break free from captivity and kills the leader. Finally, it directs lightning bolts and can use it to explode the green, glowing mass.
epilogue
The glowing green sphere also explodes in the manor house. The girl can escape into the open. There she finds Taarna's flying animal. The girl flies away as the new defender. The power of evil is banned for this generation.

backgrounds

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The film is a compilation of several adult-oriented science fiction and fantasy stories, some of which came from Schwermetall magazine, but also independent ones that came from the same spirit. As in the magazine, sexuality and violence were sometimes explicitly portrayed in the film.

The Soft Landing and B-17 episodes were created by Dan O'Bannon , while Harry Canyon and Taarna allude to stories by Jean Giraud : The Long Tomorrow and Arzach, respectively . It was invented by Richard Corben and Captain Sterrn by Bernie Wrightson . So beautiful and so dangerous comes from Angus McKie . Neverwhere Land , an episode by Cornelius Cole, was removed due to the length of the film, but is present on the DVD.

Revenues in US cinemas on March 8, 1996 grossed $ 546,545.

In 2000, a sequel was released under the title Heavy Metal FAKK 2 directed by Kevin Eastman , the current editor of the American comic magazine Heavy Metal of the same name.

In the 12th season of Southpark , the 3rd episode "Hangover" ("Major Boobage") is based on heavy metal.

synchronization

role English speakers German speakers
"Loc-Nar" Percy Rodriguez Wolf Ackva
Harry Canyon Richard Romanus Hartmut Becker
Professors daughter Susan Roman Dagmar Heller
Rudnick Al Waxman Walter Reichelt
Dan / Den John Candy Ulf-Jürgen Wagner / Gernot Duda
Ard Martin Lavut Tonio von der Meden
Hanover Fiste Rodger Bumpass Hartmut Neugebauer
Copilot Don Francks Norbert Gastell
robot John Candy Manfred Lichtenfeld
Edsel Eugene Levy Donald Arthur
Zeke Harold Ramis Bruno W. Pantel
Barbarian Don Francks Kurt E. Ludwig

Premieres

  • Canada August 7th 1981
  • Germany 18th February 1982

Soundtrack

Many artists known at the time of its creation were won over for the soundtrack to the film:

Reviews

"A remarkable collection of stylistically different stories in terms of tricks, the content of which is only appealing in a few moments, since reactionary behavior patterns, role clichés and violence are conveyed without reflection."

- Lexicon of international film

"Illustratively mixed episode film with now nostalgic music and some strong motifs."

- Moviepilot.de

Awards

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heavy Metal in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used . Retrieved November 29, 2012
  2. ↑ box office results on boxofficemojo.com; Retrieved November 29, 2012
  3. ↑ Heavy Metal ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. in synchrondatenbank.de. Retrieved November 29, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.synchrondatenbank.de
  4. ↑ review on moviepilot.de; Retrieved November 29, 2012