Hellboy (film)

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Movie
German title Hellboy
Original title Hellboy
Country of production United States
original language English , Russian
Publishing year 2004
length 117 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Guillermo del Toro
script Guillermo del Toro,
Peter Briggs ,
Mike Mignola
production Lawrence Gordon ,
Lloyd Levin ,
Mike Richardson
music Marco Beltrami
camera Guillermo Navarro
cut Peter Amundson
occupation
synchronization
chronology

Successor  →
Hellboy - The Golden Army

Hellboy is an American comic adaptation by Guillermo del Toro from 2004 , based on the Dark Horse comic of the same name by Mike Mignola . The title hero is played by Ron Perlman . The film continued with Hellboy: The Golden Army in 2008 . The film opened in German cinemas on September 16, 2004.

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In 1944 during the Second World War , with the support of the Thule Society and the megalomaniac magician Grigori Rasputin , a seemingly immortal advisor to the last Russian tsar , the Nazis opened a dimensional portal through an occult ritual in order to unleash Hell on earth and war with To win help from unearthly powers. Allied soldiers, among them Professor Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm, however, interrupt the summoning, whereby Rasputin is sucked through the closing portal and destroyed, and find the spawn of Hell, a small red, devil-like , but friendly-minded demon , who passes through the portal came to earth. They call him Hellboy , and Bruttenholm takes him under his wing.

About 60 years later, Hellboy is still not quite an adult, but has become a huge and difficult to control demon. Under the code name Red he works for the Office for the Investigation and Defense against Paranormal Apparitions , a secret subdivision of the FBI with the motto "In Absentia Luci Tenebrae Vicunt." (Correct: "In absentia lucis tenebrae vincunt." , In German "In the absence of The shadows prevail. ”). Together with the telepath Abe Sapien, a humanoid marine life form with gills, webbed feet and blue skin (code name Blue ), who, like him, also lives in the secret department, he regularly goes on demon hunts, which are covered up from the public. Hellboy has extraordinary strength, one of his hands is significantly larger than the other and made of stone, he is immune to fire and armed with a revolver (called "The Samaritan") whose ammunition is made from a mixture of holy water, garlic, silver shavings and white oak, which is supposed to help against supernatural opponents. But he also has human weaknesses: he smokes cigars, likes to eat chocolate and nachos and takes care of small kittens. Hellboy also knows the human feeling of being in love. He regularly grinds his horns into short stumps. Bruttenholm has become a father substitute for him. He is also in love with the pyrokinetic Liz, who left the organization to lead a life beyond the paranormal instead of being a " freak ".

Finally, Rasputin is resurrected by his assistants Ilsa and Karl Ruprecht Kroenen and plans to bring about the apocalypse with Hellboy's help . He kills Hellboy's foster father Bruttenholm and lures the demon along with his comrades-in-arms - Liz, who has returned to the organization after an uncontrolled outbreak of her abilities (triggered by Rasputin), the young FBI agent John Myers, who has an eye on Liz, and the director for special operations Tom Manning - to Russia .

Rasputin provokes Hellboy, among other things, by stealing Liz's soul. In order to save them, Hellboy surrenders to his destiny to open the gate to the hell dimension with the help of his stone hand, whereby his honed horns grow to full size and inflame, giving him his true demonic form. But at the last moment John succeeds in persuading Hellboy to repent by reminding him that he himself is master of his fate and does not have to be a demon. Hellboy decides in favor of humanity, breaks off his horns again and destroys Rasputin and the hell being set free by him. Then Hellboy succeeds in resuscitating Liz too. When they kiss, Liz goes up in flames, which cannot harm the fire-proof Hellboy, and John realizes that his advances towards Liz were in vain.

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  • The quote at the beginning of the film comes from De Vermis Mysteriis , a grimoire that is mentioned in Lovecraft's Cthulhu myth , among other things . The creatures shown at the beginning of the film, locked in a crystalline prison, also come from the Cthulhu myth.
  • The abbreviation BPRD stands for Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (German: Authority for the investigation and defense of paranormal phenomena). The secret authority operates under the code name Squeaky Clean Up Waste Management Services in the film .
  • In the film, the date April 14, 1865 is mentioned as the day on which Abraham Lincoln died, which explains Abe Sapien's first name (Abe is short for Abraham). In fact, Lincoln was shot that day, but he didn't die until April 15th.
  • The holy lance shown in the film is a replica of the lance that legend says was used to stab Jesus in the side of the cross. The alleged original is in the treasury of the Vienna Hofburg.
  • According to the film, Karl Ruprecht Kroenen was born in Munich in 1897 and suffers from a body dysmorphic disorder through which he has a masochistic compulsion to self- mutilate.
  • The text, composed of two old scraps of paper, is written in Cyrillic and actually means cemetery no.16 when translated . In the film it is stated that it would mean Sebastian Plaskba # 16 .
  • At 01:16:00, Trevor Bruttonholm reads in an edition of the Illustrierte Zeitung from November 7th, 1868. There is a picture of Rasputin . In the original edition, there is a picture by Friedrich Zarncke at this point . The article heading on Rasputin's mausoleum was also inserted differently from the original. The heading actually refers to the sinking of the Russian frigate Alexander Nevsky , which can also be seen from the text below the heading. This was not changed.
  • Hellboy's real name is Anung un Rama , which translated means the monster of the apocalypse .
  • The producers originally wanted to cast the title role with Vin Diesel . However, director Guillermo del Toro insisted on Ron Perlman as Hellboy and prevailed with it.
  • Released on DVD in both the version shown in the cinema and an approximately ten minutes longer director's cut , the higher Certificate (FSC aged 16 has).

synchronization

The German dubbing took place in the studios of FFS Film- und Fernseh-Synchron in Berlin . Klaus Bickert wrote the dialogue book, Dietmar Wunder directed the dialogue.

role actor Voice actor
Hellboy Ron Perlman Tilo Schmitz
Trevor Bruttenholm John Hurt Friedrich G. Beckhaus
John Meyers Rupert Evans Timmo Niesner
Liz Sherman Selma Blair Ranja Bonalana
Grigory Rasputin Karel Roden Klaus-Dieter Klebsch
Tom Manning Jeffrey Tambor Helmut Gauss
Voice of Abe Sapien David Hyde Pierce Joachim Tennstedt
Agent Clay Corey Johnson Detlef Bierstedt
Ilsa Biddy Hodson Christin Marquitan

Reviews

"Atmospherically coherent comic film adaptation with perfectly cast actors, excellent make-up and set design and a consistent morbid-sarcastic mood."

- Lexicon of international film

“'Hellboy' is a film from the Hollywood fast food division. All those who can make friends with the formula '90 percent action - 10 percent action 'and who expect nothing more from an actioner than great entertainment without compromise are at the right place here. 'Hellboy' is definitely a big step forward compared to the weakest comic adaptation Catwoman so far, but it lacks a lot when it comes to genre primus ' Spider-Man ' or ' X-Men '. So be it. His audience will find 'Hellboy' with us too. "

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Continuation and reboot

The sequel to Hellboy - The Golden Army ( Hellboy II: The Golden Army ) was released on 16 October 2008. The director was again Guillermo del Toro. Ron Perlman, Selma Blair and Doug Jones re-took on the roles of Hellboy , Liz and Abe Sapien . The sequel was originally supposed to come out in theaters in the summer of 2007, but since the production company Revolution Studios had to file for bankruptcy, Universal Pictures took over the rights and produced Hellboy II .

Between the two real films, two Hellboy cartoons were produced with the participation of Guillermo del Toro, Ron Perlman, Selma Blair and Doug Jones, Hellboy - Sword of Storms (2006) and Hellboy - Blood and Iron (2007), which were linked to the real films in Continuity .

In 2019 Hellboy - Call of Darkness was released, which is a reboot . David Harbor can be seen in the leading role that gives the title .

Web links

Remarks

Hellboy films
Real films

Hellboy (2004) • Hellboy - The Golden Army (2008) • Hellboy - Call of Darkness (2019)

Cartoons

Hellboy Sword of Storms (2006) • Hellboy Blood and Iron (2007)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Hellboy . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2004 (PDF; test number: 98 337 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Hellboy . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Hellboy. Retrieved March 9, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Hellboy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 30, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ Hellboy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  6. ↑ "Hellboy 2" is coming .