Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | In 80 days around the world |
| Original title | Around the World in 80 Days |
| Country of production | United Kingdom , United States , Germany , Ireland |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Frank Coraci |
| script |
David Titcher David Benullo David Goldstein |
| production |
Bill Badalato Hal Lieberman Jackie Chan |
| music | Trevor Jones |
| camera | Phil Meheux |
| cut | Malcolm Campbell |
| occupation | |
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In 80 days around the world (original title: Around the World in 80 Days ) from the year 2004 is an action comedy , roughly on the novel Around the World in 80 Days ( Le du tour monde en quatre-vingt jours ) of Jules Verne from 1873. It is a typical film with slapstick and kung fu elements for Jackie Chan, who plays the role of Passepartout . The film opened in German cinemas on December 23, 2004.
action
London , late 19th century: A Chinese man named Lau Xing breaks into the Bank of England and steals a precious holy jade - Buddha , which was stolen from his home village of Lanzhou (兰州). On the run from the police, he meets Phileas Fogg - an ambitious scientist who has made it his life goal to use his inventions to transport the world into a new age. Lau Xing takes a position as valet at Fogg under the name “Passepartout” (he is hiding his true name Lau Xing from Phileas for the time being) and can thus protect himself from his persecutors.
He immediately makes himself available for one of Phileas' experiments: It succeeds, albeit with some hardship, and together with his new servant Phileas goes to the Royal Academy of Sciences to present his results. There, however, he has a very bad reputation and is ridiculed on all sides, because he firmly opposes the general view that everything that is worth an invention in this age has already been invented, and insists that his discoveries are important achievements.
Phileas finally gets into a dispute with Lord Kelvin , the head of the Academy and Minister of Science, in the course of which they come up with the subject of circumnavigating the world in eighty days. Lau Xing, in his disguise as a passe-partout, sees this as his chance to get to China quickly and arranges for Lord Kelvin to ask Phileas Fogg to make a bet. Fogg is said to travel the world once in no more than eighty days. If he wins the bet, Lord Kelvin will relinquish his position as head of the royal academy to him - but if he fails, he must never re-enter the academy, must tear down his laboratory and swear never to invent anything again.
In retrospect, Phileas is initially completely shocked by his sudden, ill-considered acceptance, but Passepartout cheers and encourages him - after all, the two of them set off on the world tour with an optimistic spirit and a thirst for adventure . Little does Phileas suspect that the friendly Chinese is just taking advantage of his bet to bring the stolen Jade Buddha back to China as quickly as possible .
Arrived in Paris , she is joined by the pretty Monique Laroche, who feels oppressed and misunderstood as an artist and hopes for deep inspiration from a trip around the world at the side of Phileas and Passepartout. The servant Monique secretly confides his secret to her and in return promises to do everything possible so that the young lady can come with them, as Phileas is not particularly impressed by her company at first.
Difficulties are predetermined for the three adventurers: The Jade Buddha was stolen from Lanzhou by the devilish, scheming warrior General Fang and her henchmen - the "Black Scorpions " - for none other than Lord Kelvin himself. He wants the precious Buddha back on the spot and sends Fang and his accomplices after Lau Xing. He also frames Phileas Fogg for the robbery of the Bank of England and sends Inspector Fix out to cling to Phileas' heels and arrest him so that he does not win the bet and Lord Kelvin does not lose his position to him. So there are some unpleasant surprises waiting for the three globetrotters - but Phileas and Monique's growing affection for one another promises a positive change.
Stations of the journey
- London ( United Kingdom ): Start of the world tour.
- Paris ( France ): Monique joins Phileas and Passepartout.
- Constantinople ( Ottoman Empire ) : The three adventurers are personally invited to a banquet by His Highness Prince Hapi, but have to flee very soon when the Prince wants to take Monique to his 7th wife and the two men dare to contradict.
- Agra ( India ) : On the orders of Lord Kelvin, the British authorities move into Agra (India is still a British colony ) with a large police force to track down Phileas and Lau Xing. The black scorpions and Inspector Fix are also in town - but if they join forces, the trio will finally get out of town.
- Lanzhou (China) : Phileas learns the truth about Lau Xing and the Buddha and that Monique knew about it all along. But there is not long time for disappointment: the black scorpions attack the village and capture Phileas, Lau Xing and Monique. Lau Xing eventually takes on their leader and unexpectedly receives help from nine of the ten tigers from Canton (his eight brothers and his sister), a legendary order that fights for law and order in China. Lau Xing himself is the tenth tiger and with combined forces they put the intruders to flight forever. The still disappointed Phileas finally continues the world tour alone.
- San Francisco (USA) : Phileas is robbed in a mock accident and now ekes out a sad existence as a beggar in an alley of San Francisco. However, when Lau Xing and Monique follow three days later and find him again, he realizes that the two are true friends who are close to his heart and gains new courage to bring the journey to an end. They set out together.
- Somewhere in the desert (USA) : The carriage broke a wheel and now the trio is stuck in the desert. But the Wright brothers , who were still selling bicycles at the time, happened to come by and repair the damage for free because they had staked a nice sum on Phileas.
- New York City (USA) : On the way to the docks where their ship to London is waiting, they are surprised by General Fang and their henchmen - again Lau Xing has to prove his fighting skills and his life is in danger. But finally the brave Chinese triumphs and the plan of the black scorpions is foiled.
- Atlantic Ocean : The SS Carmen runs out of coal on the open sea. An idea is needed and with their combined forces the ship's crew, who are enthusiastic about Phileas' adventure, build a flying machine from the individual parts of the ship together with the three travelers, with the help of which Phileas, Lau Xing and Monique start a flight for the remaining journey to London A time frame of eighty days must be observed.
- Back in London (United Kingdom): No sooner have the three adventurers landed with their machine in front of the royal academy to jubilant applause, when Lord Kelvin puts one last stone in their way that threatens to destroy everything for good: he wants Phileas because he is now is back on British soil, arrested - but Her Majesty Queen Victoria prevents this. Even so, it appears that he was too late to win the bet as it had struck 12 noon. But since he crossed the date line , he even arrived a whole day early and thus won the bet.
criticism
The lexicon of international films says, “The nostalgic Jules Verne adaptation shortens a martial arts comedy à la Jackie Chan with a fin-de-siècle period film. Elaborate, overly calculated entertainment with rather simple gags, but some amusing guest appearances. "
Trivia
Large parts of the film were shot in Germany, mainly on the premises of Studio Babelsberg . More exterior shots:
- The scenes in Istanbul with Arnold Schwarzenegger were realized in the Orangery Palace in the famous Sanssouci Park in Potsdam .
- The sub-market in Görlitz represents a market in Paris in the finished film, and the Landskron brewery in Görlitz represents the port in New York.
- The aerial photographs seen during the flight of the balloon show the Königstein Fortress in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains.
- The following famous buildings in Berlin can be seen in the film:
- The Bank of England is the French Cathedral on Gendarmenmarkt (with a reflection of the small dome)
- The building of the Royal Academy of Sciences is actually the theater on Gendarmenmarkt . The lion monuments specially erected for the shooting are now in front of the main entrance of the Metropolishalle in the Babelsberg Film Park .
- The garden in which Phileas Fogg his experiments carried out, the front yard of the former Supreme Court ( Reich military court later Court of Appeal ) Witzlebenplatz 1, 14057, Berlin. The street through which the steam mobile drives are in reality in Riehmers Hofgarten in Berlin-Kreuzberg (a listed building ensemble from the Berlin Wilhelminian era ).
- When Phileas rushes to the Royal Academy on roller skates, Big Ben , the tower of the Houses of Parliament in London, is mounted between the theater and the French Cathedral (original arrangement ) in the background .
- Lau Xing enters the service of Phileas Fogg when, on the run from the police, he is seeking protection at the inventor's house ( Reich Military Court, later Chamber Court ).
- When Phileas and Lau Xing examine a poster at the train station ( armory ) in Paris, the Berlin Cathedral can be seen in the background .
- After escaping from the gallery, the two find themselves (together with Monique, who had joined them) in the Charlottenburg Palace Park , from where they continue the journey in a hot air balloon.
Lau Xing was named when the man fleeing from the police observed police controls on the street in Phileas Fogg's house, in which foreign-looking people were asked for ID. At this second Phileas asks him for his name, to which he spontaneously replies "Passport ... too" (in German, for example: ID card ... also). Pronounced it sounds like "Passepartout", whereupon it bears this name from now on. This play on words could not be used in the German dubbing.
Cameo appearances
Short cameos of well-known people:
- Richard Branson as a hot air balloon owner
- Macy Gray as a sleeping woman in Paris
- Sammo Hung as Wong Fei Hung
- Maggie Q as a Scorpio agent
- Rob Schneider as a tramp in San Francisco
- John Cleese as a London sergeant
- Frank Coraci as a street passerby in San Francisco who slaps Phileas Fogg in the face.
German dubbing voices
All dubbing voices can be read under
- Jackie Chan, role: Passepartout / Lau Xing, German dubbing voice: Stefan Gossler
- Steve Coogan, role: Phileas Fogg, German dubbing voice: Marcus Off
- Cécile de France, role: Monique Laroche, German dubbing voice: Tanja Geke
Awards
Arnold Schwarzenegger was nominated for the 2005 Golden Raspberry for Worst Supporting Actor.
literature
- Jules Verne : Around the World in 80 Days. Novel (original title: Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours ). German by Sabine Hübner . With all illustrations from the original edition by Alphonse de Neuville and Léon Benett . With an afterword, notes and a time table by Volker Dehs as well as texts by Edgar Allan Poe , Jules Verne and François Oswald on the creation of the novel. Full paperback edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag (dtv), Munich 2007, 365 pages, ISBN 978-3-423-13545-0 or ISBN 3-423-13545-X
- Jules Verne: Journey around the earth in 80 days (Original title: Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours ). German by Gisela Geisler . Deutscher Bücherbund, Stuttgart and Munich 1984, 247 pages - superb bound edition (most complete German edition with all original illustrations by Léon Benett and Alphonse de Neuville)
- Jules Verne: Journey around the earth in eighty days (Original title: Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours ). German by Erich Fivian . With 56 illustrations from the original edition by Léon Benett and Alphonse de Neuville. Diogenes, Zurich 1986, 256 pages, ISBN 3-257-20126-5 - paperback edition
See also
Web links
- In 80 days around the world in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- In 80 days around the world atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Film city of Görlitz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Around the World in 80 Days . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2004 (PDF; test number: 99 531 K).
- ↑ Around the world in 80 days. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Around the world in 80 days at synchronkartei.de