Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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| German title | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull |
| Original title | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 123 minutes |
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FSK 12 JMK 10 |
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| Director | Steven Spielberg |
| script |
David Koepp George Lucas (Story) Jeff Nathanson (Story) |
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Frank Marshall Flávio R. Tambellini |
| music | John Williams |
| camera | Janusz Kamiński |
| cut | Michael Kahn |
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Original title: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ) is an adventure film by Steven Spielberg from the year 2008 . The fourth and so far last part of the Indiana Jones film series premiered on May 18, 2008 at the Cannes Film Festival and was released worldwide on May 22, 2008.
action
1957: Professor Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr. and his colleague Mac are kidnapped by Soviet agents led by Colonel Dovchenko and Irina Spalko. He is supposed to look for a box with the remains of a non-human being for her in a warehouse in the Area 51 military complex . While Jones tries to escape and prevent the Russians from stealing the box, Mac turns out to be a collaborator. Jones flees from the agents who manage to steal the box. On the run, he finds himself on a nuclear test site and only barely survives the explosion by escaping to safety in a lead-lined refrigerator.
Due to suspicions by the US government that Indiana Jones is a double agent, his professorship at the university is revoked. He then decides to leave town, but is persuaded by young Mutt Williams to stay because Professor Oxley, an old friend of Jones, is in trouble. Mutt shows Indy an encrypted letter from Oxley that was sent to him by his mother, who disappeared with Oxley. The letter speaks of a crystal skull that Indy and Oxley raved about during their college days. Indiana Jones and Mutt make their way to Nazca (Peru) to follow the traces of the letter.
In Peru , the two visit Oxleys cell, where he was locked up because of mental confusion. He is no longer in the sanatorium, but his wall drawings give you information about his research on the crystal skull and now you know where to look.
You continue to search for the crystal skull in a cemetery. After fending off an attack by “natives” masked with skulls, they finally find the skull in the grave of the conquistador Francisco de Orellana . However, they were followed unnoticed by Mac on their way, so that they are captured by the Russian military. In their camp in the Amazon region in northeastern Peru, Indy and Mutt meet the confused Professor Oxley and Mutt's mother - who turns out to be Marion Ravenwood , Indy's old love.
After Indiana Jones had to undergo a test with the crystal skull, which made it possible to communicate with the skull, he managed to escape the camp, Mutt, Marion and Oxley. But they are quickly caught again because Indy and Marion break into a sand pit. In the face of death, Marion reveals to Indy that he is Mutt's father. When Mutt comes back to save Marion and Indy, he comes back with a snake instead of a rope. Marion is pulled out, but Jones initially refuses to touch the snake because he is afraid of snakes, but he overcomes his fear and is pulled out. Suddenly the Russian military comes in because the confused Oxley followed Indy's order to get "help."
Since the crystal skull has to be brought back to its place of origin, a legendary city made of pure gold , the Russians and their prisoners make their way through the jungle. Indy eventually regains control, and a battle begins in the jungle convoy that Indiana Jones and his friends win. Colonel Dovchenko is killed by giant ants in the jungle. Mac claims to have worked as a double agent and from now on he fights alongside Indiana Jones again.
When they want to go to the temple, they are attacked by natives, but they are able to repel the attack because the natives are afraid of the crystal skull. The group reaches the legendary city and opens the gate to the temple, to which they must bring the crystal skull back. They were pursued by the Russians, however, because Mac is a defector after he had previously claimed to be a member of the CIA and distributed tracking devices on the way. The Russians take Oxley's skull off to put it back in place themselves. Now the last of the thirteen crystal skeletons that sit on thrones in the temple has its skull back, and the skulls release their power.
The beings want to give something to people out of gratitude, and Irina wishes all the knowledge of the world. But when the beings feed the knowledge directly into her brain, Irina realizes too late that she can neither mentally nor physically endure the rough crowd, and this enormous intensity burns her alive. The temple begins to collapse, and Irina's men and Mac, whom Indy is still trying to save despite the betrayal, die in the rubble or are drawn into the portal of the alien beings. Indy and his friends narrowly escape and watch a spaceship rise from the collapsing temple, disappear, the entire valley collapses and is flooded with water.
Back home, Indiana gets his university job back, and the film ends with Indy and Marion wedding. Indy's hat rolls in front of Mutt's feet, but before he can inherit his father, he first takes the hat back.
Manufacture and distribution
Pre-production
George Lucas called on the scriptwriters back in 1993 to write another story with Indiana Jones. Jeb Stuart , Jeffrey Boam , M. Night Shyamalan , Frank Darabont and Jeff Nathanson submitted suggestions, but could not convince Lucas and Spielberg. Stuart failed with an Alien credit history, and Spielberg wanted to go to the production of Schindler's List no Nazis have more in the film.
David Koepp , the screenwriter of Jurassic Park , finally convinced with his draft, which he wrote in eight days. He used ideas from other scripts such as the character Mutt. The myth of the crystal skull was already part of the planned episode 48 of the television series The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones and the novels by Max McCoy. On December 29, 2006, George Lucas announced that he, Spielberg and Koepp had completed the script and that Indiana Jones 4 would be shot in 2007.
In contrast to the previous films, Spielberg limited himself to filming locations in the USA for family reasons. The only exception was a scene that was moved to the Iguaçu Falls in Brazil because of a hurricane . Most of the filming took place in Los Angeles at the five Downey studios owned by Sony , Warner Bros. , Paramount and Universal . Other of the 18 locations were Deming ( New Mexico ) and Hawaii , which represents the jungle of Peru. The Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut is the Marshall College is where Indiana Jones as a professor of archeology teaches. At the Fresno Chandler Executive Airport in Fresno , California , which is portrayed in the film as Nazca Airport , filming ended after 79 days on October 12, 2007.
In order to get closer to the look and feel of the old Indiana Jones films, the film was recorded on photographic film material instead of on digital video tapes as favored by producer Lucas. The producer Frank Marshall announced that only 20 percent of the entire film was made with CGI effects . CGI should mainly be used for matte paintings , according to Spielberg . The cost of production was $ 185 million. The film was dubbed in 25 languages for worldwide release .
occupation
- Harrison Ford returned to the lead role despite his advanced age (64 when filming began in June 2007). According to his own statements, he performed many stunts himself and specifically asked for allusions to his age.
- Karen Allen returns as Marion Ravenwood, who she played in Raiders of the Lost Ark .
- Shia LaBeouf , who plays the young Mutt, is there for the first time (he was just two years old when the previous part was filmed). He was Spielberg's only candidate for the role and accepted it without reading the script first.
- Cate Blanchett , also new, fulfilled her wish in the role of the Russian agent Irina Spalko to finally embody a villain. She was also Spielberg's favorite candidate for this role from the start.
- Sean Connery turned down a cameo as "Indy's" father, Henry Jones Sr., because he would rather enjoy retirement. At one point in the film, Indy looks at a photograph of his father and briefly regrets his death and that of Marcus Brody, who died shortly afterwards. Since Denholm Elliott had died in 1992, the figure could no longer be used. In front of the classroom where Indy is giving a lecture, however, you can see a picture of him, as well as a bronze statue of Brody on campus.
synchronization
The German dubbing was created in 2008 in the studio of Berliner Synchron Wenzel Lüdecke in Berlin under the dialogue direction of Frank Schaff ; the dialogue book was created by Alexander Löwe .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Indiana Jones | Harrison Ford | Wolfgang Pampel |
| Agent Irina Spalko | Cate Blanchett | Arianne Borbach |
| Marion Williams / Ravenwood / Jones | Karen Allen | Eva Kryll |
| George "Mac" McHale | Ray Winstone | Roland Hemmo |
| Professor Harold Oxley | John Hurt | Jürgen Thormann |
| Dean Charles Stanforth | Jim Broadbent | Frank-Otto Schenk |
| General Ross | Alan Dale | Bodo Wolf |
| Henry "Mutt" Williams / Jones | Shia LaBeouf | David Turba |
| Russian soldier | Andrew Divoff | Waléra Kanishcheff |
Merchandising
The official novel for the film was written by James Luceno and was published by Panini Verlag in May 2008 . In addition to the story, it also contains images from the film. The official comic for the film was also published in May 2008. However, James Rollins also wrote a novel for the film, which was published by Blanvalet Verlag on May 22nd . The soundtrack was released on May 20, 2008.
Theatrical release
The fourth part of the series had the most successful theatrical release with worldwide box office earnings of 311.1 million US dollars on the opening weekend (Thursday – Monday). In the United States and Canada, the film reached $ 151.1 million in revenue, making it the second most successful US theatrical release to date. This may also be because Monday fell on a public holiday in the United States. By July 20, he had grossed $ 742 million worldwide.
DVD release
The DVD for the film was released by Paramount on October 24, 2008. It is offered in Germany in three different versions: once as a normal single-disc release, once as a double-disc version and once as a limited special edition with a model of the crystal skull. There is also a DVD box with all four films and the special edition DVD. The DVDs of the old films correspond to the releases from 2008.
Reviews
At the critics premiere on the occasion of the Cannes Film Festival, the crowd of critics burst into great jubilation before the screening, which evaporated afterwards. The Wiesbaden Film Evaluation Office gave the film the rating of particularly valuable with the reasoning: “The fourth part continues brilliantly, but credibly changes to another era and remains true to itself and its fans in style, look and story. And it is precisely this change between familiar and new that is pleasing and that the well-rehearsed duo Spielberg and Lucas succeeded in achieving in this technically perfect performance. "
In the run-up to the production, the film producers claimed that the film would be shot in the classic style of its predecessor, and that it would therefore do without special effects. However, critics noted that CGI effects were predominantly used . Accordingly, even all animals shown in the film (such as ground squirrels, monkeys and ants) were generated digitally.
In the German-language press
The lexicon of international films writes: “Technically perfect third sequel to the Indiana Jones series, which entertains excellently with original action scenes, film quotes and numerous cross-references to the hero's past. No particularly new story is told, rather a movie myth is lovingly updated and brought to a close. "
For Cinema , the production is perfect popcorn cinema and “wonderful fun”, the duration of which flies by in an instant. Ford is still charismatic and there is a little melancholy in the mood.
In the Frankfurter Rundschau , Daniel Kothenschulte considers the fourth part to be "pure fun" and entertaining. The thin plot - but not thinner than in the first three episodes - hardly contains any logic, but this would also not be the meaning of the film, which is in the tradition of the B-films . If Blanchett gets the "most grateful villain role", LaBeouf remains colorless as a rocker.
The Berliner Zeitung thinks that the spectacle is “certainly not a milestone in film art, but it is still acceptable entertainment cinema” and “sufficiently exciting”. The fact that the plot is crude and implausible is unimportant. The nostalgic film occasionally draws sympathetic humor from the excessive demands of the aged hero.
According to the standard , this is very nostalgic, old-fashioned adventure cinema that offers relaxation from the "digital outbidding effects" of today's cinema. “The joke, it was and still lies today in the elegant and lovingly designed details: in camera movements that do not require any hysterical editing sequences in order to set the pace and build tension. In well-written dialogues. And: In artfully ambiguous good-bad schemes. ”Especially in the second half, it is pure joy.
Cicero attested that the film had a “non-stop, childish self-reference”, which was only tolerable because it was like a “last resurrection before the long ascension of a whole universe of bygone cinema culture”.
The Tagesspiegel states that there is a “continuous canon of action” and “Rumstehschauspielerei” and considers the film to be nothing more than a nostalgic number because the genre has now become more technically sophisticated and, above all, more intelligent. At least it is touching that the film manages without colossal digital effects. With its sometimes sedate events, the whole thing remains "harmless".
Spiegel Online is disappointed : While the chases “still have that grandiose Spielberg swing, perfectly choreographed action sequences with wit, the story soon becomes more and more confused. Good gags, humor? Largely nil. ”Instead, bombastic special effects that run out of imagination and inappropriate aliens. Four episodes were enough.
In Die Welt , Hanns-Georg Rodek speaks of the attempt “to cover the highly electronic interior with the worn leather jacket of the archeology professor.” The production trimmed for nostalgia, the dramaturgy of which is the quotation of a quotation, does not offer any significantly new attractions and repeats those from the first three films. LaBeouf works as a "young appendage of the aging star".
In the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Tobias Kniebe stated that when the film finally picked up speed, then almost everything would be as usual and you would have "some fun". Kniebe, however, missed "that brilliant sparkle, [...] it is simply missing" in the film. In return, Kniebe discovered “flatness”, “sentimentality” and “New Age extraterrestrial mysticism”, which is no substitute.
Georg Seeßlen thinks : “Indiana Jones is a nostalgic hero with a touch of pulp noir . That means, compared to a comic figure, this character, who seems to have sprung from the comics of the 1940s printed on wood-containing paper (pulp), has a more complicated inner workings and dark sides. "
In the United States
In the USA, too, initially the positive reviews predominated; According to Rotten Tomatoes , 78% of the 255 reviews evaluated praised the film. The negative reviews were all the sharper: James Berardinelli saw the fourth part as the "most lifeless of the series". Despite its "impressive family tree", the work is a "failure" and "simply not a good movie". After all, the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull "did one thing right" with the reactivation of Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood. Harrison Ford also has no problem slipping back into the role of Indiana Jones. Steven Spielberg's direction, however, is "listless"; and George Lucas knows a lot about how to disappoint fans with the revival of a film series after a long break, but here he has "committed a crime worse than Star Wars ".
Others
- In the scene in which Indiana Jones escapes from the Area 51 depot, you can see for a brief moment the ark of the covenant in a broken box that was stored there at the end of the first film .
- Various critics have noted that it is hardly possible to survive an atomic bomb explosion in a refrigerator with almost no damage. Since then, the term Nuking the fridge has been used in some English-language forums . The Fallout computer game series from Bethesda takes up this scene several times. In Fallout - New Vegas , in the Mojave Desert , you can find a refrigerator with a skeletonized corpse and a fedora . In Fallout 4 you can find a refrigerator in which a boy has been trapped for 200 years, who hid in the refrigerator at the beginning of the nuclear exchange between the USA and China and mutated into a ghoul due to the radiation , which is his The aging process. After his liberation he can be brought back to his parents' house, where his parents, who have also mutated into ghouls, still live.
- In the South Park episode The China Problem , the film is described as completely unsuccessful and is thematized as the "rape" of the original film series, primarily because of the aliens involved; several times it is graphically and drastically depicted how Spielberg and Lucas assault Indiana Jones (i.e. their own artistic legacy).
- In the Castle episode, The Curse of the Mummy , the main character Rick Castle wears a fedora in one scene and one hears a melody that alludes to the Indiana Jones theme. Shortly thereafter, Castle is very excited about a modern archeology lab and says it is "like Indiana Jones with space age technology," which he thinks would have made a much better movie than the last one.
- The film occupies 94th place in the list of the most successful films without inflation adjustment (as of August 8, 2020).
Awards
- Best costume for Mary Zophres
- Nomination for Best Science Fiction Film for Kathleen Kennedy , George Lucas , Frank Marshall and Denis L. Stewart
- Nomination for Best Actor for Harrison Ford
- Nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category for Shia LaBeouf
- Nomination in the category Best Special Effects for Pablo Helman and Daniel Sudick
- Silver bogey: 2 million visitors within 20 days
- Worst remake or sequel for Kathleen Kennedy, George Lucas, Frank Marshall and Denis L. Stewart
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the film the title “particularly valuable”.
literature
book
- James Luceno : Indiana Jones. All films, adventures, locations. coventgarden at Dorling Kindersley , Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8310-9065-5 , pp. 112-119.
Review mirror
Positive:
- Der Standard , May 19, 2008, p. 6, by Claus Philipp: Old hat is young again
Rather positive:
- Cinema No. 7/2008, p. 55, by Jochen Schütze
- Berliner Zeitung , May 19, 2008, p. 29, by Anke Westphal: It rumbles and cracks and bangs
- Frankfurter Rundschau , May 19, 2008, p. 19, by Daniel Kothenschulte : Guardian of the B-film treasure
Mixed:
- Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 19, 2008, by Tobias Kniebe : With the refrigerator catapult
- Der Tagesspiegel , May 19, 2008, p. 25, by Jan Schulz-Ojala: stones, shrines, bones
Rather negative:
- Spiegel Online , May 18, 2008, by Martin Wolf: Take your hat, Indiana Jones!
- Die Welt , May 19, 2008, p. 23, by Hanns-Georg Rodek : The old can still do it
Web links
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at Metacritic (English)
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in the online movie database
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in the German dubbing index
- Comparison of the cut versions of the US cinema trailer - German cinema trailer , Sat. 1 afternoon - FSK 12 by Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ Certificate of Release to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2008 (PDF; test number: 113 917 K).
- Jump up ↑ Age designation for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b c d Jim Windolf: Keys to the Kingdom , Vanity Fair , February 2008 (English)
- ↑ TV Digital , No. 10/08, pp. 7–9.
- ↑ Steve Daly. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas: The Titans Talk! , Entertainment Weekly, April 16, 2008 (English)
- ↑ TV 14 , No. 11/08, p. 8/9
- ↑ a b Peter N. Chumo II (May / June 2008). "Matinee Magic: David Koepp and Indiana Jones Enter the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull". Creative Screenwriting 15 (3). (English)
- ↑ The Lost Chronicles of Young Indiana Jones , April 7, 2008 ( Memento April 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ Alicia Chang: Indiana Jones to Begin Filming in 2007 , The Washington Post , December 29, 2006 (English)
- ↑ Jim Windolf: Q&A George Lucas , Vanity Fair , January 2, 2008 (English)
- ↑ Fandango, Indy's Worldwide Trek ( Memento of May 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ Todd Gilchrist: Indy IV Winding Down , IGN, October 9, 2007 ( memento of October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ www.latimes.com (Engl.)
- ↑ Steve Daly, Harrison Ford Q&A: Indy Speaks! , Entertainment Weekly, 18 April 2008 (Engl.)
- ↑ Scott Huver, Cate Blanchett: The Oscar Nominee On Dylan, Ledger and Indiana Jones , www.hollywood.com (English)
- ↑ https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/indiana-jones/14875/indiana-jones-5-fresh-attempt-to-lure-sean-connery-back-to-franchise
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ www.moviemusic.com: Soundtrack (English)
- ↑ Entry on www.boxofficemojo.com , accessed on July 20, 2008.
- ↑ a b Spiegel Online, May 18, 2008, by Martin Wolf: Take your hat, Indiana Jones!
- ↑ a b stones, shrines, bones , Der Tagesspiegel, May 19, 2008, by Jan Schulz-Ojala, p. 25
- ↑ https://www.fbw-filmbeval.com/film/indiana_jones_und_das_koenigreich_des_kristallschaedels
- ↑ Film review: Indiana Jones takes on the communists , Welt.de
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Cinema No. 7/2008 , p. 55.
- ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau , May 19, 2008, by Daniel Kothenschulte, p. 19: Guardian of the B-film treasure
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , May 19, 2008, by Anke Westphal, p. 29: It rumst and crashes and bangs
- ↑ Old hat is young again , Der Standard, May 19, 2008, by Claus Philipp, p. 6
- ↑ Constantin Magnis: "The old whip is back" ( Memento from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Cicero Online , May 20, 2008.
- ^ The old can still do it , Die Welt, May 19, 2008, by Hanns-Georg Rodek , p. 23
- ↑ Tobias Kniebe: With the refrigerator catapult: The new Indiana Jones is unfortunately not quite the same anymore , Sueddeutsche.de, May 18, 2008, accessed on May 19, 2008.
- ^ Critique by Georg Seeßlen on www.getidan.de
- ↑ Reelviews: Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , May 18, 2008 , accessed May 20, 2008.
- ↑ Top Lifetime big things. Box Office Mojo, accessed August 8, 2020 .
