Interstella 5555 - The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
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| German title | Interstella 5555 - The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem |
| Original title | Interstella 5555 - The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem |
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| Country of production | Japan , France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 68 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director |
Leiji Matsumoto Kazuhisa Takenôchi |
| script |
Thomas Bangalter Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo Cédric Hervet |
| production | Thomas Bangalter Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo |
| music | Daft punk |
| camera |
Fumio Hirokawa Haruhiko Ishikawa |
| cut |
Olivier Gajan Shigeru Nishiyama |
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Interstella 5555 - The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem is an anime music film from 2003. It deals with the Discovery album of the house formation Daft Punk . There is no spoken text and only the most important sounds can be heard through the music. In Germany, the film was shown for the first time on July 29, 2003 as part of the Fantasy Film Festival .
action
A four-piece band is performing in a concert on a distant planet. The entire population follows the performance live or on television and sinks into the dance fever. In the hustle and bustle, a spaceship approaches unnoticed and takes up position above the concert hall.
From the spaceship, hooded people penetrate the concert hall and the security stations of the planet and stun all guests, musicians and security personnel with gas. The band's guitarist is the only one to resist and try to escape. After he, too, was drugged, the hooded men bring the musicians and their instruments on board the spaceship and disappear. The guards who have now awakened sound the alarm.
The spaceman Shep is shown servicing his guitar-shaped spaceship. He sings a song from the band. While he is still singing, he goes to the quarters of his ship and surrenders to his daydreams, in which he dreams of the bassist of the band he seems to be in love with. An alarm tears him out of his dreams. He finds out about the kidnapping and starts chasing the alien spaceship. He follows him through a kind of portal . While the alien ship arrives undamaged on the other side of the portal and lands on earth, Shep's ship is badly damaged; it crashes on earth.
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
The band, still stunned, is taken to a kind of factory. There they are made similar to humans by changing their color to blue and replacing their clothes. Their memories are also exchanged. So z. B. memories in which the guitarist flies as a child in a hovercraft over a lunar landscape, replaced by similar memories with human skin, a tricycle and a green meadow. They also get glasses with which they can be checked. After the redesign, they are woken up and taken to their new producer.
Crescendolls
The producer takes the band, now called the Crescendolls, to a publisher. He is enthusiastic about the band and signs them immediately. They are massively advertised and the same hysteria breaks out around the crescendolls on earth as on their home planet. What is striking, however, is the lack of emotion on the part of the band members.
Night vision
The band is completely exhausted and listless after the hype around them. But the producer forces her to sign autograph cards without interruption even during her breaks. Shep has meanwhile arrived in the city and recognizes the crescendolls, but he has to stay hidden because of his alien appearance.
Superheroes
The hysteria about the band continues and the producer stages a huge concert. During the course of the concert, Shep flies onto the stage with a rocket backpack and disables the control devices of the guitarist, the drummer and the singer. When he tries to save the bassist, however, the producer gets in his way. The three others, who have come to but still seem disoriented, flee with Shep. In the subsequent chase with the producer's henchmen, Shep is shot, but the four manage to escape. The producer's henchmen, it turns out during an accident during the pursuit, are robots.
High life
The producer uses the bassist continues for his purposes and visited with her events for the smart set . A business card from the producer falls into her hands. Among other things, they attend the awarding of the gold record. The crescendolls win the prize, and while the producer and bassist accept the prize, the drummer, who is in the audience in disguise, manages to destroy the bassist's control device. She can disappear from the stage unnoticed and escape with the drummer.
Something About Us
While they are hiding in a warehouse, Shep shares his daydream with the bassist and succumbs to his injuries. After he dies, she has a hologram in her hand that represents the band, showing them both the past that they can no longer remember and Shep's admiration for the band.
Voyager
Dejected, the band drives to the country and buries Shep under a tree. As they say goodbye, his spirit rises from the grave and says goodbye in turn. On the way back, the bassist remembers the producer's business card, which she still carries with her, and the band decides to go to the address on the page.
Veridis Quo
The address turns out to be a lock. There the band finds a book that says that the producer is the son of the Earl of Darkwood. He watched his father die in a comet impact centuries ago. In the course of his life he discovered a way to conquer the universe. He kidnapped aliens from the other side of the portal and made them famous musicians he controlled. As a result, he won gold records, of which he has to collect 5555; the 5555th is that of the crescendolls. The band is discovered by the robots and brought to the producer, who wants to sacrifice the bassist by fusing the records and Stella, the bassist, with an apparatus (on May 5th, 2005 at 05:55 am). A fight ensues in which the producer falls into a ravine, his followers follow him to death in mass suicide and Stella is saved.
Short circuit
Apparently triggered by the death of the producer, a volcano erupts under the castle. The band escapes and heads back to town. On the way, they discover in the producer's book that their memories have been saved on a kind of floppy disk. The singer breaks into the building of the record company and manages to get it. When he tried to leave the building, however, he was caught by security guards and struck down with a stun gun . The publisher arrives and recognizes the singer, who has returned to his original blue appearance due to the electric shock; the rest of the band is taken over by the called police. In the meantime, an enigmatic wave of energy rises from the ruins of the producer's castle and shoots into space.
Face to face
The publisher realizes that the band comes from another planet and informs the public. The band is restored to its original look and memories. Shep's spaceship is also being repaired so that they can go back home. With a launch vehicle and a ramp construction, your spaceship is transported back into space and you step through the portal back into your universe.
Too long
While they are between the portals, the mysterious energy wave from the ruins emerges as the ghost of the producer trying to thwart the return, but they are protected by Shep's ghost and can thus leave the portal unmolested. On the trip home, they remember Shep with a jam session . When they arrive on their home planet, they are enthusiastically received and immediately give a concert, which is also broadcast on earth. A monument will be erected in honor of Shep's heroism.
As the last track expires, a young boy is shown who fell asleep in front of his turntable playing a daft punk record. He's cuddling with a couple of crescendoll dolls. Daft-punk dolls, daft-punk albums and all the important characters in the film are spread out in the form of dolls.
background
The film is the graphic implementation of the album Discovery by the French house formation Daft Punk and tells the story of the kidnapping of an interstellar pop band in individual episodes. Interstella 5555 is continuing the concept that was used in 2001 for the music videos of the first four singles from the Discovery album: Each video continues the story where its predecessor left it off. All songs on the album, lined up one after the other in the form of an anime musical, tell a brightly colored space adventure without any dialogue .
The pictures were drawn by the Japanese production studio Toei . The graphic concept comes from Leiji Matsumoto . The film cost $ 4 million.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Eric Ducker: The Creators . In: The Fader Magazine . No. 47 (July / August), 2007, pp. 115 ( thefader.com ).