Chasing someone invisible

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Movie
German title Chasing someone invisible
Original title Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director John Carpenter
script Robert Collector ,
Dana Olsen ,
William Goldman
production Bruce Bodner ,
Dan Kolsrud ,
Arnon Milchan
music Shirley Walker
camera William A. Fraker
cut Marion Rothman
occupation

Memoirs of an Invisible is an American science fiction - comedy from director John Carpenter from the year 1992 . The main roles are played by Chevy Chase , Daryl Hannah and Sam Neill . The film opened in German cinemas on September 24, 1992.

The film is based on the novel by Harry F. Saint , in turn, HG Wells ' The Invisible Man ( The Invisible Man verulkt).

action

Nick Halloway is a charming yuppie and womanizer who gets through life with affairs and slurps. After a meeting in an office building in the basement of which a laboratory accident takes place, he wakes up on a sofa and realizes that, like parts of the house, he has become invisible .

The CIA -Agent David Jenkins discovered Nick when he wants to leave the premises; From then on, the secret service follows the heels of the invisible in order to use it as a guinea pig for espionage and assassin purposes. Thanks to his new characteristics, he can escape and hide with his chance acquaintance Alice. Among other things, it helps him to model himself a mask that makes him less noticeable.

While the irresponsible Nick falls genuinely in love for the first time, Jenkins is still after them. He finally rushes them to a skyscraper, on the roof of which the opponents will meet for the last time. Jenkins falls and dies in the ensuing fight, and the CIA assumes that Nick is dead too. This reveals himself to Alice a little later.

In the end, the invisible person is skiing in the mountains. Pregnant Alice is waiting for him at home, and they both wonder how difficult it will be to keep their children under control.

background

  • The humor of the film mainly works with the representation of everyday situations that are influenced by invisibility; Among other things, it shows how Nick smokes, drinks and chews gum and can see the substances in question in his invisible innards.
  • The film is the first major Hollywood production whose soundtrack was written entirely by a woman (Shirley Walker).
  • Director John Carpenter makes a brief appearance as a member of the SWAT team.

Awards

The film was nominated for the Saturn Award in 1993 in four categories: Chevy Chase for Best Actor , Best Science Fiction Film , Best Special Effects, and Sam Neill for Best Supporting Actor .

John Carpenter was nominated for a prize at the Festival Internacional de Cinema do Porto in 1993.

Reviews

Roger Ebert praised the portrayal of Daryl Hannah in the Chicago Sun-Times of February 28, 1992, but criticized the plot and the dialogues. He compared the film with the film classic The Invisible Man ( The Invisible Man ) by James Whale with Claude Rains as the title character from the year 1933rd

“Just a tolerably entertaining mixture of thriller, comedy, melodrama and love story, which mainly draws on the trick technology. The allusions to the socio-political present in the USA are appealing, but they are just as inconsistently developed as the dramaturgy. "

- Lexicon of international film

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the German translation, the book was initially called Notes of an Invisible Man . Only the new edition for the film adaptation was published under the title Hunt for an Invisible Man .
  2. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  3. ↑ Chasing an Invisible Man. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 5, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used