Kung Fury
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Kung Fury |
| Original title | Kung Fury |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 31 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Sandberg |
| script | David Sandberg |
| production | David Sandberg |
| music | Johan Bengtsson, Lost Years, Patrik Öberg |
| camera | Linus Andersson, Mattias Andersson, Jonas Ernhill, Martin Gärdemalm |
| cut | Nils Moström |
| occupation | |
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Kung Fury is a free Swedish short film by David Sandberg released on May 28, 2015 , which was realized as a crowdfunding project via Kickstarter . The film is a tribute to trash - action movies of 1980 years. Sandberg had on Kickstarter a budget of 200,000 dollars sought, but reached about three times.
action
Miami in 1985: When two teenagers hit an arcade machine in a casino after the end of the video game , it transformed into a combat robot and spreads "chaos and terror". The police officer Kung Fury is called to help and after an intense fight shoots the machine.
In the office of the Miami Police Department, however, he is held responsible by his boss for the improper use and the accompanying damage amounting to 50 million dollars and he is appointed a new partner with Triceracop . Kung Fury refuses any cooperation and quits his job. When Adolf Hitler , master of Kung Fu and known by his alias Kung Führer , shoots the police station on a mobile phone , Kung Fury decides to stop Hitler. With the help of Hackerman, a hacker , Kung Fury surfs back in time on a MicroBee . Due to an error but Fury lands in the Viking -Zeitalter where he by a laser - Raptor is attacked. Barbarianna , a Viking, kills the raptor with a minigun . She gives Fury to her friend Katana , who urges Thor , the god of thunder , to help Fury. Thor opens a time portal with the help of Mjölnir and sends Fury back in time.
Arrived in Nazi Germany, Fury attacks the audience of a speech by Hitler. When he is fatally hit by Hitler, his friends come to his aid. Fury saves himself and together they defeat the kung leader. Back in the present, however, it turns out that Hitler survived and is back in the 1980s.
reception
Kung Fury has over 30 million views on YouTube to date.
Spiegel Online ran the headline that Kung Fury was "terrific madness". With "laser dinosaurs, renegade cops and VHS interference stripes", director David Sandberg "set a monument to eighties television".
The world judged the film to be "like a collage of bad B-movie scenes". Sandberg ignored "all the rules of the logic of the film in a grandiose way", but one would "hardly have time to reflect on it" because it "goes from one stupid idea to the next without a break".
Die Zeit said the film sounds like “absolute junk” and is “actually it too”. Without the Internet, “nobody would talk about Kung Fury”, otherwise the “film kept everything that a B-movie promises: gaudy effects, synthesizers, some splatter and dry one-liners”.
Awards
The film received a nomination for Best Short Film at the European Film Awards 2015 . It was also recognized as Best Short Film at the 2016 Guldbagge Swedish National Film Award.
Trivia
The film steered David Hasselhoff , known from the 80s cult series Knight Rider , the theme song True Survivor at.
At the end of May 2016, on the anniversary of the release of Kung Fury, David Sandberg announced that he was working on the successor to Kung Fury 2.
February 2018 it was announced that the film adaptation of Kung Fury 2 should be shot in 2018, with Michael Fassbender, Arnold Schwarzenegger and David Hasselhoff in the cast.
The shooting finally started with a little delay in September 2019. The shooting location is the Bavaria Filmstudios in Bavaria.
computer game
On May 28, 2015, the beat 'em up Kung Fury: Street Rage was released in English for the Windows , Linux and Android operating systems .
Web links
- Kung Fury on YouTube
- Official Homepage of the film (English)
- Kung Fury in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Simon Knopf: Kung-Fu and Lasers and Breasts. In: The Bund . May 29, 2015, accessed June 15, 2015 .
- ↑ Yves Schott: Viking Brides, The Hoff and other fossils. In: 20 minutes . May 29, 2015, accessed June 15, 2015 .
- ↑ KUNG FURY Official Movie [HD] on YouTube . Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ↑ Jörg Breithut: Grandiose madness. In: Spiegel Online . May 31, 2015, accessed June 15, 2015 .
- ↑ The unbelievable Kung Fu Hitler dinosaur action film spectacle “Kung Fury”. In: The world . May 31, 2015, accessed June 15, 2015 .
- ↑ Eike Kühl: Long live the trash. In: The time . June 2, 2015, accessed June 15, 2015 .
- ↑ Berlin real-time thriller “Victoria” comes out empty-handed. Awarding of the European Film Prize in Berlin. In: RBB . December 13, 2015, accessed January 25, 2016 .
- ↑ Kung Fury. Bästa kortfilm / Vinnare. Swedish Film Institute , accessed January 25, 2016 .
- ↑ Nico Rau: Trash homage to the 80s. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur . April 28, 2015, accessed August 9, 2015 .
- ↑ Kung Fury 2 - Director announces successor to the 80s parody. In: moviepilot.de. May 30, 2016. Retrieved August 26, 2015 .
- ↑ Alex Ritman: Arnold Schwarzenegger Joins 'Kung Fury' Feature Film (Exclusive). In: The Hollywood Reporter . February 15, 2018, accessed October 1, 2018.
- ↑ Arnold Schwarzenegger is shooting “Kung Fury 2” in Munich. In: Web.de . September 17, 2019, accessed September 20, 2019 .