Lemony Snicket - Mysterious Events

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Movie
German title Lemony Snicket - Mysterious Events
Original title Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events
Country of production USA , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2004
length 108 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 10
Rod
Director Brad Silberling
script Robert Gordon
production Walter F. Parkes ,
Laurie MacDonald ,
Jim Van Wyck
music Thomas Newman
camera Emmanuel Lubezki
cut Michael Kahn
occupation

Lemony Snicket - Puzzling Events (Original title: Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events ) is a film adaptation of the first three volumes of the book series of the same name from 2004. In the lead roles are Jim Carrey , Billy Connolly , Emily Browning and Meryl Streep to see. The film opened in German cinemas on January 27, 2005.

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Lemony Snicket is the narrator of the frame narration and does not appear in the internal plot . The real story is about the Baudelaire children.

After the tragic death of their parents in a fire that destroyed their house, the three Baudelaire children Violet, Klaus and Sunny inherit a very large fortune, which can only be given to them when they reach the age of majority. Until then, a relative should act as a guardian . First choice is Count Olaf, an eccentric actor who quickly turns out to be a greedy villain who is only after the great fortune of children.

After Count Olaf locked the three orphans in his car and "parked" it on a railroad track in order to have them run over by a train, his custody was withdrawn. The children now come to the herpetologist Dr. Montgomery, with whom they immediately get along well. Montgomery intends to emigrate with them to Peru. Shortly after their arrival, Count Olaf also appears, disguised as the Italian research assistant Stephano. The following night, Olaf kills the children's new guardian. The next morning, Olaf tries to make the murder look like an accident so that he can regain custody of the children. This is thwarted by Sunny.

The next guardian is her aunt Josephine. The once fun and adventurous woman has become very anxious since her husband Ike died. Your only consolation in life is grammar. She lives by a lake where her husband was eaten by the suckers who suckled the Lake of Sighs. This time Count Olaf appears in the disguise of a sailor by the name of Talmi. The children recognize him, but he manages to win the aunt's trust. He forces Josephine over the phone to write a suicide note and transfer custody of the children to him. When the children return, it looks as if the aunt has thrown herself out of the window. In her suicide note, however, the aunt hid a secret message by means of spelling and grammar errors. She hides from Olaf in a cave on the other side of the lake. The children get to her by boat. When they have Aunt Josephine on board, they are attacked by the Sea of ​​Sighs leeches at sea. Count Olaf rushes to the rescue. He leaves Aunt Josephine to the leeches and takes the children with him.

After all, he wants to get hold of the fortune through a child marriage with Violet. But it is a forced marriage , as he threatens to kill the prisoner Sunny if Violet does not marry him. The wedding is staged in a play in which the judge is played by a real judge. But Klaus manages to destroy the wedding certificate with a burning glass and convict Count Olaf. He can also expose Olaf as the one who started the fire in the Baudelaires' house.

Instead of being arrested and locked up, Count Olaf manages to flee. In the end, the children are on their way to the next unknown guardian again. Before that, however, they receive a stray letter from their parents in which they explain to the siblings that they will never be lost as long as they have each other.

Reviews

The film received mostly positive reviews, earning a 72% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 159 reviews. At Metacritic one could Metascore of 62 out of a possible 100 points based on 37 reviews, can be achieved.

“'Lemony Snicket - Puzzling Events' is not a compelling, but a conceivable alternative for cinema fans for whom ' Harry Potter ' is too smooth and well-behaved. Brad Silberling came up with a bizarre, bizarre and coolly witty fairy tale that appeals to all age groups, but can only be understood by adults in all its diversity of details. "

- Carsten Baumgart on filmstarts.de

“Fantastic film full of magical and bizarre worlds and backdrops, which translates the literary stories ... into episodes that are as adventurous and eerie as they are profound and pointedly nasty. A pleasure for fantasy lovers, a test of courage for younger children. "

- Lexicon of international film

The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency awarded the production the rating of particularly valuable .

Awards

  • 2005 - Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards - Best Make Up
  • 2005 - Oscar - Won in the Make Up category ; nominated in the categories of costumes , film music (score) and production design
  • 2005 - BMI Film Music Award for Thomas Newman
  • 2005 - Costume Designers Guild Awards for Colleen Atwood
  • 2005 - International Award from the Australian Film Institute for Emily Browning for Best Actress
  • 2005 - Excellence in Production Design Award from the Art Directors Guild for Rick Heinrichs, John Dexter, William Hawkins, Martin, Whist, Tony Fanning, Eric Sundahl. A. Todd Holland and Bill Boes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Release Certificate for Lemony Snicket - A Mysterious Occurrence . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2004 (PDF; test number: 100 993 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Lemony Snicket - Mysterious Events . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Lemony Snicket - Mysterious Events at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  4. ↑ Lemony Snicket - Mysterious Events at Metacritic (English)
  5. ^ Criticism from filmstarts.de
  6. Jump up ↑ Lemony Snicket - Mysterious Events. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used