Love, Simon

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Movie
German title Love, Simon
Original title Love, Simon
Love Simon.jpg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2018
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Greg Berlanti
script Elizabeth Berger ,
Isaac Aptaker
production Marty Bowen ,
Wyck Godfrey ,
Isaac Klausner ,
Pouya Shahbazian
music Rob Simonsen
camera John Guleserian
cut Harry Jierjian
occupation
synchronization

Love, Simon is an American dramedy directed by Greg Berlanti from the year 2018 . The film premiered on February 27, 2018 at the Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney and was released in US cinemas on March 16, 2018. In Germany, Love, Simon was released on June 28, 2018. The film is based on the novel Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda ( German only three words ) by Becky Albertalli . Nick Robinson can be seen in the leading role .

action

Simon Spier is a 17-year-old teenager at Creekwood High School in suburban Atlanta , Georgia . He has a family to which he is very important, consisting of his parents Emily and Jack and sister Nora. His three best friends are Leah and Nick, whom he has known since kindergarten, and Abby, who moved there from Washington, DC just a few months ago . He describes himself as having a completely normal life with a big secret: Nobody knows he's gay .

One day, Simon reads a message from an anonymous classmate who is also gay on the creeksecrets Tumblr page of the high school students. Reluctantly, Blue and Simon, who calls himself Jacques (in French the game is called Simon says Jacques a dit ), begin a friendship via email. When Simon forgets to log out of his e-mail account on the school computer, classmate Martin reads his e-mails and blackmails him with screenshots. In return, Simon is supposed to help Martin get together with Abby. Simon does this by trying to pair Nick with Leah even though Nick fell in love with Abby. At the same time, Simon tries to find out who he really is through clues in Blues emails; he fell in love with Blue. Three people come up for him in the course of the film: Bram, a football team-mate of Nick, but whom he sees kissing a girl at a Halloween party; Lyle, a former classmate and waiter at Waffle House , who is also interested in Abby; and Cal, who, however, denies being Blue.

After Martin, following Simon's advice, publicly asked Abby for a date at a football game but declined, he published the compromising screenshots on the Tumblr page on Christmas Eve and outed Simon. His friends Nick and Abby turn away from him because he has manipulated their relationship, and Leah also keeps her distance after she confesses to Simon that she is in love with him, which he misunderstood as feelings for Nick. Blue also breaks off the email contact. After a homophobic incident in the high school cafeteria, Simon reconciles with his friends. His father also affirms his love for him. Since Blue once wrote in an email that his life feels like a Ferris wheel , Simon invites him publicly to creeksecrets to the Ferris wheel at the local winter fair . At the very last moment, Blue arrives and it turns out to be Bram. In the end, Simon and Bram become a couple, and everything else falls into place.

production

Filming

Filming began in Atlanta , Georgia on March 6, 2017 and ended on April 23, 2017. On October 2, 2017, the title of the film was changed from Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda to Love, Simon . A scene in the book in which Simon visits a gay club for the first time in his life was cut from the film - in this cut scene, actor Colton Haynes also had a brief appearance as a club-goer who dances with Simon.

Knowing how expensive the music in the film would be, Berlanti decided to stop filming two days early. Commenting on the decision, he said, “I knew a lot of the film was being made in homage to films that had these great soundtracks that, at my age, you keep playing until they wear out. The soundtrack was the thing that made you feel the emotions of the film. So it was always on my wish-list to have a soundtrack that reflected that. It was very expensive and everyone wanted to make sure I was doing the right thing. I wanted to put more money into music. "

Soundtrack

Love, Simon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Soundtrack by various artists

Publication
(s)

18th March 2018

Label (s) RCA , Sony

Genre (s)

Soundtrack , Independent

Title (number)

13

running time

47:24

Single releases
January 16, 2018 Alfie's Song (Not So Typical Love Song)
February 14, 2018 Love Lies

The film's soundtrack includes music by Bleachers , Troye Sivan , Amy Shark , Brenton Wood, The 1975 , Normani and Khalid , among others . The first track from the soundtrack was Alfie's song (Not So Typical Love Song) by Bleachers.

Other songs that appear in the film but are not included in the soundtrack are Waterloo Sunset from The Kinks , Diamond from MONAKR, Feel It Still from Portugal. The Man , No by Meghan Trainor , Monster Mash by Bobby “Boris” Picket , As Long as You Love Me by Justin Bieber , Add It Up by Violent Femmes , Bad Romance by Lady Gaga (played by the Michigan Marching Band) and Shine a Light from Banners.

Love, Simon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 
No. title Songwriter Interpreter length
1. Alfie's Song (Not So Typical Love Song) Jack Antonoff , Ilsey Juber, Harry Styles Bleachers 3:01
2. Roller coaster Antonoff, John Hill Bleachers 3:12
3. Never fall in love Antonoff, Karen Marie Ørsted Jack Antonoff and MØ 3:36
4th Strawberries & Cigarettes Troye Sivan , Antonoff, Alex Hope Troye Sivan 3:21
5. Sink In Ben Berger, Julia Michaels , Ryan McMahon Amy Shark 4:35
6th Love Lies Khalid Robinson, Normani, Charlie Handsome, Jamil "Digi" Chammas, Taylor Parks Khalid and Normani 3:23
7th The Oogum Boogum Song Alfred Smith Brenton Wood 3:07
8th. Love me Adam Hann, George Daniel, Matthew Healy, Ross MacDonald The 1975 3:42
9. I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) George Merrill, Shannon Rubicam Whitney Houston 4:50
10. Someday at Christmas Ron Miller , Bryan Wells Jackson 5 2:44
11. Wings Nini Fabi, Benjamin Gebert Haerts 4:58
12. Keeping a Secret Antonoff, Justin Tranter Bleachers 3:25
13. Wild Heart Antonoff, Hill Bleachers 3:21
Overall length: 47:24

publication

Love, Simon premiered at the Mardi Gras Film Festival on February 27, 2018, as well as the Glasgow Film Festival and the Melbourne Queer Film Festival.

After the film was released, several celebrities, including Jennifer Garner , Kristen Bell , Neil Patrick Harris , Joey Graceffa , Matt Bomer , Robbie Rogers , Benj Pasek , Tyler Oakley, Martin Gero, Andrew Rannells, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson , bought entire theaters out, so viewers could see the film for free because they felt that the film conveyed an important message. Love, Simon is the first film by a major Hollywood studio to focus on teenage gay romance.

The film was released in Germany on June 28, 2018.

synchronization

The film was set to music at RC Production based on a dialogue book and directed by Marius Clarén .

role actor Voice actor
Simon Spier Nick Robinson Sebastian Fitzner
Leah Burke Katherine Langford Lydia Morgenstern
Abby Suso Alexandra Shipp Luisa Wietzorek
Nick Eisner Jorge Lendeborg Jr. Sebastian Kluckert
Bram Greenfeld Keiynan Lonsdale Amadeus Strobl
Mrs. Emily Spier Jennifer Garner Dorette Hugo
Mr. Jack Spier Josh Duhamel Dennis Schmidt-Foss
Nora Spier Talitha Bateman Lucy Fandrych
Martin Addison Logan Miller Patrick Baehr
Cal Price Miles Heizer Karim El Kammouchi
Mr. Worth Tony Hale Manou Lubowski
Miss Albright Natasha Rothwell Susanne von Medvey
Ethane Clark Moore Marcel Mann
Lyle Joey Pollari Jannik Endemann
Garrett Laughlin Drew Starkey David Wittmann
Taylor Metternich Mackenzie Lintz Alice Bauer

criticism

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the movie has a 91% rating based on 174 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3 / 10. On Metacritic , the film has an average rating of 72 out of 100 based on 38 critics, which means "generally positive reviews". The audience surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A +" on a scale from A + to F.

When it comes to film releases , Antje Wessels says that the “coming-of-age tragicomedy is one of the smartest and most touching contributions in young adult cinema”. The film "makes you smile after just ten seconds and soon cry more than once, until it leaves you with an absolute elation at the end". He has “what it takes to make a lasting impact on this cinema decade”.

Martin Schwickert of the Hannoverschen Allgemeine thinks the strip is a “conventional Hollywood product” in which “being gay at last is completely normal” “and the end is pretty kitschy”. "The backdrop of the ideal middle-class world" is not scratched, "so as not to burden the audience with further contradictions." But the film succeeds "with wit, charm and a good portion of romance in making its love story universally accessible". The story seems "pleasantly effortless".

Anastasia Barner says on funky.de that “even straight boys can watch the film without having to say 'No Homo'” and that “Coming-of-Age and Coming-Out” go well together.

Wolfgang M. Schmitt from the YouTube channel Die Filmanalyse generally considers the film to be a successful work. The film questions the idea of ​​outing, since Simon imagines in one scene what it would be like if heterosexuals had to come out too. The normality shown is also a double-edged sword, according to Schmitt. On the one hand, the film shows that it is completely normal to be gay, on the other hand, a strong standardization is made. It would be shown that you could be anything as long as you lead a relatively normal life. Love, Simon wants to make a political statement, a plea for liberalism. The insistence on the normal also means an insistence on economic liberalism, which allows the free development of individuals, but only allows this if they do not question the economic system and the "current state" of society. No other problem is dealt with at any point. The society in the film only unites when the "current situation" is threatened by intolerance. This would e.g. B. by the final scene at the ferris wheel. Here, the participants would applaud each other and sell their innermost being. So if you accept the rules of the economic and social world, you will also be accepted by them, regardless of whether you are gay or straight.

Awards

Tabular overview of awards and nominations
year Award For category result
2018 Golden Trailer Awards Love, Simon Best romance trailer Nominated
Best Romance TV Spot Nominated
Best billboard Nominated
Best Teaser Campaign Won
MTV Movie Awards Nick Robinson and Keiynan Lonsdale Best kiss Won
Love, Simon Best musical moment Nominated
Teen Choice Awards Love, Simon Choice Movie - Comedy Won
Nick Robinson Choice Breakout Movie Star Won
Nick Robinson and Keiynan Lonsdale Choice Movie Ship Nominated
Human Rights Campaign Nick Robinson Ally for Equality Award Won
Maui Film Festival Nick Robinson Best Actor Won
Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Mid-Season Film Awards Nick Robinson Best Actor Pending
Love, Simon Best Adapted Screenplay Pending
2019 Humanitas Prize Love, Simon Best Comedy Movie Won

Television series

In April 2019, a television series, Love, Simon , was announced to appear on Disney + . This will take place in the same city and high school, but with a completely new cast, it will tell an original love story about the students Victor, who is still unouted, and Benji, who is openly gay. In February 2020 it was announced that the series with ten episodes in the first season would now be called Love, Victor and will be released on Hulu in June, the month of Pride .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Love, Simon . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 176332 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
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  4. ↑ Mike Fleming Jr: YA Novel 'Simon Vs The Homo Sapiens Agendan' Acquired By Fox 2000. In: Deadline. October 29, 2015, accessed December 15, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Stephen Daw , 'Love, Simon' Deleted Scene Featuring Colton Haynes Shows at Awkward Experience at Simon's First Gay Bar. In: Billboard . May 30, 2018, accessed November 28, 2018 .
  6. ^ Rob LeDonne: 'Love, Simon' Music, From Deep Cuts to Surprise Global Hits. In: Billboard. March 16, 2018, accessed April 12, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Nicholas Rice: Bleachers Release 'Alfie's Song (Not So Typical Love Song)' From 'Love, Simon' Soundtrack: Listen. In: Billboard . Billboard Music, January 16, 2018, accessed April 6, 2018 .
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  22. ↑ Rebecca Iannucci: Love, Simon series coming to Disney + . In: TV Line . April 11, 2019. Accessed April 27, 2020.
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