Malcolm the hero
| Episode of the series Malcolm in the middle | |
|---|---|
| title | Malcolm the hero |
| Original title | pilot |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| length | approx. 22 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| classification | Season 1, Episode 1 1st episode overall ( list ) |
| First broadcast | January 9, 2000 on FOX |
| German-language first broadcast |
September 24, 2001 on ProSieben |
| Rod | |
| Director | Todd Holland |
| script | Linwood Boomer |
| production | Gordon Wolf |
| music |
John Flansburgh , John Linnell , Charles Sydnor |
| camera | Victor Hammer |
| cut | Nancy Morrison |
| occupation | |
Malcolm, the hero (original title: pilot ) is the first aired episode of the American comedy series Malcolm in the middle . The premiere of this episode on January 9, 2000 saw about 22.4 million viewers on average, which Malcolm in the Middle since The Simpsons the greatest audience share of a series premiere on the US channel FOX reached. The German-language first broadcast on the ProSieben station took place on September 24, 2001 .
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The episode begins with Malcolm, sitting on his bed, turning to the viewer and introducing himself and his brothers (see also breaking through the fourth wall ), at the end of which he says: “Do you know what the best thing about childhood is? Fortunately, at some point it will stop. ”Then, as in every episode of Malcolm, the opening credits follow in the middle of an intro .
The main plot begins with Malcolm and his brothers having breakfast together while his mother Lois shaves her husband Hal, who is standing naked. She tells Malcolm that he should come home straight after school because she made an appointment with Stevie, a handicapped boy who is in a wheelchair and is highly gifted. Malcolm, however, is not happy about this and complains to his mother, but quickly realizes that he has no choice.
After Malcolm goes to school, his teacher asks him in art class to go to the headmaster of the school. When he does this, Caroline Miller, another teacher at the school, awaits him there and performs an intelligence test with him, which Malcolm solves brilliantly.
A few hours later that same day, Malcolm and Stevie meet in his room and talk to each other. Malcolm realizes that he and Stevie don't have much in common, as his parents don't allow him to do a lot. Ultimately, what they all have in common is that they enjoy reading comics.
The following Saturday morning, the teacher who conducted the intelligence test with Malcolm rings the doorbell at the family home. When Lois opens the door, she initially thinks that the teacher wants to send Malcolm to a special school, but she denies this and is ultimately allowed in to explain what really is her concern.
A few days later, the family sits at the dinner table and typically has a hectic breakfast. As the male family members are about to get up, Lois wants to talk to them about something. She then said that one of Malcolm's teachers took a test on him and found an IQ of 165. After she said that he now has to go to a special class with the gifted, the latter is annoyed and does not want to change his class.
Finally, Malcolm changes class and is furious about it on the first day because he thinks everyone in this class is idiots and that he isn't like that at all. When he is later in the school yard during recess, he is ignored by the rest of the school's students and treated like an outsider, which is why he goes to his new classmate Stevie to spend the break with him. Thereupon he is thrown a paper ball at the head by Dave Spath, a school thug, which is why Malcolm starts an argument by insulting him, whereupon he goes to him and wants to hit him. When he strikes back, however, Malcolm Stevie's pudding throws him in the face. When he swings back for the second time, Malcolm can bend down, causing Dave's hand to lightly touch Stevie's head. After the students around it are appalled that Dave hits a "cripple", Stevie deliberately drops his wheelchair. Then Stevie is helped up again by some other students and Dave is verbally abused by his friends.
While the credits are running, Malcolm tells his family in the front yard, while he is sitting on an upturned garbage can, under which his brother Dewey is, how the day went on, how he and his family went. a. now standing there as a hero, about his new class and his family.
Cast and dubbing
- family members
- Frankie Muniz (voice: Wilhelm-Rafael Garth ) as Malcolm , protagonist
- Jane Kaczmarek (voice: Martina Treger ) as Lois , Malcolm's mother
- Bryan Cranston (voice: Bodo Wolf ) as Hal , Malcolm's father
- Justin Berfield (voice: Nick Forsberg ) as Reese , Malcolm's older brother
- Erik Per Sullivan (voice: Kevin Winkel ) as Dewey , Malcolm's younger brother
- Christopher Kennedy Masterson (voice: Sebastian Schulz ) as Francis , Malcolm's oldest brother
- People from school
- Merrin Dungey (voice: Almut Zydra ) , Malcolm's teacher, before moving to the gifted class (later in the series, Dungey played Kitty Kenarban , Stevie's mother)
- Catherine Lloyd Burns (voice: Irina von Bentheim ) as Caroline Miller , Malcolm's teacher in the gifted class
- Craig Lamar Traylor (voice: Michael Verona ) as Stevie Kenarban , Malcolm's new classmate who later becomes his best friend in the series
- Landry Allbright (voice: Jill Böttcher ) as Julie Houlerman , Malcolm's classmate, before moving to the gifted class
- Vincent Berry (voice: unknown) as Dave Spath , school thug
- Others
- Austin Stout (voice: unknown) , Dave's victim in front of the school
- Martin Spanjers (voice: unknown) as Richard , Malcolm's friend, when he goes to school in the morning
Awards
In 2000, this episode won director Todd Holland in the Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series category and screenwriter Linwood Boomer in the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series category, a Primetime Emmy Award and Nancy Morrison won the American Cinema Editors Award in the Best Edited Half category -Hour Series . 2001 followed for Holland the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series .
Web links
- Malcolm, the hero in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Entry by Malcolm, the hero on wunschliste.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Malcolm the hero . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ a b c d Malcolm in the middle ( Memento from May 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ COVER STORY; A Warm and Fuzzy Family, But the Brady Bunch It Isn't - New York Times. In: nytimes.com. Retrieved February 7, 2012 .
- ↑ a b c German synchronous card index . In: synchronkartei.de. Retrieved February 5, 2012 .
- ^ "Malcolm in the Middle" (2000) - Awars. In: IMDb.com. Retrieved February 2, 2012 .