Man of Steel (film)
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| German title | Man of Steel |
| Original title | Man of Steel |
| Country of production | United States , United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 143 minutes |
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| Director | Zack Snyder |
| script | David S. Goyer |
| production | Christopher Nolan, Lloyd Phillips , Charles Roven , Deborah Snyder |
| music | Hans Zimmer |
| camera | Amir M. Mokri |
| cut | David Brenner |
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Man of Steel is a US - British action film and comic book adaptation by director Zack Snyder that released in US cinemas on June 13, 2013. Man of Steel is the first film in the so-called DC Extended Universe , a film adaptation of the fictional universe of DC Comics . The German version started on June 20, 2013.
action
The plot in the film is not linear, but is presented here chronologically.
In order to save his son Kal-El, the first naturally born Kryptonian in centuries, and thus prevent the downfall of his own people, Jor-El sends him along with the previously stolen "Codex" - which serves as a command key and a collection of the genome of all Kryptonians - to Earth shortly before its home planet Krypton is destroyed.
Once on earth, the married couple Jonathan and Martha Kent find him . They give the baby the name Clark and drag it to its farm in Smallville in the US state of Kansas on. It doesn't take long for them to realize that their foster son is extraordinary: Clark discovers abilities in himself that, according to his father, he must hide under all circumstances. Nevertheless, Kent uses these skills several times, for example to rescue his classmates from a bus when it comes off the road and falls into a river.
When Clark has to idly watch his foster father die in a hurricane , he embarks on a journey to discover his origins. After a long time he finds an old Kryptonian spaceship in the polar region of Canada , where his biological father Jor-El, as a data spirit (or artificial intelligence ), informs him about his Kryptonian origins and instructs him to become a symbol for the good in the world. It is also there that Clark meets the young journalist Lois Lane from the Daily Planet newspaper, who will follow him from now on and investigate his past exploits until she is finally on the doorstep of Martha Kent. Clark reveals himself to her and she understands that she has to keep his secret to herself.
A short time later, a spaceship lands on earth and sends a message to everyone. General Zod , who is responsible for the death of Jor-El, demands the extradition of the Kryptonian Kal-El, who lives on earth. Clark teams up with the US military to prevent them from seeing him as a threat and surrenders himself to General Zod. Lois Lane is also taken as a supposed hostage.
On board the spaceship, Kent learns about Zod's plan: he wants to create a new krypton on earth with the help of the codex and a “planet converter”. Kent is captured and Lane locked away, weakened by the atmosphere of the spaceship. With the help of Jor-El's data ghost, Lane escapes in an escape pod, which has been damaged by a previous attack and is now threatened to burn up if it falls to earth. Kent manages to mobilize his forces and save Lane.
A fight ensues between Kent, Zod's henchman Faora-Ul and another Kryptonian officer, in which the US military intervenes. Much of Kent's hometown Smallville is destroyed in this fight.
Zod starts the planet converter, a terraforming machine, and continues to pursue the plan to transform the earth into a new krypton. Kent, who now fights Zod anonymously and is called " Superman ", can destroy the machine in time. With the probe that brought Kent to Earth, the military finally succeeds in destroying General Zod's alien spaceship.
However, Zod survives and attacks Superman. The two Kryptonians fight their way through the city of Metropolis until they finally arrive in a hall where Superman wins the upper hand. Since Zod doesn't give up and tries to kill more people, Superman is forced to break the neck of his adversary. Overwhelmed by guilt, Superman collapses and is hugged by Lane.
Some time later, when the situation has calmed down, Kent destroys a military spy drone and announces that he is on their side but will not allow himself to be controlled. At the end of the film, Kent tells his adoptive mother that he wants to get a cover identity . With glasses on, he starts at Daily Planet as a journalist and thus a colleague of Lois Lane.
production
occupation
As a superman actor you wanted to look for an actor who was not yet known and was between 28 and 32 years old. So the decision fell on Henry Cavill . Since Kevin Costner was also interested in a role in the film, he was awarded the role of Superman’s adoptive father, with Russell Crowe being chosen as the biological father shortly before filming began. Originally, British actress Julia Ormond was supposed to play the role of Superman's Kryptonian mother, Lara Lor-Van. Ormond was later exchanged for Ayelet Zurer . Amy Adams was chosen for the role of Lois Lane at the end of March 2011 because, according to the director, she is a smart, funny and beautiful woman .
The German actress Antje Traue as Faora-Ul was chosen as an opponent. As the main villain, Michael Shannon was cast as General Zod.
In January 2012 Richard Schiff was named Dr. Hamilton occupied. He is both an ally and an enemy of Superman's in the comics.
Filming
With a budget of 225 million US dollars, the filming of the film began on August 1, 2011 in an industrial park near DuPage Airport, west Chicago . It was originally expected to take two to three months to shoot, but shooting didn't end until February 2012.
Special effects
Oscar winner Allen Hall was among the special effects artists .
music
Hans Zimmer , who had previously worked with producer Christopher Nolan on the Dark Knight trilogy , initially declined to act as composer for Man of Steel , but later changed his mind and joined the film team in mid-2012. In consultation with Zimmer, director Snyder did without the theme song composed by John Williams , although the filmmaker liked it. In an interview he said: "We want this to be seen as the first Superman movie ever and then we can't just (...) [steal the original music]."
marketing
The movie logo was released on March 30, 2012. The first poster appeared at Comic-Con . A first trailer appeared in the summer of 2012. This contained two different versions of different audio tracks with monologues by Jor-El (Russell Crowe) and Jonathan Kent (Kevin Costner). The second trailer was released on December 11, 2012, the third on April 17, 2013, and the fourth on May 22, 2013.
novel
In June 2013, Titan Books published an adaptation of a novel written by Greg Cox entitled Man of Steel: The Official Movie Novelization .
reception
success
At a production cost of $ 225 million, the film grossed $ 668 million, of which $ 291 million was in the United States.
In the United States, the film was viewed relatively frequently during the week, especially when compared to other starting films in a film series such as Iron Man or The Amazing Spider-Man , while the numbers fell sharply for the weekend. On the second weekend, earnings fell 64.6%. By the end of 2013, $ 9.8 million had been earned in Germany.
In 2013, 754,653 visitors were counted at the German box office nationwide, making the film the 45th place among the most visited films of the year.
Reviews
The film received mixed reviews. The Rotten Tomatoes review collection lists over 280 reviews, 56% of which have a positive tenor. The users of the Internet Movie Database rated the film with 7.2 out of 10 points, based on over 520,000 votes.
“Probably never before in film history has a superhero film so plausibly and aesthetically summed up what it means when forces like those of Superman meet a world that is made to measure for people: when this franchise restart the word 'Superman' conspicuously bypasses the title and film, this is not only due to the embarrassing, and not least slightly gay, legacy of the naivety of the earliest superhero story, but also because Snyder and his team Take the 'man of steel' as such completely and probably too seriously: This Superman is a projectile, a bolide with unprecedented penetration power. [...] After bathing in the canon of images of the earliest catastrophe of the 21st century, this all-encompassing destruction is reinterpreted as a historic victory. It seems that with Man of Steel another chapter in US trauma coping in the cinema comes to its logical end. "
"Zack Snyder succeeds in a furious reboot of the superhero franchise, which, in addition to spectacular 3D action, relies above all on precisely drawn figures."
“With 'Man Of Steel', Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan celebrate pure and bitterly serious action bombast despite a few weaknesses. Here it crashes almost every minute. "
“Man of Steel affirms Superman's special status in the superhero cosmos - namely that, compared to other characters, he can actually do everything supernaturally well - and answers the narrative dilemma threatened by this unspecific nature with consistent overwhelming cinema. Ultimately, Man of Steel unites the heterogeneous blockbuster canon of the last 30 years in terms of motifs - a great film for a superhero. The contemporary 3D effect has perhaps never been used more purposefully than here. The gesture of delimitation, evoked primarily by the figure's flights, is also applied to the plot dynamics of the film: The attempts at maximum spatial measurement - just in the destroyed streets of Smallville, Superman and his opponent General Zod end up after an exchange of blows in the final battle on a satellite in space - are framed by a non-linear narrative style that constantly oscillates between childhood and early adulthood. "
continuation
In March 2016, the sequel entitled Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice hit theaters. In the film, which was again directed by Zack Snyder, this time Ben Affleck as Batman and the Israeli actress Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman can be seen in addition to Cavill's Superman .
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Man of Steel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Man of Steel at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Man of Steel . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 231 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Man of Steel . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b www.filmreporter.de , accessed on June 1, 2011.
- ↑ Russell Crowe as Superman's father Jor-El on Moviepilot, accessed June 25, 2011.
- ↑ New appointment at Superman necessary at Moviejones, December 24, 2011.
- ↑ Superman gets German opponent on Moviepilot, accessed on May 6, 2011.
- ↑ a b "Man of Steel", "Riddick", "Llewlyn Davis" and "Star Trek 2" . In: April 6, 2012.
- ↑ Richard Schiff as Dr. Hamilton in "Man of Steel". In: Moviejones, April 6, 2012.
- ^ Superman flying into Chicago in August for filming In: chicagobusiness.com.
- ↑ www.movie-infos.net , July 6, 2012.
- ↑ Man of Steel - Superman melody does not appear in the film! In: filmering.at , 23 August 2012.
- ↑ A bold new logo for the Man of Steel on Moviepilot, accessed April 6, 2012.
- ↑ www.moviejones.de , July 24, 2012.
- ↑ movies.yahoo.com , July 21, 2012.
- ↑ Man of Steel: The Official Movie Novelization In: titanbooks.com. Retrieved December 30, 2016.
- ↑ Man of Steel. Box Office Mojo , November 10, 2013, accessed June 15, 2013 .
- ↑ Superhero Origin Showdown. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 7, 2013 .
- ↑ Man of Steel (domestic total weekends). Box Office Mojo, accessed July 7, 2013 .
- ↑ Man of Steel (foreign by country). Box Office Mojo , accessed January 1, 2014 .
- ↑ KINOaktuell: What you wanted: Münster's cinema year 2013, C. Lou Lloyd, Filminfo No. 4, 23-29 January 2014, p. 24 f.
- ↑ www.rottentomatoes.com (English).
- ↑ Man of Steel in the Internet Movie Database (as of April 3, 2016).
- ↑ The world is too big. perlentaucher.de , accessed on June 20, 2013 .
- ^ Review of "Man of Steel". Kino.de , accessed on June 15, 2013 .
- ^ Critique of FILMSTARTS.de "Man Of Steel". Filmstarts.de, accessed June 15, 2013 .
- ↑ Man of Steel - Film Review. Critic.de, accessed June 20, 2013 .
- ^ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. moviepilot.de, accessed on May 28, 2014 .
