Mr. Universe (film)
Mr. Universum (Original Title: Stay Hungry , cross-reference: Mister Universum ) is an American independent film from 1976 by Bob Rafelson in which Jeff Bridges and Sally Field play the lead roles. Arnold Schwarzenegger can be seen in a leading role in one of his first film roles.
The script was based on a story by Charles L. Gaines.
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Craig Blake, a rather headstrong young man, lost his parents five months ago. He receives a letter from his uncle Albert asking him to join the family business, the steel business. The uncle also asks him that he has heard that Craig has engaged in property speculation. Indeed, Craig, who is inherently wealthy, got involved with dubious traders through the intermediary of a friend. Their plan is to build a high-rise commercial building in an exposed location. After buying up all of the land that could get in the way of their building plans, the only thing standing in their way is a bodybuilding school. Craig is supposed to acquire these and then give them to them.
To sound out the situation, Craig first registers at Studio Olympic, where he meets Joe Santo from Austria, who trains there and wants to win the upcoming election for Mr. Universe . He also makes the acquaintance of Mary Tate Farnsworth, who works on reception in the studio. After a great day together, Craig takes Mary Tate to his parents' house, where they spend the night together. At breakfast he confides to the young woman that his parents got caught in a fog bank in a plane crash in their own plane and that the plane was flown against a mountain by the pilot.
Craig's business partners are extremely annoyed that the property deal is increasingly a long time coming and so they send their thugs who beat everything in the studio and cause considerable damage and injure the club manager. Craig feels responsible and offers his financial help to fix the studio again.
A party among his own kind, to which Craig takes Mary Tate with him, turns into a fiasco, especially since Craig has also made sure that Joe Santo, who plays the violin on the side, performs there with three friends, which the "fine people" take as an opportunity to talk to mock the musicians from the bodybuilder milieu. Craig drinks more alcohol than is good for him, which also leads to a fight. Mary Tate is bitterly disappointed with Craig and leaves him. He did not want her, but another trophy for his collection, but she really loved him, she gives him on his way off as he goes. Craig then seeks advice from his uncle, who says that if he wants to make something of his life, it doesn't matter what he does, it is just important that he do what he does with all his heart.
Jabo, Walter junior and Bubba, Craig's business partner, make the trainer Franklin palatable, what it could mean for him too if he persuaded his boss Thor Erickson to sell to her. They provide the drug and sex addicted man with material and two willing women. The drugs don't fail to work and leave Franklin completely beside him. When Mary Tate shows up in the studio to get her things, he also gives her some of the substance against her will to make her so willing.
At the same time, the election for the Mr. Universe, in which Craig is also present, is in the final stages. His attempt to apologize bounces off Joe. So he decides to look for Mary Tate in the Olympic, where he finds the young woman very confused. Shortly afterwards he is brutally attacked by the completely unleashed Franklin, who is totally beside himself and puts Craig's life in danger. In front of an enthusiastically applauding audience, Joe Santo is proclaimed Mr. Universe, but while he is already on his way to the studio, knowing that Mary Tate, whom he has always loved, is in danger.
Some time later, Craig announced to his now former business partners that he would not sell to them the property they had coveted in the meantime. He'll get into the fitness business with Joe Santo. Last but not least, Joe sells his parents' house in order to finally leave his life as it was before. Together with Mary Tate he wants to create his own refuge.
Production, background, publication
It is a United Artists production. The film was shot in Birmingham , Alabama and at the Country Club of Birmingham. Thanks were given in the film credits to the citizens of Birmingham, Alabama and The International Federation of Body Builders.
In the film, Tchaikovsky's " Dance of the Sugar from his ballet" The Nutcracker heard. Robert Englund later made a name for himself in his star role as Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare films. Joanna Cassidy was best known for the later films Blade Runner and Wrong Game with Roger Rabbit . Fanny Flagg, an avowed homosexual writer, wrote the book in 1987 and the screenplay for the drama Green Tomatoes in 1991 .
The film premiered in New York on April 25, 1976. He started in Los Angeles on May 12, 1976. It started operating in Brazil on May 10, 1976. It was presented on May 13, 1976 at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland and on September 3, 1976 at the Venice International Film Festival .
The film was not shown in cinemas in the Federal Republic of Germany; it was shown for the first time on August 12, 1977 in the ARD program. In 1986 it was released on video. It was launched in Sweden on July 16, 1980, in Italy (Rome) on August 13, 1986. In Japan, it had its video premiere on February 4, 1994. On November 15, 2002, it was presented at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival .
It was also marketed in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Spain, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, the Soviet Union and Venezuela.
The film was released on January 7, 2011 with a German soundtrack on DVD, published by Twentieth Century Fox.
synchronization
The German dubbing was created in 1977 on behalf of ARD at Studio Hamburg Synchron GmbH .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Craig Blake | Jeff Bridges | Tommi Piper |
| Mary Tate Farnsworth | Sally Field | Marion Marlon |
| Joe Santo | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Charles Elkins |
| Thor Erickson | RG Armstrong | Alexander Welbat |
| Franklin | Robert Englund | Jörg Pleva |
| Anita | Helena Kallianiotes | Renate Pichler |
| Newton | Roger E. Mosley | Manfred Schermutzki |
| Uncle Albert | Woodrow Parfrey | Günther Jerschke |
| William | Ben "Scatman" Crothers | Ernst Günther Schiffner |
| Dorothy | Kathleen Miller | Katrin Miclette |
| Amy | Fannie Flagg | Verena Wiet |
| Zoe | Joanna Cassidy | Ursula victory |
| Hal | Richard Gilliland | Lutz Mackensy |
| Richard Packman | Mayf Nutter | Horst Stark |
| Jabo | Joe Spinel | Hubert Suschka |
| Walter jr. | Clifford A. Pellow | Franz Josef Steffens |
| Bubba | Dennis Fimple | Joachim Richert |
| Moe Zwick | Garry Goodrow | Gerd Martienzen |
| one of the three thugs | Murray Johnson | Michael Weckler |
| one of the three thugs | Dennis Burkley | Peter Kirchberger |
| Flower | Brandy Wilde | Siegrid Hackenberg |
| Mae Ruth | Laura Hippe | Heidi Berndt |
| Competitor | Bart Carpinelli | Joachim Wolff |
Reviews
"Social drama about a man from well-to-do circles who falls in love with a girl from a clique of bodybuilders and gives up his old life."
“Based on the Charles Gaines novel, Bob Rafelson's 1976 social drama treats a man's dealings with a decaying social order and less somber than his previous masterpieces 'A Man Seeks Himself' and 'The King of Marvin Gardens' his dysfunctional family. Rafelson skilfully mixes criticism and satire and provided Arnold Schwarzenegger with one of his first film roles. "
“A young, wealthy southern American steps out of the mendacious milieu of his social class and joins a group of bodybuilding athletes. The portrait of a decaying social order that cleverly mixes social criticism with satire and shows the later Hollywood megastar Schwarzenegger in one of his first film roles. "
Cinema took the view: "Amusing, relaxed seventies portrait of Bob Rafelson ( when the postman rings twice ) " and drew the conclusion: "Funny things from the early days of the body cult."
Filmtipps.at came to the summary result: “Anyone who wants to be entertained in an entertaining way could definitely be satisfied with this film. A successful mixture of comedy and drama, with finely selected actors and a thoroughly keen view of social conditions in the late 1970s, of which some of the issues mentioned seem terrifyingly topical. "
Awards
Golden Globe Awards 1977
- Golden Globe in the Best Young Actor category for Arnold Schwarzenegger
WGA Awards 1977
- Nominated in the category “Best Comedy Adaptation” from another medium
literature
- Charles Gaines: Stay Hungry . Chatto and Windus, 1973.
Web links
- Mr. Universe at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mr. Universe atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Mr. Universe in the online film database
- Mr. Universum was officially downgraded to FSK 12 at schnittberichte.com
- Mr. Universum information about the film at retro-film.info
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Mr. Universe . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2010 (PDF; re-examination, formerly FSK 18, test number: 56892aV).
- ↑ Stay Hungry at s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com
- ↑ Mister Universum DVD at videobuster.de (with trailer)
- ↑ Mister Universum in Arne Kaul's synchronous database ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved April 22, 2009
- ↑ Mister Universum at mediabiz.de
- ↑ Mr. Universum at kino.de
- ↑ Mr. Universe. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Mister Universum at cinema.de. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
- ↑ Mr. Universum at filmtipps.at. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
