Ophelia (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Ophelia |
| Original title | Ophelia |
| Country of production |
United States , United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claire McCarthy |
| script | Semi chellas |
| production |
Honors Kruger , Daniel Bobker, Sarah Curtis, Paul Hanson |
| music | Steven Price |
| camera | Denson Baker |
| cut | Luke Dunkley |
| occupation | |
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Ophelia is a British - American Drama Australian director Claire McCarthy from the year 2018 . The feminist reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet is based on the novel of the same name by the American author Lisa Klein ; But it was the American screenwriter Semi Chellas who first added decisive facets . The film tells the story of Prince Hamlet from the perspective of his lover Ophelia, reinterprets crucial passages and thus arrives at a completely different quintessence.
Relation to Shakespeare's tragedy
Ophelia is built around central scenes of Shakespeare's tragedy, which, linguistically modernized and streamlined, basically run like the original. Completely new content is interwoven with this, not only in the form of new scenes, but even new dialogues that are artfully nested in the original dialogues of existing scenes. The most striking example is the famous dialogue between Ophelia and Hamlet , overheard by King Claudius and Ophelia's father Polonius , in which Hamlet asks Ophelia to go to the monastery. In Shakespeare's original this is a brusque rejection of Ophelia by Hamlet; In the film, the two communicate in love, whispering and inaudible to Claudius and Polonius with interposed dialogues and Hamlet's request arises from concern for Ophelia; he wants her to go to safety in the monastery.
In Shakespeare's original, it is only Hamlet who strategically fakes madness; Ophelia, however, actually falls for him. In the film he is also a strategy for Ophelia; in truth, it is she who determines the action decisively.
In Shakespeare's original it is a supernatural phenomenon, the ghost of his father, who tells Hamlet of his murder; there are no ghosts in the film, it is Ophelia who, through the astute combination of her observations, can reveal the murder to Hamlet.
Instead, there is a character in the film that does not exist in the original: the healer Mechthild, a woman who has been expelled from the royal court and denounced as a witch, who through her medical knowledge helps determine the action at crucial points, like medical science instead of ghosts Role play.
After all, there is a close relationship between Ophelia and Queen Gertrude in the film, which makes the latter more complex.
So it is the female characters, in Shakespeare's original often only accessories and mere victims of male actions, that decisively shape the action and thus give it a completely different meaning in the end. Ophelia's problem is not, as in the original, the erratic behavior of men to whom she is at the mercy, but her resistance to the “toxic masculinity” that surrounds her, based on an alert mind.
action
Ophelia and her brother Laertes are children of the royal advisor Polonius. Your mother died; the children live with their father at Kronborg Castle in Helsingør , the residence of the Danish King Hamlet. Ophelia is a bright, self-confident and inquisitive child, but as a girl is not allowed to go to school. But her brother Laertes teaches her after school what he has learned; it absorbs the knowledge.
King Hamlet and his wife Queen Gertrude are holding a big festival in honor of their son Prince Hamlet, who is celebrating his 15th birthday and who will go to Wittenberg to study. Out of curiosity, Ophelia crawls under a table at the banquet to watch the event. When Claudius, the king's brother, praises Prince Hamlet with a mocking undertone and criticizes the apple from the tree of knowledge, the symbol of knowledge, as seductive, Ophelia cannot hold back and defend, still under the table, the Knowledge. Queen Gertrude is impressed by the cheeky girl's cheeky courage and makes her one of her ladies-in-waiting . Ophelia impresses her more and more with her cleverness and when it turns out that Ophelia, unlike other girls at this time, is able to read and read to the Queen, Ophelia becomes Gertrude's favorite lady-in-waiting; a close familiarity develops between the two. Gertrude also comforts Ophelia when the other ladies-in-waiting mock her as not befitting; she, Gertrude, grew up in the monastery and even there there was envy and resentment, but her older sister always protected her.
After years of studying, Prince Hamlet returns from Wittenberg; Ophelia has meanwhile grown into a lovely young woman. Prince Hamlet falls in love with her and she only has eyes for him, but is cautious, not least because of the difference in class; she is afraid of being just a plaything for him. This seems to be confirmed when Prince Hamlet sets off again to study in Wittenberg and leaves her behind.
Gertrude feels sexually neglected by King Hamlet and struggles with her increasing age. She lets Ophelia read erotic stories to her and sends them to Mechthild, a mysterious woman in the forest whom she dubbed a “healer”, to get her an elixir of youth.
Claudius tries to take advantage of Gertrude's sexual frustration and approach her; Ophelia happens to witness how he proposes a midnight meeting on the battlements of the castle. At first Gertrude can resist, but then there is a scandal between her and King Hamlet when she begs him for attention, but he only has an imminent war with Norway in mind. Ophelia witnesses the argument again and when Gertrude hurries away in the middle of the night after the argument, Ophelia follows her on the battlements of the castle. There she does not find Gertrude, but meets a figure masked beyond recognition, whom she for a moment in her shock takes to be a ghost, although she actually does not believe in ghosts, having been taught medicine by her brother and Prince Hamlet's friend Horatio .
The next morning it is revealed that King Hamlet was killed by a fatal snakebite. The funeral is followed surprisingly quickly by the wedding between Gertrude and Claudius, who was elected the new king. When Prince Hamlet finally arrives from Wittenberg, informed of his father's death, he is faced with a fait accompli, desperate and indignant. Reluctantly, he follows the gesture of submission requested by Claudius as the new king.
Ophelia is sent again by Gertrude to Mechthild to get tinctures. On the way, you meet another masked figure just like the one on the battlements of the castle.
Mechthild tells her her story: She was persecuted as a witch after the stillbirth of a child she had conceived by her childhood sweetheart and only survived because of a known poison that makes her appear dead for a while; so the captors let go of her. When Ophelia's question about the child's father, she replied tellingly that he had recently married.
Desperate about his father's death, Prince Hamlet is overjoyed to see Ophelia again. They both finally confess their love to each other and at Hamlet's suggestion they secretly marry in a chapel outside the castle and then spend a happy night of love.
When Ophelia is staying with Gertrude the next morning, Claudius appears, orders her to go and gives her his coat. Ophelia recognizes part of the disguise of the figure she had met repeatedly in the coat and finds a tincture of Mechthild in the coat pockets.
She now understands the context: Mechthild is Gertrude's older sister who was believed dead, Claudius the father of her stillborn child, who then expelled her and had her persecuted as a witch in order to then approach the younger sister, and also the murderer of King Hamlet, who faked a snake bite as the cause of death using Mechthild's snake venom. On the battlements of the castle, when she saw the supposed ghost, Ophelia had caught Claudius almost in the act.
Claudius fears that Hamlet's behavior, which is perceived as erratic, could pose a threat to him and wants to find out whether it is perhaps just a matter of being mad in love with Ophelia. He therefore compels Ophelia to meet Hamlet, which he and Polonius overhear.
The dialogue that Claudius and Polonius hear is that famous dialogue from Shakespeare's Hamlet from which they conclude that Hamlet is rejecting Ophelia. But Hamlet and Ophelia whisper completely different sentences to each other, inaudible to the two of them; Ophelia reports to Hamlet that Claudius murdered his father, and Hamlet begs Ophelia to actually go to the monastery, as it would be too dangerous for her in the castle.
To make sure that Claudius murdered his father, Hamlet has a pantomime performed at court that has exactly such an act as its content; Ophelia also attends the performance. When Claudius recognizes what he has done in the pantomime and has it broken off excitedly, Hamlet sees him as convicted and raises his sword against him, but Ophelia, who rejects irascibility, violence and revenge, intervenes.
Claudius calls the guards to continue Hamlet, Gertrude, who has recognized their love affair from the interaction between Hamlet and Ophelia, casts Ophelia away because she is taking her only son from her. Polonius also sees his position at court threatened by the repudiation of his daughter and goes to Gertrude to ask for forgiveness. When Hamlet unexpectedly appears, Polonius hides behind a curtain, but is mistaken for Claudius by Hamlet and, this time unhindered by Ophelia, is stabbed to death.
Claudius realizes that Ophelia has seen through him and has her thrown in the dungeon. He wants to get rid of Hamlets by supposedly having him brought to England by ship for his protection, but has secretly given orders to throw Hamlet overboard. But the ship does not cast off because of the calm and Ophelia is able to free herself from the dungeon. She returns to a banquet in the court and is supposedly acting insane: she sings, dances, talks confusedly and distributes flowers. In truth, the appearance only serves to inform the present Horatio that he should open her coffin for his medical studies immediately after her funeral. Then she runs away from her captors, takes some of Mechthild's poison, which makes one appear dead, and goes into a lake. As hoped, Horatio opens the coffin immediately after her funeral and saves her.
Ophelia opened the eyes of both sisters Gertrude and Mechthild: Gertrude learns that it was Claudius who impregnated her sister, Mechthild learns that it was Claudius who had her declared a witch and incited people against her.
Everyone is now seeking revenge. Laertes, Ophelia's brother and Polonius' son, who was studying in France in the meantime, wants to avenge his father and on his return learns that it was Hamlet who killed him. Claudius wants Hamlet dead and therefore prepares the sword of Laertes with poison from Mechthild, so that Hamlet will die with the slightest wound in an upcoming duel with Laertes. Gertrude hates Claudius, Mechthild allies with the approaching Norwegian army to overthrow the Danish kingdom. As is typical for Shakespeare, everything amounts to total ruin.
But Ophelia, disguised as a man, has sneaked back to the court and implores Hamlet to give up the fight with Laertes that would trigger the inferno. She reminds him that at the wedding he had vowed to be hers and that now would be the time to resist vengeance and turn the story: Not every story must end with a battle. ( Not every story has to end with a battle. ) But she tells Hamlet to go ahead into the distance, he will follow when he has taken vengeance. Ophelia sadly says goodbye to her lover.
The battle begins in which everyone will die. Ophelia travels afar to a monastery, gives birth to the girl whom Hamlet gave her, and raises her in peace far from the courtly world.
production
In May 2016 it was announced that Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts would star in the film and produce Daniel Bobker , Ehren Kruger and Sarah Curtis . Oscar winner Steven Price was entrusted with the film music.
Filming began in April 2017; a first picture was published in May. After three months, the shooting was completed on July 6, 2017.
publication
The film premiered on January 22, 2018 at the Sundance Film Festival . It was released in US cinemas on June 28, 2019 and was available on streaming platforms from July 3. In August 2019 a contract for distribution in Great Britain was signed.
In Germany, the film was only released on April 23, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, directly on DVD / Blu-ray.
synchronization
The German dubbing was only created in 2020 by the dubbing company Boom Company GmbH in Starnberg . The dialogue direction and the dialogue book was carried out by Cornelius Frommann.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Ophelia | Daisy Ridley | Kaya Marie Möller |
| Gertrude / Mechtild | Naomi Watts | Irina von Bentheim |
| King Claudius | Clive Owen | Tom Vogt |
| Prince Hamlet | George MacKay | Konrad Bösherz |
| Laertes | Tom Felton | Fabian Oscar Vienna |
| Horatio | Devon Terrell | Tino Mewes |
| Polonius | Dominic Mafham | Thomas Schmuckert |
| Christina | Daisy Head | Marieke Oeffinger |
| Ophelia (young) | Mia Quiney | Johanna Schmoll |
| Hamlet (young) | Jack Cunningham-Nuttall | Konrad Bösherz |
| Laertes (young) | Calum O'Rourke | Sebastian Fitzner |
Web links
- Ophelia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emily Rome: Reviving Ophelia: Inside the New Film That Gives Voice to Hamlet's Tragic Heroine . In: Vanity Fair , Condé Nast Publications , July 2, 2019. Retrieved May 30, 2020. "While Klein's book keeps the play's major events unchanged, McCarthy's film makes striking alterations to the play's final scene."
- ↑ Alonso Duralde: 'Ophelia' Film Review: Daisy Ridley Gives Shakespeare's Tragic Heroine a Provocative Do-Over . In: The Wrap , The Wrap News, June 26, 2019. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
- ^ Ali Jaafar: Daisy Ridley & Naomi Watts In Final Talks To Star In 'Ophelia'; Covert Media Aboard New Take On 'Hamlet' - Cannes . In: Deadline.com , Penske Media Corporation, May 4, 2016. Retrieved May 6, 2016.
- ↑ First Daisy Ridley photo from Ophelia . In: ComingSoon.net , Evolve Media, May 22, 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
- ↑ Peter Debruge: Sundance Film Festival Unveils Full 2018 Features Lineup . In: Variety , Penske Media Corporation, November 29, 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
- ↑ Brian Truitt: See Daisy Ridley swap 'Star Wars' for Shakespeare in exclusive 'Ophelia' trailer . In: USA Today , Gannett , April 29, 2019. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
- ↑ Andreas Wiseman: Daisy Ridley Starrer 'Ophelia' Gets UK Distribution Deal With Blue Finch Film . In: Deadline.com , Penske Media Corporation, August 15, 2019. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
- ↑ Ophelia . In: film starts . Webedia . Retrieved May 24, 2020.
- ^ Ophelia in the German synchronous file