Passengers (2016)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Passengers |
| Original title | Passengers |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 116 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
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| Director | Morten Tyldum |
| script | Jon Spaihts |
| production |
Stephen Hamel , Michael Maher , Ori Marmur , Neal H. Moritz |
| music | Thomas Newman |
| camera | Rodrigo Prieto |
| cut | Maryann Brandon |
| occupation | |
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Passengers is an American science fiction film with romantic elements by Morten Tyldum , which was released in US cinemas on December 21, 2016 and in German cinemas on January 5, 2017. Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt can be seen in the leading roles .
At the 2017 Oscars , Passengers received nominations in two categories.
action
In the 24th century, the Homestead Company managed and opened up alien colonies and organized interstellar passages for emigrants. One of their spaceships, the autopilot-controlled Avalon, is on its way to the colony world Homestead II at half the speed of light with 5,000 passengers put in deep sleep .
One day the ship, equipped with an energetic protective shield, crosses an asteroid field, but continues its flight apparently unchanged. But shortly afterwards, the mechanic Jim Preston's sleeping capsule opens - ninety years before the planned wake-up time. He is the only person awake on the huge ship. He tries unsuccessfully to first restart his sleeping capsule and later to get into the control room and other security areas. An emergency call to earth won't help him either, because due to the distance he will receive an answer in 55 years at the earliest. He has the entire passenger area with various sports and entertainment facilities to himself. Only in the bartender Arthur, an android , does he find a conversation partner. After more than a year, he can hardly bear the loneliness.
After attempting suicide, Jim comes across journalist Aurora Lane's sleeping capsule in the passenger lounge. While studying her personality profile, which can be accessed online, he falls in love with her and, after a long struggle with his conscience, brings her out of deep sleep, but lets her believe that her sleep capsule has also failed. After a while, the two become a couple and accept their fate.
A year later, Jim wants to propose to Aurora. But then she learns from Arthur that Jim deliberately woke her up. Angry, she separates from him and completely avoids contact with him.
After a while, system failures on the ship become more and more frequent. Cleaning robots go crazy and the artificial gravity fails for a short time, so that Aurora almost drowns in the floating water of the swimming pool. Eventually deck officer Gus Mancuso also wakes up. Thanks to his special powers, the three have access to the strictly secured information and restricted areas of the ship. Gus can understand the chain of errors and thus develop initial ideas for rectification. However, his organs were damaged by malfunctions in his sleeping capsule, so that he dies a little later. While searching for the cause of the system failures, Jim discovers that a meteoroid has broken through the outer hull of the ship and several walls. As a result of the damage, the fusion reactor is now overheated and threatens to explode. Jim leaves the ship in a spacesuit in order to carry out an emergency ventilation from the outside and then to have the reactor restarted by Aurora in the control room. He succeeds, but there is an accident that causes Jim to pass out and drift into space. Aurora follows him in a spacesuit, can bring him back to the ship and have the medical robot "Autodoc" resuscitate him. Jim later discovers that the Autodoc could put at least one of them back into deep sleep. He offers this to Aurora, but she refuses and stays with him.
88 years later, a few months before the planned landing on Homestead II , the crew of the spaceship awoke as planned. The large entrance hall is now overgrown by plants and is inhabited by animals. In an audio message, Aurora tells that the two lived happy and fulfilling lives until their end.
production
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Morten Tyldum directed the film and Jon Spaihts wrote the screenplay . This had been in circulation since 2007 and was on the renowned blacklist of the best unfilmed scripts. Even if many readers praised it and some directors and actor combinations felt connected to the project, previous attempts at a cinematic implementation failed, according to Spaihts, because of the large budget, because although the story can be told with only a few actors, it is set on one luxurious spaceship and is epic in size as a survival adventure. It took almost ten years to actually implement the script. It was the subject of isolation that interested Jon Spaihts in the story, but it also meant that he was faced with the difficult task of telling a story in his script in a quick and entertaining manner.
Cast and dubbing
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The leading roles of Jim Preston and Aurora Lane were cast with Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence . Michael Sheen took on the role of the robotic bartender Arthur. Sheen was already seen in the movie Tron: Legacy in a role that, according to his own statements, was very similar to Arthur. Sheen played Arthur as a humanoid robot who is used to communicating with thousands of people, but now has to develop a complex relationship with just one person, which is new to him, but he succeeds because he is able to learn. Laurence Fishburne plays Gus Mancuso in the film.
The other roles only appear in a few, short scenes in the film. Kimberly Battista plays Jr Officer Fitzgerald and Aurora Perrineau plays Celeste. Andy Garcia took on the role of Captain Norris , and Julee Cerda can be seen as a hologram. The dubbing of The Observatory was done by Fred Melamed .
In the German dubbing Leonhard Mahlich lends his voice to actor Chris Pratt in his role of Jim Preston, Jennifer Lawrence as Aurora Lane is dubbed by Maria Koschny , Arthur is voiced by Jaron Löwenberg , and Tom Vogt took on the dubbing of Laurence Fishburne in the role by Gus Mancuso.
Filming and equipment
Filming took place at Pinewood Studios in Atlanta and began in September 2015. Around 45 sets had to be built there for the film, which, according to producer Neal H. Moritz, is very little for a film of this type. Eight weeks were available for the design developments before construction of the sets began. According to Moritz, the entire decor of the spaceship's bar in Art Deco style was inspired by Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film Shining .
In preparation for the design of the film sets for the gigantic spaceship Moritz cruise ships and hotels had looked at, but also technology and concept art of NASA . The size of the sets served to illustrate loneliness in the film, in this particular case loneliness in space. The luxurious equipment of the spaceship is owed to the fact that the company that performs these space flights in the film constructed a very seductive environment in order to pull the passengers out of their pockets before they are lowered onto the planet, according to Moritz.
Guy Hendrix Dyas , production designer of the film, used an original concept of a rotating, wheel-shaped spaceship to design the fictional Avalon , which he stretched to create the shape of the twisting blades. In this way, the shape of the spaceship resembles that of a Darrieus Helix rotor .
According to visual effects supervisor Erik Nordby , the scene in which Aurora swims in the pool, but the water takes the form of a bubble because of the artificial gravity that falls out, which surrounds her and in which she almost drowns, is aesthetically visually different, according to the visual effects supervisor Erik Nordby inspired by the painting Ophelia by John Everett Millais , which he and director Morten Tyldum encountered early in their brainstorming. The painting from the 19th century shows a figure from Shakespeare's Hamlet who drowns in the water and looks like an embryo in it, which is beautiful but at the same time frightening. To realize the scene described in the script by Jon Spaihts - who has a degree in physics - the production designers built a pool of water in a parking lot outside the Atlanta film studio. For a long time, the visual effects team had thought about how the water had to move in the film so that it appeared physically realistic on the one hand, and on the other hand it did not appear as if it were some kind of water monster. The team used data collected by the International Space Station on the movement of water in weightlessness to bring a realism as believable as possible for the audience into this scene of the film, which is already set in an unrealistic environment.
For the actual filming with Lawrence, stunt coordinators had developed a series of pulleys that were attached to the bottom of the pool. Lawrence wore a strap around her waist and two cuffs around her ankles so that she could hold herself underwater in a specific position that she had been brought into.
In the scenes with Sheen in the role of the robot barman Arthur, Arthur knelt on a mechanically moving stool. His legs were later digitally removed so that he only has one upper body in the film. The rapid movements the machine performed were all pre-programmed on a computer. For a realistic representation, the actor also tried, according to the programming of a robot , not to waste any movements, but at the same time Sheen said he did not want to make any Mr. Roboto movements.
The budget of the film was, according to Box Office Mojo estimated 110 million US dollars .
Film music
The film music was composed by Thomas Newman . The in Levitate , American US by the indie rock band used Trailer Imagine Dragons contributed Song Levitate was the end of November 2016 published in advance. In December 2016, Newman's soundtrack was included in the list of candidates (longlist) from which the members of the Academy selected the official nominations as a contender at the 2017 Academy Awards in the category Best Film Music . An official nomination in this category took place on January 24, 2017. The song Levitate was included in the longlist for Best Movie Song .
The soundtrack for the film comprises 26 tracks and was released on CD by Sony Classical (Sony Masterworks) on December 16, 2016 .
Title list of the soundtrack
- The Starship Avalon (Main Title)
- Hibernation Pod 1625
- Command ring
- Rate 2 Mechanic
- Awake for 7 days
- Crystalline
- Precious Metals
- Aurora
- Robot Questions
- The Sleeping Girl
- Build a House and Live In It
- I Tried Not To ...
- Spacewalk
- Passengers
- 50% of light speed
- Cascade Failure
- Zero - gravity
- Never happy here
- Red Giant
- Looking for wrong
- Chrysler Bldg.
- Untethered
- You brought me back
- Starlit
- Accidental happiness
- Sugarcoat the Galaxy (End Title)
Marketing and Publishing
On September 20, 2016, Sony released a first trailer for the film. On November 29, 2016, Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt began a press tour on the film in Paris , and on December 2, 2016, they presented the project at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin .
The film premiered on December 14, 2016 in the presence of Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Rachael Leigh Cook , Suzanne Somers and Dania Ramirez at the Village Theater Westwood in Los Angeles . The film was released in US cinemas on December 21, 2016 and in German cinemas on January 5, 2017. Passengers officially hit cinemas across the country on January 13, 2017 , after the film, which was also financed by Wanda Pictures , premiered on December 17, 2016 in Beijing. The film was released by Sony on Blu-ray Disc, Ultra HD Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D on May 11, 2017 in Germany and has been shown on Sky Cinema, Sky Go and Sky On Demand since October 15, 2017. The first broadcast on free television took place on May 5, 2019 on RTL and ORF 1 .
reception
Age rating
In Germany the film is FSK 12 . The statement of reasons for approval states: “The film is largely told calmly and focuses on topics such as friendship, love and loyalty. Towards the end there are isolated tension and action scenes when the main characters have to fix technical failures and defects in the spaceship in order to survive. However, these scenes are within a framework that does not frighten or otherwise overwhelm children from the age of 12. "
Reviews
Passengers was one of the most anticipated films of 2017. After its theatrical release, it was widely criticized that the film could not keep what the marketing promised. Sebastian Lorenz from Robots & Dragons , for example, said the trailer and the official synopsis praised an action-packed science fiction adventure with a secret and built tagline expectations that the film had with sentences like “There's a reason she woke up” however, do not meet. Although passengers do have potential, according to Lorenz, this is only scratched on the surface, with the plot being processed completely risk-free and using predictable patterns and even the moral dilemma that arises in the film is only dealt with superficially and quickly checked off.
Regarding the criticism that one could not identify with the loneliness of the main character and that the male protagonist's decision to force another passenger into the same fate was reprehensible and pathetic, Chris Pratt said : “Personally, I think the film is very good and I am proud of it . "
Marc Reichwein from Welt Online writes that Passengers scores with his sensational production design; He particularly emphasizes the glass sleeping capsules and the pool, which all look like a consistent further development of the famous Singapore hotel Marina Bay Sands . Reichwein complains, however, that despite an initial constellation with potential, the film only aims at a banal two-person romance. In addition, the film lacks any existential narrative power, maybe also the madness and unfortunately the humor of good science fiction .
David Steinitz, Süddeutsche Zeitung , writes at the beginning: “Even in the vastness of space one is not safe from action nonsense: The film Passengers begins as a wonderfully perverse Robinson Crusoe parable. Then the explosions begin. ”His conclusion:“ As ingenious as John Spaihts constructed this experimental setup, in the second half of the film he suddenly seemed to be gripped by a great listlessness in his own experiment […] As if suddenly a completely unimaginative producer decreed to reduce the story to a happy ending at the expense of any dramaturgical logic, Spaihts infiltrates precisely those aspects that originally made his story exciting by rewriting the Amour fou into a pure action film off the shelf. "
Peter Zander from Berliner Morgenpost compares the film with other science fiction adventures in which isolation plays an important role, such as Gravity , in which Sandra Bullock as an astronaut orbits all alone in space, or The Martian , in which Matt Damon as one Art intergalactic MacGyver has to fight for survival on the red planet. In times of global tourism and Google Earth , according to Zander, there are hardly any more unknown islands, which has made the idea of a lonely island no longer terrifying. However, since loneliness lies in the nature of primal fears, the cinema has recently identified space as the last human-free imagination space for the horror of isolation.
In December 2016, it was announced that the film had been shortlisted for the Best Visual Effects category at the 2017 Academy Awards .
Gross profit
In China, Russia and Germany, the film reached number 1 in the cinema charts after its release. On its opening weekend, the film had 412,330 visitors in Germany and a total of 1,264,704 visitors to date, making it 22nd in the German cinema charts of the year . The film has earned US $ 303.1 million worldwide from screenings to date.
Awards
Art Directors Guild Awards 2017
- Award for the best production design in a fantasy film (Guy Hendrix Dyas)
- Nomination in the category Best Production Design ( Guy Hendrix Dyas and Gene Serdena )
- Nomination in the category Best Film Music ( Thomas Newman )
- Nomination for best science fiction film
- Nomination for Best Actor ( Chris Pratt )
- Nomination for Best Actress ( Jennifer Lawrence )
- Nomination for best film music (Thomas Newman)
- Nomination for Best Equipment (Guy Hendrix Dyas)
Web links
- Passengers in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Official Film Website (English)
- Passengers in the German dubbing index
- Passengers inrotten tomatoes(English)
- Passengers : Official Trailer from Sony Pictures Entertainment on Youtube (Video, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for passengers . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 164909 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for passengers . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Carsten Baumgardt: Michael Sheen as Android on the set of 'Passengers': 'Of course I didn't want a typical' Mr. Roboto 'lay down' movements. Page 2: Interview with screenwriter Jon Spaihts. In: filmstarts.de, November 25, 2016.
- ↑ a b Carsten Baumgardt: Michael Sheen as Android on the set of 'Passengers': 'Of course I didn't want a typical' Mr. Roboto 'lay down' movements. Page 1: Interview with Michael Sheen. In: filmstarts.de, November 25, 2016.
- ↑ Carsten Baumgardt: Michael Sheen as Android on the set of 'Passengers': 'Of course I didn't want a typical' Mr. Roboto 'lay down' movements. Page 3: Interview with producer Neal H. Moritz. In: filmstarts.de, November 25, 2016.
- ↑ Hanneke Weitering: Sci-Fi Science Gets Right: 'Passengers' Nails the Physics. In: space.com, December 21, 2016.
- ↑ Julie Miller: Jennifer Lawrence's Gravity-Defying 'Passengers' Pool Scene, Explained. In: vanityfair.com, December 20, 2016.
- ↑ Financial overview of the film Passengers. In: Box Office Mojo, March 6, 2017.
- ↑ Madeline Raynor: Imagine Dragons debut original song from Passengers soundtrack. In: Entertainment Weeky, November 29, 2016.
- ↑ 145 Original Scores In 2016 Oscar Race. In: oscars.org, December 13, 2016.
- ↑ Here Are the 2017 Oscar Nominations. In: time.com, January 24, 2017.
- ↑ 91 Original Songs Vie for 2016 Oscar. In: oscars.org, December 13, 2016.
- ↑ 'Passengers' soundtrack details. In: filmmusicreporter.com, November 22, 2016.
- ↑ Björn Becher: 'Passengers': Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt in the first trailer for the 'second Gravity'. In: filmstarts.de, September 20, 2016.
- ↑ Jennifer Lawrence & Chris Pratt Kick Off 'Passengers' Press Tour In Paris, Debut Imagine Dragons Theme Song 'Levitate'! In: justjared.com, November 29, 2016.
- ↑ Annika Schönstädt: Jennifer Lawrence: Christmas is there to get drunk. In: Berliner Morgenpost, December 2, 2016.
- ↑ 'Passengers' Premiere in Los Angeles Jennifer Lawrence outshines them all. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten, December 15, 2016.
- ↑ Karsten Serck: 'Passengers' Blu-ray Disc with Auro 3D sound? In: areadvd.de, May 4, 2017.
- ↑ Reason for release for passengers . In: Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
- ^ Sebastian Lorenz: Odd journey through space - criticism of passengers. In: robots-and-dragons.de, January 1, 2017.
- ↑ After extreme criticism of Passengers: Chris Pratt comments on allegations. In: chip.de, April 21, 2017.
- ^ Marc Reichwein: SciFi drama 'Passengers'. Two hours all alone with Jennifer Lawrence. In: welt.de, January 4, 2017.
- ↑ David Steinitz: One hundred years togetherness. In: sueddeutsche.de, January 4, 2017.
- ↑ Peter Zander: Trapped forever on a spaceship: 'Passengers'. In: Berliner Morgenpost, January 4, 2017.
- ↑ Maane Khatchatourian and Dave McNary: Oscars: 10 Films Advance in Visual Effects Race. In: Variety, December 16, 2016.
- ↑ Top 100 Germany 2017. In: insidekino.com. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
- ↑ Passengers. In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved October 31, 2017
- ↑ Erik Pedersen and Matt Grobar: ADG Awards: 'La La Land', 'Hidden Figures' & 'Passengers' Take Film Trophies. In: deadline.com, February 11, 2017.
- ↑ Here Are the 2017 Oscar Nominations. In: time.com, January 24, 2017.
- ↑ The 43rd Annual Saturn Awards nominations are announced for 2016. In: saturnawards.org. Retrieved March 2, 2017.