Suddenly Princess

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Movie
German title Suddenly Princess
Original title The Princess Diaries
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 0
Rod
Director Garry Marshall
script Meg Cabot ,
Gina Wendkos
production Debra Martin Chase ,
Whitney Houston ,
Mario Iscovich
music John Debney
camera Karl Walter Lindenlaub
cut Bruce Green
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Suddenly Princess 2

Suddenly Princess (Original title: The Princess Diaries ) is a comedy film by director Garry Marshall from 2001 with Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews in the lead roles. The plot tells a modern version of Cinderella and is based on the book of the same name by Meg Cabot . A sequel followed in 2004 with the film Suddenly Princess 2 . Assumptions made from 2015 that a third part is planned have not yet been confirmed.

action

Mia is a 15-year-old, shy, curly-haired girl from San Francisco who has few friends at school and who lives alone with her mother. Surprisingly, she receives an invitation to visit her estranged paternal grandmother. This reveals to her that she is the princess and heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Genovia and that her full name is "Amelia Mignonette Thermopolis Renaldi, Princess of Genovia".

Her grandmother, the Queen, gives her princess lessons to prepare her for her future office and to transform the "ugly duckling" into a "charming swan". At first, the class proves to be a difficult undertaking and Mia is reluctant.

Mia later receives an invitation to a Saturday evening from Michael, the brother of her best friend Lilly. Shortly thereafter, her royal ancestry is revealed; now publicly revealed as a princess, she is invited by her best friend Lilly to their talk show. When she is invited by her secret crush Josh to a beach party for the same date, she transfers Michael and also forgets to cancel Lilly, which is quite embarrassing.

At the beach party, several photographers discover Mia when Josh accidentally kisses her; she is also caught moving. The embarrassing pictures on the front pages of the magazines weigh on the already strained relationship with her grandmother, who is now urging her to renounce the throne; At first, Mia seems to comply with this wish, also because she is afraid of having to speak in front of an audience.

But then she faces her problems: She apologizes to Michael and lets herself be proclaimed the official heir to the throne at a ball in the consulate of Genovia that has long been announced. At the same time she reconciles with her grandmother, who in turn has become a little more relaxed because she has just fallen in love with her chauffeur. Mia experiences her first romantic kiss with Michael on the edge of the ball, bending one leg backwards - just like she had always dreamed of because she knows it from old films.

Mia records all experiences now and in the future in her diary, which she received from her father and which she opened for the first time on that day (and in which she also found a message from her father that he had written for the future).

background

synchronization

Elisabeth von Molo was responsible for the dialogue book and the dialogue direction on behalf of the FFS Film- und Fernsehsynchron München / Berlin.

role actor German speaker
Amelia "Mia" Thermopolis Anne Hathaway Shandra Schadt
Queen Clarisse Renaldi Julie Andrews Viktoria Brams
Lilly Moscowitz Heather Matarazzo Anke Kortemeier
Michael Moscovitz Robert Coppola Schwartzman Manuel Straube
Joe Hector Elizondo Friedrich Georg Beckhaus
Lana Thomas Mandy Moore Caroline Combrinck
Helen Thermopolis Caroline Goodall Petra Einhoff
Jeremiah Hart Patrick Flueger Daniel hose
Josh Bryant Erik von Detten Stefan Günther
Paolo Larry Miller Hans-Rainer Müller
Mr. O'Connell Sean O'Bryan Christian Weygand
Vice Director Gupta Sandra Oh Dagmar Dempe
Charlotte Kutaway Kathleen Marshall Ulla Wagener
School TV member Melissa Lenore Thomas Ulrike Jenni
Mr. Robutusen Patrick Richwood Axel Malzacher
Nun on the cell phone Michelle Yerger Julia Haacke
Prime Minister Motaz Joel McCrary Hartmut Neugebauer

Differences to the book template

The plot in the film has been changed in several points compared to that of Meg Cabot's youth book:

  • In the book, Mia's father is not dead, but the reigning prince. However, after contracting testicular cancer, he is no longer fertile and therefore has to fall back on Mia as the only heiress. Previously, at the request of Mia's mother Helen, he had avoided telling her about his status.
  • In the book, Mia's last name is " Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo", as the Renaldos in the book are closely related to the Monegasque princely family. This is not mentioned in the film, and Mia is only called "Thermopolis Renaldi" here.
  • In the book, Genovia is a principality, not a kingdom. In addition, Mia's grandmother is the reigning queen in the film, but she is the princess mother in the book.
  • The implied romance between the Queen and the royal chauffeur Joe does not appear in the book; it wasn't in the script either. Julie Andrews and Hector Elizondo added them on their own.
  • Mia's bodyguard is called Lars.
  • Mia's second best friend after Lilly, Tina, does not appear in the film.
  • Overall, the original strikes a much sharper, cheeky tone for a long time and portrays Mia's grandmother far less sympathetically. In Part 6, she describes her grandmother “Grandmère” as the person she loves the least.
  • The plot has been moved from New York City to San Francisco .
  • Until the end of the first book, Michael Moskovitz only perceived Mia as the friend of his sister and already had a girlfriend before Mia. Also, Mia is in love with Michael the entire book, and it's not Michael, as depicted in the movie, who is in love with Mia.
  • In the book, ash blonde Mia is dyed platinum blonde - the hair color of her arch nemesis Lana - which causes her friends to be in constant shock. In the film, Anne Hathaway only has her hair straightened.
  • In the later volumes of the original artwork, Meg Cabot criticizes the films. In the books written as a diary, Meg Cabot aka Mia writes that the "film about her life" has nothing to do with the truth. Cabot, for example, indirectly criticizes the films in her own books. Above all, she writes that what happens in the second film could never be like this.

criticism

“The attempt to combine the atmosphere of an old-fashioned“ romantic comedy ”with the crude humor of popular teen films fails, as does the efforts to breathe life into the tired story. What remains is a collection of well-known clichés. "

Awards

  • John Debney won an ASCAP Award in 2002 for the film music , and the film won a Young Artist Award in 2002. The film was nominated for nine other film awards.
  • The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating "valuable".

media

DVD release

  • Suddenly a princess . Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2002
  • Suddenly Princess 2 . Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2005
  • Suddenly Princess 1 + 2 (double pack) . Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2005

Soundtrack

  • John Debney : The Princess Diaries - The Score. Original motion picture soundtrack . Recording under the direction of the composer. Walt Disney Records , Burbank 2001, sound carrier no. 60745-7 / ISBN 0-7634-1865-X .
  • Various pop groups: The Princess Diaries. Original soundtrack . Walt Disney Records, Burbank 2001, sound carrier no. 0927-43082-2.

literature

  • Meg Cabot: Suddenly Princess (Original title: The Princess Diaries ). German by Katarina Ganslandt. Omnibus, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-570-21611-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Age rating for Suddenly Princess . Youth Media Commission .
  2. http://www.filmstarts.de/nachrichten/18503906.html
  3. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247638/locations
  4. German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Suddenly Princess. Retrieved March 11, 2018 .
  5. Suddenly a princess. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 7, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. https://www.fbw-filmbeval.com/film/ploetzlich_prinzessin