Planet of the Apes (2001)
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| German title | planet of monkeys |
| Original title | Planet of the Apes |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 120 minutes |
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| Director | Tim Burton |
| script |
William Broyles, Jr. Lawrence Konner Mark Rosenthal |
| production | Richard D. Zanuck |
| music | Danny Elfman |
| camera | Philippe Rousselot |
| cut | Chris Lebenzon |
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Planet of the Apes (original title: Planet of the Apes ) is a science fiction film from 2001 by Tim Burton and at the same time the remake of the classic of the same name, Planet of the Apes from 1968. Like the first film, it is based on the novel Planet of the Apes ( Original title: La planète des singes ) by Pierre Boulle . The film opened in German cinemas on August 30, 2001.
action
In 2029, astronaut Leo Davidson is on board the Space Station Oberon the United States Air Force apes whose chromosomes have been engineered for space operations. When an approaching electromagnetic storm is sighted, the Oberon sends the chimpanzee Pericles in a space capsule into the storm to investigate it more closely . Shortly afterwards the capsule deviates from its course and the space station loses all contact with it. Thereupon Leo defies the command of his superior and flies after himself in another space capsule. As he approaches the storm, he gets caught in a wormhole- like phenomenon and loses control of the capsule. As it approaches an unknown planet, Leo observes his date display in the cockpit, which leaps forward several hundred years. Leo's capsule falls into a pond surrounded by dense jungle and sinks into it. Leo just manages to save himself.
In the jungle Leo meet people who are chased by talking monkeys. He is captured with them and sold to the orangutan and human trafficker Limbo. Leo learns that apes are the ruling race on this planet and that humans are kept as slaves. Only the chimpanzee Ari, daughter of Senator Sandar, campaigns for human rights. She decides to buy Leo and a human woman named Daena, who will work as servants in Senator Sandar's house before Limbo can brand them. This displeases the chimpanzee general Thade, who desires Ari and despises people.
Leo asks his fellow prisoner Daena for help in finding his crash site so that he can recover his equipment from the wreckage of the capsule. Together with the househusband Tival, they escape and free Daena's father Karubi, her younger brother Birn and another slave named Gunnar. Ari and the gorilla Krull help them. Krull was a former general who became Ari's confidante through serving as a domestic servant for Senator Sandar. During the escape from the city, Karubi sacrifices his life to give the group a head start by standing in the way of the gorilla captain Attar. Shortly thereafter, Leo retrieves some objects from the wreckage of his capsule, including a device with which he can locate the space station, and learns that it is also on the planet. In the meantime, Senator Sandar proclaims martial law after General Thade has led him to believe that Ari had been kidnapped by the people and that he wants to free them by all means. In truth, Thade only needs the unrestricted authority associated with it to finally cleanse the planet of all humans.
Meanwhile, Leo's group enters - following the signal from Leo's tracking device - the “forbidden zone” in which the sacred ruins of Calima are supposed to be located and, according to the monkey's sacred writings, creation began with the first monkey named Semos. Calima turns out to be the wreck of the Oberon space station , which also crashed on the planet, but it did not come to the time jump that happened to Leo. The Oberon was stranded on the planet many thousands of years ago. The last video recordings of the crew show that the chimpanzee Semos freed the remaining monkeys in the station and started a mutiny against the humans. The surviving humans and monkeys then colonized the previously uninhabited planet. The monkeys created their own - superior - civilization, subjugated humans and have since venerated Semos, the first monkey, like a saint.
General Thade advances to the ruin with his army of monkeys and begins the attack on Leo's group, which hundreds of people have now joined because they see Leo as their savior. With the remaining fuel of the spaceship, this releases an explosion wave on the first attack wave of the monkeys. More monkey warriors and humans clash and the battle begins. In the middle of the battle, the missing space capsule with the chimpanzee Pericles suddenly appears in the sky and lands on the battlefield. The monkeys present interpret his arrival as the prophesied return of Semos; the fighting is interrupted and the monkeys bow to Pericles. Since the chimpanzee obviously recognizes Leo as his master and behaves accordingly, Thade sees his plan to destroy humanity in danger. He follows Pericles and Leo into the ruins and attacks the latter. Pericles is seriously injured while trying to help Leo. Ari watches as he crawls whining in his former animal cage. Leo manages to lock Thade in the former command center. When all of his attempts to escape the room fail, Thade finally gives up. The fight that has broken out in the meantime is stopped. The remaining apes and humans want to live together in peace from now on.
Leo then says goodbye to his new friends and leaves the planet with the intact space capsule. He leaves Pericles in Ari's care. In space, Leo gets back to his time and to earth by means of the electromagnetic storm. He crash-lands in Washington, DC , on the steps of what he knows as the Lincoln Memorial . The Lincoln statue, however, turns out to be that of General Thade, who, according to the inscription, is venerated as the savior of the planet. Shortly afterwards, Leo is surrounded by police officers, firefighters and television crews and has to realize that they are all monkeys.
synchronization
The German dubbing was done in the studios of Interopa Film GmbH in Berlin . Dialog book and -regie led Tobias Meister .
| role | actor | German voice |
|---|---|---|
| Captain Leo Davidson | Mark Wahlberg | Oliver Mink |
| General Thade | Tim Roth | Udo Schenk |
| Ari | Helena Bonham Carter | Melanie Pukass |
| Captain Attar | Michael Clarke Duncan | Tilo Schmitz |
| limbo | Paul Giamatti | Wolfgang number |
| Daena | Estella Warren | Irina Wanka |
| Krull | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | Michael Christian |
| Senator Sandar | David Warner | Jürgen Thormann |
| Karubi | Kris Kristofferson | Thomas Fritsch |
| Tival | Erick Avari | Norbert Gescher |
| Pear | Luke Eberl | Vanya Gerick |
| Gunnar | Evan Parke | Tobias Master |
| Lt. General Karl Vasich | Chris Ellis | Bodo Wolf |
background
With Charlton Heston ( Zaius, Thade's father ) and Linda Harrison ( woman in the prison car ), two actors have a guest appearance in the film, who previously appeared in the first film as Colonel George Taylor and Nova . Tim Roth (who plays General Thade) felt very uncomfortable about the scene with Charlton Heston (who portrays his father Zaius) because, as a committed advocate of gun control, he was in direct opposition to Charlton Heston, who was president of the National Rifle Association campaigned massively for the free distribution of weapons. In addition, the scene in which he receives a gun from Heston's hands is carried by a pro-gun message. Roth described the gun friend Heston as a monster and also stated that he would not have accepted the role had he known in advance that he would have such a scene with Heston.
The monkey masks were created by the makeup artist Rick Baker . He has a guest appearance in the film as an old monkey at a water pipe. The brand with which the apes mark people can be found on the logo of the Oberon space station. The name CALIMA for the sacred ruins was derived from a sign on the space station with the inscription " ca ution li ve ani ma ls", on which the missing letters were covered.
The figure of Leo Davidson is seen in the film as the redeemer and savior of primitive people, and both first and last name are a Christian allusion: Leo (translated as lion) refers to Jesus as a lion from the tribe of Judah , as is Davidson (translated as the son of David) as a name for Jesus (see also Ancestors of Jesus ).
The director Tim Burton resisted the term "remake" and wanted his film to be understood as a "reinterpretation", which uses the same source material as the 1968 film, but tells a different story.
Tim Burton disagreed with rumors that various endings were shot for the film. There were only considerations to have the space capsule make an emergency landing instead of the Lincoln Memorial in another known location, such as Yankee Stadium . However, only one version was shot.
differences
In the first film, the action took place on a future earth, now it takes place on a strange planet. Chimpanzees are also shown here as warriors who were pacifists in the first film . Human experiments that were shown in the version from 1968 do not appear here. In this version there are also so-called house people who are servants of the apes and are above normal (wild) people in the hierarchy. Likewise, everyone in Tim Burton's film has the ability to speak, which in the first film no one (except time traveler Taylor) could. The character of General Thade does not appear in either the 1968 film adaptation or in the novel, the only monkey generals mentioned in the old films were called Ursus and Aldo.
The "new" ending was not well received by many critics and fans compared to the end of the first filming. In fact, in contrast to the famous ending of the 1968 version (which was invented for the film), this ending is closely related to the novel. Because in the novel, too, the protagonist returns from the planet of the apes (which is not identical with the earth) to his earth, where he finds a world that is ruled by apes. Because of the space travel at extremely high speed (see time dilation ) centuries have passed there, in which the monkeys have become the dominant species on earth.
According to Burton himself, it was important for him to end the film with a picture with a question mark behind it and not explain everything for the viewer.
Reviews
“Of the skepticism towards human society that Charlton Heston as cynical Colonel Taylor portrayed so brilliantly in the original, Wahlberg's Davidson has nothing left than a muscled macho who embodies the ignorant and one-dimensional politics of George W. Bush almost perfectly: The apes want oppress us? We'll kill them! "
“The conflicts within the ape society - at Schaffner still a three-class system of orangutans, chimpanzees and gorillas - are reduced to a minimum. There is no science or higher technology this time. Instead, 'the monkeys' form a deeply archaic and generally homogeneous unit, from which only the chimpanzee Ari (Helena Bonham Carter) stands out as a rebel. The cultural differences from Schaffner's film are reduced to the exceptional figure of the compassionate woman. And it is precisely this shift from society to individuality, from complexity to simplicity, that dominates Burton's planet of the apes . Even the secret of the existence of the mysterious planet does not lead back to a failure of humanity or the mighty this time, but to the failure of an individual. […] In this sense, Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes twisted almost all self- and culturally critical moments of the old films into their opposite: given opposites are less shaken than confirmed, technology is a blessing and the bomb is no longer a threat. On the contrary, it is the firearm that raises man above the monkey, and a bomb helps to decide the final battle between man and monkey, so that peace comes in the end. "
“The new 'Planet of the Apes' shows the typically dark, decidedly Gothic- inspired Burton universe, but the story of the suppression of human creatures in an authoritarian monkey state seems alien to the director. [...] Both versions of the film go back to the novel by Pierre Bouille, but Burton's remake inflates the material into an adventure-monumental film. Discourse on evolution, racism, and culture is Burton's addition to the Senator's dinner; In addition, the content of the subject is defused, as the violence that actually emanates from the state is now primarily anchored in the psychopathology of an individual, namely Thades. In this, this 'planet of the apes' is entirely a product that follows the era of the decline of political utopias. [...] The combination of legendary original material, technical armament, pathos, monumentalism and Wahlberg superstar make this 'Planet of the Apes' Tim Burton's first mainstream film "
“With [Burton], the odyssey of space cadet Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) begins in a kind of replica to Stanley Kubrick's ' Odyssey '. One almost thinks that the film follows on from the bone throw with which Kubrick switched from the ape world into space. But Burton's evolution is not without irony. He lets monkeys and soldiers do the same tasks in the spaceship, only in an emergency the animal is sacrificed to humans. […] Burton was not the first choice anyway: In 1994 Oliver Stone wanted to film a similar story with Arnold Schwarzenegger as a primate researcher who enjoyed shooting, three years later James Cameron showed interest in the 'Apes' topic, but then decided on ' Titanic' '. "
“New edition of the hit film of the same name from 1968, which differs from its predecessor primarily through the perfection of the masks and the fantastic design. Enriched with social cross-references, biblical allegories and hidden irony by director Tim Burton , but less eccentric and rebellious than his earlier films. "
Awards
Danny Elfman's film music won the BMI Film & TV Awards .
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
The film received Golden Raspberries for Worst Remake , Worst Supporting Actress (Estella Warren), and Worst Supporting Actor (Charlton Heston).
literature
- Pierre Boulle : Planet of the Apes. Translated from the French by Alexandra and Gerhard Baumrucker. Revised new edition. Wilhelm Heyne, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-453-19785-2 .
Web links
- Planet of the Apes in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Planet of the Apes atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Planet of the Apes in the online movie database
- Comparison of the cut versions RTL Afternoon - FSK 12 from Planet der Affen [2001] at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for Planet of the Apes . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Planet of the Apes. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ EW.com explains Planet of the Apes
- ↑ Roth's Fury At "Monster" Heston on contactmusic.com
- ↑ a b Audio commentary on the DVD
- ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Affocalypse Now! Mirror online
- ↑ Jan Distelmeyer: Bombed out of the mind . In: Die Zeit , No. 36/2001
- ↑ Anke Westphal: The common monkey sense . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 29, 2001
- ↑ Harald Fricke: Affentanz im Menschenpark . In: taz
- ↑ Planet of the Apes. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Films: Planet of the Apes (1968) | Return to the Planet of the Apes (1970) | Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) | Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) | The Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) | Planet of the Apes (2001) | Planet of the Apes: Prevolution (2011) | Planet of the Apes: Revolution (2014) | Planet of the Apes: Survival (2017)
TV Show: Planet of the Apes (1974) | Return to the Planet of the Apes (1975)