Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

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Movie
German title Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Original title Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Prince of Persia - The sands of time.svg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
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Director Mike Newell
script Boaz Yakin ,
Doug Miro ,
Carlo Bernard
production Jerry Bruckheimer
music Harry Gregson-Williams
camera John Seale
cut Michael Kahn ,
Martin Walsh ,
Mick Audsley
occupation

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (original title Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time ) is an American action - adventure film with fantasy elements from the year 2010 , which on the eponymous video game of the popular Prince of Persia is based series. The video game adaptation was directed by Mike Newell , and Jake Gyllenhaal played the lead role . The world premiere took place on May 9, 2010 in London. On the same day it started in a few German cinemas. The official cinema release in Germany was May 20th.

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Dastan is a street kid in sixth century Persia . After showing extraordinary courage for a child in the fight against the soldiers of the Persian king Sharaman, he is adopted by the king.

15 years later, the king's army, led by Dastan's brothers Tus and Garsiv, attacks the holy city of Alamut . The cavalry troops of Garsiv are to attack the main gate. However, Dastan and his squad decide to go through the east gate. He and his men penetrate through the east gate and open the way for his brother's troops. During the fighting, an ornate dagger falls into Dastan's hands, which a follower of Princess Tamina, ruler of Alamut, is supposed to bring to safety. Meanwhile, Tus and Garsiv's troops enter the sacred temple of Alamut, where they meet Princess Tamina. The brother of the Persian king, Nizam, joins Tus and Garsiv and advises Tus to marry Tamina so that Alamut is bound to Persia. Tamina first expresses the wish to prefer to die, which Tus almost puts into practice. At the last moment Dastan appears in the temple. Tamina recognizes the dagger on his belt. She then changes her mind and accepts Tu's proposal on the condition that nothing happens to the people of Alamut. In the meantime the Persian King Sharaman, the father of Dastan, Tus and Garsiv, has arrived in Alamut. Tus gives Dastan Alamut's holy prayer shawl, which Dastan is supposed to present to his father as a gift. At a feast, the king explains that Dastan should take Tamina as his wife and not Tus. Dastan, still a little irritated by this decision, presents his father with the gift. Shortly after the king puts on the cloak, he dies of severe burns caused by the apparently poisoned cloak. Dastan is declared a traitor for handing over the deadly gift to the king. Together with Princess Tamina, he flees Alamut.

That same night Dastan and Tamina talk about the king's death. Dastan declares his innocence, Tamina believes him. She supposedly wants to seduce him, but the next moment she grabs a saber and tries to kill Dastan. Dastan presses on the gem at the end of the dagger, releasing the sand of time contained in the handle of the dagger . Dastan now travels back in time for a few moments and can thus prevent Tamina's act. Dastan's journey through time consumed all the sands of time in a dagger. Tamina explains the secret of the dagger only partially. So it leaves open where there is more of the sands of time . The next day the two of them travel on and arrive at a place with numerous skeletons, where Tamina seems to collapse from exhaustion. Dastan rushes to her and bends over to help her, when she knocks him down with a large bone. When Dastan regains consciousness, he is surrounded by Sheikh Amar and his entourage. Amar takes Dastan and Tamina prisoner. The two are led by Amar to his racetrack, where Amar organizes illegal ostrich races. Meanwhile, Tamina works as a slave and serves the audience. Suddenly Amar sees Dastan's dagger and takes it. Dastan tries to get the dagger back, but is repulsed by the leader of Amar's entourage. Dastan uses a trick to steal the dagger from Amar, and he and Tamina escape from the racetrack.

In the meantime, Dastan's brother Tus has been crowned the new king. He is advised by his uncle Nizam, who advises him to kill Dastan, since in a public trial the people would only support Dastan's opinion. Tus decides against Nizam's advice and in favor of the public process. He orders that Dastan be found as soon as possible. Meanwhile, Dastan wants to attend his father's funeral unnoticed to speak to his uncle Nizam. Tamina is against it and accompanies Dastan only with reluctance. At the funeral, Dastan manages to get a message to his uncle. Nizam meets with Dastan, who tries to convince Nizam of his innocence and even wants to show him the dagger. Nizam doesn't believe him, however, because Tamina has meanwhile replaced the dagger with a nutcracker. During the conversation, Dastan discovers Nizam's burned hands and realizes that his uncle is the traitor. He poisoned the holy cloak that Dastan presented to his father. Dastan is attacked by Nizam's entourage and by his brother Garsiv. After a duel with Garsiv, Dastan escapes. Tamina now fled alone with the dagger, but Dastan finds her and confronts her.

Tamina Dastan then reveals the secret of the dagger and the sands of time : Once the gods wanted to destroy mankind with a sandstorm because they viewed her as evil, but a girl's willingness to sacrifice herself for mankind made her change her mind and they locked the sandstorm in the so-called hourglass of time , of which the girl became the first keeper. If you stuck the dagger into the hourglass, you would have unlimited access to the sands of time and be able to turn time back to every point in the past, no matter how distant, while using the sands of the dagger to check time can only turn back a minute. If the dagger were opened, however, all of the sand would be released and the sandstorm would rise again, which would destroy humanity. Dastan now realizes Nizam's plan: He wants to travel back to a point in his childhood when he saved his brother from a lioness in order to rewrite the past by letting his brother die, which would make him king.

Meanwhile, Nizam hires the Assassins , a sect who worked with the king until he ended the collaboration. The leader of the assassins is looking for Dastan and Tamina. They now want to bring the dagger into the holy temple, in which there is also the hourglass of time . On their journey, however, the two are stopped by Sheikh Amar, who takes Dastan and Tamina prisoner again. That same night, the Assassin's snakes attack the Amar camp. However, Dastan destroys them with the help of the dagger, since he can travel back in time during the attack and thus precisely foresee each attack. The next day, the group advanced to a sacred place where Tamina wanted to bring the dagger. However, they are attacked by the assassins and by Garsiv and his men. Dastan explains the truth to the angry Garsiv, Garsiv believes him. The two want to fight the assassins, but one assassin fatally wounds Garsiv. When Dastan is cornered, Garsiv saves his life with the last of his strength. Before he dies, he tells Dastan that he must save the kingdom. Tamina has meanwhile reached the sacred cave, but there she is overpowered by the leader of the assassins and the dagger is taken from her. She and Dastan now want to return to Alamut to bring the dagger to its right place, the holy temple. The two leave with Amar and his entourage.

When they arrived in Alamut, they found that Nizam was hiding the dagger in the holy temple. The leader of Sheikh Amar's entourage, Seso, tries alone to steal the dagger. However, in the room where the dagger is hidden, it is attacked by an assassin. The two kill each other after a fight, with the last of his strength Seso manages to throw the dagger out of a window. The dagger struck a tree trunk immediately next to the location of Dastan and Tamina. The two enter the king's chambers, while Amar is captured by the Persian guards.

Dastan waits for his brother Tus in the king's apartments. This appears and Dastan now wants to explain the truth to him. Tus thinks Dastan is insane, Dastan tells Tus about the dagger and the sands of time . Tus still doesn't believe him, and Dastan kills himself. Nizam appears in the apartments, but Tus presses the gem at the end of the dagger and so he turns back time. The moment Dastan tries to kill himself, Tus stops him and believes him. Nizam appears accompanied by an assassin. Nizam kills Tus while Dastan is knocked down by the assassin. Dastan defeats the assassin with the help of Tamina. The two go into the heart of the holy temple. Here is the hourglass of time . However, when a boulder falls from the ceiling, the floor collapses and he and Tamina are separated. Dastan penetrates further inside, there he is attacked by the leader of the assassins, but he kills him with the help of Tamina, who finds him again just in time. In the meantime, Nizam wants to stick the dagger into the hourglass of time and thus unleash the sands of time . Dastan wants to prevent this and fights with Nizam. He wounds Dastan and knocks Tamina down an abyss, but Dastan holds her tight. Tamina explains to Dastan that all of this would be his fate, not hers. Then she lets go of him, but Dastan cannot hold her, whereupon she falls into the abyss. Meanwhile, Nizam stabs the hourglass of time with the dagger . Dastan tries to pull out the dagger, but it doesn't work. He then opens the dagger by opening the gem. As a result, all the sand of time escapes from the dagger, as does the sand from the hourglass of time . This turns back time faster than usual, to the point when the Persian army took Alamut. Now Dastan closes the gemstone, he and Nizam are both brought back at this point. Dastan, who now knows what Nizam is really up to, wants to explain this to all other Persian troops. At first nobody believes him until Nizam suddenly attacks Dastan. Dastan defends himself and pushes Nizam over a banister. He jumps after and tells Nizam that it is all over now. Dastan's brothers look at him with joy and want to hug him, then Nizam stands up again and wants to stab Dastan, but Tus kills Nizam with a quick stab of the sword.

Tus then explains the situation to Princess Tamina and that they attacked the city out of a lie. He offers her to take Dastan as husband. Dastan, who now knows the princess better than before, agrees with a smile. The princess is initially skeptical. When Dastan presented her with the dagger as a present, however, she gained confidence in Dastan. The two walk through the garden and Dastan appears changed and nice, which further impresses Tamina.

production

History of origin

In 2004, a year after the release of the video game The Sands of Time , Jerry Bruckheimer tried to get the rights to the film adaptation of the Persian Prince. Jordan Mechner was hired as a screenwriter . The Pirates of the Caribbean series was supposed to be the touchstone for a Disney film that turns a leisure activity into a movie. In this case, the leisure activity is the video game.

In early 2007, Disney announced July 10, 2009 as the release date before there was a script or leading actor. In November of that year negotiations with British director Mike Newell were announced.

The release date was postponed to May 28, 2010 when filming began. One reason for this was the release of the movie Transformers , which is why Disney needed more time to coordinate the advertising campaigns.

When asked if it was difficult to make a film set in the Middle East, director Mike Newell replied in an interview: “In our world we didn't want to show the influence of Muslims, even if they actually did so right after the fall of the Persians came. We were very careful in this regard. It wasn't about disturbing Muslim sensitivities. "

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On May 20, 2008 it was announced that Jake Gyllenhaal would play the lead role of the Persian Prince Dastan . A short time later, Gemma Arterton was hired as the female lead Princess Tamina and Ben Kingsley as the villain Nizam . Another supporting role - Sheikh Amar - was cast with Alfred Molina .

Filming

In March 2008, director Newell chose Morocco as the main location. Filming locations were Oukaïmden in the Atlas Mountains , as well as Aït-Ben-Haddou and Oase Fint near Ouarzazate , Tameslouht about 20 kilometers southwest of Marrakech and the sand dunes of Merzouga outside of Erfoud . Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was also filmed at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire . Filming began in July 2008.

production

The film was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer's company "Jerry Bruckheimer Films" and by Walt Disney Pictures . The German film distributor is also “Disney Pictures”.

The production of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time cost about 200 million US dollars . In comparison, the global box office was $ 336.4 million.

Soundtrack

The song I Remain is sung by the singer Alanis Morissette , who wrote it with Mike Elizondo .

Differences from the video game

  • The name of the princess who helps Dastan is Farah , but Tamina in the film .
  • The villain Nizam is a bad vizier in the game , but a nobleman in the movie and Dastan's step-uncle.
  • The film tells a more extensive history of the prince that never appeared in the games.
  • The prince's costume is actually the costume from Warrior Within , the second part of the "Sands of Time" series, the sixth part of the entire series.
  • The prince's name in the film is Dastan, but you never find out his name in the game.
  • Assassins only appeared in Prince of Persia 3D , but not in the "Sands of Time" series.
  • The prince has no brothers named Tus and Garsiv in the game. His only brother named in the game is Malik.
  • In the game, the prince has sand containers for his dagger.
  • At the beginning of the game, the prince unwittingly stabbed the dagger into the hourglass, which released the sand.
  • At the end of the game, the princess rejects the prince and he disappears into the forest.

Relation to Persia

The Sassanids ruled Persia in the 6th century . Dastān is the name of the hero Zāl in Persian mythology and also part of the name of the legendary hero and warrior Rostam , whom the Persian poet Firdausi calls in his work Shāhnāme Rostame Dastān ("Rostam, son of Dastān"). We encounter this designation elsewhere in Persian literature , for example in the verse Rumi : Shir-e Khodā o Rostam-e Dastān-am Ārezoost (شیر خدا و رستم دستانم آرزوست) : “I long for the lion of God and Dastāns Rostam me". In the film, the name of Prince Dastān is also pronounced like the name of these heroes. Names like Tamina, Tus and Garsiv are also borrowed from Persian mythology. In present-day Persia , the name Dastān mostly reminds of Rostam and not of his father, who is popularly known under the name of Zal. In contrast to Dastān , the Persian word Dāstān means "story" or "fairy tale". It differs from the name of Prince Dastāns by having a closed "a" in the first place.

Others

trilogy

Prince of Persia: The sands of time should be the foundation stone for a film trilogy , the subsequent films should also be based on video games from the " Prince of Persia " series. However, as the box office results were below the filmmakers' expectations, any plans for possible sequels were put on hold.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ Exclusive interview: Prince of Persia director Mike Newell has bad luck in the game on moviepilot.de , accessed on May 21, 2010.
  3. ↑ Information on the companies on imdb.com
  4. ↑ Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time on wulfmansworld.com
  5. ↑ Molana Jalaledin Mohammad Balkhi . "Kolliat-e Shams-e Tabrizi" . Volume I, p. 170. Rastin publishing house. 1996.
  6. ↑ a b c d e Information on the trivia on imdb.com
  7. ↑ A. Ferdowsi. "Shanameh e Ferdowsi" . Complete Persian edition. Publishing company of the National Bank of Iran (Bank Melli Iran Publications). Tehran, 2003. ISBN 964-93135-3-2 .
  8. ↑ Information about the trilogy on movieworlds.com
  9. ↑ Filmcheck: “Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time” on quotenmeter.de, March 7, 2014. Accessed September 24, 2016.