Rango (film)

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Movie
German title Rango
Original title Rango
Rango-Film Logo.jpg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 10
Rod
Director Gore Verbinski
script John Logan
Gore Verbinski
James Byrkit
production Gore Verbinski
Graham King
John B. Carls
music Hans Zimmer
camera Roger Deakins
cut Craig Wood
synchronization

Rango is a computer-animated feature film by Gore Verbinski from the year 2011. The official theatrical release in Germany and Austria was on March 3, 2011 in the United States on March 4, 2011. The production was in 2012 with the Oscar category Best Animated Feature Film award.

action

A chameleon lives as a pet in a terrarium ; its environment consists of a plastic palm, a plastic fish and the torso of a Barbie doll with which it stages a play. When his terrarium was being transported by car, he fell out during an evasive maneuver. On the street he meets the armadillo Roadkill , which triggered the maneuver. Together they flee from more cars next to the street, where Roadkill tells him about the spirit of the West that can be found across the street and shows him the way to the next town where there is supposed to be water.

The chameleon sets off, is attacked by a hawk on the way and spends the night in a pipe from which it is washed out after a few confused dreams. It encounters the desert iguana bean , which threatens it with a gun. Someone is seeping water into the desert to get to their family's land. Finally, she takes the chameleon to the city of “Dreck” (in the original “Dirt”). Here the residents sell and leave their land because there is no more water. As a stranger it is eyed suspiciously by the guests of the saloon. Now he can be a hero as he has long wanted. There is the name "Rango", pretends to be a fearless gunslinger and immediately takes on a resident of the city. During the duel, the hawk suddenly appears and pounces on Rango. After a wild chase, Rangos fired a shot and caused a water tower to fall on the bird. Rango is now considered a hero, since he killed the bird of prey with just one shot, and is appointed sheriff by the mayor.

On his first day as sheriff, Rango sees the city's residents unsuccessfully trying to get water from the tap. In the tumult that followed, in which Rango, among others, was blamed for the drought, Bohne unintentionally reveals to the villagers that there is hardly any water in the bank of dirt, in whose vault the residents store their water supplies instead of money. The crowd rushed to the bank and asked for their water back, but Rango managed to calm the situation down. In the evening, Balthazar, a naked mole rat , and his prairie dogs emerge from a tunnel in the middle of the main street . They actually wanted to dig under the bank in order to rob it. Rango ignores this, gets them equipment and also issues them a mining permit.

The next morning the bank is emptied. Rango gathers the citizens, puts together a search party and goes into the tunnels on the trail of criminals. On the surface again, they find the bank manager who was drowned in the middle of the desert. They continue to follow the trail and finally find Balthazar's gang who want to bring the stolen water bottle to their hiding place on a covered wagon. Rango and his people disguise themselves as a circus and perform his play in front of the three bank robbers, only to arrest them. But at that moment hundreds of prairie dogs appear and threaten to overwhelm the citizens. Followed by innumerable prairie dogs flying on bats, they chase each other before the cart with the water bottle tips over and rolls down a hill. It turns out that the stolen water bottle was already empty.

Back in the dirt, the unsuccessful heroes are awaited by the disappointed residents who try to lynch the arrested prairie dogs. Rango opposes them because he suspects that the mayor is behind the water shortage. As soon as all the land belongs to the mayor, he wants to build a new city like the one that already exists on the other side of the expressway. When Rango threatens to thwart his plans, the mayor has Rattlesnake-Jake brought in to finally get rid of the increasingly annoying sheriff. Rattlesnake Jake exposes Rango in front of the assembled city, which learns that he is not a gunslinger and not as brave as he is.

Rango leaves the city, returns to the street and crosses it unscathed before passing out. When he comes to, there is a golf cart with several golden figures in it, in front of it a person in a poncho, the “spirit of the west”, who gives Rango the courage to finish his mission. With the help of wandering cacti ( Spanish dagger ), Rango finds out that the water from the desert flows into Las Vegas, and that the mayor's people have turned off the pipe that once supplied the city of Dirt with water. Rango returns to Dreck and asks the prairie dogs for help, because only with him can they save their father from the gallows. The prairie dogs dig up the pipe and break it in one place. In the meantime, the mayor tries to force Bohne to sell their land as well. When she refuses, she is almost strangled by Jake, but when Rango challenges him to a duel, he lets go of her.

Together with the prairie dogs, Roadkill and the wandering cacti, Rango can outsmart the snake and direct the water back into the city. For a brief moment, it appears as if Jake has been defeated by Rango. But the mayor still has Bohne in his power. Rango and Bohne are locked in the bank's vault, which slowly fills with water. Here Rango is kissed by Bohne, whereupon she swallows the last pistol he held in his mouth and then has one of her seizures in which the lizard freezes as a protective reflex.

At the same moment the conflict outside the bottle comes to a head when the mayor tries to get Rattlesnake Jake out of the way. Shortly before this happens and Rango and Bohne are almost in danger of drowning, Rango succeeds in the Heimlich maneuver , and the bullet spat out by Bohne hits the glass pane of the safe, which causes the glass to burst under the pressure of the water. The mayor, his henchmen, and Jake are washed away.

The mayor tries one last time to pull Rango to his side, but he leaves him to the rattlesnake. Jake pays his respects to Rango and leaves town with the mayor in tow to settle his accounts. Rango saved the city and captured Bean's heart.

production

The film was produced by Nickelodeon Movies , Blind Wink and GK Films . The CGI animations were created by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) - a company that actually specializes in special effects . Gore Verbinski had previously turned down an offer to direct another “ Pirates of the Caribbean ” film and preferred the animation project.

So that the speakers could empathize with their roles and the film, costumes and sets were made for them. Since Johnny Depp only had twenty days, almost all voice recordings were completed within a month.

The film premiered on February 14, 2011 in Westwood . The film was shown in Berlin on February 20, 2011. It was officially launched in Germany and Austria on March 3, 2011, and one day later it was shown in American cinemas. The film was shown in Switzerland from April 6, 2011.

With a budget of $ 135 million, the film grossed the equivalent of $ 222.5 million worldwide, including over $ 123 million in the United States.

German dubbed version

The German synchronous editing was done at Berliner Synchron AG in Berlin . The dialogue book written Alexander lion , synchronous Director led Frank Schaff .

role animal Original speaker German speakers
Rango chameleon Johnny Depp David Nathan
Beans Desert iguana Isla Fisher Angela Wiederhut
Waffles Toad lizard James Ward Byrkit Martin Semmelrogge
Priscilla Gerbil Abigail Breslin Friedel Morgenstern
Roadkill Nine banded armadillo Alfred Molina Klaus Sunshine
Jake Texas rattlesnake Bill Nighy Michael Kessler
Balthazar Naked mole rat Harry Dean Stanton Rolf Zacher
Bad Bill Gila crustacean Ray Winstone Marco Kroeger
Angelique Red fox Claudia Black Christin Marquitan
Mariachi band Owl rabbit The BossHoss
Mayor John California gopher tortoise Ned Beatty Otto Mellies

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In Rango , influences of the crime film Chinatown from 1974 are also seen in the area of ​​a homage . With borrowings from various Sergio Leone films, Verbinski has succeeded in making a "gorgeously funny animation Western". The film has been referred to more frequently by film critics as the computer-animated sequel to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . The film contains further references to spaghetti westerns like For a Fistful of Dollars . In addition, according to James Berardinelli , the character of Jake was modeled on the actor Lee Van Cleef .

Awards (selection)

Video game

In parallel to the film, Electronic Arts released a video game based on the film in February 2011 . Rango - the video game is available for PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360 , Wii and Nintendo DS .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Rango . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2011 (PDF; test number: 126 587 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Rango . Youth Media Commission .
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  4. ↑ a b www.skip.at
  5. ↑ Moody, Annemarie. ILM Jumps To Features With Rango , Animation World Network, September 12, 2008. WebCitation archive ( February 15, 2011 memento on WebCite ).
  6. ↑ Vejvoda, Jim. What Exactly is “Rango”? , IGN.com, June 30, 2010. WebCitation archive ( February 15, 2011 memento on WebCite )
  7. ↑ Costs and income (Boxofficemojo)
  8. ^ Rango in the German synchronous file
  9. ↑ a b [1] at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed on March 4, 2015
  10. ↑ a b [2] at Metacritic , accessed on March 4, 2015
  11. ↑ Rango in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  12. ↑ Kevin Rederick: 'Rango' as watery homage to 'Chinatown'. In: LA Observed. March 7, 2011, accessed June 25, 2012 .
  13. ^ Jörg Taszman: "Rango". Funny animated film shows a chameleon in the wild west. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur . Deutschlandradio , March 2, 2011, accessed on June 25, 2012 .
  14. ↑ Rango at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  15. ^ Film starts : Film review: Rango , Christoph Petersen
  16. ↑ a b Berliner Zeitung : Animated Westerns - Gore Verbinski's film about a chameleon in an identity crisis: “Rango” cleans an entire village for a handful of dollars: It's dusty in dirt , Katja Lüthge, March 3, 2011
  17. ↑ Mittelbayerische Zeitung : 20:15 - Rango (SAT.1) - Everything, just not adapted , TV tips, teleschau - der mediendienst, April 27, 2013
  18. ^ ReelViews : Rango - A movie review by James Berardinelli , James Berardinelli , March 5, 2011
  19. ↑ www.ea.com