Riddick: Chronicles of a Warrior
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| German title | Riddick: Chronicles of a Warrior | ||
| Original title | The Chronicles of Riddick | ||
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| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 2004 | ||
| length | Theatrical version: 114 minutes Director’s Cut : 129 minutes |
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FSK 12 (Theatrical Version) FSK 16 (Director's Cut) JMK 12 |
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| Director | David Twohy | ||
| script | David Twohy | ||
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Scott Kroopf Vin Diesel Camille Brown (Directors Cut) |
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| music | Graeme Revell | ||
| camera | Hugh Johnson | ||
| cut |
Martin Hunter Dennis Virkler Tracy Adams (Directors Cut) |
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Riddick: Chronicles of a Warrior (Original title: The Chronicles of Riddick ) is a science fiction film from 2004 by director David Twohy . The main role was taken by Vin Diesel , who also co-produced the film. The film is a sequel to Pitch Black - Planet of Darkness from 2000. The film opened in German cinemas on September 2, 2004.
action
Shortly after the events of Pitch Black, Riddick separated from his two survivors, Imam and Jack, and hid on the ice planet UV6 , where five years later the bounty hunter Toombs tracked him down with a small group of hunters. However, Riddick overpowers Toombs' men without major problems and forces Toombs to provide information about his client: Someone on the planet Helion Prime is willing to pay 1.5 million for Riddick. After throwing Toombs out of the ship, Riddick makes his way to Helion Prime to find Toomb's employer: it was Imam, as he was the only one who knew where Riddick was hiding.
Once there, he learns that Imam and Aereon, the ambassador of the enigmatic people of the Elementals, had offered the bounty to lure him to Helion Prime. The two have good reasons: the Necromonger, an army of diabolical warriors led by their Lord Marshal, are on their way to Helion Prime to enslave the population and destroy the planet, as they have already done on many other planets. The Necromongers are on a crusade through space to find the “Underverse”, a mystical dimension in which the lines between life and death become blurred. They see death as the central constant of the universe, from which life is only a short-term deviation.
Aereon tells Riddick of a legend: It is said that the forgotten people of the Furyans are the only ones the Lord Marshal fears. The reason for this is a prophecy that a Furyan will one day kill him. Thereupon he had the home planet of the Furyans destroyed and every Furyan boy killed. Riddick is one of the few Furyans who survived.
Imam tells him that Jack disappeared on the prison planet Crematoria. Before he can go there, the Necromonger fleet attacks, and a battle breaks out in the skies and streets of Helion Prime. Imam is killed by a Necromonger. Riddick can bring his family to safety, but later has to watch as the Lord Marshal brings the population to their knees. After Riddick kills Imam's murderer in front of the Lord Marshal's eyes, Dame Vaako, the wife of the high-ranking Necromonger officer Lord Vaako, persuades him to come aboard the Necromonger's flying palace. In the palace, Riddick is taken to a chamber where the oracles of the Necromongers read his mind and expose him to be a Furyan. The Lord Marshal then wants to kill him, but Riddick flees and lets himself be caught by Toombs, who has since recruited a new team.
He manipulates the bounty hunters to take him to Crematoria, where he meets Jack again, who now calls herself Kyra and has since grown into a young woman. The reunion is chilly as Kyra blames Riddick for all the bad things that have happened to her since their breakup. Riddick, on the other hand, tries to explain to her that he went out to protect her.
Riddick, Kyra, and some prisoners plan an escape when the Crematoria Guardians panic over a Necromonger fighter ship commanded by Lord Vaako approaching the planet to find Riddick. A fire fight breaks out between the guards and Toomb's bounty hunters, in which almost everyone involved shoots each other. While the remaining guards make their way through Crematoria's tunnel system to Toombs' ship, Riddick and the other fugitives have to make their way over Crematoria's surface. This will also be a race against time, since Crematoria's surface heats up from a nightly -300 ° F (approx. −185 ° C ) to +700 ° F (approx. +370 ° C) in seconds at sunrise . In front of the hangar with Toombs' ship, the refugees are caught by the Necromongers and almost all of them are killed - apparently including Riddick. Kyra is forced to join the Necromongers while Riddick is dragged into the hangar by the Purifier, a senior advisor to the Lord Marshal. The Purifier reveals to Riddick that he is a Furyan just like him and that Riddick must kill the Lord Marshal. Then he goes outside to burn alive.
Riddick takes Toombs' ship to find Kyra. He sneaks into the flying palace and is horrified to find that Kyra has already been made one of their own by the Necromongers. Finally there is a final duel with the Lord Marshal, in the course of which Dame Vaako instructs her husband to kill the leader himself at the right moment in order to become the new Lord Marshal according to the Necromonger tradition, “What you kill is yours”.
Riddick seems to succumb at first until Kyra suddenly comes to his aid, but she herself is mortally wounded in the process. Eventually Riddick can kill the Lord Marshal. After the death of the Lord Marshal, Vaako and the others bystanders bow before him, as the Necromonger rules allow him to keep the property of the slain - with his victory he became the ruler of the Necromongers.
background
The cost of production was estimated at $ 105 million. The film grossed around US $ 116 million at box offices worldwide, including US $ 58 million in cinemas.
The cartoon Riddick: Warriors of Darkness and the video game The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay , from which the sequel The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena was released on March 24, 2009, sold better . DVD sales for both the theatrical version and the Director's Cut were excellent, with the latter selling 1.5 million copies on the first day alone.
In March 2009, Vin Diesel confirmed the implementation of two more Riddick films at the launch of The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena . He compared the Riddick saga with the examples of The Lord of the Rings films based on Tolkien's books . So be pitch black to be seen as a kind of history, like The Hobbit in the world of Middle-earth. Riddick: Chronicles of a Warrior is like The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the prelude to an independent trilogy.
Director's Cut
The Director's Cut , which is about 15 minutes longer, offers additional scenes that give an insight into Riddick's past; the crucial element here is the vision of a Furyan woman, possibly his mother, who sends him pictures and thoughts from his destroyed home world during cryo-sleep and in critical moments. In a scene on Crematoria, which is missing in the theatrical version, she presses her hand on Riddick's chest in a vision and thus arouses a mysterious power in him, through which he can eliminate a majority of enemies with a huge burst of energy.
Reviews
“Riddick's fight against the fanatical sect goes far beyond the typical mechanisms of Hollywood's other action and science fiction spectacles. Twohy also chases his hero from one action set piece to the next, but each of the sequences is part of a maturation process that is rooted in the historical dramas and tragedies of Shakespeare . As far as Riddick's world seems to be from ours, it is ultimately closer to it than one is used to from the cinema. Twohy has created his own radically own cosmos in which he now pursues the philosophical and moral questions of our time. "
“'Riddick' creates a thoroughly postmodern, but always original and visually powerful universe in which it is all about the self-assertion of the individual. [..] Also thanks to his protagonist (who also acted as producer of the film) Twohy has not only succeeded in creating a more than worthy successor to 'Pitch Black', but rather a remarkable mix of styles of future vision, knight epic and (anti) war film. In addition, the director can boast of having made a discovery with 21-year-old Alexa Davalos as Kyra. "
“His voice is the best weapon: In the original, Vin Diesel talks like an open tank, it gurgles out of him, he just doesn't leak because his tight neck holds everything together. [..] 'Riddick - Chronicle of a Warrior' is not about originality, but about applying the standard situations of the genre to a new hero. The proximity to the computer game doesn't do any harm, because science fiction lives from design. "
Awards
- The film was nominated for a Saturn Award 2005 in the categories Best Special Effects and Best DVD Special Edition .
- Vin Diesel received a nomination for the 2005 Golden Raspberry negative award in the worst actor category .
continuation
A sequel under the title Riddick ran on September 6, 2013 in the US and on September 19, 2013 in German cinemas.
Web links
- Riddick: Chronicles of Riddick in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Riddick: Chronicles of a Warrior in the Lexicon of International Films
- Comparison of the cut versions Theatrical Version - Director's Cut by Riddick: Chronicles of a Warrior at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release to Riddick - Chronicles of a Warrior . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, July 2004 (PDF; test number: 98 678 K).
- ^ Certificate of Approval for Riddick - Chronicles of a Warrior (Director's Cut) . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, April 2005 (PDF; test number: 98 678-a V / DVD).
- ↑ Age designation for Riddick: Chronicles of a Warrior . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Financial data according to Boxofficemojo
- ^ Film review in Frankfurter Rundschau from September 2, 2004
- ↑ The Nomade of Space in Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from September 2, 2004
- ↑ Hell's dog food in Berliner Zeitung of September 2, 2004
- ↑ Riddick swings the blades on Kino.de in 2013