Robinson Crusoe (1997)

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Movie
German title Robinson Crusoe
Original title Daniel Defoe’s
Robinson Crusoe
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1997
length 87-105 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Rod Hardy ,
George Miller
script Christopher Lofton ,
Tracy Keenan Wynn ,
Christopher Canaan
production Njeri Karago
music Jennie Muskett
camera David Connell
cut Sue Blainey ,
Richard Bracken ,
Tod Scott Brody ,
Gregg Featherman ,
Keith Reamer ,
Kevin Stitt ,
David Zieff
occupation

Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe) is a 1997 American adventure film directed by Rod Hardy and George Miller . Pierce Brosnan plays the title role . The film is based freely on Daniel Defoe 's classic novel of the same name .

action

Scotland Anno 1703: Friends Robinson and Patrick love the same woman, Mary McGregor. There is a duel between the men in which Robinson kills Patrick in self-defense. Mary urges the survivor to disappear from Scotland for a year to avoid the revenge of Patrick's family. So Robinson sets out to sail around the world with a merchant ship, but the ship gets into distress and runs onto the reef of an unknown island, where it ends up destroyed. Robinson is the only one who was able to save himself. Out of necessity, he set up on the island, built a tree house for himself with the help of tools that he was able to save from the destroyed ship, along with supplies and weapons, and lived off what nature had to offer. Even skipper, the Corgi Captain has, he can get out of a supply room, so that it at least one living thing around.

When one day members of a natural tribe appear on the island to cruelly sacrifice three of their own, Crusoe saves the third man by firing a gunshot, which allows the native to escape, and later renames him Friday. Although it doesn't look like it at first, the very different men get used to each other and find ways to communicate despite the language barrier. Little by little, Robinson Friday also brings the English language closer. In this way, despite all the cultural and religious differences, both slowly become friends. After the natives keep reappearing on the island, Robinson and Freitag try to drive them away with a load of gunpowder, which leads to the death of Skipper, who chased the burning fuse.

When the natives return again, because they visit the desert island especially when they want to make human sacrifices to the gods, Robinson is hit by one of their arrows and falls seriously ill. Since Friday alone cannot help the injured friend, he decides to take him to his home island, even though he is considered an outlaw there himself . Robinson actually gets well again. It seems like sheer mockery that one confronts the friends with the decision to either die together or to fight a duel from which only one comes out alive. Just as Robinson is about to sacrifice himself, without Friday being able and willing to accept this sacrifice, a shot fired by a white man is fired and fatally hit Friday. Robinson holds the friend in his arms and screams his pain from his soul as the natives flee in all directions.

For Crusoe it is now with the ship of the man who heads a boy scout group and has turned up so surprisingly, back to his home and especially to Mary, who has never given up hope that he will come back.

production

Production notes

Sonar Entertainment / Miramax acted as the production company . The film was mainly shot in Papua New Guinea .

Differences from the book

The film only roughly adheres to Defoe's novel. The introduction with the two friends who love the same woman, which leads to a fight between them, has nothing to do with Defoe's book and is completely different there. As soon as Robinson is as good as alone, his voice leads through the film and reflects his thoughts, which is also the case in the original book. Robinson explores the island and realizes that there is no connection with the mainland, but the difficulties described in the book with gathering fruit, catching goats and sowing and harvesting are completely ignored in the film. Instead , the film features fruit bats that can be cooked, which in turn do not appear in the book. The fact that a "savage" appears who Robinson names Freitag and teaches English is also based on the book. In the film, the developing friendship between Robinson and Friday takes up the main part of the plot, and thus a much larger space than in the book, where the native appears relatively late. The religious dispute between Robinson and Friday is also more pronounced in the film. The book also does not speak of a crocodile god, whom Friday recognizes. The ending deviates from the content of the book from the scene in which the natives demand that Robinson and Friday fight a life and death fight. For example, Robinson and Mary are not decades older than they were when they split up.

reception

publication

The film had video premieres in Finland, Sweden and Portugal in 1997. It was published in the same year in Singapore, Poland and Spain and in March 1998 in Hungary. In the United States, it was first shown on television on May 13, 2001. It had its video premiere in Japan in December 2001. The UK first aired it on television on February 28, 2002. It was also published in Bulgaria, Brazil, France, Greece, Romania and Russia.

The film had its video premiere in Germany on December 16, 1997. Concorde released it on DVD on June 20, 1998. On January 24, 2013 it was released by Studiocanal with a German soundtrack on DVD.

criticism

The television magazine Prisma said: “And another film adaptation of Daniel Defoe's bestseller. This time, however, the directing duo dealt very freely with the original. "

The lexicon of international films could not gain too much from the film and found: “Free film adaptation of the classic by Daniel Defoe, which focuses on the action elements of the story and largely avoids existential questions. Jumps in the dramaturgy and a sometimes bumpy sequence of scenes suggest that the film, which is not exactly exciting, was subsequently cut, which would kill it. "

Kino.de was of the opinion that in this "attractively cast remake" with Pierce Brosnan with the "literary model of the classic by Daniel Dofoe", "but all the more so with the dramatic struggle for survival of his famous one." Heroes and action-heavy combats against wild indigenous tribes ”. "Thanks to Pierce Brosnan, the female video audience [is] also offered something worth seeing."

Marie Anderson explains on the page kino-zeit.de Arthouse - Film & Kino that the film advertises as a "living version of the classic Robinsonade". Although the Australian directors Hardy and Miller would use the name of the author Daniel Defoe in the full title, go "this version of the legendary story of the shipwrecked on the island very freely with its literary source". The result is a "sleek adventure film that, with Pierce Brosnan in the lead role as an extensively stranded hero, presents an agile, multi-faceted Robinson". In conclusion, it says: “Despite its sometimes all-too-pleasing story, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is an entertaining, exciting and stimulating variant of the well-known material, which lively and imaginatively represents a cinematic Robinsonad with all its significant ups and downs and ultimately leads to a harmonious ending ends as befits a well-presented adventure film. "

Further films

see → article Robinson Crusoe, film adaptations

Trivia

Although Robinson is unmarried, he has a wedding ring. This is shown in a scene when he discovers the first indigenous footprint on the beach.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robinson Crusoe (1997) adS jpc.de
  2. ^ Robinson Crusoe. In: prisma.de . Retrieved November 21, 2017 .
  3. ^ Robinson Crusoe. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 21, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ^ Robinson Crusoe (1997) adS kino.de (with film trailer). Retrieved November 21, 2017.
  5. ↑ Marie Anderson: Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. adS kino-zeit.de. Retrieved November 21, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kino-zeit.de