Slumdog millionaire
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| German title | Slumdog millionaire |
| Original title | Slumdog Millionaire |
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| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English , Hindi |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
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| Director | Danny Boyle |
| script | Simon Beaufoy |
| production | Christian Colson |
| music | AR Rahman |
| camera | Anthony Dod Mantle |
| cut | Chris Dickens |
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Slumdog Millionaire (Originally Slumdog Millionaire ) is an eight Academy Award-winning British film directed by Danny Boyle from 2008 . It was developed by Fox Searchlight Pictures produced and based on the published 2005 novel Q & A ( questions and answers , German: Questions and Answers ) by Vikas Swarup , whose translation under the German title rupees! Rupees! has appeared. The film was released in US cinemas on November 12, 2008, followed by its release in Italy on December 5, 2008, in Switzerland on January 21, 2009, in Germany on March 19, 2009 and in March 20, 2009 in Austria.
action
The film, shot in India, tells the story of the day in the life of 18-year-old Jamal Malik when he won the top prize - 20 million Indian rupees - on the TV show “ Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? “Wins. At the beginning of the film, the question posed to all observers is faded in like in a television quiz:
Original
Mumbai, 2006
Jamal Malik is one question away
from winning 20 million rupees.
How did he do it?
A: He cheated
B: He's lucky
C: He's a genius
D: It is written
Translation
Mumbai, 2006
Jamal Malik is a question of
winning 20 million rupees.
how did he do that?
A: He cheated
B: He was lucky
C: He's a genius
D: It's fate
The film begins in a police station where Jamal is tortured. At this point he has already answered the penultimate quiz question correctly and is suspected of being a cheat. The police superintendent doubts that a former street boy from Mumbai could answer so many questions correctly. For the police officers as well as the host of the show, Prem Kumar, there is no doubt that Jamal must be a cheater, especially since Kumar himself comes from the slums and had to fight his way up. Flashbacks show how at the beginning of his show, addressed to the audience, Kumar made fun of the Slumdog candidate who, as a simple errand boy, in his opinion will never master the quiz. When the two met in the toilet during a commercial break, Prem had no qualms about even sending Jamal a wrong answer to the penultimate quiz question. But Jamal recognized the trap and chose the right solution. Shortly before the last question, the signal to the end of the program sounded, and the police, notified by Kumar, were already waiting outside the doors of the studio. Jamal was taken to the station, tortured and interrogated there .
When he can speak again and explain why he was able to answer every single quiz question, the inspector lets himself be captivated by his story. In flashbacks, the viewer learns about the life story of Jamal and his brother Salim in India, about the growing up of the half- orphans in the slum , the violent death of the mother in the anti-Muslim pogroms around the turn of the year 1992/93 and the meeting with the orphan Latika. Jamal tells of the involuntary time of the three children in the criminal begging organization of Maman, the escape of the brothers, the unsteady life as a hawker on trains and as an alleged tour guide at the Taj Mahal , of the murder of Mamans and the liberation of Latika and the subsequent break with his Brother up to the present life as a tea server ( Chai-Wallah ) in a call center . In the course of these events, be it by accident or by fate, he learned exactly what he was then asked on the television show. Each quiz question stands for a certain phase of life, which explains why Jamal is not interested in making money at all, but in finding his love Latika again through the television appearance, which he had already lost several times before.
Jamal became a media star overnight . The inspector is finally convinced of Jamal's innocence, releases him in time for the crucial television broadcast and brings him to the studio. His brother Salim, who sees Jamal on TV, then regrets his lifestyle as the henchman of the rich criminal Javed. He helps Latika, who has meanwhile made Javed his mistress , to escape and gives her his mobile phone and his car with which she wants to drive to the show. Jamal, however, can not answer the last crucial million-dollar question about the name of the third musketeer from The Three Musketeers , because he and his brother only learned the names of the first two musketeers, Athos and Porthos, and sometimes called each other that way. He therefore chooses the telephone joker and has the only number he knows by heart called - that of his brother. Latika, who is stuck in a traffic jam on the streets of Mumbai, sees him on one of the countless televisions in the window of a television shop and answers his call. The fact that Latika is alive upsets Jamal, but she cannot help him either. Jamal puts everything on one card and decides on answer A, which says that the third musketeer goes by the name Aramis - and thus answered the last question correctly by chance.
At the same time, Javed wants revenge on Salim for his betrayal. But Salim shoots his boss and is then - lying in a bathtub full of money - killed by his guards. Later that night, Jamal and Latika meet and kiss at Mumbai Victoria Train Station . The picture is paused and the answer to the question asked at the beginning is displayed: "D: It is fate".
This is followed by musical and dance credits in the typical Bollywood style.
Film music
The film music was produced by predominantly Indian artists.
- O ... Saya - AR Rahman & MIA
- Riots - AR Rahman
- Mausam & Escape - AR Rahman
- Paper Planes - MIA
- Paper Planes DFA REMIX - MIA
- Ringa Ringa - AR Rahman feat. Alka Yagnik & Ila Arun
- Liquid Dance - AR Rahman feat. Palakkad Sriram & Madhumitha
- Latika's Theme - AR Rahman feat. Suzanne
- Aaj Ki Raat - Sonu Nigam , Mahalaxmi Lyer & Alisha Chinoi
- Millionaire - AR Rahman feat. Madhumitha
- Gangsta Blues - AR Rahman feat. BlaaZe & Tanvi Shah
- Dreams on Fire - AR Rahman feat. Suzanne
- Jai Ho - AR Rahman feat. Sukhvinder Singh , Tanvi Shah & Mahalaxmi Iyer
inspiration
Simon Beaufoy wrote the script for Slumdog Millionaire based on the novel Rupees! Rupees! by Vikas Swarup (Original title: Q&A ). The Indian writer says he was inspired to write his novel by visiting one of the learning stations of the Hole in the Wall educational project .
Differences between film and novel
There are some differences between the book and the film: Ram Mohammad Thomas - this is the name of the protagonist in the book - was abandoned by his mother shortly after he was born, so he grew up in an orphanage and learned the English language from a priest. Salim is not his older brother, but his younger best friend. Instead of his childhood friend Latika, Ram loves the prostitute Nita, whom he only met at the age of 17. The love story plays a subordinate role in the novel. Topics such as homosexuality , child abuse , voodoo and nationalism are not addressed in the film, but the slum childhood, the religiously motivated riots and the begging organization . Parentlessness doesn't play as much of a role in the film as in the novel. The unsuspecting Salim in the book is portrayed in the film as unscrupulous and criminal, while Prem Kumar - the one in the book, the quiz show Who Will Win a Billion? moderated - plays a much more important role in the film than in the book. Ram does not escape voluntarily in the film, as in the book, but is forced to flee by Salim. The book is not structured chronologically according to the sections of the main character's life story, but follows the order of the questions. This results in a mosaic of individual episodes from which the life story gradually emerges. Sometimes Ram is younger, sometimes older. In the book, Prem Kumar is portrayed as a cheater who tries to cover up the fact that the television company has not yet collected the prize money. In the book, Ram is interviewed by a lawyer who wants to help him, in the film by one of the police officers. The lawyer does not appear in the film at all.
production
To improve the script, Beaufoy traveled to India three times and interviewed street children. In the summer of 2006, the British production companies Celador Films and Film4 offered the screenplay to the film director Danny Boyle , who was initially not interested in the material. Boyle changed his mind when he learned that Beaufoy the screenplay to one of his favorite films The Full Monty had written. Boyle was impressed with how Beaufoy linked different narrative strands from Swarup's novel and decided to make the film. The planned production costs were $ 15 million, so Celador was looking for another financier. 20th Century Fox offered a $ 2 million stake and Warner Independent Pictures offered $ 5 million. After the closure of Warner Independent Pictures by the parent company Warner Bros., the distribution rights for Slumdog Millionaire were sold to Fox Searchlight. Warner and Fox Searchlight share the cost and income of distribution.
In September 2007 the film team traveled to Mumbai and began employing local actors and film technicians. Boyle also decided to translate a third of the dialogue from English to Hindi , but told the film production company that only ten percent of the dialogue was in Hindi. In the final version, around 20% of the dialogues were translated into Hindi. The filming locations included the slums in Mumbai and the Juhu district . Filming began on November 5, 2007.
distribution
In August 2007, Warner Independent Pictures acquired the US and Pathé the international distribution rights to Slumdog Millionaire. Warner Independent Pictures, however, doubted the commercial prospects of the film and began looking for a buyer for the film rights from August 2008. In the same month, Warner Independent Pictures and Fox Searchlight Pictures agreed to split the film rights equally. Slumdog Millionaire premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2008 and was well received by viewers. The film was also shown at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2008, was a hit with audiences and won the People's Choice Award.
Slumdog Millionaire grossed $ 360,000 in just ten US cinemas as of November 12, 2008 on the opening weekend. The number of movie theaters performing in the USA rose to 2,244 in the following weeks. By March 2009, the film was shown in most cinema markets in the world. The worldwide cinema receipts on July 15, 2009 were approximately $ 380 million.
Slumdog Millionär was released on October 26, 2009 by Euro Video in Germany on DVD and Blu-ray Disc with an FSK-12 rating.
On 26 February 2012, the film was the first time in the German Free TV of ProSieben aired.
Criticism of the behavior of the production company
In various media, criticism was voiced that the living conditions of the children's actors in the film had not improved despite the great success of the film. The film's producers responded by setting up a fund to get the performers into new apartments and to provide training.
background
In a cameo is Amitabh Bachchan to see considered one of the biggest stars of Bollywood applies -Filmindustrie and between 2000 and 2002 and in 2005 and 2006, the Indian edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? moderated. The young Jamal receives the autograph from him.
It only took AR Rahman 20 days to compose the complete soundtrack. It consists of 13 songs and was released on January 13, 2009 by Interscope Records . The final track on the soundtrack, "Jai Ho", was originally written for the 2008 film Yuvvraaj . However, the director Subhash Ghai found the song inappropriate for the film and therefore allowed it to be used in Slumdog Millionaire . He can be heard there during the credits . Originally the music title "Aaj Ki Raat" was intended for this, which can also be heard in the film and included on the soundtrack.
According to Danny Boyle , Mercedes-Benz asked that the company logo not be seen in the scenes that take place in the slums, as the company feared that this would have a negative impact on the company's image.
Reviews
Roger Ebert described the story in the Chicago Sun-Times as "heartbreaking and exhilarating at the same time". Richard Corliss wrote in Time : "Despite the occasional brutality, the film is a cheerful song for life and a film to celebrate." Kenneth Turan named Slumdog Millionaire in the Los Angeles Times "best old-fashioned audience film of the year;" a romantic Hollywood melodrama that will please the big studios in a very modern way. ”Peter Brunette called it a“ solidly entertaining and driving film ” in the Hollywood Reporter .
Awards (selection)
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for nine Oscars in 2009 (twice nominated for "Best Song") and won eight of them. He has received awards in all four categories for the Golden Globe Award , won the British Academy Film Award and has received the British Independent Film Awards for best director, best newcomer and best British independent film , among others .
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Web links
- Slumdog Millionaire in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Slumdog Millionaire at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Official website
- Interview with Vikas Swarup about the connection between “Rupees! Rupees "," Slumdog Millionaire "and" Hole in the Wall " (English)
- What is Slumdog Millionaire? by Anant Kumar
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Slumdog Millionaire . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2009 (PDF; test number: 116 916 V).
- ↑ Age rating for Slumdog Millionaire . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Oscar Favorite Slumdog Millionaire Inspired by NIIT's "Hole in the Wall" Initiative , Reuters , Atlanta, February 17, 2009
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Background information according to the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ a b c Film Review: Slumdog Millionaire ( March 3, 2009 memento on the Internet Archive ), The Hollywood Reporter , Toronto, Peter Brunette, September 10, 2008
- ↑ Exclusive: Danny Boyle on Sunshine! , Comingsoon.net, Max Evry, Ryan Rotten, July 16, 2007
- ↑ Golden Globes - A windfall for "Slumdog Millionaire" , Los Angeles Times , John Horn, 12 December 2008
- ^ A b Danny Boyle to direct "Slumdog" , Variety , Adam Dawtrey, August 30, 2007
- ↑ Warners' films: Movie overboard! , Los Angeles Times , Patrick Goldstein, James Rainey, August 12, 2008
- ^ Fox, WB to share "Slumdog" distribution , Variety , Mike Flaherty, August 20, 2008
- ↑ Boyle film leads buzz at Telluride Film festival , Reuters , Telluride (Colorado), Christine Kearney, September 1, 2008
- ↑ "Slumdog" artful, if extreme ( Memento of 30 April 2009 at the Internet Archive ), Chicago Tribune , Toronto, Michael Phillips, September 8, 2008
- ↑ Toronto '08 - "Slumdog Millionaire" Takes People's Choice, "Hunger, Lost Song" Among Other Winners ( Memento December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Indiewire , Toronto, Peter Knegt September 13, 2008
- ^ Boxofficemojo.com
- ↑ Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ "Slumdog" -Kinderstar loses home . In: Spiegel online . May 21, 2009. Retrieved February 14, 2011.
- ↑ "Slumdog" -Kinderstars will get new houses . In: Spiegel online . May 24, 2009. Retrieved February 14, 2011.
- ^ Slumdog Millionaire , Chicago Sun-Times , Roger Ebert , Nov. 11, 2008
- ↑ Romance From Toronto - Slumdog Millionaire , Time , Richard Corliss, September 9, 2008
- ↑ Life is the answer - Old Hollywood storytelling mixes with Bollywood verve inside an Indian game show , Los Angeles Times , Kenneth Turan, November 12, 2008
- ^ "Slumdog Millionaire" shoot was rags to riches ( Memento from February 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), The Hollywood Reporter , Tom Roston, November 4, 2008
- ↑ Awards according to the Internet Movie Database