Source Code (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Source code |
| Original title | Source code |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Duncan Jones |
| script | Ben Ripley |
| production |
Mark Gordon Jordan Wynn Philippe Rousselet |
| music | Chris P. Bacon |
| camera | Don Burgess |
| cut | Paul Hirsch |
| occupation | |
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Source Code (translated source code ) is an American thriller from director Duncan Jones from the year 2011. He was in the 1 April 2011 the United States published by Summit Entertainment and is 2 June 2011 Germany started.
action
Captain Colter Stevens is a helicopter pilot of the US Army . He wakes up in a CTA - commuter train to Chicago , but can not remember how he has entered there is. Christina Warren, who sits across from him, seems to know Stevens and is amazed at his disorientation. After a brief stopover, the train explodes together with another train, killing everyone on board.
After his apparent demise, Stevens wakes up in a kind of cockpit . A woman who introduces herself as Air Force Captain Colleen Goodwin appears on a screen and identifies Stevens. She explains to him that he is on a program . This program, called source code, enables a person to take over the body of a deceased person in the last eight minutes, thanks to a computer-stored “memory echo” of the brain after the death of the body. Stevens' mission is to find the author of the bomb that was detonated on the train , to identify it and to convey this information to Goodwin. This is all the more urgent as the bomber announced that he would detonate a radioactive bomb in downtown Chicago. That would mean the death of millions of people.
Stevens is sent back to the source code to track down the assassin . He can find the bomb though, the explosion but not prevent. Back in the capsule, Goodwin puts pressure on him and asks him to only look after who created the bomb. At the end of the next trip, Stevens reports that he was able to save Christina Warren from death by luring her off the train before it exploded. Goodwin and the inventor of the source code , Dr. Rutledge, however, inform him to his disappointment that the source code only allows a short existence in an alternate reality and not a time travel in the original reality. Instead, it is supposed to collect information in the source code, i.e. in the eight-minute long alternative reality, which transfers the bomber to the original reality. Stevens asks for more information about the project, Goodwin and Dr. Rutledge, however, hold back and give him only the most necessary information.
Stevens now repeatedly travels into the source code. He learns more with every trip and gets closer and closer to his goal.
At the beginning of every trip, he wakes up on the train to Chicago in the body of the history teacher Sean Fentress. A number of events are repeated on every trip. Details always differ, however, as Stevens (in Fentress's body) behaves differently and the other passengers react to him. Mainly, events vary due to his growing understanding of the assassin and his increasing feelings for Christina. Stevens repeatedly suspects and accuses another train traveler , but is usually wrong and initially unsuccessful in the search for the assassin. After every death of Fentress as a result of the bomb explosion on the train, the journey is over - even in some realities in which Stevens leaves the train and sees it explode in the distance. After that, Stevens always wakes up in his cockpit.
In the meantime, Stevens remembers his own past: He is in a helicopter on a mission in Afghanistan and is under enemy fire. Frustrated about the lack of information on the part of Goodwins and Dr. Rutledges, he sets out in search of his fate in alternate reality and tries to find out more information about himself and the source code supervisor. So he learns that he has already been pronounced dead. His badly wounded body was confiscated by the Air Force and taken by Dr. Rutledge used for the source code . Goodwin explains to Stevens that the cockpit he is in is just an imagination of his mind . At Stevens' request, Dr. Rutledge ready to turn off life support when he has successfully completed his task.
Stevens wants to finish his mission successfully, but despite his knowledge of the limitations of alternative reality, he also pursues the personal goal of saving Christina's life and, as far as possible, the lives of the rest of the train passengers.
Eventually he discovers that the assassin is an American extremist named Derek Frost. Stevens follows Frost to a white van that also contains the radioactive bomb. Stevens and Christina who rushes behind are fatally injured, but Stevens has received enough information about Frost and the bomb. Back in the original reality, he informs Dr. Rutledge and Goodwin on his knowledge. Authorities arrest Frost and save Chicago from the explosion of the second, far more dangerous, bomb.
Due to Stevens' success, Dr. Rutledge erasing his memories in order - contrary to the agreement with Stevens - to carry out further missions with him, as he fears that Stevens' body could be the only one with which the source code works. Stevens, however, convinces Goodwin to send him one last time on the trip and give him one last chance to prevent the attack on the train. Goodwin supports his request and assures him that she will switch off the life support measures after exactly eight minutes. She goes to the machine in which Stevens' severely mutilated, motionless body lies, with its open brain and an electronic interface protruding from it. She never heard him speak, but only saw his thoughts in writing on a screen, while her answers were recorded by a camera and transmitted into Stevens' consciousness.
With the information and findings of his last trips in the source code , Stevens is able to defuse the bomb on the train and handcuff Frost. He uses the remaining time for a phone call with his father, with whom he had an argument before his death. Stevens and Christina kiss in the last few seconds that Stevens stayed before the eight minutes have passed. At that moment, Goodwin, as agreed, turns off the life support systems for his body, risking her job. To Stevens 'surprise, his consciousness remains in Fentress' body this time. He leaves the train with Christina. In this alternative world, a bomb was defused on a train and the perpetrator was found. While Dr. Rutledge here hopes that there will be a real crisis soon and that his source code has to be activated, Goodwin receives an email from Stevens, which summarizes the events and explains to her that the source code works better than Dr. Rutledge thought, and reality can change post mortem too .
He also asks Goodwin to tell Colter Stevens - his former body, who is still alive in this reality and waiting in the machine for an operation - that everything will be fine.
production
Pre-production
The design of the figure of Derek Frost was inspired by David Charles Hahn , an American who in 1994 at the age of 17 was about to build a small nuclear reactor.
According to Jones, science fiction films such as the Alien series, Outland , Lautlos im Weltraum and 2001: A Space Odyssey were already important sources of inspiration in his film Moon . Source Code, on the other hand, is clearly in the tradition of successful alternative world and time travel stories .
Originally the film was supposed to be shot in New York .
occupation
Vera Farmiga , who played the character Colleen Goodwin, was only ten days in front of the camera due to her pregnancy .
Originally, Topher Grace was chosen for the role of Cpt. Colter Stevens provided.
Scott Bakula, who speaks the voice of Stevens' father, starred in the series Back to the Past . The series deals with a similar topic and the cast of Bakula pays homage to the series, as does the scenes in which Colter Stevens sees the "real" Sean Fentress in a mirror .
Filming
Filming began on March 1, 2010 in Montreal ( Canada ) and ended on April 29 of that year. Some scenes were shot directly in Illinois ( Chicago ), such as Millennium Park and the Illinois Institute of Technology .
publication
The film was released on November 3, 2011 on the German market. In addition to a DVD version, a Blu-ray version is available as a special edition .
Trivia
- None of the time travel shown in the film lasted eight minutes. The third trip was the longest shown, lasting seven and a half minutes.
- The company Beleaguered Castle, responsible for the source code program in the film , is named after a variation of the card game Patience , which is used in the film as part of an identification process.
- Chesney Hawkes ' The one and only is the ringtone from Christina's mobile phone. The same tune also served as a wake-up call for the character Sam in the movie Moon , which was also directed by Duncan Jones .
- The Cloud Gate at Millennium Park in Chicago, which the protagonists visit at the end of the film, serves as a metaphor for the entire film , according to director Duncan Jones .
reception
Grossing results
With a budget of 32 million dollars , the film played worldwide 147 million US dollars, of which a alone 54.7 million US dollars in the United States . On the first day of release on April 1, 2011, the film grossed more than five million dollars.
criticism
The criticism took the film predominantly positive. Rotten Tomatoes determined a meta-rating of 91 percent (as of February 2018).
Matt Neal of The Warrnambool Standard wrote that the intelligent film is a worthy successor to Moon and that Jones is currently one of the best new filmmakers (Original: “This intelligent sci-fi thriller is a worthy follow-up to Moon that marks Jones as one of the best new filmmakers around. "). Andrew Barker from Variety, on the other hand, described the film as "arrogant" despite "provocative ideas".
"A thriller that works with science fiction elements, which turns the fantastic premise into an exciting, philosophically underground action cinema, even if the lack of logic becomes all too obvious in the second half."
"Exciting cyber thriller between mystery and subtle romance about a man who wants to change the past."
Web links
- Source Code in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official German site for the film
- Official page for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ FSK.de (FSK) (PDF file; 33 kB)
- ↑ Age rating for source code . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b Duncan Jones tells us what really happened at the end of Source Code. io9.com, April 4, 2011, accessed January 27, 2013 .
- ^ Source Code Filming Completes Today. Man Made Movies, April 29, 2011, accessed September 28, 2011 .
- ↑ German version on amazon.com
- ↑ a b Source Code Trivia. Internet Movie Database, accessed September 28, 2011 .
- ↑ Source Code: Worth knowing. filmstarts.de, accessed on September 28, 2011 (German).
- ↑ Dean Richards: Gyllenhaal says the 'Bean' could be metaphor for 'Source Code'. chicagotribune.com, April 1, 2011, accessed September 28, 2011 .
- ↑ Box Office Results: Soure Code (2011). boxofficemojo.com, accessed June 4, 2012 .
- ↑ Daily Box Office Results: Soure Code (2011). boxofficemojo.com, accessed September 28, 2011 .
- ^ Review by Rotten Tomatoes Accessed: February 2018
- ^ Matt Neal: Review: Source Code. The Warrnambool Standard, September 22, 2011, accessed on September 28, 2011 (English): "The search for some extra meaning at the end of the film does seem a bit of an afterthought, the pacing and repetition may put some people off, and the occasionally necessary exposure is heavy but this intelligent sci-fi thriller is a worthy follow-up to Moon that marks Jones as one of the best new filmmakers around. "
- ^ Andrew Barker: Film Reviews: Source Code. (No longer available online.) Variety.com, March 11, 2011, archived from the original on August 12, 2011 ; accessed on September 28, 2011 (English): "Solid execution and some provocative ideas can't save 'Source Code' from a fatal hubris, as it thinks itself far more clever than it actually is and assumes it's earned emotions at which it's only hinted. “ Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Source Code. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
