Great drama movie
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Great drama movie |
| Original title | Spanish Movie |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Javier Ruiz Caldera |
| script | Paco Cabezas , Eneko Lizarraga |
| production | Alvaro Augustín , Eneko Lizarraga, Francisco Sánchez Ortiz , Javier Méndez |
| music | Fernando Velázquez |
| camera | Óscar Faura |
| cut | Alberto de Toro |
| occupation | |
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Super Drama Movie (in the original Spanish Movie ) is a Spanish comedy film by Javier Ruiz Caldera from 2009, which satirizes successful works of Spanish cinema. The film gained international fame mainly because Leslie Nielsen can be seen as a supporting actor in his last film role.
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The young Ramira takes a job as a nanny in the mysterious property of the pill-addicted landlady Laura, where she lives with her children Simeón and Ofendia, as well as her paraplegic and depressed brother Pedro. When she arrives, Simeón tells Ramira that he is sensitive to light and that he is only in the dark. Assuming he is overreacting and is just afraid to leave the house, she sends him out into the blazing sun to overcome his phobia, whereupon the child catches fire and subsequently explodes. Afraid of losing her job, she hides the remains in the basement. In addition, she hires a small boy who is now supposed to take the place of Simeón, who later quits, whereupon the disappearance of the child is noticed.
In the meantime, a fairy appears to Ofendia who asks her to help her on a mission. But she has other plans for the mythical creature, burns its wings and locks it next to a Smurf and a living Playmobil figure in a doll's house. Later, the fairy's master, a Pan, appears to her . But they too suffer a similar fate: when Laura accidentally knocks him out and loses his memory, Ofendia keeps him as a pet and mount.
Meanwhile, Ramira and Pedro get closer and closer, but the former is together with the unemployed drinker Antonio, with whom she only argues. The problem is resolved, however, when Antonio rushes out of the window with a pan after being hit by Ramira. However, even that can't stop Pedro from wanting to die because of his condition.
Over and over again, Laura, who is now obsessed with the search for her son, sees a child wrapping his face in a sack, which she initially mistakenly thinks is Simeón. However, when she realizes that this is not her son, she tries to find him in various ways, but comes to no conclusion.
Towards the end of the film, the various storylines and parodies are brought together.
With the help of the masked child, who now reveals himself to be Ofendia, Laura finds her son's body in the cellar. In the meantime, the fairy and the Playmobil figure can escape from the doll's house and free Pan. This now also reveals his mission: he is supposed to wake up Pedro, who, as it turns out, is in a lucid dream . Since he only paid for the basic package, he would now be paraplegic in his mind, but he also has the option of waking up from the dream by suicide and leading a completely healthy life. However, he decides against it because Ramira only exists in his dream and he loves her. Due to her clumsiness, however, she first pushes Pan and then bedridden Pedro from the roof. At this moment, however, the latter realizes that he can influence his dream through his thoughts and flies, now no longer paralyzed, back to Ramira on the roof. When the two arrive back at the house, they find Laura mourning the death of her son. But when Pedro reveals the truth about the dream to her, she manages to bring Simeón back to life through her power of thought. In the end, Ramira, Pedro and Simeón, now detached from the laws of reality, fly off into the sky, but Simeón hits a wall and only his arm flies with the others.
Humor and parodies
The film derives a large part of its humor from the detailed copy of the optics and atmosphere of the original films, which are broken up by comedic interludes. Sometimes this happens through comic-like overdrawing, the breaking of the fourth wall through excessive use of stunt doubles and special effects, or the use of stunt doubles and special effects that is perceived by the characters themselves, or the behavior of the acting figures contrary to their original. The film builds on traditional sight gags (for example, when Pedro paints a photo-realistic painting with a few strokes of a brush clamped between his teeth) as well as black comedy through the characters' casual handling of serious topics such as murder, suicide or drugs. There are also allusions to Spanish pop culture; So Ofendia beats Pedro with a Goya Award to test whether he is actually paralyzed. The faecal humor, which had already become typical for the genre in 2009, only appears marginally and not played out for long.
The main plot of the film is composed of the two films The Others and The Orphanage . Above all, the characters of Laura and Simeón are mergers of the characters Grace and Nicholas Stewart from the first, as well as Laura and Simón from the second film and adopt the essential character traits of the original characters. In one scene, Laura meets Belén Rueda in her house , who played the same role in the original film The Orphanage , and is also looking for her son. Ofendia is based on Ofelia from the movie Pan's Labyrinth , although unlike in the original she is not depicted as a lovable girl, but as sadistic and vicious, and among other things the fairy burns her wings and the Pan enslaved as a mount. Ramira is a parody of Raimunda from Volver - Returning , but with exaggerated clumsiness, so that she does more damage than helps in her work as a nanny as well as in her private life - among other things she sets Simeón on fire, pushes Antonio out of the window and lets Pedro roll off the roof without wanting to. The latter, in turn, is a merger of the two characters Ramón Sampedro from The Sea in Me and César from Virtual Nightmare - Open Your Eyes . Like Sampedro, he is paralyzed and longs for death, but his backstory as well as his final plot twist are based on those of César. In addition to the characters, there are also numerous individual scenes content or visually Spanish to successful films and series, such as REC or Mondays in the Sun , are based.
reception
In Spain, Super Drama Movie was a financial hit. The budget for the film was about $ 4.2 million, of which $ 3.5 million could be brought back on the opening weekend alone. In total, the film grossed $ 10.8 million in its country. In Germany the film was released directly on DVD and received little attention.
The criticism of Super Drama Movie was mostly mixed to negative, although it was mentioned repeatedly that the film was superior to contemporary US parodies.
“In contrast to works like Disaster Movie , the Spaniards at least try to tell a certain story. Due to the many film-messing around, it turns out to be pretty confused and finally has to use Superman of all places instead of finding a crisp ending. Therefore, the senseless musical interludes are unfortunately the best part of the film. But what you really have to leave behind 'Super Drama Movie' is a professional look (for this genre) with good special effects. At least the errors are only to be found in the content and not in the form of presentation. "
“Modern representatives of Spanish cinema are parodistically quoted by disrespectful (of course not really, on the contrary) Spanish filmmakers and dragged through the cocoa satirically in this cheerful chain of skits that are marketed as 'super drama' in this country, although much more fantastic Substances are parodied as dramatic. "
- kino.de
Web links
- Super Drama Movie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Spanish Movie. Retrieved July 24, 2018 .
- ↑ 2009 Spain Yearly Box Office Results. Retrieved July 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Super Drama Movie . In: How is the movie? August 14, 2010 ( wieistderfilm.de [accessed July 24, 2018]).
- ^ Spanish Movie . In: KINO . ( kino.de [accessed on July 24, 2018]).