Speed ​​(1994)

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Movie
German title speed
Original title speed
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1994
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jan de Bont
script Graham Yost
production Mark Gordon
music Mark Mancina
camera Andrzej Bartkowiak
cut John Wright
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synchronization
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Successor  →
Speed ​​2 - Cruise Control

Speed is an action film from the year 1994 by director Jan de Bont with Keanu Reeves , Dennis Hopper and Sandra Bullock in the lead roles. In 1997 a sequel appeared under the title Speed ​​2 - Cruise Control .

action

In a high-rise in Los Angeles , 13 people enter an express elevator. On the way down, the wire ropes are suddenly destroyed by an explosion and the elevator is stopped by the emergency brake system after a brief fall on the 30th floor. A blackmailer is now demanding a ransom of three million US dollars within an hour, otherwise another explosion will destroy the emergency brakes as well. The LAPD bomb specialists Jack and Harry are supposed to assess the situation on site. Jack attaches a wire rope from a crane to the elevator on the roof of the skyscraper so that everyone can be freed at the last second.

Since the blackmailer detonated the charges before the time ran out, Jack suspects that he had noticed their presence and must therefore be nearby. He discovers the blackmailer in a freight elevator, whereupon the blackmailer takes Harry hostage. On the run, Jack shoots Harry in the leg, so that the blackmailer has to flee alone and then apparently blows himself up behind a door.

Some time later, Jack and Harry are decorated for their brave efforts. The next morning, Jack witnesses a bus being blown up. Shortly afterwards, he is contacted by the blackmailer who is believed to be dead. This time he is demanding 3.7 million US dollars by 11 a.m. at the latest for a bus that has been prepared with a bomb. Its bomb is activated as soon as the bus goes faster than 50 miles per hour (approx. 80 km / h) and explodes when the bus then drops below 50 miles per hour again. No passenger is allowed to leave the bus.

Jack cannot prevent the bomb from being armed, but he manages to get on board the bus. When the bus driver is shot by a passenger during a scuffle, passenger Annie, who had to surrender her driver's license for driving too fast, has to jump in behind the wheel. The blackmailer allows the police to remove the injured bus driver from the bus. When a woman loses her nerve and tries to leave the bus through the front door, an explosive device detonates at this point and kills the woman.

The police realize that the freeway they are driving on has not yet been completed and has a gap of about 15 meters. Jack decides that Annie should go full throttle and jump the bus over the gap. Then they drive to the Los Angeles airport , where they do laps. Jack leaves the bus under a pretext and tries to defuse the bomb under the bus, which he does not succeed.

In the meantime, it is discovered that the blackmailer is a former Atlanta Explosives Police officer named Howard Payne. Payne retired in 1989 after losing a finger to an explosive charge. When Harry and a task force storm Payne's apartment, a bomb detonates and kills all the police officers. Payne calls for the money to go to a bin in Pershing Square .

Jack realizes that Payne has hidden a camera on the bus and is receiving the signal by radio. A TV broadcast van now records one minute of the signal and sends it back in an endless loop so that Payne cannot see that all the passengers are being taken off the moving bus. The bus explodes when it hits a plane.

The police monitor the place where the money is handed over, but Payne gets the money from the prepared bottomless waste container through an underground tunnel through a hole in the sidewalk. Disguised as a policeman, he takes Annie into his power, attaches an explosive device to her and escapes into the subway. Jack follows them and there is a fight on the roof of the train, in which Payne is beheaded by a light signal on the ceiling of the tunnel. The subway reaches the surface of the earth via a ramp on Hollywood Boulevard , where it comes to a stop. Annie and Jack kiss.

synchronization

The dubbing company Magma Synchron GmbH, Berlin, was responsible for the German dubbing. Joachim Kunzendorf was responsible for the dialogue book and the dialogue direction.

role actor Voice actor
Officer Jack Traven Keanu Reeves Benjamin Völz
Howard Payne Dennis Hopper Joachim Kerzel
Annie Porter Sandra Bullock Bettina White
Captain McMahon Joe Morton Andreas Rudiger
Detective Harold 'Harry' Temple Jeff Daniels Wolfgang Condrus
Stephens Alan jerk Uwe Büschken
Jaguar driver Glenn Plummer Torsten Michaelis
Norwood Richard lineback Bodo Wolf
Helen Beth Grant Edeltraut Elsner
Sam Hawthorne James Uwe Karpa
Ortiz Carlos Carrasco Bernd Schramm
news reporter Antonio Mora Stefan Staudinger
bob John Capodice Klaus Bergatt
Commissioner Beau Starr Michael Telloke

background

  • The film is the directorial debut of Jan de Bont , who previously worked as a cameraman in numerous films.
  • Filming lasted from September 7th to December 23rd, 1993. The film was shot in various locations in California .
  • The cost of production was estimated at about $ 30 million. The film grossed around US $ 350 million in cinemas worldwide, around US $ 121 million of that in the United States. Around 3 million cinema-goers were counted in Germany.
  • It was released in the US on June 10, 1994, and in Germany on October 20, 1994.
  • Since a vehicle cannot climb up when accelerating on a flat road, a ramp was used for the bus to jump. The missing stretch of road was present when shooting and was subsequently removed by image processing. All scenes in which the bus can be seen on a freeway were shot on the then newly built Interstate 105 freeway , which has not yet been opened to traffic.
  • Screenwriter Graham Yost was inspired by the 1985 film Express to Hell . The Japanese film Panic on the Tokyo Express from 1973 had a similar plot .

Trivia

In the German synchronization, a sentence was subsequently re-synchronized in one scene. When Jack Traven fights with Howard Payne on the subway roof while on the subway, Payne says he will defeat Traven because he is smarter. Here, after defeating Payne, Traven replies in the corrected translation (to himself): “Yes, but I'm bigger.” This was spoken by another voice actor. In the original dubbing the answer was still: “Yes, but I'm smarter.” Like the rest of the film, this was originally dubbed by Benjamin Völz .

Reviews

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“The script of 'Speed', written by the television writer Graham Yost, provides the simplest but most powerful chase that has been on screen in a long time. The film has the decency to host a first-class cinematic funeral for its secret main actor, the silver-gray 2525 bus, at the end of the day at the airport. Director De Bont takes the action genre seriously, the art of explosions and stunts, and despite his comparatively tight budget - $ 30 million - he sets out to surpass his role models. Already in a prelude in which hero Jack is allowed to save a lift from free fall into the abyss, De Bont demonstrates all the tricks that he has refined over many years of service as an action cameraman (' Die Hard ', ' Basic Instinct '). And after the bus ride is over, he takes another trip in a speeding subway. "

“The dramatic events up to the outwitting of the terrorist offer extremely exciting cinema with almost no depictions of violence. A masterful montage film, a highlight of action cinema. Not just an exciting genre film, but an essay about the essence of cinema: movement. "

Awards

  • At the 1995 Academy Awards , the film won an award in the categories of Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing . He was also nominated in the Best Editing category.
  • The film was awarded the Golden Screen in 1995 for reaching three million moviegoers in 18 months.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for Speed . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2005 (PDF; test number: 71 937 V / DVD / UMD).
  2. Speed ​​(1994) German synchronization . Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  3. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=speed.htm
  4. Speed: Bus defies gravity. In: Spiegel Online . September 14, 2007, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  5. a b Speed at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed on March 14, 2015
  6. a b Speed at Metacritic , accessed on March 14, 2015
  7. Speed in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  8. Film review crashing and bursting
  9. Speed. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used