Surrogates - My second self
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Surrogates - My second self |
| Original title | Surrogates |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jonathan Mostow |
| script |
Michael Ferris John D. Brancato |
| production |
Max Handelman David Hoberman Todd Lieberman |
| music | Richard Marvin |
| camera | Oliver Wood |
| cut | Kevin Stitt |
| occupation | |
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Surrogates - I is an American futuristic action - thriller from the year 2009 , the theatrical release in the United States was the September 24th 2009, the German film launch took place on 21 January 2010. It was directed by Jonathan Mostow , starring Bruce Willis .
action
In the year 2054, people are living almost in isolation and hardly ever leave their homes. Humanoid robots, artificial replicas of the people called, Surrogates ( Engl. Representatives ), take their tasks remotely. Since real people hardly move and injuries to the surrogates have no effect on their owners, so-called operators , the world has changed in recent years to a fear-free and safe environment.
The first murder in years occurs in Boston : When the surrogates of Jared Canter, the son of the surrogate inventor Dr. Lionel Canter and a casual nightclub acquaintance are destroyed on the street by a motorcyclist with an unknown weapon, their operators at home also die - a possibility that has always been ruled out. The FBI puts Agent Tom Greer and his partner Agent Jennifer Peters on the case, who send their surrogates out to investigate.
For years Greer has only had contact with his wife, whom he still loves more than anything, through her surrogates . When she tries to speak to her about it, she evades him.
The motorcyclist is soon identified as Miles Strickland. Strickland is a member of the Dreads , a group of people who have withdrawn from people's slow total devotion to the use of surrogates and live in a demarcated, run-down neighborhood called the reserve , to which surrogates are not allowed. On the way there, Strickland is followed by several police cars and a helicopter in which Agent Greer's surrogate is located. Strickland succeeds in destroying five surrogates of police officers and that of the helicopter pilot with his weapon, thus killing their operators . Greer narrowly escapes death by severing his connection with his surrogate at the last moment . This crashes with the driverless helicopter in the area of the dreads . He can catch Strickland after a chase, but is made harmless by the startled resistance. The operator Greer is badly battered by Strickland's attack in his house and from now on has to fall back on his human abilities for the investigation. To make matters worse, he has been suspended from duty due to unauthorized entry into the Dreads' autonomous territory . Greer later meets Dr. Canter, who tells him to hunt down his son's murderer. Greer himself lost his son, and Dr. Empathize with Canters.
When Greer enters the reservation as a human, Strickland's body is being cremated. Strickland was murdered and the Prophet , the leader of the resistance, took the weapon. Greer is looking for Dr. Canter, who suspects that the weapon was developed by the military. A survey on site confirms his assumption. The weapon injects a virus into the surrogates and destroys them. At the same time, the protective mechanisms through which any harmful repercussions on the operators are to be prevented, which results in their death , also become ineffective .
An unknown surrogate enters and kills Agent Jennifer Peters' apartment in order to take control of her surrogate . Disguised in this way, the stranger at the FBI headquarters finds that Stone, Peters and Greer's superior, is from VSI, which sells the surrogates , and whose CEO, Dr. Canter was previously commissioned, through the henchman Miles Strickland Dr. Killing Canter. The assassination attempt did not fall on Dr. Canter was the victim, but his son Jared, because he - illegally, but with the consent and support of his father - used one of his numerous surrogates .
The military is trying to get the gun back. The area of the dreads is stormed and the prophet is shot, whereby the latter turns out to be a surrogate . The prophet had given the weapon to Peters' surrogate beforehand . This then penetrates into the headquarters of the FBI and connects the weapon to a control system with which every surrogate and his operator can be reached. Meanwhile, Greer goes to Dr. Canters estate and finds numerous of his surrogates there, including several of the prophet and von Peters' murderer. The paraplegic Dr. Canter breaks the connection to Peters' surrogates and reveals to Greer that his idea of a “better world” has been betrayed: The surrogates were primarily intended to enable the physically disadvantaged to lead a normal life. However, VSI saw only profit and now condemned all people to a life without sensation and experience.
With the help of Peters' surrogates , Dr. Canter sets in motion the destruction of all surrogates worldwide, consciously also wanting to bring about the death of all operators , and then kills himself with a poison capsule. Greer takes over with Dr. Canter's control unit uses Peters' surrogates . He succeeds in preventing the destruction of the protective mechanisms of the surrogates and thus the death of their owners. When he now has to decide whether to call Dr. Wanting to destroy Canters endeavors completely or at least destroy the surrogates , he opts for the latter.
All surrogates worldwide break down instantly, wherever they are. There are many car accidents, but only surrogates are damaged. People are slowly coming out of their homes and Greer sees his human wife for the first time in years, who did not want to be seen in her human form due to a disfiguring scar on her face. They both hug.
background
The film was shot in a variety of Massachusetts locations including Boston , Hopedale , Lawrence , Lynn , Milford , Taunton , Wayland , Woburn, and Worcester . Filming began on April 29, 2008.
The film celebrated its world premiere on September 24, 2009 in the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, Israel, Kazakhstan, Russia and Taiwan. It was first seen in Germany and Austria on January 21, 2010. On May 20, 2010 the film was released by Touchstone Pictures in Germany on DVD with FSK-12 approval. On February 12, 2012, the ProSieben film was broadcast for the first time in Germany on Free TV . The budget of the film is 80 million dollars estimated. On the opening weekend, the film grossed over $ 14.9 million in the United States. Overall, the film grossed over $ 38.5 million in the United States. Internationally, the film did better than in the USA and grossed 122.4 million US dollars worldwide by April 4, 2010.
The screenplay is based on the graphic novel of the same name from 2005 and 2006 by Robert Venditti and Brett Wedele and was adapted by the team of writers Michael Ferris and John D. Brancato. They already worked with director Jonathan Mostow on Terminator 3 - Rebellion of the Machines , which was also the last film before Surrogates - My Second Me for Mostow.
In the opening credits of the film Hiroshi Ishiguro can be seen together with the Geminoid he designed. Former porn actress Hanna Hilton had a cameo as a female robot. Miles Strickland's FBI file contains the date and place of birth of Jack Noseworthy , who played the role.
Differences between the graphic novel and the film
In the film, the action takes place in Boston , in the US state of Massachusetts . The graphic novel takes place in Central Georgia Metropolis, a fictional city in the US state of Georgia .
In the graphic novel, the main character's first name is not Tom, but Harvey. Also, his partner in the police force is not a woman named Jennifer Peters, but a man named Pete Ford.
At the end of the film, when all surrogates are destroyed, Tom goes home to his wife and meets her as a real human for the first time in a long while. In the graphic novel, Harvey also goes home, but here his wife died of a pill overdose.
synchronization
The film was directed by Film & TV sync for a dialogue book by Klaus Bickert and the dialogue director of David Nathan dubbed into German.
| actor | German speaker | role |
|---|---|---|
| Bruce Willis | Manfred Lehmann | Tom Greer |
| Radha Mitchell | Victoria Storm | Peters |
| Rosamund Pike | Alexandra Wilcke | Maggie Greer |
| Boris Kodjoe | Boris Kodjoe | Andrew Stone |
| Devin Ratray | Tobias Master | Bobby Saunders |
| James Francis Ginty | Robin Kahnmeyer | Canter surrogates |
| Michael Cudlitz | Frank Röth | Colonel Brendon |
| Ving Rhames | Tilo Schmitz | the Prophet |
| James Francis Ginty | Peter Flechtner | Dr. Lionel Canters surrogates |
| JL Highsmith | Tobias Kluckert | Dr. Seth Steinberg's surrogates |
| Cody Christian | Maximilian Artajo | Boy in the car |
| James Cromwell | Otto Mellies | Lionel Canter (old) |
| Jack Noseworthy | Timmo Niesner | Miles Strickland |
| Thomas 'Kirk' Hawkins | David Nathan | news reporter |
| Jordan Belfi | Markus Pfeiffer | Victor Welch |
| David Nathan | Greer's cheap surrogates | |
| Gerald Schaale | Henchman of the prophet | |
| Helmut Gauss | reporter | |
| Joachim Tennstedt | reporter | |
| Helmut Gauss | Voice of VSI |
reception
“The more possibilities the technology offers, the more visionary and concrete the films become. 'Surrogates - My Second Me', the latest trick from Hollywood, even goes so far that a film is presented to us in a world in which we humans not only live side by side with robots, but in which we are even the robots ourselves . Of course, it is the subject of the film that makes the viewer curious. 'If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility', Robert Musil once wrote and so we let 'Surrogates - My Second Self', true to these mottos, catapult us directly into a possible 'world of the future' that is fascinating and scary at the same time. "
“At Surrogates - My Second Self [you can look forward to] an entertaining sci-fi film with a gruff Bruce Willis that offers some nice special effects and action sequences - but without delivering anything really new or spectacular. In view of the untapped potential of the interesting basic idea, the film leaves the viewer slightly disappointed. "
"The film remains between ambition and polished surface and fails to explore the conflict between humans and robots, between experienced reality and a world full of virtual possibilities."
Web links
- Surrogates - I in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Metacritics (English)
- Criticism compared to the graphic novel template
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age identification for surrogates - My second self . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations
- ↑ a b c d Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results
- ↑ a b Internet Movie Database : Start Dates
- ^ Box Office Mojo
- ↑ a b c d Internet Movie Database : Background information
- ↑ a b Surrogates - My second self in the German dubbing index
- ^ Kathrin Lang: film review on moviesection.de. moviesection , January 15, 2010, accessed January 21, 2010 .
- ^ Juri Dalessandro: Film review on moviepilot.de. moviepilot , January 21, 2010, accessed January 21, 2010 .
- ↑ Mike Beilfuß: Film review on film-dienst.de. (No longer available online.) Film-dienst , January 25, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 25, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
