The Green Hornet (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Green Hornet |
| Original title | The Green Hornet |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 119 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michel Gondry |
| script |
Seth Rogen Evan Goldberg |
| production | Neal H. Moritz |
| music | James Newton Howard |
| camera | John Schwartzman |
| cut | Michael Tronick |
| occupation | |
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The Green Hornet is an American action comedy from the year 2011 by director Michel Gondry with Seth Rogen in the lead role. The film is based on the eponymous superhero known from radio and television productions .
action
Britt Reid is the son of the most prominent and powerful media tycoon in LA - and completely satisfied with shaking up the local party scene and continuing to lead a haphazard life. But when his father suddenly dies of an allergic reaction to a bee sting and Britt inherits his vast media empire, everything changes.
Britt forms an unusual friendship with Kato, one of his father's hardest working and most inventive employees. Together they see their chance to do something meaningful for the first time in their lives: fight crime. But in order to do that, they decide to become criminals themselves. They protect the law by breaking it.
As The Green Hornet , Britt roams the streets of Los Angeles at night with Kato. Thanks to his ingenious ideas and skills, Kato constructs the ultimate retro weapon, technically superior to anything that has come before: Black Beauty , an indestructible car that has as much horsepower as firepower. The Green Hornet and Kato quickly cause quite a stir with their fortress on wheels - which is not least thanks to Britt himself with the help of his newspaper, which writes new things about The Green Hornet every day .
This prompts prosecutor Scanlon, who does not like to see the crime reports. He tries to bribe Britt, but this indignantly refuses. Meanwhile, the Green Hornet team has internal problems: Britt and Kato both want to go out with Britt's new secretary Lenore Case, and a fight breaks out in the course of which Britt yells at Kato that he should never be seen again. Kato leaves Britt's property and does not return in the following days. Instead, Britt receives a call from prosecutor Scanlon, who wants to meet him in a bar.
Britt agrees to the meeting, but does not know that the underworld boss Benjamin Chudnofsky hired Kato to liquidate Britt at the same time. At the meeting in the bar, Scanlon tells Britt that the whole thing is a trap, but Kato does not point his gun at Britt, but at Scanlon. Britt has also recorded his conversation with Scanlon, during which he admitted fraud, bribery and collaboration with Chudnofsky. Britt and Kato flee Chudnofsky and his thugs in Black Beauty in order to take the recording to the publishing house, revealing to the criminals that Britt is The Green Hornet .
In the building there is a fight between Green Hornet and Scanlon, they fall with the car from the top floor, and Scanlon crushes it on impact. Green Hornet and Kato use ejection seats to get themselves out of the danger zone. They hide with Lenore and tell her that they are The Green Hornet . Lenore is not very enthusiastic about the visit and the unveiling, but wants to help them both. Since Britt got a bullet in the shoulder, he would be identifiable as Green Hornet - that's why Britt and Lenore hold a press conference during which Kato drives over in Black Beauty and appears to shoot Britt at. This is how Britt's camouflage is preserved.
synchronization
The German synchronization was carried out by the Interopa film for a dialogue book by Klaus Bickert under the dialogue director of Joachim Tennstedt .
| role | actor | German dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|
| Britt Reid | Seth Rogen | Tobias Kluckert |
| Kato | Jay Chou | Yung Ngo |
| Lenore Case | Cameron Diaz | Katrin Fröhlich |
| James Reid | Tom Wilkinson | Werner Ziebig |
| Benjamin Chudnofsky | Christoph Waltz | Christoph Waltz |
| Popeye | Jamie Harris | Claudio Maniscalco |
| Scanlon | David Harbor | Peter Flechtner |
| Axford | Edward James Olmos | Uli Krohm |
| Tupperware | Edward Furlong | Stefan Krause |
| Danny Clear | James Franco | Marcel Collé |
background
- One of the drawings in Kato's notebook is Bruce Lee , who played the role of Kato in the 1966 television series.
- In 2009 Michel Gondry took over the direction after Stephen Chow , who was also slated for the role of Kato, had left the production due to differences with Sony Pictures .
- The cinema release in Germany was on January 13, 2011, in the USA on January 14, 2011. The film was released in both 2D and 3D.
- The cost of producing the film was estimated at $ 120 million. The film grossed around 228 million US dollars in cinemas worldwide, of which around 99 million US dollars in the USA and 10.8 million US dollars in Germany.
Reviews
“From the thirties to the fifties, 'The Green Hornet' fought on the radio, against mobsters, then against Nazis and finally against the communists. Today, strangely enough, their main enemy is still a Russian. [...] Then the hero's chauffeur and sidekick: Kato (Jay Chou). In the original, the one suddenly no longer came from Japan the day after Pearl Harbor . Today Kato is of course Chinese. […] Finally the hero himself: […] Nothing about him is great, except maybe his house and his cars, which he cannot drive himself. […] 'The Green Hornet' is therefore a story about decadence and decay. [...] It is therefore significant that the dumb 'hero' in the film is really desperate only once: when he misses his coffee with froth. Only a French could make such a nasty film about America. "
“'The Green Hornet' crumbles before the eyes of the audience into its disparate parts, which were previously put together in the cutting room like a wreck reconstruction. [...] In short, it is a very familiar plot, which does not have to be a hindrance for a successful superhero fable. The story alone is not only idle here, it is also unnecessarily laborious. [...] The only thing that really picks up speed is the tuned Chrysler Imperial from Reid and Kato. Obviously, those responsible had more confidence in the acting qualities of the machine than in their actors, in any case the film wastes a large part of its time on libidinal detailed shots of the highly polished vehicle. […] The only exciting question is why Seth Rogen couldn't interpret the role of the immature hero Britt Reid better. […] Michel Gondry's direction remains arbitrary, who cannot find a clear visual language for the dusty adventure. A bit of retro-chic here, a few random explosions there - there is no trace of the compelling design enthusiasm of the clip revolutionary Gondry. "
“But if we now write that 'The Green Hornet' is the funniest, most ironic and visually appealing of all superhero films, who, after so many, will we think lightly of the Bat, X, Iron or whatever - Still believe people wasted superlatives? [...] That's what we mean by 'funny': 'The Green Hornet' lets the air out of the tension zones of conventional superhero films. Motivation of the hero? Oedipus complex, sense of justice, childhood trauma? Everything is negative. Instead, simply: boredom. [...] 'The Green Hornet' does not save the superhero genre by increasing the weight of the content, but by reducing it. The childlike core of these fantasies emerges: the fun of speed, strength, irresponsibility. The whole moral enclosure of the superhero stories is trampled down with joy and exposed as an educational cramp. Of course, 'The Green Hornet' is kid's stuff, but a peculiarly innocent and extremely charming one. "
“When the credits roll after 'The Green Hornet', you've had enough. Enough of screaming Seth Rogen, enough of explosions, enough of car chases, enough of unmotivated running around, yes even enough of Cameron Diaz's smile. [...] The tastes are known to be different, but the constant roar of a spoiled rich son of a newspaper tycoon who got stuck in puberty can get on your nerves incredibly after five minutes at the latest. [...] The biggest problem with 'The Green Hornet' is - besides Rogen - the story that reveals nothing more than a guy who has too much time, money and the dreary, clichéd problem with an overpowering father. Last but not least, the 3D question: The fact that 'The Green Hornet' is touted in the third dimension is the height of redundancy. Not a single scene justifies the surcharge. "
"In Gondry's last feature film, Be Kind Rewind ', shot the owner of a video store, whose tapes were erased, the beloved blockbuster ado to in backyard aesthetics with simple budget: Geschwedete Movies' is called the [...] The Green Hornet' is a. Technically flawlessly styled 3-D blockbusters with a corresponding aesthetic appeal, in which nothing is reminiscent of Gondry's felt-tip pen world between self-painted cassette covers and toilet rolls stuck together. [...] The action scenes, especially in the brilliant showdown between the somewhat obscure mafia boss Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz) and the hero duo, happily emerge from their own awesomeness that there is only one kind. Rightly so: It's cool and thrilling, entertainment cinema of the best kind - hopefully soon also in a swedish version. "
Web links
- The Green Hornet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Green Hornet at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Green Hornet . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2011 (PDF; test number: 125 839 K).
- ↑ Age rating for The Green Hornet . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ The Green Hornet. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on May 27, 2011 .
- ↑ Yung Ngo at the agency CACI
- ↑ The Green Hornet - PressRelease ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2010 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Sony Pictures
- ↑ Financial data on Box Office Mojo (English)
- ^ Film review My Chinese and me
- ↑ David Kleingers: Come on, we're going to blow up the story! Spiegel Online , film review
- ↑ Peter Uehling: Away with the tension zones! In: Berliner Zeitung , January 12, 2011; Movie review
- ↑ Sophie Albers: A superhero that the cinema doesn't need . stern.de ; Movie review
- ↑ Thomas Groh: The superhero as a solid post . In: taz ; Movie review
