The world's end

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Movie
German title The world's end
Original title The world's end
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Country of production United Kingdom ,
United States ,
Japan
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Edgar Wright
script Edgar Wright
Simon Pegg
production Nira Park
Tim Bevan
Eric Fellner
music Steven Price
camera Bill Pope
cut Paul Machliss
occupation
chronology

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Hot Fuzz - Two deviated professionals

The World's End is a US-American - British - Japanese Action - comedy by director Edgar Wright is from the year 2013. The main actor Simon Pegg , Nick Frost , Paddy Considine , Martin Freeman and Eddie Marsan .

The film is by Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz - Two abgewichste professionals (2007), the third part of jokingly mentioned by the writers Pegg and Wright Blood-and-ice-cream-Trilogy (English and-blood for " Ice Cream Trilogy ”).

action

Gary King, a drug addicted bachelor and failed bon vivant in the midlife crisis , persuades his four childhood friends Oliver, Andrew, Peter and Steven to try the unfinished pub crawl from their youth in the 1990s again after 20 years. The aim of the “Golden Mile” pub crawl is to visit twelve pubs in one evening and drink a glass of beer in each. As a teenager they failed after nine pubs and had to leave the last three pubs, the King's Head , the Hole in the Wall and most recently the World's End , unattended.

Gary's friends, who all lead a regular life far away from home, can only be persuaded with difficulty and cunning to travel to their hometown Newton Haven for the tour. With little enthusiasm they follow the action and beer thirsty Gary to the first two pubs. These were taken over by a franchise chain and look characterless and the same. Accordingly, the other pub guests also make a listless, unmotivated impression. At The Old Familiar they meet Oliver's sister Sam, who Steven was in love with as a boy, but who instead had fun with Gary in the handicapped toilet and was later deported by him.

The group's mood changes when Gary starts a fight with a teenager in the bathroom. Gary chops off his head in the scramble, and it turns out the teen is a humanoid robot that secretes a blue liquid instead of blood. When Gary's friends show up, more youthful-looking robots appear, which can only be dismantled after another fight.

While some of the group want to get out of town as quickly as possible, Gary is relentlessly pursuing his goal of finishing the tour. The five friends and Sam now notice that a lot has changed in Newton Haven: Many of the people they knew earlier have apparently been replaced by robots. Since they don't know who the robots are and what their goals are, they decide to continue the pub crawl unobtrusively. They feel they have an advantage, since the robots cannot yet know that their existence has been exposed. However, incidents continue to occur and the group is eventually chased by the robots and chased around town.

From old Basil, who was ridiculed by everyone because of his alien conspiracy theories, they learn that robots came to earth to bring people closer to their ideas of civilization, so that humanity can meet the others Civilizations of the universe being prepared. Anyone who does not cooperate in this regard will inconspicuously take a DNA sample, and a confusingly similar robot copy will take its place.

Eventually Oliver and later Peter are replaced by a robot, and Steven and Sam are separated from the group. Nevertheless, Gary and Andrew, pursued by the robots, make it to the last pub, the World's End . When trying to draw the last beer, a gate opens to a large cellar. After Steven also arrives there, the three meet a light being who introduces itself as a representative of the "network". It tries to convince them of the mission of the robots by showing that there are many civilizations in the universe and that mankind owes the rapid technological progress of the last few decades only to them. There are a total of 2000 such "entry points" like Newton Haven all over the world, where for years they have been preparing humanity for the takeover into the cosmic community. Gary and friends argue that they would rather be free than conform to the guidelines of other civilizations. They point out that the stranger's moral concept of just replacing the unwilling to adapt has failed, as almost all people in Newton Haven have had to be replaced so far. Ultimately, the being of light withdraws in resignation and anger, leaving behind a wave of destruction that destroys all electronic devices on earth. Gary, Andrew and Steven are rescued by Sam, who shows up at the last second in an escape vehicle.

In the end, people live as farmers in simple, medieval circumstances. Andy tells about the collapse of civilization around the campfire. The two robot copies of Oliver and Peter pursue the earlier occupations of their human originals. Other robots live as slaves. Steven is in a relationship with his childhood sweetheart Sam. Gary roams the country with a group of robots modeled after his four childhood friends.

production

The filming for the film took place between September and December 2012 at the Elstree studios and essentially in London and the neighboring counties of Buckinghamshire and Herefordshire . As with the previous films, little was shot in the studio and much was shot at real locations. The focus was on the two garden cities of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City . The buildings that represent the twelve pubs can also be found here. Of these, eight are actually restaurants, albeit with different names, the rest is a Thai restaurant, a shop, a cinema and the Letchworth Garden City train station. Some of the indoor shots took place in the corresponding pubs. The ridge from which the fictional town of Newton Haven can be overlooked is Box Hill in the county of Surrey .

The film premiered in the UK on July 19, 2013. In Germany, the film was released on September 12, 2013 and in Austria on September 13, 2013.

Trivia

  • The film title The World's End is derived on the one hand from the name of the last of the 12 pubs in which the showdown takes place. On the other hand, as his German translation Das Ende der Welt shows, he points to the collapse of the previous world and the relapse into simple living conditions, as occurs at the end of the film.
  • The names of the pubs, like the city itself, are fictitious, but they correspond to the custom in England. The same applies to the name boards. The names in the film also stand for certain aspects of the plot. The pub crawl begins in the First Post and ends in the World's End , in the Cross Hands there is the first tangible confrontation with the robots, in the Mermaid three young women try to seduce the protagonists like a mermaid .
  • The motivic cornetto ice cream here is the packaging of a “green” mint choc chip cornetto. Shortly before the end of the film, Andy ponders food that he doesn't miss despite the collapse of civilization, and a shred of ice cream packaging flutters past him.
  • Gary King's car, which he bought from Peter in 1989, is a black Ford Granada Ghia.
  • Gary King's favorite band is The Sisters of Mercy . The appearance of the protagonist is based on that of the frontman Andrew Eldritch , and the song This Corrosion can be heard several times in the film. The amulet that Gary wears around his neck is a Horus eye that was used by The Sisters of Mercy on a record cover.
  • The off- screen monologue at the end of the opening credits and at the beginning of the main part comes from the 1966 film The Wild Angels . The voice is that of Peter Fonda , who answers a question posed by a priest during a funeral. The light being receives the same answer from Gary to the same question.
  • In Newton Haven, the parking lots are almost exclusively Vauxhall Ampera cars . The same model is advertised on two posters at the train station in High Wycombe and on the motorway rest area visited. This can be understood as a symbol of the increased conformity in the city. The Ampera, as a hybrid electric vehicle at least partially powered by electricity, refers to the robots as the new residents of the city, who also function on an electric basis.

criticism

The film received mostly positive reviews. Andreas Staben from Filmstarts.de sees a “highly original and amusing film about friendship in a state of emergency - and it's English through and through.” And “maybe not quite as roaring funny and fast-paced as 'Hot Fuzz', but it is too is bursting with clever allusions, playful details and witty ideas. "

On critic.de, Carsten Moll thematizes the complexity of the film, which "refrains from dull moralization". His ambivalent antiheroes try to "assert themselves between the totalitarian genius of extraterrestrial beings and a franchise culture determined by interchangeability [...] and to stand up for humanity."

On the UK's opening weekend, the film made it to second place behind Monster University with grossing £ 2,123,576 . Weekend earnings were higher than Shaun of the Dead's (£ 1.6million) but lower than that of Hot Fuzz - Two Pros Lost (£ 5.4million).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The World's End . In: BFI .
  2. ↑ Release certificate for The World's End . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2013 (PDF; test number: 140 404 K).
  3. ↑ Age rating for The World's End . Youth Media Commission .
  4. ^ Creative England supports the production and filming of The World's End . Press release on the Creative England website dated July 4, 2013, accessed February 20, 2014
  5. ↑ The World's End Information about the film on the London Film Agency website from July 17, 2013, accessed February 20, 2014
  6. ↑ The World's End film locations on the Worldwide Movie Locations Guide website, accessed February 20, 2014 (English)
  7. ↑ Never Before Seen Behind The Scenes Photos From World's End . Information on Edgar Wright's blog of December 31, 2013, accessed February 20, 2014
  8. ↑ Release Info . In: Internet Movie Database , accessed August 21, 2013
  9. ↑ Official film page (Austria) ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: theworldsend.at , accessed on August 21, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theworldsend.at
  10. ↑ The Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy Facts , accessed February 21, 2014
  11. ^ Andreas Staben: The World's End. In: filmstarts.de. Retrieved January 3, 2017 .
  12. ^ Carsten Moll: The World's End. In: Critic.de. August 22, 2013. Retrieved January 3, 2017 .
  13. ↑ 'Monsters University' holds off 'The World's End' at UK box office . In: digitalspy.co.uk , July 24, 2013, accessed August 21, 2013