V for Vendetta (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | V for Vendetta |
| Original title | V for Vendetta |
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| Country of production | United States , United Kingdom , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 132 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | James McTeigue |
| script | The Wachowskis |
| production |
Joel Silver , Grant Hill , The Wachowskis |
| music | Dario Marianelli |
| camera | Adrian Biddle |
| cut | Martin Walsh |
| occupation | |
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V for Vendetta (original title V for Vendetta ) from 2005 is a film adaptation of the comic strip of the same name by Alan Moore and David Lloyd .
The film was produced by Joel Silver , directed by James McTeigue , and the script was written by the Wachowski siblings ( Matrix ). The worldwide film release was March 16, 2006.
The film is set in dystopian , futuristic London around 2020. The story follows V, a masked freedom fighter who, in the fight against the authoritarian state, pursues personal revenge (Italian: vendetta for blood revenge ) and prepares a social and political upheaval .
action
In a totalitarian led the UK under the autocratic High Chancellor Adam Sutler, leader of the fascist Northern Fire party rule suppression of dissidents and a complete control of the media before. This form of government prevailed as it promised security to frightened citizens at a time when the United States was raging civil war and a virus killed nearly 100,000 citizens. Sutler promised orderly conditions in Great Britain and was elected for it.
An unknown, masked man named V defies the leadership by killing senior members of the regime . As it turns out in the course of the film, he is the only survivor of an earlier forced experiment on "deviating" parts of the population to research a virus culture. This was ultimately used against the population for the leadership to take power. Among the victims Vs, who wears a Guy Fawkes mask and uses the powder conspiracy motivically in his language to underline his revenge on the leadership, are primarily the heads of the prison in which the experiments were carried out, which are now all high Hold posts or are part of the leadership.
During one of his actions, V saves the young Evey from being raped by government agents, the so-called finger men. V takes her with him to his hiding place, where she admires his collection of cultural objects that have been banned by the censors. By taking over the media on November 5th (the day of the powder conspiracy), V called on the oppressed but still deluded population to revolt on November 5th next year. Through his actions, he favors the education of the population about the background of the country leadership so that the uprising actually takes place at the end of the film. Evey, who had initially left V, is brought back to his hiding place by him, which he however stages as a torture prison. V makes her believe she is a prisoner of the government and tortures her until Evey outgrows herself and is no longer afraid for her own existence. Evey realizes that V has developed a special protective instinct towards her.
V offers the senior politician Creedy a deal, whereupon this Chancellor delivers Sutler to him. However, both perish on extradition and V is badly wounded. He can drag himself back to meet Evey and dies in her arms. She then initiates the symbolic demolition of the Houses of Parliament in the presence of the policeman Finch, who discovered V's plan and the history of the prison , which happens in front of a large mass of the population in Guy Fawkes disguise, who have followed the call for an uprising .
background
Production and publication
Many of those involved in V for Vendetta worked together on the Matrix trilogy. In 1988 Matrix producer Joel Silver secured the rights to two Alan Moore films: V for Vendetta and Watchmen . The Wachowski siblings had already written a screenplay for a film in the mid-1990s. During the production of Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions , they revised this and decided on James McTeigue as director.
The shooting began on March 7, 2005 also co-producing Studio Babelsberg in the Brandenburg state capital Potsdam . Interior photos were also taken there in the former imperial Babelsberg Palace in the park of the same name . Further filming took place in the Aldwych underground station, which was closed in 1994, as well as at the Palace of Westminster and Big Ben . The last two locations were only allowed to be shot between midnight and 4.30 a.m., with road traffic being shut down for a maximum of four minutes. The shooting should be completed by June 8, 2005, but this could not be realized for technical reasons. For example, the worldwide film launch has been postponed from November 5, 2005, Guy Fawkes Day, to March 16, 2006, including the film launch in Germany and Switzerland. The film was shown one day later in Austria and the United Kingdom. The film was previously shown on December 11, 2005 in the USA at the Austin Butt-Numb-A-Thon and at the International Film Festival in Berlin . The budget of the film was 54 million US dollars estimated. On the opening weekend of the film in the US played about 25.6 million US dollars, in the UK there were nearly 1.2 million pounds sterling . Total US revenues were over $ 70.5 million while the UK grossed over £ 3.3 million. Worldwide revenues were over $ 131.4 million. At the German box office, almost 236,000 viewers were counted. In Germany, the film was released on March 9, 2007 by Warner Home Video on DVD with an FSK-16 rating.
Natalie Portman was preferred to Keira Knightley , Scarlett Johansson and Bryce Dallas Howard in the casting of Evey . James Purefoy was the original actor of the masked avenger, but because of artistic differences he dropped out of the ongoing filming and was replaced by Hugo Weaving . The scenes already filmed with Purefoy were dubbed by Weaving. Purefoy didn't want to wear the mask throughout the film, while for the Wachowski siblings it was a crucial point in the film.
The film is dedicated to Adrian Biddle , the film's cameraman, who died of a heart attack on December 7, 2005.
Deviations from the comic
While the comic is set in the 1990s, the film's action takes place around 2020. Many people have changed fundamentally. Finch does not get on Vs track through an LSD trip. Evey does not slip into V's role and does not try to make money through prostitution. The leader Adam Sutler is - unlike in the comic - not portrayed as a thoughtful and ascetic guardian of law, but rather stylized as a megalomaniac villain from the start. In the film, Guy Fawkes masks are distributed to the population, which is not the case in the comic. Here the survival of the Ideen Vs is shown by Evey slipping into his role after his death and showing himself publicly. In the movie, V is badly burned and disfigured by fire when it breaks out, while in the comic it's possible for him to look like any ordinary citizen. The love affair between Evey and V does not appear in the original either.
Film music
The soundtrack comes from the Italian composer Dario Marianelli and includes the tracks Cry Me a River by Arthur Hamilton , I Found a Reason by Cat Power , Bird Gerhl by Antony and the Johnsons and Long Black Train by Richard Hawley , in addition to the pieces composed especially for the film . The soundtrack was published on March 21, 2006 by Astralwerk .
A piece of classical music is played while the Old Bailey and Westminster Palace are being blown up . These are extracts from Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture . This element of the soundtrack can be found on the original soundtrack in the piece entitled Knives And Bullets (And Cannons Too) , which begins with Marianelli's score and ends with an excerpt from the 1812 overture. As V negotiates with Creedy, Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th Symphony is recorded.
synchronization
The German-language dubbed version of the film was of RC Production Rasema Cibic in Berlin after the dialogue book of Marius Clarén under the dialogue director of Tobias Meister made.
| role | actor | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| V / William Rockwood | Hugo Weaving | Oliver Stritzel |
| Evey Hammond | Natalie Portman | Manja Doering |
| Eric Finch | Stephen Rea | Reinhard Kuhnert |
| Peter Creedy | Tim Pigott-Smith | Christian Rode |
| Gordon Deitrich | Stephen Fry | Hubertus Bengsch |
| Adam Sutler | John Hurt | Jürgen Thormann |
| Dominic Stone | Rupert Graves | Tom Vogt |
| Roger Dascomb | Ben Miles | David Nathan |
| Delia Surridge | Sinéad Cusack | Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif |
| Bishop Lilliman | John Standing | Friedhelm Ptok |
| Denis | Martin Savage | Stefan Krause |
| first fingerman with tweed coat | Ian Burfield | Wolfgang Condrus |
| Brain Etheridge | Eddie Marsan | Lutz Schnell |
| Fred | Andy Rashleigh | Roland Hemmo |
| Jones | Joseph Rye | Hans Hohlbein |
| Lewis Prothero | Roger Allam | Hans-Werner Bussinger |
| Patricia | Cosima Shaw | Andrea Grossmann |
| Valerie Page | Natasha Wightman | Claudia Urbschat-Mingues |
| Wilson | Malcolm Sinclair | K. Dieter Klebsch |
Hugo Weaving , who took on the role of V, had to add all the dialogues in the original English version, because every attempt to integrate a microphone into the mask failed.
reception
V for Vendetta received a positive rating from 73% of the critics on Rotten Tomatoes , with 248 reviews being counted. On Metacritic , a score of 62 was obtained based on 39 reviews.
The editors of the Berliner Zeitung judged: “The Wachowski brothers and their director James McTeigue have turned the comic into a wonderfully dark and colorful anarcho-fantasy that Malcolm McLaren will enjoy. Even if time has passed by Orwellia like this: in its attention to detail and dialectical cleverness, V FOR VENDETTA is the best comic adaptation in a long time. "
According to Cinema , V for Vendetta is “a true-to-the-original film adaptation of Alan Moore's cult comic, which compensates for occasional talkativeness with a sense of style and radicalism”.
The lexicon of international film stated that V for Vendetta is a "visually and staged film adaptation of a popular comic strip, which is of course not exactly subtle in the justification of the terrorist liberation struggle".
The verdict of Filmstarts is: “Everyone involved (and at least a part of the British actor elite who is not too good for supporting roles here) make the best of a mediocre script. "V for Vendetta" may not be a real blockbuster, but as a comic film adaptation, the strip cuts a solid figure. "
Awards
The film, the actors and the film crew have been awarded various film prizes and have also received numerous other nominations.
Adrian Biddle received the Special Award at the Manaki Brothers Film Festival in 2006 .
Natalie Portman received an SFX Award for Best Actress in 2006. In 2007 she received a Saturn Award in the same category. The film was nominated for a Saturn Award for best science fiction film , while Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski were nominated for best script and Sammy Sheldon for best costume , who only had five weeks to prepare for the costume work .
At the San Diego Film Critics Society Awards , Owen Paterson was recognized in the Best Production Design category.
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating "valuable".
literature
- Alan Moore , David Lloyd : V for Vendetta . Speed Comics , 2002, ISBN 3-936068-12-7 .
- Alan Moore, David Lloyd: V for Vendetta. The cult comic for the film . Panini Verlag , 2006 (new edition from June 2007), ISBN 3-8332-1384-1 .
- Steve Moore : V for Vendetta - a novel about the film . Panini Verlag , 2005, ISBN 3-8332-1327-2 .
Web links
- official homepage
- V for Vendetta in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- V for Vendetta at filmportal.de
- War on the palaces - Old Europe against the God state: "V for Vendetta" Telepolis
- Comparison of the cut versions RTL II from 12 - FSK 16 by V for Vendetta at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for V for Vendetta . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2006 (PDF; test number: 105 351 K).
- ↑ Age designation for V for Vendetta . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Production Notes for V for Vendetta, statements of the producers. vforvendetta.com, archived from the original on March 15, 2006 ; Retrieved April 14, 2006 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Internet Movie Database : Budget and box office results
- ↑ Studio Babelsberg AG: References studiobabelsberg.com, accessed March 15, 2019
- ↑ Alexander Vogel, Marcel Piethe: "Film City Potsdam: Locations and Stories" . Bäßler Verlag, Berlin 2013, p. 79.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Internet Movie Database : Background information
- ↑ a b c Internet Movie Database : Start Dates
- ↑ James Purefoy Quit 'V For Vendetta' Because He Hated Wearing The Mask February 24, 2006. Retrieved July 9, 2012
- ↑ a b V for Vendetta. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on February 25, 2012 .
- ↑ V for Vendetta at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ↑ V for Vendetta in Metacritic (English)
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung : Filmkritik ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 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.
- ^ Cinema : film review
- ↑ V for Vendetta. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Film starts : film review
- ↑ a b c d e Internet Movie Database : Nominations and Awards
- ↑ fbw-filmbeval.com: V for Vendetta
