Idiot (film)
Vollidiot is a German comedy film from 2007 . Tobi Baumann directed the film adaptation of the novel by Tommy Jaud , with Oliver Pocher playing the leading role .
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29-year-old Simon Peters is a salesman in a telephone shop. He was left by his girlfriend Tina over a year ago and has considerable difficulties in finding a new and above all the right partner for life. He's the only one to come back from a single vacation without having had sex. He later pissed off two stewardesses at home when two porn films appear in his DVD collection while they were jointly filming. The attempts of his Croatian cleaning lady Lala to pair him up are just as unsuccessful as his best friend Paula fails to create an optimal plan for how he can “definitely find the right one”.
After all, Simon falls in love with the All-American Coffee Company employee Marcia P. Garcia at first sight . He finds out that she loves the Fantastischen Vier like him , so he gives her a ticket for an upcoming concert of the band. At the concert, however, Simon realizes that Marcia is an unsympathetic bitch who is also not at all interested in him.
After Simon lost his job and also neglected his friends, he locked himself in his apartment. After a while, however, he is visited by his ex-girlfriend who wants to congratulate him on his 30th birthday. She makes it clear to him that the problem is not to be found in the women, but in himself. Simon then makes the decision to change. He invites his friends to make up for something he has missed - he has prepared a present for each.
Before his friends even arrive for his birthday party, he is unfortunately locked out on the windowsill of his apartment while fleeing from a bailiff. His friend Paula interprets the situation to mean that Simon is attempting suicide and alerts the fire brigade to de-escalate . Finally, Simon accidentally falls, but is caught unharmed by a cushion .
During his party, Simon sits down to burn his " IKEA single armchair" in a parking lot. He has eye contact with a young woman who also burns a single armchair and smiles at him.
criticism
According to film-dienst, “the bestseller adaptation, peppered with television comedians, is “ largely solid, but despite the perfect craftsmanship of the camera and direction, it cannot shed its television sketch character ”.
Carsten Baumgardt rates the film as a "lifeless comedy construction of German television characteristics". In his opinion, “Pocher's first leading role in the cinema” fails, because “when enjoyed in small doses, Pocher's humor can be short and sweet, and nerve potential outweighs the long distance”. The film music, on the other hand, is praised: "The soundtrack is excellent." "In the musically harmoniously illustrated collages, the comedy begins to live for a short time now and then."
The criticism from Focus is more flattering for the main actor, because according to Focus "Oliver Pocher is more positive than negative".
Hubert Carl saw "sparkling moments" thanks to guest stars like Anke Engelke and Herbert Feuerstein and even found the film to be "close to life and hilarious".
Differences from the book
- Simon's ex-girlfriend is called Julia and not Tina in the book. She is only mentioned briefly in the book, but has an important role in the film.
- The gay gym does not appear in the film. The trip to a FC Schalke 04 soccer game is also missing.
- Simon's vacation is only mentioned briefly in the film.
- It wasn't Paula who had the idea for the vacation, but Phil.
- The T-point remains nameless in the film. The Starbucks cafe is called All American Coffee Company in the film .
- At the end of the book it is indicated that Simon is getting closer to his former boss. In the film he sees a young woman in the IKEA parking lot.
- The book is divided into five single phases, but none of these phases are mentioned in the film.
background
- The title song of the film I can't do anything for it is interpreted by Nena , Stephan Remmler and Oliver Pocher. The original melody comes from the song Young Folks by the Swedish group Peter Bjorn And John from 2006. Remmler wrote and produced the entire film music together with his eldest son Cecil Remmler .
- In the “behind-the-scenes” material on the DVD you can read the name tag of the “owl”, her real name is Heidrun Kister.
- The originally filmed end of the film showed Simon Peters with his pants on fire in the IKEA parking lot. However, test screenings showed that women wanted a happy ending , and so the ending was shot with Marleen Lohse in the role of the young woman.
- One of the main locations for the film was the Eigelstein in Cologne . The film sets for the All American Coffee Company and Simon Peters' phone shop were on this street (at the junction with Unter Krahnenbäume ) .
- The Easyjet recordings were shot at Dortmund Airport .
- Product placement is carried out for various companies and brands in the film .
- In April 2007 Vollidiot - Das Filmbuch , which was also written by Tommy Jaud and published by Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, was released in time for the cinema release .
- The film grossed € 5,069,307 in German cinemas.
Web links
- Idiot in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for complete idiot . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ film service
- ↑ a b c review , Carsten Baumgardt, Filmstarts
- ↑ "DVD review - Today as a complete idiot " , Focus , dkn, November 16, 2007
- ↑ kino.de , Hubert Carl
- ↑ Film information on mediabiz.de