Wallace & Gromit - Everything cheese
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| German title | Wallace & Gromit - Everything cheese |
| Original title | Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 23 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Nick Park |
| script | Nick Park |
| production | Rob Copeland |
| music | Julian Nott |
| camera | Nick Park |
| cut | Rob Copeland |
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Wallace & Gromit is an animated film by the British animator Nick Park from 1989 . The short film was created by the film studio Aardman Animations and the National Film and Television School produced (NFTS).
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The English inventor Wallace has been preparing for a short vacation over the holidays, which he wants to take with his faithful, silent dog Gromit. While he is thinking about which travel destination to choose, he notices that his favorite dish, cheese, has run out in the house. Rather than settle for crackers and tea, Wallace chooses to pick a destination that has cheese in abundance. Since everyone knows that the moon is made of cheese, as Wallace explains to his dog, the inventor quickly builds a rocket in the basement that is supposed to bring both of them to their desired destination.
In fact, their endeavors are successful, and both begin the journey in the rocket. When they arrive on the moon, Wallace and Gromit have a picnic and taste the celestial body, whose taste they cannot attribute to any type of cheese they know. In their search for new picnic spots, they both come across an old machine into which Wallace throws a 10-pence coin. However, the machine that is responsible for guarding the moon does not start operating until a short time later. The machine, which dreams of skiing in the snow, encounters Wallace and Gromit's rocket and finally the two earth inhabitants. The machine tries to incapacitate Wallace with a blow from behind, but fails to function. Only when Wallace puts another coin into the machine does the device come back to life and also tries to get to a place in Wallace and Gromit's rocket. While the inventor and dog desperately try to launch the rocket, the machine gains access to the rocket's engine room, where it triggers an explosion that catapults Wallace and Gromit back into space.
The machine remains sad and angry on the moon, where after a short time it is making skis and ski sticks out of some remaining fragments of the rocket and finally waving happily to the rocket. Meanwhile, Wallace and Gromit return to their home at 62 West Wallaby Street.
History of origin
The Briton Nick Park had already drawn comics as a teenager and at the age of 13 devoted himself to his first work in the field of animated films. In 1982 the animator began working on his first short film about the two characters Wallace & Gromit , the adventures of an English inventor and his mute and faithful dog. Originally, Gromit, whose name was inspired by Park's brother, an electrician (from the English word grommet , which means “insulating washer ”), was supposed to be portrayed as a cat , but this idea was abandoned and the character became a talking dog British actor Peter Hawkins, born in 1924, was to lend his voice to. But after it turned out that the dog figure obtained strong expressiveness by making a few changes to the eyes, ears and brow areas, Hawkins was never engaged for the films. For the voice of Wallace, the English actor Peter Sallis , born in 1921, was hired . The actor Peter Kirchberger was responsible for the German dubbing . Kirchberger had lent his voice to lead actor Adam West in 150 episodes of the Batman series .
Wallace & Gromit - All Cheese was originally intended to serve as Nick Park's graduation thesis for his National Film and Television School education. Even before the short film was finished after six years of work, Park was hired by Aardman Animations. The film production company, founded in 1972 by unemployed art students Peter Lord and David Spraxton , allowed Park to work on the film alongside his studies, which was completed in 1989 and the story of which was mainly based around the construction of the rocket the Briton animated wanted to. Park used the elaborate stop-motion technique with plasticine putty on substructures made of wire frames and plastic. At that time, it took a full day of shooting for about three seconds of film.
On October 10, 2005, shortly before the premiere of the movie Wallace & Gromit: On the Hunt for the Giant Rabbit , the Aardman Studios in Bristol was completely destroyed by fire, which was accompanied by the props of the movie Chicken Run (2000) and those of Alles Käse fell victim to.
reception
Nick Park's short film was successfully screened at the British Short Film Festival in Great Britain in 1989 . The critics praised Wallace & Gromit - Alles Käse and a year later, on December 24, 1990, the work celebrated its premiere on British television . In the past, Aardman Animation mainly dealt with commissioned work, now Wallace & Gromit - Die Techno-Hose (1993) and Wallace & Gromit - Unter Schafen (1995), as well as the movie adventure of the two title characters, Wallace & Gromit: On the hunt , in 2005 after the giant rabbit . At the same time, the plasticine figures ensured that Wensleydale cheese , an English hard cheese made from cow's milk, was preserved . The Wensleydale had been made Wallace's and Gromit's favorite food, as the creator found Wallace's face particularly handsome when the name was pronounced. The cheese company was able to avert bankruptcy and slide back into the black with the success of the films and the increase in sales.
In autumn 1994 the short film was released in German cinemas as a 77-minute feature film Wallace & Gromit - The Aardman Collection together with Wallace & Gromit - Die Techno-Hose and a number of other selected Aardman shorts . Although the critics were full of praise, the hoped-for financial success failed to materialize. More than a year later, at Christmas 1995, the two short films were broadcast for the first time on ZDF, but in the children's program from 1 p.m., a date that met with criticism from the media and through which the Tageszeitung asked why it should be ZDF Hide the gem in the children's program and do not bring it into the evening program.
Reviews
"Mr. Parks A Grand Day Out is a slightly rampant foray into an animated film. But he introduces a pair of promising characters that the filmmaker apparently plans to keep - an eccentric bachelor inventor named Wallace and his faithful, mechanically adept puppy, Gromit. "
"The great quality of Parks lies in the detail, as" Alles Käse "[...] already proves. Sequences of movement that appear out of round at first glance develop into their own formal language and the subtle comedy often takes a long time to emerge. “No crackers, Gromit, hold on!”, The dog's reaction to it, the suspense of whether Wallace will make it into the rocket, all of this is first-rate slapstick. The lonely oven on the moon, which finally makes his dream of skiing come true, is a touching scrap metal thousandth person. There is infinite space in his drawer, as is Park's imagination. It is difficult to say goodbye, both to the satellite and its peculiar resident and to the two heroes. "
Awards
Nick Parks' film received the British Academy Film Award for best animated short film in 1990 . At the Oscar ceremony in 1991 was subject to all cheese - Wallace & Gromit parks in the same year entstandenem 5-minute short film Creature Comforts in the wildlife on their everyday Zoo report.
- nominated in the category " Best Animated Short Film "
- Jury Prize
literature
- Bill Kerwin: A grand day out. BBC, London 1999, ISBN 056338008X (English edition)
- Lorena Roberts, Nick Park: Wallace & Gromit in A grand day out: Teacher's book. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003, ISBN 0194592464 . (English edition)
- Peter Viney, Karen Viney, Nick Park: Wallace and Gromit in a grand day out: Student's book. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003, ISBN 0194592456 (English edition)
Web links
- Wallace & Gromit - All cheese in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wallace & Gromit - Alles cheese in the online film database
- Wallace & Gromit - Alles Käse Trailer on YouTube (accessed November 14, 2017)
- Official website of Aardman Animations
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Sue Adolphson: Oscar Comforts 'Creature' Creator. In: The San Francisco Chronicle , March 31, 1991, Sunday Datebook, p. 33
- ↑ cf. Jim White: One man, his dog and two Oscars. In: The Independent (London), April 4, 1994, LIVING PAGE, p. 18
- ↑ cf. James Morrison: Flobadob: The sequel. In: Daily Mail (London), November 15, 2000, p. 11
- ↑ cf. “I have parental pride.” Conversation with Nick Park, the father of Wallace and Gromit. In: Die Welt , October 13, 2005, issue 239/2005, features section, p. 29
- ↑ a b cf. The world is soft: plasticine cartoons. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 29, 1994, features section
- ↑ Wilfried Hippen: The Oscar goes to plasticine. In: the daily newspaper, September 29, 1994, p. 23
- ^ A b Hans Messias: Wallace & Gromit. In: film-dienst, 22/1994
- ↑ Carola Roenneburg: dough for Christmas. In: the daily newspaper, December 23, 1995, p. 19
- ^ Gary Arnold: 'Animation' festival draws praise for creativity. In: The Washington Times, October 22, 1991, Part E, LIFE, MOVIES, p. E5
- ↑ With cracker and rocket . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 30, 2006, features section, p. 11
