Wanted (2008)

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Movie
German title Wanted
Original title Wanted
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
JMK 16
Rod
Director Timur Bekmambetov
script Derek Haas
Michael Brandt
Chris Morgan
Dean Georgaris
production Marc Platt
Jason Nice
Jim Lemley
music Danny Elfman
camera Mitchell Amundsen
cut David Brenner
Dallas Puett
occupation
synchronization

Wanted is an action film from the year 2008 , the freely on the comic book Wanted by Mark Millar is based. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov and starred by James McAvoy , Morgan Freeman , Thomas Kretschmann , Konstantin Khabensky and Angelina Jolie . Production began in April 2007 and the film had its world premiere in London on June 12, 2008 , and was released in German cinemas on September 4.

action

Wesley Gibson is a rather shy and reserved accountant who is cheated on by his girlfriend with his best friend and harassed by his boss. One day a woman approaches him in the supermarket. The stranger tries to make him understand that he is the son of a recently killed assassin. At that moment, both are attacked and shot at by a man. After a wild shootout in the supermarket and a subsequent car chase, Gibson and the stranger escape.

It turns out that Fox, the stranger's name, also carries out contract killings together with some men and is in the service of the mysterious Sloan. He is the leader of the Weber Brotherhood, founded in Moravia , which has been training hired killers for centuries to create “stability in an unstable world” by killing individual people, mostly unknown to the murderers. The group lives on the factory premises of a weaving company, where the premises also serve as a camouflage for their training. There is a special loom that produces a cloth with a binary code hidden in it . This decoded code results in the name of the next job. One of Sloan's jobs is to decipher the codes and pass the orders on to his people. Wesley learns that Cross, the supermarket attacker, was the one who shot Wesley's father from behind on a skyscraper the previous day. Wesley's father was also in the service of Sloan, as was Cross, who however went rogue and is now gradually wiping out Sloan's people.

Wesley learns that he - like his father - has very special physical abilities that predestine him for the job of a hit man. Sloan offers to train him and, when he's ready, take revenge on his father's murderer. Sloan's deputy, Fox, becomes his tutor. After some particularly tough training, Wesley finally gets his first job, which he screwed up out of pity for the unknown victim. It was only when Fox made him understand that his actions could save thousands of other human lives that he managed to overcome his scruples and shoot the man from the roof of a moving train . More murders of strangers follow.

Eventually, Wesley is assigned to track down and kill Cross. At the same time, Fox receives an order from Sloan to eliminate Wesley. Wesley can track Cross through Pekwar, a manufacturer of sniper ammunition. In a moving express train, Wesley and Cross fight each other and are shot at by Fox, who follows the train in a car. The train derails and Wesley threatens to fall off a bridge. Cross can hold him at the last moment, but Wesley shoots him and pulls himself into the car. Cross, already mortally wounded, tells him that he himself is his real father and that everything the Brotherhood told him was a lie. At that moment, Fox appears and confirms his words. Before she can kill Wesley, however, he manages to escape.

Through Pekwar he finds out that Sloan abused his power and had the murders carried out at his own discretion and partly out of greed. Cross found this out and had to flee when he openly turned against Sloan and his life was in danger. Sloan had only trained Wesley because he knew he would be the only one who wouldn't kill Cross and who could therefore get close enough to him.

Wesley seeks revenge and releases countless rats , equipped with time detonators and plastic explosives , into the headquarters of the Brotherhood. After the rats explode, he storms headquarters and kills anyone who gets in his way.

Before he reaches Sloan's office, he is caught by Sloan's remaining killers, including Fox. Wesley tells them about Sloan's lies. This confirms Wesley's words indirectly and tells the killers that all of their names appeared as killings. Either they should all commit suicide consistently now, or instead shoot Wesley and continue their work in the future. Fox, who had previously considered the Brotherhood's Code to be the highest priority, then shoots all the other hit men and himself with a single bullet. However, Sloan manages to escape.

It seems like Wesley is going back to his old life and job. One day Sloan shows up at his company to catch and kill him. When the supposed Wesley turns around, Sloan realizes that it is not Wesley and that he has been lured into a trap. Wesley shoots him from a great distance with an artificial shot, in the style of his father.

occupation

  • James McAvoy received the lead role as Wesley Gibson in October 2006. McAvoy, after having screened the role in the spring of 2006, was initially turned down because the studio was looking for an actor who was more the usual Hollywood lead in looks and build . However, he was later remembered when it was taken into account that he was "the smallest and weakest" of the cast actors. According to McAvoy, "They [ultimately] were looking for someone stupid". The Scot McAvoy, who portrays an American in the film, had to train for the action scenes.
  • Angelina Jolie was offered the role in March 2007 after screenwriter Dean Georgaris rewritten the script to adapt the role of Fox to Jolie.

production

The comic book miniseries Wanted by Mark Millar first attracted the attention of Jeff Kirschenbaum, a producer of Universal Studios and comic book fan who one template for a film adaptation was looking for that one R rating would reach the United States. Since Wanted seemed suitable to him, he encouraged Universal to acquire the rights to the comic series. In 2004, the film producer Marc Platt, with Derek Haas and Michael Brandt as scriptwriters, began converting the template into a film script and in December 2005 Timur Bekmambetov was inclined to take over the direction of the project, his first ever English-language film. Millar didn't like the first draft of the script. He explained, “I basically see the film as the opposite of Spider-Man , the idea that someone gets skills and realizes that they can do what they want and go for the evil side. The script I was reading was simply too lame for me. It just seemed a little Americanized. But Timur came with his Eastern European madness and he made it mean. It comes closer to the mood of the comic. "

Director Bekmambetov said the film would feature the same characters from the miniseries, although as a director he wanted freedom to customize the comic book world. In July 2006, writer Chris Morgan was hired to work on the third act of Haas and Brandt's script in collaboration with Bekmambetov. The script was also rewritten by screenwriter Dean Georgaris to include the role of The Fox , which Angelina Jolie takes on. Haas and Brandt also went back to their first draft of the script to level the character of Wesley Gibson more by adapting his dialogues.

Mark Millar said the first half of the film was very close to the graphic novel . He also said that the ending of the film is similar to that of the comic, but the scenery has been relocated. The superhero costumes used in the comic have also been removed, except for leather suits for Wesley and The Fox . This was Millar's intention when he wrote the graphic novel, however, he and his designer JG Jones forgot to remove the costumes. "I wanted them to have these skills and then just wear costumes at the beginning, but only for one frame in the comic," says Millar. “And then I forgot. I would have liked to have seen the producers preserve the super villain myth. That's one thing I'm kind of saddened about that it wasn't kept as I really liked the idea that the super villains and heroes do exist and now all is lost. "

Wanted includes scenes with free running and parkour combined with car chases and firefights. Mark Millar saw pre-visualized footage of the film and said the footage increased his expectations of the film. The film is the first to be shot with the Red One digital film camera .

The exterior filming took place in Chicago in April 2007. Various hunting scenes, including a scene with a low-flying helicopter, were filmed on Wacker Drive along the Chicago River between Columbus Drive and LaSalle Street on May 17th and 18th, 2007. The production then moved to the Czech Republic at the end of May 2007 to shoot there for the planned 12 weeks. The production designer John Myhre built a large textile factory for the film in Prague as part of an industrial world, the backdrop of a mythological environment in which looms manufacture fabrics that are intertwined with people's fates and which are then interpreted by weavers. From this they derive instructions for certain individuals to maintain the balance of the world. After that, the shooting was relocated to Budapest and then took place again in Chicago in August 2007.

Reviews

Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian , in his June 25, 2008 review, criticized Wanted , stating that the film appeared to him "as if it was written by a committee of 13-year-olds for whom penetrative sex was only a rumor". The result is a film that comes across as an “election commercial for the women haters party”. He has seldom seen a film that displays misogyny so openly and fervently, with female characters who are either “irrelevant, shiny babes” or overweight, funny supporting characters.

Rainer Gansera wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on September 4, 2008: "From the flips of the cars in the chases to the shattering glass fronts of the skyscrapers, all the action becomes a nightmare-dream choreography." The film is a "pure pleasure, because pure." Fantasma. In the milieu and with the gaudy means of a blockbuster, Bekmambetov succeeds in what the surrealists were looking for experimentally: unleashed extravagant and ironically celebrated dream logic. "

Daniel Sander stated on Spiegel Online : “Wanted is nothing more than a hysterical, obscenely entertaining weakling fantasy; how a quasi-castrated whiner becomes a very tough guy. David Fincher used this foundation to make a film for the ages in Fight Club . Wanted is more of a film for one evening. But at least a really good one. "

The lexicon of the international film judged: "Furious action thriller with some logical breaks, under whose glossy surface reflections on the pitfalls of identifying yourself are hidden."

controversy

At the beginning of September 2008, the British supervisory authority for the advertising industry banned two of the official advertising posters through 17 complaints against motifs showing Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy with firearms, which led to the decision of the ASA ( Advertising Standards Authority ) on the grounds that there was a possibility that the posters could be misunderstood as glorifying violence and are therefore unsuitable for children.

Awards

The film won the Empire Award 2009 in the category "Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Superhero".

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating "valuable".

He was also nominated for 13 other prizes, including two Oscars ( Best Sound , Best Sound Editing ).

background

  • The names of those to be killed by the Brotherhood are given in binary code and decoded into letters using a fixed system.
  • In the film, the protagonists can shoot around an obstacle with a quick arm movement. The MythBusters have proven that this shot is impossible, even with superhuman strength. ( Season 7, episode 10 or episode 123 in total )

synchronization

role actor German Voice actor
Wesley Allan Gibson James McAvoy Johannes Raspe
Fox Angelina Jolie Claudia Urbschat
Sloan Morgan Freeman Jürgen Kluckert
Cross Thomas Kretschmann Thomas Kretschmann
The Repairman Marc Warren Benedikt Weber
The Butcher Dato Bakhtadze Torsten Münchow
Barry Chris Pratt Benedikt Gutjan
Cathy Kristen Hager Natalie Loewenberg
Gunsmith Common Oliver Stritzel

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Release certificate for Wanted . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2008 (PDF; test number: 114 637 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Wanted . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Exclusive: James McAvoy Talks Wanted , Empire . October 19, 2006. Retrieved February 8, 2007. 
  4. ^ A b Edward Douglas: Exclusive: A Chat with James McAvoy , ComingSoon.net. February 16, 2007. 
  5. ↑ a b Michael Fleming, Diane Garrett: Jolie 'Wanted' for Universal film , Variety . March 19, 2007. Retrieved March 20, 2007. 
  6. ^ A b Larry Carroll: Why Angelina Jolie, Common 'Wanted' To Work With Red-Hot Russian Director , MTV . June 11, 2007. Retrieved April 11, 2012. 
  7. ^ Edward Douglas: Exclusive: The Writers of Wanted ! , SuperHeroHype.com. August 17, 2007. Retrieved January 26, 2008. 
  8. ↑ Gabriel Snyder: Helmer's on Universal's 'Wanted' list , Variety . December 7th, 2005. Archived from the original on August 2nd, 2008 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. . Retrieved February 8, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.variety.com 
  9. ↑ a b Justin Aclin: Mark Millar on the "Wanted" movie. Wizard, December 3, 2007; archived from the original on February 2, 2008 ; accessed on March 2, 2014 (English).
  10. ^ Carl Cortez: Exclusive Profile: Director Timur Bekambetov comes into the light with "Night Watch" - Part 2. iFMagazine.com, February 27, 2006, archived from the original on April 15, 2009 ; accessed on March 2, 2014 (English).
  11. ↑ George A. Tramountanas: CCI, DAY 2: CHRIS MORGAN - A "WANTED" SCREENWRITER , Comic Book Resources. July 22, 2006. Retrieved February 10, 2007. 
  12. ↑ Phil Miller: Comic writer signs up Jolie as assassin. The Herald, March 23, 2007, archived from the original on September 12, 2008 ; accessed on March 2, 2014 (English).
  13. ↑ George A. Tramountanas: THE WICKED WITCH RETURNS IN BOOM! 'S "SALEM" , Comic Book Resources. October 12, 2007. Retrieved October 14, 2007. 
  14. ↑ Mark Millar: Mark Millar Talks Wanted, ComingSoon.net. February 20, 2007. 
  15. ↑ Steffen Silvis: Stillking is still king , The Prague Post. April 07, 2007. Retrieved April 5, 2007. 
  16. ↑ a b Spring, summer movie production accelerates , Reel Chicago. April 18, 2007.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.reelchicago.com  
  17. ^ Tribune Staff: Filming of movie to close off streets , Chicago Tribune . May 17, 2007. Retrieved May 23, 2007. 
  18. ↑ Stillking film head new productions in Prague , Czech Film Commission. January 18, 2007. Archived from the original on July 3, 2007 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. . Retrieved February 8, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmcommission.cz 
  19. ^ Peter Bradshaw: Wanted. In: The Guardian . June 25, 2008, accessed August 15, 2008 .
  20. ^ Rainer Gansera: In the cinema: "Wanted": Unleashed dream logic. (No longer available online.) In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . September 4, 2008, archived from the original on September 7, 2008 ; Retrieved September 5, 2008 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de
  21. ^ Daniel Sander: In the cinema: Angelina in the ballet of death. In: Spiegel Online . September 4, 2008, accessed September 6, 2008 .
  22. ↑ Wanted. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed September 6, 2008 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  23. ↑ Angelina Jolie film posters banned in The Telegraph on September 2, 2008
  24. ↑ Wanted. fbw-filmbeval.com, accessed August 8, 2009 .
  25. ^ Awards for Wanted. IMDb.com, accessed August 8, 2009 .
  26. ↑ http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/curve-a-bullet-minimyth/
  27. ↑ Wanted. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on August 8, 2009 .

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