Welcome to the Jungle (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Welcome to the jungle |
| Original title | The Rundown (Welcome to the Jungle) |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English , Portuguese |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12; FSK 16 (DVD Extended Version) JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Berg |
| script |
RJ Steward , James Vanderbilt |
| production |
Kevin Misher , Marc Abraham , Karen Glasser , Bill Corless |
| music | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| camera | Tobias Schliessler |
| cut | Richard Pearson |
| occupation | |
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Welcome to the Jungle is a film by US director Peter Berg from the year 2003 . The main role played the professional wrestler Dwayne Johnson .
action
Beck works for the seedy Billy Walker and collects debts from his defaulting business partners, although he detests firearms, but does not shy away from robust physical use. He actually wants to get out of business and open his own restaurant, but in turn owes Walker and is now supposed to accept one last assignment, after which he would be debt-free and with the reward he could even pay for his restaurant: he should see Walker's son Travis with him who is in Brazil.
Arriving in the Brazilian mining village of El Dorado , Beck meets the mine owner Hatcher, who has a private army and thus forces the population to work under poor conditions and poor pay in his gold mine. Hatcher first gives his consent to Beck's plan to find Travis, but withdraws it when he learns that Travis has found a legendary treasure, the Gato , which Hatcher claims for himself. Beck is able to evade the access of Hatcher's men and flees with Travis in the jeep towards the airport. Travis, who hates his father and wants to prevent his repatriation, grabs the steering wheel, causing the jeep to crash into the underbrush. Since Hatcher's men are on their heels, they both now have to continue to walk through the jungle.
After an unpleasant encounter with a horde of monkeys, they are picked up by local rebels who fight against Hatcher's suppression. In their camp, Travis, in contrast to Beck, who speaks the local language, can persuade the rebels that Beck works for Hatcher and wants to kill them all. Beck is then attacked by several rebels and can only barely fight them off when Mariana, the leader of the rebels, appears. She clarifies the situation because she wants to use the myth about the Gato to mobilize her compatriots against Hatcher. Suddenly, Hatcher appears with his people and attacks the camp, killing numerous rebels. Beck, Travis and Mariana manage to escape into the jungle. Mariana offers the two of them to show them the way to the airport if she receives the Gato in return . Travis leads them to the hiding place behind a waterfall, where they finally find the artifact.
On the way back, Mariana accuses Travis of wanting to sell the Gato , but Travis replies that he wants to hand it over to a museum. Mariana feeds the men with a native fruit called konlobos, which is poisonous and immobilizes them. The rebel leader describes the way to the airport and then sets off with the Gato , while Beck and Travis are forced to stay paralyzed all night at the campfire that Mariana set on to protect them from wild animals. The following morning, when the fruit wears off and they regain control of their bodies, Beck drags Travis to the airport. There he learns from Declan, the pilot of his charter plane , that Mariana was picked up by Hatcher and is likely to be killed. Travis and Beck decide to free Mariana.
As a distraction, they drive a herd of cattle through the mining village as a stampede and begin to take down Hatcher's men one after the other. Travis manages to free Mariana, and ultimately only Hatcher remains. Beck gives him the choice of voluntarily leaving or being forced to leave when the villagers show up and shoot their tormentor. Travis hands the Gato over to Mariana, and Beck tells him that they must nonetheless return to the United States.
Back with Billy Walker, Beck hands over his son to him, whereupon he gets the promise that his debts have been canceled and that he will receive the promised reward. As a farewell, Beck serves his boss and his men pieces of a Konlobos fruit that he has brought with him. When the men unsuspectingly eat the fruit and shortly afterwards sink to the ground unable to move, Beck frees Travis and makes off with him.
Awards
Dwayne Johnson was nominated for the MTV Movie Award . Some stuntmen won the World Stunt Award in the categories Best High Work and Best Overall Stunt , others were nominated for this award in the categories Best Fight and Best Specialty Stunt .
criticism
"Unimaginative, moderately staged adventure film, which is based on popular fighting and action clichés and relies entirely on the classic buddy constellation."
Trivia
- Dwayne Johnson did almost all of the stunts himself in this film, too. Producer Kevin Misher said: “ The Rock is particularly remarkable because it often does stunts better than most stunt doubles could. It's great fun to just keep the camera rolling and know that the audience knows that you're actually watching The Rock doing these crazy stunts. As a producer you naturally also think: What are we actually doing there, that's our star out there! "
- For the role of debt collector, "The Rock" had to get his tattoos covered.
- WWE boss Vince McMahon was involved in the making of the film. In addition to WWE, he runs the subsidiary WWE-Films , as many wrestlers in his league have already made film careers.
- Although the film is set in the jungles of Brazil, the monkeys that play an active and aggressive role in some scenes are African baboons that are not found in the wild in Brazil.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger made a cameo in this film . When "Beck" enters a pub at the beginning, Schwarzenegger is leaving it and says to him in passing: "Have fun"
Web links
- Welcome to the Jungle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Welcome to the Jungle . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2004 (PDF; test number: 95 827-a K).
- ↑ Release certificate for Welcome to the Jungle . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, May 2004 (PDF; DVD-Extended).
- ↑ Age rating for Welcome to the Jungle . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Welcome to the Jungle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 3, 2017 .