White House Down
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|---|---|
| German title | White House Down |
| Original title | White House Down |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 131 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
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| Director | Roland Emmerich |
| script | James Vanderbilt |
| production | Roland Emmerich, Brad Fischer , Larry J. Franco , Laeta Kalogridis , Harald Kloser , James Vanderbilt |
| music |
Harald Kloser , Thomas Wander |
| camera | Anna J. Foerster |
| cut | Adam Wolfe |
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White House Down is an American action - thriller from director Roland Emmerich from the year 2013 . The main roles are Channing Tatum , Jamie Foxx and Maggie Gyllenhaal . The film had its world premiere on June 26, 2013 in Indonesia . In Germany the film was released on September 5, 2013, in Austria on the following day. Financially the film was a flop; Sony saw it as the main reason for the huge losses of Sony Pictures Entertainment in the summer of 2013.
action
The US Capitol Police Officer John Cale, who for the Speaker of the House is working Eli Raphelson has unsuccessfully at his former school friend, the Secret Service agent Carol Finnerty, for a job as a bodyguard for the US president promoted James W. Sawyer . Afterwards, he would like to offer his eleven-year-old daughter Emily, who accompanied him to his interview, at least a tour of the White House in Washington, DC. Meanwhile, the White House is being attacked by a heavily armed paramilitary unit under the leadership of Emil Stenz, who have sneaked in as cinema technicians under the pretext of installing a surround system. In order to start a diversionary maneuver and tie up the emergency services elsewhere, they blow up the dome of the Capitol three kilometers away , which is completely destroyed. With the help of Martin Walker, who is head of the Secret Service and is due to retire in a week , they bring the White House under their control. Their alleged goal is to extort $ 400 million in cash that is in the US Federal Reserve .
While looking for his daughter, who was on the way to the bathroom, Cale meets the President and can now prove that he is suitable as a bodyguard. Together they try to escape the intruders in the White House and to free Cale's daughter and other hostages from their hands. After several shootings and explosions have been recorded on the premises, the General Staff assumes that the president has died. Vice President Alvin Hammond, who is on his way to Washington with Air Force One, is sworn in as his successor . With the help of computer specialist Skip Tyler, the intruders cracked the firewalls of the NORAD system and shot down Air Force One with a rocket launched from a silo , killing all passengers. Eli Raphelson has now been appointed President as successor to Alvin Hammond. Meanwhile, Cale and Sawyer make their way to the presidential armored limousine and try to leave the premises, but are prevented from doing so by heavy fire. Three Black Hawk helicopters with Delta Force soldiers, which are supposed to storm the building, are spotted early and shot down with anti-aircraft missiles .
To get Cale and Sawyer to give up, Walker threatens to kill Emily in the Oval Office , which Sawyer surrenders. It turns out that security chief Walker is seriously ill with cancer and that his main motive is to get revenge for the death of his son, who was a soldier and who died on a secret mission in Iran . Walker now wants to fire 24 nuclear missiles from a submarine at Iran. He knocks Sawyer unconscious in a scuffle and takes his hand to confirm the kill codes with a scanner . To prevent World War III , Raphelson now orders the bombing of the White House by three F-22 Raptor fighter jets . Meanwhile, Cale fights his way to the Oval Office and finally manages to blow up Stenz with a belt of hand grenades . Sawyer regains consciousness and tries to stop Walker from launching the nuclear missiles, but is gunned down by him. When Walker tries again to initiate the kill, Cale breaks through the wall in the Oval Office with a heavy SUV and shoots Walker at the last second with a minigun . Cale rushes to the aid of Sawyer, whose pocket watch has caught Walker's bullet. They agree to keep Sawyer's survival a secret for the time being.
In the meantime the F-22 Raptors are approaching and Emily rushes in front of the building, waving the presidential flag in front of her, preventing the bombs from being dropped at the last moment, as the pilots voluntarily cancel the attack when they see the girl. Shortly afterwards, Raphelson arrives in a helicopter. Carol Finnerty has since found out that Raphelson was involved in the plot. Cale confronts him and accuses him of transmitting the kill codes on Walker's pager . In the presence of those present, he gets Raphelson to admit his involvement, which would have given the arms lobby a lucrative business through a war. Eventually, Sawyer shows up, arrests Raphelson and announces that he will see his friends again soon in prison.
When Sawyer boards the Marine One helicopter, he asks Cale to accompany him as his personal bodyguard. At the President's request, Cale, Emily and Carol fly low from the Capitol over the waters of the Reflecting Pool towards the Lincoln Memorial and then disappear in the distance.
background
White House Down was produced on an estimated $ 150 million budget. The film was shot in Montreal , Canada and Washington, DC , United States . In the United States, the film grossed $ 25 million at the box office on the opening weekend, June 28, 2013. In 2013, 1,196,547 visitors were counted at the German box offices nationwide, making the film the 26th place among the most visited films of the year.
With Olympus Has Fallen - The World in Danger , a thematically similar film was released a few months earlier.
synchronization
The German dubbing was done at Interopa Film GmbH in Berlin . The synchronous Director led Axel Malzacher .
| role | actor | German voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| John Cale | Channing Tatum | Daniel Fehlow |
| President James W. Sawyer | Jamie Foxx | Charles Rettinghaus |
| Carol Finnerty | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Tanja Geke |
| Emil Stenz | Jason Clarke | Tobias Kluckert |
| Martin Walker | James Woods | Frank Glaubrecht |
| Eli Raphelson | Richard Jenkins | Bodo Wolf |
| Emily Cale | Joey King | Fridoline Domanowski |
| Melanie Cale | Rachelle Lefèvre | Maria Koschny |
| Alvin Hammond | Michael Murphy | Christian Rode |
| Skip Tyler | Jimmi Simpson | Gerrit Schmidt-Foss |
| Carl Killick | Kevin Rankin | Michael Deffert |
| General Caulfield | Lance Reddick | Jan Spitzer |
| Colonel Cameron | Faber Dewar | Erich Rauker |
| Captain Hutton | Anthony Lemke | Johannes Berenz |
| Donnie, the tour guide | Nicolas Wright | Norman Matt |
| First Lady Alison Sawyer | Garcelle Beauvais | Victoria Storm |
| Agent Hope | Jake Weber | Peter Flechtner |
| Agent Kellerman | Matt Craven | Frank Röth |
| Motts | Falk Hentschel | Tommy Morgenstern |
Film music
The following pieces of music are played during the film:
- Spanish Flea - Performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
- Chevy Knights - Performed by He Met Her
- For he's a Jolly Good Fellow
- Beethoven's 5th Symphony in C minor, op. 67 - interpreted by Richard Edlinger and the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
- Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A major, op. 92 - interpreted by Helmut Müller-Brühl and the Cologne Chamber Orchestra
- Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, op. 37 - interpreted by Henri Sigfridsson , Helmut Müller-Brühl and the Cologne Chamber Orchestra
- Street Fighting Man - Performed by The Rolling Stones
The soundtrack was composed by Thomas Wander and Harald Kloser .
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The total playing time of the soundtracks is 47:10.
Reviews
“ White House Down isn't the best action movie of the year. It's not even the best 'Die Hard-in-the-White-House' movie of 2013. Roland Emmerich's flair for large-scale action scenes and the dynamic duo of Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx ensure that, despite unnecessarily long, some questionable special effects and asteroid-sized logic holes, the movie is still miles better than the last Die Hard sequel. "
“When the army marches as stubborn as tanks, you can see that they take the matter seriously. And Emmerich does that too. You can't be more patriotic in Washington than the American by choice from Stuttgart. "
"[...] When Street Fighting Man from the Stones sounds at the end of the credits of White House Down , you feel a mistake with a slight pain, but also the benevolent certainty that the film is in the narrative coordinate system in which this is the right one Closing song would be, actually believe. And this mixed feeling is quite typical for the reception of an Emmerich film and doesn’t carry you that badly through two fast-paced hours of cinema. "
“Action thriller in which Roland Emmerich combines the set pieces of his hero arsenal like from the paper cut catalog with the 'Die Hard' dramaturgy. A destructive spectacle without surprises, but with a lot of patriotism and an extremely simple understanding of politics. "
Awards
- 2014: Jupiter in the Best International Actor category for Channing Tatum
Web links
- White House Down in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- White House Down atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for White House Down . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2013 (PDF; test number: 140 531 K).
- ↑ Age rating for White House Down . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Release info in the IMDb , accessed on September 8, 2013 (English).
- ^ Eric Pfanner: Movie's Flop Contributes to a Loss for Sony. In: New York Times , October 31, 2013, accessed December 27, 2013.
- ↑ Box office in the IMDb , accessed on September 8, 2013 (English).
- ↑ KINOaktuell: What you wanted: Münster's cinema year 2013, C. Lou Lloyd, Filminfo No. 4, 23. – 29. January 2014, p. 24 f.
- ↑ White House Down in the German synchronous index , accessed on September 10, 2013.
- ↑ a b White House Down Soundtrack List on soundtrackmania.com, accessed September 11, 2013.
- ↑ Arthur Awanesjan: Review of White House Down . filmfutter.com, accessed September 10, 2013.
- ↑ Andreas Platthaus: This is an honorable house. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 5, 2013, accessed on September 8, 2013 .
- ↑ Maurice Lahde: Filmkritik auf critic.de, accessed on September 10, 2013.
- ^ White House Down in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed September 1, 2015.