Willard (2003)

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Movie
German title Willard
Original title Willard
Country of production United States , Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Glen Morgan
script Glen Morgan,
Gilbert Ralston
production Glen Morgan,
James Wong
music Shirley Walker
camera Robert McLachlan
cut James Coblentz
occupation

Willard is an American horror film released in 2003 by director Glen Morgan . The film, which came on 14 March 2003 in the United States and Canada in theaters, is a remake of the strip of the same name from the year 1971 .

action

Willard Stiles, a shy young man, lives secluded with his frail mother in an old, dusty mansion whose basement is populated by a horde of rats. Willard is employed by his late father's company, which Frank Martin took over on the condition that Willard be employed for life. Willard is bullied by his boss and mother. He eats the anger about it.

Willard reluctantly begins to fight the rats in the basement of the house at his mother's behest. He befriends a white rat he calls Socrates because it is so smart. He calls another rat Big Ben (short: Ben) because of its physical strength. The entire horde begins to trust him and lets Willard train them. They obey the commands in , out and tear . For example, on Willard's orders, they break into his boss's garage and destroy the tires of the new Mercedes .

The rats are now reproducing uncontrollably from Willard's feeding. Willard is no longer able to feed all the rats. In search of food, they conquer the living area of ​​the house. Willard begins to despise Ben because, as the leader of the Horde, he is responsible for getting into the living area. After the death of his mother, Willard falls into despair and briefly considers suicide, since his legacy consists only of a large mountain of debt. The idea of ​​losing / selling his house is unbearable for Willard. In addition, his boss dismisses him and kills Socrates.

Willard now goes on a vengeance campaign with Ben. Under Ben's leadership, the rats kill Mr. Martin. Despite this support, Willard is now determined to get rid of the rats. In a fight with the rats, he is injured and kills Ben madly. The arriving police, who actually wanted to question him about Martin's death, took Willard to a psychiatric institution. Willard vegetates there, appears apathetic and finally wins a white rat again as a friend.

criticism

“In the main role played with the courage to excess, whereby the feelings of the character are taken seriously and their psychopathic properties can be derived from the tragedy of his everyday life. But the concept only lasted until the remake of the original from 1970 brought the rats to the fore as instruments of revenge. That takes away the substance of the portrait of a person whose longing for love does not stop at a rat ”, so the lexicon of the international film sums up .

Locations

Film music

The song Ben , sung by Michael Jackson and composed by Walter Scharf and Don Black , is used in one scene and in the credits .

background

Gambian hamster rat
  • The budget for the film was estimated at $ 22 million.
  • Producers Glen Morgan and James Wong long wrote and produced the X-Files . Hence the cat that Cathryn brings as a present for Willard is called Scully.
  • In preparation for the shooting, over 500 mostly brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) were trained. According to their trained skills, they were divided into groups and given numbers on the underside of the tail to distinguish them. Ben was represented by a giant hamster rat (cricetomys gambianus) . This species is considered to be particularly docile. The rats were trained by animal trainers Kim Bonham, William Grisco, Tracy Gardhouse and Drew Thompson, among others.

Award

  • 2004: Winner of the CSC Award in the category: Best Cinematography in Theatrical Feature (Best Camera in a Motion Picture)
  • 2004 nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Actor for Crispin Glover.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Premiere dates
  2. ↑ Willard. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ locations
  4. ↑ Soundtrack
  5. ↑ List of composers on starpulse.com
  6. ↑ budget
  7. ↑ a b c Trivia (English)
  8. ↑ picture gallery
  9. ↑ Tracy at work
  10. ↑ Drew at work
  11. ↑ Awards (English)