Miracle (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | wonder |
| Original title | Wonder |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
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| Director | Stephen Chbosky |
| script | Stephen Chbosky, Steve Conrad , Jack Thorne |
| production |
David Hoberman , Todd Lieberman |
| music | Marcelo Zarvos |
| camera | Don Burgess |
| cut | Mark Livolsi |
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Wunder (Original title: Wonder ) is an American drama directed by Stephen Chbosky , which was released in US cinemas on November 17, 2017 and in German cinemas on January 25, 2018. The film is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Raquel J. Palacio from 2012.
action
Ten-year-old August "Auggie" Pullman is a fifth grader and Star Wars fan who lives in North River Heights, Upper Manhattan. He has a rare medical facial deformity called Treacher Collins Syndrome . Because of this, he had to undergo numerous facial operations. So far, Auggie has been homeschooled by his mother Isabel, but now Isabel and Auggie's father Nate decide to enroll him in Beecher Prep , a private school, for the start of middle school . At first, Auggie is shunned by almost all students, but he soon becomes friends with Jack Will.
Auggie wears an old Ghostface mask and costume on Halloween . Unrecognized, he walks around school in the certainty that he will not be teased by anyone incognito. As he walks through the door of his classroom, he overhears Jack saying to Julian Albans that he is just pretending to be friends with Auggie and that he would rather kill himself if he looked like August. Disappointed, Auggie Beecher wants to leave Prep and return to home schooling with his mother, but his older sister Olivia, called "Via", prevents him. Auggie later confides the incident to another friend, a girl named Summer, but swears her to secrecy. When Jack notices that Auggie has become quiet and aloof, he asks Summer why, but she only gives him the term "Ghostface" as a clue. Jack is dismayed when he suddenly realizes that Auggie was under the Ghostface costume and overheard everything he said to Julian. Julian wants Jack to switch partners in order to work with him instead of Auggie on a science fair project, but Jack refuses. When Julian asks Jack why he wants to work with this "freak", Jack slaps him angrily in the face and a fight ensues between the two, which is interrupted by the teachers Mr. Browne and Ms. Petosa. Jack is suspended for two days and decides not to tell Julian because he knows it wasn't his fault. He later wrote a letter of apology to Mr. Tushman, the headmaster. Jack apologizes to Auggie and asks if they can be friends again, to which Auggie says yes.
During the rest of the school year, Auggie is repeatedly bullied by Julian and his group. They leave hurtful notes on his desk and stick his class photo, from which he was digitally cut out and therefore missing from the photo, to his locker. When Mr. Tushman later confronts Julian and his parents about it and shows all of the notes and the edited picture as evidence, Julian's mother Sarah admits that she cut Auggie out of the photo to make it look better in front of her friends back home. She also insists that school shouldn't be inclusive and that Auggie shouldn't belong there. Despite her threats to withdraw her funding and take Julian out of school, Tushman suspended Julian for two days. Julian then shows remorse towards Tushman for his actions against Auggie.
Meanwhile, Via is ignored by her best friend Miranda. It's gradually becoming clear that this is due to Miranda claiming during a summer camp that Via's life was just like her own because she and her parents have a very cool relationship with one another. With Justin, whom Via initially pretends to be an only child like himself, she has a close friendship that develops into a romantic relationship. He's on the high school drama group that Via joins, selected to star as the understudy behind Miranda; Justin plays the male lead.
When Isabel and Nate found out about the performance, although Via hadn't told them about it, they wanted to go to it. Auggie gets angry when he learns not to come, attributes it to his appearance and storms into his room. Via invites Auggie to a theater performance. Immediately before the performance, Miranda, feeling guilty about being alienated from Via, pretends to be sick and lets Via play the lead role. Via receives a standing ovation, and Justin and Miranda all go home to the Pullmans to celebrate.
When Auggie and Jack are attacked by seventh graders from another school during a school trip to a nature reserve, their classmates rush to defend them. Obviously they have learned to accept Auggie as one of their own. During the graduation ceremony at the end of the school year, Tushman announces that Auggie has been selected for the Henry Ward Beecher Medal to recognize students who are exceptional and remarkable. Auggie would have moved most hearts with his silence. He receives a standing ovation and the film ends with everyone applauding Auggie and Isabel commenting that he is a "miracle".
Film analysis
The film is based on the New York Times bestseller Wonder by Raquel J. Palacio from 2012, a book for children and young people that was published in a German translation under the title Wonder with the additional title "Do not look at me".
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung says that the Pullmans are just one of many families, and that every child brings a story to school, which gradually creates a mosaic of deformations, of which Auggie's is only one particularly visible. Thomas Vorwerk von Filmstarts explains that Auggie remains the protagonist of the story in the film, but that his perspective is given up after a while: “Little by little, new narrative voices appear, each of which leads us through a few scenes. We experience what is happening for a while from their point of view. At first, Auggie's sister Via comes to the fore, who admittedly loves him idolatrously, but sometimes also suffers from the fact that the parents' attention is clearly focused on her brother. ”Three children and young people from Auggie's circle would get their own in the course of the film Voices, Vorwerk continues, adding new facets to the plot, maintaining the narrative tension and constantly expanding the spectrum of emotions. The focus of the action is always Auggie, but the multi-perspective all-round view ultimately also reveals the hidden intentions and the carelessness of some characters and thus the causes of the many small and large conflicts that shape the everyday life of young people, according to Vorwerk.
production
Directed by Stephen Chbosky , who adapted Palacio's novel for the film together with Steve Conrad and Jack Thorne .
Jacob Tremblay can be seen in the film in the role of August Pullman, called Auggie. Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson play his parents Isabel and Nate.
The soundtrack was composed by Marcelo Zarvos . The soundtrack to the film includes 21 pieces of music, was released on November 17, 2017 by Milan Records and also contains songs by The White Stripes , Natalie Merchant , Butterfly Boucher and Passion Pit .
The film was also released in US cinemas on November 17, 2017, in Chinese cinemas on January 19, 2018 and in German cinemas on January 25, 2018.
reception
Reviews
The film received positive ratings from 85 percent of Rotten Tomatoes critics .
Owen Gleiberman calls the film in the Variety "very tasty, heart-warming drama full of disarmingly prudent empathy" that "with wit, confidence and grace [...] from the current climate American bullying" tell. He shows, finely tuned, "what bullying actually means: children seal off their feelings and surrender to their darker side in order to feel superior." But the bully are "not born bad", but Auggie's presence is a "threat to their coolness." at school". The film shows a "deep understanding of the complex personalities of children".
Bert Rebhandl of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung explains that Stephen Chbosky's film is about the learning processes triggered by an outsider who many would have simply dismissed as a “freak” in the past: “Auggie has to learn the most himself, luckily he is gifted and has to do not struggle too hard with school tasks - which in turn gives him the image of a nerd, which also gives him a stigma. "
Fritz Göttler from the Süddeutsche Zeitung describes Auggie as a Major Tom who withdrew into his very own space. The atmosphere of normality that the parents and sister, the teachers and later various schoolmates create around Auggie, goes to the limit of the pathetic, so Göttler.
The German Film and Media Review (FBW) knew miracle with the predicate particularly valuable . In the jury's statement: “As a film adaptation of the original of the same name, Steve Chbosky succeeds in miraculously creating a touching entertainment film that also contains an important message at its core: A person's appearance can never mean as much as what a person does or does . The well-chosen score and soundtrack always has a visual equivalent in the individual scenes and sequences, the film never crosses the border to kitsch, but still touches you deeply, which is also due to the great performance of the cast. "
Gross profit
After its release, the film reached number 1 on the cinema charts in a number of countries, such as Australia, Brazil and Germany, where it had around 1.3 million visitors. The worldwide revenue of the film so far amounts to around 306 million US dollars.
Use in school lessons
In spring 2019, the film was presented as part of the SchulKinoWochen in Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria.
Awards
On December 18, 2017, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Marcelo Zarvos ' work was on a shortlist from which the nominations for the Best Film Music category at the 2018 Academy Awards were made. At about the same time, the Academy announced that the film was also in the shortlist, from which the nominees in the categories of Best Make-up and Best Hairstyles were determined. The following is a selection of nominations for other film awards.
Artios Awards 2018
- Nomination in the Big Budget Comedy category
British Academy Film Awards 2018
- Nomination for the best make-up and the best hairstyles ( Naomi Bakstad , Robert A. Pandini and Arjen Tuiten )
- Nomination for the best make-up and the best hairstyles ( Arjen Tuiten )
Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2018
- Nomination for Best Young Actor ( Jacob Tremblay )
- Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay ( Jack Thorne , Steve Conrad and Stephen Chbosky )
- Nomination for the best hair & make-up
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards 2017
- Nomination for Best Young Actor (Jacob Tremblay)
Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2018
- Award for the best make-up and the best hairstyles (Arjen Tuiten)
Web links
- Miracle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Miracles . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 174460 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for miracles . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b Bert Rebhandl: Who looks like a star? In: FAZ.net . January 28, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/232132/kritik.html
- ↑ 'Wonder' soundtrack details. In: Film Music Reporter. October 19, 2017. Retrieved October 25, 2017 (American English).
- ↑ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lionsgates-wonder-lands-china-release-date-1068189
- ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved October 25, 2017.
- ↑ Wonder In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved August 9, 2019.
- ^ Owen Gleiberman: Film Review 'Wonder'. Variety , archived from the original on December 13, 2017 ; accessed on January 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Fritz Göttler: How much normality can there be for a disfigured child. In: sueddeutsche.de . January 30, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018 .
- ↑ miracles. Jury reasons: Predicate particularly valuable In: German film and media evaluation . Retrieved December 30, 2017.
- ↑ Top 100 Germany 2018 In: insidekino.com. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
- ↑ Wonder In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved August 9, 2019.
- ↑ Film selection. In: schulkinowoche-bw.de. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
- ↑ Film overview. In: schulkinowochen.nrw.de. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
- ↑ Zack Sharf: Oscars 2018: Best Original Score Shortlist Includes 'The Shape of Water', 'All the Money in the World' and More In: indiewire.com, December 18, 2017.
- ↑ Carolyn Giardina: Oscars: A Look at the Work Behind the Hair and Makeup Contenders In: The Hollywood Reporter, December 22, 2017.
- ↑ Patrick Hipes: Artios Awards Film Nominations Unveiled In: deadline.com, January 2, 2018.
- ↑ Kristopher Tapley, 'Shape of Water' Leads Critics' Choice Film Nominations In: Variety, December 6, 2017.
- ↑ 2017 Awards Winners ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) 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. In: phoenixfilmcriticssociety.org. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
- ↑ Matt Fernandez: Variety Artisan Awards to Honor Rachel Morrison, Alexandre Desplat and More at Santa Barbara Film Festival In: Variety, February 2, 2018.
