127 Hours
- James Franco: Aron Ralston
- Kate Mara: Kristi
- Amber Tamblyn: Megan
- Clémence Poésy: Rana
- Treat Williams: Aron's father
- Kate Burton: Aron's mother
- Lizzy Caplan: Aron's sister
127 Hours is a biographical film of the year 2010. Directed by Danny Boyle, who also produced the film and collaborated on the screenplay. Lead actor James Franco plays the climber Aron Ralston, who was trapped in 2003 for more than five days in Robbers Roost by a stone. The film is based on the book written by Ralston autobiography Between a Rock and a Hard Place, and was adapted by Boyle and Simon Beaufoy for the cinema. 127 Hours premiered on September 4, 2010.
Action
While Ralston climbs through a canyon near Canyonlands National Park in Utah, he meets two women who find their way bad. Ralston performs both a piece of the canyon and is later invited to a party. After the adoption, he continues to run and wants to climb a piece in a column. He clings to a rock which dissolves and then pinches his right arm on a rock wall after a brief case. After he fails to move the stone, he tries in vain to crush this with his pocket knife. His improvised pulley has the use of carabiner instead of diverting pulleys too much power loss in the system, also the climbing rope should be elastic. At night the temperatures drop to 44 ° F ( 6.7 ° C). After one day he finds that his hand is lack of blood circulation already dead. Then he tried with his pocket knife to amputate the arm. However, this does not succeed, because the diameter is too blunt to cut through bone.
Soon Ralston begins under water, to hallucinate food and lack of sleep. He thinks about his life and evokes memories of his friends and family to mind, for he turns farewell videos with his camcorder.
After five sleepless days and nights, cool and almost died of thirst, Ralston sees a vision of his future son. He makes use of the leverage effect of the stone advantage and breaks the ulna and radius. He then cut with the saw his multitool the tissue and amputated his arm. He abseils from 20 meters before it is finally, after a walk found by other hikers and rescued by helicopter.
At the end, the audience learns that Ralston still climbs and already has a child, but now always leaves a message where he 's going.
Production
The film was made with an estimated budget of 18 million U.S. dollars. In the scene at the beginning of the film, in which Aron tries to liberate by force of the boulder, Boyle let the camera run 22 minutes, in the Franco everything should try to break away from the rocks. The original video clips that Aron Ralston has turned into the crevice, he had previously shown only his family and close friends. But for director Boyle and starring Franco Ralston made an exception and allowed them to watch the videos a few days before filming began in order thus to be able to empathize more in this hopeless situation.
Analysis
Visual Style
Was on visual effects, except for the rain scene, largely dispensed with, preferred film techniques are makeup, camera movements and special props. To realize Boyle's efforts to this trip to bind the audience emotionally, a number of measures have been taken. Thus, for example, in 16:9 ( 1.77:1 ) format, and filmed not as usual in the 21:9 ( 2.33:1 ). This method is commonly used in television films and series, but has also been in some Hollywood productions such as Avatar - applied Film Title and Alice in Wonderland. There, too, so they wanted to achieve an emotional bond with the audience with the action. This phenomenon is due to the fact that the aspect ratio is closer to the golden ratio. In addition, the film turns often to the split-screen technique to make Arons parallel thought processes manageable.
Dramaturgy
After a very speedy intro, in which Aron with his mountain bike crosses the canyon and repeatedly jumping with two women in a karst cave with water, the pace of the film slows down more and more. The element of water is also during this time and again shown before the accident and in photomicrographs, so as to represent Aron's strong desire for liquid. Precisely the jump scene does not appear in the original book and was made only from that very purpose. Often memories of Aron's childhood and youth are shown, which he commented by parallel assembly. When he is then no longer with the time psychologically up to par, Aron has a number of hallucinations, for example, that an inflatable Scooby- Doo figure in the cave that riders on the crevice in which it is clamped jump, or that it suddenly starts to rain, but then he can free himself, staggers to his car and drove to his former girlfriend and asks to be let in, but which does not comply with. Also occurs every morning on a raven is meant to symbolize freedom.
Publication
After its release in Austria and Germany on 17 February 2011, the film was released on 29 July on DVD and Blu -ray. While on the DVD version, apart from the Digital Copy of the film, no extras are present, are on the Blu- Ray version numerous specials such as an audio commentary with the rod, deleted scenes, an alternate ending and mini - making-ofs. In the Blu- Ray version of the DVD is going to relate to the Digital Copy can.
The German free-TV premiere took place on April 1, 2013 at 20:15 instead of on the ProSieben. The audience was 1.97 million, representing a market share of 5.6%. In Austria, the film was first aired on July 28, 2013, one ORF on free TV.
Awards (selection)
- Nomination in the category Best Film for Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and John Smithson
- Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle
- Nomination in the category Best Actor for James Franco
- Nomination in the category Best Music for AR Rahman
- Nomination in the category Best Song for AR Rahman, Rollo Armstrong and Dido ( If I Rise )
- Nomination in the category for Best Editing Jon Harris
- Nomination in the category Best Actor - Drama for James Franco
- Nomination in the category Best Screenplay for Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle
- Nomination in the category Best Music for AR Rahman
- Nomination in the category Best British film for Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and John Smithson
- Nomination for Best Director for Danny Boyle
- Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle
- Nomination in the category Best Actor for James Franco
- Nomination for Best Cinematography for Anthony Dod Mantle and Enrique Chediak
- Nomination in the category Best Music for AR Rahman
- Nomination in the category for Best Editing Jon Harris
- Nomination in the category Best Sound for Glenn Freemantle, Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Steven C Laneri and Douglas Cameron
- Nomination in the category Best Film for Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and John Smithson
- Nomination for Best Director for Danny Boyle
- Nomination for Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards / Best Screenplay for Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle
- Nomination in the category Best Actor for James Franco
- Nomination for Best Cinematography for Anthony Dod Mantle and Enrique Chediak
- Award in the category Best Song for AR Rahman, Rollo Armstrong and Dido ( If I Rise )
- Nomination in the category Best Sound for Glenn Freemantle, Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Steven C Laneri and Douglas Cameron
- Nomination in the category for Best Editing Jon Harris
- Nomination for Best Picture - Drama for Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and John Smithson
- Nomination for Best Director for Danny Boyle
- Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle
- Nomination in the category Best Actor for James Franco
- Nomination for Best Visual Effects for James Winnifrith, Adam Gascoyne and Tim Caplan
- Nomination in the category Best Music for AR Rahman
- Nomination in the category of Best Original Song for AR Rahman, Rollo Armstrong and Dido ( If I Rise )
- Nomination in the category Best sound mixing for Glenn Freemantle, Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Steven C Laneri and Douglas Cameron
- Award in the category for Best Adapted Screenplay Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy
- Nomination in the category Best Actor for James Franco