Fantastic Mr. Fox (film)

The Fantastic Mr. Fox ( original English Title: Fantastic Mr. Fox) is an American stop motion animated film from 2009, based on the homonymous children's book by Roald Dahl. The film was produced by Regency Enterprises and Indian Paintbrush for 20th Century Fox and was nominated for Best Animated Film in 2010 for an Oscar.

Action

The two foxes Mr. Fox and his wife Felicity are the usual chicken stealing on a farm, as they are locked in a fox trap. As Felicity then confesses to him that she is pregnant, Mr. Fox promises her to look into the future a safer profession. He writes from now on columns in a newspaper.

Two years later (12 fox years) lead Mr. and Mrs. Fox and her son Ash a peaceful life in a hole in the ground. From Mr Fox ' desire to move to the Burrow converted tree, despite the warnings about the dangerous environment. Not far are namely the large factories of the infamous farmers Walter Boggis, Nathan Bunce, and Franklin Bean. Moved into the new home, the family also gets the company of Ash's cousin Kristofferson, since his father is suffering from a serious illness. As Kristofferson in the new environment soon everyone, including Mr. Fox, thrilled with his athletic talent, Ash becomes increasingly jealous and is often mean to him.

The old days vermissend Mr. Fox decides to steal together with caretaker Kylie Oppossum the three farmers. His plan to make a factory every night, seems to be working, but the farmers feel in retrospect the thief on and decide to wait before the tree and shoot him. When Mr. Fox is just leaving his home with Kylie, the farmers open fire, but merely shoot Mr. Fox's tail off. They decide to dig up the building, after which the family inside to flee far digs down.

The three farmers besiege in the sequence with the support of its workforce, the entire environment because the foxes back sooner or later have to because of lack of food and water to the surface. Deep down, take it straight to the other neighboring animals who now also stuck in the ground. To escape starvation, summarizes Mr. Fox a plan: Through a tunnel system, the animals dig underground access to the factories of the peasants to take from there all the food in the ground. While the animals then triumphantly hold a great feast, Ash and Kristofferson come back to Beans Farm, with the intention of Mr. Fox's tail zurückzustehlen. The mission fails because the two find that Bean uses the tail as a tie, and he is therefore unattainable. When they are then surprised by Beans woman, Ash manages to escape though, but Kristofferson is captured.

The other animals experience a setback when the three farmers flood the entire surface with the produced in bean factory cider and she flushed into sewer system. There tightly to know the animals that farmers Kristofferson hold hostage and release him as soon as Mr. Fox is at their mercy. However, the animals meet beans guard rat, the whereabouts Kristofferson abandons them after he is mortally wounded in a fight with Mr. Fox.

Mr. Fox is before then to enter into barter and handed himself, whereupon the peasants to share one of the outputs in the city. You plan an ambush, but the animals come to them beforehand and launch a counterattack. Meanwhile, Mr. Fox, Kylie and Ash sneak in Beans Farm, where the latter apologized for his behavior Kristofferson and freed him. Outside they already expect Boggis, Bunce and Bean, including armed support, but Ash manages a patient suffering from rabies Beagle loose on the crowd. This gives them the escape, but is subsequently Beans Tie, Mr. Fox's tail, torn.

The animals get used to life in the sewers where soon others will move. Ash and Kristofferson are now good friends. Finally, Mr Fox leads his family to a drain opening that is located directly in a supermarket of Boggis, Bunce and Bean, what will be the food source for the inhabitants in the sewer in the future. Here also reveals Felicity that she is pregnant again, after which the animals celebrating dance in the aisles of the department store. Ignorant on this drive to the airport awaiting the three peasants again relentlessly at the site of the original ambush in the city, in the hope that the fox may someday appear but from lack of food in the sewers yet.

Production

It was directed by Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach wrote the screenplay. The film is based on the book by Roald Dahl, but the story was expanded for the film. The content of the template corresponds approximately to the second act of the film. The film music was contributed by Alexandre Desplat.

Schwarzman opted for a traditional stop-motion style without further digital retouching to make the film seem rough and unpolished. This technique implies that were used instead of the usual film 24 images per second to 12, which were then each duplicated.

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Reception

The film was nominated for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score at the 2010 Academy Awards in the categories. In addition, the production in the same year was awarded the Annie Award for Best Screenplay.

"In times of photo-realistic computer animations à la Pixar ( top ) applies the time-consuming stop-motion process in which handmade figures for each setting minimal change and are then filmed as outdated. Allen doomsayers reactivated Anderson this technique and created using thousands of hand-crafted characters and scenes in miniature a colorful fantasy world, in the fox and rabbit say good night. But so lovingly Anderson has paid attention to the equipment by the jagged spoken dialogues Mr. Fox and his loved ones act brittle and clarified. An emotional bond to the puppet theater set up, thus difficult despite the nunancierten and airy soundtracks. Conclusion: Wonderfully equipped animated adventure for adults, but is lacking in heart. "

" The similarities in the plot cover, how much the film version of the book is different. Behind Dahl's children's book a really great combative attitude ( steal from the rich, give it to the poor ), Wes Anderson has managed to transfer the story complete in its own cosmos in which it is less about ideology than about the neuroses of the main characters. That may be criticized as Escapism, undeniable, however, that no other director in Hollywood knows such obvious enforce his own personal vision. "