Frankenweenie (2012 film)
Frankenweenie is an IMAX 3D black and white stop motion film made in 2012, and is a remake of the eponymous short film from 1984, which also was directed by Tim Burton. Frankenweenie contains elements from the genres of comedy, horror and science fiction and parodies the novel Frankenstein. The film was produced by the Walt Disney Company and marketed by its subsidiary, Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group.
Frankenweenie premiered on September 20, 2012 at the Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. In the cinema of the United States of the film on October 5, 2012 began; in Germany, Austria and Switzerland appeared Frankenweenie on 24 January 2013.
Action
The student Victor Frankenstein is a young filmmaker who lives with his parents in the city of New Holland. While Victor plays baseball, running his dog Sparky the ball afterwards, it is run over by a car and dies. Inspired by his science teacher Rzykruski which moves with electrical impulses, the muscles of dead frogs, the depressed Victor tried to revive the same way his dead dog, which he manages. Victor school neighbor Edgar Gore noticed that and wants to know how Victor has accomplished the miracle, also because a science contest was held, Edgar and want the other to win. Edgar threatens to expose Victor's act. Of necessity, Victor now leads through another experiment together with Edgar. You bring a goldfish to live, but which is invisible, the Edgar then shows the classmates. Students raise more animals to life, but monsters, while Victor's parents dismay find that Sparky lives again. As Victor noted that the resuscitated animals attack people, he is going to help his classmates. The animals can be eliminated or return by electric shocks to its original behavior. Meanwhile, learn the townspeople of Sparky and hunt down the dog. This runs toward a windmill to help the niece of the mayor, Elsa and her poodle Persephone, who were kidnapped by a mutation of the cat Mr. Whiskers and a bat, and also Victor runs after them. While Victor is in the mill, the mob lights it accidentally. Victor faints and is rescued by Sparky. Sparky but dragged by the creature in the mill back. After a brief battle, it is pierced by a beam. Shortly thereafter, the mill collapses and dies Sparky again. The neighbors who realize their mistake, Sparky awaken with their car batteries back to life.
Background
Production
The movie was filmed with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera in the 3 Mills Studios, a studio in East London. Later, the images were converted to 3D and IMAX format. Burton, who had only turn in black and white animated film, the consent of Disney got problems. According to him, the movie gets by " an additional, slightly peculiar emotional depth that would have been different in color."
The music was composed as before in numerous movies Tim Burton's, by Danny Elfman. The individual figures were made by hand. In total, more than 200 dolls were built for the film, including 18 and 15 Victors Sparky. The duplicates were needed, as always worked several animators simultaneously on different scenes and repairs to the dolls were every now and then due. The plot locations were modeled areas of Burton's childhood.
Synchronization
Marketing
In October 2011, the first images were released for the film. The first trailer was released on 6 March 2012. Shortly before the first teaser trailer was released.
Grossing
In the United States Frankenweenie came on its opening weekend with a box office earnings of 11.5 million U.S. dollars in fifth place. With a total box office earnings of date almost 50 million dollars, the film flopped, the required 39 million for production costs.
Reviews
" Frankenweenie is specially designed for the younger audiences a charming introduction to older horror classics and shines with a sympathetic puppet ensemble in which mainly Sparky was able to conquer the hearts of the audience. It is refreshing to be able to see Tim Burton after mediocre film productions such as DARK SHADOWS or ALICE IN WONDERLAND with such a heartwarming movie artwork again on cinema screens. True to the motto: Back to the roots "!
" There is much to discover and enjoy at " Frankenweenie ", its populated by grotesque cartoon characters 1950s small town about or his flirtations with the trash- and B-movie film history, which is so essential for Burton. Monster and science fiction movies, old-fashioned horror, slapstick humor: quite unlike Hazanavicius and Scorsese 's Frankenweenie quite sure lowbrow, it is not mourned the decay of a large, valuable culture, but celebrates the resistiveness a cheap ".
" Nice to Tim Burton's long dry spell with so überkandidelten as wayward films whose aesthetic Digital Gloss nothing showed on the material resistiveness earlier Burton films and instead, in each sealed picture only told of technical feasibility, after the first glimmer of hope " Dark Shadows " now can be regarded as final finished ... So Burton succeeds not only one of the finest tributes to the classic horror movies, but also to a few years ago still endangered art of handmade film. The signs are piling up, the stop-motion film but is not yet the case for the cemetery in film history. In the jubilation you vote like with one: " It's Alive! " "
" Impressively, it is possible to combine Tim Burton 's underdog theme with a coming- of-age picture and the flair of a horror film of the early last century. The dreamy sincerity is interwoven with the bursting with love devotion to his characters from "Edward Scissorhands " and the loose playfulness of the adventures of " Pee- Wee's crazy adventure " - and eventually develop a cinematic experience as Tim Burton yet never was the case. "
Awards
- 2012: New York Film Critics Circle Award ( Best Animated Film )
- 2012: Boston Society of Film Critics for best animated film
- 2012: Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards / Best Animation
- 2013: Oscar: nomination for Best Animated Feature Film
- 2013: Golden Globe Awards 2013: Nomination for Best Animated Film