Somewhere in Time (film)

Somewhere in Time ( Alternative title: A woman from years past ) is an American film drama from the year 1980, the film adaptation of the 1975- published novel Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson tells the tragic story of a young writer, played by Christopher Reeve, who. in love with an old photo of an actress, played by Jane Seymour, and in the time travels back to know that love.

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On the " Millfield College " is the aspiring writer Richard Collier from an old confused woman an old pocket watch with a request that he should return to her, passed. Even before Richard can wonder, she disappears again and goes to his home, where she died shortly thereafter.

Eight years later, Richard is an acclaimed best-selling author in Chicago, who suffers not only from the deadline, but also from a writer's block, so he takes his car and drives to the country, to clear your head. Along the way he discovered it for him completely unknown Grand Hotel, where he checks in for one night. But since he can not sit still in his room, he uses the time and stroll through the building and discovered the "Hall of History" a small room, where he discovers an old nameless painting of a woman with whom he immediately falls in love. And as he falls in love. He gets just not from the head, so he decides to find out who it is. After he found in the library that it is the actress Elise McKenna, he visited Laura Roberts, in which Elise lived until recently to find out more about them. He discovered not only that the old lady who once gave him the clock, Elise McKenna is, but her 1912 experienced a fate that made ​​a moody, lonely and reclusive lady from a fun-loving young woman.

However, Richard also discovered a book about time travel from his old professor. He looks at him and wonders how such is possible. This means that you can create the time jump by a perfect, each time adapted, environment and self-hypnosis. So Richard sets out to put on a historical suit and hairstyle looks for the room at the Grand Hotel and creates it after he found evidence of his journey through time and noticed that every object that does not fit the desired time, the hypnosis impossible makes a leap in time to June 27, 1912 to perform at 6 clock. He immediately embarks on the search for Elise and finds readily that they him without knowing who he is, also expected. But it is also distant and considers him a pushy fan, so she lets him stand with her ​​manager, William Fawcett Robinson, go away.

But Richard does not give up and after a common dance in which he is then thrown out of Robinson, he manages to spend an afternoon with Elise at the lake. It also falls in love with Elise Richard and tells her that her manager once told me that one day the only true love will appear for them and they will cancel only for this one man. Richard gives her the pocket watch that once gave him and they both go to her room, where their subsequent kiss from Robinson is interrupted. He is horrified that his protégé another man throws himself to his neck and Elise is angry that Robinson here exceeds the boundaries of the professional relationship between the two.

In the evening visited Richard the play, in which Elise has the main role, and is charmed by their game. She herself has on stage a longer text passage, with which to go through her ​​feelings and it modifies the text and indirectly speaks with Richard, where she says out loud on the stage, that she loves him. And so excited Richard this is so horrified, Robinson, he sees that he apparently loses his actress, so he can order Richard to the outside. Richard receives the message until shortly after he saw how desperate the photographer has tried to bring a smile to the Actress. Elise smiled only in love when she saw Richard, and so was the photo, in which in 1980 he fell in love. But this love is still standing in the way of Robinson, who explains to him outside the hotel that it does not even break his actress. But because Richard wants to know anything and his best intentions assured Robinson can beat him out, tie and throw them into the stables. Then he uses the favor of the hour, says a resolution Elise that Richard would leave forever, never to return and they would now leave.

When Richard can get out of the stall, he seeks Elise and believes, after he learned that they left immediately, never to see them again. But Elise did not stop and went back to the hotel and lucky Richard to close again in her arms. After they spend a night of passion, they have breakfast the next morning together and talk about their common future and Richards strange suit that was out of fashion for at least 15 years. When he wants but show her the suit and says how much he likes him, he discovers a dollar coin with the portrait of Abraham Lincoln from the year 1979. Since this coin, however, is not in this time, the hypnosis is obsolete and Richard has shocked find that he is catapulted back into his time, while simultaneously leaving a shocked and desperate Elise in 1912. The dejected and deeply struck Richard Naturally retried back through hypnosis in time, but he can not. He stays in his time hanging and is eaten by his pain of separation and heartache, so that he died after more than a week without food and only in Heaven his beloved Elise can close in his arms again.

Criticism

" Tragic ending melodrama in the scenes of a bygone era, the contemplative entertainment in an elegant staging, provides with good performers and mostly convincing design. "

"Somewhere in Time is the time travel exactly what was the Hindenburg airship. [ ... ] The screenplay is priceless ( funny ) and although both Miss Seymour and Christopher Plummer [ ... ] play credible, it is Mr. Reeve, who dictates the mood of the film. Unfortunately, the acting qualities that made ​​him such an ideal Superman, namely his unalloyed good looks, his granite profile, his radiant naivety and his eagerness just yet absurd. "

" Somewhere in Time wants us to share his sweeping romantic idealism about a love that is so great that it not only spans decades, but also violated the sanctity of the time. [ ... ] In his first film since Superman Reeve, however, may not particularly convincing. He looks a little dull and clumsy. He looks so serious despair in his love for the actress that he WOULD so every time he would squint. The whole movie is so solemn and so awesome to his subject that he is simply silly in the end. "

Background

Emergence of the novel

When the writer Richard Matheson traveled with his family across the country, he discovered the Piper's Opera House in Virginia City the photo of the actress Maude Adams, which he regarded as " great photography ". It inspired him so much that he fell in love with the picture and the woman, so he asked the question, " what if this would happen some guy who could travel back in time? " Then Matheson began about life to research Adams and was surprised by its seclusion. In order to write the novel, he rented several weeks into the Hotel del Coronado, where he expressed his impressions on a voice recorder and einfühlte in the role of Richard Collier. Adams served his character of Elise McKenna almost identical as a template. The title of the novel Bid Time Return arose from the line from Shakespeare's Richard II, from the second scene of the third act: " O call back yesterday, bid time return".

Differences between book and film

In the novel, Richard travels from the year 1971 to the year 1886, as he travels after 1912 in the film of 1980. In addition, the action of the Hotel del Coronado was moved to the Grand Hotel. While in the movie, the time travel is not doubted, Richard dies in the book of a brain tumor and the time travel is represented as a series of hallucinations. In addition, the scene does not exist with the clock in the novel and it is not even Robinson, who spoke of Richard's arrival, but two soothsayers who prophesied this.

Fan

In 1990, Bill Shepard with the International Network of Somewhere In Time Enthusiasts ( INSITE ) a fan club for the film, " both to the film, as well as all those who honor at the making of the film ." Insite initiated a memorial stone for the film on Mackinac Iceland, near the hotel where the film was shot. Additionally, the fan club paid 1997 Reeves star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and sponsored jointly with a Fanclub of the television series Dr. Quinn - Medicine Woman 1999 Seymour Stern. Additionally, the fan club organizes an annual weekend at the Grand Hotel, where all guests dressed for the film accordingly and celebrate with the filmmakers.

Awards

  • A nomination at the Academy Awards in 1981 for Best Costume Design
  • A nomination at the Golden Globe Awards in 1981 for Best Film Music
  • Three awards at the 1981 Saturn Awards ( Best Fantasy Film, Best Music, Best Costume Design ) and two nominations ( Best Leading Actor, Best Actress )
  • Two awards at the Fanta Festival ( Best Actor, Best Picture )

Production

The movie was filmed at the Grand Hotel, Mackinac the College, on Mackinac Iceland and in Chicago.

During filming, the director Jeannot Szwarc had to address problems in common scenes between Christopher Plummer and Christopher Reeve the right Chris, so he spoke with Mr. Plummer Plummer and Reeve with Bigfoot.

In the film, Richard Collier is talking to a Dr. Finney about his time travel book. This is an allusion to the writer, the other shore of the time, whose novel Jack Finney Return appeared five years before the original Bid Time and works with the same premise of time travel.

As is prohibited with the exception of emergency vehicles, the use of automobiles on Mackinac Iceland, the municipality had to issue a special permit during the shoot. The actual traffic is restricted to the island on horseback, buggy or bike.

The time completely unknown William H. Macy, Don Franklin and George Wendt each have a walk-on role in the film. Richard Matheson has a cameo appearance as a hotel guest and former guests of the hotel were hired as extras.

Publication

Originally a production budget of eight million dollars was budgeted for the film. Universal Studios wanted to produce the film, but only if it would cost four million. In the end, there were 5.1 million U.S. dollars. Because of an actor strikes Reeve and Seymour were forbidden to promote the film. However, the film was still able to import 9.7 million dollars at the box office after he started on 3 October 1980. In German-speaking countries, the film received no theatrical release and was released in West Germany in November 1986 only on VHS. On DVD the film on October 31, 2000 is available.

1980 in film Ray Stark Film score John Barry (composer) Isidore Mankofsky Jane Seymour (actress) Jiří Voskovec John Alvin (actor) Grand Hotel (Mackinac Island) Vincent Canby Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Virginia City, Nevada Mackinac Island 53rd Academy Awards Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Time and Again (novel)
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