The Fountain

The Fountain (around the fountain or the source ) is a centuries umspannender science fiction film of the American director and screenwriter Darren Aronofsky from the year 2006. Plot unfolds over three interlocked layers of time and tells the story of a search for the fountain of youth in the form of a living organism where the topics " love, death, immortality, and the fragility of human existence " dominate.

The premiere took place at the 63rd Venice Film Festival, in Germany the movie from the 18 January 2007 was to be seen in theaters.

Action

The film consists of three interwoven storylines that include a total of a period of 1000 years:

As the film unfolds, these three time worlds are linked together by recurring symbols ( the wedding ring, the tree of life, the constellation, the fog of Xibalba, and others) and so tell a story of the quest for eternal life. The fear of death and of the loss is repeated in every era, through reincarnation is a new story. The rebirth is less a new opportunity to change the destiny, as an urge to experience it again and again, until the redemption. The source of eternal life lies not in finding a cure (the tree of eternal life ), but in accepting the death, in entering into the cycles of nature.

Production

On April 21, 2001 Darren Aronofsky announced that he was planning a yet unnamed, epic science fiction film produced by Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow; you stand in " serious negotiations " with Brad Pitt for the lead role. In addition to trying to win Cate Blanchett for the project. Aronofsky said he wanted to make a sci-fi film that goes beyond technology and science, the interesting things are " the ideas; the search for God, the search for meaning. " It is also the " most ambitious thing [ he ] ever did, and the biggest challenge ." After several delays due to problems during pre-production and Blanchett's pregnancy, the production should start with a budget of over 70 million U.S. dollars.

Two months before the start of production Brad Pitt left the project in order to devote himself to the movie Troy. Despite rumors that it had been given during the pre-production " creative differences" between Pitt and Aronofsky, gave the latter in an interview for the record, the break was not Pitt's fault: " The ultimate reason why [ the The Fountain - production ] has been canceled, has to do with Brad, but Brad is not responsible for it. He came to Australia, but the reason for this is many different things and has to do both with some personal settings, as well as previously in another film made ​​experiences. " After Pitts cancellation, the project was shelved.

On 27 February 2004, The Fountain of Aronofsky with the help of Warner Bros., but a budget of only 35 million U.S. dollars, revived. Previously realized Aronofsky, after the bursting of the project with Pitt, his idea, however, as the same comic for Vertigo ( a sub- label of DC Comics ). Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz have been contracted to replace Pitt and Blanchett in the lead roles. Production began in November 2004, was filmed in 2005 by him.

Reviews

In the IMDb, the film is, however, on 20 November 2013 in 7.2 of 10 points (just under 147,000 votes), on Rotten Tomatoes at 51%, in the audience rating at 73 %.

" A not always easy to decrypting, visually powerful attempt to prepare mankind moving subject by the allegories and symmetries of three interwoven stories in a very individual way for a trained on fantasy films audience. - Interesting "

" [ ... ] Spectacular images with tremendous suggestive power [ ... ] The great merit of Darren Aronofsky is to want to create cinematic worlds that must be regarded as unfilmable. [ ... ] Great movie! - Predicate: Especially valuable "

" [ ... ] A stunning, intoxicating journey through three different age, a mythic- visionary cinema trip with the theme of life and death and immortality. An overwhelming and intoxicating film from which I went out so excited that I have considered it to me in the next press showing the same again. , The Fountain ' is a film that is addictive. Addicted to these incredibly beautiful images of the universe, after the mysterious events in this feverish, dripping, dark jungle, the troubling results of this tremendously exciting search for a cure. [ ... ] And then it's just a joy to watch the fantastic actors. "

" Darren Aronofsky wallows with, The Fountain ', also a U.S. major order, 97 long minutes in Eso - kitsch. [ ... ] The images salad in 'The Fountain', however, is done at its best, alternating in a cascade tireless Central perspectives between the 16th century and the present. [ ... ] With exquisite pathos and visually and acoustically predominantly golden tones of the film celebrates its mix of Mayan culture, Christianity and Buddhism. "

"Images of floating beauty in 'The Fountain' - [ ... ] Esoteric Quark, implausible love story, half-baked myths recycling. [ ... ] No masterpiece, but ambitious, original and strangely short. "

" Then there's the trash that is not intended as such, the worst category of all: the mutant to disaster art film. The long-awaited, The Fountain ' by Darren Aronofsky is such a copy [ ... ] Especially around the actors can do a sufferer. [ ... ] Art supposed to be laden with meaning and importance. In fact, it's just banal, pretentious and annoying. "

2006 in film Screenplay Arnon Milchan Film score Clint Mansell Jay Rabinowitz (editor) Conquistador Maya civilization Film budgeting Troy (film) Vertigo (DC Comics) Black Swan (film)
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