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Soil, inflate and into the mull with you: "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

What should the child consume now? Unscrupulous mass mammal or educational pulp? On the one hand, young television consumers can be allowed in the morning with UBLEM cozy crushing crap, and on the other hand, on the same time, hysterical attempts can be kept parental with hysterical attempts, the brood of possibly all, which is supposedly polluting away. This often leads to the demand that positive figures in children’s stories have an ideal lifestyle and if it should be possible to use citizens. The talkerous pleasure remains on the track.

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Such Kaseglieckenadogik wants to keep children away from the fundamental Hollywood. The Americans often turn far more spirit in the children’s film than in their residual goods. The babe films were pretty not as cute as their main character looked, but intelligent type domodies, the characters in "Toy story" were more complex than six episodes Star Wars, and "Monsters Inc." Was the clear better "matrix". And then there is still Tim Burton, who is his productions like "Nightmare Before Christmas" or "Edward with the scissor hands" like to settle in near the child’s panic border. Also with his adult films, like "Sleepy Hollow", is not so easy to identify when the children’s march is stopped and the adult horror starts.

In addition to the horror icons Vincent Price and Christopher Lee, belong to Burton’s heroes also Roald Dahl, a writer, who most likely laugh at the children’s children over the greatness of life. The 1990 Dahl Dahl has loved his children’s stories with viechers, minus and bosewichters and just as pleasurably in the end of his very volatile justice. And Burton does it right now in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", a simple children’s history transformed with immense effort into a kind of psychedelic chocolate folk festival.

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The plot remains undesired Dunn: Charlie, a nice boy from poor conditions, wins a visit to the factory of Willy Wonka with his grandfather. The eccentric manufacturer is looking for a heir and, in addition to Charlie, also enjoys four peculiar competitors in the factory. After visiting the brandy production room and various unpleasons, however, only Charlie remains. Johnny Depp, so far too little praised for his comodiantentity, gives the Willy Wonka so embarrassing and got it just goes. The Irish David Kelly, known from "Long live Ned Devine" is the grandpa, and Deep Roy plays all Umpa Lumpas, that dwarfly, that the chocolate factory gets started.

It testifies to Burton’s stylish that he did not simply multiply Deep Roy computer. The actor had to play every single figure, after which the performances were called together to expensively dance scenes, such as a synchronous swimming in kind of Esther Williams. And otherwise, Burton does not overlook the computer technique overall, but sometimes accesses on incoming methods, for example on puppetry, building or just on real Eichhornchen. The result is a gigantic greater dream with edible grass, giant slivers and a chocolate waterfall. And as with Dahl much is close to the children’s album, the movie quite the humor and the drunkenness of the author.

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Attention, it is Walt Disney’s fault that the Americans are stingy, children’s stories had to be enriched with proper kitsch. Even Tim Burton seems to sue this misconception. Already at the horror for adults he has sometimes flirted with the Schmalz, just with his Dahl adaptation he makes it serious, though only on the edge and in a given form. But a Schlenz to Willy Wonka’s worse childhood (with Christopher Lee as a father) and a Hohelied on the family life, he probably could not resist. The task of showing the Charlie as a prototypical cute boy, unfortunately, he manages well. Too bad enough children – like Mogli, Wickie or the Horror Duo Tommi and Annika – are not really entertaining.

This terribly nice and normal Charlie, however, is surrounded by a quartet for the gland: there is the rewarded bonus daughter, the asocial fat bag, the fearsome smartshaw knirps, as well as a trimmed martial arts gore. These four are sucked away at Burton as at Dahl, inflated, shrunk to Blueberry, shrunk and thrown into the long stretched or just thrown into the mull. Little crowded, but fairly enjoyable. Who warns that you can not handle disgusting children, the MOGE can be sustained by the additional possibilities. Because Dahl also asks for the causes, for example after he has piled up the greedy little Veruca in the bubble:

Who Turned Her Into Search A Roast? Who Are the Culprits? WHO DID THAT?

Clear, the stupid parents are it. Namely the eternal mum, the ambitious monastery, the diaper soft educational teacher with the hair strands over the bald or just verucas dad, the heavy snob.

And that is Why We’re Glad They Fell Into the Rubbish Chute AS Well

Theest attack determines: Jonathan Demmes Polit-Paranoia movie "The Manchurian candidate"

A sleeper in the wife house. His name gives him the Manchurai – the stranger, Wisse Land, a mix, even more than China and the Soviet Union. Jonathan Demmes "The Manchurian candidate" is a successful paranoia thriller, the remake of one of the most important films of the US film history, and an electrifying parabola on the opposite matter – still in its weak is the film rating.

You did not like this mother. Cold and dead look like your eyes, the voice is sharp and as hard as your hairstyle, the movements are controlled as that of a machine. But the real machine is her son. In the war he became victims of a brainwash; From Auben considered a highly decorated, brave soldier, he is in truth inside, remotely controlled by strangers made in the brain implanted computer chip. Now he fights for the office of the US Vice-President, and there may be no doubt that he will soon reach all means according to the very first office of the state. A sleeper in the wife house.

"I am A Believer, I on Optimist." says his mother, as she has just enforced the candidacy of the son – for his wife – in the party bands. But this is a faith and a victory that the ahnelt, with the once the fascist hordes pulled her bloody track through the world. That a new fascism is drrewing, this time with a democratic face, is the unspoken thesis on which the movie "The Manchurian candidate" and Richard Condon based on this underlying, eponymous bestseller of 1959. Some hold the for pure paranoia, others, such as the US sociologist Richard Sennett, who just before the prassidal election before a "gentle fascism" warned, find it is something true turn – in any case, this is an excellent plot for a backward thriller, and small similarities and allusions to reality are absolutely intended.

A paranoia classic, an American history

Now Jonathan Demme has with "The silence of the Lambs" 1991 Weltruhm cried, but the promise of this epochal work could never be enlarged, filming the fabric – for the second time to John Frankenheimer, without his legendary, over 40 years old film adaptation the current new version is not to be understood. Frankenheimers "The Manchurian Candidate" is perhaps the most demanding political thriller ever made in the USA, one of the rough classics of US cinemas. He came to the cinema in 1962, and because in the end there is an assassination and he seemed a bad thing otherwise, the film landed after the murder of John F. Kennedy first in the poison cabinet. It was not until 1988 he was recreated with a broad audience – with sensational success.

Since the film had the career of director John Frankenheimer ("Seven Days in May", "Black Sunday", "Ronin") Wiederied, his title – by the movie, did not become the novel – already praised: he stands for political consporation, "Fifteen column", Gentle coup, brainwash. In 2000, for example, a rapporteur of the election campaign of George W asked. Bush, whether whose father once again as Viceprasident had been lusted only in the wife house to make sure, "that Reagan stays with the script", And in 2001, some in Washington described half jokingly, halfway in Ernst Monica Levinsky as "Manchurian intern" and speculated whether she had probably been lusted by the enemies of the prasident or even the Israeli secret service in the wife house to destabilize the government.

Even today, Frankenheimers version meets the first viewer no less under the belt line, like Hitchcocks "Psycho", Kubricks "Dr.Strange" or the films of Bergman and Antonioni from about the same time. Everything is overall at Frankenheimer, more shrill, as satirical, often on the border for absurd, so that you still suspect how weird and waterproof this has to have worked in 1962. An anarchist film beyond all Hollywood mainstream asthetics, disharmonious in every relationship. A game with the expectations and taboos of the audience, which will be in front of the head from the beginning. Government, Army and System are not "Well", American dead Americans, loving their beloved, and no cavalry rides at the end in saving gallop, especially: the conditions are impenetrable, mysterios. An anticipation of the Gelangweit-Starren "Corporate", Aliens and Zombies of the 70s cinema, which parasitar has undermined the majority company and transformed into a vanity dictatorship.

Film like book telling of G.I. Raymond, which in the Korean war in captivity and turned over by Russian and North Korean special agents, in one "Sleeper" is transformed – a killer machine that totes on a programmed code from patient cards and words. In the election campaign, it looks like the complicated plot, he should do the Prasidential candidate, so that the Vice candidate, Raymond’s stepfather, who can take power, who wants to communist communist with his mother communist communist. Frank Sinatra played the main role of Raymonds war chamers, as in "From here to Eternity" and "The man with the golden arm" a hero far everything "Heroic". Angela Lansbury plays the big role of her life as the mother the candidate. And also the ever-bold Janet Leigh has a striking appearance.

A dream of coming things

What the effect of the film, which is not attributable within the US culture of the sixties, is based not least in its open interpretation of the former political reality. Open will be open for example "Witch hunt" Played under McCarthy: 205 Communists, argued that in a famous speech in the early 1950s, saben alone in the US Foreign Ministry. In Frankenheimer’s film there is a scene in which the McCarthy modeled Senator Islin publicly accused the Minister of Defense, "The 207 Communists in the Ministry of Defense" to cover and threatens to name them. There are Bose, for all, for all, Communist Einsters, but also Bose Communists. There is no reason in this movie, trust in something, even in the functioning of the system.

The other is the lifer of the film. In shockingly prophetic way, Frankenheimer seemed anticipated, what came to be an envision of those political murders, which was shaken from the day of Dallas 1963 America. By taking over the cinemas from the cinemas, for a while, for scientific events was completely closed, he seemed to confirm the prevailing mood of universal conspiracy. There are also two macabre calls: The impressors of the brain-manipulated attack is called Harvey like Lee Harvey Oswald. And in 1968, Frankenheimer turned a documentary about the election campaign of Robert Kennedy, accompanied the candidate 102 days in the election campaign. At a party in his house in Malibu spoke a guest, a writer, Kennedy: "You know that you are being disguised, right?" And shortly thereafter, on the 5. June, the evening of the crucial preset victory in California, Frankenheimer Kennedy went to the Ambassador hotel, and stood there in his speech behind him. "I saw his head on the TV shields and at the same time his jerking in real." Paid Frankenheimer 1995 in an interview, "Then a body grazed past me, and it was as a camerie an electric stout from his body. I never have something before or ever spurt. It was Sirhan Sirhan." Shortly after Sirhan Sirhan Kennedy appeared. Can this only be coincidence?

"The Manchurian Candidate" is not a prophetic movie. But a movie who looked like a few and turned into film, which was in the air at a certain moment. Film, in its best moments, is exactly this, is a dream or nightmare – from things that will come.

Contemporary US Culture Today, previous 40 years ago

Jonathan Demmes daring version, which is now running in the German cinema, is not a remake of the Frankenheim Film, rather a variation, because the changes in history, the shifts in weights and the atmosphere are so blatant that one sees two completely different films. Demme stay away from the part of the apocalyptic, rapidly prophetic sound of the book: "The Smugness and Complacency of this Country Will Be Dragged Through The Blood and Noise in The Streets Until It Becomes a Country Purgy and Purified." He steams against Frankenheimer. Everything is less trimming, less intense, no longer pure fear that goes under the skin. Almost one means the fear of the director to traces that the contemporary US culture today is Feiger than 40 years ago and such an ie only if there is more gentle. At the same time, the threat seems to become self-resistant, more every day, therefore also less exciting. Spat after the 11th. September we know: The next attack is determined, alone when and who he is considered is the question. Anyway, the realistic, more serious, also humourless. He goes directly to the core of the story, and shows the realitat of a prassidential fight, and pays the fact tribute that private crimes and hidden conspiracy are not only merged with the public life today in America. Even many attacks on state, catching and burger freedom do not come from the outside, but are consequences of own hybris. But the end is almost awarded compared to the version of 1962 – Nevertheless, the consporation is always and everywhere.

At the same time, there is a recumbent. Bose is not a foreign nation, but a transnational economic company that has become the state in the state and plans a coup from right. Nothing new for the US audience who experienced daily, as corporations – from enron to Halliburton – buy decisions. You are donated, cynical. And a remote-controlled prasident? Well, even about an alleged button in the ear of the counterholder has already been speculated. Si Non E Vero, E Buon Trovato. Finally, the film also takes the patriotic rhetoric on the grain, the talk of the "Homeland Security", that is so popular in America. "The real danger is that of the abolition of the burger rights." it is called, it is thread "a coup, a regime change in our own country." Here the new version meets the black of the present. Because even if films can not be put on one to one in the reality, you must breathe them from each pore to get them into mythical overhead.

This occupies some Meryl Streeps presentation, which until terrorism ambitious mother and US senator. She is the heart of this movie because it is close to the realitat, and they always exceed: on the one hand icy professional with mistrular corporation language and nasel-elitar Eastern custodian accent in the original, also the knight helmet-like hairstyle of Washington Power women, On the other hand, with incestuosem touch, at all times hard on the cant to the hysterical collapse – in every pore a gloss performance. The scene, in which she enters a space full of old power people, and whose fixed positions brings in a few minutes into serrated, is also linguistically, in the redekismanst and gestures to the smallest detail. Acts as a counter image, tight in Sinatras Footstaps Denzel Washington: trustwurried, integer, with credible warstrauma, he is the tailoring of an integral America that his values have not forgotten without being naive.

Actually, this movie comes to Spat for a few weeks. Because it’s about an election campaign, and even in the US he was allowed before the 2. November. Subversively, however, the criticism of the US political system has remained, but only the illusion that they cause something to do meaning, one must have to be destroyed,. Anyone who observes the masked candidate of a well-being new group world to the words of radio spokes that are permanently warning of terrorists, will not see the influence on reality. This is the strong of Demmes Remake, but also his problem, the reason why he can not unfold mythical so-called: the culture of fear, could still speculate on the Frankenheimer, has become a reality.

Notes: John Frankenheimer’s initial filming of "The Manchurian Candidate" has been released on DVD at MGM in two versions: very inexpensive (CA. 9 euros) under the old German rental title "Ambassador of fear". This edition is not bad, but moves on the border to scam as it is on the hull as multilingual (U.a. English) is called the film but still only as purely German-language edition. However, English is the very Lucide Audio Momentar Frankenheimers, in which sensually the English dialogues of the film are repeatedly horns – the soundtrack exists, and was locked only by the rental. In a significantly more expensive version, the English-speaking original is also available on a DVD, which also has a lot of bonus material. About informative is the book of the US Pop Historiker Greil Marcus over "The Manchurian Candidate", The 2002 in the British series "BFI Classics" has appeared.

Ubisoft shooter "Haze" puts on Cinematic Gameplay – and knew as a killer game about killer games

"Dunst", "true", "mileness", so in about something "Haze" can be translated. Or it means a cannabis variety. Both power in connection with the online for the PlayStation 3 eponymous ego shooter quite sense. After all, this is about psychopharmaca, sensory reductions – and by the way on the BlackWater scandal.

The cynical pramisse looks like this: State armies are no longer cost-effective in the world of "Haze". As a result, the Soldner and Rustungsverfirma "Mantel Global Industries" has established itself as an international – and apparently monopolistic – whose troops are booked by national governments for war assignments. "Consequently, the UN, NATO and many national armies were dissolved, and all activities for peacekeeping on coat surrendering private army."

Depending on the framework (and the game itself), how then military conflicts between two coat customer states are released and why had the whole thing "consequently" to the resolution of UN and NATO. The same naivitat, which reduces these institutions to their explicit military power, is also at the factory when the plot coat is a crude world vulnerwater.

Today, 2048, Robt a Burger War, in any Latin American country, and the coat troops are sent to skill. As a player, you get into the role of Shane Carpenter, a young coat-Soldner under the command of boss cynics and upper-utilitarist Sergeant Morgan Duvall. In this first half of the game – Father you change the pages, fights with the rebels against coat – you will be bombarded by the defendant coolness of his eventually the cliche-marines from "Aliens" modeled Soldermameraden and their empty political and ethically asking phrases: this is called Duvall several times to rationality, because "Emotion and Affections Are Just Chemical Reactions". Right at the beginning of the game, eyewitnesses, as he has a Soldner, the moral concerns about their approach aubert, of the helicopter – followed by a sermon over utilitarianism, and why he must be the only basic pramisse in the war: "IF YOU HAVE THE Choice to Save One of Two Comrades, You Save The One With The Bigger Gun!"

(An-) driven are the jacket troops from a substance called "nectar", a "food intelligence", the "visionary, target accuracy, speed and strong" of the Soldner. The soldiers are the work bees of coat, and the "nectar" is their jelly royale – not for nothing the black coat helmet carries a yellow strip as a visor, the uniforms bright yellow honeycomb on the shoulder – overhead, the honeycomb form is already found in the game menu and recycles clever to the name of the game concept determining the drug.

A slot: "Haze" is not a good game. It is just one of this conval ego shooter, the sinky game dump like in simulationistic aspects (like the tendered assault rifles, with which one can also bring to the finish at a few meters away, every eighth ball to the finish). The player also likes to find themselves in the situation to rush through Duster’s industrial scenarios and sometime in search of the exit on good luck to tune every black flat with his head – until some finally proves to be the longed-for staircase in the next level section.

The Cinematic Gameplay is standing ahead of the structuring instance, builds "Haze" as mostly random (Z.B. The defense of the rebelendorf against coat troops) stating script events. Really already succeeds only in a wonderfully farmed swamp landscape: surrounded by Gluhwurmchen, the – currently unarmed and coat has now been drowned – Hero by Moras and fog, over-creaking webs, and finds himself quickly pursued by solder troops, but never sure if he just experienced a hallucination.

Only the ubiquitous darkness and unrealiveness of the game introduces the movie feel here a leg. The conventional-free weapon arsenal of "Haze" is the quality of the game in the way: After all, we play here in a science fiction setting, and there is only one pistol, two assault rifles, a shotgun, a rocket launcher and the compulsory and Completely UNZUTS – Auber in a self-built script event – sharpener gun. Rectilinous Shooter Level like the abandoned hotel facility, which released the player to his own style, however, make a small part of the game.

The unique selling point of the game is not the originality of the plot, the cinematic atmosphere or the vehicle sections, which in the meantime seem to be missing in no shooter anyway. Not even the idea of the "nectar" and the resulting two quite different gaming styles – as a soil-standing rebel or just as a "nectar" junkie, especially online was allowed to provide the for exciting Deathmatches – to actually shape an outstanding game element. The trick of "Haze" lies in a side effect of the drug: "Nectar" not only influences the fighting of the coat soldiers. He not only carries the risk of overdose. "Nectar" also masks the perception, let the war show less bloody appear, the soldiers forget that they fight against genuine people.

"Nectar" is the flawed and intravenos administered violence, and the coat soldiers the final product of this targeted dulling. In a scene of the game – still in mantle uniform – we see a pair of rolled-up tarpaulins distributed on the ground until suddenly a "nectar disruption" on the display flashes, the perception flickers, and get off the plannes-tailored corpses. The Aalglat environment is at once corners and edges, blood spers to the worn witnesses of past battles, and that – already indispersible – comrades appear before this backdrop even cynical: "An empty hand is just one grip away from holding a weapon" , Duvall justifies the murder of civilians – an unpleasant allusion, considering the transit of the coat model company Blackwater.

Killer games and the dulling theory

It seems as a wool "Haze" the dulling theory as Christian Pfeiffer represented by video game opponents such as Christian Pfeiffer illustrated and discussed, even the side change in the playplot speaks for that. You start as a super-soldier, without perception of violence, "haze" starts as a game, as, yes: killer game, also diegetically. Due to the succinct change in the design, this prior trial becomes obvious, opponents die graphic, they are stobbing pain cries. New missions now let the player save the inhabitants of a small village from marauding coat troops, save people from deholettia opponents. The coat troops are exactly the variety of heroes, which is also torpered in "Gears of War" or "Halo", only that "Haze" now represents their fragility to the discussion now.

To make them opponents and to put their amoralitat to the pillory, a war recognition comes to other genre representatives. That’s – as well as the bees allusion in design details – subtle and clever. Especially the rather one-dimensional shooter genre usually comes out with simple black and white characters, of which the sowers are thoroughly acting amoral – like just cynical action heroes in the cinema.

Now to stimulate themselves on these cynical heroes and make them promptly to opponents, is fragwurrdig: too easy to read "haze" as a pladoyer for a classification of games that the genre in the low-hazardous danger on the one and realistic shocking (Anti) war games on the other side wants to divide. Thus, the designers play the representatives of the highest controversial – dulling thesis in the hands by putting a monument to their believeness. The opposite is the end of the game in which the victorious rebel drivers explores "nectar" use, "to give my people confidence". Game and realitate escape for a positive effect.

Such contrials are realized that computer games as a narrowner medium still stuck in the child shoes. Although there are already the gross masters of their subject, but game designers and specialists like Hideo Kojima or Warren Spector are still exceptions. In addition, such meta concepts are, of course, with the interactivity to be demanded by the medium: at "haze", the corresponding positions are restricted again – on prefabricated script events, without intervention or decision-making of the player. You do not have any possibility to give up "nectar" as a coat-soldner and thus more "realitat", more violence on the screen. The supposed discourse is prefabricated and denies the player participation. For which page "Haze" argues, remains unclear. Of course, only: "haze" is a killer game about killer games.

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