Cloud Atlas

2012
12
2 Std. 52 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,4/10

380.052

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

1.179

Tom Hanks, Hugh Grant, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Bae Doona, Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, and Ben Whishaw in Cloud Atlas (2012)

An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

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Eine Erforschung, wie sich die Handlungen einzelner Leben in Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft gegenseitig beeinflussen, während eine Seele vom Mörder zum Helden geformt wird und ein Akt ... Alles lesenEine Erforschung, wie sich die Handlungen einzelner Leben in Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft gegenseitig beeinflussen, während eine Seele vom Mörder zum Helden geformt wird und ein Akt der Güte über Jahrhunderte hinweg eine revolution auslöst.Eine Erforschung, wie sich die Handlungen einzelner Leben in Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft gegenseitig beeinflussen, während eine Seele vom Mörder zum Helden geformt wird und ein Akt der Güte über Jahrhunderte hinweg eine revolution auslöst.

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,4/10

380.052

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

1.179

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 15 Gewinne & 79 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
In 2005, while on the London set of V wie Vendetta (2005), Natalie Portman gave a copy of the original novel to Lana Wachowski, who became deeply interested in it. A year later, both Wachowski siblings wrote a first draft of the screenplay. Tom Tykwer, a friend of the Wachowskis, was invited to co-author several subsequent drafts with them in the following two years, constantly keeping in mind observations by the book's author himself, David Mitchell, while looking for international investors. In all those years, Portman was promised the role of Sonmi-451, but had to turn down the role at the last minute after becoming pregnant in 2010; however, she is given a special thanks in the closing credits.

Patzer
The 1849 slave trade contract that Ewing was bringing back to his Father in the states was unenforceable. The slave trade had been outlawed in the United States on January 1, 1808, the first date permitted by the Constitution. The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 (2 Stat. 426, enacted March 2, 1807). Slaves could no longer be imported into the United States. The slave trade was dead. Likewise, California was a "free state" where owning slaves was outlawed in 1849.

Zitate
Sonmi-451: Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

Crazy Credits
When a montage is shown of all the characters the actors play, the font of the names changes with each time period.

Verbindungen
Featured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Folge #21.21 (2012)

Soundtracks
Looking For Freedom
Music by Jack White
Lyrics by Gary Cowtan
Performed by David Hasselhoff
© by Radiomusic - International (50% for Germany/Austria/Switzerland) / Young Music Publishing (Remaining World)
Courtesy of Universal Music Publishing Group (Germany)
Mit Freundlicher Genehmigung von Sony Music Entertainment Germany GmbH
Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment Germany GmbH

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8/10

A Powerful Spectacle

I didn't find it to be a mess at all, and it was certainly the best thing the Wachowskis have ever done. I'm not sure how the directing duties were distributed, so I'll uniformly praise Tom Tykwer as well.

I haven't read the book, so I can't make any comparisons there, but I don't often leave a film adaptation wanting to read the novel afterwards, as I did after seeing this.

Visually stunning, epic in scope, a strong score; the sort of film that you're constantly amazed was ever made and happy it was. Equal parts comedy, romance, thriller, and dystopian speculative fiction, it really is an astounding mix of disparate elements.

The biggest overall failure was definitely some of the make-up effects - trying to turn Doona Bae into a believable red-headed Caucasian woman was simply distracting - but the overall art & sound design was incredible.

If I could turn channels while watching TV and switch between stories and narratives as seamlessly and as deftly as the editing in Cloud Atlas, it would honestly be hard to go back to simply watching one show at a time.

Truly a marvel of multitasking on so many levels. Great stuff.