No other Hollywood star embodies contemporary America so much like Tom Hanks. As tragic figure with eternally boyish face, the dog came to nothing and yet equipped with a pithy, almost hopeless optimism. If he, as just the European worries about the US for Donald Trump and the primaries wipes in “Mirror” interview, the table – “Polls are like test screenings of my films. Everyone comes in for free and even get popcorn and a Coke Zero “- and at the same time denouncing the machinations of hedge funds or oil companies, then you know again not know whether to rejoice or despair
Political activism is not his. thing, even if he has supported the election of Obama and now advertises Hillary Clinton. Despite losing sharp words about the hollow celebrity culture of fundraising parties: Tom Hanks is one who participates and can afford the same time, to scoff. Always his smile looks a little frightened, freezes up steadily between naiveté and sarcasm.
Just as he plays Alan Clay, this man who can send for his company bankruptcy of an American IT company as a representative in the desert , There he is to impress the Saudis with a “hologram for the King” and to grab the lucrative contract for the communication technology of King Abdullah’s Economic City, planned in reality for years Saudi megacity on the Red Sea.
a surreal mission: The eight-million metropolis is still just a vision (on the Internet at www.kaec.net visible) plus two, three buildings somewhere in the nowhere plus a presentation tent. The White Paper proposes Clays small team the time while waiting for the wireless connection with card games dead – 40 degree heat and defective air conditioning. At the end of the Chinese get the job, and Alan is stupid because, already in the novel of Tom Tykwer’s film, the bestseller by Dave Eggers. And Hanks, the sad clown, is the incarnation of the sacked US superpower, which is demonstrated by the oil sheiks and defraud by Asians
From “Forrest Gump” to “Larry Crowne”. Tom Hanks, the bounceback
2015 was Tom Hanks (whose German voice actor has just died) declared by the American audience again the most popular actor of the nation. The All-American-Guy rolled already unemployed “Larry Crowne” (2011) in order to bounce back and pick-me in times of crisis. In “Apollo 13″ (1995) he defended the dignity of the battered nation in space after he had a year earlier awarded in “Forrest Gump” a wise goal all those face and voice, of no use for classical heroism. Younger people who have to overcome major challenges for her little happiness, the losers and failures that go on bravely. Failure as an opportunity, this is Tom Hanks. And finally, in “Bridge of Spies”, he represented America’s values on the other side of the Iron Curtain. radiate
confidence, jovial occur: His program has Alan aka Tom Hanks still on it
Steven Spielberg once called him a madman who drives with the handbrake on. And Tom Tykwer sees Alan Clay a soul mate of Walter White, the Hispanic heroes of “Breaking Bad” series. In the beginning, and is quite rapid, Hanks fidgets in the video clip to the vice-compacted Talking Heads song “Once In A Lifetime” as a victim of the banking crisis through the picture, as one of those baby boomers whose erfolgsgepolte existence vanished: “You may find yourself without a beautiful house / without a beautiful wife … “. Instead, he finds himself in the plane direction Gulf region again, the only Westerners praying Arabs.
Alan was once Bicycle businessman, salesman solid American workmanship. Until the company went bankrupt, because of the Chinese – which Schwinn Bicycle Company, there was the way really. His program has Alan Clay still on it, at the hotel in the coastal city of Jeddah as well as on the Absurdistan grounds of the future City while waiting for the King or otherwise, repeatedly shifted business appointments: radiate jovial demeanor, confidence and each employee only once after his name ask. The Saudi Arabia-order is his last chance: Not even the education of his daughter, who turns away exasperated Skype from him, he can still finance
Same as it ever what. The Talking Heads set the pace. Unexpectedly Alan Clay looks caught in an endless loop. he wakes up every morning to late on, he is the young driver Yousef (Alexander Black) every morning for a drive in his rickety Chevrolet Caprice, every day can be the king re coming. The gags are repeated: Yousef, who examined his car regularly explosives (he fears an assassination jealousy) and its customers with loud untwisted pop hits torments. The always same guard who cooled his feet in the paddling pool, next to the construction workers who doze in the blazing heat. Alan slapstick while sitting down: Many chairs collapse under him. His fear because of this mysterious Knubbels neck. His binge drinking, as supplied him the Danish Persona activist in the City (Sidse Babett Knudsen, the politician from the “Borgen” series), despite strict alcohol ban hard liquor.
Unfortunately Floating neither the novel nor Tykwer adaptation the Running gags including repetition compulsion edge and into such as Arnon Grünberg’s raven black novel “the man who was never sick,” which sends a similar naive hero to Baghdad and Dubai. But even as a comedy or grotesque developed the resulting partly in Berlin and Babelsberg, partly in Saudi Arabia and Morocco production no strength.
Tom Tykwer has again tried to transform a bestseller in a high-profile author movie
“A hologram for the King” ripples as though to himself, compacted constellations not like the Lord-and-servant duo Alan and Yousef, but drops characters and storylines easy. Although something comes exhibition value added (budget: EUR 14 million), with a (even at Eggers) absurd orgy in the Danish Embassy and a trip to Mecca – for non-Muslims forbidden! – And to Yousef’s family in the mountains, where Alan briefly brings a CIA jokes in critical condition. But Tykwer wins the substance from nothing original.
Almost takes his third attempt to “Perfume” and “Cloud Atlas” to transform a bestseller in a high-profile international auteur film, as a work commissioned from. It may be that the Berlin director has already committed heart and soul to his next major project “Babylon Berlin”, which is equipped with almost 40 million euros series adaptation by Volker Kutscher twenties thrillers. Slightly more handwriting one would have still required, especially Tykwer to desire fulfilled, to work again with Hanks, himself wrote the screenplay and the novel abwandelte. In the book is Alan proves not only as a businessman but also for women than impotent. In the film, it does not remain there.
Eggers’ book ends with Clay bravely waiting for the king. A hopeless, impossible case. So sympathetic, it may be that Tom Tykwer recommended love as a remedy for the diseases in the world, so annoys a de-politicization of the enriched with flashbacks to the decline novel plots, except for a short overview on zusammengepferchte migrant workers in the City. Tykwer romanticized prefer and paints the encounter with the attractive female doctor Zahra (Sarita Choudhury, Saul Berenson woman in “Homeland”) for big love.
Men and women may be known, not simply meet in Saudi Arabia so , At this year’s Berlinale could “Barakah Barakah meets” experience to what crazy game of hide the leads in Saudi Underground Film. “A Hologram for the King” wearing the ban after all, still with an underwater encounter with holiday brochure beautiful coral invoice. Nothing against fairy tales, but follow only stereotypical orientalisms.
Ami loves Arab, and everything will be fine? Tykwer has once rotated more sophisticated, more surprising films.
From Thursday 24 Berlin cinemas. OV: Hackesche Höfe, Cinema in the Culture Brewery, Moviemento, Odeon, Passage. OV: Cinestar Sony Center
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