Independence Day (1996)

Regisseur:

Roland Emmerich

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Dean Devlin (written by) &
Roland Emmerich (written by)

Premierendatum:

3. Juli 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Werbezeile:

We've always believed we weren't alone. Pretty soon, we'll wish we were.

Plot:

The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy. Fighting superior technology, Man's best weapon is the will to survive.

Plot Keywords:

Car Accident | Arrest | Moscow Russia | Space | Extraterrestrial

Filmpreise:

Won Oscar. Another 26 wins & 21 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Suspenseful Feel Good Fun!

Besetzung

Will Smith	...	Captain Steven Hiller
Bill Pullman	...	President Thomas J. Whitmore
Jeff Goldblum	...	David Levinson
Mary McDonnell	...	First Lady Marilyn Whitmore
Judd Hirsch	...	Julius Levinson
Robert Loggia	...	General William Grey
Randy Quaid	...	Russell Casse
Margaret Colin	...	Constance Spano
Vivica A. Fox	...	Jasmine Dubrow
James Rebhorn	...	Albert Nimzicki
Harvey Fierstein	...	Marty Gilbert
Adam Baldwin	...	Major Mitchell
Brent Spiner	...	Dr. Brackish Okun
James Duval	...	Miguel Casse
Lisa Jakub	...	Alicia Casse

Alternativ:

ID4 (USA) (promotional abbreviation)
Independence Day (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi destruction and violence.

Länge:

145 Min | USA:153 Min (special edition)

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS 70 mm (70 mm prints) (Europe) | DTS (35 mm prints) | Dolby Digital (35 mm prints) | SDDS (35 mm prints)

Altersfreigabe:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #34370) | Ireland:PG | Iceland:12 | Brazil:12 | Australia:PG (edited for lower rating) | Canada:PG | Chile:TE | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Germany:12 (w) | Italy:T | Netherlands:AL | Norway:11 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:All | Spain:7 | Sweden:11 | UK:12 | Israel:PG

Drehorte:

2nd Street Tunnel, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Firma:

Centropolis Entertainment

Dies und das:

Typisches für den Regisseur: [Roland Emmerich] [SkyNews]In any Roland Emmerich movie in which news broadcasts are depicted, his foreign news station of choice is SkyNews. Here, it appears in Russian. SkyNews is owned by NewsCorp, the same company that owns 20th Century Fox, which released this movie.

Pannen:

Filmfehler: At SETI in New Mexico, after the guy discovers the alien signal, the woman at the keyboard is not typing anything; her fingers are just moving over the keys.

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
SETI Chief: [answering telephone] If this isn't an insanely beautiful woman, I'm hangin' up.
SETI technician: Sir, I - I- I think you should listen to this.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Ausschnittsweise enthalten in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)

Soundtrack:

About You

Suspenseful Feel Good Fun!

I am just shocked at all the negative reviews by pseudo-intellectuals saying the film was heavily flawed, incomprehensible, devoid of any merit, and "lame", to quote a few. What were they expecting? A remake of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Sure, I am not going to pretend the film does not has many glaring weaknesses. The plot is hardly original; its execution is even less inspiring. Roland Emmerich goes out of his way to use every cliche in the book, over-sentimentality, weak, flat characterizations, incredible jumps in logic and reasoning made on the viewer, and the use of special effects to overcome these shortcomings. But what some of the reviewers seemed to have missed, and its there as substantiated by the huge popularity of the film, is heart. The film has a lot of heart. It makes you feel good after watching it. And although that quality does not make it a great film, it certainly makes it a good film in my book. The film is vastly entertaining, very suspenseful, a delight for the eyes with dazzling special effects, and even has some dialogue that does just rise above its hackneyed origins. The acting is adequate all around with no one pulling off a great performance, but a few doing marvelous jobs with what they have to work with. Judd Hirsch easily out acts his fellow colleagues as a Jewish father with a gift for common sense and lack of tact. Jeff Goldblum also gives a pretty good performance as his son. Yeah, Will Smith is just Will Smith..lots of one liners and little meat so to speak. But he is bearable. Watch for Brent Spiner in an outrageous role as a hippie scientist. His performance is a real hoot! If you are looking for philosophical science fiction, this is not it. See Starship Troopers(a great film). This is just good old Americans against the universe stuff, lots of action but little substance. But whatever it may have as its faults, it is a fun, happy, sad, charming, engrossing film to watch...time and time again.