Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)

Directors:

Hironobu Sakaguchi
Moto Sakakibara (co-director)

Drehbuchautoren:

Hironobu Sakaguchi (story)
Al Reinert (written by) ...
(mehr)

Premierendatum:

11. Juli 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Trickfilm | Action | Abenteuer | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Werbezeile:

Unleash a new reality

Plot:

A female scientist makes a last stand on Earth with the help of a ragtag team of soldiers against an invasion of alien phantoms.

Plot Keywords:

2060s | Spin Off From Video Game | Box Office Flop | Computer Animation | Based On Video Game

Filmpreise:

5 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Most will be impressed, some disappointed, but it's worth the price of a ticket for all...

Besetzung

Ming-Na	...	Dr. Aki Ross (voice)
Alec Baldwin	...	Capt. Gray Edwards (voice)
Ving Rhames	...	Sgt. Ryan Whitaker (voice)
Steve Buscemi	...	Officer Neil Fleming (voice)
Peri Gilpin	...	Officer Jane Proudfoot (voice)
Donald Sutherland	...	Dr. Cid (voice)
James Woods	...	General Hein (voice)
Keith David	...	Council Member #1 (voice)
Jean Simmons	...	Council Member #2 (voice)
Matt McKenzie	...	Major Elliot (voice)
übrige Besetzung in alphabetischer Reihenfolge:
John DeMita	...	BCR Soldier / Space Station Technician (voice) (uncredited)
John Di Maggio	...	BFW Soldier (voice) (uncredited)
Alex Fernandez	...	Space Station Technician (voice) (uncredited)
David Rasner	...	Space Station Technician (voice) (uncredited)
Dwight Schultz	...	Scan Technician (voice) (uncredited)
Annie Wu	...	The Little Girl / The Fifth Spirit (voice) (uncredited)

Regie
Hironobu Sakaguchi
Moto Sakakibara		(co-director) (as Motonori Sakakibara)

Buch
Hironobu Sakaguchi		(story)
Al Reinert		(written by) &
Jeff Vintar		(written by)
Jack Fletcher		(additional dialogue)
Ramin Mebdy		Farsi adaptation

Produktion
Jun Aida	....	producer
Michael Hack	....	supervising producer
Daniel S. Kletzky	....	associate producer
Chris Lee	....	producer
Deirdre Morrison	....	line producer
Hironobu Sakaguchi	....	executive producer
Akio Sakai	....	producer
Katsuhiko Toyota	....	associate producer

Originalmusik
Elliot Goldenthal
Ken Kitamura		(as L'Arc-en-Ciel)
Hideto Takarai		(as Hyde)

Kamera
Moto Sakakibara		(as Motonori Sakakibara)

Schnitt
Christopher S. Capp

Casting
Jack Fletcher

Szenenbild
Mauro Borrelli

Produktionsleiter (production managers)
Hiroyoshi Hamada	....	production manager
Naoko Muldowney	....	computer graphics production manager
Kaoru Hiyama Rogers	....	production manager
Terry Sasaki	....	production manager
Kenji Takemoto	....	production manager
Christopher S. Capp	....	post-production supervisor (uncredited)

Ausstattung (Stab)
Kevin Bjorke	....	senior layout artist
Eric Brown	....	concept artist
John Fox	....	senior storyboard artist
Trevor Goring	....	storyboard artist
Patrick Janicke	....	conceptual designer
Thomas Roland Johnson	....	conceptual artist
Tani Kunitake	....	conceptual director
Richard Mahon	....	concept artist
Mark Moretti	....	storyboard artist
Shuko Murase	....	original character designer
Yasushi Nirasawa	....	creature designer
Christian Scheurer	....	matte painter
Pedram Goshtasbpour	....	additional storyboards (uncredited)

Ton Stab
Christopher Barnett	....	mix stage engineer
Chris Barron	....	digital transfers (as Christopher Barron)
Tim Burby	....	digital transfers
Brian Chumney	....	digital support
John Countryman	....	digital transfers
Jeff Darby	....	sound effects editor
Edwin Dunkley	....	sound: video transfers
Tony Eckert	....	foley mixer
Sean England	....	machine room operator
David Farmer	....	sound effects editor
Sue Fox	....	dialog editor
Andrea S. Gard	....	foley editor
Jonathan Greber	....	digital transfers
Gabriel Guy	....	sound mix technician
Samuel H. Hinckley	....	adr assistant (as Sam Hinckley)
David C. Hughes	....	sound effects editor
David Hunter	....	digital support
Noah Katz	....	digital support
Dennis Leonard	....	supervising sound editor
Eric Lewis	....	assistant dialogue recording engineer
Stuart McCowan	....	assistant sound designer
Jim McKee	....	sound effects editor
Frank 'Pepe' Merel	....	foley recordist
Colin O'Neill	....	assistant sound effects editor
Gary Rizzo	....	sound re-recording mixer
Steve Romanko	....	machine room operator
Ronald G. Roumas	....	sound re-recordist
Christopher Scarabosio	....	sound effects editor
Dee Selby	....	additional sound effects assistant
Ernie Sheesley	....	dialogue recordist
Robert Shoup	....	sound effects editor
Mac Smith	....	sound design apprentice
Andrea Stelter	....	sound effects editor
Erich Stratmann	....	assistant supervising sound editor
John Taylor	....	mix stage engineer
Randy Thom	....	sound designer
Randy Thom	....	sound re-recording mixer
Dennie Thorpe	....	foley artist
James Twomey	....	sound recordist
Jana Vance	....	foley artist
Doug Winningham	....	assistant sound effects editor
Michael Kamper	....	sound effects editor (uncredited)
Andy Newell	....	sound effects editor (uncredited)

Spezialeffekte
Kim Jongbo	....	sequence supervisor/lead animator
Masayuki Kasuya	....	system administrator
Koji Nagashima	....	senior programmer
Shinichi Soeda	....	production software supervisor

Visual Effects
Ivy Agregan	....	CG production manager: lighting
Robin Akin	....	character animator
Takahiko Akiyama	....	visual effects art director
Mayumi Arakaki	....	visual effects coordinator
Yasuko Asakura	....	visual effects
Lisa Atkinson	....	development consultant
Remo Balcells	....	visual effects supervisor
Peter Baustaedter	....	visual effects
Jeffrey Benoit	....	visual effects
Robert Bourgeault	....	modeler
Robert Bourgeault	....	texture artist
Jon Bowen	....	senior compositor
Scot Brew	....	production software engineer
Troy Brooks	....	production systems supervisor
Bela Brozsek	....	digital artist
Daniel R. Casey	....	digital texture supervisor
Daniel R. Casey	....	lead artist
Andy Chen	....	visual effects
Benjamin Cheung	....	character technical director
Francisco Cortina	....	senior character artist
Paolo Costabel	....	technical director
Karl Coyner	....	CG artist
Cary Cremidas	....	photography plates
Tim Crosbie	....	senior compositor
James H. Dargie	....	CG artist
Matthew Davies	....	visual effects
Mark Andrew De La Garza	....	lighting artist: Square USA
Tim de Pala	....	visual effects coordinator
Christina DeSilva	....	production coordinator
Simon Dye	....	compositor
Angela M. Eliasz	....	lead lighting artist
Petronella Evers	....	visual effects
Michael Fadollone	....	visual effects
Michael Sean Foley	....	lighting artist
Haskell Friedman	....	senior lighting artist
Michael Fu	....	rendering technical support
Steven Galle	....	visual effects
Sergio Garcia Abad	....	visual effects CG artist
Kelly Hartigan Goldstein	....	character animator
Matthew Hackett	....	lead character animator
Jerry Hall	....	digital compositor
Udai Haraguchi	....	motion capture engineer
Andy Harbeck	....	lead artist
Toby Haruno	....	lead character animator: Square Pictures
Tom Hendrickson	....	visual effects coordinator (as Thomas Hendrickson)
George Ho	....	lighting artist
David Howe	....	visual effects
Bret Hughes	....	rendering technical director
Kenneth Ibrahim	....	digital artist: Square Pictures
Bruce Jurgens	....	CG supervisor
Kory Juul	....	compositor
Alice V. Kaiserian	....	character animator
Matt Karnes	....	motion capture engineer
Miku Kayama	....	lead compositor
Muqeem Khan	....	visual effects
Jae Hong Kim	....	digital artist
Lisa Kim	....	digital artist: visual effects & props
Michael Kitchen	....	character animator
Spencer Knapp	....	visual effects
Mach Tony Kobayashi	....	visual effects
Roger Kupelian	....	digital matte painter
Ryan Leasher	....	lighting artist
Derek Ledbetter	....	credits
Erik Lee	....	CG animator: Square USA
Hae-Jeon Lee	....	visual effects
Greg Lev	....	lead lighting artist
Rosa Lin	....	visual effects
Stephen Lunn	....	lead compositor
Richard Mahon	....	digital matte painter
Evans Mark	....	digital artist: photon element
Jeffrey Martin	....	visual effects
Will McCoy	....	digital compositor
Gustav Melich	....	lead visual effects artist
John Monos	....	lead lighting artist
Rene Morel	....	character modeller/texturer
Hiroshi Mori	....	texture artist
Hiroshi Mori	....	visual effects
Bo Mosley	....	lead artist: SquareUSA
Adam Moura	....	compositor: SquareUSA
Gary Mundell	....	CG supervisor
Meghan Nishimizu	....	computer graphics manager
Kevin Ochs	....	character technical director
Chris Paizis	....	visual effects manager (as Christopher Paizis)
Ron Perry	....	motion capture set designer
Claude Precourt	....	sequence supervisor
Steve Preeg	....	visual effects
Alex Sandor Rabb	....	visual effects
Jay Randall	....	lead animator
Geoff Richardson	....	digital compositor
Robert Rioux	....	set modeling supervisor
Frank Ritlop	....	lighting artist
Michael Rivero	....	visual effects
James Rogers	....	compositing supervisor
Jake Rowell	....	digital artist
Josh Saeta	....	digital compositor
Kay Sasatomi	....	CG production manager
Jeff Schu	....	character animator
Andrew Schwartz	....	digital compositor
Remington Scott	....	motion production director
David Seager	....	lighting supervisor: Square USA
Kerry Shea	....	visual effects post production manager
Kerry Shea	....	visual effects production manager
Robert Shrider	....	visual effects
Shinichi Soeda	....	Production Software Supervisor
Sharmishtha Sohoni	....	digital compositor
Neville Spiteri	....	visual effects
Eric Sterner	....	CG artist
Jeff Stern	....	lead lighting artist
Cameron Stevning	....	computer graphics producer
Kat Szuminska	....	senior compositor
David Tanner	....	lead visual effects artist
Suan Ching Tan	....	modeler and texture artist
Don Taylor	....	lighter
Chikako Terashita	....	systems administrator
Joanne Thiel	....	visual effects
Semin Tho	....	CG artist
Linda Tremblay	....	digital compositor
Paul Van Camp	....	digital artist
Garcia Veronique	....	character artist
Carlos A. Vidal	....	digital artist: Square
Taku Wakisaka	....	motion capture engineer
Christopher Walsh	....	lead character animator
Kelly Walsh	....	rendering technical director: Square USA (as Kelly Cowles)
Eric Weiss	....	senior character animator
Michael Withem	....	CG artist
David J. Witters	....	visual effects animator
Yukiko Yamanaka	....	system administrator
Teru Yoshida	....	sequence supervisor
Masahito Yoshioka	....	creature effects
Laurent Ben-Mimoun	....	digital matte painter (uncredited)
Carlos Cabral	....	character technical director (uncredited)
Pedram Goshtasbpour	....	pre-production animator (uncredited)
Rick O'Connor	....	pre-viz animatics (uncredited)
Steve J. Sanchez	....	digital compositor (uncredited)
David Seager	....	sequence supervisor: Square USA (uncredited)
Randy Vellacott	....	digital compositor (uncredited)

Stunts
Colin C.L. Fong	....	stunt coordinator

Kamera und Elektrik (Stab)
Kevin Bjorke	....	lighting supervisor

Animation
Andy Jones	....	animation director
Yoshinori Kanada	....	layout artist
Yoshihiro Kitano	....	layout artist
Ben Rush	....	lead character animator: "Gray Edwards"
Roy Sato	....	senior animator

Schnitt (Stab)
Gary Burritt	....	negative cutter (as Gary Burrit)
Michael Hatzer	....	color timer
Heather Elisa Hill	....	editorial department manager
Patrick Day Kennedy	....	assistant editor
Peter McEvoy	....	digital cinema producer (uncredited)

Musik (Stab)
Dirk Brossé	....	orchestrator
Robert Elhai	....	orchestrator
Joel Iwataki	....	music recording engineer
Joel Iwataki	....	music score mixer
Lawrence Manchester	....	music recording engineer
Curtis Roush	....	supervising music editor
Dick Rudolph	....	music supervisor (as Richard Rudolph)

Restlicher Stab
Motohisa Adachi	....	senior programmer
Gerard Banel	....	senior programmer
Troy Boren	....	marketing department
Jay Carina	....	sequence technical director
Li-Han Chen	....	senior programmer
Francesco Chiarini	....	pre-production
Per Christensen	....	senior programmer
Jack Fletcher	....	voice director
Megan Fouts	....	client services
Andy Hsu	....	marketing department
Toshi Kato	....	senior programmer
Shiro Kawai	....	senior programmer
Nicholas Lam	....	production assistant
Mike Lane	....	client services
Jack Liao	....	senior programmer
Andrea Maiolo	....	layout technical assistant
Catherine Mitsunaga	....	rendering technical associate
Eva Napolean	....	client services
Gordon Ng	....	client services
Mari Nishikawa	....	marketing department
Hitoshi Nishimura	....	senior programmer
Patricia Pawlak	....	cloth simulation artist
Cheryl Rye	....	cloth simulation artist
Eric Salituro	....	technical director
John Torrijos	....	video services (as John 'J.T.' Torrijos)

Widmungen und Dankeschöns
Jack Liao	....	in memory of
Aya Sakaguchi	....	special thanks
Eiko Sakaguchi	....	special thanks

Produktionsfirmen

• Chris Lee Productions
• Square Company
• Square USA

Verleihfirmen

• Columbia Pictures (2001) (USA) (theatrical)
• Cascade Film (2001) (Russia) (theatrical)
• Columbia TriStar Films (2001) (France) (theatrical)
• Columbia TriStar Films (2001) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Columbia TriStar Films de Argentina (2001) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Columbia TriStar Films de España S.A. (2001) (Spain) (theatrical)
• Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (2002) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (2002) (Netherlands) (VHS)
• Columbia TriStar (200?) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Columbia TriStar (200?) (Brazil) (VHS)
• DVD Service (200?) (Russia) (DVD)
• Falcon (2001) (Czech Republic) (theatrical)
• Fox (2006) (Japan) (TV)
• GAGA (2001) (Japan) (all media)
• Irib Studio (2004) (Iran) (TV)
• RTL Entertainment (2005) (Netherlands) (TV) (first national airing) (RTL5)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2002) (USA) (DVD)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2004) (USA) (DVD)

Weitere Firmen

• Bandai Co. Ltd.  partner of Square Pictures
• Global Music Service  music copyist
• Screen Music Studios (SMS)  dialogue recording facilities
• Skywalker Sound  post-production sound services
• Sony Classical  soundtrack
• Sony Music Soundtrax  soundtrack

Alternativ:

Fainaru fantaji (Japan)
Final Fantasy (USA) (working title)
Final Fantasy: The Movie (USA) (working title)
Gaia: Final Fantasy (USA) (original script title)
Final Fantasy - Die Mächte in dir (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence.

Länge:

106 Min

Produktionsland:

USA | Japan

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

SDDS (8 channels) | DTS | Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Japan:PG-12 | South Korea:All | USA:PG-13 (certificate #37629) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Malaysia:U | Iceland:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:Livre | Finland:K-11 | France:U | Germany:12 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:11 | Singapore:PG | Spain:7 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG

Firma:

Chris Lee Productions

Dies und das:

In an earlier version of the script, Cid and Aki were originally grandfather and granddaughter. Aki's last name was also different: she was originally Aki Shishido. The relationship and names were changed late enough into production that many of the animators and staff didn't even know of the modification of the script until the film was nearly finished.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: After Aki removes the phantom particles from Gray, she picks up a canister that's hovering in the air, when she originally placed it on the table further away.

Dialogzitate:

[Neil and Ryan tamper with an elevator with passengers Grey and Aki]
Jane Proudfoot: What do you think you're doing?
Neil: We're just gonna stall them for a little while... Hey, don't look at me, it was HIS idea.
Jane Proudfoot: This was YOUR idea?
Ryan: We're just helping the Captain out a little. Have you seen the way he looks at her?
Neil: Yeah, Jane, where's your sense of romance?

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Spirit Dreams Inside

Most will be impressed, some disappointed, but it's worth the price of a ticket for all...

I've waited for this one for quite a while, as have most of Square's fans. There is a lot riding on this film, including the future direction of CG in movies, the proud heritage of a name brand, and the chance to release a worthwhile movie during a string of bad summer flicks. So, does Final Fantasy live up to it's hype?

Mostly.

First, the bad. No, it has nothing to do with the games other than name, but then the majority of the storylines of the games had nothing to do with each other, either. The plot is not necessarily original, with marauding aliens nearly vanquishing humanity while a desperate band of outsiders hold the key to winning (tired sci-fi, to be sure) and even the animation has it's faults, mostly with the mouth movements and a few emotions lacking, as the eyes and lips, and even hair had detail but no-one's cheeks or throats moved, giving the characters a bit of a puppetry feel at times. The movement of humans in CG is still not quite fluid, but getting much better. Also, the movie slows down considerably during the last twenty or thirty minutes, which is perhaps necessary for the plot, but the change in pace was notable, even with the awe that the movie's end was aspiring too.

But enough nit-picking.

The Good. The imagery in this movie is startling, imaginative, complex, even awesome at times. It's amazing that while the machines, vehicles, and mechanics in the movie are so realistic and detailed, so too are the organic forms such as the alien presence (sometimes seemingly more fluidly animated than the humans!) and the incredible landscapes. It is obvious how much imagination went in to so many aspects of this movie. The soundtrack, while not exceptional, is very complimentary and captures the dark feel with the fast action and triumphant climaxes. The characters were distinct, like-able, and voiced very well (even if the digital mouths don't quite match up most of the time). The emotional scenes, while certainly not perfect and a bit awkward, should be given grand credit for achieving the level they do convey. If you let yourself go, it's not impossible to be entranced by all that this movie actually manages to pull off. If nothing else, then the effects alone are worth seeing, if the somewhat hokey spiritual elements of the plot turn you off. (If you consider the Force to be hokey, don't bother.)

The Surprising. Well, I was a bit put off by the simplistic way the characters would look at each situation and then spell it out to the audience, though there is more to the plot than casual sci-fi fare. Because of this, the dialogue was a bit goofy at times, but at least it usually fit the characters. But every good thing you've heard about the quality of the CG work in this movie is true- it really is a site to behold, if nothing else than for the effects. As I mentioned earlier, if you consider how much this movie is trying to do, it's amazing that it pulled off everything nearly as well as it does.

So, I think that most will be pleased, some will critique it heavily on the negatives and not be as impressed, but the bottom line is that it is definitely worth seeing. Quality work in most areas, even story and screenplay in my opinion (though that's certainly the most debatable point.) I left the theater without being disappointed, something I cannot say for the majority of cinema fare.