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An unprecedented and wholly unpredictable action-adventure, Roar follows wildlife preservationist Hank (The Exorcist producer Noel Marshall in his sole and career-derailing turn as an actor and director), who lives harmoniously alongside a menagerie of over 100 untamed animals, including cheetahs, elephants, lions and tigers on a preservation in the African plains. When his wife and children arrive (real-life wife Tippi Hedren, The Birds, and step-daughter Melanie Griffith, Working Girl, and his sons John and Jerry Marshall) for a visit, a long-brewing battle for dominance between the lions erupts and threatens their very lives. (Drafthouse Films)
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Roar - Die Löwen sind los, von einigen als der gefährlichste Film aller Zeiten bezeichnet (in Bezug auf die Produktion), ist ein bizarrer Filmstreifen und ein rein autorschaftliches Werk von Noel Marshall, der zusammen mit Tippi Hedren auf die Verletzung der Rechte majestätischer afrikanischer Raubtiere und ihre grenzenlose Jagd aufmerksam machen wollte. Marshalls Ansatz und Entschlossenheit, dieses Werk zu drehen, wirken jedoch fast manisch - die Produktion war so gefährlich, dass er nur seine Familienmitglieder überreden konnte, im Film mitzuspielen - und die, einschließlich weiterer Crewmitglieder, erlitten während der Dreharbeiten viele Verletzungen und es ist erstaunlich, dass dabei keiner gestorben ist. Die Handlung ist praktisch unwichtig und aus jeder Aufnahme ist ersichtlich, dass die Raubtiere sich definitiv nicht wie erwartet verhielten und jede Regie mit ihnen unmöglich war, sodass die Handlung nur gelegentlich sporadisch ist, die Aufnahmen oft misslungen sind und der Schnitt eher stört. Dennoch muss der Zuschauer den gesamten Film von Anfang bis Ende mit offenem Mund verschlingen und jede körperliche und geistige Erschütterung der Schauspieler auf der Leinwand wahrnehmen, denn sie konnten wirklich auf nichts zählen und ihre Angst ist real. Ein bizarrer und nervenzerreißender Anblick aus einer Zeit, in der Arbeitssicherheit noch nicht so sehr beachtet wurde.
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Roar is a film curiosity shrouded in so many crazy stories that I just had to watch it. The film was supposedly 11 years in the making. Actress Tippi Hedren (who apparently didn’t have enough with the grueling filming of the horror film The Birds) declared that it was probably the most dangerous shoot of all time and wrote a book about it. Reportedly, 70 crew members were injured during the filming of this animal “horror” movie. Why so many? Because when someone got hurt, they didn't see them on set the next day, so they had to replace them with someone else. All this was used to promote the film (whose trailer, for example, boasts about how many stitches and fractures the various actors sustained on set), but it didn't help its success and it was completely forgotten for many years. Now, distributor Drafthouse Films has rediscovered it and will release it on Blu-ray in the fall, and word is starting to get around again. This is not a good film by any means. The script has makes no sense, and the direction is rather chaotic. It's basically a high-budget, homemade amateur dream project by Hollywood agent Noel Marshall, who dragged (and nearly killed) his entire family (including wife Tippi Hedren and his stepdaughter, a then-unknown Melanie Griffith) into it. At the center of the simple story is a family that returns to Africa to visit the head of the family, a zookeeper (played by Noel Marshall himself) who lives in a wooden house with dozens of lions, tigers, panthers, and cheetahs that like to pounce on people for fun. The family arrives just as the father is gone, and the entire film is practically about the other family members running and hiding from his pets, because (until the end of the film) they have no idea that they're actually cute animals who just want to play. The film was made in support of African wildlife and is apparently meant to show how animals can coexist (despite, for example, scalping cinematographer Jan de Bont). The whole thing comes across as an incredibly bizarre amalgamation of grotesque action scenes, with actors and animals running around uncontrollably and getting into wild confrontations. At the same time, it's not entirely clear whether this is supposed to be slapstick or horror. And we are not worried about the characters, but rather the actors who play them, since what takes place in the film looks really VERY dangerous (the animals were not trained) and it's a wonder they all survived. For example, you'll see a huge number of lions jumping on a man, a tiger sinking a boat, while another boat gets crushed by an elephant and then Tippi Hedren sent flying (really) and breaks her leg – nothing was staged. It’s hard to know how many stars to give it. In any case, it's a fascinating spectacle that I'll happily repeat when I want to show something wonderfully obscure to a visitor.
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