Wo sind eigentlich all die Fantasyfilme hin?

Do you feel exactly the same way I feel about these images when I see them flash on the screen? Perhaps, with the exception of science fiction, there is no other genre that creates images that inspire the imagination. Despite this year's big milestone for the genre, less classic fantasy films from a year ago threaten to completely disappear from objections, but why? Where are all the fantasies? Today I will take you on a journey to the beginnings of the genre. Trying to clarify where the future of fantasy cinema is The history of fantasy begins from the beginning of film history, film pioneer George MC PS, who creates the first genre films while experimenting with the still young medium, in Journey to the moon.

He plays with science fiction in 1903 and uses it to film The Fairy Kingdom. Probably the first fantasy film in history, it was one of the first to create magical underwater worlds, letting demons dance on the screen and noble knights storm the arches. It became clear that in the history of fantasy cinema, fantasy is expensive because it is much more complex. Producing, for example, dramas or romantic comedies, billions of people had extravagant costumes for his films, some of them even the Kingdom of Finland, according to him later. he made the most elaborate film to date, so it probably took a while before fantasy wanted to take off as a genre.

In the following years, silent short films, the well-known Sayings, appeared again and again. and fairy tales picked up an early version of the Wizard of Oz that premiered in 1910 1915 the first film version of Alice in Wonderland really took off, but it wasn't until 20 years after George Barris's first fantastical excursions that one of the first great masterpieces emerged. Of Chance for the Baghdad appeared in 1924 with silent film star Douglas Fairbanks, world famous in its time, it showed special effects that had never existed before and took you into worlds that cinema knew at the time and I knew and then When of suddenly the film dominated the sounds, giant monkeys roared out of the boxes.

The vampire bared his fangs and the town had to realize that he was no longer in Kansas. It is the first animated feature film by Walt Disney to flash on the screens and thus marks the milestone. The first golden moment for the Disney animation studio has found its favorite genre in fantasy, Cinderella or Pinocchio, games with images that previously only children played with. From fairy tale books, cinema has already become a mass phenomenon. hungry for new adventures and they should get them in the following years until in the 50s the cinema held its breath for a short time because it was on the edge of the supposed abyss and thanks to it Developed here in the 30s, televisions grew into an alternative affordable for middle class families in the 1940s.

Home Cinema In January 1951, there were already 15 million homes in the United States with a television. Few predicted that cinema would arrive in the near future. Thus, in the midst of the panic, great expenses were saved on motion pictures. For almost a decade, almost no fantasy came from the United States, but increasingly from the Soviet Union and Germany, precisely from the GDR. Defa studios produced classic fairy tales. The Brothers Grimm and films like The Cold Heart Little Muck or Mrs. Holle were so successful that production of the master fairy tales at the studio continued until the end of the 80s and only ended with the fall of the wall to this day. .

Many of the GDR fairy tales are considered cult films. Since then it has become a matter of German fantasy, but unfortunately with the change it died down, the fairy tale of socialism also ended and the tone in German cinema became serious at the same time. , if you ignore nonsense like the Seven Dwarfs movies and then they changed continents, television, of course, was not the end of cinema, etc. Also in the USA, fantasy films have returned to the big screen. This return is mainly due to its. cap, not the cyclops but the man who created it, the stop motion wizard Ray Harryhausen, with his creatures created from mass and life, which make great films possible.

Produced on a small budget, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad was considered a cheap film. At the time, much success was not expected, until the imaginative adventure multiplied its budget at the box office six-fold. A real renaissance of stop-motion fantasy followed: the rulers of Cornwall and the Argonauts, the Mysterious Island, and many other characters from it go to the cinema. and attract attention with their hits of the genre as a whole. In the 80s, fantasy experienced an unprecedented boom. At the beginning of the decade, a series of important milestones appeared that showed the film industry that a lot of money could be made from it.

Magic and heroes and short skirts The first pioneer was Clash of the Titans from 1981, a new retelling of the legend of Perseus with spectacular effects: Flying wolves with meadow heads, giant scorpions, the legendary fight against Medusa and at the end a gigantic octopus attacks . Clash of the Titans marked a turning point in stunt technology, as one of the last big blockbusters was still based on the stop motion animation of the early years. At the same time, animated fantasy films were becoming increasingly darker, in part because Disney no longer existed. No longer the only animation studio, Ralph Bakshi was the first to try its hand at The Lord of the Rings with a dark mix of animation and live actors that were painted using the photo coupe process.

There was even more competition for Disney, a former. Employee Don Bluth released a series of fantasy animated films in the early 1980s that eclipsed Disney films at the box office. Disney reacted by telling more serious stories, films like Taran and the Magic Cauldron or The Witch and the Wizard, but. The band failed. The 80s were also the decade in which a subgenre of fantasy cinema achieved unexpected fame when, at that time, a muscular man from Austria, largely unknown in the world of cinema, pierced villains with his sword. unpleasant and hit the camels. The genre was founded and the barbarian was a huge hit that didn't come cheap, but the mix of sand swords and some muscle inspired many filmmakers to try something similar and thus began the era of the cheap Conan clone, the stalker, the claw from the death hunter in the fight against the empire author lord of fire your One against the empire and many more were mostly possible, mostly produced in Italy and with sensational names in Germany, where the most interesting thing was that the cover vsg and balconies had the word barra in the name.

Of course, the market was literally flooded with barbarian names: the barbarians, Barry Green, 1, the queen of the rebellion, two, the sword of the barbarians, the king of the barbarians, and for women, they were usually Amazon movies or anything that was appropriate to have a reason to put pretty. Women in leather shorts we will take revenge, but to be fair, let it be said. Not all of these imitators were bad, the Beast Master series was my favorite and if you really want to laugh out loud, watch Sindbad. and the Hercules movies with bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno. The avalanche of short films and witchcraft films increasingly oversaturated the public.

From then on, top fantasy films disappointed at the box office, Conan the Destroyer not only played a third of the role. of its predecessor, Red Sonja, was even a catastrophic failure, proving that even Arnold Schwarzenegger's days as Ababa with swords were numbered at the Baden box office as toy brands of the 80s, but it was clear that, unlike the cinema fantastic, unlike fantastic cinema, we are in the midst of a crisis. Horror films, comedies or fantasy dramas always involved a considerable financial outlay and this risk rarely paid off, even if the biggest names in the global industry involved with Steven Spielberg sounded so high on paper, e.g.

After an impeccable mega blockbuster, an implementation of Peter Pan with Robin Williams, from the co-founder of the successful cinema, which has to go through the roof compared to that height, was not a complete failure compared to the other hits of the Steven Spielberg's filmography, but a disappointment, he was even partly responsible for A problem in the fantasy genre, which until Terminator 2 and, at the latest, 30 Park turned the trick technique on its head. But then, as now, they were expensive. For this reason, production costs reached astronomical levels in a very short time. The often unpredictable box office results of fantasy films suddenly became a risky investment for Hollywood studios.

In the 1990s, the number of fantasy films produced by Hollywood fell sharply. In the following decade he preferred science fiction disaster films and seriously flirted with film adaptations of comic books. Tim Burton's gothic fantasy fairy tales were one of the few representatives that mixed fantastical elements with great stories. A major fantasy film emerged, but Dragonheart. used the new special effects to bring his main attraction, the dragon Draco, to life. Voiced by Sean Connery, he is the first computer-animated creature in film history to communicate lip-synchronized and then all that would change in 2001, that same year. Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings were released and nothing was ever the same as before, both films became a phenomenon, in particular The Lord of the Rings is an incredible success story.

No one wanted to raise the money needed for all three films beforehand without doing so drastically. By cutting back on content, a single studio gives most of the money to a director who was previously known primarily for drastic films and then became this after these two films ushered in a golden age for fantasy. Hollywood reacted as it did in the eighties, when material that could be taken to the cinema was sought as quickly as possible to get one of the coveted places on the fantasy hype train. Fairly usable movies, but most of them feel like movies that recite the name of the book but never manage to capture the essence of its stories.

Among them are acclaimed hits like the Narnia films that never really resonate with audiences. The attempt to turn it into a franchise fails just as it did with Percy Jackson or particularly. Tragically in Aragon the worst garbage like Dungeons & Dragons or Uwe Boll's Dungeons joined in, which looked as if someone had dragged a movie camera to the costume rental store to sell them and then brought in amateur actors and it happened like that. In the 80s what had to happen was done, the public became oversaturated, big productions failed more and more, each and every one of the films that were shown here in the background disappointed at the box office or literally crashed.

In desperation, Hollywood studios are trying to unearth old guarantees of success, but they themselves are the owners of the crown in the 20th century. Simply put, the problem with modern fantasy is often that it is becoming increasingly expensive in Hollywood. believes that real fantasy cannot have less than 20 effects per image pixel, for a film like this to be worthwhile, it has to be a great success. Fantasy is often a loud noise. Somehow you can keep up with Marie's production. Ironically, this almost delusional impulse to copy old hits is lost, even in the really big franchises. Both the sequel to The Lord of the Rings and The Fantastic Four could be financial failures and.

Artistically they do not live up to their predecessors. The public just seems distrustful. There are still small fantasy stories, but among the big blockbuster movies with their mega advertising budgets, they often fall under the wheels of films like Star Wanderer. Seven minutes after midnight, the boy who would be king or probably fockers is probably only known to those who know, but they probably won't have the feeling that much less fantasy is flashing on their screens, which has secretly changed the medium in recent times. time. A few years ago, Game of Thrones was so successful that now the copy just continues on TV and with streaming providers it seems like a new brand appears every few weeks.

Many of them are in a flood of content. For example, which has published one of the most important fantasy book series of all time, is often home to Robert Jordan and enjoys cult status as a book series, as a series, I want to say it in time, but somehow everything that only remotely has to do with It seems that many fans were disappointed that the series will continue in 2023 andThis is probably where the future will be. The possibility lies in the fact that fantasy production costs are much easier for streaming providers to calculate and are offset by subscription fees.

The most intermediate programs in terms of quality also have a second chance. Materials like the one mentioned, which would make no sense, since a two-hour film is much better. Nowadays you can do this with both hands or with the witcher, for example. However, when watching the big fantasy on the cinema screen, I see black that the cinematic landscape is changing by leaps and bounds, streaming providers are gaining influence in the cinema, costs and risks are being avoided. There may never be a second Lord of. The Rings again in the future Once a handful of fantasy movies were announced, a movie that could stop this trend doesn't seem to be among them and that's a real shame as much as I like watching fantasy in series form, we.

I will be showing the great fantasy films that are missing. I grew up with atrium, old man Moller asks for advice a thousand and one nights without anyone explaining to me what is best in life and. It's one of my favorite opportunities because the big movie screen was practically invented for this type of movies. That is precisely why these were the first stories written there by the old pioneers. We were told this issue could already be over and I don't want to believe it. so let's hope that at some point the imagination dominates the movie theaters