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Beatlejus

“Beatlejus” ( born Beetlejuice ) is a mystical horror film directed by Tim Burton . Oscar for Best Makeup. The picture took 428 place in the list of 500 best horror films according to users of the site IMDb [1] . In the film, there are references to Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost, " as well as to Dune . The name of the film is a play on words: in one version of the English transcription, the name of the star Betelgeuse ( Betelgeuse ) sounds like “Beatlejus”, which is consonant with Beetlejuice (“Juice Juice”).

Beatlejus
English Beetlejuice
Movie poster
Genremystical film
black comedy
horrors
ProducerTim Burton
ProducerDavid Giffen
Larry Wilson
Michael Bender
Richard Hashimoto
Author
script
Warren skaaren
Tim Burton
Michael McDowell
Larry Wilson
In the main
cast
Alec Baldwin
Michael keaton
Gina Davis
Winona rider
OperatorThomas Eckermen
ComposerDanny Elfman
Film companyThe Geffen Company
Duration92 min
Budget$ 15,000,000
Fees$ 73,707,461
A country USA
TongueEnglish
Year1988
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IMDbID 0094721

Content

Story

The story begins when a young couple, Adam ( Alec Baldwin ) and Barbara ( Gina Davis ) Maitland, take two weeks of vacation in the hope of conceiving a child. But they die in a car crash. Now they are ghosts in their own home in Winter River , Connecticut .

Barbara's sister, Jane Butterfield, is selling the house to the Dietz family in New York, whose head Charles ( Jeffrey Jones ) decided to change the situation after a nervous breakdown. Other family members are the daughter Lydia ( Winona Ryder ) and his new spouse Delia ( Catherine O'Hara ), an avant-garde sculptor , strongly influenced by interior designer Otto ( Glenn Shadix ). With the filing of Otto, the cottage is immediately subject to restructuring. This, of course, does not like the former owners of the house. However, all attempts by Adam and Barbara to drive out new tenants on their own, scaring them, did not bring success, because the living do not want to see the dead. The only one who sees them is Lydia, since she is “in itself strange and unusual.”

In search of justice for the unpleasant "living", the Maitlandes turn for help to a "living exorcism specialist" - Beatlejus ( Michael Keaton ), but immediately regret it.

Cast

CharacterActorDubbing
BeatlejusMichael keatonVladimir Vikhrov
Lydia DietzWinona riderLyubov Germanova
Adam MaitlandAlec BaldwinSergey Chekan
Barbara maitlandGina DavisNatalia Kaznacheeva
Charles DietzJeffrey jonesValery Storozhik
stepmother Lydia Delia DietzCatherine O'HaraMarina Tarasova
Jane butterfieldAnnie macinroyOlga Kuznetsova
OttoGlenn ShadixAlexander Novikov
JuneauSylvia SidneyVictoria Rudanskaya
Maxi dinneRobert GouletMikhail Lebedev

Awards and nominations

  • 1989 - Academy Award in the category of “ best makeup ” ( We Neill , Steve LaPort, Robert Short)
  • 1990 - Saturn Award for Best Horror Film
  • 1990 - Saturn Award for Best Makeup ( We Neill , Steve LaPort, Robert Short)
  • 1990 - Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress ( Sylvia Sidney )

According to the memoirs of Tim Burton, the main part of the film’s criticism concerned the “colorless” acting of Davis and Baldwin. But, thanks to this inadvertently arising contrast, according to Burton, the role of the Beatlejus became only brighter:

I have never considered the Maitland 100% positive characters, they had their own problems. Their essence, in my opinion, lies in the fact that they like to be boring ... If the Maitlands were not so good, Beatlejus and the other dead would not have made such a strong impression and the film would not have turned out as it is [2] .

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Notes

  1. ↑ IMDb: Top 500 Horror Movies (IMDb Horror Board) - a list by DaveHedgehog ( Unopened ) . IMDb. The date of circulation is July 15, 2017.
  2. ↑ Salisbury Mark. Tim Burton. Interview. - SPb .: ABC Classic, 2008. - p. 400 - ISBN 978-5-91181-753-4

Links

  • " Beatlejus ” (Eng.) On the Internet Movie Database
Source - https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bittlejus&oldid=97809963


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