The iron giant

The iron giant  is a American animated film from 1999directed by Brad Bird. It is based on the novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes from1968. Voices in the film are voiced by Pete Townshendand Des McAnuff , Allison Abbate.

The film was well received by critics, but less well by the general public. Thanks to video and dvd releases, the film finally grown to a cultfilm classic .



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The movie plays in the United States of 1957, the height of the cold war. In October, the month that the Russians launched the Sputnik 1, plunges into the sea just before the American coast a robot down dozens of meters high. The robot is going to land near the town of Rockwell. A nine-year-old boy who lives here Hoghart Hughes, since the death of his father being raised by his mother, who works as a waitress in a cafe.
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 Production
 * 3.2 Receipt
 * 4 awards and nominations
 * 5 external links

Hoghart soon discovers the robot when he follows a trail of destruction. He saves the robot when it gets stuck in a number of high-voltage pylons. Afterwards, he discovers that the robot is intelligent enough to understand him and even can learn new things. Because the robot feeds on metal objects, decision Hoghart to hide him on the local scrap yard run by a beatnik named Dean. Dean must first know nothing of the robot, but decides to help the robot at the insistence of Hoghart to keep hidden to the outside world. In the days Hoghart the robot learns about the earthly life. There he comes from outer space, he tries to let the robot take an example to the comic book hero Superman. Now comes Hoghart out that the robot is basically a weapon, when he is with seeing Hogharts toy gun are self-defense mechanism activates.

However, the damage that is causing the robot draws the attention of the u.s. Government, particularly a paranoid officer called Kent Mansley. Despite attempts to Hogharts to avoid, Mansley comes this out that the robot exists. He tries to get closer to Hoghart near by a room rent in his house. When Hoghart finds photos of where the robot Knows is on, he lets the u.s. military and salads to "this monster" to destroy. During the attack of the army Hoghart loses consciousness because he and the robot from the air are shot by fighter jets. The robot thinks the soldiers have killed Hoghart, and activate again its self-defense mechanism. As a result, he changes into a devastating weapon. The army can clearly not against him, so recommends knows the USS Nautilus to an atomic rocket fire on the city.

Hoghart will regain consciousness and brings the robot to calm, but Kent recommends in panic to the missile attack to continue anyway. However, the robot grabs in and brings the rocket to blast high into the sky, but is also destroyed.

A few weeks later, the city has set up a monument in memory of the robot. Hoghart get from General Rogard a screw; the only thing one has ever recovered by the robot. That night however, the screw starts to roll away, and Hoghart himself realizes that the robot apparently is still active and has activated its self repair. The film ends with images of other pieces of the robot, which all direction go the Langjökull in Iceland, where the head of the robot is located. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == Additional voices are done by, among other things, Cloris Leachman, Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, m. Emmet Walsh and James Gammon. ==Background<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film originated in a project of rock musician Pete Townshend. In 1986 he used the story "The Iron Man" in the subject for his album The Iron Man: A Musical<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-productionotes_1-0" len="181" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]  he made for this album also a short film titled "A Friend is a Friend", directed by Matt Forrest. In 1993 there was a stage version in London's Old Vic. Des McAnuff saw in this play a potential feature film, and bought the project for Warner Bros.
 * Eli Marienthal -Hogarth Hughes
 * Jennifer Aniston – Annie Hughes
 * Harry Connick, Jr. – Dean McCopping
 * Vin Diesel – the robot
 * Christopher McDonald – Kent Mansley
 * John Mahoney – General Rogard

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Development of the film began in 1994. In 1996 it was decided to Brad Bird, who at the time worked for Turner Feature Animation, the chance to direct in order to give the film name within the world of animated films.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-productionotes_1-1" len="181" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  first the original story of Hughes, Bird las and got so interested in the project. Under Birds Director got the film form. Bird hired Tim McCanlies among other things in to write the screenplay. He deliberately chose the 50 's of the 20th century as a period in which the film had to go play because of the paranoia of the time as a result of the cold war.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Irony_2-0" len="172" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">McCanlies and Bird were not always agree about the script. McCanlies was there, for example, that the final scene, in which it appears that the robot is still in order, was added. McCanlies also wanted the songs of Pete Townshend in the film processing, but Brad kept this idea.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ironlion_3-0" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  after Ted Hughes had given his approval to the script, production could begin.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For drawing the robot was, as much as possible, computer animation used there the artists found it difficult to draw a smooth metal object with traditional methods<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-productionotes_1-2" len="181" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]  There was even a new computer program developed for this purpose. Bird hired students from CalArts to help optimize the computer animation. ===Receipt<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The iron giant went on 3 August 1999 premiered in the United States. The film debuted in 2179 cinemas, and brought in the opening weekend $ 5.732.614 on the final revenue within the United States. was $ 23.159.305.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="166" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]  worldwide was the yield 112.16 million dollars.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">According to analysts of IGN had the film a lot more successful if Warner Bros. had more time and money put into the promotion of it. According to critics realized Warner Bros. probably not what they had in hands.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Otto_5-0" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  For the video edition of the film was a big set up received almost universally negative reviews, including collaborations with Honey Nut Cheerios, AOL and General Motors.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" len="166" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film was positively received by critics. On Rotten Tomatoes the iron giant scored 97% positive rating<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" len="166" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" len="166" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8] ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="79" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The iron giant won a total of 19 Awards, and was nominated for another 14.

<p lang="en" len="25" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The prizes won are:

<p lang="en" len="258" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Among the nominations was a Hugo Award for "Best Dramatic Presentation".
 * Nine Annie Awards, including for "Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Theatrical Feature", "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Character Animation" and "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production"
 * The BAFTA children's Award for best film
 * The FFCC Award for best animation
 * The Genesis Award for best film-animation
 * The Sierra Award for best animated feature
 * The LAFCA Award for best animation – feature film
 * The Golden Reel Award for best sound editing
 * The SFFCC Award for best animated feature
 * The Golden Satellite Award for Best Youth DVD
 * The Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a voice-over (TV or Feature Film)-Young Actor (Eli Marienthal)
 * The Young Star Award for Best Young Voice Over Talent (Eli Marienthal)