
A Hologram For The King Ein Film von Tom Tykwer
Der amerikanische Geschäftsmann Alan Clay soll mit einem Team von IT-Fachkräften nach Saudi-Arabien reisen und dem saudischen König Abdullah ein brandneues, holographisches Telekommunikationssystem verkaufen. Er strandet jedoch auf einer Baustelle. Ein Hologramm für den König (Film) – Wikipedia. A Hologram for the King | Eggers, Dave | ISBN: | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. A failed American businessman (Tom Hanks) looks to recoup his losses by traveling to Saudi Arabia and selling his idea to a wealthy monarch. Für „A Hologram for the King“ arbeiteten Tom Hanks und Regisseur Tom Tykwer nach Cloud Atlas erneut zusammen. Basierend auf dem preisgekrönten Roman. Set during the recession, a desperate businessman (Tom Hanks) in Saudi Arabia attempts to leave his mark on the world while fighting foreclosure and paying. A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING. NACH DEM GLEICHNAMIGEN ROMAN VON DAVE EGGERS. MIT. Tom Hanks. In einer aufstrebenden saudi-arabischen Stadt.

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For all the high-tech lingo, there's nothing new to feel or see. Charlotte O'Sullivan. Hanks is often cast as the dependable American everyman type.
Here, he shows a darker, more anxious side to that character. It is one of his richest recent performances. Geoffrey Macnab. This is a whimsical comedy that falls through the memory like sand through your hand.
Patrick Smith. Hanks brings much interest to his laconic, bereft character, chasing the bird of happiness.
He is quite the perfect actor to play an American suffering while the US is in economic decline - because he was such a star when it wasn't. Antonia Quirke.
Henry Heffer. It's hard to imagine a more Tom Hanks-y setup than this. Tom Huddleston. This adaptation of the Dave Eggers novel is another in a growing line of underwhelming English language titles with conflicting tonal shifts from Tykwer.
Nicholas Bell. This film is pleasant enough, but there were definitely elements that left a sour taste in my mouth.
I fear that this cinema experience is going to prove forgettable, as the film was ultimately paper-thin and liable to fly away on a desert wind.
Fiona Underhill. Or a faint hologram even. Jim Ross. An engaging, thoughtful film, bolstered by a fine lead performance from Hanks.
Josh Long. A Hologram For The King is expressly second class, lacking depth, clarity and, most importantly, a meaningful message. Bertie Archer.
It's also one of the first, if not THE first, American film I've watched that suggests that it's the West that needs the Middle East's economic influence, not the other way around.
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The Mandalorian: Season 1. Saturday Night Live: Season Orphan Black: Season 5. Watchmen: Season 1. The Walking Dead: Season But of course there's much more to it and the chance for his life to be turned around in a more meaningful way.
Ultimately the story was unsatisfying because it wraps up in the blink of an eye. Ending it in that indie-film sort of way to keep you wondering what happens next may have been the goal.
But it doesn't pull it off very effectively and just left me sort of annoyed. To be fair, the book was a lovely, easy read with the decent writing many expect from Eggers until page It also offered an interesting glimpse into the kingdom of Saudi Arabia that I hadn't before seen.
So for these reasons, and the handsomeness of the book, my rating is somewhere between 2. Jun 17, Gary the Bookworm rated it it was ok. I really disliked this.
I preordered it from Amazon last July after reading glowing reviews in newspapers and magazines. Other "goodreaders" commented that it was another self-indulgent exercise in navel-gazing by an angry white American male, but I dismissed them as too harsh-until I read it.
Now I'm in that camp, too. I really admired another novel in this vein called Dear American Airlines, but this one never lived up to the hype.
I found the plot to be sketchy and the characters underde I really disliked this. I found the plot to be sketchy and the characters underdeveloped.
Alan, the narrator and protagonist, is a divorced father who is facing bankruptcy and chronic unemployment. He is also drowning in self-pity and hooch.
He is hoping that this Saudi deal will save him, but as a character he is unsalvageable. I wouldn't want to sit next to him on a plane; reading about him for pages is painful enough.
There are some intelligent insights into the economic forces which have shaped the last 30 years, but that I could get from reading Newsweek. This probably should have been a short story.
View all 13 comments. Mar 21, Cheri rated it really liked it Shelves: , literary-fiction , saudi-arabia. My brothers and I would have been sent to various places for school, for me it would have been Switzerland, a boarding school.
At the mention of walking behind my father in public, my mother promptly announced she would do no such thing, and more or less stormed out of the room.
Alan sees himself through their eyes, succumbs to that vision for a while, but eventually tries to do something about it.
For Alan, this is more than a job. In order to return, be able to face his life back home, Alan needs this sale.
He desperately needs it, and so he desperately believes it will happen. I loved the humor, occasionally subtle, in Eggers writing, and the underlying theme throughout.
View all 9 comments. A book that I liked and disliked at times so I'm not quite sure yet how to rate. Between 3 and 4.
Can't really bring it to 4 stars Alan Clay, an ageing business man with money problems, is in Saudi Arabia to present the newest IT technology, including a hologram to the King.
While struggling with his personal issues, lack of sleep, problems with his daughter, and a growth in his neck that worries him, he and the team wait for the King This is what the author says: "So I'd been thinking abo A book that I liked and disliked at times so I'm not quite sure yet how to rate.
This is what the author says: "So I'd been thinking about this guy, Alan Clay, who he was and where he was in his life, and then one day I heard about the King Abdullah Economic city, and about American businessmen waiting in the desert for an audience with the king.
That seems the perfect place for Alan, for a guy who knows he's in trouble but doesn't know how to find his way out.
So he travels thousands of miles, to a desert, to wait for the approval of a despot. I liked that; it has a strong parallel to our own economy.
The American economy has a lot of problems, and for solutions we tend to look everywhere but the mirror. Also intriguing Tom Hanks I hear that he is playing the part of Alan in a movie of this book.
I can't quite see him in this part, but then he is a good actor Curious to see the movie and compare it to the book.
Note: just watched the trailer View 2 comments. Conscientious moralist and all-round Good Egg er Dave Eggers in another era might be literary kryptonite.
In these times, writers like Eggers who are devoted to giving voice to the voiceless need to be respected in spite of the contemptuous hauteur of educated neurotics like me who delight in turning our schnozes heavenward at this sort of thing.
Eggers is an American novelist who seems to care about something outwith his navel and funnels his funds into excellent causes.
Dave 4 Prez. Meet Alan Clay, an American salesman in his mid-fifties. He is in debt, his credit is bad, and his career is in decline.
His daughter and ex-wife are not getting along. He is becoming increasingly aware of his shortcomings, though he remains optimistic. T Meet Alan Clay, an American salesman in his mid-fifties.
The only problem is that the king is repeatedly unavailable, and the team is setup in a tent with limited wi-fi and no food. Alan believes if he can just sell this contract, he can get his life back on track.
Eggers has written a book filled with subtle humor and irony. He is trying to sell virtual technology in a city that may never be fully developed to a king who repeatedly fails to appear.
So, Alan drifts aimlessly. He tours the construction zone, encounters a few women, and, in one of the highlights of the book, forms a friendship with a local driver.
This book is, in part, a social commentary on globalization and the associated economic impacts. It is also a deep character study of a man who used to manufacture and sell physical products bicycles , but now struggles to remain relevant in an increasingly virtual, downsized, and outsourced world.
Alan is presented as somewhat of a holographic image himself, a person whose role has faded and who keeps making poor decisions. He tries to point to an external reason for his troubles, a growth on his neck, but the real problem lies deeper within.
He is still trying to apply old rules to a new game. The plot is sparse, the prose is spare, and the pace matches the on-again-off-again schedule for meeting with the king.
Eggers explores several aspects Saudi Arabian culture through the eyes of an American, which may hold a few surprises for readers.
I found it clever and entertaining. I was lured by the cover and the title. I was hoping for a quick, fun, brilliant story that would give me some insight into Saudi Arabia and international business.
Big mistake. I found a French movie from the '70s instead. Seriously: a French Movie from the '70s, one of those where nothing happens, and actors are trying to convey despair in thousand of different ways, but all they can express is boredom.
But hey! If you have a sudden craving for a story about a weak, self-pitying, sad, aiml I was lured by the cover and the title. If you have a sudden craving for a story about a weak, self-pitying, sad, aimless loser who has to kill time for the ENTIRE book, and if you would truly love the whole thing to be soaked in an aura of confusion, despair and depression, you're in for a fucking TREAT with "A hologram for the King"!!
Jun 07, Eric rated it it was amazing Shelves: recent-reads , fiction. A brilliant snapshot of the times. Lean, but powerful, and at times beautiful, Eggers does what he does best -- captures the anxiety, humanity, and confusion of living in a world where the lines of country and culture are slowly eroding.
I felt it was perfect that Eggers used a Beckett quote at the beginning of the book. The book is bleak and tragicomic, like much of Beckett's work, yet very much focused on the human condition.
Eggers brilliantly illustrates the absurdity and surreal nature of l A brilliant snapshot of the times. Eggers brilliantly illustrates the absurdity and surreal nature of life, and how we have become slaves to our own makings.
How are we to exist in this world when none of the rules apply anymore? How long can we sustain societies built with smoke and mirrors?
Sep 28, Erica David rated it it was ok. It's two and a half stars, really. Almost three. Goodreads needs a rating for "Meh" because that's pretty much my reaction to it.
Is it well written? Is it topical and relevant to our particular historical moment, this tale of a former manufacturing executive in existential crisis who finds himself in Saudi Arabia hoping to win an IT contract for the newly founded and still unfinished King Abdullah Economic City?
Is it our mistaken belief as Americans who once made good product but hav It's two and a half stars, really. Is it our mistaken belief as Americans who once made good product but have since outsourced our manufacturing to burgeoning superpowers such as China, that the only way we can possibly save ourselves from our recent economic sins and moral malaise is to once again build something with our own gnarled, guilt-ridden American hands?
Do I care? Actually, that's unfair. I do care and I care about the thought and time that Eggers put into this novel.
It is chock full of important ideas that a number of us are struggling to parse these days. My issue is that the ideas outweigh the characters.
The characters feel sketchily drawn, typical, and seem to exist solely to service the plot. This is completely acceptable in an allegory or a political cartoon where everything is meant to be clearly labeled, but there's something about the thinness of character in what is meant to be an extremely timely and cogent novel that I find unforgivable.
Jun 20, switterbug Betsey rated it it was amazing. It is , and Alan Clay is waiting. He is a year-old failed American businessman in serious debt, evading his creditors and anguishing over how he will pay for his daughter's next year in college.
He also has an angry ex-wife and a worrying lump on his neck. This is his last hurrah, a chance to turn his life from sad and broke to flush and secure, if h It is , and Alan Clay is waiting.
This is his last hurrah, a chance to turn his life from sad and broke to flush and secure, if he and his young team from Reliant can pitch this hologram presentation to the King and win an IT contract.
Alan is a bit of a sad sack, arriving at his failures largely due to the outsourcing of American business manufacturing.
He was once a confident, prosperous sales executive with Schwinn, until he made some bad decisions, such as trying to convert a Soviet-era factory in Budapest to a capitalistic model.
Sometime after that catastrophe, he followed the trend of globalization, and was instrumental in shipping Schwinn's labor to China.
That was the end of Schwinn's American prosperity. That was a rhetorical question Teach a man to fish. Now the Chinese know how to fish, and ninety-nine percent of all bicycles are being made there in one province.
Does this sound sustainable to you, Alan? Yousef is usually the comical straight man to the blundering Alan. As Alan shares his dreams and visions of selling his ideas to the King, Yousef tamps it down with some biting realities.
Apparently, the King hasn't even been back to Jeddah in about 18 months. Yousef gives Alan a tour of this unrepentant desert region, a vast place tremendous with possibilities, but appears to be in a stage of arrested development.
A billboard advertises the development, and there's a road that cuts through nothing, then a pair of stone arches, and a dome hovering over all of it.
He imagines the city rising from its ashes. Presently, it looks like anywhere and nowhere--it could be Los Angeles, or Orlando, as there is nothing to give it distinction, except for its looming neutrality and the few towering or squat, square buildings.
Alan attempts to make contact with the liaison, Karim al-Ahmad, at the building they call the "Black Box," and is given the royal runaround.
Back to the stifling tent, he reminisces and deliberates some more. Is the lump on his neck malignant? Are they going to be served food?
Is the King going to come soon? Days turn into weeks, and Alan has some interactive adventures. He meets a Danish beauty with an office in the Black Box and a secret stash of moonshine.
He makes an appointment to have his lump evaluated and meets a serenely beautiful doctor. He even has an opportunity to prove himself an able marksman.
Eggars has pared down his prose since the exuberant narrative style in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Here it is streamlined--lean, economic, slyly impassive.
I enjoyed what was unsaid as much as what was said--the spaces between sentences, the pregnant pauses to ponder, the measured rhythm, the quivering tension, the elegy of a man feeling his impending absence more than his indefinite presence.
There's a risk of the story being an agit-prop against the creeping ambush of globalization, a pithy cry about America's decline.
Certainly that point is made, but not forcefully. Readers are already aware of the economic struggles, the backlash of end-stage capitalism and the pros and con arguments of outsourcing.
Eggars is more interested in shaping a character we will identify and empathize with, and laugh at occasionally. Clay is a maladjusted baby boomer from the age of entitlement, losing his footing in the new privileges and prohibitions of global finance.
His wounds, both physical and emotional, are palpable. Alan Clay is a suffering everyman, in the throes of unsustainability.
There are wisps of Willy Loman, Herzog, and other memorable literary figures, aging tragic-comic men who suffered from obsolescence.
It reads partly like a fabled allegory, but achingly real and plausible. Can the imminent foreclosure of a man's life be reversed? Will the King show up?
I was touched, and considerably moved, by the story, characters, and themes. Don't expect a neatly wrapped up resolve. The droll and beguiling Eggars will hook you on page one, and won't let go, even when you reach the end.
This book is about a character slowly imploding into his own manias. It reads like the memoir of a 21st century Willy Loman, so readers will either love or hate it.
Thrust into a foreign country while battling his inner demons, the protagonist makes it clear that this is a do or die sales opportunity.
Everything in his life somehow hinges on making this business deal go through. I happened to like the morosely interesting insights from a man caught in the grip of a debilitating, paralyzing mid-l This book is about a character slowly imploding into his own manias.
I happened to like the morosely interesting insights from a man caught in the grip of a debilitating, paralyzing mid-life crisis.
In spite of the pressure to succeed there is room for learning, challenges, and subsequent reflection. The main character is 54 years old --same as yours truly-- so there were parts that definitely spoke to me!
And I liked the fact that Eggers did not tie everything up neatly in the end. A very satisfying read. It is a movie that you will forget very soon.
There is nothing new and it made me fell that I was waiting all the time for something to happen. Also, there is a strange atmosphere in the movie, like everyone is plotting against Tom Hanks.
BUT, once you understand that that is the goal of the movie lack of plot twist, the strange atmosphere, etc. And I think the "strange atmosphere" is done due the big different of culture in Saudi Arabia, so that is a big pro.
It have a nice photography and good acting, and they show a lot of culture of Saudi Arabia I think that is one of the best in this movie.
It's similar to a documentary, in that aspect. There is no strong comedy or drama, although they should cut some of the drama there, but, If you don't expect too much and want to watch something unpretentiously you can watch this film.
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Uli Hanisch. Johnny Klimek. Tykwer begreift den Ausflug in die Wüste als Forschungsexpedition.Shortly after, Alan has a panic attack in the hotel and, mistaking it for a stroke, calls Zahra and Yousef.
Yousef, arriving shortly after Zahra, notices how close they are and, after she leaves, chastises Alan for endangering her by making advances to her, something Alan vehemently denies.
Yousef then confesses that he fears even more for his life because the husband of the woman that Yousef is interested in has threatened him.
He decides to flee to his home town over the weekend to let things cool down and Alan decides to go with him. After returning from the trip with Yousef, Alan learns that his lump contains precancerous cells and should be removed the next day.
When returning to the development, Alan notices that the technical problems have been taken care of and he is informed that the King will watch the presentation that day, which is successful.
However, Alan sees the officials talking with a Chinese company who ultimately can offer a better product at a cheaper rate than Alan's company.
It is implied that the government had always planned to make a deal with the Chinese, and knowingly wasted Alan's time.
Afterwards, Alan again rejects Hanne's advances. The next day, the operation begins with an unknown doctor but, at the last moment, Zahra takes over, to the delight of Alan.
After the successful procedure, Alan and Zahra exchange increasingly personal and intimate e-mails which culminate in a secret meeting between the two.
They talk about their families, with Zahra explaining that she has children and is also going through a messy divorce.
They are driven to a beach house which belongs to Zahra where they go swimming and then have sex.
The film ends with Alan writing to Kit telling her that the deal did not happen but that he has taken a well-paid job in Saudi Arabia implied to be selling office space and apartments in new developments and that he has found a new positive force in his life implied to be Zahra, with whom he has started a relationship.
Tykwer wrote and directed the film, which stars Tom Hanks as the lead. Production was set to begin in first quarter of Shooting wrapped in June Writing for The New York Times , Stephen Holden called the movie "a story of confusion, perplexity, frustration and panic," praising Tom Hanks's ability to turn it into "an agreeably uncomfortable comedy," meriting a "Critic's Pick" designation.
The site's critical consensus reads, " A Hologram for the King amiably ambles through a narrative desert, saved by an oasis of a performance from the ever-dependable Tom Hanks.
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I fear that this cinema experience is going to prove forgettable, as the film was ultimately paper-thin and liable to fly away on a desert wind.
Fiona Underhill. Or a faint hologram even. Jim Ross. An engaging, thoughtful film, bolstered by a fine lead performance from Hanks. Josh Long. A Hologram For The King is expressly second class, lacking depth, clarity and, most importantly, a meaningful message.
Bertie Archer. It's also one of the first, if not THE first, American film I've watched that suggests that it's the West that needs the Middle East's economic influence, not the other way around.
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