Imaginaerum

Imaginaerum (2012)

Imaginaerum tells the story of an elderly composer, Tom, who suffers from severe dementia. As he has had the disease for years and has regressed into childhood, he remembers practically nothing from his adult life. His music, friends, all his past including the memory of his daughter are a blur in his fragile mind. All he has left is the imagination of a ten year old boy. As he drifts away into coma, it seems impossible to get back what he has lost. Or is it?

公開日
2012-11-23
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (176)
上映時間（分）
1時間26分
ジャンル
ファンタジー, ドラマ
監督
Stobe Harju

キャスト

豆知識

  • 撮影地：モントリオール

Imaginaerum is a 2012 fantasy film co-written and directed by Stobe Harju. It was developed with and features music from the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish's seventh studio album of the same name; Nightwish's keyboardist and songwriter Tuomas Holopainen co-wrote the film. Imaginaerum, which is produced by Markus Selin from Solar Films Inc. along with Nightwish, is the feature film debut of director Stobe Harju.

Production

In the beginning of autumn 2008, Nightwish frontman Tuomas Holopainen first introduced the idea for the film to fellow band members and to film director Stobe Harju with whom the band had worked on the music video for "The Islander". Harju immediately liked the concept. Holopainen's original idea was to shoot a music video for each of the thirteen songs of the album, but Harju suggested they should also include dialogue.

On the story, Holopainen commented: "I wanted to convey a positive message and a sense of carpe diem. The movie is about the joy of being alive and the beauty of the world." For the visuals of the film, he cited the works of Tim Burton, Neil Gaiman and Salvador Dalí as inspirations. Harju described the musical style of Imaginaerum as "a cross between Moulin Rouge! and Pink Floyd's The Wall".

Nightwish members appear both as themselves playing some of the songs and in small supporting roles featuring dialogue. Holopainen appears as "a gray and wrinkled 50-year-old". Harju wanted the audience "to feel the presence of Nightwish" and designed the names of the characters the band members are playing to resemble their own names: Anette Olzon plays Ann, Tuomas Holopainen plays Tom, Marko Hietala plays Marcus, Emppu Vuorinen plays Emil and J…

Some of the music in the movie will be slightly different from that of the album and there will be also a score written by Petri Alanko, who composed the video game Alan Wake for which Harju directed the cutscenes. According to Holopainen the running time of the film will be "around 80 minutes".

At the end of May 2011 final changes were made to the screenplay and part of the post-production was started before the actual shooting. It was revealed that there is an animated character who "will surely be remembered by many a Nightwish fan". A blog update on Nightwish's site stated that "Imaginaerum will in no way be a children’s movie but a dark and foreboding fantasy; a dream world that lacks no surprises."

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