Zack and Miri Make a Porno
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Zack and Miri Make a Porno |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kevin Smith |
| script | Kevin Smith |
| production | Scott Mosier |
| music | James L. Venable |
| camera | David Klein |
| cut | Kevin Smith |
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno is an American comedy film from the year 2008 . It was directed by Kevin Smith , who also wrote the script and edited. The film opened in German cinemas on August 13, 2009. With an estimated budget of $ 24 million, the film grossed just over $ 42 million at box offices worldwide.
action
Miri and Zack have been friends for years, they share an apartment. You have a lot of debt and lots of unpaid bills lying around your home. At a class reunion , Zack meets an actor who makes his living with gay porn. When Zack and Miri come home that evening, their electricity and water are turned off. In a bar they think about their seemingly hopeless situation. Zack had the idea of making a porn film and distributing it over the Internet . Miri is not initially convinced of the proposal, but finally agrees to take on a role in the film.
Zack and Miri then start a casting and find four other actors as well as a cameraman and a producer named Delaney, a good friend of Zack who works with him in the café.
When their actual location, where they want to shoot the film Star Whores (German version: “War of the Sperm”, corruption of Star Wars ), is suddenly demolished, the crew decides to put the film under a new title in the café to turn. Zack and Miri also have a sex scene in front of the camera, which leads to problems: at first neither of them want to admit their feelings towards the other. After an argument, Zack spontaneously moves out of the shared apartment, they don't see each other for a long time.
After three months, Delaney visits Zack at a shooting range, where he can be shot at with paintball guns. Delaney then shows Zack the three sex scenes that were filmed and also mentions that Miri never shot the fourth scene with actor Lester. Richer by this knowledge, Zack drives to Miri's apartment, where Lester has moved in as a subtenant. After they both admitted their love for each other, they make up again, and Zack carries Miri into her room with the words “Let us fuck!”, Which he had already said while shooting for fun.
At the end of the credits you can see that Zack and Miri have now founded the company 'Zack and Miri Make YOUR Porno', where people can have their sex professionally filmed.
Reviews
Todd McCarthy described the film in Variety magazine on September 7, 2008 as a "cheerfully vulgar love story." The type of humor fits with the “pants-down stuff” of Judd Apatow's last films (“the raucous humor here also neatly dovetails with the pants-down funny stuff recently popularized by Judd Apatow”). The chemistry between the main actors is excellent.
The organizers of the Toronto International Film Festival described the plot as "surprisingly touching".
"It is quite possible that" Zack & Miri Make A Porno "is the most romantic comedy that has ever been made."
“A minimalist comedy that flirts with profanity, but that has little originality in its material. The parody, which is rich in stereotypes, adapts to its subject at times except for the clumsy, action-poor rhythm of the porn genre. "
backgrounds
Seth Rogen
Elizabeth Banks
Craig Robinson
Traci Lords
Rosario Dawson , who was initially intended as the leading actress, canceled her participation. The film was shot in and around Pittsburgh and the surrounding area. The cost of production was 25 million US dollars estimated. The world premiere took place on September 7, 2008 at the Toronto International Film Festival . The film was released in cinemas in the United States on October 31, 2008. There it was first rated by the Motion Picture Association of America NC-17 , but it was later relaxed to R , which allows teenagers under the age of 17 to go to the movies when accompanied by a parent.
In Thailand the film was banned for fear of copycats.
The US company Wal-Mart sells the film under the title Zack and Miri in order to avoid the word porn .
No advertising posters for the film were allowed to be put up in Philadelphia , as those responsible believed the word porn could be deeply disturbing to minors.
The plot of the film is reminiscent of the plot of the book Once more with feeling (2002), in which Victoria Coren and her co-author and platonic friend Charlie Skelton describe how they made a porno together.
Publications
The film was released in Great Britain in 2008 on DVD and Blu-ray with a running time of 98 and 102 minutes respectively. In the same year, a DVD with region code 1 and a region code-free Blu-ray, each 101 minutes long , were released in the USA .
Web links
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Official German website for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zack and Miri Make a Porno on boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed April 7, 2012
- ^ Film review by Todd McCarthy ( September 13, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive ), accessed September 14, 2008
- ↑ tiff08.ca ( Memento from August 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 31, 2008
- ↑ a b Porno Romance - The Magic of Penetration , Der Spiegel , August 11, 2009
- ^ Zack and Miri Make a Porno in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed April 7, 2012
- ↑ Interview with Kevin Smith, October 1, 2007 , accessed August 31, 2008
- ^ Filming locations for Zack and Miri Make a Porno , accessed August 31, 2008
- ↑ Box office / business for Zack and Miri Make a Porno , accessed August 31, 2008
- ↑ Release dates for Zack and Miri Make a Porno , accessed August 31, 2008
- ↑ Kevin Smith's 'Porno' gets R rating ( memento of August 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in The Hollywood Reporter of August 5, 2008, accessed on August 31, 2008 (article only available as a subscriber (August 4, 2009 ))
- ^ Zack And Miri Makes Nothing In Thailand , accessed April 23, 2009.
- ↑ Zack and Miri don't do porn at Walmart
- ↑ See e.g. B. the review at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/aug/25/film.society ; the German edition was published under the title Once again with feeling 2004.