100 per

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Movie
Original title 100 per
alternative video title 2003:
Something is going on tonight: 100 per
alternative video title in 2014:
Something is going on tonight
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2001
length Cinema: 89 minutes
DVD: 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Simon Verhoeven
script Simon Verhoeven
production Christine Ruppert
music Jerome Isma-Ae
Simon Verhoeven
camera Jo home
cut Nicolas Goodwin
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100 Pro is a 2001 comedy film directed by Simon Verhoeven and starring Ken Duken and Luca Verhoeven .

action

Two boys from Munich have been best friends since kindergarten, although they are actually totally different: the 19-year-old womanizer Floh and the 20-year-old Marcel, who is doing community service , who lives in a steady relationship. On Saturday Marcel celebrates his 6-month anniversary with his girlfriend Vicky, whom he only calls little mice. At the age of 16, Flea was left behind by his girlfriend at the time, Sandra, and has not wanted to know anything about love since then.

Floh picks up Marcel on Saturday morning to play football together. Marcel shoots the ball on a meadow and lands on the banks of the Isar . On a gravel bank on the weir footbridge , he sees two women sunbathing in bikini. He calls Flea, who starts talking to the women and learns that they are models for underwear. They arrange to meet for the evening in the fashionable luxury disco Spy.

Flea persuades the hesitant Marcel to come along. He cancels his scheduled meeting with his girlfriend by lying to her that he has to work a night shift.

When they arrive at the disco, however, they fail because of Dennis, the bouncer. After several unsuccessful attempts, they want to get in via the ventilation shaft, but that also fails. Marcel wants to go again, but Flea wants to stay and persuades him to wait for the women in the parking lot.

There they meet a guy named Miami, who used to be with Marcel's sister. The macho tells them how to deal with women and also promises them that he can take them to the disco because he would be a good friend of Dennis. But he quickly turns out to be just a boastful babbler.

The next time he tries to get past the bouncer, Flea is knocked down by a bouncer. Back at the parking lot, Marcel sees his girlfriend just about to go to the disco with another man. When asked about this, she explains that she had already studied for four hours at home and is now going out with Winston, an old friend of hers, because he, Marcel, supposedly had no time because of his night shift.

Flea steals a drunk's car keys. As the two of them sit in the stolen car, they get to know two underage girls, Caro and Steffi, and Floh offers them to drive them home to Unterhaching . Marcel doesn't think that's a good idea because he wants to wait for his girlfriend and the two drunk girls are no more than 14 years old. But Flea persuades him again and explains to him that they will now have fun with the girls.

When Flea asks if the girls' parents don't mind that they are out alone at 4 a.m., Caro explains that she told her parents that she was staying with her friend Steffi. However, Steffi's parents are not at home, and they also have a hobby room with a bar. Flea is therefore hoping that something will still work.

After Flea was inattentive and racing across the country road at excessive speed, it made a loud bang and the car came off the lane. The girls are horrified and accuse him of risking their lives, so they continue on foot.

Only now do the boys realize that they have killed a dog. Marcel wants to call the police, but Flea reminds him that they are traveling with a stolen car and persuades him to secretly bury the dog in the forest.

Marcel has had enough of his friend and runs away. When Flea tries to stop him, he hits him and they go their separate ways. Marcel now calls his girlfriend, who explains to him that the acquaintance she went out with is gay and that there was never anything between them.

In the meantime, Flea meets Valeria, with whom he fell in love at first sight, and asks her for her phone number. When he learns that she is desperately looking for her dog, he hides the fact that her dog is dead and that he has it on his conscience.

On the platform of the S-Bahn, Floh meets Marcel, and the two make up again. The narrator finally tells us that the two are still friends, that Flea called his Valeria and that Marcel made up with his girlfriend and moved out of home two weeks later.

background

  • 100 Pro is the first feature film directed by Simon Verhoeven (he had previously made two short films). He was also responsible for the script, as well as for parts of the film music and appears in a supporting role in the film.
  • Damir Fister, the former bouncer of the P1, can be seen in a brief appearance as a visitor to the fictional luxury disco Spy .
  • The shooting took place between September 5, 2000 and October 13, 2000 in and around Munich. The first screening was on September 20, 2001, the nationwide theatrical release on October 4, 2001. After its premiere at the Munich Film Festival 2001, the film was cut and supplemented with an accompanying commentary (with Otto Sander as the narrator). The film was a flop at the box office , with a total of only 12,399 visitors. Director Verhoeven explained that "nobody" had seen the film in the cinema and that it would have "blown it off".

Reviews

"A film designed as pure fun cinema without a dramaturgical concept that gets lost in nonsensical camera gimmicks and supposedly cool sayings."

- Lexicon of international film

"On the one hand, Verhoeven relies on the" strange behavior of the big city dwellers "surface effect with his rich pictures and his pleasant narrative, at the same time he exposes the expectation of success, wealth, conquest and success aroused by advertising images and video clips (and also repeatedly supported in his film) Beauty also as a mousetrap, the pressure of which weighs heavily on the protagonist. [..] And so that the scenario, which in the long run appears to be very stretched, never gets too bad, Gisela Schneeberger makes a gorgeous appearance as Marcel's mother. "

- Kino.de

“What sounds like a superficial comedy - is also one. It might have been enough for a nice short film, but when stretched to the length of a feature film, the story about the needs of friends, which is also very poorly played, is boring "

- Ingrid Arnold - floodlight

“As a feature film, it's pubescent junk. And if one did not know that other, similar bankruptcy declarations are unfortunately also enjoying the favor of film funding, one would have to assume that in this case someone was blinded by the big name (director's father Michael Verhoeven ) - at the expense of taxpayers and the public . "

- Rüdiger Suchsland - artechock

“The film gets really nasty later when the two heroes tow two 14-year-old girls who are drunk and kill a dog on a drunk drive. In view of the quality of the performance, the critic could unfortunately not determine whether the film should slide into the morally affected or whether the assistant director-for-life-in-spe didn't think anything at all. "

- Carsten Tritt - Editing - The film magazine

“Sure, they talk stupid things and hide in a strange boy world. But they manage to do this relatively convincingly because men their age usually do this: clueless, but self-assured. Without denouncing them, Verhoeven grants his characters the right to be stupid, instead of bothering them with pseudo-existential problems, as teenagers usually only wallow in German teenage films, if at all. The inestimable advantage of "100 Pro" lies in the credibility of the characters. "

- Harald Peters - Berliner Zeitung

Soundtrack

  • Simon Verhoeven - Angel of Peace
  • Eder - studio
  • Echo rush - intro
  • Flea and Marcel - That ass
  • Players Inc. feat. Lisa Mack - Ultimate Love
  • Flea and Marcel - underwear models
  • DJ Static - Mr. Fantastic
  • Miami - kittens
  • Camillion - Antibiotic
  • Improversum - an attempt
  • Echo rush - Da dimma and da tea
  • Jerome Isma-Ae - Flea pulls his gun
  • Jerome Isma-Ae & Woodboy - Ultradisco
  • Simon Verhoeven - View of the Alps
  • Flea and Marcel - Austrian
  • Future Funk - Road Track
  • Jerome Isma-Ae - Walking to the club
  • Marcel and Eder - loyalty
  • Max von Thun - Angel
  • Dennis - entrance area
  • Jerome Isma-Ae - Poldi's Theme
  • Flea and Marcel - sweet woman / asshole
  • Jerome Isma-Ae - They don't let me in
  • Infected - Virgins
  • Jerome Isma-Ae - Flea and his dark emotions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julia Rothhaas: A doorman unpacks: For the good of society. SZ-Magazin , issue 49/2007, accessed on May 22, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b 100 Pro on Kino.de
  3. ↑ German Films Film Hit List: Annual List 2001 ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the film funding agency @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ffa.de
  4. ↑ Ruth Schneeberger: ″ I know what it is like to be pissed off. ″. süddeutsche.de (archive), July 1, 2011, accessed on May 22, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Ingrid Arnold: 100 Pro: What's up? Not much. The film about the zero statement. (No longer available online.) Fluter.de (archive), October 2001, archived from the original on May 2, 2014 ; accessed on May 22, 2014 .
  6. ^ Rüdiger Suchsland: Irritations in the stupor. artechock.de, accessed on May 22, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Carsten Tritt: 100 Pro. Schnitt - Das Filmmagazin , accessed on May 22, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Harald Peters: Men in Munich: ″ 100 Pro ″ A Midsummer Night's Dream. Berliner Zeitung -Online Archiv, October 4, 2001, accessed on May 22, 2014 .