24 hour party people

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Movie
German title 24 hour party people
Original title 24 hour party people
Country of production Great Britain
France
Netherlands
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Michael Winterbottom
script Frank Cottrell Boyce
production Andrew Eaton
music New order
camera Robby Muller
cut Trevor Waite
Michael Winterbottom
occupation

24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British - French - Dutch film directed by Michael Winterbottom . The film is named after a well-known Happy Mondays song .

action

The development of the Manchester music scene from the late 1970s to 1997 is told on the basis of facts and filmed rumors . The central character in the film is Tony Wilson , who guides the viewer through the film and often turns to the camera to comment. At such moments the imaginary fourth wall between the audience and the actors collapses temporarily. Some scenes are a compilation of semi-fictional game scenes and credibly guaranteed archive material.

The central motifs of the plot are the creation and development of the music label Factory Records and the bands involved . The first half of the film deals primarily with Joy Division / New Order , the second half with the Happy Mondays, whereby other bands from the treated environment, such as A Certain Ratio and The Durutti Column , are also shown.

At the beginning of the film you can see Tony Wilson, who alongside the music business shot various TV reports as a television reporter, clumsily flying down a green slope on a red-blue-white hang glider in a self- experiment in the Pennines , an English low mountain range. Many TV viewers used to amuse themselves watching Wilson perform such often ridiculous acts. At this moment , film scenes played by actor Steve Coogan and old archive recordings of the real Tony Wilson are cut together, almost imperceptibly for the viewer. The film then recreates the first appearance of the punk rock band Sex Pistols in the city of Manchester on June 4, 1976 in front of a sparse audience, in the now demolished Lesser Free Trade Hall , again as a mixture of shaky, blurred archive images and staged game scenes. For Tony Wilson, who sits enthusiastically in the audience, this performance represents a pop music awakening experience, whereupon he offers the young punk rock bands of this hour against all odds a platform in his TV show So it Goes .

Several people like Tony Wilson himself, Howard Devoto of the Buzzcocks , Mark E. Smith of The Fall , Gary Mounfield of The Stone Roses and many others have made small guest appearances. On the sidelines of a concert by the post-punk band Joy Division , with actor Sean Harris as singer Ian Curtis , actor Steve Coogan in the role of Tony Wilson goes outside and gets into the hold of a dark , purple Ford Transit Plush and in which two prostitutes sit, whereupon Tony Wilson is orally satisfied by one of the prostitutes and is caught red-handed by his partner Lindsay, played by actress Shirley Henderson . In revenge, Lindsay therefore unceremoniously goes to the club with Howard Devoto, the singer of the Buzzcocks, played by actor Martin Hancock , in a toilet cubicle . Then you see the real Howard Devoto standing in the club toilet in front of the mirror, turning to the camera and assuring you that you can “ definitely not remember ” the incident that you just saw (in the English-language original: “ I definitely don't remember this happening "). At this moment Devoto plays a male cleaner who is cleaning the sinks of the club toilet with blue rubber gloves. Short scenes from historically archived concert recordings are shown, for example from Iggy Pop , Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Jam .

Manager Tony Wilson sends the band New Order to the island of Ibiza so that the pop group can record the album Technique , but after two years the band has still not released a finished album. In addition, Wilson paid for the combo Happy Mondays to produce the album Yes Please! In Barbados . in a recording studio there, but since the heroin addicted singer Shaun Ryder at Manchester Airport loses all his methadone , the band on the island is spending the budget of the record on the procurement of new drugs. When Tony Wilson accepted the tapes with the new Happy Mondays album from Shaun Ryder, he found out during a first preview in the Factory Records conference room that Ryder had refused to record his vocals and that the album was composed entirely of instrumental pieces consists.

When Factory Records finds itself in financial difficulties, the management is faced with the decision to sell the label to the record company London Records . That's why the representatives of London Records show up in the conference room, to whom manager Tony Wilson shows the contract from the founding time of Factory Records, which was written with his blood, and from which it emerges that the label has no binding contracts with its bands, whereupon the deal breaks. Tony Wilson explains: “ Factory Records is not a real company. We are a human experiment. "(In English:" Factory Records is not actually a company. We are an experiment in human nature. ")

In the course of the film's story, Tony Wilson is regularly seen outside of the pop business, as a dramaturgical running gag , which was an idea of ​​screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce , in his everyday job as an outside reporter for a local television station, for example interviewing a shepherd who helps a dominant white goose directing his flock of sheep, visiting a dwarf zookeeper in the elephant enclosure of Chester Zoo with the camera or reading a report about UFO sightings within the citizenry as an anchorman on a news program .

Gross profit

The film grossed around $ 3 million in cinemas worldwide.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films found that Michael Winterbottom, with 24 Hour Party People, “recapitulates the highly productive history of the Manchester music scene between 1976 (punk) and 1992 (Rav-o-lution)" and “fireworks of cinematic ideas "burn down. From “game scenes, documentary material, film within a film, cameo appearances by well-known musicians and flying saucers”, “with a lot of self-irony” a “melange in which document and legend flow seamlessly” emerges. Cinema described the film as "a disrespectful tribute to Manchester's '24 Hour Party People '". The film is also a “fast-paced portrait of an era and its heroes [...] with an ingenious soundtrack”.

Awards

At the Cannes International Film Festival in 2002 , the film was represented in the competition for the Palme d' Or. At the Emden-Norderney International Film Festival , 24 Hour Party People received a nomination for the Emden Film Award.

At the British Independent Film Awards 2002, the film won the Best Producer category and production designer Mark Tildesley was nominated for Best Technical Contribution. The film was nominated for Best British Film and Steve Coogan for Best British Actor at the Empire Awards . He was also nominated for the Political Film Society Award for Democracy and Steve Coogan for Best Newcomer for the Online Film Critics Society Award . Liz Gallacher was nominated for a Satellite Award in the Best Music category.

background

  • The name Madchester, introduced by the music press, developed in the early 1990s as the name for the pulsating nightlife in Manchester with the dazzling music club Fac 51 Haçienda , a dance temple launched by the Factory Records record company .
  • In an audio commentary, which is in the bonus material of the DVD of 24 Hour Party People , the real Tony Wilson makes it clear that many of the plot elements seen in the film are exaggerated, did not take place in the form shown or are even fictitious Example of the blowjob scene with the two prostitutes in the Ford Transit. With regard to the blowjob scene, Tony Wilson, who stood by the film project as a knowledgeable advisor, had tried to have it removed from the original version of the film, but could not prevail against director Michael Winterbottom . Wilson also pleaded for the film scene about the rioting to be removed from a Joy Division concert on April 8, 1980 in Derby Hall, Bury in the English city of Bury , as the film suggested that members of the British National Front were among the visitors . Furthermore, Wilson would have been happier if Ian Curtis and Shaun Ryder , the singers of Joy Division and the Happy Mondays , had moved more into the foreground of the film plot and had kept himself more in the background. In the film, the character of Tony Wilson takes on the position of authoritative narrator .
  • In a second audio commentary, which is also included in the DVD's bonus material, actor Steve Coogan explains the playful nature of his role: “ This is not an exact documentary about Tony Wilson either. I also told Tony that, I don't know, 70 to 80 percent is Tony Wilson, 20 percent what I want to bring in. "
  • For the scenes that play in the Fac 51 Haçienda music club , the film team rebuilt an identical studio setting with the authentic brick architecture of the walls, which also had the original, which was demolished at the time, on a slightly larger scale. When the real music manager Tony Wilson inspected the finished replica, he was moved to tears.
  • Because of the archive recordings of the Sex Pistols' first appearance in the city of Manchester from 1976 used at the beginning of the film , the punk rock band considered bringing the production team to court because of the unclear legal situation regarding the old film and sound recordings.
  • The scene in which Tony Wilson signs on a white napkin with the blood from his left thumb, which he cuts open with a knife in a restaurant, corresponds to a true story: Wilson signed a contract with Joy Division in this unusual way in 1979 the famous content of the contract: “ The artists own all their own work, the label owns nothing. Our bands have the freedom to fuck off. "(In German:" The artists own all their works, the label owns nothing. Our bands have the freedom to piss off at any time. ")
  • In the scene in which Joy Division singer Ian Curtis commits suicide by hanging in his apartment, the film Stroszek by director Werner Herzog is on his television set. Comparable to the suicide scene in the Ian Curtis film Control by director Anton Corbijn from 2007. The singer Ian Curtis highly valued Herzog's films.
  • As part of the plot about the funeral service for the deceased Ian Curtis, excerpts from the black and white video clip of the Joy Division song Atmosphere by director Anton Corbijn, in which several people in monk-like robes and shrouds with hoods pulled down over their faces, can be seen perform walking down a beach carrying huge pictures of the post-punk band. Corbijn shot the video clip in 1988, eight years after the band split up, on the occasion of the release of a compilation called Substance .
  • In the second half of the film, actor Steve Coogan strolls through the streets at night and passes a homeless man sitting under a bridge against a wall, played by actor Christopher Eccleston , who quotes the Neoplatonic philosopher Boethius with his theory about the wheel of fate. Coogan is later seen hosting the British TV quiz show Wheel of Fortune , even though the real Tony Wilson never hosted the Wheel of Fortune. In the film scene in question, actor Steve Coogan is accompanied to the TV studio by Terri Seymour, the real British co-host of the wheel of fortune program , which is called the Wheel of Fortune in England . The original script called for the film 24 Hour Party People to begin with the wheel of fortune scene.
  • Central Station Design , the graphics agency of the Happy Mondays, designed the bright neon-colored opening and closing credits with the hectically flickering names of everyone involved in the production of the film and the poppy interference signals .
  • Actor Andy Serkis , who plays the music producer Martin Hannett , embodies the character of Gollum in the Lord of the Rings films by director Peter Jackson .
  • During the plot, music producer Martin Hannett seeks music manager Tony Wilson in an office and shoots him with a blank gun when the front door opens. In real life, during an angry phone conversation with manager Rob Gretton in an argument , Martin Hannett had fired a pistol on the phone rather than firing the gun at Tony Wilson. As a result, Rob Gretton obtained an injunction against Hannett.
  • Actor Kenny Baker (1934-2016), who played the white droid R2-D2 in the Star Wars films, can be seen in the guest role of the diminutive zookeeper in the elephant enclosure .
  • In the scene with the cinematic representation of the shootings in the drug scene of Manchester, around the notorious Cheetham Hill Gang , the hypnotic strings occupied running techno-piece Go by Moby . Originally, the license to use the piece in the film would have been too expensive for the production team. However, since Moby is a big fan of Joy Division and New Order, he released the rights for his song on more favorable terms. In relation to the escalating gun violence in the drug scene in Manchester in the 1990s, the English pun Gunchester established itself as a nickname for the big city.
  • The final scene, in which God appears in heaven in front of actor Steve Coogan, was filmed on the roof of the real wing of the building that was left over from the Haçienda music club before it was finally demolished. At this point Steve Coogan plays a dual role, both music manager Tony Wilson and the shining god in the sky. In the dialogue, God alludes to the fact that the style-forming indie rock band The Smiths once did not sign a contract with Factory Records, but with the competition Rough Trade Records .
  • Actor Steve Coogan (* 1965) met Tony Wilson (* 1950) for the first time as a young boy, when his aunt, who worked as a makeup artist for the television channel Granada TV , the same TV channel that Tony Wilson was employed by , Celebrated her 21st birthday in 1976 in his parents' house. Coogan sat on the stairs with his brothers, peered through the railing and watched the adult guests, including Manager Wilson, partying.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 24 Hour Party People (2002) - Box Office Mojo. Accessed August 31, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 24 Hour Party People. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ cf. cinema.de
  4. ↑ Audio commentary by music manager Tony Wilson , contained in the bonus material of the double DVD 24 Hour Party People (Disc 1 main film), Special Edition, 2008, Arthaus - Special Films , Leipzig + Kino Home Entertainment GmbH , Leipzig
  5. ↑ Video interview with music manager Tony Wilson, documentary film (featurette) The real Tony Wilson , 6 minutes, 2002, included in the bonus material of the double DVD 24 Hour Party People , (Disc 2 Extras), Special Edition, 2008, Arthaus - Special Films , Leipzig + Kino Home Entertainment GmbH , Leipzig
  6. ↑ Audio commentary by music manager Tony Wilson , contained in the bonus material of the double DVD 24 Hour Party People (Disc 1 main film), Special Edition, 2008, Arthaus - Special Films , Leipzig + Kino Home Entertainment GmbH , Leipzig
  7. ↑ Audio commentary by actor Steve Coogan and producer Andrew Eaton , contained in the bonus material of the double DVD 24 Hour Party People (Disc 1 main film), Special Edition, 2008, Arthaus - Special Films , Leipzig + Kino Home Entertainment GmbH , Leipzig
  8. ↑ Audio commentary by actor Steve Coogan and producer Andrew Eaton , contained in the bonus material of the double DVD 24 Hour Party People (Disc 1 main film), Special Edition, 2008, Arthaus - Special Films , Leipzig + Kino Home Entertainment GmbH , Leipzig
  9. ↑ Audio commentary by music manager Tony Wilson , contained in the bonus material of the double DVD 24 Hour Party People (Disc 1 main film), Special Edition, 2008, Arthaus - Special Films , Leipzig + Kino Home Entertainment GmbH , Leipzig
  10. ↑ Audio commentary by actor Steve Coogan and producer Andrew Eaton , contained in the bonus material of the double DVD 24 Hour Party People (Disc 1 main film), Special Edition, 2008, Arthaus - Special Films , Leipzig + Kino Home Entertainment GmbH , Leipzig
  11. ↑ Video interview with actor Steve Coogan, documentary film (featurette) The real Tony Wilson , 6 minutes, 2002, included in the bonus material of the double DVD 24 Hour Party People , (Disc 2 Extras), Special Edition, 2008, Arthaus - Special Films , Leipzig + Kino Home Entertainment GmbH , Leipzig