800 bullets
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | 800 bullets |
| Original title | 800 balas |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language |
Spanish English Italian |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 122 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Álex de la Iglesia |
| script |
Jorge Guerricaechevarría Álex de la Iglesia |
| production | Álex de la Iglesia |
| music | Roque Baños |
| camera | Flavio Martínez Labiano |
| cut | Alejandro Lázaro |
| occupation | |
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800 Bullets is a 2002 Spanish drama film directed by Álex de la Iglesia .
action
Little Carlos lives in Madrid with his mother Laura and grandmother Rocío . Laura and her business partner are planning to open an amusement park in Spain. Carlos' father died while doing his job as a stunt man. His grandfather, Julian, who doubled as a stuntman in films Clint Eastwood, was present in this accident. He's hired to run a western village called Texas Hollywood in Almería .
Instead of taking his class on a ski trip to Almería, Carlos, with his mother's golden credit card, goes to meet his grandfather. Once there, he experienced a laughable Western performance in front of a handful of spectators. Julian drinks too much and his team is not very motivated. He still lives in the past with the great actors, and nobody really wants to believe him. Carlos reveals himself to be his nephew, whereupon Julian sends him home. But Carlos remains stubborn and stays. A loving relationship slowly develops between the two of them.
After a night of partying, Julian arrives late for a performance in front of a few spectators. A short time later, the police show up and confiscate, among other things, a large amount of hashish, which takes him to jail pending bail. He thinks about his show and hires a lot of harvest workers as Indians. Meanwhile, Laura finds out that Carlos is not on the ski trip and travels to Almería. She bursts into the middle of a performance in front of a whole Japanese bus and takes Carlos home with her. Laura has to find another convenient location for her theme park project and thinks of the western village of Texas Hollywood. Your company buys the site and wants to tear everything down. In anger, Julián buys 800 live cartridges and blows up a demolition excavator with a shot in the tank. All his colleagues help and the western village is besieged.
The police and special units can do nothing without producing bad advertising for the new amusement park. After a real war, his comrades are tired and anxious and give up. Cheyenne is secretly bribed by the mayor of the village and persuaded to switch fronts. Carlos, also back on site, is beginning to have doubts about his grandfather's Eastwood stories. He calls a phone number for Clint Eastwood in the USA, but he is not at home. Carlos also turns away, disappointed. Cheyenne convinces the police that he is the best way to sort out the situation with Julian. Since Julian no longer sees a future for himself and has been repeatedly confronted with his guilt complex regarding his son's accident, he provokes a duel between the two, which is the continuation of their long-term duel with sharp weapons and is broadcast live by a television reporter in the Cheyenne Julian finally shot. When Carlos and his mother Laura bend over the corpse, Julián's cell phone rings. You can see Clint Eastwood's phone number, who calls back.
At the funeral that follows, Clint Eastwood is also present, who confirms to Carlos that he respected Julian very much.
criticism
"Dramatic family comedy in front of a Spanish western backdrop, which in a loose sequence of scenes creates a memorial to an almost forgotten genre with relish."
“Spain's reliable, hard-working hiker between the genre worlds Alex De La Iglesia (" Perdita Durango ") approaches the Wild West via a detour of a modern family drama and confronts star actress Carmen Maura with a rustic bunch of drunkards and losers who are successful in a former spaghetti western setting Deprive growing up. Movie quotes, weird birds, slapstick, sex and nice moments are enough to keep genre connoisseurs and cult film watchers happy even without a convincing script. "
Web links
- 800 Bullets in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 800 bullets in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ 800 bullets. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ 800 Bullets ( Memento from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) video.de