Live rather unusual
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Live rather unusual |
| Original title | A Life Less Ordinary |
| Country of production | UK , USA |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Danny Boyle |
| script | John Hodge |
| production | Andrew Macdonald |
| music | David Arnold |
| camera | Brian Tufano |
| cut | Masahiro Hirakubo |
| occupation | |
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Rather live unusually (Original title: A Life Less Ordinary ) is an American comedy film from 1997 . It was directed by Danny Boyle and written by John Hodge . The main roles were played by Ewan McGregor and Cameron Diaz .
action
When Celine Naville ( Cameron Diaz ) is about to be forced by her rich father to finally work, the recently fired cleaning man Robert Lewis ( Ewan McGregor ) bursts in and tries to get his old job back at gunpoint.
In the ensuing mess, Robert takes Celine hostage and escapes with her. She soon takes the initiative and together they blackmail her father with her as a supposed kidnapping victim.
At the same time, the angels O'Reilly and Jackson, who pretend to be killers, try to arouse feelings between Robert and Celine. When Jackson pretends that he is about to kill Robert after a failed cash delivery, Celine overpowers him.
When the two of them robbed a bank, Robert saves Celine from a security guard and is shot himself. When he watches her with her ex-lover, with whom they have found shelter, the two split up in an argument.
For the time being he finds shelter alone as a cleaner in a bar. Jackson writes a love letter in Roberts' handwriting with a poem that Celine thinks is beautiful. She comes into the bar; Robert honestly says he never wrote the poem. Celine runs away humiliated, the bar owner is surprised that Robert lets her go.
The desperate angels kidnap Celine and hold her captive. Robert comes to free her. When he and Jackson fight each other, Francis Naville also appears and his helper shoots the two angels.
When Robert is also about to be shot, Celine saves him with a shot through his heart, as he foresaw in a dream. A miracle is approved in heaven and Robert lives on - together with Celine.
Reviews
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that Rather Live Unusually is Unusually - which is part of the problem. The film focuses so much on being quirky that it falls into clichés. It offers a number of the parodies that are sometimes amusing, sometimes clever, and sometimes boring. There is no chemistry between the main actors. The critic praised Holly Hunter and Delroy Lindo, who as a couple have more chemistry and would deliberately play excessively. The other supporting roles are "interesting" cast; Berardinelli mentioned Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Maury Chaykin, and Dan Hedaya, who portrayed the Archangel Gabriel as a grumpy representative of middle management.
The lexicon of international films wrote: “Allegedly a passionate love story, the staging is lost in smug actionism that aims more at effects than at content. The film reveals its potential substances because it is too tailored to the zeitgeist. "
The magazine TV Spielfilm 2/1998 described the film as "brightly colored" and "raven black", TV Today 2/1998 as "cheeky" and "candy-colored", and Cinema 2/1998 as "original but chaotic".
Awards
Ewan McGregor won the British Film Award Empire Award . Ewan McGregor and Cameron Diaz were nominated for the MTV Movie Award , another nomination for this award received the song Deadweight by Beck .
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
backgrounds
The film was in Los Angeles , in Layton ( Utah ) and Salt Lake City turned (Utah). Its production amounted to an estimated 12 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 4.27 million in US cinemas. In Germany around 149,000 cinema viewers were counted and in France around 208,000.
In addition to Deadweight by the musician Beck , the soundtrack includes the single for the film, A Life Less Ordinary by Ash as well as a new version of the REM classic Leave , which can be heard in the dramaturgical climax of the film, and pieces by so different artists such as Leftfield , Elvis Presley, and The Cardigans . Beyond the Sea , performed by Robert and Celine in the film, can also be found on the soundtrack in the version by Bobby Darin .
German version
The German synchronized editing dates from 1998.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Lewis | Ewan McGregor | Philipp Moog |
| Celine Naville | Cameron Diaz | Katrin Fröhlich |
| O'Reilly | Holly Hunter | Sibylle Nicolai |
| Mr. Naville | Ian Holm | Berno from Cramm |
| Jackson | Delroy Lindo | Tilo Schmitz |
literature
- Christian Lukas , Ewan McGregor , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-453-16147-5 , pp. 178-188
Web links
- A Life Less Ordinary in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Life Less Ordinary, withRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Rather live in an unusual way ( memento from April 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) in the Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon
- prisma-online.de: Better to live in an unusual way
- moviemaster.de: Better to live in an unusual way
- Discussion of the film music
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 12 TV - FSK 16 from Lebe rather unusual at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Film review by James Berardinelli, accessed December 6, 2007
- ^ Filming locations for A Life Less Ordinary, accessed December 6, 2007
- ↑ Box office / business for A Life Less Ordinary, accessed December 6, 2007
- ↑ Thomas Bräutigam : Lexicon of film and television synchronization. More than 2000 films and series with their German voice actors etc. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-289-X , p. 226