A shocking accident
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | A shocking accident |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | James Scott |
| script | James Scott Ernie Eban |
| production | Christine Oestreicher |
| music |
Simon Brint Simon Wallace |
| camera | Adam Barker-Mill |
| cut | Tom Priestley |
| occupation | |
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A Shocking Accident is a British Short Film - Comedy by James Scott in 1982 with Rupert Everett and Jenny Seagrove in the lead roles. The film won an Oscar in 1983 .
The script goes back to a story by Graham Greene .
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When Jerome was a little boy, he was told that his father was killed in a very bizarre accident. The boy has big problems with this story, as people who hear about it are almost always extremely amused. For Jerome, his father was something of a hero so far, as he traveled a lot in the world and thus stimulated the boy's imagination. Jerome imagined his father was fiddling with pistols or was an important man in the Secret Service. When the headmaster of his school called Jerome to tell him that his father had had an accident, it occurred to him that he had got caught in a hail of machine gun bullets or something similar. What the director then told him, however, became a trauma for Jerome. His father, a travel writer, was walking in the poorer neighborhoods of Naples when a balcony broke under the weight of a pig that had become too heavy and unfortunately fell directly on his father. Even then, Jerome noticed that the director was only able to hold back a laugh that threatened to shake him with the greatest effort. From this point on, not only his classmates mocked him, but everyone who heard the story reacted more or less amused, although for Jerome this event is only associated with tragedy and sadness. So Jerome gradually fled into a fantasy story or completely refused.
He grew up to be an inhibited auditor. Then, however, he finally meets a person in Sally who helps him cope with the tragedy of his childhood. When she hears the true story of his father's death, genuine horror can be seen in her eyes, not the shadow of a smile crosses her face. At that moment his heart was beating faster with joy. He feels as if Sally has taken away the fear of speaking honestly about his father's death forever. And something else connects both of them, Sally also wants to know what happened to the pig, which is exactly the question that little Jerome asked his school director at the time.
Production and publication
It is a production by Flamingo Pictures, National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC) in cooperation with Virgin. The film was distributed by Columbia-EMI-Warner.
The film first ran in October 1982 at the Chicago International Film Festival and then generally in US cinemas. In the United Kingdom, A Shocking Accident was released in April 1983.
Awards
- At the Chicago International Film Festival 1982 A Shocking Accident was nominated for a Gold Hugo in the category "Best Short Film".
- James Scott received a 1983 BAFTA Film Award nomination in the Best Short Film category.
- Christine Oestreicher was awarded an Oscar in 1983 for the film in the Best Short Film category.
Web links
- A Shocking Accident in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A Shocking Accident - Graham Greene at genius.com, accessed January 29, 2016.
- ↑ Winners Only by Category Short Films (Live Action) ( Memento from January 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at atogt.com (English)