American Splendor (film)
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| German title | American Splendor |
| Original title | American Splendor |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Robert Pulcini , Shari Springer Berman |
| script | Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman based on the comics American Splendor by Harvey Pekar and Our Cancer Years by Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner |
| production | Ted Hope |
| music | Mark Suozzo |
| camera | Terry Stacey |
| cut | Robert Pulcini |
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American Splendor is a 2003 American film . The directors Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman describe the life of Harvey Pekar , the creator of the comic series of the same name .
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Pekar, who struggled with the environment as a lonely child, works in the administration of a hospital in Cleveland , Ohio , and lives for his two hobbies, comics and jazz . Through this he met Robert Crumb as a young man , who shortly afterwards invented the underground comix . The two become friends. In the end, Pekar discovers that “normal” life is never depicted in the drawing stories. When he presents him with his notes for a story - Pekar himself cannot draw - Crumb offers to supply the pictures. Soon the stories appeared in booklet form and helped its creators to some celebrity in comic circles. This is how he meets his future wife, Joyce Brabner , who works in a comic book store.
Pekar, who continues to work in the hospital, is not satisfied with the work on the representation of self-experienced events. Even on talk show appearances on David Letterman , he fails to keep calm and begins to offend hosts and viewers.
Eventually, Pekar developed cancer . He and Joyce survive the time only by capturing the experiences as a comic, which is published as "Our Cancer Year" and captures every conceivable aspect of the disease in minute detail.
Finally, they take on the daughter of a draftsman friend and thus form a family of their own.
Description and background
A feature film plot in which Paul Giamatti Harvey and Hope Davis portray Joyce is now and then supplemented by the comic Pekar, who utters a balloon text that was used later, and is interrupted by scenes from the real Pekar, who speaks the voiceover. Joyce, her daughter Danielle and Harvey's best friend Toby can also be seen as real people. Once you see a conversation between Harvey and Toby, while the actors Paul Giamatti and Judah Friedlander sit in the background and listen to them. Interview scenes with Joyce also reveal the couple's complicated relationship. In addition, the drawn versions of the main characters, drawn by different people, are shown again and again. Finally, Giamatti steps “out of the film” a few times and starts thinking about life. Here the boundaries between film and comic are finally blurring.
The film was shot in Cleveland and Lakewood in the US state of Ohio . Box Office Mojo on 30 June 2008. According played the film nearly 8 million so far worldwide US dollar one ( Total Lifetime Large ), of which about 75 percent in the United States ( Domestic ).
Reviews
"[...] as well as a film about the problem of identification models as well as the difficulty of leading a life in dignity as a small file louse. […] This pekar, played by an inimitably bad-tempered Paul Giamatti, is not a cultural type. He's the kind of person whose presence can sometimes cause physical discomfort. "
“[...] meanders between fiction, documentary, interview film and animated comic book and tries to pick up the groove of the eventless uneventfulness. If the rhythm becomes too pleasing, the original grantler Pekar speaks up and brings the film back to the damned everyday life with a quacky voice "
“He is at the same time author and character, hero and victim, life and artifact of a continuous bilateral osmosis . A standard biography couldn't compete with such a man. "
"Reminds you that sometimes there is nothing more heroic than getting out of bed in the morning."
“Paul Giamatti plays the grumpy comic book writer Harvey Pekar with lyrical desperation [...] Some legends are born, others are drawn. [...] If anyone is overdue for fame and a real premium, it's this guy. "
The lexicon of international films spoke of an " ironic - depressive self-reflection". Ekkehard Knörer saw a film at Jump Cut “about the social type nerd . [...] like the porcupines warming each other. "
The film was on Rotten Tomatoes on June 30, 2008 with 94 percent with 169 evaluated reviews (100 percent of 9 top critics), with Metacritic 90 percent with 42 evaluated reviews. In the IMDb , with the votes of 18,062 viewers on the same day, he ranks 7.7 out of 10 points.
Awards
The film is one of the most award-winning independent films of its year. In addition to various prizes at the Cannes Film Festival 2003 , the Sundance Film Festival ( Grand Jury Prize ) and other festivals, the film was also nominated for the Oscar ( Best Adapted Screenplay ) and the Golden Globe Award ( Best Supporting Actress by Hope Davis ).
See also
Director Terry Zwigoff shot an award-winning documentary about Robert Crumb under the title Crumb .
Web links
- American Splendor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- American Splendor atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- American Splendor at Metacritic (English)
- Illustrated review of the corresponding DVD
Individual evidence
- ^ Filming locations. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
- ↑ American Splendor. In: Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 30, 2008 .
- ^ Andreas Busche: American Splendor. In: taz . Retrieved June 30, 2008 (from Filmzentrale).
- ^ Anke Leweke: Banal size . In: Die Zeit , No. 45/2004, p. 62
- ^ Xan Brooks: American Splendor. In: Sight & Sound . January 2004, accessed on June 30, 2008 (English): “He's at once author and character, hero and victim, his life and his art the result of a perpetual two-way osmosis. Standard biography is no match for such a man "
- ^ Rene Rodriguez: American Splendor (2003). (No longer available online.) In: Miami Herald . Formerly in the original ; retrieved on June 30, 2008 (English, quoted from Rotten Tomatoes ): "Reminds you that sometimes, simply getting out of bed each morning can be the most heroic of acts"
- ↑ Manohla Dargis : American Splendor. In: Los Angeles Times . August 15, 2003, accessed June 30, 2008 (English): “Paul Giamatti plays curmudgeonly comics writer Harvey Pekar with lyrical desperation […] Some legends are born; others are drawn. [...] If anyone is overdue for celebrity and a real paycheck it's this guy "
- ↑ American Splendor. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Ekkehard Knörer : Sharon Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini: American Splendor (USA 2003). In: Jump Cut . Retrieved June 30, 2008 .