Bad Lieutenant - Cop with no conscience

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Movie
German title Bad Lieutenant - Cop with no conscience
Original title The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 122 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Werner Herzog
script William Finkelstein
production Nicolas Cage ,
Avi Lerner
Alan Polsky ,
Gabe Polsky
Edward R. Pressman
music Mark Isham
camera Peter Zeitlinger
cut Joe Bini
occupation

Bad Lieutenant - Cop without a conscience (English original title: The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans) is a film by Werner Herzog from 2009. It is a remake of the eponymous thriller Bad Lieutenant by Abel Ferrara .

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The story is about the drug addict and corrupt police officer Terence McDonagh, played by Nicolas Cage . After rescuing a prisoner from drowning during Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, he was promoted to lieutenant, but was seriously injured in this operation and had to take the painkiller Vicodin from then on . Terence is not squeamish about his daily work. He takes drugs for personal consumption from drug dealers and addicts. When he catches a couple with drugs, he demands sex directly from the woman and forces her boyfriend to watch. The focus of the film is the hunt for the drug dealer Big Fate six months later: He killed an entire family of African immigrants in cold blood because the father of the family traded drugs in Big Fate's territory. Terence's life is gradually falling apart. He's in gambling debt as he keeps betting unsuccessfully on football games. He tries to appease his bookmaker with favors of corruption, but this fails. Terrence tortures a rich old woman for hiding the whereabouts of a witness. This calls the supervisory authority on the plan. He also takes $ 10,000 from a suitor, Justin, from his drug addict friend Frankie. This is the son of a corrupt politician who incites mafia gangsters on his neck. The mafioso wants the $ 10,000 back plus a $ 40,000 fine . In addition, his two gorillas should be allowed to have sex with Frankie. Terence is given two days and agrees. Then he takes Frankie to his drug addict father and stepmother, who are by no means friendly to Frankie.

In order to get some money, Terence serves as an accomplice at Big Fate. In addition, he blackmailed a football player who is supposed to manipulate a game. McDonagh, who repeatedly challenged fate, is very lucky in the end: Big Fate and his people shoot the Mafiosi, and Terence also succeeds in throwing evidence into Big Fate. He can use it to convict Big Fate and his cronies of murder. Justin is intimidated by the murders of the Mafiosi and sheepishly comes to Terence to tell him that there is no more bad blood between the two. The blackmailed football player fulfills his obligation and Terence wins big money betting. He can pay his debts to the bookmaker and a mistress Terence 'does the bookmaker a favor on top of that. A year later, Terence is promoted to captain, Frankie has overcome her drug addiction and is pregnant. However, the final scene suggests that Terence occasionally takes drugs.

Reviews

"Former Herzog has made a fantastic film that doesn't care in the least about its crime thriller, but instead penetrates its ambivalent main character deeply, humorously and without judgment [...] Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer or Michael Shannon (times of Riot) in their supporting roles, "Bad Lieutenant" is Cage's big one-man show. "

- Filmstarts.de

"Anyone who has ever seen Abel Ferrara's" Bad Lieutenant "from 1992, in which Harvey Keitel embodies the fall of a corrupt, drug addicted policeman with a radicalism to the point of self-renunciation, must consider a remake of this film to be a crazy idea [... ] Nevertheless, it is a very decent, atmospherically dense, sometimes even eccentric police film in which Nicolas Cage was almost up to the challenge for a time - before everything turned into a caricature. What Cage plays and what Herzog does. Because in the remake, the fall from hell suddenly ends, and like a parody of the compulsions of Hollywood, everything suddenly turns for the better. "

- FAZ

Abel Ferrara's reaction

Abel Ferrara , director of the 1992 film, has been quoted several times as being very angry about Herzog's new version. Ferrara was quoted as saying: "As far as remakes go, ... I wish these people die in Hell. I hope they're all in the same streetcar, and it blows up." (As far as remakes are concerned ... I wish all of these people die in hell. I hope they're all on the same tram that is being blown up). Herzog was approached about this reaction and joked that he didn't even know who Ferrara was. At a press conference, Herzog later said about Ferrara that he would like to meet him and think he could clarify things with him

Awards

Cage, Mendes and Herzog before the premiere in Venice

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Bad Lieutenant - Cop without a conscience . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2009 (PDF; test number: 120 423 K).
  2. ↑ Interview with Werner Herzog. Carried out by Jian Ghomeshi for Radio Q, CBC Radio. Available online at www.cbc.ca
  3. ↑ Michael Althen in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from September 5, 2009
  4. ↑ Werner Herzog on Abel Ferrara: 'Who Is He?' . In: Vulture.com . June 5, 2008.
  5. ↑ Eric J. Lyman: 'Bad Lieutenant' and bad blood in Venice . In: The Hollywood Reporter , September 4, 2009. Archived from the original on September 6, 2009.