Bad Lieutenant (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bad Lieutenant |
| Original title | Bad Lieutenant |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Abel Ferrara |
| script |
Zoe Lund , Abel Ferrara |
| production | Edward R. Pressman |
| music | Joe Delia |
| camera | Ken Kelsch |
| cut | Anthony Redman |
| occupation | |
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Bad Lieutenant is a 1992 American film directed by Abel Ferrara about a drug and drug addicted New York cop .
action
After dropping his two young sons off at Catholic school, an unnamed NYPD policeman takes a few pinches of cocaine and drives to the site of a double homicide in the Bronx. The moving lieutenant finds a drug dealer and gives him a bag of drugs from a crime scene and smokes during the trade. The dealer promises to give him the money he'll make from selling the drugs in a few days. The lieutenant gets drunk in an apartment and has a threesome with two women. Meanwhile, a nun is raped by two young crooks in a church.
The next morning, the lieutenant learns that he has lost a bet on a National League Championship Series game between the New York Mets and the Los Angeles Dodgers. He tries to win his money back by doubling his bet on the Dodgers in the next game. At another crime scene, the lieutenant searches a car and finds drugs that he hides in his suit jacket. However, he's too high to back up the drugs and they fall on the streets in front of his co-workers. The lieutenant tries to cover it up by instructing her to secure the drugs as evidence.
In the hospital, the lieutenant spied on the nun's questioning and learned that she was desecrated with a crucifix. Later that evening, he stopped two teenage girls who used their father's car to go to a club without his knowledge and without a driver's license. The lieutenant sexually coerces both of them. The next day he listens to the nun's confession to her priest, in which she says that she knows who attacked her, but that she will not identify the perpetrators.
As he drinks in his car, the lieutenant hears the final moments of the Dodgers game and sees them lose. Although he is unable to pay the $ 30,000 bet, he doubles his stake for the next game. He overhears the nun's confession and hears her state that she is not angry about what happened and begins to curse at God before breaking into tears and sobbing that he wants to redeem himself. The lieutenant is drinking in a bar when the Dodgers lose again. After taking cocaine in a nightclub, he tries to double his bet again. His friend refuses to make the bet and insists that the bookie would kill him.
As he continues his drug use, the lieutenant takes his $ 30,000 stake from the drug dealer and calls the bookmaker personally to place his bet. He then visits a woman and uses heroin with her. In church, he tells the nun that he will kill her attacker, but she repeats that she has forgiven them and leaves. In the resulting emotional breakdown, the lieutenant sees an apparition of Jesus and curses him in tears before asking for forgiveness for his crimes and sins. The figure turns out to be a woman with a golden goblet that was pawned in her husband's shop.
With the help of the woman, the lieutenant follows the two rapists to a nearby crack cave in Spanish Harlem and ties them together. Instead of killing the rapists, he drives them to the Port Authority Bus Terminal and puts them on a bus with a cigar box that contains $ 30,000. He demands that they never come to New York again. After leaving the terminal, he parks on the street in front of Penn Station. Another car is driving next to him and a voice yells, "Hey, cop!" before two shots sound. Bystanders gather around the car, followed by the police. They realize that the lieutenant was murdered.
background
- The film was shot in New York City and Jersey City ( New Jersey ). It grossed approximately $ 2 million in US cinemas .
- Werner Herzog shot an adaptation in 2009 with the name Bad Lieutenant - Cop Without a Conscience and Nicolas Cage in the lead role.
- Jimmy Page , guitarist of Led Zeppelin , sued the producers because of the multiple used in the film songs Signifying Rapper rapper Schoolly D , which the guitar riff rhythm guitar without permission from Page used . The song then had to be removed from the film and any video cassettes still available had to be destroyed.
Reviews
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that Bad Lieutenant was a film that could live on the strength of an actor. As a character study, however, he was "uninspired". The director is "definitely" not a Martin Scorsese .
The lexicon of the international film judges that the film is "relentlessly tough in the character study of a person in existential chaos who tries in an unusual way to endure an extreme tension between the view into the abyss of the ugly and mean and the purity of the spiritual". The director expected “the viewer to have an experience that cannot be shaken off so quickly” because the film is “despite all its severity, an unusual treatment of the question of man's need for salvation in the cinema”.
The film magazine Cinema sums it up: “Moral drama, sick and strict at the same time”.
Critic.de says: “Bad Lieutenant sometimes seems quite disturbing due to his sometimes brutal direct attitudes and the exploitative game. The film draws its strength from this claim to authenticity, which is why Ferrara has created more than a thriller - a painfully agonizing work that deals in a complex manner with degradation and a struggle for spiritual redemption. "
Awards
Harvey Keitel won the Independent Spirit Award in 1993 , for which Abel Ferrara and the film producers were also nominated. Harvey Keitel won the Fantasporto Festival's International Fantasy Film Award in 1993 ; Abel Ferrara was nominated for the same award.
literature
- BK [Bernd Kiefer]: Bad Lieutenant. In: Thomas Koebner with the assistance of Kerstin-Luise Neumann (Hrsg.): Film classics. Description and comments. 4 volumes (= RUB ). Reclam, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-15-030011-8 , Vol. 4, pp. 370-372 [with references].
Web links
- Bad Lieutenant in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bad Lieutenant. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on October 1, 2017 .
- Bad Lieutenant at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions R-Rated - NC-17 by Bad Lieutenant at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Bad Lieutenant . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2012 (PDF; test number: 68 504 V).
- ^ Filming locations for Bad Lieutenant, accessed August 14, 2007
- ^ Box office / business for Bad Lieutenant, accessed August 14, 2007
- ^ Review by James Berardinelli, accessed August 14, 2007 .
- ↑ Bad Lieutenant. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Cinema.de: film review .
- ^ Critic.de: Brief review on Critic.de.