Bang, bang, you are dead

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Movie
German title Bang, bang, you are dead
Original title Bang, bang, you're dead
Country of production USA
Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Guy Ferland
script William Mastrosimone
production Deboragh Gabler
Paul Hellerman
music Reinhold Heil
Johnny Klimek
camera Robert Aschmann
cut Jill Savitt
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Bang, Bang, You're Dead is the title of a 2002 movie . The plot is very loosely based on the events of the rampage at Columbine High School in 1999 , but with a different resolution.

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16-year-old Trevor Adams attends a California high school where he is one of the underdogs who are bullied and humiliated by the school's athletes. Probably also to draw attention to himself, he directed a bomb threat against the school a year earlier and narrowly escaped being expelled. Since then, teasing has increased at the school Trevor is holding on his video camera . In this way, a “diary of violence” is created. At the same time, Trevor is a member of a theater group in which he played the lead role in a play called Bang, Bang, You're Dead! plays.

But that alone is not enough to let your anger run free. With his friends Sean, Mark and Kurt he plans to storm the school with guns and kill as many hated athletes as possible. Trevor gets to know Jenny, who is of the same age, who stands by him and stands up for him. Through them, Trevor's doubts grow as to whether the deed he has planned is right.

In the end he is the only one who realizes that bloodshed will only fuel more violence and hatred, and evacuates the school with his art teacher, Mr. Duncan. Kurt, Sean and Mark are overwhelmed by Trevor at the last minute.

The play is premiered with success .

Background information

The plot of the film is based on the play of the same name Bang, Bang, You are dead! by William Mastrosimone, which premiered on April 9, 1999 , eleven days before the rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Eugene, Oregon .

With simple pictures and without glossing over, director Ferland conveys a picture of everyday life in schools. In describing the situation, he avoids referring too much to American conditions, since violence and intolerance do not only exist in the USA. The end of the film is a message to young people, “perpetrators” and “victims” alike, in which belief in the good in people triumphs .

The film was shot in Vancouver , Canada and premiered on June 7, 2002 at the Seattle International Film Festival. It ran for a short time in US cinemas.

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