Big Nothing
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Big Nothing |
| Original title | Big Nothing |
| Country of production |
Great Britain Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean-Baptiste Andrea |
| script | Jean-Baptiste Andrea Billy Asher |
| production |
Andras Hamori Gabriella Stollenwerck |
| music | Alan Anton |
| camera | Richard Greatrex |
| cut | Antoine Vareille |
| occupation | |
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Big Nothing is a British - Canadian black comedy thriller from the year 2006 . Directed by Jean-Baptiste Andrea , who wrote the script with Billy Asher .
action
Charlie Wood, an unemployed former teacher, lives in a small town in Oregon . He is married to Penelope, the town's female sheriff. The two have a daughter named Emily. Charlie wants to be a writer, but no publisher is interested in the book he has written.
In order to contribute to the family income, he takes a job in a call center , but is laid off on the first day at work. The petty crook Gus, whom he met in the call center, suggests that Charlie blackmail the Reverend Smalls, who surfs on prohibited pornographic websites. Charlie agrees. Another accomplice is Josie McBroom, who is a friend of Gus and who is supposed to make the extortion call to the clergyman. Instead of the agreed $ 100,000, she is asking for $ 200,000. Reverend Smalls is willing to pay.
While collecting the hush money from the Reverend's house, Gus meets a man he believes to be the Reverend. This man is threatening Gus with a gun. In a scuffle between the two men, Gus can knock his opponent unconscious, but is shot by him.
A little later, Charlie also comes into the house, finds the unconscious man he takes to be the dead Reverend, and removes the supposed corpse in a septic tank . Charlie and Gus find DVDs in the house showing snuff videos with the Reverend.
It turns out that the Reverend Smalls was killed by his wife. The (alleged) body removed by Charlie was that of Max, the lover of the Reverend's wife, who wanted to collect the two million dollars that the Reverend Smalls had accumulated. Ms. Smalls wants to kill the two blackmailers, but is killed with an ax by McBroom, who has meanwhile also arrived at the house.
Deputy Sheriff Garman had an accident in the bathroom while trying to escape from the Reverend's house. The deputy had visited the Smalls house after finding the body of the clergyman who had been shot on the street.
The three accomplices take the Reverend's millions with them. They load their car with the corpses of the deputy sheriff and Ms. Smalls, but when they reach a piece of forest they discover that Ms. Smalls' body must have fallen out of the car on the way.
You drive back the way and actually find the lost body. The sheriff (Charlie's wife) also arrives there after an anonymous phone call. The trio of crooks have to come to the sheriff's office to record the testimony. There they meet the FBI agent Chester Hymes, known as "The Eye". Hymes is on the hunt for the local serial killers "The Oregon Undertaker" and "The Wyoming Widow".
Hymes follows the trio unnoticed to the point where they want to make Deputy Garman's body disappear. He realizes that McBroom is "The Wyoming Widow". A fight ensues. First Gus von Hymes is shot. Shortly afterwards, he is killed by Charlie and McBroom. McBroom then gives Charlie the choice of being shot by her or poisoning himself. He chooses the second alternative. After Charly has already drank the poison, McBroom notices that the bag does not contain the money. Inside is Charlie's daughter Emily's toy.
The next day we see Charlie's daughter playing with the money. On the answering machine, you hear a publisher say Charlie's novel is great and is being published.
In the final scene, McBroom is taken away by the "Oregon Undertaker".
background
The film was on the Man Isle of , in South Wales , in Squamish ( British Columbia ) and in Vancouver rotated. Its production amounted to an estimated 3 million pounds sterling . The film had its world premiere on November 18, 2006 at the Cardiff Film Festival . Widespread publication began in the UK and Ireland on December 1, 2006. Around 100 UK cinemas grossed around £ 80,000 in the first week. In 2007 the film was released on DVD in some countries.
The scene in which Charlie Wood is given the choice by Gus to join his blackmail scheme is a quote from the movie Matrix . While the protagonist in the film Matrix is given a blue and a red pill to choose from, in the film Big Nothing it is a blue and a red chocolate lens .
German dubbed version
The German synchronized editing was created at Digital Media Technologie in Hamburg . Michael Bartel wrote the dialogue book and also directed the dubbing .
| actor | German speaker | role |
|---|---|---|
| David Schwimmer | Gerald Schaale | Charlie |
| Simon Pegg | Volker Hanisch | Gus |
| Alice Eve | Joey Cordevin | Josie McBroom |
| Jon Polito | Klaus Dittmann | Agent Hymes |
| Natascha McElhone | Katrin Decker | Penelope Wood |
| Mimi Rogers | Marion Martienzen | Mrs. Smalls |
| Sarah Edmondson | Kristina von Weltzien | Isabella |
| Billy Asher Rosenfeld | Sascha Draeger | Deputy Garman |
Reviews
David Cornelius wrote on dvdtalk.com on June 28, 2007 that the film deserves to be seen. He is one of those "one-stupid-event-follows-the-other farces" that would become "pitch black" as comedies and would reach a critical mass. The director Andrea and the second screenwriter Asher would keep the farce as "tight" as possible. The cast would have a knack for the screwball comedies.
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was an "amusing black crime comedy".
Web links
- Big Nothing in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Big Nothing at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Big Nothing in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Big Nothing . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2007 (PDF; test number: 112 488 DVD).
- ^ Filming locations for Big Nothing, accessed September 10, 2007
- ^ Box office / business for Big Nothing, accessed September 10, 2007
- ↑ Big Nothing premiere dates, accessed September 10, 2006
- ↑ a b c Big Nothing. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on January 3, 2017 .
- ^ Film review by David Cornelius, accessed September 10, 2007
- ↑ Big Nothing in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed September 10, 2007