Bill Cosby - The Super Cannon

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Movie
German title Bill Cosby - The Super Cannon
Original title Leonard Part 6
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1987
length 85 minutes
Rod
Director Paul Weiland
script Jonathan Reynolds
production Bill Cosby
music Elmer Bernstein
camera Jan de Bont
cut Gerry Hambling
occupation

Bill Cosby - The Super Cannon ( Leonard Part 6 ) is an American spy film - parody from 1987. It was directed by Paul Weiland , Bill Cosby was lead actor, producer and provided the story. The cast also included Gloria Foster as the villain and Joe Don Baker . The film was shot in the San Francisco Bay Area and received several Golden Raspberries . Cosby himself rated the film negatively before it was released and turned it down; it is counted among the worst films ever made.

action

Leonard Parker is a CIA agent who now works as a restaurateur. According to the opening title, the film is actually supposed to be the sixth installment in a series of films about the adventures of Leonard, with films one through five under lock and key in the interests of world security. In fact, there is no predecessor to this film.

According to the movie poster, at the time of his reluctant return, Leonard Parker is grappling with the following issues:

“His daughter is engaged to a man old enough to be his father.

His estranged wife behaves like she is younger than their daughter.

And now his government has asked him to save the world. Again. "

“His daughter is engaged to a man old enough to be his father.

His estranged wife behaves as if she were younger than her daughter.

And now his government has asked him to save the world. Once again."

- movie poster

The film begins with Parker being brought out of retirement by CIA Director Snyderburn to protect the world from the evil vegetarian Medusa Johnson, who brainwashes animals to kill people. Leonard manages to infiltrate Johnson's headquarters (an "international tuna factory"), fending off the vegetarians with magical meat that he received from a Roma . He frees the captured animals and floods the factory with Alka-Seltzer . He leaves the area with the help of an ostrich, which he rides over the roof and then lands on the ground.

production

Cosby said he got the idea for the movie while watching Rambo . He thought, "Man, there has to be a place for a hero who has to deal with a heavyweight who has a bigger gun than him." Cosby described the main character as a "high-tech cartoon character." He said, "Me put things in here for the women, I put things in here for the children. "

Several years later, director Paul Weiland said of the film:

“It was a terrible mistake. ... When anyone gets into that position (Bill Cosby's position of power in the 1980s), they are surrounded by sycophants and no one tells them the truth. But Cosby just wasn't funny. I couldn't tell him directly. I'd say it feels slow, and he'd say, 'You worry about construction, let me worry about funny.' ”

“It was a terrible mistake. ... When someone gets into this position (Bill Cosby's position of power in the 1980s), they are surrounded by flatterers and no one is telling them the truth. But Cosby just wasn't funny. I couldn't tell him directly. I would say it feels slow and he would say, 'You worry about the build, let me take care of the funny.' "

- Paul Weiland

reception

The film received negative reviews. When the film came out in 1987, even Cosby said he was so disappointed with it that he publicly advised people not to waste their money on it.

Roger Ebert called it "one of the worst films of the year" and criticized the obvious advertisement for Coca-Cola , Bill Cosby "should be ashamed." Gene Siskel gave the film zero out of four stars and called it "the worst film of the year with one." big star. That's right, he's worse than Ishtar . ” Variety stated,“ Bill Cosby is rightly disappointed with this dud, but the results haven't really come as a surprise to him since he wrote and produced the story. ” Caryn James of The New York Times wrote: "Mr. Cosby and director Paul Weiland were reportedly at odds while filming Leonard Part 6 ... but there are plenty of blame they can share. The direction of Mr. Weiland, the story of Mr. Cosby, and the script by Jonathan Reynolds seem equally mundane. " Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote," Leonard Part 6 is a smug, arduous exercise in forbearance ... There's practically nothing to laugh about in this movie and too much of anything else. ”Thomas noted that while Weiland was the director,“ obviously Cosby, star, producer, and creator is the writer here . ”Rita Kempley of The Washington Post said : “Cosby looks sad for the whole movie. He knows that he is not in his element, a comedian of words in a physical role, "Robert Garrett wrote in. The Boston Globe :" This Christmas turkey is so terrible that it in the same league as Paul Newman's The Silver Chalice must play so that he can embarrass his star. "

The film was a box office flop and only grossed $ 4,615,255 due to the cast of the leading role with Bill Cosby, but remained below the production cost of $ 24 million.

Awards

The film won three Golden Raspberries in the categories of Worst Actor (Cosby), Worst Picture, and Worst Screenplay (Jonathan Reynolds and Cosby). He was also nominated in the categories Worst Supporting Actress (Foster) and Worst Director (Weiland). A few weeks after the event, Cosby accepted the awards on Fox on The Late Show . He demanded that the three raspberries be made from 24-carat (99.99%) gold and Italian marble, which would later have to be paid for by Fox. Cosby brought the awards with him when he was a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and said, "I cleared the awards!" At the awards ceremony in 2005, the film was nominated for the Worst Comedy in 25 Years Golden Raspberry category, but lost but love with risk - Gigli . The film was also nominated for Worst Film at the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards in 1987.

Home video

Bill Cosby - The Super Cannon was released on DVD by Columbia Pictures on April 26, 2005 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bill Cosby makes the most of 50: [CITY Edition] Waters, Harry F. St. Petersburg Times September 22, 1987: 1D.
  2. ↑ Simon Hattenstone: Through slick and thin Paul Weiland, adman turned Hollywood film-maker, talks about stars, egos and his latest movie, City Slickers II , The Guardian. September 22, 1994. 
  3. ↑ Kevin Thomas: Cosby's 'Leonard' a Super-Inane Superspy . In: Los Angeles Times , December 18, 1987. Archived from the original on July 9, 2012. Retrieved December 12, 2010. 
  4. ↑ Chris Willman: Confessions of a Film Masochist: Nothing Explains' Leonard Part 6'-That's Why It's Fun . In: Los Angeles Times , January 24, 1988. Archived from the original on November 3, 2012. Retrieved November 9, 2010. 
  5. ↑ a b Pat H. Broeske: Leonard RIP? . In: Los Angeles Times , December 20, 1987. Archived from the original on January 19, 2012. Retrieved on December 26, 2010. 
  6. ^ Siskel & Ebert . December 26, 1987.
  7. ^ Gene Siskel (December 24, 1987). "Siskel's Flicks Picks". Chicago Tribune . Section 8, page I.
  8. ^ "Film Reviews: Leonard Part 6". Variety . December 16, 1987. 11.
  9. ↑ Caryn James: Film: Bill Cosby's 'Leonard Part 6' . In: The New York Times , December 18, 1987. Archived from the original on September 10, 2017. Retrieved February 10, 2017. 
  10. ↑ Kevin Thomas: Cosby's 'Leonard' a Super-Inane Superspy . In: Los Angeles Times , December 18, 1987. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved July 28, 2015. 
  11. ^ Rita Kempley (December 19, 1987). "Cosby, Lost With 'Leonard'". The Washington Post . D6.
  12. ^ Robert Garrett (December 18, 1987). "'Leonard 6' leaves Cosby with egg on his face". The Boston Globe . P. 97.
  13. ↑ Jack Mathews: Laughing Their Way to Bank Hollywood Accounts Swell From 'Baby' and 'Momma' . In: Los Angeles Times , January 6, 1988. Archived from the original on July 1, 2012. Retrieved December 8, 2010. 
  14. ↑ Jack Mathews: Weekend Box Office . In: Los Angeles Times , December 22, 1987. Archived from the original on July 7, 2012. Retrieved December 26, 2010. 
  15. ↑ Bernard F. Dick (1992) "Columbia Pictures: Portrait of a Studio" (p. 46). University Press of Kentucky . ISBN 0-8131-1769-0 . Retrieved November 28, 2010.
  16. ↑ Razzie® Award Reel - YouTube . Archived from the original on April 29, 2016. Retrieved November 26, 2016.
  17. ^ Leonard Part 6 . In: DVD Talk . Archived from the original on November 6, 2012. Retrieved May 17, 2012.  

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