Blood feud - Dead Man's Shoes

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Movie
German title Blood feud - Dead Man's Shoes
Original title Dead Man's Shoes
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 2004
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK no youth approval
Rod
Director Shane Meadows
script Paddy Considine ,
Shane Meadows
production Mark Herbert ,
Louise Meadows
music Aphex Twin
camera Danny Cohen
cut Celia Haining ,
Lucas Roche ,
Chris Wyatt
occupation

Blood feud - Dead Man's Shoes by Shane Meadows from 2004 is a British thriller / drama about vigilante justice in the drug environment of the tranquil Midlands with Paddy Considine in the lead role. The main actor and the director drafted the script together.

action

After walking across meadows and fields, Richard in green army overalls arrives with his little brother Anthony in Derbyshire . Under a cloudy sky, he and his mentally handicapped brother move into a shabby shack outside his home town. Richard is angry and monosyllabic. In fact, Richard has returned home for a thorough revenge on a constantly befuddled gang of village dealers. In addition to the presence of the narrative, which lasts five days, an extended drug binge is portrayed in parallel and piecemeal, in which a crowd of hooligans under the leadership of Sonny instilled drugs, harassed and humiliated him , and led him to a remote castle ruin , and that seems to come to a head.

When Richard intimidates the first gang, they quickly understand that the newcomer must be Anthony's brother, a soldier . In order to frighten them further, he sneaks up on them in the evening wearing a raincoat and gas mask , sprays a graffito in the drug den and makes up the sleepers in all the colors of the rainbow. Soon after, he kills the first. Richard makes no secret of the fact that he will kill them all, nor that he sleeps in Motson's abandoned farm, where he specifically invites them.

The village gangsters discuss whether they really have to kill him to get rid of him, which they feel is a size too big. Arriving at Motson's farm, Sonny tries to shoot Richard with the sniper rifle, but accidentally hits one of his buddies in the head, who dies immediately. They panic in their Citroën 2CV .

They feel besieged in the darkened, stuffy house. The gang, decimated by two members, armed itself poorly but confidently. Richard is already there and is pouring a good dose of acid into their tea, which will loosen them up within minutes. When they are no longer a threat, Richard enters, joins them and takes a seat on the sofa. He first plays with them and then kills them one by one, helpless as they are. Richard elicits the information about the whereabouts of the last gang member Mark from the catatonic Herbie.

Mark had withdrawn from these circles in favor of a bourgeois lifestyle. Richard first visits Mark's family, then he kidnaps the man in his forties on a morning excursion to the remote ruin. Only now is it shown that Anthony hanged himself after the humiliating psycho trip , exposed in the small stone vault . They speak out on the scene, Richard emphasizes "You are all dead. You are the last". Richard spares Mark, however, provided that Mark stabs him. On the one hand, because Richard is plagued by feelings of guilt that he did not protect his brother, and on the other hand, because Richard is afraid of changing his mind in the future and possibly becoming a murderer again. In his desperation to do something to Mark's family, especially because of Richard's suggestion, Mark sees no other way out, ultimately stabs Richard and flees, as the least involved in Anthony's suicide, with blood-smeared hands.

Others

It was filmed in the cheap, grainy format Super 16 .

The film was made in Matlock and Riber Castle in Derbyshire .

The background music continued to be controlled by Smog , ABBC , Danger Mouse & Jemini , Calexico , The Leisure Society , DJ Armchair , Richard Hawley , Position Normal , Adem , Clayhill , Laurent Garnier , The Earlies , Bonnie 'Prince' Billy , M. Ward , Robyn Hitchcock and Dmitri Bortnjanski (* 1751). De profundis by Arvo Pärt can be heard in the finale .

The film is dedicated to the memory of Paddy Considine's father.

Reviews

  • "Bleak to a point of ugliness" (Reel.com)
  • "Consistently played great [...] sometimes you don't need an elephant-like budget to make an excellent film" ( Angus Macdonald : Close-Up)
  • “The most terrifying facial expression since Hannibal Lector [sic] - of course we are scared with the gangsters […] as wild and dumb as they may be, they are still far more personable than Richard. [...] He knows exactly what he is doing, there is regret, even goodness in his eyes, and yet he cannot stop until they are even. "( Kate Findley )
  • “Meadows does a great job of taking a fresh look at this simplistic story. This is not the mafia or the international drug trade that Richard has in his sights, but ordinary, common suburban mob [...] You recognize them, and the majority of us wish they would get what they are entitled to ”(www.efilmcritic .com)
  • “Sets the cruelty of the past against the cruelty of the present. [...] Meadows seems - aware of the entangled position of the moral advocate - to draw attention to the group of those who once abused Richard's brother. […] Meadow's renunciation of frivolous identification offers only intensifies the general brutality of the film […] The film is difficult to consume and can hardly be reduced to entertainment. […] It's just a shame that Meadows does not fully trust the power of his dodgy images and still resort to relaxing effects at the last minute ”(Manifest - Das Filmmagazin)
  • "Disrespectful underlaid with happy folk songs [...] a revenge angel with otherworldly references" ( Ed Gonzales : Slant)
  • "The film thinks it is way too cool [...] as if two fundamentally incompatible films had been thrown together" (www.filmfocus.co.uk)
  • "Manages to make practically all characters unappealing and uninteresting [...] Meadows brings it to catharsis for himself , for us not so much." ( Luke Y. Thompson : Village Voice )
  • "Leaves a stale aftertaste in the mouth [...] what prompted [Meadows and Cohen] to record the flashbacks in black and white [...] is written in the stars [...] the U-turn at the end seems as if even the filmmakers had scruples as to the moral of the story "( Jeff Vice : Deseret Morning News)
  • "From the first to the last picture a very disgusting film [...] with nothing but the mechanics of retaliation." ( Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat : Rotten Tomatoes )

Individual critics show relationships to the antiheroes from Who sows violence (D: Sam Peckinpah, USA 1971), Taxi Driver (D: Martin Scorsese, USA 1976) or A man sees red (D: Michael Winner, USA 1974).

Awards and nominations

BAFTA Awards 2005

  • Nomination for the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film for Mark Herbert and Shane Meadows

British Independent Film Awards 2004

  • 8 nominations, including Best British Independent Film , Best Director , Best Actor and Most Promising Newcomer (Toby Kebbell)

Directors Guild of Great Britain 2005

  • DGGB Award in the category Outstanding Directorial Achievement in British Film for Shane Meadows (pro rata)

Empire Awards , UK 2005

  • Empire Award in the Best British Actor category for Paddy Considine
  • Nomination for Best British Director for Shane Meadows
  • Nomination in the category Best British Film

Evening Standard British Film Awards 2005

  • Evening Standard British Film Award in the Best Actor category for Paddy Considine

London Critics Circle Film Awards 2005

  • Nomination ALFS Award in the category British Actor of the Year for Paddy Considine
  • Nomination ALFS Award in the category British Director of the Year for Shane Meadows

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blood feud - Dead Man's Shoes. In: Amazon . Amazon.com, Inc, accessed December 7, 2008 .
  2. ↑ "hangs restlessly between Kitchen Sink and Slasher " Maitland McDonagh: Dead Man's Shoes. In: TV Guide . Retrieved on December 6, 2008 : "Poised uneasily between slasher movie and kitchen-sink drama"
  3. ↑ a b MP Bartley: Dead Man's Shoes. In: www.efilmcritic.com. December 1, 2005, accessed on December 6, 2008 (English): “Meadows does a great job here, in finding a fresh angle to look at this rather simplistic tale […] This isn't the Mafia or international drug lords that Richard is lashing out at, these are just the common, nasty, bullying yobs that you'll find in any small village. [...] Of course, this portrait of the thugs that we readily recognize [sic], means that, for most of us, we really want them to get their just desserts "
  4. ↑ a b "semi-detached scenic setting [...] strangely inappropriate [...]" Jamie Russell: Dead Man's Shoes (2004). In: BBC . September 28, 2004, accessed on December 6, 2008 : "the semi-detached rural backdrop gives this Midlands tale's violence a strangely incongruous sense of place"
  5. ↑ a b c IMDb , see web links, “technical specs”, “filming locations”, “soundtrack listing”.
  6. ↑ End credits.
  7. ↑ Tim Knight: Dead Man's Shoes (2004). Retrieved on December 6, 2008 : "bleak to the point of ugliness"
  8. ^ Angus Macdonald: Dead Man's Shoes. (No longer available online.) In: www.close-upfilm.com. Archived from the original on January 8, 2009 ; accessed on December 8, 2008 (English): "Great performances from everyone involved [...] a great film need not rely on elephantine budgets" Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.close-upfilm.com
  9. ↑ Kate Findley: Dead Man's Shoes. In: www.emanuellevy.com. Retrieved on December 6, 2008 (English): "the scariest facial contraption since Hannibal Lector, we cannot help but feel scared for the gangsters […] In fact, as crude and moronic as the gangsters are, they are still more likeable than Richard . [...] we see sorrow, even gentleness in his eyes. He knows exactly what he is doing yet cannot help but keep going until he finishes the score "
  10. ^ Rajko Burchardt: Blood feud - Dead Man's Shoes (Great Britain 2004). In: Manifest - Das Filmmagazin. Retrieved December 6, 2008 .
  11. ↑ Ed Gonzales: Dead Man's Shoes. (No longer available online.) In: Slant. April 24, 2006, archived from the original on August 7, 2007 ; accessed on December 6, 2008 (English): "scored to cheery folk music [...] an avenging angel [with a] metaphysical communion with otherworldly energies" Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.slantmagazine.com
  12. ↑ Joe Utichi: DVD Review - Dead Man's Shoes. (No longer available online.) In: www.filmfocus.co.uk. Formerly in the original ; accessed on December 6, 2008 (English): "it thinks it's far too cool [...] as though there are two completely different films uncomfortably mixed into one and they're just fundamentally incompatible"
  13. ^ Luke Y. Thompson: 'Dead Man's Shoes'. In: Village Voice . May 2, 2006, accessed on December 6, 2008 (English): “it manages to keep virtually all the characters unsympathetic and uninteresting. [...] then, Meadows gets some sort of catharsis out of it. Too bad we don't "
  14. ↑ Jeff Vice: Dead Man's Shoes. (No longer available online.) In: Deseret Morning News. July 7, 2006, archived from the original on December 2, 2008 ; accessed on December 7, 2008 (English): “the whole thing leaves a bad taste in your mouth. […] Why co-screenwriter / director Shane Meadows and director of photography Danny Cohen decided to shoot flashback sequences in black and white […] is anyone's guess. […] And the abrupt about-face seems to indicate that even the filmmakers had a change of heart about the kind of message they were sending “ Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / deseretnews.com
  15. ↑ Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat: A violent and grungy film about revenge. (No longer available online.) In: Rotten Tomatoes . May 12, 2006, formerly in the original ; accessed on December 31, 2008 (English): "a thoroughly disgusting film from start to finish [...] nothing on its mind other than the mechanics of revenge"
  16. ↑ a b Laura Kern: Dead Man's Shoes (2004). In: The New York Times . May 12, 2006, accessed December 6, 2008 .