Buddy buddy

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Movie
German title Buddy buddy
Original title Buddy buddy
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1981
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Billy Wilder
script Billy Wilder,
IAL Diamond
production Charles Matthau ,
Jay Weston
music Lalo Schifrin
camera Harry Stradling Jr.
cut Art J. Nelson
occupation
synchronization

Buddy Buddy is an American feature film directed by Billy Wilder . His last feature film is based on the 1973 Italian-French film Die Filzlaus (L'Emmerdeur) .

action

Trabucco, a professional killer, is charged with killing the gangster Rudy "Disco" Gambola so that he cannot testify against the mafia. Hotel Ramona is opposite the court in Riverside . Trabucco has taken a room here to shoot Gambola from the window as he enters the courthouse. It should be his last assignment. Then he wants to retire in the Caribbean with the money he has earned.

But the suicidal Victor Clooney has quartered next door. He wants to divorce because his wife asked him about the head of a California sex clinic, Dr. Carrot, has left. In desperation, Clooney tries to hang himself in his hotel room. Since he draws the attention of the police to the hotel and could thwart Trabucco's plans, the latter tries to prevent him. To get rid of him, he finally drives him to the sex clinic. Actually, he had planned to kill the annoyance on the way there. You are stopped by the police with the request to drive a young couple who are expecting a child to the clinic. Hoping to get rid of his tormentor, Trabucco drives back to the hotel to finally devote himself to his job.

When Clooney realizes during a visit to the clinic that his marriage can no longer be saved, he soon returns to the hotel. There he disturbs Trabucco again in his preparations for the contract murder. Trabucco, who is now reacting extremely aggressively to the tormentor, then bumps his head so hard that he is briefly passed out. It so happens that Dr. Carrot, who has come to give Clooney a powerful tranquilizer, mistakenly mistaken for the unconscious Trabucco.

Completely dazed by the blow and the syringe, Trabucco is no longer able to do his job. When Clooney realizes what Trabucco is up to, he forces himself to do the deed for his new friend. He misses and hits a police officer instead. Finally it turns out that this was the gangster Gambola disguised as a police officer. With that the order is fulfilled.

Trabucco can still retreat to his longed-for Caribbean island and is happy that he is finally rid of the annoying Clooney. But then suddenly a shipwrecked man appears. It is Clooney who follows him to his dream island. Trabucco asks a native whether they had never thought of reviving the old tradition of human sacrifice.

synchronization

Buddy Buddy was dubbed at Berliner Synchron in 1982 under the direction of Dietmar Behnke , the dialogue book was written by Lutz Arenz .

role actor Voice actor
Victor Clooney Jack Lemmon Georg Thomalla
Trabucco Walter Matthau Wolfgang Völz
Celia Clooney Paula Prentiss Rita Engelmann
Dr. Hugo carrot Klaus Kinski Friedrich G. Beckhaus
Capt. Hubris Dana Elcar Heinz Theo branding
Receptionist Joan Shawlee Andrea Brix
Eddie, hotel boy Miles Chapin Ulrich Matthes
First lieutenant Ed Begley Jr. Ortwin Speer

background

Wilder was later not satisfied with his film. In Hellmuth Karasek's book, "Billy Wilder - A Close-Up," he explains why. He realized too late that the comedian duo Matthau and Lemmon were not opposing enough for this story. Instead of the comfortably crumple Matthau, he should have taken a tough guy like Clint Eastwood with the habitus of an ice-cold killer, as it was in the French original Lino Ventura . That would have been funnier as a counterpart to the whiny, crazy Lemmon.

In an interview with Karasek, Billy Wilder did not want to comment on the collaboration with Klaus Kinski.

The courthouse where the story takes place is at 4050 Main Street, Riverside , California. The hotel opposite has now been torn down.

In 2008, another French remake of the filthy louse was produced under the title The Killer and the Nervesache with Richard Berry and Patrick Timsit , directed by the author Francis Veber himself.

Buddy Buddy wasn't a hit at the box office. It cost about $ 10 million and brought back a little over $ 7 million.

The film has not yet been officially released on DVD or Blu-ray . Nevertheless, the film was distributed over a short period of time, including on Amazon and Ebay, as a Spanish and German bootleg version on DVD. The manufacturer is unknown and is not mentioned on the cover. However, the picture quality does not correspond to a regular DVD, but is more comparable to a VHS . Since an official release of the film is still not planned, this version is now a coveted rarity despite the poor image quality.

Reviews

Roger Ebert described the film in the Chicago Sun-Times as "appalling" and was surprised that the "great" Billy Wilder could make such a bad film.

Vincent Canby , New York Times critic , praised the film. It is not important, but it is irresistible. Although it cannot compete with Der Glückspilz , the film that brought the comedian couple Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon together for the first time, it is still one of the loosest and freshest comedies in which the two actors have played for years.

The Lexicon of International Films wrote: "Despite some formal weaknesses, an enigmatic black comedy with attacks against the ruthlessness and hollow morality of modern society."

Prisma Online said: “For the well-rehearsed comedian duo the story was tailor-made. Billy Wilder's direction is not satisfied with recreating the original. The old master of satirical comedy peppered his work with swipes at the police, the media and general social peculiarities. Even those who already know the original, which is well worth seeing, will discover enough new laughs here. On the other hand, the idea of ​​synchronizing Klaus Kinski with the Saxon dialect seems somewhat dubious. “Four out of five possible stars.

The internet portal moviemaster.de sums it up: “Billy Wilder shot his last film with the couple with whom he had his greatest successes: Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. And although all three were getting on in years, Buddy Buddy is bursting with enthusiasm. The script [...] is not Wilder's strongest, however. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Buddy Buddy in the German synchronous index , accessed on March 5, 2018
  2. ↑ Karasek, Hellmuth, Billy Wilder. A close up. Munich, 1994. ISBN 3-453-07201-4
  3. ^ Nat Segaloff, Final Cuts: The Last Films of 50 Great Directors , Bear Manor Media 2013, pp. 318-320
  4. ↑ BoxOfficeMojo.com
  5. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  6. ^ Review by Vincent Canby
  7. ↑ Buddy Buddy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  8. ^ Prism Online
  9. ↑ moviemaster.de