Chicago (film)

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Movie
German title Chicago
Original title Chicago
Country of production USA , Germany , Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 113 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Rob Marshall
script Bill Condon
production Martin Richards
music John Kander
Danny Elfman
camera Dion Beebe
cut Martin Walsh
occupation

Chicago is a Musical - Drama by Rob Marshall from the year 2002 . It is based on the musical Chicago by Bob Fosse and John Kander . The main roles were cast with Renée Zellweger , Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere , all actors sing the songs themselves. The film won six prizes at the 2003 Academy Awards .

action

Chicago in the 20s : Young, ambitious wife Roxie Hart shoots her lover because he has made empty promises to go to bed with her. In prison, she meets her great idol, Velma Kelly, a glamorous show singer who was arrested a month earlier for the double murder of her husband and sister. In addition, Roxie befriends the prison guard Matron "Mama" Morton, who can do a lot for money.

With mom's help, pretty Roxie succeeds in getting Billy Flynn interested in her case. Her husband Amos laboriously scrapes up money for the criminal defense attorney. Everyone knows that he has never lost a lawsuit with a female client. He tries to save Roxie from the death penalty by successfully stylizing the perpetrator as a victim with the help of a staged media spectacle. The plan works - Roxie is acquitted and starts a successful musical show with Velma, who is also released.

Songs

  • "And All That Jazz" - Velma Kelly's stage song
  • "Funny Honey" - Roxie's lament about her simple husband
  • "When You're Good to Mama" - Mama Morton's introductory song
  • “Cell Block Tango” - Six women in prison tell their story
  • "All I Care About is Love" - ​​introductory song by for-profit lawyer Flynn
  • "We Both Reached for the Gun" - Flynn works with Roxie on her media legend
  • "Roxie" - Roxie dreams of a glamorous life
  • "I Can't Do It Alone" - Velma tries to win Roxie as a partner
  • “Mister Cellophane” - Amos laments his colorless existence
  • "Razzle Dazzle" - Flynn joins Roxie in the 'show business' negotiation
  • "Nowadays" - Roxie
  • "Nowadays / Hot Honey Rag" - Roxie & Velma
  • “I Move On” - Roxie's and Velma's stage song after the time in prison
  • "Class" - Velma and Mama mourn the old days (missing in the film version)

The film's soundtrack was released on a music CD.

Reviews

"A brilliantly staged, dramatic, dancing and singing musical interpreted equally thrilling, which celebrates the victory of appearances over being with intoxicating images and at the same time questions it with cheerful cynicism."

- Lexicon of international film

“The story of the rise of two murderers to become media stars gives Zellweger, Gere and Catherine Zeta-Jones the opportunity to showcase their dancing and singing skills. A rousing feast for the eyes and ears that skilfully walks in the footsteps of Cabaret . "

- Cinema

“A piece of high-gloss cinema, uninhibitedly trimmed for fast-paced entertainment, with a lot of style. And all that jazz. "

- filmszene.de

Awards (selection)

The film received six Academy Awards in 2003 out of thirteen Academy Award nominations. So was Catherine Zeta-Jones won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress , among other things, against their film colleague to Queen Latifah prevailed. The film won other awards for Best Production Design , for Best Sound , Colleen Atwood for Best Costume Design , Martin Walsh for Best Editing and Martin Richards for Best Film . Nominations went to John C. Reilly for Best Supporting Actor , Renée Zellweger for Best Actress , Queen Latifah for Best Supporting Actress , Dion Beebe for Best Cinematography , Rob Marshall for Best Director , John Kander (Music) and Fred Ebb (Poetry) for Best Song and Bill Condon for Best Adapted Screenplay .

At the Golden Globe Awards 2003 Chicago won three prizes. So were Renée Zellweger as Best Actress - Comedy or Musical and Richard Gere as Best Actor - Comedy or Musical a price, production was as Best Picture - Comedy or Musical award of the year. There were also five nominations. At the British Academy Film Awards 2003 there were awards for Catherine Zeta-Jones for Best Supporting Actress and for Best Sound , as well as nominations in ten other categories. At the Screen Actors Guild Awards 2003, the actors were awarded three times and nominated in two other categories. There were five nominations, but no award, at the Online Film Critics Society Awards 2003 and also at the Teen Choice Awards 2003. At the Grammy Awards 2004 , the soundtrack for the film won a Grammy . The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.

Others

The shooting took place in Chicago and Toronto from December 10, 2001 to May 2002. The budget was around 45 million US dollars. Revenues in the US reached just over $ 170 million. The premiere took place on December 10, 2002 in Los Angeles .

The film is set in Chicago in the 1920s and shows the situation triggered by jazz and prohibition .

The film is based on the musical of the same name, from which the sung titles originate. Only the title “Class”, in which Mama and Velma ironically complain about the lack of class at the time in a duet , is missing in the final film version, as the scene was felt to be too long in the final cut. However , the scene is included in the film's DVD release.

All actors sing and dance themselves, no doubles were used in the entire film .

In one of the first scenes in the prison, Chita Rivera can be seen as a smoking inmate. Rivera, one of the great stars of Broadway and often engaged in musicals by Kander and Ebb, played the role of Velma Kelly at the world premiere in Chicago in 1975. Her cameo in the film version is considered a bow to her.

The R'n'B singer Mya Harrison and the actress Lucy Liu can be seen in supporting roles .

Sara Ramirez , later known as Dr. Callie Torres in Grey's Anatomy , sings with female ensemble in Chicago .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Approval for Chicago . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2003 (PDF; test number: 92 898 K).
  2. ^ Age rating for Chicago . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Chicago. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Cinema at Dirk Jaspers FilmLexikon, March 2003 ( Memento from April 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ filmszene.de