Collateral

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Movie
German title Collateral
Original title Collateral
Country of production United States
original language English , Spanish
Publishing year 2004
length 120 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director Michael Mann
script Stuart Beattie
production Michael Mann,
Julie Richardson
music James Newton Howard
camera Dion Beebe ,
Paul Cameron
cut Jim Miller ,
Paul Rubell
occupation

Collateral is an American thriller from director Michael Mann from the year 2004 . The main roles are played by Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx . The story revolves around a taxi driver who gets a hit man as a passenger.

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The main characters in the film are Max, a taxi driver in Los Angeles , and Vincent, an experienced hit man . Vincent works for a drug cartel whose bosses have to answer to the grand jury of a court the following day . He is supposed to eliminate the four main and key witnesses and the public prosecutor the night before the trial.

Max has been driving a taxi for 12 years, but tells himself that this is only a temporary situation until he starts his own limousine service. He is insecure and inhibited. At the beginning of the film, Annie Farrel gets into Max's taxi at the airport and lets him drive her downtown. During the trip, the two start talking and develop sympathy for each other. Max finds out she's a prosecutor. When saying goodbye, Annie gives Max her business card.

Shortly afterwards Vincent gets into Max's taxi. Vincent offers a larger amount of money to rent his taxi and for the night. Max reluctantly agrees, without realizing that he will become involved in Vincent's series of murders. At the first destination on the route, the corpse of the first witness to be removed falls out of the window directly onto the roof of the taxi, so that Vincent can no longer keep his machinations a secret from Max. Max doesn't want anything to do with the murders and offers Vincent his taxi. But this forces Max to continue driving for him, and so the “journey” continues together. During the journeys between the murders, the two different men talk about their past, their dreams, morals and the meaning of their lives. Both come to the realization that they are deceiving themselves with a life lie .

Max is constantly looking for ways to escape from the situation and prevent the contract killings, but Vincent always prevents them from doing so. When Max asks passers-by for help, while Vincent has left him tied up in the car, they in turn turn out to be robbers. They steal Vincent's suitcase, but are caught and shot by the killer. The police and the FBI now suspect Max as the mastermind behind the murders committed by Vincent, since the taxi is the only trace of all the acts. Only the police officer Fanning believes in another perpetrator, but is killed by Vincent after a shooting in a nightclub while he is about to bring Max to safety.

Finally, Max, who has realized that Vincent will eventually kill him one way or another, can muster up to resist and intentionally cause a car accident in which both of them are only slightly injured. To finish his job, Vincent flees from an approaching police patrol. Max finds out from the papers Vincent left behind that the last victim is said to be the prosecutor Annie. Max is now doing everything possible to prevent the murder. He calls Annie from a cell phone and tells her about the professional killer and what happened. She doesn't believe him immediately, but soon realizes the seriousness of the situation when Max mentions the name of Vincent's client. Meanwhile, from a parking level, Max can see Vincent looking for her in the public prosecutor's office in Annie's office, who just happens to be two floors above in the library. He penetrates the building himself and is initially able to save Annie by injuring Vincent, who has meanwhile tracked down Annie in the library, with a graze in the neck. Max finally escapes into a subway with Annie, followed by Vincent. There it comes to the final showdown , in which Vincent is hit during a firefight with Max and dies a short time later. Annie and Max are unharmed.

background

  • Collateral is an American slang and refers to collateral damage ( collateral damage ) in the sense of the different people who also planned during the evening to Vincent's victims die. In the original version of the script, Vincent says to Max after shooting the two pocket robbers: "Another collateral."
  • The film was shot with a combination of digital cameras and conventional Panavision cameras with 35 mm film material . The Thomson VIPER FilmStream camera system was used as digital video technology . The same camera system was used on Mann's next film, Miami Vice . This process ensures a recording that appears familiar to the real world, which is generated, for example, by the image noise .
  • In preparation for the film, Tom Cruise completed extensive weapons and hand-to-hand combat training with ex- SAS soldier Mick Gould in order to reflect the special forces training that his film character possesses. Cruise trained with live ammunition on the LA Sheriff's Department shooting range. His colleague Mark Ruffalo and the director Michael Mann were also instructed by Gould for a sense of authenticity in relation to weapons.
  • Filming began on October 13, 2003 and took place exclusively in Los Angeles .
  • It was released in the United States on August 6, 2004 and in German cinemas on September 23, 2004.
  • The film grossed $ 101 million in the United States and nearly $ 218 million worldwide on a budget of $ 65 million.
  • The film is a co-production by Paramount Pictures , DreamWorks SKG and Parkes / MacDonald Productions distributed by United International Pictures .
  • The plot of the film takes place in a single night. According to the director, the action will take place in 2004 on the night of January 24th to January 25th, from 6:30 p.m. to 5:40 a.m.
  • Michael Mann's 1995 film Heat begins where collateral ends - at the same Los Angeles Metro stop - and ends at Los Angeles International Airport , where collateral begins. On an audio commentary on the purchase DVD from Heat , Mann described this as “quite coincidentally”.
  • In the German dubbing Felix says the sentence “ Sorry does not put Humpty Dumpty back together again” , in the original English version it is a reference to Humpty Dumpty .
  • Jason Statham has a brief guest appearance in the opening sequence: He hands Vincent a suitcase by swapping it for a similar one. This is a reference to Statham's role in the film The Transporter , in which he plays a driver who transports suitcases or packages from dubious clients.

Awards and nominations

The film was twice nominated for an Oscar in 2005 (Jamie Foxx for Best Supporting Actor and Best Editing), but both came up empty-handed: Jamie Foxx was beaten by Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby , and the Oscar for Best Editing was won by Aviator . The film has been nominated for a total of 49 different film awards, and has won a prize ten times.

2005 ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards

2005 Academy Awards (Oscars)

2005 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films ( Saturn Awards )

2005 American Society of Cinematographers

  • Nominated: Best Cinematography - Dion Beebe , Paul Cameron

2005 Art Directors Guild

  • Nominated: Best Picture - David Wasco, Daniel T. Dorrance, Aran Mann, Gerald Sullivan, Christopher Tandon

2005 BAFTA Film Awards Won: Best Cinematography - Dion Beebe , Paul Cameron

  • Nominated: Best Supporting Actor - Jamie Foxx
  • Nominated: David Lean Award for Director - Michael Mann
  • Nominated: Best Editing - Jim Miller, Paul Rubell
  • Nominated: Best Original Screenplay - Stuart Beattie
  • Nominated: Best Sound - Elliott Koretz, Lee Orloff, Michael Minkler, Myron Nettinga

2005 Black Reel Award

  • Won: Best Supporting Actor - Jamie Foxx
  • Nominated: Best Supporting Actress - Jada Pinkett Smith

2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards

  • Nominated: Best Film
  • Nominated: Best Supporting Actor - Jamie Foxx

2005 Golden Globe Awards

  • Nominated: Best Supporting Actor - Jamie Foxx

2005 MTV Movie Award

  • Nominated: Best Villain - Tom Cruise

Reviews

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IMDb

“Exciting, densely staged and intensely played thriller, which links the confrontation of two unequal men who are connected to one another in obsessional dependence with questions about the meaning of existence and the possibility of a more intense life beyond normal employee existence. The film plays with light in a virtuoso manner and creates precise, at the same time lyrical images that only hint at a lot and yet often show more than one sees. "

- Lexicon of international film

"Even if one or the other length has crept in, the whole thing remains incredibly exciting until the end, mainly thanks to the diabolical appearance of Tom Cruise as a professional killer."

- Prism Online

“As soon as you think you can guess what will happen next, director Michael Mann amazes with a clever plot twist. In this way, it increases the tension every five minutes. For people with high blood pressure values ​​this could pose health risks, for everyone else it is cinema enjoyment in its purest form. Conclusion: Fascinating cat-and-mouse game that increases the tension with ever new twists. "

- Cinema

"Collateral is visually terrific, atmospherically incredibly dense and also played excellently. Intelligent mainstream cinema with depth. "

- movie starts

Soundtrack

Although James Newton Howard was responsible for the film's soundtrack, pieces by other film composers (including Elliot Goldenthal , Gustavo Santaolalla , Antonio Pinto and Vangelis ) are also recorded. The soundtrack is not just made up of instrumental pieces. Songs by Audioslave , Calexico , Miles Davis and Paul Oakenfold also complement the film's background music.

  1. Tom Rothrock - "Briefcase"
  2. Cody ChesnuTT - "The Seed (2.0)" (ft. The Roots) (extended radio edit)
  3. Groove Armada - "Hands of Time"
  4. Calexico - "Guero Canelo"
  5. Tom Rothrock - "Rollin 'Crumblin'"
  6. James Newton Howard - "Max Steals Briefcase"
  7. Green Car Motel - "Destino De Abril"
  8. Audioslave - "Shadow on the Sun"
  9. James Newton Howard - "Island Limos"
  10. Miles Davis - "Spanish Key"
  11. Klazz Brothers & Cuba Percussion - "Air"
  12. Paul Oakenfold - "Ready Steady Go (Korean Style)"
  13. Antonio Pinto - "Car Crash"
  14. James Newton Howard - "Vincent Hops Train"
  15. James Newton Howard - "Finale"
  16. Antonio Pinto - "Requiem"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for collateral . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2004 (PDF; test number: 99 024 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for collateral . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Screenplay by Collateral on IMSDb
  4. ↑ [1] Tom Cruises weapons training by ex-SAS man.
  5. ^ [2] YT video about Tom Cruise & Co's weapons training on the LA Sheriff's Department shooting range
  6. ^ Locations in the Internet Movie Database
  7. ↑ Publication in the Internet Movie Database
  8. ↑ Entry results in the Internet Movie Database
  9. ^ List of all nominations and film awards won in the Internet Movie Database
  10. ↑ a b [3] at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed on January 2, 2014
  11. ↑ a b [4] at Metacritic , accessed on January 2, 2014
  12. ↑ Collateral in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  13. ↑ Collateral. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  14. ↑ Cinema.de
  15. ↑ Filmstarts.de
  16. ↑ The complete OST can be found here