Crazy Heart
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Crazy Heart |
| Original title | Crazy Heart |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Scott Cooper |
| script | Scott Cooper |
| production |
T-Bone Burnett , Judy Cairo , Rob Carliner , Scott Cooper , Robert Duvall |
| music |
Stephen Bruton , T-Bone Burnett |
| camera | Barry Markowitz |
| cut |
John Axelrad , Jeffrey Ford |
| occupation | |
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Crazy Heart is an American drama from 2009. The film was released on March 4, 2010 in Germany .
Crazy Heart is the directorial debut of actor Scott Cooper and is based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Cobb . The plot is inspired by the biography of country singer Hank Thompson , who died in 2007 . The title Crazy Heart quotes a song by Hank Williams . The production was originally planned as a direct-to-DVD film , but has proven very successful in the cinema, winning two Golden Globe Awards and two Oscars .
action
The protagonist Bad Blake is a 57-year-old country singer from Texas and a heavy alcoholic. The film accompanies him on a concert tour in his Chevrolet Suburban through various states of the USA . He plays in shabby bars or sometimes in a bowling center - sometimes in front of barely a dozen people. He performs each of the performances with different musicians, with whom he only plays one evening and who are significantly younger than him. Blake has a reputation as an outstanding songwriter, and in the past he has had several hits. However, he stopped writing new songs years ago.
The few, mostly older viewers who remain loyal to him to this day see him as a legend and adore him for his earlier successes. Blake gets drunk on whiskey before his concerts and usually delivers a modest performance on stage - in one scene he storms outside during a performance and vomits. The head of his record label tries to get him to write new songs and promises that this would also improve his financial situation. But Blake refuses - he can't write on tour anyway.
The owner of a bar where Blake plays, introduces him to his niece, the journalist Jean, who wants to interview him for a local paper. The two get closer and spend a night together. Blake also seems to get along well with Jean's four-year-old son. Jean is happy about the male influence on her child, but asks Blake never to drink alcohol in his presence. Because of Blake's lifestyle, their relationship is slow to develop.
The head of his record company tells Blake that he is to play the opening act at a big concert of his former protégé Tommy Sweet. While preparing for the concert, Blake chats with Tommy, whom he was once a mentor but who is now far more successful than himself. He asks Sweet in vain for help with his career. The offer to record a record of old songs with Blake is rejected by Sweet - but he also asks Blake to write new material. When Blake performed his performance as the opening act for Sweets concert, the latter came on stage to the huge cheers of the audience, bows to Blake and the two sing one of Blake's songs together.
When Blake wants to pay a visit to his girlfriend Jean during his tour, he falls asleep on the drive to her home, comes off the road and is injured in the subsequent accident. He wakes up in the hospital with a broken ankle. One of the doctors implores him to radically change his lifestyle. If he did not give up alcohol, cigarettes and unhealthy food, a heart attack or stroke is very likely. Blake ignored the warning. He spends the next few days - unable to travel due to his injury - with Jean and her son. During these days Blake begins to write his own songs again - and gets closer to both Jean and her son.
After the musician's tour is over, Jean agrees to visit him at his home in Houston. Blake takes Jean's son on a trip to a mall. When the two go to a bar and order Blake whiskey, the boy suddenly disappears and Blake panics. The police later find the child again, but Jean cannot forgive Blake and leaves him.
Blake then begins to change his life and attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings . After his withdrawal, he tries to win Jean back, but she rejects him. With the new material he has written, he continues to give concerts in front of a few people. The song The Weary Kind, however, which he wrote injured in Jeans bed, he does not use himself, but leaves it to Tommy Sweet, who makes the song a hit. The film ends with a big concert by Tommy Sweet: He plays The Weary Kind on acoustic guitar and tells the audience that his mentor Bad Blake wrote the piece. Blake himself watched the concert together with the head of the record company from the backstage area. Both seem satisfied - both the songwriter and the record company benefit financially from the success of Tommy Sweet. Blake meets the journalist Jean again in front of the concert hall. She wears an engagement ring on her hand. She asks Blake for an interview.
criticism
“Thanks to a wonderfully laconic humor and outstanding actors, the story of the purification of a worn-out loser does not slide into the ostentatiously moral, but rounds off to a successful tragic comedy and a homage to country music carried by rousing songs. [...]
The fact that Jeff Bridges interprets the songs himself makes them all the more authentic - and increases to a not inconsiderable degree the admiration that one has to show the actor for this ' Golden Globe ' and ' Oscar ' award-winning performance. "
"With Bridges and Gyllenhaal you can see how American cinema builds on restraint and delay, that serenity that lets gazes float transparently in space, and that bias, as if one wanted to take back words and sentences, barely pronounced."
“The film hardly leaves out a cliché, starting with the rather schematic rather than really credible character drawing of its protagonists. [...] The fact that Crazy Heart turned out to be an outstanding film is due to the main actor. Jeff Bridges, who turned 60 in December, is a master of understatement. It shows all stages of human decline without becoming melodramatic. "
“Jeff Bridges is the 'crazy heart' of the movie and the original T-Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton songs are its soul. No country fan can ignore this film! Authentic, winking and heartwarming. "
Soundtrack
The official soundtrack for the film was released on January 19, 2010 by various musicians under the New West Records label. For the theme song The Weary Kind the musician Ryan Bingham received a Golden Globe Award and Best Song at the 2010 Academy Awards.
- Hold On You (Stephan Bruton)
- Hello Trouble ( Buck Owens )
- My Baby's Gone (The Louvin Brothers)
- Somebody Else (Jeff Bridges)
- I Don't Know (Ryan Bingham)
- Fallin '& Flyin' (Jeff Bridges)
- I Don't Know (Jeff Bridges)
- Once A Gambler ( Sam Hopkins )
- Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way ( Waylon Jennings )
- Fallin '& Flyin' (Stephen Bruton & Gary Nicholson)
- Gone, gone, gone (Ryan Bingham)
- If I Needed You ( Townes Van Zandt )
- Reflecting Light (Sam Phillips)
- Live Forever ( Billy Joe Shaver )
- Brand New Angel (Greg Brown)
- The Weary Kind (Ryan Bingham)
Awards
- Best Actor - Drama ( Jeff Bridges )
- Best Movie Song (The Weary Kind)
- Best Actor (Jeff Bridges)
- Best Song (The Weary Kind)
- also nominated
Web links
- Crazy Heart at theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Crazy Heart atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Crazy Heart in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Crazy Heart . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, February 2010 (PDF; test number: 121 751 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Crazy Heart . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b Christian Schröder: The truth lies in whiskey. Die Zeit , March 3, 2010, accessed on March 3, 2010 .
- ↑ a b F. Göttler: Flying and Falling. (No longer available online.) Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 4, 2010, archived from the original on March 6, 2010 ; Retrieved March 4, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ film service , 5/2010
- ↑ Olaf Schneekloth: CMN: Film Review Crazy Heart. CMN, February 4, 2010, accessed March 3, 2010 .
- ↑ Dave Karger: Oscar nominations announced: 'Avatar,' 'Hurt Locker' lead with nine each. (No longer available online.) Oscar-Watch, February 2, 2010, archived from the original on February 5, 2010 ; accessed on March 16, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
