The hard and the delicate
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The hard and the delicate |
| Original title | Loose cannons |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 94 minutes shortened: 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 (shortened 12) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bob Clark |
| script |
Richard Christian Matheson , Bob Clark |
| production |
Alan Greisman , Aaron Spelling |
| music | Paul Zaza |
| camera | Reginald H. Morris |
| cut | Stan Cole |
| occupation | |
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Der Harte und der Zarte (Original title: Loose Cannons ) is an American action comedy from 1990. Directed by Bob Clark , who also wrote the script with Richard Matheson .
action
Police investigator MacArthur Stern is considered die-hard, while his colleague Ellis Fielding suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder but is considered brilliant. Fielding's mental disorder breaks out when faced with violence. In these moments he thinks he's Popeye , the Road Runner or Captain Kirk . Both men investigate a murder case together. During the investigation, they get support from the Israeli secret agent Riva and track down a neo-Nazi conspiracy.
It turns out that a wartime pornographic film is being used to blackmail the German candidate for chancellor . The results of the investigation prevent a right-wing populist politician from taking power.
background
The film was released by the company TriStar Pictures . It grossed approximately $ 5.6 million in US cinemas .
The English title Loose Cannons cannot be translated literally; he means a loose (i.e. not tied down or locked) cannon on the deck of a warship that is unpredictable when fired. The author John le Carré also used this term and applied it to a person: "He is a loose cannon on deck." The phrase or metaphor is well known in English.
The German version has a special feature: The original is about Germans, the German version has become Argentines. When visiting the Argentine embassy, for example B. black-red-gold flags everywhere . At the end of the film, an incriminating documentary (Nazis shoot Jews) is shown, in the German version this is justified with "The wanted man was once an actor in the role of a Nazi ...".
Reviews
Variety magazine wrote that the film had a pace like a Warner Bros cartoon film. Only the multiple personality portrayed by Aykroyd was interesting. The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a "crude and joke-free crime comedy whose trivial idiocy often comes at the expense of social outsiders".
Web links
- Loose Cannons in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Loose Cannons at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Box office / business on imdb.com , accessed on May 28, 2019.
- ↑ See Loose Cannons . In: Variety , 1990.
- ↑ The hard and the delicate. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 28, 2019 .