The electric rider
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The electric rider |
| Original title | The Electric Horseman |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1979 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sydney Pollack |
| script | Robert Garland |
| production | Ray Stark |
| music | Dave Grusin |
| camera | Owen Roizman |
| cut | Sheldon Kahn |
| occupation | |
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The Electric Horseman (The Electric Horseman) is an American film drama from the year 1979 . Directed by Sydney Pollack , the screenplay was written by Robert Garland .
action
Norman Steele ("Sonny") has won several rodeo world championships in the past , but is now an alcoholic . Due to his many broken bones and injuries from the rodeo, he can no longer compete. Instead, he appears on behalf of a food company as an advertising figure. He wears a cowboy outfit covered with numerous light bulbs.
Before an important advertising appearance in Las Vegas , he notices that the valuable stallion Rising Star is being given sedatives. Sonny grabs the horse and gallops away. The television reporter "Hallie" Martin, who was always critical of his appearances, follows his lead to cover the story. The CEO Hunt Sears is meanwhile searching for the million dollar stallion - Sonny's fate is not so important to him.
On the run from the persecutors and the police (on the way to Utah, where Sonny wants to release the horse), a romance develops between him and the reporter, who Sonny has tracked down and finally joined him . The reports Hallie sends to her television station make Sonny a freedom hero and give Sears sales records. The pursuit is canceled and Sears goes back to the advertising contract.
When the numerous reporters who had traveled to the horse were waiting in the wrong place after a feint, Sonny gave the horse back its freedom. He and Hallie return to their daily lives.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that the film was trying to look old-fashioned - there were bad guys from a large corporation and big kissing scenes when the sun was setting. The film does not try to be “completely harmless” , it addresses contemporary issues. The relationship between Fonda and Redford is reminiscent of that of Hepburn and Bogart in African Queen and has a similar chemistry. The film is too "warm and cozy"; it offers "solid entertainment", but is wasting some opportunities - which the director probably intended.
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was “a 'post-western' that is brilliantly entertaining with good actors”. He dreams of “a life in untouched nature” and “of an America that is free from all commerce”, which is “accompanied by romantic country and western ballads”.
Cinema magazine wrote that the film was a “neo-western with wit, heart and mind” as well as a “mocking film fable about advertising and consumer hype” that confronted “western nostalgia with Las Vegas glamor”. Jane Fonda and Robert Redford looked "adorable" as a couple.
Awards
The film was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Sound in 1980 . In 1981 he won the Spanish Premios del Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos (Cinema Writers Circle Award) for Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera ) .
backgrounds
The film was shot in Las Vegas and a few locations in Utah . It grossed an estimated $ 61.8 million in United States cinemas.
Web links
- The Electric Horseman in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- The electrical tab at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Film review by Roger Ebert, accessed December 3, 2007
- ↑ The electric rider. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Cinema, accessed December 3, 2007
- ^ Filming locations for The Electric Horseman, accessed December 3, 2007
- ↑ Box office / business for The Electric Horseman, accessed December 3, 2007