Detroit (2017)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Detroit |
| Original title | Detroit |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 144 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kathryn Bigelow |
| script | Mark Boal |
| production | Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Matthew Budman , Steven DeRoch , Megan Ellison , Colin Wilson |
| music | James Newton Howard |
| camera | Barry Ackroyd |
| cut |
William Goldenberg , Harry Yoon |
| occupation | |
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Detroit is a historical drama directed by Kathryn Bigelow . The film describes the true events after a police raid in Detroit in 1967, which resulted in one of the largest civil uprisings in US history. The film was released in selected US cinemas on July 28, 2017 and opened nationwide on August 4, 2017.
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Detroit in 1967. Summer in the US city is marked by rampant civil uprisings. After a police raid there is violent resistance and one of the largest civil uprisings in US history. The African-American security guard Melvin Dismukes was also involved in the raid. The musicians of the soul band “The Dramatics” were also involuntarily drawn into the protests while they were preparing for a performance in the music hall, which had to be canceled. Singer Larry Reed and his buddy Fred find it difficult to escape to the Algiers Motel, but when a guest fiddles with a blank gun, the police storm the building, led by the aggressive white man Philip Krauss. Three African-American men are killed and seven other black men and two white women are badly injured from brutal beatings as a result of the storming of the building on 12th Street. Dismukes finds himself in the middle of a street war.
Film analysis
Historical background
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Detroit was a model city in which attempts were made from 1966 to revive the declining economy. Nevertheless, the labor market was marked by racism. The race riots in Detroit, which were sparked on July 23, 1967 by a police raid on an unlicensed bar, a so-called blind pig , resulted in more than 40 deaths, 1,189 injuries and over 7,000 arrests as the second most brutal unrest in the United States Story a. The five-day wave of violence was fueled in particular by the response of the governor and the US government.
The immediate cause of the riot was a police raid on an after-hours club in a predominantly black area on the corner of 12th and Clairmount Streets, where a welcome party was being held for two African American Vietnam War veterans. The residents of the street had thrown stones and bottles at the police in protest, whereupon the police withdrew. It was hoped that the angry mob would calm down and disappear from the streets. When Congressman John Conyers and Detroit's Deputy Public Schools Superintendent Arthur Johnson were sent to 12th Street to calm the crowds, they failed to have a conciliatory conversation and left the place / trouble spot.
Tanks rolled through the streets these days. The riots damaged or destroyed 683 buildings in the city. The uprisings drove the black power movement forward during this period . 50 years later, Detroit is still marked by the uprisings.
Reality versus fiction
According to Andreas Borcholte of Spiegel Online, the film condenses facts and fiction from this 50-year-old incident and is staged as a contemporary thriller about racism . It is initially made difficult for the viewer to get into the action, with hectic cuts that should convey news authenticity, so Borcholte. In many cases, the film dramatizes the events, but most of the content of the conversation and characters have real role models. There is a real equivalent for the young black man shown in the film who is shot in the back after being caught raiding a shop window display. The figure of the police officer Krauss is at least partially inspired by the then 24-year-old officer David Senak, who was involved in the events.
In an interview with Variety , the real Melvin Dismukes said of that night, “I was just hoping to calm the situation that was going on in the lobby. I wanted to help people stay alive, so I did my best to do what I thought would protect them. ”Dismukes said the film was 99.5 percent accurate. In the end credits of the film it is admitted that it is no longer possible to completely reconstruct objectively what actually happened that night.
production
Staff and cast
Directed by two-time Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow . In 2010 she was the first woman to be awarded an Oscar for best director for her film The Hurt Locker . Like Bigelow's last feature film Zero Dark Thirty , Detroit was produced by the Annapurna production company. Mark Boal wrote the script . He wrote in Vulture that he was inspired by John Hersey for his script of The Algiers Motel Incident , what he said was an extensive, if incomplete book that was first published less than a year after the events.
John Boyega plays a central role as the African-American security agent who is present at the motel during the raid. Actor and musician Algee Smith also plays Larry Reed , a member of The Dramatics . The American R&B singer and songwriter Miguel Pimentel can be seen in the role of Malcolm. Jacob Latimore plays Fred Temple, an African-American guest at the motel who was 18 when he was killed. Aubrey Pollard, who died at the age of 19, is played by Nathan Davis Jr. and Austin Hébert took on the role of Warrant Officer Thomas. Anthony Mackie and Jason Mitchell are cast as other guests of the motel in supporting roles. The white women as motel guests are Kaitlyn Dever and Hannah Murray . Officers Philip Krauss, Flynn and Demens, the white cops who carried out the brutal raid, are played by Will Poulter , Ben O'Toole and Jack Reynor . John Krasinski can be seen as Auerbach, her lawyer in the following process .
Shooting and film editing
Filming took place in Lynn, Lawrence, Brockton and Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts. One scene was filmed at the Detroit Police Station on the 10th Precinct. The cameraman was Barry Ackroyd , who held this position at The Hurt Locker and most recently worked as cameraman for Captain Phillips and Jason Bourne of Paul Greengrass . Visually, the film follows a concept that uses a nervous hand-held camera , quick cuts and documentary recordings to make the chaos of these violent protests look like a war report , according to Dieter Osswald from the Augsburger Allgemeine : "The filmmaker relies on cinematic adrenaline when staging the raid, in which the powerless victims are exposed to a brutal show of force. "
Film music
The film music was composed by James Newton Howard . The soundtrack comprises 14 tracks, has a total running time of 49:54 minutes, was released as a download on July 28, 2017 by Motown Records and contains, among other things, the song It Ain't Fair by The Roots and Bilal, which can be heard in the film . Also included on the soundtrack is the song Grow , written by Algee Smith and sung with lead singer Larry Reed of soul band The Dramatics , which saw the street fighting in Detroit 50 years earlier and which the actor and musician played in the film becomes. This was published in early August 2017 in the form of a music video. Also included on the soundtrack are two original Dramatics songs. The tracks Algiers Motel and Lighting The Fuse are from Michael Abels .
Marketing and Publishing
A first trailer for the film was presented in April 2017.
Annapurna Pictures has the international distribution rights for theatrical productions. On July 18, 2017, almost exactly 50 years after the end of the real events, the film celebrated its world premiere at the Fox Theater in Detroit. The film was released in selected US cinemas on July 28, 2017 and opened nationwide on August 4, 2017. In October and November 2017 the film was shown as part of the official competition at the Festa del Cinema di Roma. A theatrical release in Germany took place on November 23, 2017.
reception
Age rating
In the USA, the MPAA gave the film an R rating for violent scenes, which corresponds to a rating of 17 and over. In Germany the film is FSK 12 . The statement of reasons for the release states: “The film is characterized by a tense and violent atmosphere. There are always massive threats, psychological torture (e.g. mock executions ) and physical violence. Due to their psychosocial level of development, children and young people from the age of 12 are able to see the violence in the context of the socially critical story and to deal with it accordingly. The violence is not sensationally played out and in no way glorified; it always starts from the negative figures. "
Reviews
So far, the film has won over 84 percent of Rotten Tomatoes critics and received an average rating of 7.6 out of a possible 10 points.
Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter thinks that even if it is historically questionable whether a portrayal of the white Detroit officials as the bad guys is correct, the film conveys the complexity of the events of the time and tells the story well in the necessary brevity without catharsis. Director Kathryn Bigelow and her cameraman Barry Ackroyd captured the initial street violence almost by chance in abrupt and shaky shots, as if it had been made by a documentary filmmaker who, without knowing it, found himself in the midst of these events with the shop windows closed Breaks went, shops looted, and shots of unknown origin echoed through the darkness.
Patrick Seyboth from epd Film thinks that good and bad are only neatly sorted in the film at first glance, because, luckily, Bigelow does not make it that easy for himself or us: “In addition to the brilliant craftsmanship with which she performs a semi-documentary reconstruction in a great tension cinema transformed, the will to differentiate stands out, the view for moral gray areas in the chamber-like setting of the motel. As vehement as the accusation against the racism deeply rooted in the system is, individual characters and behaviors are drawn ambiguously. ”Seyboth continues, the film always takes into account the dynamics of provocation and reaction, the unfortunate power of the corps spirit and the consequences of a misunderstood willingness to compromise .
Owen Gleiberman from Variety speaks of an equally intense and timeless film drama. Bigelow works with emphatically short scenes and occasionally mixes them with old news material, which, in connection with the equipment of the film by Jeremy Hindle and the footage of the cameraman, is suitable to resurrect Detroit at the time of the tumult, so Gleiberman. According to Gleiberman, the director staged the outbreak of violence there as without warning and apparently without any rational justification.
Andreas Borcholte of Spiegel Online calls Detroit the film about the Black Lives Matter debate and sums it up: “ Detroit is a raw, deeply gripping film, perhaps one of the most important of the year. He looks fearlessly at an unresolved problem in US society: the institutional racism of state power. "
Christian Alt from BR Kultur thinks that Detroit is not a perfect film, but an interesting one: “The film gains in power precisely because of the imbalance, because of the almost one-hour scene in the middle. And probably only Kathryn Bigelow could have staged this scene, Hollywood's best action director. ”This is where every move, every cut and every shot sits, Alt continues, and this unbalance turns a conventional historical drama into a horror film that you can I can't get it out of my head so quickly.
In a review by the music magazine Rolling Stone , one can read that as a viewer one is thrown into the confusing inferno: "With a shaky hand-held camera and a background noise made up of sirens and roars, Bigelow creates an immersive atmosphere in which there is no distance from the action." The criticism sums up that Detroit is an angry and at the same time humanistic film that shows the individual devastation caused by structural racism.
Dieter Osswald from Augsburger Allgemeine explains that screenwriter Mark Boal , who like Bigelow received an Oscar for Tödliches Kommando - The Hurt Locker , is telling this real drama in the form of an atmospherically dense thriller while taking artistic liberties. Osswald sums up: "An angry, important and emotionally gripping film at the right time."
In the jury statement from the German Film and Media Assessment , which gave the film the rating of Particularly Valuable , it can be read: “Bigelow tells this story in an exciting and highly complex way. She succeeds in bringing the story to life intensely through her realistic, very authentic-looking staging. "
Tim Grierson and Will Leitch from The New Republic brought the film to the fore at an early stage as a possible Oscar candidate in the main category Best Picture , as well as John Boyega as Best Actor .
Bob Chipman of Geek is quoted by Rotten Tomatoes as saying: "The narrative lacks the dimension and insight to make the otherwise thinly sketched characters more than the characters in a well-intentioned torture show created to create dire outrage, and not much else. "
Gross profit
In the USA, where the film opened in 20 selected cinemas on July 28, 2017 and was shown nationwide from August 4, 2017, Detroit has grossed 16.7 million US dollars so far.
Awards
On December 18, 2017, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that the song It Ain't Fair was in a shortlist of 70 songs, from which the nominations for the Best Movie Song category at the 2018 Academy Awards will be determined. Below is a selection of nominations and awards from well-known film awards.
African-American Film Critics Association Awards 2017
- Award for the best ensemble
- Award for Best Song ( The Roots feat. Bilal for It Ain't Fair )
- 5th place in the top 10 films
Black Entertainment Television Awards 2018
- Nomination for best film
Artios Awards 2018
- Nomination in the Big Budget Drama category
Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Awards 2018
- Nomination for the best female director ( Kathryn Bigelow )
NAACP Image Awards 2018
- Nomination for best film
- Award for Best Independent Film
- Nomination for Best Screenplay ( Mark Boal )
- Nomination for Best Actor ( Algee Smith )
- Nomination for Best Movie Song (It Ain't Fair)
synchronization
The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book and the dialogue direction by Christoph Cierpka on behalf of the Berliner Synchron GmbH Wenzel Lüdecke.
Web links
- Detroit in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Detroit in the German dubbing file
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release to Detroit . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 173693 / K).
- ^ Age rating for Detroit . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b Abayomi Azikiwe: The Detroit Rebellion of 1967 and Its Global Significance In: globalresearch.ca, February 27, 2017.
- ↑ a b c Jenny Jecke: Detroit - Kathryn Bigelow sends John Boyega into a street battle in the first trailer In: moviepilot.de, April 12, 2017.
- ^ A b Daniel Krüger: Trailer: Kathryn Bigelow filmed the race riots in 'Detroit' in 1967 In: musikexpress.de, April 12, 2017.
- ↑ 5 Days in 1967 Still Shake Detroit In: The New York Times, July 23, 1997.
- ↑ Tambay Obenson: John Boyega Books Kathryn Bigelow's Crime Drama Based on Deadly 1967 Detroit Race Riots In: shadowandact.com 20 April 2017th
- ↑ 5 Days in 1967 Still Shake Detroit In: The New York Times, July 23, 1997.
- ↑ Tambay Obenson: John Boyega Books Kathryn Bigelow's Crime Drama Based on Deadly 1967 Detroit Race Riots In: shadowandact.com 20 April 2017th
- ↑ Kate Abbey-Lambertz: 50 Years Later, Detroit Still Grapples With The Legacy Of Its 1967 Uprising in: The Huffington Post, February 28, 2017.
- ↑ Andreas Borcholte: 'Detroit' director Bigelow: 'I wish Obama were still President' In: Spiegel Online, November 22, 2017.
- ↑ https://www.npr.org/2017/07/28/539757308/detroit-dramatizes-a-deadly-67-motel-encounter-between-police-and-civilians
- ↑ http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/08/03/fact_vs_fiction_in_kathryn_bigelow_s_detroit.html
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- ↑ Dieter Osswald: 'Detroit': tough political thriller on the subject of police violence against blacks In: Augsburger Allgemeine, November 23, 2017.
- ↑ Andreas Borcholte: 'Detroit' director Bigelow: 'I wish Obama were still President' In: Spiegel Online, November 22, 2017.
- ↑ Dieter Osswald: 'Detroit': tough political thriller on the subject of police violence against blacks In: Augsburger Allgemeine, November 23, 2017.
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- ↑ http://www.vulture.com/2017/07/mark-boal-on-why-he-wrote-the-movie-detroit.html
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- ↑ http://www.latina.com/entertainment/movies/miguel-speaks-about-role-new-film-detroit
- ↑ https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/7881765/miguel-detroit-dramatics-band-member-kathryn-bigelow
- ↑ Dieter Osswald: 'Detroit': tough political thriller on the subject of police violence against blacks In: Augsburger Allgemeine, November 23, 2017.
- ↑ James Newton Howard to Score Kathryn Bigelow's 'Detroit' In: filmmusicreporter.com, May 8, 2017.
- ↑ 'Detroit' soundtrack details In: filmmusicreporter.com, July 25, 2017.
- ↑ https://www.rollingstone.de/detroit-exclusive-videopremiere-grow-1410961/
- ↑ http://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/2017/08/02/detroits-algee-smith-larry-reed-team-video/104234822/
- ↑ Michael Abels - Detroit. In: https://michaelabels.com . Michael Abels, accessed June 6, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Daniel Kreps: Watch Fraught First Trailer for Kathryn Bigelow's 1967 Riot Film 'Detroit' In: Rolling Stone, April 12, 2017.
- ↑ Adam Graham: Director Bigelow hopes 'Detroit' spurs dialogue on race In: The Detroit News, July 21, 2017.
- ↑ Festa del Cinema di Roma 12 A Edizione 2017: Programma In: romacinemafest.it. Accessed October 28, 2017 (PDF; 4.5 MB)
- ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
- ^ Reasons for approval for Detroit In: Voluntary Self-Control of the Film Industry. Retrieved November 23, 2017.
- ↑ Detroit In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
- ↑ Todd McCarthy, 'Detroit': Film Review , July 23, 2017.
- ↑ Patrick Seyboth: Review of 'Detroit' In: epd Film.
- ↑ Owen Gleiberman: Film Review: Kathryn Bigelow's 'Detroit' In: Variety, July 23, 2017.
- ↑ Andreas Borcholte: 'Detroit' director Bigelow: "I wish Obama were still President" In: Spiegel Online, November 22, 2017.
- ^ "Detroit" - A trip to hell in 1967 ( Memento from June 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), br.de from December 21, 2017
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- ↑ Dieter Osswald: 'Detroit': tough political thriller on the subject of police violence against blacks In: Augsburger Allgemeine, November 23, 2017.
- ↑ Detroit In: fbw-filmb Bewertung.com . German film and media rating. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ↑ Tim Grierson and Will Leitch: Grierson & Leitch's Insanely Early 2018 Oscar Predictions In: newrepublic.com, March 2, 2017.
- ↑ https://www.geek.com/movies/moviebob-reviews-detroit-2017-1710337/
- ↑ Detroit In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
- ↑ 70 Original Songs Vie For 2017 Oscar In: oscars.org, December 18, 2017.
- ↑ African American Film Critics Association named 'Get Out' the Top Film of 2017 ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. In: squarespace.com. Accessed January 7, 2018 (PDF; 545 KB)
- ↑ https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8456278/bet-awards-nominations-2018
- ↑ Patrick Hipes: Artios Awards Film Nominations Unveiled In: deadline.com, January 2, 2018.
- ↑ Chris Evangelista: 2017 Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Nominations Announced In: slashfilm.com, December 4, 2017.
- ↑ 2018 NAACP Image Award Nominations In: rottentomatoes.com, November 20, 2017.
- ↑ NAACP Image Awards: The Complete Winners List In: Variety, January 15, 2018.
- ↑ Steve Pond: 'Dunkirk', 'The Shape of Water' Lead Satellite Award Nominations In: thewrap.com, November 29, 2017.
