The color of money
| Movie | |
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| German title | The color of money |
| Original title | The Color of Money |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Martin Scorsese |
| script | Richard Price |
| production |
Irving Axelrad , Barbara De Fina |
| music | Robbie Robertson |
| camera | Michael Ballhaus |
| cut | Thelma Schoonmaker |
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The color of money (original title: The Color of Money ) is a film from 1986 by Martin Scorsese based on the novel of the same name by Walter Tevis from 1984.
action
Former professional pool player Fast Eddie Felson , who now makes his living as a liquor dealer, is in a relationship with the bartender Janelle. After a gangster forbade him to gamble for money around twenty years ago, he works in Janelle's bar as the manager of the pool player and gambler Julian. By chance he discovered Vincent Lauria, a talented billiards player . This is hardly aware of his talent and has no idea of sophisticated gambling. Eddie recognizes himself as a young man in Vincent and persuades him to take part in the billiards championship in Atlantic City . Before that, Vincent, his girlfriend Carmen and Eddie go through billiard halls in different cities and gamble off other players: Vincent initially deliberately loses money against the other players, then increases his stake and then wins. Eddie masterfully instructs Vincent in the art of bluffing.
Since Vincent is a hot spur, it is often difficult for him to pretend. During his time with Vincent, Eddie rediscovers his passion for the game and decides to train again. The different views of life between the two lead to conflicts over time and ultimately divide the two players. Eddie and Vincent split up and only meet again in Atlantic City at the tournament. In the meantime Vincent has developed into a mature gamer. The two meet at the tournament. In fact, Eddie seems to defeat Vincent in a duel. But then he learns that Vincent only bluffed and deliberately lost, he had secretly bet on Eddie and won a lot of money. Eddie is offended, but his ambition is fully awakened. He decides to compete against Vincent over and over again until he really defeats him. In the final scene there is a hint of a reconciliation between the two. The film ends with Eddie's words: “I'm back!” (English: “I'm back!” )
opening
In the opening scene, the subject of the film is reflected: A voice from the off (in the original English version the voice of director Martin Scorsese , in the German version that of Christian Brückner ) says that luck plays an important role in 9-ball, but for some players, luck itself is an art.
synchronization
The German dubbing was based on a dubbing book by Lutz Riedel under his dialogue direction on behalf of Berliner Synchron .
| role | actor | speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Eddie Felson | Paul Newman | Gert Günther Hoffmann |
| Vincent Lauria | Tom Cruise | Stephan Schwartz |
| Carmen | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio | Katja Nottke |
| Janelle | Helen Shaver | Karin Buchholz |
| Julian | John Turturro | Ulli Kinalzik |
| Amos | Forest Whitaker | Tobias Master |
| Orvis | Bill Cobbs | Eberhard Wechselberg |
| Moselle | Bruce A. Young | Lutz Riedel |
| Gambler | Paul Herman | Lothar Koester |
| Diane | Elizabeth Bracco | Ana Fonell |
background
The plot is a sequel to the 1961 film Sharks of the Big City ( The Hustler , directed by Robert Rossen ), in which Newman also played the character of Eddie Felson.
The film has enjoyed cult status with some pool players in Germany since its release and especially in the 1990s ( 9-ball is played), and the previous film ( 14/1 endless ) has also been brought back to mind. Billiards champion Steve Mizerak made a brief guest appearance as an opponent of Eddie in The Color of Money . Continue to have Forest Whitaker , Iggy Pop and the snooker pros Grady Mathews, Keith McCready, Jimmy Mataya, Mark Jarvis, Howard Vickery and Louie Roberts cameo appearances as a game opponent.
Soundtrack
Awards
- Only three actors have been nominated twice for the Oscar for Best Actor for the same character : Bing Crosby as Father O'Malley in The Road to Happiness and The Bells of St. Mary ; Peter O'Toole as King Henry II in Becket and The Lion in Winter ; and Paul Newman as "Fast Eddie" Felson in Sharks of the Big City and The Color of Money .
- Paul Newman received an Oscar for Best Actor for his role in this film .
- Paul Newman received the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for his role in this film .
- Paul Newman was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his role in this film .
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress .
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for a Golden Globe .
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for the New York Film Critics Circle Award .
- 1987: Nomination: Best Supporting Role for The Color of Money
- The film was also nominated for an Oscar for best adapted screenplay
- The film was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Production Design - Boris Leven and Karen O'Hara
- The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Reviews
- "The meticulous director Martin Scorsese was exactly the right person to lure the sharks of the 60s into the pool of the 80s [...] The fascination of the game is brilliantly staged by Michael Ballhaus' camera [...]" - Michael Denks , Zelluloid.de
- If there were an Oscar for self-love, Tom Cruise as Vincent, constantly prancing around himself with vanity, would have to win it. And Paul Newman is rightly not interested in the effective silhouette of his girlfriend (Mary Elisabeth Mastrantonio) - it is as boring and sterile as this film basically remains. - Der Spiegel , 13/1987
- “The predictable action gains profile and tension from the concentration on the personal conflict, from which Martin Scorsese develops a moral-philosophical reflection on corruption and innocence, lust for life and resignation, action and passivity, youth and old age; densely staged and photographed. ” - Lexicon of international film
- "Director Martin Scorsese [...] gives the audience favorite Tom Cruise the opportunity to come up with a remarkable acting performance alongside the brilliant Paul Newman." - Dirk Manthey (ed.), Jörg Altendorf (ed.), Willi Bär (ed. ): Feature films 89. The highlights of the television year . Kino Verlag, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-89324-037-3 , p. 36.
literature
- Walter Tevis: The Color of Money (OT: The Color of Money ). Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1987, ISBN 3-404-13092-8 .
Web links
- The Color of Money in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Color of Money atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The color of money. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on April 6, 2018 .
- ↑ THE 59TH ACADEMY AWARDS | 1987 . In: oscars.org . Retrieved September 23, 2018.
- ↑ Michael Denks: The color of money. In: Zelluloid.de. August 20, 2008, archived from the original on April 16, 2016 ; accessed on September 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Raging Ball - "The Color of Money". Feature film by Martin Scorsese. USA 1986. Color; 119 minutes. * . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13/1987 , March 23, 1987, pp. 230-31 ( online in the Spiegelarchiv [accessed on 23 September 2018]).
- ↑ The color of money. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 23, 2018 .