Dolan's Cadillac
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Dolan's Cadillac |
| Original title | Dolan's Cadillac / Stephen King's Dolan's Cadillac |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jeff Beesley |
| script | Richard Dooling |
| production |
Rhonda Baker , Kevin DeWalt , Robert Velo |
| music | James Mark Stewart |
| camera | Gerald Packer |
| cut | Daryl K. Davis |
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Dolan's Cadillac is an American direct-to-DVD produced psychological thriller from 2009 , based on the eponymous story from Stephen King's 1993 short story collection Nightmares . Directed by Jeff Beesley and starring Wes Bentley and Christian Slater .
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Organized trafficking in human trafficking , crime boss James “Jimmy” Dolan leads a life of pomp and luxury in Las Vegas . His daily routine is disrupted by the fact that one day during a transport of young Mexican women who are to be sold into prostitution , the vehicle's air conditioning fails and the girls arrive at the agreed meeting point more dead than alive. Dolan shoots the drivers and orders his henchmen, Chief and Delta, to bury the women and the van in the desert sand.
This is accidentally observed by Elizabeth Robinson, the wife of an innocent elementary school teacher who goes horse riding in the area. When she and her husband Tom contact the local sheriff, he is not willing to do anything about the matter for fear of Dolan. He makes stupid and racist statements about the murder victims and blames them for their fate. Dolan tracks down Robinson's identity and lets her put the body of one of his Chinese victims in bed. Elizabeth does not want to be intimidated, however. So she and her husband contact the FBI directly , represented by Special Agent Fletcher, who has been after Dolan for years. Elizabeth is scheduled to join the witness protection program until the date of her testimony . You and Tom lived in a hotel room for months.
One evening Elizabeth vomits, then hopes that this is a sign of the long-awaited pregnancy. She leaves the shared hotel room to get a pregnancy test. When her car starts, she is torn to pieces in front of her husband by a car bomb deposited in the car. Since there is no longer a witness, Dolan can continue his luxurious life without the risk of reprisals . A world collapses for Tom. While he initially tries to numb his grief with alcohol and prescription drugs, he is increasingly consumed by a desire for revenge.
Plagued by hallucinations in which Elizabeth appears to him, he forges a plan of revenge. He procures a large-caliber handgun and begins target practice. He also watches Dolan's daily routine. He is guarded by a bodyguard and regularly drives his armored car, a Cadillac Escalade , from Los Angeles to Las Vegas through the desert. Tom witnesses Chinese gangsters using automatic weapons to try to murder Dolan. However, they fail because of the massive armoring of the car. After an attempted pursuit of the Cadillac, Dolan recognizes Tom through his rear-view camera, matches him at a rest area toilet and brutally beats him up. He refrains from shooting him because he thinks he's too soft to ever shoot a human. He leaves the badly injured and humiliated Tom on the floor of the public toilet.
Tom then sinks into depression. But then he comes up with a new plan: He wants to bury Dolan in his Cadillac in the desert. To do this, he initially takes a summer job at Harvey Blocker's road construction company. Over the next few weeks, he mend potholes under the scorching desert sun until he learns that Dolan plans to drive from Las Vegas to Los Angeles on Labor Day weekend , where he plans to expand his prostitute business to include trafficking in children. For three days, Robinson digs alone, to the extreme limit of human resilience, a huge hole in the desert road and camouflages it with a thin tarpaulin.
In fact, Dolan drove by at the expected time and fell into the pitfall with his armored Cadillac. The driver of the car dies immediately, while Dolan's right-hand man, Chief, who deposited the bomb on Robinson's wife's car, has an open leg. A short time later, Dolan shoots Chief because he can no longer bear his screams. After Robinson makes it clear to Dolan who he is, he promises to release him if Dolan manages to shout over the noise the car exploded when his wife died. While Dolan claims to regret his crimes and Tom offers money, he begins burying the car. Just as Robinson has finished his job, he receives a call from Special Agent Fletcher. The FBI was able to convict Dolan as the mastermind behind the human trafficking ring and is now putting him up for investigation. Tom, who completely buried the vehicle and camouflaged it with floor plates, bursts into hysterical laughter and answers the call with: "Yes, we have it."
criticism
"Well-cast thriller based on a short story by Stephen King, ambitious but told without any special sympathy."
DVD release
- Dolan's Cadillac / December 15, 2009 / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Differences from the novel
Film and novel differ from one another in a few ways.
- In the film Dolan deals with women and later with children, nothing is said about his business in the book. So one does not find out in the book exactly which crime Elizabeth observed.
- The failed assassination attempt by former Chinese business partner Dolans does not appear in the book.
- The meeting between Dolan and Robinson in the rest area toilet does not take place in the book. Instead, during a brief encounter - Robinson drives past Dolan's car, which has a flat tire - Dolan does not recognize it in the book.
- In the book, Robinson executes his plan the weekend before July 4th, in the film on Labor Day weekend (September).
- To determine the correct dimensions for the pit, Robinson asks a friend, a physics teacher, for advice on the pretext of writing a science fiction novel. This scene does not appear in the film.
- In the film, Robinson Dolan initially pretends that he would get help, in the book he makes it clear from the start that Dolan has no help to expect.
- The plot in the book spans over 7 years, during which Robinson observed Dolan. After starting with the road construction brigade, he has to wait two years for the right time to execute his plan. The film suggests a much shorter timeframe, less than a year.
- In the book, Robinson isn't sure if Dolan is going to Los Angeles this weekend, so he clarifies with a call to the company that cleans the house in LA. This scene is missing in the film.
- The film ends with the laying of the flagstones, while Robinson tells in the novel that he drove to Dolan's grave again to urinate on it; since then he has never used the road again.
Others
- Originally, Sylvester Stallone was slated to play Jimmy Dolan and Stacey Title was slated to direct. Aside from Stallone, Dennis Hopper , Kevin Bacon and Gabriel Byrne were also in discussion for the role of gang boss Dolan .
- Due to repeated postponements of the start of shooting, Stephen King withdrew his film rights in September 2005 because he was no longer convinced of Title as a director and of the project's completion.
- Filming finally started in June 2008 in Saskatchewan , Canada .
- For the sake of authenticity, the film was shot for four days in the Nevada desert . For further scenes, images of mountains and desert sand were integrated into the film with the help of CGI .
- Dolan's Cadillac was commissioned by the MPAA rating level Rated R (15 years and accompanied by a parent) due to the rough interspersed with expletives vocabulary.
- The Japanese singer Crystal Kay sang the soundtrack Hold On .
- In the scene before Dolan makes the fateful journey, you can see him in the hotel room. In the background you can see the drawing Das Fass Amontillado (1919) by Harry Clarke : an allusion to Edgar Allan Poe 's horror story of the same name, in which someone walled up his enemy alive. Dolan's pleading exclamation “For the love of God!” Is also a quote from this short story.
Web links
- Dolan's Cadillac in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dolan's Cadillac atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Dolan's Cadillac in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dolan's Cadillac. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .