Dope (film)

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Movie
German title Dope
Original title Dope
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2015
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Rick Famuyiwa
script Rick Famuyiwa
production Nina Yang Bongiovi , Forest Whitaker
music Germaine Franco
camera Rachel Morrison
cut Lee Haugen
occupation

Dope is an American coming-of-age tragic comedy directed by Rick Famuyiwa , which premiered on January 24, 2015 as part of the Sundance Film Festival .

action

De La Soul posters hang in Malcolm's room, and his favorite music is hip-hop

The intelligent African American Malcolm lives in a tough neighborhood in Inglewood , California , where gangsters and drug dealers are everywhere. Malcolm is an outsider here, and he is retreating to a seemingly past, better world. Malcolm has a flat-top haircut , listens to old hip-hop music , wears vintage clothes, and rides a BMX bike . Malcolm furnished his children's room very specially. It looks like the 1990s are still not over. There are posters of Eazy-E and De La Soul on the walls of his room , and Super Nintendo games and videotapes of old episodes of Yo! Are piled on the floor . MTV rapeseed . However, his big dream is to study at the elite Harvard University. But he is still about to graduate from school.

One night Malcolm and his best friends, buddy Jib and the lesbian Diggy, two nerds similar to himself, go to an underground party organized by the drug dealer Dom. Malcolm hopes to get closer to the pretty Nakia, who is a little older than him and also Dom's girlfriend. However, a police raid is carried out on the party, so Dom hides several kilos of ecstasy in Malcolm's backpack. In order not to upset Austin Jacoby, who is supposed to judge Malcolm's Harvard application but is also a drug dealer, Malcolm is unexpectedly faced with a difficult task, because he is supposed to sell the drugs for a profit. For him and his friends a turbulent gauntlet begins, in which Malcolm comes into conflict with the law for the first time. With the help of a computer nerd friend, they develop a modern sales channel. He and his friends pack the ecstasy in their school's laboratory and send it over the Internet. Payment is made here using Bitcoins . A young man develops from a nerd who slowly discovers himself. The previous reputation of the three friends at the school is also proving to be extremely good for business. They are waved through by the security guard at the school gate when the metal detector beeps or the drug sniffer dog strikes because nobody would suspect that the harmless nerds could have anything to do with gang crime.

production

Staff and cast

The rapper A $ AP Rocky plays a drug dealer in the film

Mostly African Americans were involved in the production and execution of the film. Forest Whitaker and Nina Yang Bongiovi acted as producers . It is the third film from Forest Whitaker's Significant Productions, the production company with which the two had already produced the highly acclaimed biopic Next Stop: Fruitvale Station , with Michael B. Jordan in the lead role, in 2013 . Because Dope also focuses on music, musicians Sean Combs (Puff Daddy) and Pharrell Williams were executive producers. Rick Famuyiwa , who also wrote the screenplay for the film and who most recently worked in this dual role for the film Our Family Wedding , with Whitaker in a leading role, was directed by Rick Famuyiwa , which was released in 2010. Kim Coleman, who was nominated for an Emmy for her work on the television series American Crime, was responsible for the casting and was also working on the film Chi-Raq .

Most of the cast is also made up of African Americans. The main role of Malcolm was cast by Shameik Moore . In addition to his acting, Moore is also a singer and dancer and recorded some songs with Williams for the film's soundtrack. Tony Revolori and Kiersey Clemons took on the roles of Malcolm's best friends Jib and Diggy. Revolori was internationally known for his role as bellboy Zéro in the Oscar-winning drama Grand Budapest Hotel . The role of the drug dealer Dom was cast with the rapper A $ AP Rocky , and that of his girlfriend Nakia with Zoë Kravitz . Rap and hip-hop musician Vince Staples can be seen in the film in a guest appearance as one of Dom's gang members. Forest Whitaker is the narrator in the original English version .

Film music and soundtrack

The score is by Germaine Franco .

The soundtrack to the film was directed by Pharrell Williams produced

The soundtrack for the film was produced by Pharrell Williams , who also wrote a few pieces. It was released on June 16, 2015, has a length of 59:01 min and comprises 15 songs. The songs that were not written by Williams are by Busta Rhymes , AMG and many other artists. You can hear hip-hop songs from the 1990s by Digable Planets , Digital Underground , Public Enemy , A Tribe Called Quest , Nas , Naughty by Nature . Williams produced the soundtrack because the film also has an emphasis on the music. Williams wrote the four songs under the pseudonym Awreeoh (pronounced Oreo ). This is also the name of the fictional hip-hop punk band Malcolm featured in the film. The songs written by Williams are Can't Bring Me Down , Don't Get Deleted , Go Head, and It's My Turn Now . A separate music video was released for Don't Get Deleted . Leading actor Shameik Moore recorded these songs together with Williams. Hollywood Records also released an album with songs inspired by the film. This album has a length of 1:14:20 h and comprises 18 songs, two of which come from the actual Dope soundtrack and one from the film (Woo-Hah !! Got You All in Check) , which is not included on the soundtrack is.

Track list

  1. Rebirth of Slick - Digable Planets
  2. Can't Bring Me Down - Awreeoh
  3. The World Is Yours - Nas
  4. Go Head - Awreeoh
  5. Rebel Without a Pause - Public Enemy
  6. Don't Get Deleted - Awreeoh
  7. Scenario - A Tribe Called Quest
  8. Cocaina Shawty - Cape G.
  9. Poppin 'Off - Watch The Duck
  10. The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground *
  11. New Money - Buddy ?
  12. Hip Hop Hooray - Naughty by Nature *
  13. Dirty Feeling - LolaWolf
  14. Home Is Where the Hatred Is - Gil Scott-Heron **
  15. It's My Turn Now - Awreeoh ***
* also included on the album Dope Hip Hop Soundtrack: Music Inspired by the Film (2015)
** the song Home Is Where The Hatred Is by Gil Scott-Heron can be heard in a central scene of the film.
*** It's My Turn Now was one of 74 songs shortlisted for nominations in the Best Movie Song category at the 2016 Academy Awards .

publication

The film premiered on January 24, 2015 as part of the Sundance Film Festival . On May 22, 2015, the film was presented at the Directors Fortnight as part of the Cannes Film Festival . The film was released in selected US cinemas on June 19, 2015. In Germany, the film was shown for the first time on June 26, 2015 as part of the Munich Film Festival and was regularly shown in selected cinemas on January 28, 2016.

Dope was the first film that tickets could be bought with bitcoins .

reception

Reviews

The film won over 89 percent of Rotten Tomatoes ' critics (out of 140 critics). The consensus there says: Featuring a starmaking performance from Shameik Moore and a refreshingly original point of view from writer-director Rick Famuyiwa, Dope is smart, insightful entertainment.

Susan Vahabzadeh of the Süddeutsche Zeitung describes the film as a fast and fast-paced, wild comedy about the prejudices with which black, sexually non-conformist young people have to grapple in the very poor neighborhoods. Vahabzadeh recognizes that the three portrayed outsiders who are at the center of the film are an homage to early ghetto kids films such as Boyz n the Hood . Famuyiwa plays a nice game with role stereotypes in the film, as most of his characters do not want to conform to the behavioral patterns intended for them.

In epd Film , Anke Sterneborg says that Famuyiwa turns all expectations of the Hood and films that are made about it upside down in a refreshingly subversive way: The violently aggressive kids who otherwise populate such films are, as minor characters, only catalysts of what happens while the hero trio is well-bred, eloquent, creative and future-oriented and also celebrates real retro charm, with a particular preference for high-top hairstyles, flower shirts, BMX bikes, old TV series, vinyl records, cassette recorders and garage punk.

Fabian Wolff from SPIEGEL Online says that the director succeeded in creating a hymn to black nerds with dope , and that the film shows a subculture that has so far been shown too seldom in the cinema and television. Wolff notes: It's not just the characters who love the nineties, the film itself too. Like one of the many Tarantino imitations of the indie wave , the script doesn't care about any script rules and maybe has a few twists and turns. Director Rick Famuyiwa uses split screens , rewind effects and other tricks. This energy carries you away, but occasionally overloads the film. The images themselves remain strangely flat. [...] In some moments the film is smarter than its pubescent protagonist, sometimes completely on its level - including slow-motion shots of shaking asses.

Gross profit

With a budget of $ 700,000, the film grossed around $ 18 million worldwide, most of it in the United States (as of June 18, 2016).

Awards (selection)

Sundance Film Festival 2015

  • Received the Editing Award - Dramatic ( Lee Haugen )
  • Nomination for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic ( Rick Famuyiwa )

Cannes Film Festival 2015

Image Award 2016

  • Nomination for best film
  • Nomination for Best Screenplay (Rick Famuyiwa)
  • Nomination for Best Director - Film (Rick Famuyiwa)

Critics' Choice Movie Awards Jan. 2016

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2016

  • Nomination for Best Young Actor for the Critics Choice Award (Shameik Moore)

Black Reel Awards 2016

  • Award for Best Young Actress (Breakthrough Performance) ( Kiersey Clemons )
  • Nomination for Best Supporting Actress - Film ( Zoë Kravitz )
  • Nomination for Best Director - Film (Rick Famuyiwa)
  • Nomination for Best Casting - Ensemble ( Kim Coleman )
  • Nomination for Best Young Actor (Breakthrough Performance) (Shameik Moore)
  • Nomination for Best Young Actress (Breakthrough Performance) ( Chanel Iman )
  • Nomination for best film music ( Germaine Franco )
  • Nomination for Best Original Screenplay or Adapted Screenplay - Film (Rick Famuyiwa)

Casting Society of America 2016

  • Awarded the Artios for the best casting in a low-budget film - Comedy (Kim Coleman)

Film analysis

Fabian Wolff from SPIEGEL Online believes that black nerds have hardly any cultural representation other than Steve Urkel: They do not correspond to what the white environment imagines black youth, and often do not fit into traditional images of masculinity in many black communities. Because Malcolm and his friends Digs and Jib not only love the nineties, but also a lot of 'white people shit' that the film shows: Anime, skateboards, studying for school, applying for college. The 'jocks' who turn school life into a gauntlet for them belong to gangs and sometimes also have weapons.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for dope . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 156460 / V). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b Dope In: moviepilot.de. Retrieved June 19, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c Angie Romero: The 'Dope' Soundtrack Is Awesome, Starting With This Hilarious Pharrell-Produced Song In: billboard.com, June 5, 2015.
  4. ↑ Soundtrack Scene: Pharrell Makes Dope Music In: awardsandsuch.wordpress.com, June 8, 2015.
  5. ↑ Tambay A. Obenson: The Soundtrack for 'Dope' Is Chock-Full of Dope Hip Hop Tracks From the 1990s In: indiewire.com, June 3, 2015.
  6. ↑ Soundtrack Scene: Pharrell Makes Dope Music In: awardsandsuch.wordpress.com, June 8, 2015.
  7. ^ Dope In: filmstarts.de. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
  8. ↑ Tambay A. Obenson: These 74 Songs Will Compete for 2015 Oscar Nominations - Including Music from 'Chi-Raq', 'Creed', 'Dope' & Others In: indiewire.com, December 14, 2015.
  9. ↑ Jon Erlichman: 'Dope' to Become First Movie to Accept Bitcoin for Ticket Purchases In: thewrap.com, June 15, 2015.
  10. ↑ Bitcoins Week: Canada and Bitcoin, a movie, Kim Dotcom and more In: coinwelt.de, June 21, 2015.
  11. ↑ Dope In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved September 26, 2016.
  12. ↑ Susan Vahabzadeh: 'Dope' starts in the cinema - 'Dope' shoots up clichés In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 2, 2016.
  13. ↑ Anke Sterneborg review of 'Dope'. In his film, Rick Famuyiwa combines the flair of John Hughes' teenage comedies with biting social criticism of modern America In: epd Film, January 21, 2016.
  14. ↑ a b Fabian Wolff: High school film 'Dope': Like it's 1994 In: SPIEGEL Online, January 27, 2016.
  15. ↑ Dope - 2015. It's hard out here for a geek. ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.readmoviesynopsis.com 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: readmoviesynopsis.com. Retrieved June 19, 2016.
  16. ^ Dope In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved June 19, 2016.
  17. ↑ The Sundance jury stated: To a person whose innovative cutting and skillful manipulation of time and rhythm made this story ...