Ensemble film

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The ensemble film [ ãˈsãːbləfɪlm ] (from French : ensemble = together, totality) describes a type of film in which the main roles of a film are synonymous in importance. Stars usually forego their usual pay and the failure of an actor is easier to cope with. The cast in the ensemble can be processed as a trick, because the viewer has to follow the development of all characters equally. There are separate film prizes awarded for ensemble films , for example the National Board of Review Award for Best Cast and Best Ensemble Award from the Screen Actors Guild in the USA .

characterization

The dominance of a film hero is an essential stylistic feature in American films : the hero is the focus of the story, his actions, goals and desires determine what happens. Other figures are subordinate to it in their importance. The criticism of this stereotype determined the review of the Hollywood film from the start . The ensemble film uses either a hero collective (rather than the individual hero Battleship Potemkin , 1925), several protagonists ( Rome, Open City , 1945), or an ensemble of characters who are equal in their significance to the plot ( Nashville , 1975 A wedding , 1978). Tröhler divides the ensemble film into group and mosaic films . While in group films a grouping such as a school class, a family or informal groups occurs in a central location ( The Group , 1966), a mosaic film is determined by independent and random overlaps of plot and characters ( Short Cuts , 1993; 71 Fragments of a Chronology of chance , 1994). In its entirety, an ensemble has a certain effect. When ensembles form over several films, their own communicative repertoire is created ; for example in the films of John Cassavetes and Rainer Werner Fassbinder .

Examples

The following films can be counted as ensemble films:

literature

  • Tröhler, Margrit: Les films à protagonistes multiples et la logique des possibles . In: Iris 29, 2000, pp. 85-102.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geoffrey M. Horn: Movie Acting . Gareth Stevens Inc., 2006. p. 8. ISBN 0-8368-6836-6
  2. Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture . See Submission Categories , Screen Actors Guild Awards website. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
  3. ^ A b Hans J. Wulff, Ludger Kaczmarek: Ensemble film . In: Lexikon der Filmbegriffe, edited by Hans. J. Wulff and Theo Bender
  4. Tröhler, 2000.
  5. ^ Martina Roepke, Hans J. Wulff: Ensemble . In: Lexikon der Filmbegriffe, edited by Hans. J. Wulff and Theo Bender