Green tomatoes

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Movie
German title Green tomatoes
Original title Fried Green Tomatoes (at the Whistle Stop Cafe)
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1991
length 130 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jon Avnet
script Fannie Flagg
Carol Sobieski
production Jon Avnet
Jordan Kerner
music Thomas Newman
camera Geoffrey Simpson
cut Debra Neil-Fisher
occupation

Green tomatoes is an American feature film of director Jon Avnet from 1991. template for the screenplay was Fannie Flagg's eponymous novel ( Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe ).

action

Evelyn Couch , an early menopausal housewife and very sparsely confident, leads an unhappy marriage. In the retirement home of Confederate -Provinzstädtchens in which they visited weekly aunt of her husband Ed, she makes friends with the temporarily living here Senior Ninny thread Goode , which her tragicomic life story of a once growing there a girl in the 1920s and 1930s told years (represented in the film by flashbacks, which make up the main part of the run length):

Idgie Threadgoode , a headstrong, stubborn little girl, only feels understood by her big brother Buddy . But Buddy, who fell in love with the pretty Ruth Jamison , had a fatal accident in a tragic accident. Idgie is bitter; Only after years does she gradually develop an intimate friendship with Ruth, which, as the more well-behaved of the two, reluctantly follows the daring Idgie (whom Ruth calls the bee-beginner). That goes on until Ruth gets married and moves to Georgia .

When Idgie visits her friend there a few years later, she learns that Ruth is being beaten by her husband. Some time later, Idgie received a letter from Ruth, in which she informed her that her mother had passed away and that she was now ready for a new life. Idgie, meanwhile a very self-confident, boyish woman, returns accompanied by the black worker Big George and her brother Julian, "kidnaps" the pregnant Ruth from her husband and takes her in. Together they run the Whistle Stop Café in the small town of Whistle Stop, Alabama , where the eponymous roasted green tomatoes are on offer.

On the one hand, they have to assert themselves against racist contemporaries, from whose point of view it is not appropriate to serve African-Americans , and on the other hand, against Ruth's husband Frank Bennett , who comes to see her and wants to take the child away from her. Shortly after his appearance he disappeared without a trace. Years later, Idgie is charged with murder for this. At the trial, Idgie deliberately draws suspicion of murder on herself. Parish priest Reverend Scroggins surprisingly helps Idgie with a perjury, although he swears not on the Bible, but on a black-bound edition of Moby Dick . Idgie is acquitted. Only later does it emerge that the aggressive husband was killed in self-defense by the Afro-American cook Sipsey with a cast-iron frying pan. Sipsey would not have had a chance in court with the constellation "black perpetrator, white victim, sheriff in the Ku Klux Klan ". At Idgie's suggestion, her son Big George processed the corpse into a barbecue , which even Sheriff Curtis Smoote, who was responsible for the missing persons report, praised it as excellent.

Only a few years later, Idgie suffered a bitter loss when Ruth died of cancer in 1939.

As the story told by Ninny Threadgoode, Evelyn becomes increasingly self-confident. For example, she brutally defends herself against two young women who have snatched the parking lot from under her nose. Her husband Ed also experiences Evelyn's change of behavior when she decides to take in the homeless Ninny. When Evelyn tells Ninny about her plan in Whistle Stop, Ninny draws Evelyn's attention to Ruth's tombstone. There is a glass of fresh honey with the written dedication “I will love you forever. The bee beggar ”.

Differences between film and novel

  • At the end of the book, Ninny dies, but in the movie a roommate dies and Evelyn invites Ninny to live with her and her husband Ed.
  • In the film, the lesbian relationship between Idgie and Ruth is indicated with a food fight, which is supposed to symbolize a love scene, as the director confirms in the audio commentary on the DVD.
  • In the film there is a love affair between Buddy and Ruth before he has an accident, while in the book he loves the pub owner's daughter Eva Bates and Ruth is only introduced later.
  • In the book, Onzell, Big George's wife, euthanized through an overdose of morphine when Ruth is dying. The film shows that Ruth finally refuses the medication and then dies.
  • In the film, Ninny knows that Sipsey killed Frank Bennet. In the book, she emphasizes that nobody knows the truth. The murder is described by an anonymous narrator.

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Evelyn Couch Kathy Bates Traudel Haas
Idgie Threadgoode Mary Stuart Masterson Daniela Hoffmann
Ruth Jamison Mary-Louise Parker Katja Nottke
Ninny Threadgoode Jessica Tandy Tilly Lauenstein
Buddy Threadgoode Chris O'Donnell Markus Hoffmann
Mama Threadgoode Lois Smith Marianne Lutz
Sipsey Cicely Tyson Luise Lunow
Ed couch Gailard Sartain Klaus Sunshine
Grady Kilgore Gary Basaraba Engelbert von Nordhausen
Big George Stan Shaw Martin Keßler
Reverend Scroggins Richard Riehle Frank-Otto Schenk
Smokey Lonesome Timothy Scott Heinz Palm
Curtis Smoot Raynor bills Reinhard Kuhnert
Frank Bennett Nick Searcy Leon Boden

Reviews

source rating
Rotten tomatoes
critic
audience
IMDb
  • epd Film 9/1992: Few films are able to move the viewer without plunging him into the abyss of sentimentality. Green tomato is a sheer delight. Anyone who is fed up with being exalted by artificial suffering and passions à la Leo Carax's Die Lovers von Pont-Neuf or Verhoeven's bland “ basic instincts” will find something in Jon Avnet's film that is now considered old-fashioned at best - a completely undogmatic one Incitement to humanity.
  • film-dienst 18/1992: The nostalgic memories correspond with the contemporary scenes , but never combine to a deeper consideration of the topic of friendship. Some brilliant acting and an atmospheric camera work give the film a certain charm, despite the length.

Location

Although the film and the book locate the Whistle Stop Café in the state of Alabama, the film was shot in the small town of Juliette , Georgia (about halfway between Atlanta and Macon ). The Whistle Stop Café is still there right on the railway line and barrage shown in the film and is in operation as a restaurant and tourist attraction.

Awards

  • 1992: Nominated for an Oscar in the categories of Best Supporting Actress (Jessica Tandy) and Best Adapted Screenplay
  • 1992: Nominated for the Golden Globe in the categories of Best Film - Musical / Comedy , Best Actress (Kathy Bates) and Best Supporting Actress (Jessica Tandy)
  • 1992: Won the USC Scripter Award and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay (Fannie Flagg and Carol Sobieski)
  • 1992: Won the Artios Award from the Casting Society of America for casting (David Rubin)
  • 1993: Nominated for the BAFTA Award in the categories of Best Actress (Jessica Tandy) and Best Supporting Actress (Kathy Bates)
  • 1993: Won the Young Artist Award for Best Actress Under 10 Years (Nancy Moore Atchison)
  • 1993: Won the BMI Film Music Award for film music (Thomas Newman)

literature

  • Fannie Flagg : Green tomatoes. Roman (Original title: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe ). German by Eva Malsch . Full paperback edition. Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2001, 429 pages, ISBN 3-404-26077-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for green tomatoes . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2004 (PDF; test number: 68 090 V / DVD).
  2. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Green tomatoes. Retrieved March 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Green tomatoes from Rotten Tomatoes , accessed May 25, 2015
  4. ↑ Green tomatoes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  5. ↑ Green tomatoes. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ^ Website of the Whistle Stop Café in Juliette, GA