Game Change - The Sarah Palin Effect
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| German title | Game Change - The Sarah Palin Effect |
| Original title | Game change |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | approx. 118 minutes |
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| Director | Jay Roach |
| script | Danny Strong |
| production | Tom Hanks , Gary Goetzman |
| music | Theodore Shapiro |
| camera | Jim Denault |
| cut | Lucia Zucchetti |
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Game Change - The Sarah Palin Effect (Original Title: Game Change ) is an American political drama from 2012 . Directed by Jay Roach and written by Danny Strong . It was first broadcast on March 9, 2012 on HBO . In Germany, the television film was shown for the first time on November 6, 2012 on the pay TV channel Sky Atlantic HD .
Based on a part of the book of the same name by journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, which was published in 2010, the film describes the events in the final stages of the 2008 US presidential campaign from the point of view of the team of John McCain (played by Ed Harris) from that point in time when the latter surprisingly nominated the governor of Alaska , Sarah Palin (played by Julianne Moore), as his candidate for the office of vice president, until the evening of election day and the defeat by Barack Obama .
action
The film begins with a reenactment of a sequence from an interview that the head of John McCain's campaign team, Steve Schmidt (played by Woody Harrelson), gave CNN presenter Anderson Cooper after the election for the political program 60 Minutes . Cooper asks Schmidt whether the decision for Sarah Palin was the right one in retrospect, and whether he would choose her again in case of doubt.
This is followed by a flashback to 2007. Senator John McCain, who was apparently hopelessly behind in the Republican Party's primary campaign , brought Steve Schmidt into his team. Schmidt manages to get the Vietnam veteran McCain to be nominated for the Republican Party for the 2008 election. But when the youthful-looking Senator Barack Obama from Illinois prevails on the part of the Democratic Party, begins to open up the field with his demand for change , and speaks to hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic people in Berlin , the nervousness grows in McCain's team. It is decided to drop the plan to make an experienced man like Joe Lieberman or Tim Pawlenty a candidate for the office of Vice President and to look for a woman who will make up McCain's deficit in independent and female voters against Obama and at the same time be surprising enough to reshuffle the cards in the election campaign: a game changer . She is believed to have been found in the person of Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska. Their charisma and their arch-conservative orientation convince the McCain team and the candidate himself. The necessary vetting (checking political positions and personality), on the other hand, is extremely superficial. First, however, the charismatic, fresh and direct manner of Sarah Palin gives the candidate McCain the necessary boost in popularity to catch up with Obama.
During the course of the election campaign, McCain's team, especially Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace (portrayed by Sarah Paulson), quickly realized that Sarah Palin not only concealed legacies from her political activities in Alaska, but also enormous knowledge deficits in all kinds of fundamental national areas and international politics, which poses a catastrophic risk to the presidential campaign. You can z. B. does not even tell the difference between the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq and believes the Queen is the head of government of Great Britain. Initially, they keep Palin away from the press, but know that this strategy will not be able to hold out for long. One tries hastily to teach her the basics of current politics and its historical foundations in a crash course, but there is not enough time and the risk of a flop remains.
Finally, she gives Charlie Gibson from ABC a first national interview, in which she is still pretty good, but when asked about her foreign policy experience, she refers to the geographical proximity of Alaska to Russia (“ (…) you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska (…) ”), which is taken as an occasion for general ridicule in the media. Especially the satirical exaggeration of Sarah Palin's lack of knowledge by Tina Fey in the legendary comedy show Saturday Night Live as well as the mass distribution and permanent availability of media content in online portals like YouTube make life difficult for McCain's team.
One tries to correct the picture with a second national interview with regard to the important party congress, but Sarah Palin blames the election campaign team for their bad press and blocks further attempts to prepare them accordingly. As expected, the interview with the star presenter Katie Couric of CBS went completely wrong, and the media continued their mockery and criticism of Sarah Palin's suitability for the office of vice president with increased intensity.
These obvious inadequacies, combined with the challenges of the banking and financial crisis after the collapse of Lehman Brothers , lead in the final phase of the election campaign to Barack Obama pulling away again in favor of the electorate, which McCain's team takes as an opportunity to launch a negative campaign against Obama . McCain quickly realizes, however, that the dull prejudice and feelings of hatred that he is addressing do not correspond to his understanding of political style and chokes this type of campaign against Sarah Palin's resistance. Then campaign manager Schmidt had an idea: He suggested that Sarah Palin simply memorize the answers to the previously announced catalog of questions for the important television debate with Joe Biden , so that she can survive there. The plan works, and Palin's popularity with Republican voters is rising again. It even overtook John McCain in the favor of party supporters and practically ran its own election campaign. McCain and Palin are trying to attack Obama directly now. However, this tactic fails. Shortly before the election, Schmidt realizes that he has made a terrible mistake and that the election will be lost.
On the evening of the election, Palin even wants to give a speech of his own after the defeat, which was previously not allowed to any defeated vice-presidential candidate. Schmidt and ultimately McCain prevent this.
The film ends with the continuation of the first scene, the mock-up interview by Anderson Cooper with Steve Schmidt and the answer to the question whether Schmidt would propose Sarah Palin again. He says, "You don't get to go back in time, Anderson, and have do-overs in life." ( You can't go back in time, Anderson, and start all over again. )
production
In early 2010, HBO secured the rights to the book of the same name by John Heileman (journalist for New York Magazine ) and Mark Halperin (journalist with Time ). Production preparation began in February 2011 with the engagement of Jay Roach as director and Danny Strong as screenwriter, who had already worked together for HBO in the political drama Recount about the election in 2000. The original plan was to film the entire book, but it quickly became apparent that the plot would have become too complex for a two-hour television film. In addition to the instructions in the book, Danny Strong spoke to about two dozen people involved.
The cast of the roles was announced in March 2011, with Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin and Ed Harris as John McCain. Woody Harrelson joined shortly afterwards as Steve Schmidt. The film was shot mainly in the state of Maryland, some scenes in Delaware. It premiered on March 8, 2012 at the Newseum in Washington, DC, and premiered two days later at prime time on HBO.
Some excerpts from archival recordings of the election campaign, for example from CNN , MSNBC and FOX News , were used in the film and in some cases linked to the recordings of the actors using animation technology and stand-ins. So in the film u. a. Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer , Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson, Charlie Rose part of the action.
synchronization
The German dubbing was done in 2012 by the dubbing company Interopa Film in Berlin under the dialogue direction of Antonia Ganz.
| actor | role | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Julianne Moore | Sarah Palin | Petra Barthel |
| Woody Harrelson | Steve Schmidt | Thomas Nero Wolff |
| Ed Harris | John McCain | Wolfgang Condrus |
| Peter MacNicol | Rick Davis | Tobias Master |
| Jamey Sheridan | Mark Salter | Udo Schenk |
| Sarah Paulson | Nicolle Wallace | Melanie Hinze |
| Ron Livingston | Mark Wallace | Peter Flechtner |
| David Barry Gray | Todd Palin | Olaf Reichmann |
| Colby French | Tucker Eskew | Michael Iwannek |
| Bruce Altman | Fred Davis | Wolfgang Wagner |
| John Rothman | AB Culvahouse | Dieter Memel |
Reviews
David Hinckley of the New York Daily News wrote, "Julianne Moore's portrayal bears even more resemblance to the real-life Sarah Palin than Tina Fey's version." The Hollywood Reporter's Tim Goodman writes that the film "kessly begs the question of whether Sarah Palin is mentally unstable ” . He calls Julianne Moore's performance "virtuoso (and extremely Emmy- suspect)" .
The website Metacritic scores 74 out of 100 possible points for Game Change, based on around two dozen technical reviews. The critic Roger Ebert awarded 3.5 out of a possible 4 points. Entertainment Weekly rates the film with A- (roughly equivalent to grade 1-). Sarah Palin and John McCain condemned Game Change as fake and announced they would not see it.
Steve Schmidt, however, praised the film for its accuracy.
Audience rating
Game Change had approximately 2.1 million viewers when it first aired. For the pay-TV channel HBO, this was the highest number of viewers for the debut of an in-house production since 2004.
Awards
- Award in the category of best mini-series or TV film
- Award in the category of best leading actress - mini-series or TV film for Julianne Moore
- Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or TV Movie for Ed Harris
- Nomination for Best Actor in a Mini-Series or TV Movie for Woody Harrelson
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries, or TV Movie for Sarah Paulson
- Award in the Best Miniseries or TV Movie category: Danny Strong, Amy Sayres, Steve Shareshian, Gary Goetzman, Jay Roach and Tom Hanks
- Award in the category directing a miniseries, television film or special (category: drama): Jay Roach
- Nomination for Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie: Woody Harrelson
- Award in the category leading actress in a miniseries or a television film: Julianne Moore
- Award in the script category for a miniseries, television film or special (category: drama): Danny Strong
- Nomination for Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie: Ed Harris
- Nomination in the category supporting actress in a miniseries or a TV movie: Sarah Paulson
- Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie for Julianne Moore
- Nomination in the category Best Miniseries or Best TV Movie
- Nomination for Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie for Woody Harrelson
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Sarah Paulson
Web links
- Game Change - The Sarah Palin effect in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Game Change - The Sarah Palin Effect in the online film database
- Game Change - The Sarah Palin effect atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Official site of HBO
Individual evidence
- ↑ ABC World News with Charles Gibson: Sarah Palin Interview , Sept. 11, 2008
- ↑ CBS 60 Minutes: Steve Schmidt Interview , January 12, 2010
- ^ HBO options Game Change , TheDailyBeast.com, Jan 22, 2010
- ↑ Discussion on Game Change , C-Span.org, March 9, 2012
- ↑ HBO announces new McCain / Palin film, 'Game Change' , The Washington Post, March 9, 2011
- ↑ Ed Harris cast as John McCain in HBO's 'Game Change' , Entertainment Weekly, March 23, 2011
- ↑ Woody Harrelson wants to play GOP adviser in HBO political movie 'Game Change' , Los Angeles Times Blog, March 25, 2011
- ↑ HBO to Shoot 'Game Change' Film in Md. , Southern Maryland Online, March 11, 2011
- ↑ a b Game Change - The Sarah Palin Effect. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on January 14, 2013 .
- ↑ Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin in HBO's 'Game Change' , Jan. 14, 2012
- ↑ Game Change: TV Review by Tim Goodman , The Hollywood Reporter, February 22, 2012
- ↑ Game Change at Metacritic. , metacritic.com
- ↑ Ebert's Journal ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. , March 2012
- ↑ Ken Tucker Game Change , Entertainment Weekly, March 1, 2012
- ↑ Palin says film has 'false narrative': Former Gov. Sarah Palin | Alaska news at adn.com ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Tim Mak: Cindy McCain defends Sarah Palin on movie . In: Politico , March 8, 2012. Retrieved March 7, 2012.
- ↑ James Rainey: Choosing sides on Sarah Palin . In: Los Angeles Times , February 18, 2012.
- ↑ David Frum: HBO's 'Game Change' Charts Sarah Palin's Revenge - The Daily Beast
