Get on Up
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Get on Up |
| Original title | Get on Up |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 139 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tate Taylor |
| script |
Jez Butterworth , John-Henry Butterworth |
| production |
Brian Grazer , Erica Huggins , Mick Jagger , Victoria Pearman , Tate Taylor |
| music | Thomas Newman |
| camera | Stephen Goldblatt |
| cut | Michael McCusker |
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Get On Up is an American film biography of Tate Taylor from the year 2014 . The film tells the life story of the American musician James Brown on several time levels . The main actor is Chadwick Boseman .
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James Joseph Brown was born in Barnwell (South Carolina) in 1933 to a poor family. At the age of five, Brown comes to live with his aunt Honey. He breaks the law several times and is jailed for it. In prison he gains a lot of interest in music.
Brown plays in the vocal group The Famous Flames, founded by Bobby Byrd . When Ben Bart, the president of Universal Attractions Agency, one of New York's largest talent agencies, noticed him, it was Brown's breakthrough.
background
The film was produced by Imagine Entertainment film, Jagged Films and Wyolah and had a budget of estimated 30 million US dollars . On the opening weekend, the film had revenues of $ 13,585,915, making it the highest revenue start after Lucy and Guardians of the Galaxy . The film grossed a total of $ 33.5 million.
DVD and Blu-ray launch was on January 6, 2015.
Soundtrack
The film's soundtrack includes 37 songs. They are mainly sung and written by James Brown .
- Get Up Offa That Thing / Release the Pressure
- The Payback
- It's my party
- Noho vibrations
- Out of sight
- Time is on my side
- No More, My Lawd
- I Got You (I Feel Good)
- Ebony Jump
- Sweet Daddy Grace
- O Mary, Don't You Weep, Don't You Mourn
- Steal Away
- Half awake
- Tutti Frutti
- Caldonia
- Don't go 'way nobody
- The Girls Go Crazy About the Way I Walk
- Please, Please, Please
- Annie's Aunt Fannie
- Erin's song
- Night train
- Hold it
- Child Hearted Woman
- Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
- It's a Man's Man's Man's World
- Congratulations Honey
- The Christmas Song
- Do the everything
- Cold sweat
- Nighttime in Harlem
- Mother popcorn
- I got the feelin
- I can't stand myself
- Say It Loud I'm Black and I'm Proud
- The popcorn
- Great bathroom
- Try Me
criticism
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The film received mixed reviews. In the Internet Movie Database , the film received an average rating of 6.9 out of 10 in over 14,600 reviews. Rotten Tomatoes ' critics got 80% positive reviews. At Metacritic , the critics got 71% positive reviews.
"It's difficult to imagine anyone other than actor Chadwick Boseman in the role of singer James Brown."
"Taylor's film is excessively episodic, but some of those episodes are great."
Awards
- Nomination in the category of Best Compiled Soundtrack for Visual Media for Peter Afterman and Harry Weinger
- Nomination in the category of best stunt ensemble
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Web links
- Official website
- On Get Up in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Get on Up . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 559 K).
- ↑ Weekend Box Office Results for August 1-3, 2014. In: Box Office Mojo . Amazon.com , accessed February 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Get On Up. In: Box Office Mojo . Amazon.com , accessed February 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Get on Up (2014). Retrieved February 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Soundtracks. IMDb , accessed February 19, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c d e Get on Up (2014). Rotten Tomatoes , accessed February 19, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Get On Up. Metacritic , accessed February 19, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Get on Up (2014). IMDb , accessed on February 19, 2016 .