Hot Fuzz - Two deviated professionals

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Movie
German title Hot Fuzz - Two deviated professionals
Original title Hot fuzz
Country of production United Kingdom ,
France
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 121 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 12
Rod
Director Edgar Wright
script Edgar Wright
Simon Pegg
production Tim Bevan
Nira Park
Eric Fellner
music David Arnold
camera Jess Hall
cut Chris Dickens
occupation
synchronization
chronology

←  Predecessor
Shaun of the Dead

Successor  →
The World's End

Hot Fuzz - Two abgewichste professionals (Original title: Hot Fuzz ., English for "Hot Bull") is a British - French Action - comedy from 2007. It is the second part of the Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy . As with the other two films in the series, Edgar Wright directed, Simon Pegg played the lead, and the two of them wrote the script together.

action

Nicholas Angel is a police officer in London and an achiever who provides his job over all other things. For example, he completed his training with honors, is a member of a special unit and has the highest arrest rate in the entire city, which puts his colleagues and his superiors in an increasingly bad light. To get rid of Angel, he is promoted to sergeant and transferred against his will to Sandford, Gloucestershire , since only there is a vacant position. Sandford has the lowest crime rate in England. The Sandford Police Department consists of two bored shift officers , two work-shy plainclothes officers , a vulgar patrol officer, a mumbling duty dog ​​handler , a bourgeois sergeant and the gullible police chief Frank Butterman. Angel goes on patrol with the plump and slightly sappy Danny Butterman, who is the son of the police chief and the youngest policeman on the station. Danny is a big fan of action films and is fascinated by all the things he thinks he can experience as a cop in the big city. Not sharing Danny's love for action films, Nicholas tells Danny that policing is not just about shootings and spectacular car chases. Two worlds collide on duty: Nicholas is a textbook policeman who meticulously adheres to all the rules and takes his duty very seriously, even after work. Danny, on the other hand, gets bored during his service time, prefers to do private errands or draw cartoons in the form of a flip book in his notepad.

Nicholas and Danny's monotonous daily work essentially consists of patrols, speed controls and (unsuccessful) attempts to catch a runaway swan. Her most spectacular case for the time being will be the excavation of a huge illegal collection of weapons by a backwoodsman farmer, which also includes a discarded sea ​​mine . This collection now fills the entire evidence chamber of the police station, which until then had been completely empty. To celebrate this success, Nicholas is finally persuaded by Danny to have a drink together in the village pub and then to watch Dangerous Surf and Bad Boys II .

At the same time, several villagers apparently died from accidents within a few days. Angel is convinced that these people were murdered, but nobody believes him. After observing one of the murders himself, he pursues the perpetrator on foot, who is dressed in a black hooded cloak. The perpetrator escapes, but Nicholas suspects the owner of the local supermarket, Simon Skinner. Together with Danny, he does extensive research and confronts Skinner with the suspicion and the collected clues. However, with no clear evidence to show, and Skinner having a perfect alibi for the latest murder, Nicholas begins to doubt his own judgment. He soon got the idea that there must be several perpetrators who cover each other. Before he can pursue this idea, however, he is attacked in his hotel room and only barely survives. However, through the attempted murder, Angel can trace the trail and uncovered a conspiracy by the Sandford vigilante group . The conspirators kill anyone who disturbs the idyll of the village and could endanger Sandford's award for "Village of the Year" (in the original: Best Village Award ). They include, among others, Simon Skinner and the village doctor, who acts as the coroner and covers the traces of the murders. They hide the bodies in the dungeon of the local castle.

Angel wants to arrest the criminals at their nightly meeting, but is horrified to discover that the police chief Frank Butterman (Danny's father) is the leader of the conspiracy. With Danny's help, Nicholas can escape at the last second and make his way to London to inform his colleagues of the incidents and to get reinforcements. But when he discovered a DVD shelf with action films in a gas station on the way, he made a different decision. He returns to Sandford and stocks up in the police station with weapons and ammunition from the evidence room. Together with Danny he advances against the members of the vigilante group, who are also heavily armed and who put up heavy resistance. Nevertheless, the two manage to incapacitate a large part of the vigilante group and also to get the rest of the police officers on their side. After a furious chase showdown and hostage-taking, they can finally arrest the two leading members of the conspiracy, Simon Skinner and Police Chief Butterman.

After it's all over and Angel was able to catch the escaped swan, his former superiors show up from London and offer him his old job, as the crime rate has risen dramatically in his absence. Angel declines the offer, however, as he now likes it in Sandford.

While the policemen at the police station begin to deal with the paperwork, the last member of the conspirators, the chairman of the neighborhood guard, storms into the police station with a blunderbuss . When the intruder shoots Angel, Danny throws himself into the line of fire and is hit. In the ensuing chaos, the conspirator stumbles upon the sea mine in the evidence room and triggers its explosion, which destroys the entire police building.

A year later: Nicholas and Danny are back on the patrol, laying flowers at Danny's mother's grave. Apparently no one else was killed in the blast apart from the last conspirator. Angel now lives in a small house in Sandford and was promoted to inspector; Danny survived his gunshot wound and was promoted to sergeant. As a patrol car , the two use a brand new Subaru Impreza WRX , in which they drive to a mission with rapid driving in the final scene.

production

Simon Pegg during filming

Filming on Hot Fuzz began in March 2006 and lasted eleven weeks. Most of the location shots for Hot Fuzz were filmed in Edgar Wright's hometown of Wells . In the movie this town is called Sandford, but in reality it is the name of a training ground where police officers are trained. The famous Cathedral of Wells had to be digitally removed from some of the recordings because it would not have suited a small village or a small town like Sandford. The church shown in the film, the site of which the charity bazaar takes place and Reporter Messenger dies, is St. Cuthbert. Further filming took place in the London area and elsewhere in the south of England. The final with the chase and battle in the middle of the miniature village took place on and around the grounds of Hatfield House in Hertfordshire .

Several people made a cameo in the film . Peter Jackson can be seen at the beginning of the film as Santa Claus stabbing the knife, director Edgar Wright briefly as a shelf filler in the supermarket. Angel's ex-girlfriend from forensics (who is completely covered with a protective suit and face mask during this scene, except for her eyes) is portrayed by Cate Blanchett . The three competition judges are played by the mothers of Pegg and Wright and a former Wright school teacher. None of these roles are mentioned in the credits.

In the opening scene at the London Police Station, Martin Freeman , Steve Coogan (uncredited) and Bill Nighy made brief cameos.

Stephen Merchant , author of the British series The Office , took on the role of Peter Ian Staker (in the German dubbing "Peter Scott Nelke"), who reports the runaway swan.

synchronization

The synchronization of the film took Interopa film for a dialogue book by Alexander lion under the dialogue director of Frank Schaff .

role actor German speaker
Sgt. Nicholas Angel Simon Pegg Dennis Schmidt-Foss
Danny Butterman Nick Frost Olaf Reichmann
Inspector Frank Butterman Jim Broadbent Reinhard Kuhnert
Simon Skinner Timothy Dalton Lutz Riedel
Tom Weaver Edward Woodward Otto Mellies
Chief Inspector (in London) Bill Nighy Frank Glaubrecht
Sergeant (in London) Martin Freeman Oliver Rohrbeck
Rev. Philip Shooter Paul Freeman Lothar Blumhagen
Dr. Robin Hatcher Stuart Wilson Uli Krohm
DS Andy Wainwright Paddy Considine Michael Nowka
DC Andy Cartwright Rafe Spall Rainer Fritzsche
PC Doris Thatcher Olivia Colman Silvia Missbach
Peter Scott Carnation Stephen Merchant Bernhard Völger
Eve Draper Lucy Punch Julia Blankenburg
Arthur Webley David Bradley Thomas Hailer
Inspector (in London) Steve Coogan Bernd Vollbrecht
Michael Armstrong Rory McCann Marlin Wick

Trivia

The only person Nicholas Angel contacts with his duty number 777 is Simon Skinner. This is played by Timothy Dalton, who played James Bond with the number 007 in two films . Again, it is Skinner who calls reporter Tim Messenger by his full first name "Timothy". That too is a reference to Timothy Dalton.

The vigilante group (in the original Neighborhood Watch Alliance ) is abbreviated NWA and is an allusion to the hip-hop group NWA , an abbreviation for "Niggaz With Attitude", which has been known since the 1980s .

During his first visit to Skinner's supermarket, Danny Butterman holds a DVD of the movie " Supercop " in his hands. In the root box visible behind it lies a DVD with the title "Zombies Party". The previous film "Shaun of the Dead" was released under this name in Spanish-speaking countries. The picture of the main actor Simon Pegg is covered by the price tag. In the course of the subsequent pursuit, there is a second allusion when Nicholas Angel jumps over the garden fences, which Shaun failed in "Shaun of the Dead". The fact that he incapacitates the fugitive shoplifter from a great distance with a thrown spray can refers to Crocodile Dundee - a crocodile to kiss .

The costumes that Martin Blower and Eve Draper wear as Romeo and Juliet correspond to the disguises that Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes wear during the masquerade ball in William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet . Also in this scene the song "Lovefool" by The Cardigans is sung, which is also from this film.

The songs Simon Skinner hears in his car while driving past the accident sites are Romeo and Juliet from Dire Straits and Fire from Arthur Brown . You ironically refer to the deaths.

In the computer game ( MMORPG ) Guild Wars, there is a character named Nicholas Sandford, who is a reference to Nicholas Angel and the village of Sandford from the film. The face is modeled similar to that of the actor.

The ZDF exuded the film on September 7, 2009 as the German TV premiere under the title Hot Fuzz - crimes prohibited from.

reception

Financial success

The film grossed £ 7.1 million on its opening weekend in the UK alone . In the United States, where the film opened on April 20, 2007, it grossed 23 million US dollars. By June 2007, the film had grossed $ 73 million at box offices worldwide. Hot Fuzz started in German cinemas on June 14, 2007.

Reviews

The film received mostly positive reviews, with the website rottentomatoes.com receiving 91% positive reviews (out of a total of 194). In the Internet Movie Database , Hot Fuzz received a user rating of 7.9.

The Lexicon of International Films rates the film as "a highly enjoyable, thoroughly British comedy that entertains sympathetically with good actors and apt dialogue wit and comes up with cleverly used film quotations".

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “particularly valuable”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hot Fuzz . In: Lumiere .
  2. ↑ Release certificate for Hot Fuzz - Two deviated professionals . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2007 (PDF; test number: 109 788 K).
  3. ↑ Age rating for Hot Fuzz - Two deviated professionals . Youth Media Commission .
  4. ↑ Article about Hot Fuzz on Channel 4 ( Memento from March 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Entry Hot Fuzz at british-film-locations.com, accessed February 10, 2014
  6. ↑ Hot Fuzz film locations at movie-locations.com, accessed on February 10, 2014 (English)
  7. ↑ engl. Article at canmag.com accessed January 24, 2008
  8. ↑ imdb.de entry by Stephen Merchant accessed on January 24, 2008
  9. ↑ Hot Fuzz - Two deviated professionals. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on April 10, 2020 .
  10. ↑ See for example Reception ( Memento of February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on a Spanish-language website with film reviews, accessed on February 10, 2014.
  11. ↑ http://www.guildwiki.de/wiki/Nicholas_Sandford
  12. ↑ Hot Fuzz heats up UK box office , article on bbc.co.uk, accessed June 11, 2007
  13. ^ Entry on boxofficemojo.com , accessed June 11, 2007
  14. ^ Entry on rottentomatoes.com , accessed on October 25, 2010
  15. ↑ Entry in the IMDb , accessed on August 25, 2012
  16. ↑ Hot Fuzz - Two deviated professionals. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  17. ↑ Hot Fuzz on fbw-filmbeval.com, accessed June 9, 2018