Hurricane (1999)
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| German title | Hurricane |
| Original title | The hurricane |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 145 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Norman Jewison |
| script |
Armyan Bernstein Dan Gordon |
| production |
Armyan Bernstein Norman Jewison John Ketcham |
| music | Christopher Young |
| camera | Roger Deakins |
| cut | Stephen E. Rivkin |
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Hurricane is a 1999 film starring Denzel Washington that describes the life of boxer Rubin Carter , who was wrongly sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in 1966 .
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The film tells the fight of the boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter against his conviction of three life imprisonment, which was imposed on him in 1966 for allegedly committed murders. A parallel plot describes how a youth from Brooklyn is interested in Carter's case and convinces his friends to campaign for the overturning of the sentence against Carter.
To the movie
Denzel Washington was nominated for an Oscar for his performance . Although the film is based on real events, the makers took a lot of artistic freedom, which the film was controversially discussed in the US press. For example, Carter's criminal past is only mentioned in passing. Washington is also shown in a uniform with awards that Carter never deserved. In a scene at the beginning of the film, victory in a fight due to a racist jury goes to Joey Giardello . In fact, he won the fight regularly. He then sued the producers; the dispute was settled out of court; allegedly he was paid $ 300,000. Some newspapers wrote that this controversy cost Washington an Oscar.
The screenplay for the film is based on Carter's autobiography The 16th Round and the biography Lazarus and the Hurricane by authors Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton . The latter was initially the working title of the film.
background
The film was shot in the East Jersey State Prison , among others .
Reviews
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“The film, staged in a stylish manner using conventional narrative means, does not see itself as an athlete's portrait, but uses a prominent case to reflect the racial problem in the United States. A partisan, "politically correct" film, which above all impresses with the extraordinary performance of the main actor. "
Awards
Denzel Washington won a Golden Globe Award in 2000 for his portrayal and a Silver Bear at the 2000 Berlinale .
He was also nominated for an Oscar , but lost to Kevin Spacey .
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating "valuable".
literature
- Rubin "Hurricane" Carter: The sixteenth round: from number 1 contender to # 45472 . Penguin Books Canada, Toronto 1991, ISBN 0-14-014929-5 (English, reprint of the 1974 edition).
- Sam Chaiton, Terry Swinton: Lazarus and the Hurricane: the freeing of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter . St. Martin's Griffin, New York 2000, ISBN 0-312-25397-4 (English).
Web links
- Hurricane in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hurricane at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Hurricane at Metacritic (English)
- Hurricane in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hurricane at Rotten Tomatoes (English), accessed on October 27, 2014
- ↑ a b Hurricane at Metacritic (English), accessed on October 27, 2014
- ↑ Hurricane in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Hurricane. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Hurricane on fbw-filmbassy.com