Inherent Vice - Natural Defects

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Movie
German title Inherent Vice - Natural Defects
Original title Inherent Vice
Inherent Vice logo.png
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 149 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director Paul Thomas Anderson
script Paul Thomas Anderson
production Paul Thomas Anderson,
Daniel Lupi ,
JoAnne Sellar
music Jonny Greenwood
camera Robert Elswit
cut Leslie Jones
occupation

Inherent Vice - Natural Defects (Original title: Inherent Vice ) is an American crime comedy directed by Paul Thomas Anderson from 2014. It is a film adaptation of the book Natural Defects by the writer Thomas Pynchon . The film is set in the hippy milieu of Southern California in 1970, where after the murders of the Manson Family and the emergence of heroin as the dominant drug, the Summer of Love had gradually demystified. The leading roles are played by Joaquin Phoenix , Josh Brolin , Reese Witherspoon and Owen Wilson . The film premiered at the New York Film Festival and was released in US cinemas on December 12, 2014. The German theatrical release was on February 12, 2015.

action

1970: The often pot-smoking hippie - Private Doc Sportello lives in Gordita Beach, a fictional and Manhattan Beach traced beach town before Los Angeles . His ex-girlfriend Shasta Hepworth shows up with him and asks him for help. She tells him about an affair with the property owner and billionaire Mickey Wolfmann and about the fact that his wife and her lover want to kidnap him and admit him to a psychiatric hospital. Shasta should join the plan. She assigns Doc to solve this conspiracy without being able to pay him. A short time later, Wolfmann and Shasta suddenly disappear without a trace.

Back in his office, Doc is visited by Tariq Khalil, a member of the Black Guerrilla Family . Khalil looks for a missing man named Glen Charlock who owes him money. As Doc can find out, Charlock is a member of the Aryan Brotherhood and a bodyguard of Mickey Wolfmann. Doc drives to Wolfmann's brothel to look for Charlock. But before he knows it, he is hit with a baseball bat . When he comes to, he wakes up next to Charlock's body. He is arrested and suspected of the murder of Glen Charlock and of involvement in the disappearance of Shasta Hepworth and Mickey Wolfmann. A lawyer named Sauncho Smilax gets him free. The LAPD -Detektiv Christian Bjornsen tried meanwhile to convince Doc fact informant to be for the police.

Doc receives the next assignment from a woman named Hope Harlingen, who is looking for her husband, Coy, who has already been declared dead. She firmly believes that he is still alive. Shortly thereafter, Doc meets with Mickey Wolfmann's wife and Deputy District Attorney Penny Kimball, with whom he is also having an affair. She doesn't think it's unlikely that Doc killed Charlock. She assumes that he would have forgotten since he is constantly high . Doc receives a message from a woman named Jade who was an employee at Mickey Wolfmann's brothel. She tells him to beware of the "Golden Fang" (golden fang). The two meet. At the meeting, Jade explains that the Golden Fang is a vertically integrated drug trafficking ring . Shortly afterwards, Doc runs into Coy Harlingen, who is hiding. Coy explains to him that he is a police informant, wants to get out and is now afraid for his life. The only wish he has is to go back to his wife.

When Doc, driven by another lead, drives to a psychiatric hospital in the desert, he recognizes two FBI agents who are just taking Mickey Wolfmann away. He manages to get to Mickey and talk to him. Mickey tells him that he wanted to leave his old life behind, give away his fortune and provide living space in a settlement built in the desert free of charge for anyone who needs it. The stay in the psychiatry has put him back in his real estate owner habitus.

Back at home, Shasta is suddenly in his house. She apologizes to him for all the trouble on her account and Doc and Shasta sleep together. When asked if they were back together now, Shasta says no. Shortly thereafter, Doc meets again with Penny Kimball, who lets him read secret documents. This makes him aware of the loan shark Adrian Prussia, who works for the police and kills for them. Prussia was involved in a deal with the dealer ring "Golden Fang" with Glen Charlock. Charlock must have been murdered. Doc visits Adrian and immediately realizes his obsession with baseball bats. He assumes that it must have been Adrian who knocked him down at the time. Doc is kidnapped and drugged by a man named Puck Beaverton. When he comes to, he is handcuffed to a pipe in an interrogation room. Nevertheless, he manages to break free from the handcuffs and kills both Puck and Adrian. Doc realizes he's been ambushed when he finds smuggled heroin in the trunk of his car.

Doc meets with attorney Crocker Fenway, who wants to get the drugs back for "Golden Fang". Doc doesn't want any money for it. He trades the drugs for the freedom of Coy Harlingen. "Golden Fang" turns out to be an American family with two children who reload the drug packages into their family station wagon. Coy can go back to his family.

The film ends with Doc and Shasta driving a car. When asked if they were back together again, Doc says no.

background

In December 2010 it was announced that Paul Thomas Anderson wants to make a film of Natural Defects . He wrote the script on the side for his film The Master . Robert Downey junior is also said to have been interested in the role of Larry "Doc" Sportello . The role ultimately went to Joaquin Phoenix . In May 2013 the other main characters were found.

Filming began in May 2013 and should last until August 2013. According to actors Josh Brolin and Jena Malone, the conditions during the shooting of the film are said to have been "chaotic but not unstructured".

In February 2014 it was announced that guitarist Jonny Greenwood of the British band Radiohead would be contributing the music for the film.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of the film consists on the one hand of symphonic compositions by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood . On the other hand, it is interspersed with surf music , psychedelic rock and soul , which comes roughly from the time in which the film is set and which illustrates and characterizes the characters' surfer and hippie milieu. In the tracks Spooks and Under the Paving-Stones, the Beach! you can hear the voice of the psychedelic folk musician Joanna Newsom , who plays Sortilège, a friend of Doc's narrator, in the film.

In the original novel, the author brings Thomas Pynchon discursively numerous references to pop culture artifacts such as songs by surfing or psychedelic bands, television series of the 60s and films of the 40s and 50s (for. Example Interstellar Overdrive of Pink Floyd ). The film's soundtrack only features the surf track Here Comes the Ho-Dads by The Marketts , which the main character Doc Sportello hears in his car while he is shaking off a chaser on the way home from the band Boards .

  • Jonny Greenwood: Shasta
  • Can : Vitamin C (from LP Ege Bamyasi , 1972)
  • Jonny Greenwood: Meeting Crocker Fenway
  • The Marketts: Here Comes the Ho-Dads (1962)
  • Jonny Greenwood: Spooks
  • Jonny Greenwood: Shasta Fay
  • Minnie Riperton : Les Fleur (1972)
  • Jonny Greenwood: The Chryskylodon Institute
  • Kyu Sakamoto : Sukiyaki (1962)
  • Jonny Greenwood: Adrian Prussia
  • Neil Young : Journey Through the Past (1972)
  • Les Baxter : Simba
  • Jonny Greenwood: Under the Paving-Stones, the Beach!
  • Jonny Greenwood: The Golden Fang
  • Jonny Greenwood: Amethyst - Jonny Greenwood
  • Jonny Greenwood: Shasta Fay Hepworth
  • Chuck Jackson : Any Day Now (1962), composed by Burt Bacharach

reception

The reviews of Inherent Vice have been mostly positive. The Rotten Tomatoes review collection lists 223 reviews, 74% of which were positive.

Katharina Grimnitz from epd Film awarded 3 out of 5 stars. In Inherent Vice , " The Big Sleep meets The Big Lebowski , while Chinatown and The Long Goodbye " beckon in the background . Ultimately, the film is "a downright dignified literary adaptation that wastes a whole cohort of great actors for minute appearances". Everything is "flawlessly staged and highly atmospheric, as if it were actually about historically significant things such as the miserable demise of the counterculture under Nixon, drug abuse and the atrocities of the Manson gang [...], but where he wants to show depth", proves "The film is as flat as its humor."

In 2016, Inherent Vice ranked 76th in a BBC poll of the 100 most important films of the 21st century .

Awards

At the 2015 Critics' Choice Movie Awards , the film was nominated for Best Costume Design , Best Set , Paul Thomas Anderson for Best Screenplay Adaptation and Josh Brolin for Best Supporting Actor. Leading actor Joaquin Phoenix was nominated for the 2015 Golden Globe Awards . At the 2015 Academy Awards , Mark Bridges was nominated for Best Costume Design and Paul Thomas Anderson was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay . Overall, the film was nominated or awarded prizes in various categories for almost 100 prizes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Inherent Vice - Natural Defects . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2015 (PDF; test number: 149 702 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Inherent Vice - Natural Defects . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Helmut Höge: Regional thrillers (15): “Shakespeare der Popkultur - Thomas Pynchon” (Die Welt) , in Taz Blogs, November 29, 2010
  4. ^ William Tucker: Lost in the haze - could Inherent Vice be too loyal to Pynchon's spaced-out novel? In: The Conversation, February 4, 2015
  5. ↑ Logan Hill: Pynchon's Cameo, and Other Surrealities. Paul Thomas Anderson Films 'Inherent Vice'. The New York Times , September 26, 2014, accessed February 12, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Jay A. Fernandez: Robert Downey Jr.May Shoot 'Inherent Vice' for PT Anderson This Fall. The Hollywood Reporter , February 19, 2011, accessed February 12, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Jeff Sneider: Martin Short and Jena Malone Join Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Inherent Vice' (Exclusive). TheWrap, May 15, 2013, accessed February 12, 2015 .
  8. ↑ http://deadline.com/2013/05/josh-brolin-joins-pt-andersons-inherent-vice-509196/
  9. ↑ http://variety.com/2013/film/news/joaquin-phoenixs-inherent-vice-starting-to-boost-la-production-1200495678/
  10. ↑ https://www.yahoo.com/movies/inherent-vice-new-york-film-festival-99160736987.html
  11. ↑ http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/brolin-after-all-if-you-dont-try-you-wont-know-30128406.html
  12. ↑ http://filmmusicreporter.com/2014/02/06/jonny-greenwood-scoring-paul-thomas-andersons-inherent-vice/
  13. ↑ Thomas Pynchon: Natural Defects. Hamburg 2010, p. 177
  14. ↑ Inherent Vice - Natural Defects in Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  15. ↑ Natural defects . In: epd film . January 20, 2015. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
  16. ^ Inherent Vice: Awards and Nominations, IMDb