Jackie Brown (film)

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Movie
German title Jackie Brown
Original title Jackie Brown
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1997
length 154 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Quentin Tarantino
script Quentin Tarantino
production Lawrence Bender
music James Newton Howard
camera Guillermo Navarro
cut Sally Menke
occupation

Jackie Brown is a 1997 American film directed by Quentin Tarantino based on the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard . In terms of content, the film belongs to the genre of heist movies . The leading actress, Pam Grier , was a star of the blaxploitation genre in the early 1970s, portraying busty and energetic women.

action

In Los Angeles resident 44-year-old stewardess Jacqueline "Jackie" Brown works for a small Mexican airline. In order to supplement her income, she helps the gunsman Ordell Robbie with his money laundering business by transporting cash for him from the USA to Mexico and back.

At the beginning of the film, Ordell learns that one of his henchmen, Beaumont Livingston, has been arrested for illegal gun possession and is likely to be sentenced to a long prison term. Fearing that Beaumont might come to an agreement with the prosecutor to reduce his sentence, he hires bail agent Max Cherry to get Beaumont out of prison. When Beaumont is released, Ordell lures him into a trap and shoots him. Jackie Brown is then intercepted at the airport by Ray Nicolette, an ATF officer , and Mark Dargus, a LAPD detective . In her luggage they find $ 50,000 in black money that she smuggled into the country for Ordell, and a sachet of cocaine . The two offer her to let her go in case she helps the police catch her employer. When Jackie refuses, she goes to jail.

Ordell goes to Max again and this time asks him to get Jackie out of the detention center on bail. The bailiff wants to warn the stewardess so that she does not suffer the same fate as Beaumont and personally picks her up from the prison. Later that evening, Ordell goes to Jackie to kill her. With the help of a revolver she stole from Max, Jackie manages to turn the tables. She promises Ordell that she will only appear to be helping the police and instead smuggle his entire $ 550,000 deposit into the United States for him . Ordell hires further helpers: one of his friends, Melanie Ralston, his former cell neighbor, Louis Gara, and the naive Sheronda.

The two police officers are preparing a coup in which they want to arrest Ordell. Meanwhile, he hatches a plan to dupe the authorities by diverting the money before an arrest can occur. Jackie, however, wants to mislead both sides with Max's help in order to collect the half a million dollars himself.

In the shopping center Del Amo Fashion Center leads to eventual showdown: Jackie passes Melanie in a dressing room a shopping bag in which there are $ 50,000. She leaves the rest of the money in the cabin so that Max can get it later. She explains to Ray that Melanie escaped with all the money. Louis, who accompanied Melanie to the delivery point, is completely unnerved by her constant teasing about his inadequacies and shoots her in the parking lot. Then he drives to the agreed meeting point and takes Ordell with him in the car.

Because Louis can only give him a fraction of the money, Ordell shoots him in the getaway car. Jackie and Max later lure Ordell into Max's office by promising him the rest of the money. There he is shot by Ray who is hiding in the office. For the police, the case is over. Little does she know that Max and Jackie made common cause and stashed most of the money. Jackie says goodbye to Max to fly to Spain , where she wants to live in the future. At first he decidedly refuses her offer to accompany her to Spain. When he still doubts, she is up and away.

Review and reviews

“A caper movie narrated at a deliberately calm pace , which appeals to the characters and their distinctive characters with just as much bizarre humor as persistent attention, but admittedly neglects the more rapid development of the plot. Above all, the film lives from its numerous pointed allusions to phenomena of popular (musical) culture. "

synchronization

The film was set to music at Hermes Synchron . Andreas Pollak wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.

role actor Voice actor
Jackie Brown Pam Grier Astrid Bless
Ordell Robbie Samuel L. Jackson Thomas Petruo
Max Cherry Robert Forster Gunter's lap
Melanie Ralston Bridget Fonda Petra Barthel
Ray Nicolette Michael Keaton Joachim Tennstedt
Louis Gara Robert De Niro Christian Brückner
Mark Dargus Michael Bowen Erich Rauker
Beaumont Livingston Chris Tucker Torsten Michaelis
Sheronda Lisa Gay Hamilton Andreschka Grossmann
Winston Thomas Lister junior Tilo Schmitz
Judge Sid Haig Horst lamp
Public defender Denise Crosby Heike Beeck

various

  • The first sequence in Jackie Brown is a homage to The Graduate : Dustin Hoffman drives there in the beginning also on a treadmill by the Los Angeles International Airport , while this folk plays -music.
  • Jackie eats a Teriyaki donut snack . In Pulp Fiction , Marsellus Wallace did some shopping there before he was run over by Butch. The suit Jackie buys looks exactly like the one Mia Wallace wears in Pulp Fiction .
  • In one scene, Louis and Melanie watch the film Der Tollwütige and talk about Helmut Berger . In the credits, Tarantino thanks Berger for his part in Der Tollwütige .
  • Quentin Tarantino makes a cameo as the voice on Jackie's answering machine.
  • Tarantino wrote the character Jackie Brown especially for Pam Grier. When he first read the book Rum Punch , on which the film is based, he hadn't noticed that Jackie Burke was white. He only noticed this mistake when he was writing the script and going over the novel word for word for it.
  • The soundtrack for the film only contains music that was not specially composed for the film.
  • When Jackie Brown arrives in jail, the song Longtime Woman is playing . It was already sung by Grier in The Big Doll House and was running there when the main character was arrested.
  • In the first shopping mall scene, Max Cherry leaves a movie theater. The film's credits are playing in the background - it's that of the credits from Jackie Brown .
  • Michael Keaton plays Federal Police Officer Ray Nicolette again in Steven Soderbergh's film Out of Sight , who does not work for the ATF , but for the FBI .
  • Anachronism film error: The film is set in 1995, but the calendar in Jackie's kitchen is from 1997 (the year the film was released), the calendar "South Bay Crime Statistics" in Max Cherry's bond office from 1996. A software store also advertises 688 Hunter / Killer , which like Ordell's cell phone ( Motorola StarTAC ) did not come onto the market until 1997. When Jackie was first interrogated, the police charged her with a 1985 sentence. Then they mention that it is now 13 years later, so it would be 1998.
  • When Max picks up Cherry Cherry from jail, he shows her his ID card, on which is the date of birth March 15, 1948; but this date cannot be correct. At the end of the film, Cherry says he is 56 years old. Since the film is set in 1995, the year it was born would have to be 1939.
  • When Max Cherry picks up his wife's "beach bag" from the changing room and slips a bundle of banknotes through his fingers, several banknotes appear with the dot of a green felt pen in the upper left corner, just like Ray Nicolette did with the banknotes has marked smaller sum of $ 50,000; Jackie Brown puts the bundle of this sum in the shopping bag that Melanie Ralston takes with her.
  • At the first cash delivery of $ 10,000 at the Del Amo Fashion Center, Jackie eats a Teriyaki Donut again . Then Sheronda comes and sits at the table. She has a tray of Acuna Boys food with her. Acuna Boys also appear in Death Proof when Arlene is holding a mug from this fictional burger chain.

Awards

price Date of award category receiver result
Academy Awards March 23, 1998 Best supporting actor Robert Forster Nominated
Berlin International Film Festival 11-22 February 1998 Golden bear Quentin Tarantino Nominated
Silver Bear (Best Actor) Samuel L. Jackson Won
Chicago Film Critics Association March 1, 1998 Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Pam Grier Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Robert Forster Nominated
Golden Globe Award January 18, 1998 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor (Musical or Comedy) Samuel L. Jackson Nominated
Golden Globe Award Best Actress (Musical or Comedy) Pam Grier Nominated
Saturn Award 24th Saturn Awards Saturn Award Best Actress Pam Grier Nominated
Saturn Award Best Supporting Actor Robert Forster Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Award March 8, 1998 Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress Pam Grier Nominated

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jackie Brown. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 28, 2017 . Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Jackie Brown. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
  3. Acuna Boys Tex-Mex Food - The Quentin Tarantino Archives. Retrieved March 17, 2018 .