Jane got a gun
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Jane got a gun |
| Original title | Jane got a gun |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gavin O'Connor |
| script |
Brian Duffield , Anthony Tambakis , Joel Edgerton |
| production |
Natalie Portman , Aleen Keshishian , Zack Schiller , Mary Regency Boies , Scott Steindorff , Scott LaStaiti , Terry Dougas |
| music |
Lisa Gerrard , Marcello De Francisci |
| camera | Mandy Walker |
| cut | Alan Cody |
| occupation | |
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Jane Got a Gun is an American Western of Gavin O'Connor from the year 2015 .
action
Jane Hammond lives with her husband Bill and their daughter Kate on a remote farm in New Mexico . One day Bill arrives at the farm on his horse, seriously injured, with several bullets in his back. After Jane does makeshift medical care, Bill warns her that the Bishop gang has tracked her down and that she should flee. Jane then brings her daughter to a neighboring farm and rides to Dan Frost's farm to ask him for support against the Bishop gang. However, this chased them away from his property. She rides into town to get ammunition and explosives. When she wants to pack her shopping on the horse, she is packed by a member of the gang and dragged into a backyard. He wants to find out the whereabouts of Bill by force, but suddenly Dan appears and distracts him, whereupon Jane shoots him with her revolver .
You leave town for Hammond Farm, where Bill struggles with death in bed. It becomes evident that Jane and Dan share a common past, and as they prepare for the arrival of the Bishop gang, several flashbacks reveal the story:
About ten years ago Jane and Dan were a couple and wanted to get married. But Dan wanted to go into the civil war beforehand and return after a few months. However, when he was still not back after three years, Jane assumed he was dead and wanted to leave her home, Missouri . Two months after Dan's departure, she had learned that she was expecting a child, and now, after the alleged death of her fiancé, she and her now two-year-old daughter, Mary, wanted to take a wagon train west. The dubious businessman John Bishop organized the wagon train to build a city in New Mexico that is under his control. With Jane, however, he had other plans; she was supposed to generate sales in his planned brothel. Bill Hammond, then one of Bishop's confidants, had his eye on Jane but could not prevent Bishop's men from dragging her to the brothel at the end of her journey. Little Mary, on the other hand, was apparently drowned by Bishop's younger brother Vic. When Bill found out, he broke into the brothel, shot four of Bishop's men and fled Bishop's sphere of influence with Jane.
Dan, on the other hand, did not return from the civil war until much later than planned. When he found out that Jane had left Missouri, he followed her trail for years to New Mexico, where he finally found her again, now married to Bill and with a daughter. Faced with this disappointment, he had withdrawn and ran a small farm nearby.
Both Jane and Dan are obviously dismayed to learn each other's story full of misunderstandings and accusations. Dan, who has always been very hostile towards Bill because he is a former criminal and took away his great love, seems to change his mind. Together with Jane, he equips the farm against the imminent attack of the Bishop gang, who want to avenge the death of their cronies and bring Jane back to the brothel. Since the property lies next to an impassable ditch and is surrounded by a steep ridge, it can only be reached via a narrow point. So he prepares the forecourt of the farmhouse with booby traps made of petroleum, gunpowder, broken glass and nails, and tries to teach Jane how to shoot with a revolver.
Bishop has his men search the area for Hammond's farm, and the next day one of them arrives at the property. He recognizes Jane and is therefore shot from his horse by Dan. Nevertheless, Bishop now knows where to find the farm and surprisingly attacks with his people at night. Dan is wounded in the process, but can detonate the booby traps and kill most of the gang. He and Jane hide in the house. In the hail of bullets, they drag Bill into the storage cellar, but he dies shortly afterwards of his injuries. Dan sneaks outside, meets and kills Vic Bishop, but is caught immediately by the last of the gang, John Bishop. Before he can pull the trigger, Jane stands behind him with her revolver drawn and forces him to give up. To save his life, John reveals that Mary did not drown then, but is alive. Then Jane shoots him several times in the arms and legs to find out Mary's whereabouts, which he finally reveals, whereupon she kills him.
After burying Bill, Jane and Dan actually find their daughter Mary, who was believed to be dead. Jane has the not inconsiderable bounty for the Bishop gang paid off by the Marshall and sets off with Dan and her two daughters in a covered wagon west to start a new life on the Pacific .
background
The cost of producing the film was approximately $ 25 million. The film grossed $ 1,513,793 (as of August 19, 2016). Brian Duffield's screenplay appeared on the 2011 Black List, an annual compilation by Hollywood insiders of the best unproduced scripts.
Reviews
"Natalie Portman may have had high artistic ambitions with her western project 'Jane Got A Gun', but after countless problems before and during the shooting, the result was an uninspired and extremely conventional film."
“The action parts are quite successful, but in the end sentimental kitsch predominates. Conclusion: lead-containing women westerns in Peckinpah retro style. "
Web links
- Jane Got a Gun in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jane Got a Gun in the online movie database
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Jane Got a Gun . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2015 (PDF; test number: 155 370 K).
- ↑ Filmstarts.de
- ↑ Box office (English)
- ^ Criticism at Filmstarts.de
- ↑ Cinema.de