Jarhead - welcome to the dirt
| Movie | |
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| German title | Jarhead - welcome to the dirt |
| Original title | Jarhead |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 117 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sam Mendes |
| script | William Broyles Junior |
| production |
Lucy Fisher , Douglas Wick |
| music | Thomas Newman |
| camera | Roger Deakins |
| cut | Walter Murch |
| occupation | |
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Jarhead - Welcome to the dirt is a feature film of British director Sam Mendes from the year 2005 . The war drama is based on the book of the same name by Anthony Swofford and was produced by Universal Pictures . The official cinema release was on January 5, 2006 in Germany (around 600,000 viewers), Austria and Switzerland . In 2014 a sequel was released with Jarhead 2 - Back to Hell , followed in 2016 Jarhead 3 - The Siege . Jarhead: Law of Return was released in 2019.
action
The United States in 1990: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein triggers the Second Gulf War by marching into Kuwait . US President George Bush Sr. Immediately announces the start of defensive military action to prevent Iraq from entering Saudi Arabia . Anthony Swofford, whose father served as an officer in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War, is one of the participants in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm .
"Swoff" as he called his friends, is 1989 in a boot camp of the States United Marine Corps under the command of Staff Sergeant Sykes for Scout Sniper ( scout - sniper trained). A fatal accident occurs during training when a recruit loses his nerve and runs into real machine gun fire, which is used for training purposes. This film section closes with a cinema screening of Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now , in which the soldiers frenetically cheer the famous scene in which the helicopters of the air cavalry attack a Vietnamese village to the sound of Wagner's Valkyries .
In 1991, Swoff's unit, which consists of scouts and snipers and is led by Staff Sergeant Sykes, is moved to Saudi Arabia because of the Second Gulf War . Swoff and his comrades quickly realize that there is little protection in the desert from the unbearable heat, the sand and the Iraqi troops that can only be guessed at on the horizon. Months of waiting followed, while the problems of a soldier's life in action were described: quarrels with comrades, infidelity of girlfriends and wives, embarrassing interviews with television journalists, an ammunition accident caused by Fergus, as a result of which Swoff, among other things, was demoted from corporal to private first class and is sentenced to criminal cleaning of latrines. Swoff and his comrades, including his friends Troy and Cortez, try to cope with this difficult time with black humor.
When the land war (Operation Desert Storm ) finally begins, everyone has realized that they are in a country they do not know, are fighting an enemy they do not see, and for a reason the soldiers do not understand.
The direct fight against the Iraqis, which Swoff's comrade Fowler in particular is eager for, does not take place because the attack is almost exclusively conducted through air missions. While advancing his platoon, Swoff's unit comes under fire from an American A-10 fighter ( friendly fire ), which destroys their vehicles. A little later they come across the gruesome scene of the Highway of Death , a road littered with bombed-out wrecked cars and charred corpses. The psychological strain on the soldiers increases when they reach the apocalyptic area of the oil wells set on fire by Iraqi soldiers , which turn day into night.
When Swofford and Troy finally receive the order to kill two Iraqi officers in an old airport tower during a sniper operation, their mood improves. But no sooner have they received clearance to fire than Major Lincoln appears in their position and directs a bomb attack on the tower. Frustrated, they return to their unit, where they learn that their stay in Iraq has ended. Swofford notices that he has not fired a shot during the entire war, which he now collectively catches up with his comrades by firing their weapons in the air.
At home they are welcomed as heroes with a solemn parade. Swofford learns that his girlfriend Kristina has a new husband. A few years later he meets his comrade Fergus again and learns of Troy's death.
After the mission, Swofford kept thinking about the mission in the desert. The film ends with his view from the window at home into the desert, where he sees himself with his comrades.
History of origin
Anthony Swofford , now a journalist and author, was at the time of the Second Gulf War early twenties and took a sniper ( Scout Sniper ) of the US Marines participated in the fighting in Iraq. A Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Iowa, he witnessed the horrors of war first hand. Swofford processed the memories of this time in his autobiographical report Jarhead , which first appeared in the United States in 2003. The producer Douglas Wick ( Gladiator ) acquired the rights and the Oscar- nominated screenwriter William Broyles Jr. ( Apollo 13 ) , who was a fighter pilot in the Vietnam War , adapted the material for the screen. It was directed by the British theater director Sam Mendes, who received the Oscar for best director of the year in 2000 for his first feature film American Beauty .
Jarhead was filmed in the United States and Mexico on December 6, 2004. It was filmed, among other places, in the Imperial Valley in Southern California, which has similar climatic conditions to Iraq. For this purpose, US Marines use the small town of Brawley , which is not far from the Imperial Valley, for training purposes (as did the film crew later for their filming) . According to Mendes, however, the film (unlike many other contemporary war films) was made without logistical support from the US armed forces, as the content changes to the script, which would have been necessary to obtain approval from the Pentagon, would have been too serious. The cost of producing the film is estimated at $ 70 million.
reception
Jarhead officially opened in US theaters on November 4, 2005. The film grossed US $ 27.7 million in sales on the opening weekend and immediately climbed to number 2 on the US box office. The official theatrical release in Germany, Austria and Switzerland was January 5th, 2006. In Germany, Jarhead was described as “valuable” by the Wiesbaden Film Evaluation Center (FBW). The FBW writes about his reasons: “Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket sends its regards: The first Gulf War (1990) from the point of view of a simple marine. No advertisement for the war, but for the talent of director Sam Mendes. "
Critics particularly emphasized the acting performance of Jake Gyllenhaal and dubbed it a "minimalist, yet captivating performance" (Dallas Morning News) . Sam Mendes was praised for his elegant staging, but negative voices criticized any lack of a social point of view in the film. Critics added Jarhead to the extended circle of favorites at the 78th Academy Awards , which took place on March 5, 2006, but the film was not nominated and was not considered for important film awards such as the Golden Globe Award or the British Academy Film Award .
Reviews
"Politically uninterested, the plot remains stuck in a superficial description of the situation that fluctuates between coarseness and aestheticization."
"It is not often that a movie catches exactly what it was like to be this person in this place at this time, but 'Jarhead' does."
"It's not often that a movie captures exactly what it was like to be that person in that place and at that time, but 'Jarhead' does."
"It is a movie that walks up to some of the most urgent and painful issues of our present circumstance, clears its throat loudly and, with occasional flourishes of impressive rhetoric, says nothing."
"It is a film that shows some of the most urgent and painful problems of our current situation, clears its throat aloud and, with the occasional flourish of impressive rhetoric, says nothing."
“Gyllenhaal is having a pretty good year with a key role in the undervalued ' The Proof - Love Between Genius and Insanity ' and a brilliant part alongside Heath Ledger on the approaching (and heartbreaking) ' Brokeback Mountain '. His work as Swofford in 'Jarhead' is convincing. "
"The result is a war film that tries to distance itself from the facts and objectivity of the book, deprives itself of any voice and leads to an ending that you don't know what to think about."
“What's so good about the movie is Gyllenhaal's refusal to show off; he doesn't seem jealous of the camera's attention when it goes to others and is content, for long stretches, to serve simply as a prism though which other young men can be observed. "
“The good thing about the film is Gyllenhaal's refusal to point out; he does not seem to be jealous of the camera's attention when it deals with other characters and content over long distances in order to still look at other young men as simply as a prism. "
"Unusual war film about a troop of marines in the Gulf War - completely bloodless, highly suggestive and in the end truly apocalyptic."
Remarks
- Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire had originally been considered for the lead role.
- In addition to Leathernecks (leather necks) or Devil Dogs (devil dogs ), members of the United States Marine Corps also often refer to themselves as Jarheads . This is a figurative description of their heads, often shaved on the sides, which are reminiscent of screw-top jars. This name is often attributed to the fact that their heads can be "hollowed out" and then filled with any content such as jars.
- The mountains that could be seen in the background after the filming in the Imperial Valley were subsequently removed by computer.
- In two scenes the snipers recite the " Rifleman's Creed " of the US Marines ("This is my rifle. There are many rifles, but this one is mine ...").
- At the end of September 2014, a sequel entitled Jarhead 2 - Back to Hell was published in German-speaking countries. It is a direct-to-video production. The film was released in the United States in August 2014. It was directed by Don Michael Paul . The plot of the film takes place during the war in Afghanistan , in which the US participated between 2001 and 2014
- In February 2016, another sequel entitled Jarhead 3 - The Siege in German-speaking countries was published. It is again a direct-to-video production. The director took William Kaufman . This film is set in an unspecified Islamic country in the Middle East.
- Jarhead: Law of Return was released in 2019 and was also not produced for a theatrical release. Don Michael Paul took over the direction here again after part two.
Awards
At the Satellite Awards ceremony on December 17, 2005 , a counter-event to the Golden Globes , the film was nominated in the following four categories, including Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard for best leading and supporting actor in a drama. The animation technology specialists Pablo Helman , Jeanie King , Grady Cofer and Brett Northcutt received a nomination for their work at the Visual Effects Society Awards .
- Best Actor - Drama (Jake Gyllenhaal)
- Best Supporting Actor - Drama (Peter Sarsgaard)
- Best adapted script
- Best cut
Visual Effects Society Awards 2006
- nominated in the category Supporting Visual Effects in a feature film
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
literature
template
- Anthony Swofford: Jarhead . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16182-7
- Anthony Swofford: Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles . Scribner, New York 2003, ISBN 0-7432-4491-5 (English edition)
Secondary literature
- Astrid Erll: "Bringing War Home": Jarhead and the memory of war made in Hollywood . In: Astrid Erll, Stephanie Wodianka (ed.): Film and cultural memory. Plurimedial constellations . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020443-8 , pp. 139-169.
synchronization
The film was dubbed by the Berliner Synchron GmbH Wenzel Lüdecke. The diaglogbook and direction are from Tobias Meister .
| figure | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Swoff | Jake Gyllenhaal | Marcel Collé |
| Troy | Peter Sarsgaard | Timmo Niesner |
| Sergeant Sykes | Jamie Foxx | Charles Rettinghaus |
| Brian Dettman | Martin Papazian | Michael Iwannek |
| Cortez | Jacob Vargas | Nico Mamone |
| DI Fitch | Scott MacDonald | Tilo Schmitz |
| Dave Fowler | Evan Jones | Daniel Fehlow |
| Escobar | Laz Alonso | Sebastian Christoph Jacob |
| Fergus | Brian Geraghty | Björn Schalla |
| Harrigan | John Krasinski | Bernhard Völger |
| Kristina | Brianne Davis | Ilona Brokowski |
| Kruger | Lucas Black | Tobias Kluckert |
| Lt. Col. Kazinski | Chris Cooper | Jan Spitzer |
| Maj. Lincoln | Dennis Haysbert | Oliver Stritzel |
| reporter | Donna Kimball | Claudia Urbschat-Mingues |
| Vietnam veteran | VJ Foster | Gerald Paradise |
Web links
- Jarhead - Welcome to the dirt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Peter V. Brinkemper: Nobody has the perfect shot . In: Telepolis . January 9, 2006. Review.
- Leif Kramp: "There was too much testosterone" . In: Spiegel Online . January 8, 2006. Interview with the director.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Approval for Jarhead - Welcome to the dirt . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2005 (PDF; test number: 104 384 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Jarhead - Welcome to the dirt . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Roger Ebert : Jarheads . In: Chicago Sun-Times . November 3, 2005. ( archive.org )
- ^ AO Scott : Soldiers in the Desert, Antsy and Apolitical . In: New York Times . November 4, 2005. ( archive.org )
- ↑ Stephen Hunter: A Platoon Full of Sand And Grit . In: Washington Post . November 4, 2005. (American English)
- ↑ Jarhead - Welcome to the dirt . In: Cinema .
- ↑ schnittberichte.com, accessed on May 12, 2014
- ↑ schnittberichte.com, accessed on February 4, 2016
- ↑ dubbing , German dubbing index