Cape of fear
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Cape of fear |
| Original title | Cape Fear |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 128 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Martin Scorsese |
| script | Wesley Strick |
| production | Barbara De Fina |
| music | Bernard Herrmann , arranged by Elmer Bernstein |
| camera | Freddie Francis |
| cut | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| occupation | |
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Cape Fear is a 1991 American film . Max Cady, played by Robert De Niro , wants revenge on Sam Bowden, played by Nick Nolte . He blames his former lawyer for spending many years in prison. Other leading roles are cast with Jessica Lange as the wife of Sam Bowden and Juliette Lewis as the couple's daughter.
The film was based on the novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald . The story was first filmed in 1962 by J. Lee Thompson under the title A Bait for the Beast . Both films have the original title Cape Fear . Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck play the leading roles in the 1962 version. In the remake from 1991, the actors of both opponents of the first film have guest appearances. Peck plays a lawyer in a court scene while Mitchum, who played Max Cady in the older film, plays a police officer. Martin Balsam , the 1962 film's chief of police, makes an appearance as a judge.
action
Max Cady was jailed for brutal rape for fourteen years. When he is released, he wants revenge on his then public defender Samuel Bowden, who withheld an exculpatory opinion during the trial and thus ensured that Cady was convicted.
After Cady poisoned the Bowden family dog, he approaches the young Lori Davis, a friend of Sam Bowden, whom he brutally rapes and abuses. When Bowden found out about this, he was horrified. The young woman is very scared and does not want to testify, but rather go back to her hometown. Leigh Bowden suspects her husband that Lori is his lover, because why else, she thinks, should Cady of all people have approached her? There is a heated argument between the couple, and old injuries are brought up again. Danielle, the 15-year-old daughter of the Bowdens, suffers every time the parents argue, as this has been increasing recently.
Cady calls Danielle, poses as her new acting teacher, tells her the class has been rescheduled, and orders her to the school's projection room for the next day. When Danielle appears there, she is alone with Cady. Danielle is very impressed with what Cady tells her, so she doesn't cut off the conversation even when she realizes Cady's real identity. When he asked if he could put his arm around her and kiss her, she replied, slightly confused, that she didn't mind. After Cady's kiss and wordless disappearance, she is completely confused.
After Bowden has learned from this incident, he embarks on the proposal hired by him detective Claude Kersek to rush three hired thugs to Cady to him by vigilante distribute. However, Bowden makes the mistake of warning Cady without knowing that Cady is recording the conversation. In the attack by the thugs, Cady gains the upper hand after a short time and first beats the three together and then flees. Bowden observes the action from a hiding place. Cady takes the chance and blacken Bowden through his attorney Lee Heller at the bar. He then uses the recorded conversation in court, so that Bowden is ordered in an injunction to stay away from Cady. Cady's new attorney also suggests that Bowden be expelled from the bar. Since Cady acquired legal knowledge autodidactically during his imprisonment and developed a philosophically and religiously exaggerated image of himself, he always behaves so skillfully during his harassment that he cannot be prosecuted legally.
Kersek now suggests Bowden make Cady believe that he has flown away and that his family is home alone. Accompanied by the detective, however, the lawyer returns to his house with his family. Kersek says that if Cady tries to break into the house, he can be shot in self-defense . However, Cady manages to outsmart Kersek by first killing the housekeeper, then putting on her clothes and then killing Kersek in this disguise.
Bowden and his family flee to his houseboat . Unnoticed, Cady tied himself under the family car. When Sam Bowden wants to check on board during a severe storm outside, he is overwhelmed by Cady. Then, to the horror of the two women, he enters the boat. He sends Danielle downstairs to the hold. He wants to rape Bowden's wife. He tied Bowden himself. But then he brings the lawyer and his daughter back in to watch him go on. Leigh Bowden desperately tries to sacrifice himself, above all to protect her daughter. Although Danielle manages to set Cady on fire, he can put out the fire and take command of the houseboat again. The boat is now lurching into dangerous waters, spinning on itself and running aground. Danielle and her mother use the element of surprise and jump overboard. When Bowden also wants to jump, Cady catches him in the leg and holds him. There is one last bloody fight between the two men. Shortly afterwards the ship bursts. Bowden had previously succeeded in handcuffing Cady to the ship's mast, so that he and the remains of the houseboat go under. Bowden searches for and finds his wife and daughter, and they embrace without a word.
Danielle lets the viewer know at the end of the film: “We never talked about what happened again, at least not to each other. The fear was probably too great that everything might come back. Because if you dwell in the past, you die a little more every day. But life will never be the way it was before he came. "
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Max Cady | Robert De Niro | Christian Brückner |
| Sam Bowden | Nick Nolte | Thomas Danneberg |
| Leigh Bowden | Jessica Lange | Karin Buchholz |
| Danielle Bowden | Juliette Lewis | Dascha Lehmann |
| Claude Kersek | Joe Don Baker | Joachim Kerzel |
| Lieutenant Elgart | Robert Mitchum | Joachim Nottke |
| Lee Heller | Gregory Peck | Holger Hagen |
| Judge | Martin Balsam | Wolfgang Völz |
| Lori Davis | Illeana Douglas | Liane Rudolph |
| Tom Broadbent | Fred Dalton Thompson | Heinz Giese |
production
Filming
Filming began on November 19, 1990 at Dania Beach and Fort Lauderdale , Florida , USA . Shooting ended on March 17, 1991.
background
It was the first of six films that Martin Scorsese made for Universal Pictures .
music
The film features music by Guns N 'Roses ( Patience ), Gaetano Donizetti ( Per Te D'Immenso Giubilo from the opera Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti), The Cramps ( The Creature From The Black Lagoon ) and Aretha Franklin ( Do Right Woman - Do Right Man by Dan Penn and Chips Moman ).
Other music tracks:
- Tiptina by Alice Byrd, lecture: Henry ' Professor Longhair ' Byrd
- Don't Mess with the Voodoo by Graham Drout, Bob Hamphill, Nick Kane and Joe Smith, lecture Iko Iko
- The Bog , lecture Bigod 20
- Fife an Drum / Yankee Doodle Dandy , traditional way
- Been Caught Stealing from Jane's Addiction
- I Think We're Alone Now by Ritchie Cordell, lecture: Robert De Niro
reception
publication
Cape Fear premiered on October 6, 1991 at Lincoln Center in New York . In general, the film opened in cinemas in the US on November 15, 1991. In December 1991, it also opened in Japan. From 1992 he was seen in the following countries: Australia, Argentina, Finland, Italy, Norway, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Greece, Portugal, Sweden, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Brazil, Hungary, Ireland, and Turkey . It was also presented in March 1992 at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival in Belgium and on February 21, 1992 at the Berlin International Film Festival . On February 27, 1992, it started in German cinemas in general.
In France, it was also presented at the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival in October 1997 and was released again on October 21, 2015. It has also been published in Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and the Soviet Union.
The film first appeared on DVD with a German soundtrack on December 6, 2001. The last time it was released on October 21, 2011 by Universal Pictures GmbH as a Blu-ray together with the 1962 film version A bait for the beast .
criticism
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on November 13, 1991 that the film was an "impressive" production. It shows Martin Scorsese as a master of a traditional Hollywood genre who is able to adapt it to his own motives and obsessions. Ebert explained this on the basis of the character Sam Bowden , who appeared in the original as a "good" person, but in this version was "full of mistakes" and "guilty".
The lexicon of international films was of the opinion that the remake undermined “the usual cinema constellation by drafting a depressing portrait of society” and drew the conclusion: “A virtuously staged, complex film, behind whose violent appearance lies the complaint of the loss of integrity and humanity hides. "
Cinema wrote that Scorsese enriched his remake with "multi-faceted characters" and "blatant violence". The conclusion of the page: "Evil, brutal, captivating: pure adrenaline cinema."
Prisma Online found that Scorsese had succeeded in making a film with which the viewer was “put under the strain”, because he could expect “a strong piece of cinema about a self-righteous convict who does everything in his power To destroy family ”. “Although exciting”, the film “still doesn't come close to the classic with Mitchum” from 1962.
Kino.de was impressed and expressed it as follows: “With the first thriller of his career, a remake of the shocker 'Ein Köder für die Bestie' from 1962, master director Martin Scorsese ('GoodFellas') created a harrowing trip to hell about guilt and atonement . ”The film offers a“ crazy barrage of aggressive cuts, threatening camera rides and repeatedly violent exploding violence ”. In conclusion, it was said: "A complex masterpiece that can no longer be surpassed in terms of excitement and that is certain to be at the top of the charts."
On the other hand, Christian Genzel asserts in mannbeisstfilm.de that the remake was a commissioned production, which Scorsese only decided to do after being persuaded - because of its commercial success. Cady is depicted as so repulsive and evil, as so dull, brutal lunatic that all the complexity of the figure constellation is reduced to a simple black and white drawing. But the other actors also have no emotional depth, all characters are "pure cogs in a plot mechanism that gnashes inexorably from outbreak to outbreak of violence".
Awards
Robert De Niro and Juliette Lewis were nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe respectively. Cape of Fear was also a competition entry for the 1992 Berlinale , but was left empty-handed when it came to awarding the prize.
Others
- The Simpsons episode At Cape Fear ( Cape Feare ; season 5, episode 2) is a direct parody of the film.
literature
- John D. MacDonald : Cape of Fear. Roman (Original title: The Executioners ). German by Charlotte Richter. (First unabridged edition, 6th edition.) Heyne, Munich 1993, 190 pages, ISBN 3-453-05550-0
- Dana Poppenberg / Gerhard Poppenberg: Martin Scorsese. Introduction to his films and film aesthetics. Paderborn 2018. pp. 46–58.
Web links
- Cape Fear in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cape Fear at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Cape Fear at Metacritic (English)
- Cape of Fear in the online film database
- Cape of fear in the German dubbing index
- Cape of fear film review in the film headquarters
- Cape Fear at Turner Classic Movies (English)
- Cape of Fear Review with various user comments on the Moviepilot page
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cape of fear in the German dubbing index
- ^ Filming & Production for "Cape Fear" at IMDb.com. Retrieved February 24, 2014.
- ↑ Cape Fear at TCM - Turner Classic Movies Miscellaneous Notes (English)
- ↑ Cape Fear at TCM - Turner Classic Movies Music (English)
- ↑ Cape of Fear - double pack Blu-ray at bluray-disc.de. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
- ↑ Roger Ebert : Cape Fear sS rogerebert.com (English). Retrieved August 28, 2018.
- ↑ Cape of Fear. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Cape of Fear at cinema.de. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
- ↑ Cape of Fear at prisma.de. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
- ↑ Cape of Fear at kino.de. Retrieved February 24, 2014.
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↑ Cape of Fear see page wilsonsdachboden.com with reference to the criticism of the film in mannbeisstfilm.de.
Retrieved September 8, 2019. - ^ Awards for "Cape Fear" at IMDb.com. Retrieved February 24, 2014.