Kick it like Beckham

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Movie
German title Kick it like Beckham
Original title Bend It Like Beckham
Country of production Great Britain , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 0
Rod
Director Gurinder Chadha
script Gurinder Chadha
production Gurinder Chadha,
Deepak Nayar
music Craig Pruess
camera Jong Lin
cut Justin Krish
occupation

Kick it like Beckham (Original title: Bend It Like Beckham ) is a comedy film by the British director Gurinder Chadha from 2002 .

action

Jesminder Bhamra, or Jess for short, is the daughter of a family with Indian roots living in London-Hounslow and plays football against her parents' wishes. Her mother in particular expects Jess to take care of learning traditional Indian cuisine and fulfilling other role expectations.

The middle class Indian family is in the middle of wedding preparations for Jess's older sister Pinky. Pinky chose her husband herself, which is considered unusual in Indian families where the parents traditionally arrange marriages. In addition, Pinky has adapted to English society, and she does not enter the marriage virgin. At first glance, it seems like she managed to hide this from her parents, but as the plot progresses, the mother makes a remark that shows that she knew all along.

Jess, however, has no boyfriend yet. Her soccer talent is noticed when she plays soccer with male Indian friends in the park. She meets Juliette "Jules" Paxton, who is the same age, a white Englishwoman. She persuades Jess to join the women's soccer team in which she plays herself. Juliette herself has to suffer from her hysterical mother, who she thinks is a lesbian because she plays soccer for a club.

Jess soon becomes one of the team's achievers and falls in love with her trainer, Joe. Joe suffered from his father himself. This had driven him to keep training. In order to demonstrate to his father that he was no slouch, he sustained an injury and became a sports disabled person. At first, Jess openly admits to her parents that she plays on a women's soccer team. After her mother expressly forbids this, Jess sneaks out of the house under the pretext of going to work. For some time she manages to hide her activities on the soccer field from her parents. At some point her secret is revealed and she comes to terms with her sister Pinky, who covers her.

Together with the team, Jess flies to Hamburg for a game. There it almost comes to a kiss between her and Joe, which puts the friendship with Jules to a severe test. Jess's secrets from her parents also come out.

Before an important final, which takes place on the same day as Pinky's wedding, Jess has to decide whether to go to it or to attend her sister Pinky's wedding. Her family is expected to do the latter and is encouraged to give up playing football. However, Jess gets unexpected help from her father, who sees how unhappy she is at the wedding. With his help and that of her homosexual friend Tony, Jess arrives just in time for the second half and can play.

Just before the game, Jess and Jules make up again. An American talent scout is convinced of the performance of the two girls, so they receive a football scholarship at a US university. Jess persuades her parents to allow her to fly to the United States. She is supported above all by her father, who regrets having broken off his own sporting career. As a young man he wanted to play cricket in England until he was humiliated by racist remarks by white Englishmen and left his team. He would now like to give his daughter the chance he didn't get. Joe also comes to the airport to say goodbye to her after she tells him she can't have a relationship with him. But then they both realize they are in love and they decide to tell Jess' parents when Jess returns from the US.

background

  • The film was shot in London , Hamburg , Middlesex and Surrey .
  • The following year, the oriented film English-language school curriculum appeared Bend It Like Beckham by Narinder Dhami , the German in teaching English schools is used.
  • The soccer players were coached by Simon Clifford, the head coach of the Brazilian soccer school Futebol de Salão .
  • Almost all of the participating players are actually professional players.
  • The German team consisted of soccer players from the Hamburg club Grün-Weiß Eimsbüttel .
  • Many of the wedding guests are relatives of the director Gurinder Chadha.
  • Jess wears jersey number 7, the same number Beckham wore for Manchester United and on the national team.
  • Parminder Nagra was afraid she wouldn't get the role because of her scar. Instead, both the scar and its real history were included in the film.
  • Although both David Beckham and the term "bend" are known in the USA, 20th Century Fox wanted to rename the film Move it like Mia for the American market in order to refer to the better-known soccer player Mia Hamm . Director Chadha opposed it.
  • Melanie C really wanted her song Independence Day to be used for the film, so she rewrote the text to match the film.
  • In the first film script, Jess was in love with Jules, not Joe.
  • In the film, Jess and Jules are the same age, in fact Keira Knightley (* 1985) is ten years younger than Parminder Nagra (* 1975).
  • In the Simpsons episode Marge online , Lisa discovers her interest in soccer through the film.
  • On December 26, 2010, the film was shown as the first western feature film ever on North Korean state television . The occasion was the tenth anniversary of British-North Korean relations. The TV version was cut by a few scenes to 104 minutes.
  • All Saints singer Shaznay Lewis plays a supporting role as a soccer player on Jess' team.
  • English soccer players Gary Lineker , Alan Hansen and John Barnes can be seen as sports presenters with Jess' mother in the opening credits .
  • At the end of the film, the farewell scene at London Heathrow Airport shows David and Victoria Beckham, followed by photographers, checking in at the airport.

Reviews

“A film set in the English upper class milieu that addresses the difficulties of a multicultural society, but shifts its solution strategies to a rather fairytale level. Designed in splendid colors and based on the popular, entertaining 'Bollywood' cinema, it ultimately cannot redeem its militant-emancipatory attitude. "

- Lexicon of international film

“The dialogues are as accurate as the girls, the story of an 18-year-old who fights for her dream despite culture clash and love affliction is moving, but not sentimentally told. A well-placed shot in the heart and diaphragm - for women as well as for flag throwers. "

- TV movie

“Gurinder Chadha's classic genre mix of drama and comedy is a sympathetic, relatively unpretentious piece of cinema that charmingly treats the conflicting elements of child-parents and England-India without forgetting the pinch of humor. Nevertheless, the film ultimately cannot bring any genre to an end and so your film, which is only intended as an undemanding drama, falls by the wayside. "

- Filmspiegel.de

“ Kick It Like Beckham is full of joie de vivre packed in a colorful frenzy of pictures with a few links on more serious topics such as latent racism, prejudice, rivalry. You even accept the super happy ending. "

- br-online

“Almost every character of moderate importance is given its own little problem scenario, and Chadha cuts every cake that is ready in the plot bakery: homosexuality, xenophobia, jealousy, offended pride, and pretty much every possible variation in family troubles. However, she is not serious about any of this: if you cut it and try it briefly, each motif is just as quickly put aside. "

- filmszene.de

“Despite all the playfulness of details and the study of society, the tension is unfortunately lost a little and especially at the end the film shows clear lengths that tend to bore many, who are not so keen on the overall topic. Overall, the film is certainly more interesting for female viewers, who shouldn't be put off by the subject of football and the name 'Beckham' in the title. "

- Cineclub.de

Film awards

Awards

Nominations

literature

  • Narinder Dhami : Bend it like Beckham. Klett Verlag, Stuttgart et al. 2003, ISBN 3-12-578010-1 .
  • Michael D. Giardina: Bending It Like Beckham in the Global Popular. Stylish Hybridity, Performativity, and the Politics of Representation. In: C. Richard King, David J. Leonard (Eds.): Visual Economies of / in Motion. Sport and film. Peter Lang, New York NY et al. 2006, ISBN 0-8204-7852-0 , pp. 33-55 ( Cultural critique 6).
  • Barbara Korte, Claudia Sternberg: Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and Asian British Film since the 1990's. Rodopi, Amsterdam et al. 2004, ISBN 90-420-1038-X ( International Research on General and Comparative Literature 73).
  • Anjali Gera Roy: Translating Difference in "Bend It Like Beckham". In: New Cinemas. Journal of Contemporary Film. 4, 2006, ISSN  1474-2756 , pp. 55-66.
  • Gerold Sedlmayr: Negotiating Diasporic Spaces in Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Britain. Gurinder Chadha's Bend It like Beckham. In: Jürgen Kamm (Ed.) Medialised Britain. Essays on Media, Culture and Society. Stutz, Passau 2006, ISBN 3-88849-254-8 , pp. 173-184 ( Passau works on literary and cultural studies 4).
  • Ralf Adelmann: Kick it like Beckham . In: Kai Marcel Sicks, Markus Stauff (ed.): Film genres: Sport film (= Reclams Universal Library . No. 18786.) Reclam, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-15-018786-9 , pp. 266-270

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Kick it like Beckham . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2003 (PDF; test number: 91 361 V / DVD).
  2. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286499/locations
  3. ^ Spiegel online: North Korea's television broadcasts Westfilm for the first time
  4. ↑ Kick it like Beckham. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ TV feature film
  6. ↑ Filmspiegel.de
  7. ^ BR-Online ( Memento from May 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ Filmszene.de, Filmarchiv letter K
  9. ↑ cineclub.de
  10. ↑ IMdB