Kiss kiss, bang bang

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Movie
German title Kiss kiss, bang bang
Original title Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Shane Black
script Shane Black
production Joel Silver
music John Ottman
camera Michael Barrett
cut Jim Page
occupation

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a comedy thriller from the year 2005 directed by Shane Black , who also wrote the screenplay. The main roles were played by Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer . The film is based in part on the 1941 novel Bodies Are Where You Find Them by the author Brett Halliday .

action

Harry Lockhart, petty criminal and novice actor, comes from New York City to Los Angeles , where he is supposed to play his first role. He was only offered this because he fled from the police after breaking into a toy store and accidentally burst into a film casting, where he collapsed because of his shot colleague and the film people saw reality as an acting ( method acting ).

In LA, at entrepreneur Harlan Dexter's party, he meets an attractive actress who reminds him of a girl he was in love with during his youth. Only later does he notice that she is actually Harmony, his crush from back then. Her acting career has so far been limited to a small supporting role in a commercial. He pretends to be a private detective , because the next day, in preparation for his film role, he is supposed to accompany the homosexual private detective Perry van Shrike, known as "Gay Perry", during his investigations.

For the next day's deployment, Perry was given a phone call by a woman named Allison Ames to monitor a person and paid for by credit card. Perry and Harry then follow a car from the address given, which ends up in a lake a little later. They find a woman's corpse in the trunk of the sinking car. To open the trunk, Perry had previously shot the lock and hit the woman in the head. Therefore, the two do not inform the police, but leave the scene.

After Harry returns to his hotel, the police tell him that Harmony has committed suicide. But shortly afterwards, the woman who was believed to be dead visits him and explains that the dead woman was her sister Jenna, who had stolen her credit card and ID. Believing Harry is a private detective, Harmony hires him to investigate Jenna's death. After Harmony leaves, Harry discovers the body from the trunk in the shower of his bathroom. A revolver was also hidden under the bed. With Perry's help, he brings the dead woman out of the hotel and dumps the body further away on the side of the road.

It turns out that the body in the trunk is Veronica Dexter, the daughter of the influential Harlan Dexter, at whose party both were guests before. Veronica Dexter had only recently, after ten years of estrangement, reconciled with her father and surprisingly withdrew a multi-million dollar lawsuit against him.

Harry learns from Perry that his role offer as an actor was never meant seriously and that he was only used to lower the fee for actor Colin Farrell . Harry finds out that it was Harmony's late sister, Jenna, who Perry hired to do the surveillance that led to the discovery of the body in the trunk. Jenna had paid with the credit card stolen from her sister Harmony, which had Harmony's stage name Allison Ames on it.

Because Jenna was sexually abused by her father, Harmony once told her that her actual father was an actor from a Jonny Gossamer movie that was shot in her hometown in Indiana in the early 1980s. Harmony says that her sister believed her story of lies and only came to LA to find her supposedly real father. After Harmony obtained a copy of the said film, the three discover that the young Harlan Dexter also played in it. The current entrepreneur and operator of the Dexter Clinic had earned his money as an actor at the time.

Harlan Dexter sets two killers on their necks who set an ambush for Perry. With her there is also a girl with pink hair. Harmony can warn Perry in time and one of the killers is shot in the attack. The girl with the pink hair escapes home, unwittingly taking Harry, who has been immobilized with painkillers - an accident with a severed finger - in the car. There she is shot by the surviving killer who wants to eliminate confidants. Harry in turn shoots the second man, making it appear as if the two dead killed each other.

Harry and Perry visit the Dexter Clinic, a mental hospital, believing Dexter hid his daughter there for the past few years and established a doppelganger who withdrew the lawsuit against him. There they are stopped by armed guards and subjected to an embarrassing questioning (torture with electric shocks). You can escape because Perry is hiding a little Deringer in his crotch , with which he shoots the torturer.

Harmony escapes with the minivan that is supposed to bring the coffin of the dead girl out of the trunk for cremation, and there is a showdown on a highway bridge. Perry is shot and seriously injured, Harry too. But he pulls himself up to protect Harmony and to put the rest of the armed attackers, including Harlan Dexter, out of action. Harry, Perry and Harmony later find themselves in the hospital.

The case dissolves: Veronica Dexter's doppelganger was not Harmony's sister, but the girl with the pink hair Harry had previously encountered. Jenna watched Harlan Dexter in bed with the girl and hired Perry to document the alleged incest . Jenna then killed herself out of grief. She couldn't cope with the fact that not only did her previous father molest her, but also her supposedly real father molested his supposed daughter.

background

The script is based in part on Brett Halliday's novel Bodies Are Where You Find Them from the series about private detective Mike Shayne , about which numerous novels were published between 1939 and 1976. The novels about the private detective Jonny Gossamer that appear in the film plot are based on the Mike Shayne novels, for which the artist Robert McGinnis created many of the cover illustrations at the time. For the film, he created the covers of the fictional Jonny Gossamer novels, the graphic design of which is very similar to the real Mike Shayne series.

  • The plot is divided into chapters, each representing a day. The names of the chapters all correspond to the book titles of the author Raymond Chandler :
    1st day Trouble Is My Business , 2nd day The Lady In The Lake , 3rd day The Little Sister , 4th day The Simple Art Of Murder and also as an epilogue: Farewell , My lovely .
  • Harry Lockhart, the main character in the film, also leads through the plot as the narrator. Several times in the film, his character breaks through the “ fourth wall ” and speaks directly to the viewer.
  • Shane Black directed this film for the first time, previously working primarily as a screenwriter.
  • The song "Broken" by Robert Downey Jr. can be heard in the credits of the film .

Reviews

“If you want to laugh really loud, you shouldn't miss Shane Black's“ Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang ”. In addition to the extremely high entertainment factor, the viewer is also guaranteed to suffer from aching muscles. "

- Filmstarts.de

“Crazy parody of the classics of the black series, which memorializes disaffected men, unpredictable women and the Hollywood sin babe. A masterfully constructed script, devoted actors and a clever staging make the film a cinematic delight. "

- Lexicon of international film

“A cleverly made, almost perfect action pleasure. If Alfred Hitchcock had been a stoner, he would probably have made such a film. "

- Cinema

Awards

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “particularly valuable”.

The film won four film awards and was nominated for twelve other awards.

Won

Nominations

Saturn Award 2006:

Critics' Choice Movie Award 2006:

  • Best Comedy Movie

GLAAD Media Award 2006:

  • Outstanding Film - Wide Release

ALFS Award 2006:

  • Screenwriter of the Year: Shane Black

Satellite Award 2005:

  • Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical: Robert Downey Jr.
  • Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role, Comedy or Musical: Corbin Bernsen
  • Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role, Comedy or Musical: Michelle Monaghan
  • Outstanding Original Song: Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Hudson with "Broken"

literature

  • Henry Keazor : 'I had the strangest week ever!'. Metalepsis in Music Videos . In: Sonja Klimek, Karin Kukkonen (eds.): Metalepsis in Popular Culture . Verlag Walter de Gruyter , Berlin / New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-025278-1 . (= Book series Narratologia ), pp. 104–126 [analyzes the narrative style and dramaturgy of " Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang " in the first part and compares the film with the novel]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2005 (PDF; test number: 103 464 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Robert McGinnis' KISS KISS, BANG BANG art . On: templeofschlock.blogspot.de (English). Retrieved January 9, 2013.
  4. ↑ Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Filmstarts.de, accessed on November 15, 2009 .
  5. ↑ Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed November 15, 2009 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Cinema.de, accessed on November 15, 2009 .
  7. ↑ Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. fbw-filmbeval.com, accessed November 15, 2009 .
  8. ^ Awards for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang . IMDB.com, accessed August 8, 2009 .