Live by night

Movie
German title	Live by night
Original title	Live by night
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2016
length	129 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16 ; JMK 16
Rod
Director	Ben Affleck
script	Ben Affleck
production	Leonardo DiCaprio , ; Jennifer Davisson , ; Ben Affleck, ; Jennifer Todd
music	Harry Gregson-Williams
camera	Robert Richardson
cut	William Goldenberg
occupation
	Ben Affleck : Joe Coughlin; Elle Fanning : Loretta Figgis; Brendan Gleeson : Thomas Coughlin; Chris Messina : Dion Bartolo; Sienna Miller : Emma Gould; Zoe Saldana : Graciela Corrales; Chris Cooper : Irving Figgis; Robert Glenister : Albert White; Remo Girone : Maso Pescatore; Max Casella : Digger Pescatore; Matthew Maher : RD Pruit;

Live by Night is an American crime film from the year 2016 , which is based on the novel On the night of Dennis Lehane based. Ben Affleck directed, wrote the screenplay and can be seen in one of the leading roles. The film opened in German cinemas on February 2, 2017.

action

Boston 1926. The war veteran Joe Coughlin, son of the respected Vice President of Police Thomas Coughlin, turns away from the honest life his father led him and delves into crime. He falls madly in love with the pretty Emma Gould, who is however the mistress of the Irish mafia boss Albert White. White's opponent in the Boston underworld is the Italian boss Maso Pescatore. Both gangs fight for supremacy.

Joe Coughlin keeps his head above water with raids. However, the latest bank robbery turns into a disaster, killing several police officers. Under massive pressure, his lover Emma reveals her boss White's relationship with Coughlin and is also said to be killed on behalf of White. She's being carried away by White's people. White lures Coughlin into a trap to kill him. But he is disturbed by Coughlin's father and a large police force. Joe Coughlin is arrested and jailed for three years. His father dies while in prison.

Released from prison, Joe Coughlin hires the mafia boss Pescatore to get revenge on White for the alleged murder of Gould. Pescatore sends Coughlin to Tampa , Florida , where he and his old friend Dion Bartolo are supposed to drive the business forward with alcohol and gambling and gradually drive White out of business. There Coughlin falls in love with the beautiful sister Graciela of the Cuban Esteban Suarez, who dominates the rum trade in Florida. Previously, Coughlin reached an agreement with Irving Figgis, Tampa Chief of Police, whose daughter Loretta is aiming for a career in Hollywood .

Everything is going well so far. The profits that Coughlin makes for his boss Pescatore are increasing. White's influence is shrinking. It is clear to the gangsters that sooner or later the government will lift prohibition . You want to gamble and start building a large casino near Tampa.

In between, the Ku Klux Klan under the leadership of RD Pruit, the brother-in-law of Chief Figgis, carried out attacks on Coughlins clubs. Coughlin tries in vain to bribe the Ku Klux Klan leader with the help of the chief, but he is simply not to be satisfied. So more attacks are carried out. Finally, Coughlin blackmailed the chief with compromising photos of his daughter Loretta, who became a victim of heroin and prostitution on her way to Hollywood , in order to be able to move Pruit aside without interference from the chief. Pruit is eventually killed while meeting Coughlin and his people. The chief learns the whereabouts of his daughter and brings Loretta home. Loretta goes through a moral shift and becomes a dedicated preacher against alcohol and gambling. It gains so much influence in the process that investors distance themselves from the Coughlins casino project and the casino ultimately has to be abandoned.

Coughlin learns from a photo only a few weeks old that his former lover Emma Gould is still alive.

The failure with the casino annoys the mafia boss Pescatore, who has Coughlin come to a house in Tampa and wants to demote him to consigliere and cut his financial share. Pescatore's son is supposed to take over Coughlin's post. Coughlin apparently agrees. To his surprise, Albert White appears at Pescatore's house and threatens Coughlin. Coughlin shows White the photograph of Emma Gould. White hesitates. In the following exchange of fire, White is killed by Coughlin. Coughlin's men penetrate the Pescatores house via underground tunnels and kill Pescatores gangsters. Coughlin kills Pescatore and offers his men a job in his organization. Then he hands the tour over to his friend Bartolo and withdraws from all business.

Coughlin finds Emma Gould. She tells him that she did not go back to Coughlin because she was afraid for her life. She survived after killing her driver and escaping from the car. Besides, he was not her true love.

According to press reports, Loretta Figgis is found in the chief's bed with her throat cut. Then the chief goes mad with pain. Coughlin has retired with his wife and child. One day his house is shot at. Coughlin grabs a gun, storms out of the house and sees Chief Figgis firing madly at the house. Coughlin shoots him. Eventually he realizes that his wife has been fatally wounded.

After this stroke of fate, Coughlin lives alone with his son, who later wants to become a great police officer.

background

Emergence

The screenplay for the film is based on the novel In der Nacht (original title: Live by Night ) by author Dennis Lehane , published in 2012 . Other of Lehane's novels have already served as a reference for films such as Gone Baby Gone - No Child's Game (2007) and Shutter Island (2010).

Shortly after the novel was published, Warner Bros. Entertainment secured the film rights and announced plans to film the film with Leonardo DiCaprio in a leading role. In October 2012, it was finally announced that Ben Affleck would play the leading role in the film and would also write and direct the script . However, DiCaprio was still involved in the making of the film with his production company Appian Way Productions .

Filming

Due to Ben Affleck's involvement in the films Gone Girl (2014) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), the start of filming had to be postponed several times. Filming finally began on October 28, 2015 in the US state of Georgia .

Most of the recordings were made in the city of Brunswick . Other Georgia locations included Hampton Island , where Affleck's private estate was filmed, as well as Tybee Island and Fort Pulaski National Monument . In addition to Georgia, the film was shot in Boston and Los Angeles (including the Millennium Biltmore Hotel ).

Filming in Brunswick , Georgia

publication

The release date of the film has been postponed several times. According to Warner Bros., a release was planned for Christmas 2015 in November 2013, which was later postponed to October 2016 and then in August 2014 to an indefinite date. The film finally premiered on December 25, 2016.

Live by Night was a huge commercial failure and soon disappeared from theaters. With production costs of 66 million and advertising costs of about 35 million US dollars, it only brought in box-office income totaling 22 million.

criticism

The film received mostly negative to mediocre reviews from critics. It has a 35% rating on the Rotten Tomatoes website based on an average rating of 5.3 / 10 and 216 rated reviews. On Metacritic , he scored a Metascore of 49 out of 100 on 43 reviews .

The film service called Live by Night an "overloaded, sometimes pretentious mafia rise story in high-quality equipment, which repeatedly falls victim to genre brutality". It was also criticized that the "interesting [n] aspects" of the story would not be deepened in favor of "partly wooden [r] dialogue scenes".

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Release certificate for Live by Night . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).

↑ Age rating for Live by Night . Youth Media Commission .

↑ Live By Night Worldwide Release Dates

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