Lucky (2017)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Lucky |
| Original title | Lucky |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Carroll Lynch |
| script |
Logan Sparks , Drago Sumonja |
| production |
Ira Steven Behr , Danielle Renfrew , Greg Gilreath , Adam Hendricks , Richard Kahan , John H. Lang , Logan Sparks, Drago Sumonja |
| music | Elvis Kuehn |
| camera | Tim Suhrstedt |
| cut | Robert Gajic |
| occupation | |
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Lucky is an American drama film with comedic elements from 2017 . For John Carroll Lynch it was his debut as a film director, while lead actor Harry Dean Stanton can be seen in one of his last film roles.
action
Lucky, a 90-year-old bachelor and atheist with a strict life routine, lives in a small desert town in the southwestern United States. His daily routine always starts with yoga exercises, cigarettes and a glass of cold milk. Then he makes his way through the small town and always visits a restaurant, with the owner Joe and the employee Loretta he has friendly, sometimes snappy conversations. Here he drinks coffee and does crossword puzzles. Then he stocked up on cigarettes and new milk cartons in the Mexican Bibi's little shop.
Lucky spends the afternoon watching game shows on television before going to his regular bar in the evening and drinking Bloody Mary there . The bar is run by the feisty Elaine, whose long-time partner Paulie, as well as the bartender Vincent, are constantly there. At Elaine's bar, Lucky also meets his good friend Howard, who is devastated after his beloved centenarian tortoise President Roosevelt has run away.
One morning Lucky suddenly collapses in front of his coffee machine. His doctor Dr. Kneedler then examines him and certifies that he is in excellent health despite smoking. Lucky outlived most of his peers for a long time, and the breakdown is a normal, inevitable consequence of age, Kneedler notes. He suggests assisted living to Lucky , which he refuses. He also doesn't want to hear about his friends in the village's worries about his health.
Nevertheless, Lucky collapses: When Howard plans his will with lawyer Bobby Lawrence (in which he wants to appoint "President Roosevelt" as the main heir), Lucky interferes with a rant against lawyers and explains that everyone is alone in this anyway Life in and out of it. He himself is alone, but not lonely - which makes a difference.
In front of the bar guests and later with Loretta when she visits him at home because she is worried, he reflects on never having married and having no children he knew. In another moment he also remembers how he shot a singing mockingbird as a boy and the silence that followed was the saddest moment of his life.
Lucky wants to get a small pet in a pet shop and decides on the crickets , which should actually only serve as food for the other animals in the pet shop.
In Joe's restaurant, Lucky meets the lawyer Bobby, who had been insulted by him days before, and after initially being rejected, Lucky lets himself into a conversation. Bobby explains to him that with wills and life insurance you should always be prepared for the unexpected, for example he died a hair's breadth in a car accident a few years ago when he was picking up his daughter from school. Lucky also meets an elderly gentleman named Fred in Joe's restaurant, who is passing through - Fred served like Lucky in WWII : Fred in the Marine Corps , Lucky in the Navy . They exchange ideas about the war and the associated experiences with death. Lucky also says that he got his nickname because he got a relatively safe job as a ship's cook.
On Saturday, Lucky attends the birthday party of Bibi's ten-year-old son "Juan Wayne ", to which she invited him when he bought one of his cigarettes, although he initially hesitated to accept. In front of the mostly Mexican guests, Lucky comes up with a knowledge of Spanish and sings the folk song Volver, Volver . In the evening he visits his regular bar as usual, where Howard tells him that he has since given up on the search for "President Roosevelt" and that he is leaving the turtle open as to whether it wants to return to him or not.
Lucky takes on Elaine when he tries to light a cigarette despite the smoking ban . He thinks the smoking ban is irrelevant and explains that at some point everything would go away anyway and that everyone should get the best out of their life with a laugh. Lucky leaves the bar smoking, and the regulars are pensive about Lucky's speech.
The next morning, Lucky goes about his usual routine, but this time after a long time he corrects the clock in his coffee machine. He goes into nature and looks at the huge old cacti , then lights a cigarette with a smile. In the last scene, Lucky wanders alone through the desert landscape, while a tortoise slowly walks through the picture in the foreground - in the opposite direction as in the first shot of the film.
Production background
The screenwriters Logan Sparks and Drago Sumonja had already written Lucky with Harry Dean Stanton as the leading actor in mind . Since both were acquainted with Stanton, they let his character and philosophy of life flow into his film character, so in private life Stanton used to reply to Joe's sentence You're nothing in the film with the reply Thank you , as did Lucky in the film. Biographical similarities are no coincidence either, the film character and Stanton grew up in Kentucky , both were ship cooks in the Navy in World War II, both loved game shows on television and both remained unmarried despite different relationships. Director John Carroll Lynch wrote:
"Was Lucky Harry? The character and the character actor have so much in common. They love crossword puzzles and game shows, bloody marys and mariachi. They have the Navy, the nightingale and an Aunt Beulah in common. So I would say the film credit is right: Harry Dean Stanton is Lucky. "
Lucky is also a tribute to Harry Dean Stanton, which is why several of his long-time friends such as David Lynch and Ed Begley Jr. agreed for supporting roles. Sparks and Sumonja, however, because of Stanton's old age, were initially concerned about whether he would even accept this exhausting lead role - but finally he agreed, although he expected a lot of work at the same time. Stanton was initially a bit skeptical about the shooting of the scene in which he talks to Tom Skerritt's character Fred about his experiences in the world war, as the content of this was autobiographical and probably too close to him. To show Stanton's skills as a singer, a singing scene was included towards the end of the film. Stanton also plays the folk song Red River Valley on his harmonica in the film .
Until then, only known as an actor, John Carroll Lynch made his debut as a film director with Lucky . He was initially intended for the role of restaurant owner Joe, but when Drago Sumonja told him about two months later that they were still looking for a director for the project, he offered himself because he had wanted to direct and other directors for the Had watched work. In order to concentrate fully on the directorial work, he then passed the role of Joe on to Barry Shabaka Henley. John Carroll Lynch admired David Lynch , who was professional and prepared in his role. Carroll Lynch noted that David Lynch, despite his, unlike him, great directing experience on the film set, always saw himself only as an actor, so there was no friction. He named Lynch next to John Ford and Jim Jarmusch one of his great directing role models and drew parallels between Lucky and Lynch's film The Straight Story (also starring Stanton), as both films deal with mortality in an emotional way.
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Lucky was shot in the small town of Piru (2063 inhabitants according to the 2010 census) in Ventura County, California . Piru had been used as a location for Hollywood films many times since the 1940s. The shooting, which Stanton was a few weeks before his 90th birthday, took place in the early summer of 2016 and lasted a total of 18 days. John Carroll Lynch reported that shooting in the desert heat was tiring for Stanton, mostly five days a week - "he gave everything he had," Lynch commented.
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created in 2017 at Digital Media Technologie GmbH in Hamburg based on the dialogue script and dialogue direction by Detlef Klein.
| role | actor | German Dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|
| Lucky | Harry Dean Stanton | Friedrich Georg Beckhaus |
| Howard | David Lynch | Jürgen Uter |
| Bobby Lawrence, lawyer | Ron Livingston | Peter Flechtner |
| Dr. Christian Kneedler | Ed Begley junior | Reent Reins |
| Fred, Navy War Veteran | Tom Skerritt | Eberhard Haar |
| Paulie | James Darren | Bernd Vollbrecht |
| Elaine, bar owner | Beth Grant | Isabella Grothe |
| Joe, restaurant owner | Barry Shabaka Henley | Wolf Frass |
| Loretta, Joe's clerk | Yvonne Huff | Eva Michaelis |
| Vincent, bartender at Elaine | Hugo Armstrong | Daniel Welbat |
| Bibi, shop owner | Bertila Damas | Elena Wilms |
| Victoria, Bibi's mother | Ana Mercedes | Isabel Navarro |
| Frances, the pet shop saleswoman | Amy Claire | Angela Quast |
publication
Lucky celebrated its world premiere on March 11, 2017 at the South by Southwest Film Festival. In the months that followed, the film was shown at various festivals before it was shown in large American cinemas on September 29, 2017 - just under two weeks after Harry Dean Stanton's death at the age of 91. Stanton could no longer see the finished film because he wanted to see it on the big screen, but in the end his health no longer allowed it. The film was released in German cinemas on March 6, 2018, after it had previously been screened there at film festivals, and in Austrian cinemas on April 6, 2018. The film grossed around 1.733 million US dollars at box offices worldwide. The production company Magnolia Pictures is responsible for the publication of the film .
Lucky had his television premiere in German-speaking countries on February 7, 2019 at 9:00 p.m. on 3sat .
Awards
Lucky was nominated for the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Festival in August . This award could not be won, but Lucky received the prize of the Ecumenical Jury . In November 2017, Lucky won awards for Best Actor (Harry Dean Stanton) and Best Score at the Gijón Film Festival .
In the Chicago Film Critics Association was Lucky in the categories of best actor for Stanton and Vielversprechendster filmmakers considered for John Carroll Lynch nominations. At the Satellite Awards , Harry Dean Stanton won the Best Actor Award and John Carroll Lynch received a special award for best directorial debut. The Saturn Awards nominated Lucky 2018 in the category Best Independent Film .
criticism
At Rotten Tomatoes , the film received a positive rating of 98% based on 100 film reviews. The critical consensus writes that the film is a bittersweet meditation on mortality and a good end to Harry Dean Stanton's career. Matt Zoller Seitz from Roger Ebert .com gave Lucky the highest rating of four stars and described it as the “most humble profound film in recent years”, which has death, health and loneliness, but also friendship as central themes. In its way of being an "American marginal note ", Lucky is comparable to Stranger than Paradise and Trees Lounge , but with "its own rhythm and color, its own emotional temperature, its own reasons for revealing and covering things up."
The film service writes that Lucky is a "completely unpathetic, taciturn film that penetrates to the roots of existence, in which the fear of death gives way to the relaxed acceptance of daily rituals." Bert Rebhandl judged in the FAZ that Stanton "once again his whole Size "show. It is an appropriately "unsentimental, appropriately profound and appropriately age-wise film", which, using the example of "an unusually common man on earth", shows that the " Conditio Humana as such gives the best comfort". The Tagesspiegel called Stanton the " Zen cowboy", for whom a stage was reverently prepared in this film - "to give back what he did all his life for his colleagues." The Süddeutsche Zeitung writes:
“The decades in Hollywood have given Harry Dean Stanton a serenity, calm and dignity that now make up the essence of the film 'Lucky'. There is nothing to play with, there is only presence and a lot of silence. "
Web links
- Lucky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lucky at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Official page for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Lucky . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Press release on Lucky
- ↑ Interview with John Carroll Lynch about his film "Lucky" | epd film. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
- ↑ WORLD: Harry Dean Stanton is Lucky . March 8, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed March 7, 2019]).
- ↑ Press release on Lucky
- ↑ Interview with the scriptwriters in the extras for the film on DVD / Blu-Ray
- ↑ Interview with John Carroll Lynch about his film "Lucky" | epd film. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Interview with John Carroll Lynch about his film "Lucky" | epd film. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Press release on Lucky
- ^ 'Lucky' director John Carroll Lynch on life, death - and Harry Dean Stanton. Accessed March 5, 2019 .
- ^ 'Lucky' director John Carroll Lynch on life, death - and Harry Dean Stanton. Accessed March 5, 2019 .
- ^ Andrew R. Martin: United States Navy Steel Band (= Oxford Music Online ). Oxford University Press, January 20, 2016, doi : 10.1093 / gmo / 9781561592630.article.a2289618 .
- ↑ Interview with John Carroll Lynch about his film "Lucky" | epd film. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
- ↑ German synchronous index | Movies | Lucky. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Interview with John Carroll Lynch about his film "Lucky" | epd film. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Lucky (2017) - IMDb. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Lucky (2017) - Financial Information. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Lucky: a grand monument to Harry Dean Stanton. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Lucky at Rotten Tomatoes. Accessed March 7, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Matt Zoller Seitz: Lucky Movie Review & Film Summary (2017) | Roger Ebert. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Lucky. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 7, 2019 .
- ^ Bert Rebhandl: Film review for "Lucky": The persistence of the turtle . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 7, 2019]).
- ↑ The Zen Cowboy. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
- ^ Fritz Göttler: Wisdom of a turtle. In: Culture. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 6, 2018, accessed on March 7, 2018 : "The tragic comedy" Lucky "is the legacy of the late actor Harry Dean Stanton."