Mad City
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Mad City |
| Original title | Mad City |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Constantin Costa-Gavras |
| script |
Tom Matthews Eric Williams |
| production |
Anne Kopelson Arnold Kopelson |
| music | Thomas Newman |
| camera | Patrick Blossier |
| cut | Françoise Bonnot |
| occupation | |
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Mad City is an American feature film index drama and thriller from the year 1997 .
action
The somewhat simple-minded and slightly unstable night watchman Sam Baily works in a museum until he is fired. He arrives at his place of work armed with a short shotgun (pump gun) and explosives and asks his former boss to listen to his request. This doesn't respond to him, Sam pulls out the shotgun. A shot accidentally goes off and hits the second guard, Cliff.
Meanwhile, the TV reporter Max Brackett happened to be in the museum's toilet and followed the action. He contacts his broadcaster and starts a live report. However, Sam discovers him and takes Max, the curator and a school class hostage. The museum is soon besieged by countless media representatives and bystanders. The police try to contact Sam and get him to give up. However, he insists on getting his job back to support his family.
Max can get Sam to release two children, in return he can present his point of view in a television interview. The population begins to feel compassion for Sam, as a fate has befallen him as can any one of them. Even his friend Cliff, who has since been taken to the hospital, forgives him. Sam makes their forced stay as pleasant as possible for the children, he provides them with pizza and tells stories.
The police ask Sam's wife to talk to him and appease him. However, when he sees his wife on TV, Sam freaks out and shoots wildly out of a window. In addition, Cliff eventually succumbs to his injuries. However, because of the money offered, he and his wife allowed a television interview, which a doctor had warned against because of the excitement involved. The mood of the people changes, they now want to see him in prison.
Meanwhile, Max has to fight that he doesn't lose his story to his old rival, the well-known news anchor Kevin Hollander. He tries one last time to help Sam by having him appear on the Larry King Show, but the callers are no longer on his side there either.
Max seems to have finally brought Sam to understand. He releases all hostages. In the meantime, however, the FBI has also got involved. The agents urge him by megaphone to lay down his arms and come out. While Max goes outside to announce the surrender, Sam remains alone in the museum. He puts the shotgun to his neck and pulls the trigger, but there is no more cartridge in the magazine. Max is walking towards the crowd when Sam, in his desperation, blows himself up and the museum. Max is thrown to the ground and injured in the head by the falling broken glass. At first he is very dazed and doesn't know what happened. Therefore, he cannot answer the questions of the reporters rushing towards him.
Reviews
“Film overloaded with negative clichés, whose criticism of the television system is best expressed in the ambivalent figure of the reporter. film service "
“Snappy 90s version of the Billy Wilder classic Reporter des Satans . TV Today "
“Costa-Gavra's view of the invention of the news is owed to a reality that transcends the evil of fiction. Despite its media scolding, the film has something pathetic about it, but it's the pathos of the losers. epd film "
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
backgrounds
The film was in Los Angeles , in New York City and in San Jose ( California turned). Its production amounted to an estimated 50 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 10.56 million in US cinemas.
Web links
- Mad City in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Mad City atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ film service 3/1998
- ↑ TV Today 4/1998
- ↑ epd film 2/1998
- ^ Filming locations for Mad City , accessed December 21, 2007
- ^ Box office / business for Mad City , accessed December 21, 2007