Marshall (film)

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Movie
German title Marshall
Original title Marshall
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2017
length 118 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Reginald Hudlin
script Jacob Koskoff ,
Michael Koskoff
production Reginald Hudlin,
Jonathan Sanger ,
Paula Wagner
music Marcus Miller
camera Newton Thomas Sigel
cut Tom McArdle
occupation

Marshall is an American biography by Reginald Hudlin that was released in US theaters on October 13, 2017. The film drama tells about the African-American lawyer and later judge Thurgood Marshall .

action

USA in the 1940s: African American attorney Thurgood Marshall (Chadwick Boseman) works for the NAACP and handles difficult cases across the country. Especially for defendants of his skin color, the young lawyer is often the only hope in a racist environment. Together with his inexperienced Jewish colleague Samuel Friedmans, he is now supposed to represent Joseph Spell, a black chauffeur who is said to have raped the wife of his wealthy, white employer, but who protests his innocence.

Biographical background

Thurgood Marshall was an American Freemason and lawyer who became the first African-American judge on the US Supreme Court. Marshall served from 1967 to 1991 when he retired due to illness. President John F. Kennedy proposed Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1961 . Marshall served on a federal appeals court until 1965 before President Lyndon B. Johnson named him United States Solicitor General . Two years later, Marshall was named by Johnson, with Senate approval, to succeed Tom C. Clark as Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

In 1992 the American Philosophical Society awarded Marshall the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Public Service , and on November 30, 1993, Marshall was posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom , the highest civilian honor in the United States. The Foley Square Courthouse in New York City , where he was temporarily employed, in 2001 in his honor by the US Congress in Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse renamed.

production

Chadwick Boseman will play Judge Thurgood Marshall and actress Keesha Sharp will play Buster Marshall . Jussie Smollett can be seen in the role of the writer of the Afro-American artist movement Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes . Sterling K. Brown played Joseph Spell, Dan Stevens played Lorin Willis, Josh Gad played Sam Friedman, and Kate Hudson played Eleanor Strubing.

The film was shot in Buffalo and at nearby Niagara Falls . Filming began on May 23, 2016 and ended on July 1, 2016.

The score was composed by Marcus Miller . The soundtrack to the film includes 28 pieces of music and was released on September 29, 2017 by Warner Bros. Records. Stand Up for Something , the first song on the soundtrack, was written by Diane Warren and the American rapper Common , and sung by him with soul and R&B singer Andra Day .

The film was first shown on September 21, 2017 at Howard University in Washington, celebrated its official premiere on October 4, 2017 as part of the San Diego International Film Festival and was released in US cinemas on October 13, 2017, 50 Years after Marshall was appointed Justice to the United States Supreme Court.

reception

Reviews and grossing results

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So far, the film has won over 80 percent of Rotten Tomatoes ' critics .

Wall Street Journal's Joe Morgenstern says the film title simply names a great man Marshall, which suggests that the film is more concerned with him in his earlier years than with the greatness he later attains.

Devan Coggan of Entertainment Weekly says Chadwick Boseman , who previously in film biographies already as James Brown [Note .: to Get on Up ] and Jackie Robinson [Note .: in 42 - The true story of a sports legend ] was to see embodied in the The role of young Thurgood Marshall is a man of healthy self-confidence who stubbornly indulges in truth and justice.

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times says that while the film is built top-down for maximum entertainment value, he doesn't do so without reminding us before we leave that battles like this are far from over are.

In the United States, revenue from screenings has so far been $ 8.5 million.

Awards

On December 18, 2017, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that the song Stand Up for Something was in a shortlist of 70 songs, from which the nominations for the Best Movie Song category at the 2018 Academy Awards will be determined. On the same day, the Academy announced that Marcus Miller's work was on a shortlist from which the nominations in the category Best Film Music would come. Below is a selection of nominations and awards from well-known film awards.

Black Reel Awards 2018

Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2018

  • Nomination for Best Song (Stand Up for Something)

Grammy Awards 2018

  • Nomination for Best Song Written For Visual Media (Common, Andra Day and Diane Warren for Stand Up for Something )

Hollywood Film Awards 2017

  • Received the Hollywood Song Award (Diane Warren and Andra Day for Stand Up for Something )

Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2017

  • Nomination in the category Original Song - Feature Film (Stand Up for Something)

NAACP Image Awards 2018

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards 2017

  • Nomination in the category The Overlooked Film of the Year

Satellite Awards 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Marshall . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 174349 / V). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Marshall | Film, trailer, review. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Lorraine Boissoneault: The True Story Behind "Marshall". In: smithsonianmag.com. October 6, 2017, accessed September 16, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Marshall Freemason In: bcy.ca. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
  5. ↑ HR988 - To designate the United States courthouse located at 40 Center Street in New York, New York, as the 'Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse' In: congress.gov. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
  6. ↑ Danny Spewak: 'Marshall' filming begins Today in Buffalo. In: wgrz.com. May 23, 2016, accessed July 30, 2017 .
  7. ^ Marshall movie wraps shooting in Buffalo. In: wgrz.com. July 1, 2016, accessed July 30, 2017 .
  8. ↑ http://filmmusicreporter.com/2017/09/28/marshall-soundtrack-details/
  9. ↑ http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/common-andra-day-song-standing-injustices/story?id=50174464
  10. ↑ Marshall In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  11. ↑ https://www.wsj.com/articles/marshall-review-soundly-argued-acutely-observed-1507829853
  12. ↑ http://ew.com/movies/2017/10/13/marshall-review/
  13. ↑ http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-marshall-review-20171012-story.html
  14. ^ Marshall In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved October 24, 2017.
  15. ↑ 70 Original Songs Vie For 2017 Oscar In: oscars.org, December 18, 2017.
  16. ↑ Zack Sharf: Oscars 2018: Best Original Score Shortlist Includes 'The Shape of Water', 'All the Money in the World' and More In: indiewire.com, December 18, 2017.
  17. ↑ Get Out Dominates the Black Reel Awards In: blackreelawards.com, December 13, 2017.
  18. ↑ Kristopher Tapley, 'Shape of Water' Leads Critics' Choice Film Nominations In: Variety, December 6, 2017.
  19. ↑ 60th GRAMMY Awards: Full Nominees List In: grammy.com, November 28, 2017.
  20. ↑ Kimberly Nordyke: Hollywood Film Awards: 'The Big Sick' to Receive Comedy Ensemble Award In: The Hollywood Reporter, October 23, 2017.
  21. ↑ 8th Hollywood Music in Media Awards Nominations Announced In: filmmusicreporter.com, October 25, 2017.
  22. ↑ 2018 NAACP Image Award Nominations In: rottentomatoes.com, November 20, 2017.
  23. ↑ 2017 Awards Winners ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.phoenixfilmcriticssociety.org archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: phoenixfilmcriticssociety.org. Retrieved January 7, 2018.