Matando Cabos
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Matando Cabos |
| Original title | Matando Cabos |
| Country of production | Mexico |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK from 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alejandro Lozano |
| script |
Alejandro Lozano , Tony Dalton , Kristoff Raczyñski |
| production | Billy Rovzar , Fernando Rovzar |
| music | Santiago Ojeda |
| camera | Juan Jose Saravia |
| cut | Alberto de Toro |
| occupation | |
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The good ones
The evil ones
Cabos family and servants
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The Mexican film Matando Cabos (in German grammatically correct: Cabos killing ) is a crime comedy from 2004 and the directorial debut of Alejandro Lozano . After the premiere on July 16, 2004, the production received very mixed reviews. The core of the plot is the attempted kidnapping of the industrial magnate Oscar Cabos, which fails due to a mix-up.
action
The two employees, Jaque and Mudo, who are in their late twenties, sit in toilet cubicles and talk about Oscar Cabos, who is a powerful steel industry tycoon and at the same time their employer and who lies half-naked on the toilet next to them. They tell each other different stories and rumors that are circulating about this man and that underline his unpleasant character. The two young men got into this situation because Oscar Cabos had surprised Jaque during sexual intercourse with his daughter Paulina a few days earlier and beat him up. In the afternoon Jaque went to the businessman's office to apologize. In his aggression, Cabos slipped on a golf ball of his indoor golf game and remained unconscious. Afraid of being accused of bodily harm, Jaque fled; A little later, the cleaner Nacho entered the room. Nacho and Cabos were close childhood friends before Cabos, who had become prosperous in the city, cheated on his former comrade and hired him as a cleaner 20 years ago. Nacho now saw the opportunity to lead the life of a rich man for a day, undressed Cabos and put on his clothes. Jaque had in the meantime secured the support of his friend and colleague Mudo, but when they both returned to the office, they found Cabos in his undershirt and underpants. They dragged him to the toilet.
There they decide to take it with them in the trunk of their car so that it is not discovered. When Nacho leaves the building in perfect disguise, he is knocked down and kidnapped by the two criminals Nico and Botcha in the underground car park. They immediately put a sack over his head - so that they do not notice their mistake and mistake him for Cabos, for whom they want to extort a high ransom. Botcha is Nacho's son and wants to get revenge on Cabos for the unworthy treatment of his father. Mudo and Jaque plan to throw Cabos over the walls of his property during his wife Gabriela's birthday party and pour booze over it so that when he wakes he thinks he has just got drunk. However, an accident occurs while driving and the car becomes unfit to drive. The two colleagues contact Mudo's friend Rubén, a wrestler formerly known by the name “Mascarita”, who repairs the car and then drives it to the shared apartment of the men. Paulina Cabos is waiting impatiently for Jaque, because she wants to go to her mother's party with him. After a long wait, she also drives to Jacques and Mudo's apartment and meets them with Rubén. Angry about her boyfriend's delay, she steals Jacques' car keys and drives his car alone - and her father in the trunk. Botcha and Nico are meanwhile in the apartment of Lula, Botcha's friend, and make several attempts to make a blackmail call, but all of them fail due to the stress of the employees in the Cabos house in the course of the preparations for the celebration. Paulina drives to Lula to pick up her friend and also takes Botcha to the party. He cuts off a finger from the man who is still tied up with a sack over his head in order to place it there and finally to clarify the seriousness of the situation. Nico is left alone with Nacho in Lula's apartment. When Jaque, Mudo and Rubén notice Paulina's going it alone, they drive to the celebration in the former wrestler's car.
After a while, Nico notices that he has been mixed up and contacts Lula, who borrows the car keys for Jacques' car from Paulina and drives them back. Botcha is initially not informed because one fears his reaction. A little later, Jaque demands his keys back from Paulina, as he has to go to the trunk to be able to put Oscar Cabos in the garden. Meanwhile, Botcha is looking for Paulina and finds out about her return trip. In front of the house he tries to steal Rubén's car, with which Mudo, Jaque and Rubén were just about to drive to Lula to get Jaques back. However, the theft is prevented and out of frustration and anger Botcha begins a chase through the city, which ends for him on the lawn of the Aztec stadium . At the same time, Lula and Nico try to put Nacho in the trunk of Jacques' car - which still has Cabos in it - but the trunk is jammed, so Lula gets a crowbar. Mudo, Jaque and Rubén drive up and see Nico fiddling with the tailgate of Jacques's car and a wrapped person lying next to it on the street. They mistakenly assume that the unknown to them freed Cabos. Rubén beats up Nico and puts the unconscious Nacho in his trunk while Jaque gets back into his own car. With Nacho in Rubéns and Cabos in Jacques’s car you drive back to the party. There Jaque and Mudo sing a song for Paulina to give Rubén the opportunity to put the unconscious man out of his car in the garden and pour schnapps over it. In the dark he overlooks his mistake.
In the meantime, in Lula's apartment, Botcha has tied up Nico after beating Lula and learning the truth. Out of anger at the mix-up and anger at Nico's incompetence, he cuts off one finger. In the early morning, Jaque, Mudo and Rubén drive home to the two employees' apartment. The two of them are already going upstairs while Rubén tries to open Jacques's canted trunk. In the apartment they are taken by surprise by Nico and Botcha, who have ambushed them. They are tied up. A little later, Rubén appears with the wrapped Cabos that he found in the trunk, but is also knocked down. Botcha is angry about not only having lost his father in the hustle and bustle, but now also having to see that strangers have obviously stolen his actual kidnapping victim. In his anger, he shoots a loudly screeching parrot in the neighboring apartment and in return is killed by its owner, who in turn shoots Nico.
As a result, Rubén succeeds in persuading Nico to admit defeat and to flee before the police arrive. Two boys from the neighborhood come to the aid of the protagonists and after their escape pretend to be heroes who allegedly saved Cabos in the shootout. Oscar Cabos comes home in the morning hours and finds his wife Gabriela in bed with Toni. The two fell in love at the party. Toni jumps out of the window and lands exactly where Nacho is still half-conscious. He runs away and Cabos only sees Nacho lying under the window. He hits the ignorant with a golf club.
production
The close friends Alejandro Lozano, Tony Dalton and Kristoff Raczyñski had long been thinking of writing a script together without actually putting it into practice. Finally, they gave each other ultimatums and started the script. In the beginning there was primarily the desire for a film and no clear idea of its content. Their goal was to create a film that they would love to see themselves; it should be a fast-paced production with elements of action and violence embedded in modern black humor. The trio met weekly on Mondays and discussed the various proposals. Finally, the writing of the script was divided into three parts. Lozano is a big fan of freestyle fights and, according to his own statement, was very fond of the fights, the person and the films of Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta (El Santo) (1917 - 1984), a famous Mexican masked wrestler. As a homage to this he worked Rubén alias "Mascarita" in Matando Cabos . The production was not financially secure for a long time, but the actors were not informed about this. The first funds were only transferred three weeks before shooting began.
Filming began on August 18, 2003. The majority of the scenes were shot in Mexico City , mainly in the districts of Colonia Tabacalera and Colonia Polanco . The latter is also suggested by the song Reina de Polanco , which Javier sings for Paulina during Gabriela Cabos' birthday party. The American David Barret , whom Billy Rovzar met at a wedding in the United States, was hired to coordinate and plan the demanding stunt scenes. Barret had previously acted as director, producer and assistant director on numerous US television series and several films. While driving past the Estadio Azul , the producers got the idea to do some stunts in a big stadium. The team was given permission to shoot for three days and three nights in the famous Aztec stadium . In its catacombs, the chase between Botcha on one side and Rubén, Jaque and Mudo on the other took place, for which precision drivers were hired. In addition, a car in the Aztec stadium fell over the grandstands onto the field.
After the shooting, the director emphasized that Paulina and Oscar Cabos were the real cornerstones of the story, as the story revolved almost exclusively around these two people - even if this doesn't always seem obvious. For this reason the production team only wanted to cast these roles with experienced and known good actors in order to have fixed points and poles of calm. Juan Jose Saravia, who works as head cameraman , pointed out the importance of colors. He assigned a special color profile to every single person. The premises of Botcha and Lula appear greenish, cool and raw. With Jaque and Mudo, on the other hand, the colors, since they are very different characters, are more precisely differentiated and generally kept warmer. In this way they wanted to draw a visual boundary between the “good guys” and the “bad guys” that doesn't immediately catch the eye, but which one nevertheless perceives subconsciously. Finally, at the party, where everyone comes together, the colors combine to create warm tones to create a chromatic harmony.
On October 8, 2003, after 52 days, Matando Cabos was shot. The budget was around 25,000,000 Mexican pesos , the equivalent of around 1,355,968 euros . The production was filmed in 35 mm format , a technology that is considered obsolete and has lost its previously dominant position.
Publications
Matando Cabos had its world premiere on July 16, 2004 in Mexico. In January of the following year it was presented at the Sundance Film Festival and was shown for the first time in Europe on May 12, 2005 at the Marché du Film in Cannes . The Fantasy Filmfest in Munich included the Mexican production in its program and showed it for the first time on July 28, 2005. Almost a month later, on August 26, the official film launch in the United States took place in Los Angeles . During the Mexican Film Week, Matando Cabos premiered on September 26th in Hungary and on June 15th, 2006 at a Latin American film festival in Poland . More than two years after its world premiere, the film was also released in Japanese cinemas on July 29, 2006; in the fall of the same year, the organizers of the Austin Film Festival also included it in their program and showed it on October 19. When it was broadcast on television in Australia , the production was named Killing Cabos there .
In Mexico, 302 theaters were served with copies and in the United States, production ran in 82 theaters from August 26 to September 22, 2005. Due to the sometimes explicit representation of violence, Matando Cabos did not receive any youth clearance from the Voluntary Self-Control of the Film Industry (FSK) in Germany. On the respective opening weekends, the film grossed 75,719 US dollars in the USA and the equivalent of 1,372,218 US dollars in Mexico . Overall, the worldwide box office totals 5,653,093 US dollars, 155,874 of which in the United States. Matando Cabos thus advanced to the Mexican film of the year 2004 with the highest grossing.
The DVD for the film was released on January 24, 2007. The German version also contains a 1:00:40 hour long, Spanish-language making-of with German subtitles consisting of interviews with the production team and the main actors as well as insights into everyday shooting . The 2:09 minute trailer on the DVD has the same language combination; There is also a trailer show for nine other films that were released during that period.
reception
The reactions of film critics to Matando Cabos have been very different. 53 percent of the collected reviews of Rotten Tomatoes were positive and the audience ratings of the Internet Movie Database reached 7.5 out of ten points. A majority of the reviewers saw a strong closeness to Pulp Fiction and the works of Guy Ritchie - this was criticized by some as lack of imagination, while others praised it with appreciation.
Jeremy Mathews of the online service filmthreat.com judged the film to be "violent, vulgar, disgusting and incredibly funny" ( de .: "violent, vulgar, disgusting and incredibly funny" ). He emphasizes that the film is an extremely funny, cleverly drawn and cleverly produced comedy. Anyone can put together some second-rate, bizarre crime dialogues, but it takes a certain genius in the role of director, screenwriter and actor to create such bizarre scenes. Mathews awarded three and a half of five possible stars and thus the rating "Great".
Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times sharply judged Matando Cabos in his criticism :
"The most depressing aspect of" Matando Cabos "(Killing Cabos), a grimly unfunny and stupefyingly inept comedy, is that it has found an American distributor when so many high-caliber Spanish-language films never reach US theaters. [...] What is most repellent about the picture is that its numerous moments of extreme violence and brutality, intended to be funny, are instead nauseating. "
“The most depressing aspect of Matando Cabos (Killing Cabos), a grimly pointless and startlingly incompetent comedy, is that it has found American distributors whereas so many high-quality Spanish-language films never hit US theaters. [...] What is most disgusting about the film is that its numerous moments of extreme violence and brutality, intended to be funny, are instead nauseating. "
Awards
Honors
- Best movie
- Best Actor: Tony Dalton
- Most bizarre sex: Jacqueline Voltaire, Silverio Palacios
- CANACINE Awards 2005 (Cámara Nacional de la Industria Cinematográfica y del Videograma)
- Best Director National Award: Alejandro Lozano
Nominations
- Premio Ariel 2005
- Best editing: Alberto de Toro
- Best make-up: Carlos Sánchez, Carmen de la Torre, Roberto Ortiz
- Best special effects: Alejandro Vázquez, Edgar “Chivata” Lezama
- Best Supporting Actor: Joaquín Cosio
- Best Supporting Actor: Raúl Méndez
- Best film: Alejandro Lozano
- Best score: Fobia (for the final song "Más Caliente Que El Sol" )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jeremy Mathews: Matando Cabos. on: filmthreat.com . Retrieved June 28, 2009
- ↑ Kevin Thomas, Kevin Crust: 'The Cave,' 'Dirty Deeds,' 'Matando Cabos'. on: latimes.com . Retrieved June 28, 2009
Web links
- Matando Cabos in the Internet Movie Database (English)