Miami Vice (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Miami Vice |
| Original title | Miami Vice |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English , Hawaiian |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 134 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Mann |
| script | Michael Mann, Anthony Yerkovich |
| production | Anthony Yerkovich, Michael Mann, Pieter Jan Brugge |
| music | Jan Hammer , Klaus Badelt , John Murphy , Organized Noize |
| camera | Dion Beebe |
| cut | William Goldenberg , Paul Rubell |
| occupation | |
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Miami Vice is an American thriller directed by Michael Mann from 2006 and also the remake of the 1980s television series Miami Vice . The film, a co-production by Universal Pictures , Forward Pass and Michael Mann Productions distributed by United International Pictures , was released in US cinemas on July 28, 2006 and in German cinemas on August 24, 2006 . The main roles are Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx , whose characters are also based on the television series.
action
An informer is suspected of being within the inter-agency special command, the Inter-Agency Task Force . The Miami Police Department is asked for assistance to solve three murders in South Florida. Sonny Crockett ( Colin Farrell ) and Ricardo Tubbs ( Jamie Foxx ) are assigned the task, who are sent to South Florida to work undercover as drug smugglers "Sonny Burnett" and "Rico Cooper" and thus smuggle themselves into a drug smuggling gang reduce drug trafficking. In this way they get deeper and deeper into the processes and structures of the criminal organization of the Colombian drug lord Archangel (Archangel) de Jesus Montoya ( Luis Tosar ) and his playmate Isabella ( Gong Li ), with whom Crockett falls in love.
To get into business with Jesus Montoya, they get in touch with his middleman Yero, who is mostly in Florida. You take over deliveries, work successfully and meet Montoya as part of the collaboration. After a while, Yero becomes suspicious that the two of them are working too professionally and something is wrong. When Yero also kidnaps Trudy, Tubbs' girlfriend, in order to get apparently better conditions, Crockett and Tubbs start a rescue operation. She succeeds, but Trudy is the only one seriously injured in a remote-controlled explosion designed to trap Crockett and Tubbs.
Tubbs and Crockett are finally able to track down Montoya and kill or arrest the members of his organization under the leadership of their police chief with a large-scale operation, but Montoya is able to flee. Crockett helps Isabella escape to Havana. Meanwhile, Tubbs is in the hospital, where Trudy wakes up from a coma.
History of origin
The film is based on the popular television series of the same name, Miami Vice , which was broadcast on NBC from 1984 to 1989 .
The two undercover investigators of the "Miami Vice Squad" starred Don Johnson as James "Sonny" Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo Tubbs . The casting for the film actors ultimately produced Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx , also because they bore a certain resemblance to their role models.
The series was developed and produced by Anthony Yerkovich . Michael Mann, who was involved as executive producer in Miami Vice , tried to adapt the material to suit the cinema after his successful action film Collateral (2004) and was also allowed to sit on the director's chair. Yerkovich was allowed to work on the script and is a producer.
The role of Lieutenant Castillo was offered to Edward James Olmos , who had played the part in the series. However, Olmos turned down the offer and Barry Shabaka Henley was signed.
The camera work is done by Dion Beebe , who was awarded an Oscar in 2006 for his work on Rob Marshall's The Geisha . He had worked with Michael Mann on collateral two years earlier, as had film editor Paul Rubell .
The composer is John Murphy ( Basic Instinct - New Game for Catherine Tramell ), who was based on Jan Hammer's musical theme from the series.
Marc Macaulay , who also starred in the series in 1985, can be seen in a short role . He is the only actor to appear in both the series and in the film almost 20 years later.
Filming
Filming of Miami Vice began on June 27, 2005, with a budget of 135 million US dollars . a. in South Florida , the Caribbean and in the South American countries Brazil , Colombia , Paraguay and Uruguay .
The film crew lost seven days of shooting due to hurricanes Katrina , Rita and Wilma , which hit parts of Latin America and the southern United States between August and October 2005 .
Pistol shots fired outside the film set in the Dominican Republic forced the film crew to stop filming for three days from October 24, 2005 for security reasons.
Like Michael Mann's collateral, the film was shot using a combination of digital cameras and conventional Panavision cameras with 35 mm film material . The Thomson Grass Valley VIPER FilmStream camera system was used as digital video technology .
style
The style of the film is primarily characterized by free hand-held camera work, as Michael Mann had already used in his film Collateral , a realistic representation of violence and the principle of acceleration with speedboat , Ferrari and airplane . Steadicams were deliberately avoided in order to create the closest possible proximity to the story through a shaky picture and to give the viewer the better opportunity to put themselves in the situation. In advance, the camera work was criticized from various places. In contrast to other films of the action genre, shootings were depicted very realistically in picture and sound. For example, the gunshot tones were not amplified (e.g. in the Terminator films ). In general, care was taken to ensure that the film was shot in authentic locations.
The biggest visual change is obviously in the clothes of the main actors. So the well-known style elements of the series were dispensed with in the film and modern suits or casual shirts were used.
background
- The film action of Miami Vice begins, despite adaptation to the new millennium, before the end of the third season of the series. In the film, Justin Theroux can be seen in the role of Detective Larry Zito . Originally portrayed by John Diehl , the character died during the third season.
- The aliases Sonny Burnett and Rico Cooper are the same ones Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs used in the television series.
- First Robert Diggs was supposed to compose part of the film music, later Organized Noize stepped in for him .
- The special effects were implemented by Entity FX , among others .
- Immediately after filming ended, lead actor Colin Farrell went to a clinic for voluntary drug withdrawal. According to his spokeswoman, Farrell had himself treated there for exhaustion, as he had reacted dependent on the pain pills after a back injury.
- The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
Reviews
David Poland praised the performance of Gong Li on moviecitynews.com , as well as the performances by Luis Tosar, John Ortiz and Colin Farrell.
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the best words to describe the film were “style” and “intensity”. The romantic strands of the plot would make the main characters more human. The representations of Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell are good if you do not compare them with those of Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas .
Andreas Busche speaks in a laudatory review of the “pessimistic” film of Miami Vice- “set pieces that man put a completely different film over”, and recognizes a topic in professionalism .
Emanuel Levy wrote on emanuellevy.com that style triumphs over substance. He compared the plot to that of B-films ("B-level narrative").
David Walsh at wsws.org headlined “Why this film?” And wondered: “The basics of the story are known, the characters are clichés [...] there is no spontaneity or even liveliness in the film, nor any serious engagement with it Questions of the present. [...] the background is largely imagined ”.
Johannes Binotto from the Filmbulletin does not see a flaw in the superficiality of the film, but rather its overwhelming radicalism, since Michael Mann is always about characters who fail because of the seeming and superficial.
The lexicon of the international film judges: “[...] a fast-paced police thriller that describes the everyday work of the two police officers as well as their rather ambivalent relationship to the life of a gangster. No theatrical version of the television series of the same name from the 1980s, but the attractive, but never sufficiently in-depth attempt to use the colors and stylistic devices of neo- film noir to describe rituals and manners in a complex world of mutual transgression.
Web links
- Miami Vice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Miami Vice at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Miami Vice at Metacritic (English)
- Official German website for the film
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Age rating for Miami Vice . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ moviecitynews.com ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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.
- ↑ James Berardinelli on ReelViews
- ^ Andreas Busche: Miami Vice. In: Filmzentrale. Retrieved April 23, 2008 .
- ↑ emanuellevy.com
- ↑ David Walsh: Michael Mann's Miami Vice: Why this film? In: Wsws.org. Retrieved June 20, 2010 : “The general outlines of the story are familiar, the characters largely stereotyped. [...] There is little spontaneity or vitality in the film, nor any serious engagement with contemporary existence. [...] The circumstances are largely fantasized "
- ↑ www.johannes.binotto.ch
- ↑ Miami Vice. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 5, 2017 .
