Misfits - Not socially acceptable
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Misfits - Not socially acceptable |
| Original title | The Misfits |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 125 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | John Huston |
| script | Arthur Miller |
| production | Frank E. Taylor |
| music | Alex North |
| camera | Russell Metty |
| cut | George Tomasini |
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Misfits - Not socially acceptable (original title: The Misfits , English for "outsider") is an American film directed by John Huston from 1961. The screenplay was written by Arthur Miller . The main roles around people who do not want to integrate into society were played by Marilyn Monroe , Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift . This is also the last completed film with Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable.
action
The dancer Roslyn is getting a divorce in Reno, because she hopes for more variety and deeper meaning in her life. She meets the part-time mechanic Guido, who in turn introduces her to the Cowboy Gay. Together with Roslyn's friend Isabelle, they spend a few days in Guido's house, which the latter left half-finished after the death of his wife. The two men begin to woo the young woman. They decide to catch wild horses to sell. In search of a third man, they meet rodeo rider Perce, who joins them and also falls in love with Roslyn. When Roslyn finds out that the horses are to be processed into dog food and the group only finds six horses, the originally romantic excursion turns into a confrontation between the different characters, at the end of which Roslyn decides on one of them.
characters
All five protagonists feel isolated from their fellow men. This feeling unites them for a short time and shows them an emotional closeness that does not exist. That's why Isabelle leaves the group quickly. She meets her ex-husband, whom she still loves, and his current wife. The couple have a working relationship. Isabelle - she has already been married several times - realizes that there she finds a closeness and warmth that can hold her. She rejoins society and has to leave her acquaintances because of it.
Roslyn longs for more respect and meaning in her life. She worked as a dancer, but was no longer perceived as a human being by the men. But she wants to be accepted and valued as a person and demands it. When the men catch the horses to kill, she shouts her opinion in their faces. Roslyn appreciates the roughness of nature and cannot imagine a life with the pay packet , but she also recognizes the opportunities that the changing world offers. She is an individual without having to differentiate herself from other people.
In contrast, the men like their attitude as loners, whose individuality is no longer recognized by a society full of employees. You have an idea of the world and can no longer see other sides.
Guido, who was a pilot in World War II , leaves his job as a mechanic at the first opportunity and wants to hunt wild horses with Gay professionally. He presents himself as a nice, understanding buddy, but only as long as it serves his goals. Basically, he despises women and blames his wife for being dissatisfied with her marriage.
Perce hangs out as a rodeo rider because his mother has married a new man and his position as heir to the ranch has been questioned. He is looking for the physical challenge at the rodeo because he eschews human conflicts. He also rejects Guido's and Gay's plan because of the animals, but still helps them and later tries to free the animals again and flee with Roslyn. He is of weak character, not yet fully grown.
Gay the cowboy lived to see the times when horses were caught for breeding purposes. Catching the animals is a sporting challenge for him. He only sees his two children - the daughter is Roslyn's age - once a year, but they have long since lost confidence in him. When he meets her at a rodeo event and leaves her briefly to introduce her to Roslyn, they disappeared afterwards. Then his feigned confidence collapses for the first time. He says the whole country is his home, but it is of no use to him without a woman to share it with. With energy he throws himself into his crush on Roslyn. Yet she is unable to prevent him from catching the animals. In the end he realizes that the life he has led so far is over and he cannot close himself off to the modern age that Roselyn embodies. That's why their relationship has a chance.
background
Monroe did not play a naive blonde in the film, as is so often the case, but a psychologically believable and modern woman. In a few other films such as Temptation on 809 , Niagara and Bus Stop , she was able to prove that she also mastered the difficult character subject. The fact that she got her best opportunity in Misfits - not socially acceptable was due in particular to the collaboration of the renowned playwright Arthur Miller. Monroe was married to Miller. The marriage broke up during filming, which turned out to be difficult. As in the previous film - the extremely successful comedy Some Like It Hot directed by Billy Wilder - Marilyn Monroe repeatedly delayed filming by appearing late or not appearing. This nerve-wracking and money-sapping unpunctuality was due to her strong self-doubt about her acting skills and the growing dependence on calming sleeping pills (barbiturates) and her acting teacher Paula Strasberg , wife of Lee Strasberg . At the same time, this behavior led to the final estrangement between her and Arthur Miller. To save the film, director John Huston arranged for Marilyn Monroe to be taken to a private clinic in Los Angeles for rehab under the supervision of her analyst. After a ten-day break, the film was successfully completed. Incidentally, Montgomery Clift, notoriously unreliable for his alcohol addiction, behaved surprisingly disciplined throughout the filming.
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created in 1961 at Ultra Film Synchron GmbH in Berlin.
| role | actor | German Dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|
| Gay Langland | Clark Gable | Siegfried Schürenberg |
| Roslyn Taber | Marilyn Monroe | Margot Leonard |
| Perce Howland | Montgomery Clift | Paul Edwin Roth |
| Guido | Eli Wallach | Heinz Dragon |
| Isabelle Stevens | Thelma Ritter | Alice Treff |
| Fletcher's grandfather | James Barton | Eduard Wandrey |
Reviews
“After a long period of drought when it comes to truly American films, there is now cause for joy because The Misfits is so thoroughly American that no one but an American could have made it. To be honest, I'm not sure anyone could have made it at all except John Huston, based on an original screenplay by Arthur Miller, and it's hard to believe Miller could have written it without Marilyn Monroe. There are sentences that make you feel that Miss Monroe must have said them herself ... At this time, when sex and violence are so exploited that our feelings run the risk of being put to sleep, here is a film in which Both aspects play just as strong a role as in reality, but are never exploited for their own sake. Miss Monroe has her own magic here too, but is not put in front of our noses as a living pin-up girl in skin-tight silk. And who would deny that the actors in this film are top performers? You forget that they only represent their characters and are not what they play. "
“An adventurous hymn to emotional belief in life, at the same time a reflection on the destruction of freedoms in modern US society. Images and dialogues often diverge, so that the subject sometimes seems strangely artificial. Still a very interesting, brilliantly played and staged film based on an original script by the playwright and then Monroe husband Arthur Miller. "
“With 'Misfits' Marilyn Monroe was about to switch to character, and her husband at the time, the playwright Arthur Miller, had written the attractive role for her after writing a short story of her own. The dramatic highlight of the film, however, is the sequence with the horse hunt. "
Awards
- Directors Guild of America : Nomination for John Huston for Best Director
literature
- Dieter Krusche, Jürgen Labenski : Reclam's film guide. 7th edition, Reclam, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-15-010205-7 , p. 362
- Arthur Miller : Not socially acceptable (Original title: The Misfits) . German by Hugo Seinfeld. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1977, ISBN 3-499-10446-6 .
- Arthur Miller, Serge Toubiana, Eve Arnold and others a .: The Misfits. The genesis of a film. Documented by Magnum photographers = not socially acceptable (original title: The Misfits) . Edited by Claudine Paquot and Agnès Sire. German by Annette Lallemand and Barbara Scriba-Sethe. Kehayoff, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-929078-56-2 .
Web links
- Misfits - The Misfits in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Misfits - Not socially acceptable on Cinema.de (with film images)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Misfits - not socially acceptable . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2011 (PDF; test number: 24 501 V).
- ↑ Not socially acceptable to the synchronous database
- ↑ Not socially acceptable with the German synchronous index
- ↑ Misfits - Not socially acceptable. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .