Monster (2018)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | monster |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Anthony Mandler |
| script |
Janece Shaffer , Colen C. Wiley |
| music | Harvey Mason Jr. |
| camera | David Devlin |
| cut | Joe Klotz |
| occupation | |
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Monster is an American drama directed by Anthony Mandler that premiered on January 22, 2018 at the Sundance Film Festival , where the film was screened in the US Dramatic Competition. It is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Walter Dean Myers .
action
Because Steve Harmon, a black youth, is accused of being involved in a robbery, he is sent to a New York detention center. Steve was not involved in the act, however. The upcoming trial will determine whether the teenager will have to stay in prison for the rest of their life. Those involved in the trial wonder whether he really is the “monster” the prosecutor describes him as, or whether he was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Literary template
The film is based on the 1999 Harpercollins novel Monster by the American youth author Walter Dean Myers who died in July 2014 . In the year of publication, Myers was nominated for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature for his work and received the Michael L. Printz Award the following year . He wrote the book as a mixture of a diary, written by his protagonist Steve Harmon, and a third-person perspective in the form of a film script about the court hearings. In this way, Steve reflects on his life from an unusual perspective. Myers was kicked out of high school and joined the US Army at the age of 17. The book was recommended for the Abitur 2017 and 2018 in Germany, including in Berlin.
production
It acts with Monster to the feature film debut of Anthony Mandler , who worked in the past as a music video director and videos for Lenny Kravitz and Snoop Dogg turned and these produced.
He cast the role of Steve Harmon with Kelvin Harrison , who had received his first film role in the movie 12 Years a Slave in 2013 and was later seen in the television series Into the Badlands and Roots . 2016 Harrison was in the film The Birth of a Nation - Rebellion to freedom can be seen in the role of Simon in It Comes at Night he played Travis, the film Son of Carmen Ejogo , and also in 2017 he was in a smaller role in Mudbound to see . Jennifer Ehle plays Harmon's lawyer Katherine O'Brien in the film. The rapper ASAP Rocky took on the role of William King.
The film premiered on January 22, 2018 as part of the Sundance Film Festival , where it was screened in the US Dramatic Competition.
Awards
- Nomination for the Grand Jury Prize in the US Dramatic Competition ( Anthony Mandler )
Web links
- Monster in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Monster in the program of the Sundance Film Festival (English)
- Information about the film Monster by Siradinc (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monster In: tonikproductions.com. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
- ↑ . Trade Letter No. 3 English In: bildungsserver.berlin-brandenburg.de. Accessed January 14, 2018 (PDF)
- ↑ https://www.stereogum.com/1904074/aap-rocky-nas-to-star-in-anthony-mandlers-debut-feature-monster/news/
- ↑ Program of the Sundance Film Festival 2018 In: sundance.org. Retrieved January 13, 2018 (PDF; 258 KB)