Nick and Norah - One Night's Soundtrack

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Movie
German title Nick and Norah - One Night's Soundtrack
Original title Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Peter Sollett
script Lorene Scafaria
production Kerry Kohansky
Andrew Miano
Chris Weitz
Paul Weitz
music Mark Mothersbaugh
camera Tom Richmond
cut Myron I. Kerstein
occupation

Nick and Norah - Soundtrack of a Night (Original title: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist ) is an American teen comedy from 2008 based on the book of the same name by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan .

action

Nick is still attached to his great love Tris. To get her back, he keeps giving her homemade mix CDs . Tris is not at all impressed by this and throws the mix CDs into the nearest trash can. Her schoolmate Norah, on the other hand, thinks the playlists are great and fishes them out of the trash.

One day Norah learns that her favorite band "Where's Fluffy" is performing in an unknown location in New York. She goes to New York with her best friend Caroline (a mutual friend of hers and Tris) and ends up at a gig by the homosexual band "The Jerk-Offs", in which Nick plays bass (although he is not gay). Tris happens to be there with her new boyfriend and Nick hopes to talk to her. However, Tris first meets Norah, who teases her that she is already traveling alone again. Norah lies and claims she is here with her boyfriend. To convince Tris, she spontaneously asks Nick to play her friend. They kiss, which apparently surprises Tris. She lets herself be convinced by the two and moves away. Norah learns that the mixtapes are from Nick and that Nick is Tris' ex-boyfriend. Completely embarrassed, she wants to go with Caroline, but the rest of the jerk-offs see Norah as a potential new friend for Nick and convince her to leave the drive home of the drunken Caroline to them and, together with Nick, to find clues about where's-Fluffy is -Gigs to look for.

While the two are driving through New York in Nick's yellow Yugo and talking, a couple mistakenly mistaken them for a taxi when they stop and they drive them to the Bowery Ballroom, a concert hall in New York. Norah wants to go to the toilet for a moment and walks right past the queue to the bouncers, who they seem to know and let them in immediately, which Nick observes from his car in amazement. In the bathroom, Norah tries to call Caroline, who, by now sober, wakes up to the ringing of her cell phone and finds herself in a van full of men and metal music, assuming she has been kidnapped. When the van stops briefly so the band can get something to eat, Caroline escapes from the van.

Meanwhile, Norah discovers a fresh lead in the toilet cubicle that points to Brooklyn Pool, a location where Fluffy could play. On the drive they talk about the band first, until Nick turns the conversation on Tris and tries to question Norah about her, and the two have an argument. Norah demands that Nick drop her off. But then Nick gets a call that the jerk-offs have lost Caroline. He informs Norah and the two meet with the band to look for Caroline. When Norah remarked that she was missing Fluffy for something like that, the boys tried to convince her to go to the Brooklyn Pool, but Norah refused and they went to the train station to look for Caroline. She's actually at the train station, but realizes that she doesn't have enough money to catch the last bus, and after briefly talking to a cook about turkey sandwiches, she throws up in the toilet. Norah calls her, but Caroline cannot make himself understood before the connection is cut off. Since music can be heard on the cleaning woman's radio in the background, Norah assumes that she is at Brooklyn Pool. So they miss Caroline, who comes out of the toilet staggering at the moment.

In Brooklyn, Norah again manages to get the whole group inside without standing in line because she seems to know the bouncer here too. Once inside, they find out that Caroline is not there. After a short dance, Tal suddenly appears, who seems to know Norah better and Nick is immediately unsympathetic. When the band is announced, it turns out that it was just a deception and a rapper named Are You Randy appears instead, who immediately empties the room. Norah breaks away from Tal and follows Nick. Together with Thom and Dev they drive on in search of Caroline and Fluffy. Tris watches them from the queue, quickly gets into a taxi and follows the van.

In the van, Nick learns that Norah has broken up with Tal, but is still going to bed with him. Before they can argue again, Norah has the idea of ​​going to a supermarket where Caroline often throws up. There she meets Tris, who tries to convince Norah not to hurt Nick and says that there are rumors that Norah has never had an orgasm. Shortly afterwards, Caroline calls Tris on the cell phone and when Norah speaks to her, she announces that she is in a church and has found Jesus, and when she is about to hang up, 'to follow Jesus', she talks about an altar boy without Pants. So the group is looking for a church. Nick goes out alone and falls into the hands of a group of mentally confused homeless people while the rest of the jerk-offs try to convince Norah that she is much better than Tris. She is being brought to a specific location by a taxi and serves her date there. When Norah pointed out that Caroline saw an altar boy without pants, Dev knew immediately: the Christmas revue in a gay cabaret. There they struck gold and took Caroline with them.

In the van on the way to Nick's car, Norah takes care of the still drunk but mostly unconscious Caroline and she talks to Nick, this time without arguing, and she mentions the university she might want to enroll at, which is entirely in would be close to Nick’s future university, and that it would be nice to know someone there. Just as the two seem to develop feelings for each other, new trouble emerges: Tris is sitting on the hood of the Yugo and asks Nick to drive her home. Nick wants to talk to her and leaves Norah in the car. On the drive home, Tris tries to seduce Nick by dancing to her song on the radio in front of the parked car, but Nick only thinks about Norah and realizes that he has made a mistake. He drives back and leaves Tris on the side of the road.

Meanwhile, Norah meets in a bar with Tal, who showered her with compliments and presented her with a CD of his band, with the side note whether she would also please Norah's father. Then Norah leaves the bar. Shortly afterwards, when she is eating something in a restaurant, Nick's cell phone rings in the pocket of the jacket that he had given her earlier. She answers and calls Nick, who calls from a phone booth and wants to apologize. He comes to her and the two talk. Norah reveals to Nick that she hadn't kissed anyone before Tal and that she and Tal had been together for three years, simply because she felt like something special. She takes Nick to Electric Lady Studios, a legendary recording studio owned by Norah's father, which is why she is known by all bouncers and why Tal gives her his CD - to get a record deal. She tells Nick that she has to choose between college and a job in the studio. While Norah Nick shows the studio, Dev, Thom and Caroline receive an encrypted message over their radio about Fluffy's concert, which they can successfully decrypt as an address with Caroline's help. Nick and Norah finally kiss for the first time in the studio, and when the camera pans away, Norah can hear squeaking, stifled noises that suggest that she has just had an orgasm. Shortly afterwards she receives a text message from Caroline, telling her the location of the concert, and the two of them rush there. On the spot they are confronted with an angry Tris and an angry valley. When Tal tries to pull Norah over to his side, Nick jumps in between and pushes him away. When Tal lets go of a provocative remark, Dev's boyfriend gives him a headbutt and wants to pull Norah with him when she frees herself from his grip and leaves the location with Nick. Since Norah smashed the Yugo while parking in front of the studio, they take the train home. A new day is dawning.

backgrounds

Filming for the film began in the fall of 2007 and ended in December 2007. The shooting lasted only 29 days, almost exclusively at night and with one exception in New York City .

The film had its world premiere in September 2008 at the Toronto International Film Festival . It was released on October 3, 2008 in the USA, and in Germany on February 19, 2009. The film grossed a total of 31.7 million US dollars.

Soundtrack

No. title Interpreter
1. Speed ​​Of Sound Chris Bell
2. Lover Devendra Banhart
3. Middle management Bishop Allen
4th Ottoman Vampire Weekend
5. Riot radio The Dead 60s
6th Fever Takka takka
7th Xavia The Submarines
8th. After hours We Are Scientists
9. Our Swords Band of Horses
10. Silvery Sleds Army Navy
11. Baby you're my light Richard Hawley
12. Very loud Shout Out Louds
13. How To Say Goodbye Paul Tiernan
14th Last words The Real Tuesday Weld
15th Nick & Norah's theme Mark Mothersbaugh

Reviews

“The dramaturgically weak music film suffers from the fact that its plot is all too carelessly constructed around the soundtrack of popular indie bands. The few successful moments are swept away by tasteless humor. "

- Lexicon of international film

“To the music of alternative stars like Vampire Weekend and Devendra Banhart, a brilliantly played, funny odyssey begins. Inappropriate: the vomit comedy scenes with Norah's coma-drinking friend Caroline.
Conclusion: great fun with small dropouts "

- Editorial office of Cinema.de

Awards

Nick and Norah were nominated three times for the 2008 Satellite Awards : Best Actor (Comedy) , Best Actress (Comedy), and Best Picture .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nick and Norah - One Night's Soundtrack. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ cinema.de