Noises Off! - Sheer madness

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Movie
German title Noises Off! - Sheer madness
Original title Noises Off
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 103 minutes
Rod
Director Peter Bogdanovich
script Marty Kaplan
production Frank Marshall
music Roy Budd
camera Tim Suhrstedt
cut Lisa Day
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Noises Off! - The Rat Race , also known as start the fun is an American comedy film of Peter Bogdanovich from the year 1992 . The screenplay by Marty Kaplan is based on the play of the same name by Michael Frayn from 1982. It was Denholm Elliott's last film , who died that same year.

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The film is about a farce called Nothing On , a stage-effective box story in which doors are constantly opening and closing and the staff appear on stage in quick succession and then disappear again. This production by an English provincial theater is to be brought to Broadway . A second rate theater company from Des Moines, Iowa is ready to stage the play, directed by Lloyd Fellowes. Actors involved include former star Dotty Otley, Garry Lejeune, an absent-minded idiot, heartbreaker Frederick Dallas, short-sighted leading lady Brooke Ashton, second leading lady Belinda Blair and the ever-drunk Selsdon Mowbray. Tim Allgood and Poppy Taylor work in the team behind the scenes.

The film starts with the final dress rehearsal, in which the missions are constantly being missed, texts are forgotten and props are used incorrectly. Lloyd tries to persuade the actors to avoid all of this during the premiere by persuading them, begging and shouting. Things are further complicated by personal problems, personal animosities , jealousies and petty arguments behind the scenes, which are compounded by the lack of professionalism of those involved. When the troupe makes their way to New York City , the complete miscast comes to light, and the performance ends in chaos on and behind the stage.

Reviews

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The film received mixed reviews.

  • In his review in the New York Times Vincent Canby wrote, “ There are a number of hefty laughs scattered throughout… this woozy film adaptation ”, and added , “ Noises Off is a practically perfect stage piece, constructed with such delicacy that any opportunistic adjustment can destroy it, which is what happens here… It may not even be Mr. Bogdanovich's fault. He hasn't opened up the play in any foolish way. There are even times when the camera successfully catches the tempo of the lunatic action without being overwhelmed by it. Yet too often the action and the dialogue are so fuzzily understood that the laughs are lost. The film's problem is more basic: the attempt to Americanize a fine English farce about provincial seediness. It can't be done. ”(German:“ Noises Off is a practically perfect stage play that is constructed with such delicacy that any exaggerated change can destroy what happened here ... It doesn't even have to be Bogdanovich's fault. The opening of the film was a wrong path. There are even times when the camera perfectly captures the tempo of errors without being overwhelmed by them. But too often the actions and dialogue are too fuzzy to lose the laughs. The problem with film is more fundamental: The Attempting to Americanize a fine English farce should not be done. ")
  • In The New Yorker Michael Sragow says: “ Most of the time, Bogdanovich sticks to Frayn's gleefully proscenium-bound play without making it work for the movies. The result is roughly equivalent to the pan and scan TV version of a wide-screen spectacle. Bogdanovich has cast actors you want to see… in a production that grows increasingly impossible to watch. "(German:" Most of the time Bogdanovich sticks to Frayn's terrible stage setting without reworking it for the film. The result is reminiscent of a pan & scan version of a broadband spectacle. Bogdanovich has thrown his actors into a production that is increasingly impossible to grow seems.")
  • In the review of the video release, Entertainment Weekly's Lawrence O'Toole says, “ Nothing is as murderous on a farce as film. Its mechanics can work beautifully from the distance of the stage ... but the closeness of the home screen points up every flaw in Peter Bogdanovich's futile adaptation: anorectic visuals, bloated acting, broad timing, and often dull direction. The cast members… are all game, but it's exhausting watching actors try so hard. ”(German:“ Nothing is as murderous for a farce as the film. The mechanisms can work wonderfully with the distance of the stage, but with the proximity of the screen, every mistake in Peter Bogdanovich's futile adaptation is noticeable: the appetite-less exterior, the bloated plot , the broad timing and the unclear direction. The actors ... are all in the game, but seem strained ")
  • Channel 4 stated, “ Frayn's frenetic farce was always going to be a difficult act to pull off on the big screen, but Bogdanovich and an enthusiastic cast do their damnedest to sustain the mayhem and the momentum. Those who remember the original theatrical hit are bound to be disappointed by the lack of immediacy and the occasional sense of artifice, but this is perfectly serviceable. ”(German:“ Frayn's frenetic farce has always been a difficult plot for the screen, but Bodanovich and his enthusiastic cast do their best to keep the chaos and dynamics. Dorch those who remember the hit from the theater are disappointed because of it their immediacy and the occasional feeling of artificiality, but it is useful. ")

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Noises Off . In: Turner Classic Movies . Turner Broadcasting System (Time Warner). Retrieved October 6, 2016.
  2. ^ Michael Frayn : Noises off: a play in three acts . Samuel French, Inc., New York 2004, ISBN 0-573-61969-7 .
  3. ↑ Vincent Canby:New York Times review . In: The New York Times , March 20, 1992. Archived from the original on May 19, 2011. 
  4. ^ The New Yorker review
  5. ↑ Entertainment Weekly review
  6. ↑ Channel 4 review