Pain & Gain

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Movie
German title Pain & Gain
Original title Pain & Gain
Pain & Gain Logo.png
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 129 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Michael Bay
script Christopher Markus ,
Stephen McFeely
production Michael Bay,
Ian Bryce ,
Donald De Line
music Steve Jablonsky
camera Ben Seresin
cut Joel Negron,
Thomas A. Muldoon
occupation
synchronization

Pain & Gain ( . On Dt literally: Pain and Gain) is a US-based Action - Comedy by Michael Bay from the year 2013 . Mark Wahlberg , Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie played the leading roles . Based on actual events, the film is about the crimes of a gang of bodybuilders , with the plot largely based on a series of articles by Pete Collins in the Miami New Times from 1999.

The film had its world premiere on April 11, 2013 in Miami , Florida , the main location, and opened in theaters in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on August 22, 2013.

action

Daniel "Danny" Lugo is a fraud-convicted personal trainer at Sun Gym. After a coaching session , he feels called to more and wants to relieve the entrepreneur Victor Kershaw, one of his customers, with his doped friend Adrian Doorbal, to relieve all of his assets. Paul Doyle, who was released from prison and converted, joins the team.

First kidnapping attempts fail due to stupidity until the trio finally succeeds in kidnapping Kershaw. When Kershaw recognizes Danny despite all precautions, they force him to give false information so that his disappearance does not arouse suspicion. Danny has had Victor sign all of the papers necessary to transfer the property, but learns at the bank that he is missing a notary's certification. He convinces the head of the fitness studio, the non-practicing notary John Mese, to certify the papers. Danny then tries to kill Kershaw and make it look like suicide, but several attempts fail. Finally, Paul Kershaw is supposed to run over with a delivery truck, but this attempt also ultimately fails.

Kershaw tells the truth to the police at the hospital, but is not believed. He then turns to Ed Du Bois, a retired police officer and private investigator. Victor escapes a murder attempt by the trio by self-discharge from the hospital. Du Bois visits Kershaw in a worn-out motel and has his story told. After Adrian and Paul have used up their share of the booty, they want to pull off the next coup with Danny and kidnap Frank Griga, Florida's third richest man. Under a pretext, they lure him with his wife Krisztina Furton into Adrien's house. During a conversation, Frank provokes Danny by calling him an amateur, and the two start a rather one-sided fight. In the course of the fight, one of the weights accidentally comes off the bench when Frank's head is directly below and smashes his head. When Krisztina notices this, the trio has to calm her down with a horse tranquilizer. They ask her to combine the safe in their house, but cannot open it because the half-unconscious woman did not give them the correct combination. In the meantime Krisztina has woken up again, tries to escape and finally dies from another dose of the sedative that Adrian injected her to prevent her from attempting to escape again.

Danny, Adrian and Paul meticulously prepare the disposal of the corpses. You dismantle it into individual parts, which, however, does not really work despite the preparation. The electric chainsaw fails after it gets into the hair of the woman's corpse. Another argument breaks out between Danny and Adrian. Danny eventually dismembered the bodies with an ax and a gasoline engine chainsaw. Then they put the chopped up bodies in barrels filled with lye, which they sink in the Florida Keys .

Ed has now signed up with the Sun Gym to learn more about the trio and is sharing his findings with the police. Paul is arrested in church, Adrian at home and Mese in his gym. Danny is able to flee to the Bahamas with Kershaws speedboat , where he still has an offshore account , and closes it. He is hit by Kershaw in a car, arrested and extradited to the United States.

The court sentenced Paul as a key witness to 15 years in prison and released after seven years. Danny and Adrian are sentenced to death and are currently awaiting execution on death row . John is also sentenced to 15 years in prison and dies in prison.

background

synchronization

The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book and the dialogue direction by Michael Nowka on behalf of SDI Media Germany GmbH in Berlin.

role actor German voice actor
Daniel Lugo Mark Wahlberg Oliver Mink
Paul Doyle Dwayne Johnson Ingo Albrecht
Adrian Doorbal Anthony Mackie Dennis Schmidt-Foss
Victor Kershaw Tony Shalhoub Bodo Wolf
Ed DuBlois Ed Harris Wolfgang Condrus
John Mese Rob Corddry Oliver Siebeck
Sorina Luminita Bar Paly Esra Vural
Robin Peck Rebel Wilson Julia digit
Johnny Wu Ken Jeong Gerald Schaale
Frank Griga Michael Rispoli Lutz Schnell
Krisztina Furton Keili Lefkovitz Iris Artajo
Captain Lopez Tony Plana Erich Rauker
Cissy DuBois Emily Rutherfurd Debora refuses
Analee Calvera Yolanthe Sneijder-Cabau Victoria Storm
Pastor Randy Larry Hankin Rainer Gerlach
Dr. Bjornson Peter Stormare Roman Kretschmer
Brad McCallister Brian Stepanek Peter Flechtner

Deviations from reality

  • The victim Marc Schiller, whose name is Victor Kershaw in the film, was born in Argentina and not in Colombia. He sued those responsible for the film because he feels misrepresented.
  • The Sun Gym Gang consisted of not just three but many more members.
  • In the movie, Kershaw recognized Danny by his scented water. In fact, Schiller recognized him by his voice.
  • The car scene in which the three tried to kill Kershaw in a staged car accident was actually different. Schiller was unbuckled, flew through the windshield and hit before the car hit the pillar. The Sun Gym Gang then drove over Schiller's body twice more, but in a Toyota, not a van.
  • Adrian and Danny tried to cut up the bodies of Frank Griga and Krisztina Furton with a gasoline-powered chainsaw, but they hadn't added engine oil, so the chainsaw malfunctioned. Danny got an electric chainsaw that got caught in Furton's hair like in the movie. After all, they use an ax.
  • There was no raid on an armored truck owned by Doyle or any other member of the Sun Gym Gang.
  • Frank Griga was killed on purpose, not accidentally; but not from Danny, but from Adrian.
  • Krisztina Furton didn't have a gun; however, she was given drugs three times by syringe.
  • When the place of origin of Sorina Luminita is mentioned in the film as Transylvania in Romania, the skyline of Prague with the Hradschin can be seen instead of a real local representation in a short overlay.

Reviews

"Staged as a chaos comedy based on a true story by blockbuster producer Michael Bay, the film looks brilliant, but due to its tense arc of tension and erratic script it is more of a test of patience with infantile humor."

- Lexicon of international film

“Pain & Gain spends more energy and movie time on nothing than exposing its heroes. Yes, do not show any sympathy for these gangsters, let alone something like understanding! So they step below the belt, that is, the virility of these power men is denied. […] Impotent mummy boys are, and the only danger that emanates from them is that of stupidity. That wouldn't be a bad prerequisite for a proper, raw satire, if only Pain & Gain didn't refer to real events. "Unfortunately this is a real story", it says at the beginning, which is meant to be funny in the sense of ironic, but the drama of this extremely inhuman film gets to the point. "

- Critic.de

“Hyperventilating, Bay's direction jumps from one plot line to the next, also several times back into the characters' previous histories, always staying so far away from the characters that you can still make fun of them, never so far that you can evade them. Nervous subjects (the first straight upside down), ultra-hectic tracking shots that still scan a new detail, stylized flashbacks into the history of the coinage never give you the whole person, especially not their objective exterior, just oversized, grotesque fragments of psycho. "

- pearl divers

“Ultimately, Michael Bay's current project frightens both fans of his superficial action clichés and those viewers who hoped that the filmmaker's heart project could actually have turned into a crazy satire about modern American society. What remains is a nihilistic piece of film with steroid-impregnated images, which in this form already appear in sufficient numbers in previous works by the director. "

- Thomas Zimmer : serial junkies

“Behind Pain & Gain is a bitter and evil story of three US criminals who completely lose their seriousness in the film. The American dream is to be criticized here, but at the same time it reflects exactly this. Pain & Gain is more of a cinematic nightmare that Michael Bay has fabricated again. A story with untapped potential and poor implementation. "

- Kino7.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Pain & Gain . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 805 K).
  2. ^ Pain & Gain by Pete Collins. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  3. ↑ Pain & Gain in the German dubbing files. Accessed January 1, 2019.
  4. ^ Pain & Gain. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 12, 2013 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ^ Nino Klingler: film review. In: Critic.de . August 14, 2013; Retrieved September 9, 2015.
  6. ^ Lukas Foerster, Elena Meilicke: film review . In: Perlentaucher.de . August 21st, 2013; Retrieved September 9, 2015.
  7. ^ Thomas Zimmer: Pain & Gain: Film Review. In: Serienjunkies.de . August 21, 2013, accessed June 10, 2019 .
  8. ^ Josephine Drews: Film Review. ( Memento from September 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Kino7.de, August 23, 2013; Retrieved September 9, 2015.