Redbelt
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Redbelt |
| Original title | Redbelt |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | David Mamet |
| script | David Mamet |
| production | Chrisann Verges |
| music | Stephen Endelman |
| camera | Robert Elswit |
| cut | Barbara Tulliver |
| occupation | |
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Redbelt is a 2008 American sports drama directed by David Mamet , who also wrote the script. The main roles are Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tim Allen and Emily Mortimer.
action
One evening when Mike Terry is about to close his jiu-jitsu studio, lawyer Laura Black rushes into the bar to find the owner of a vehicle she had previously damaged. The police officer Joe Collins, who has just completed a training lesson with Mike, wants to take off the woman's coat, which is completely soaked in the rain, when she interprets this as an attack and in a panic picks up the policeman's gun and fires it. The front window was broken by the shot. To save Laura inevitable consequences, Mike and Joe decide to let the matter rest.
However, the insurance company does not want to pay for the damage, as it does not believe Mike's explanation that the window was broken in a gust of wind. Mike's wife Sondra, whose income from her work in the fashion industry is still keeping the studio from bankruptcy, urges her husband to borrow the money from her brother Ricardo, a mixed martial arts champion. In Ricardo's nightclub, Mike meets Sondra's other brother Bruno and learns that Joe has quit his job as a bouncer at the club because he was never paid by Bruno. Mike speaks to his brother-in-law about it, but is quickly put off. Mike then declines Bruno's offer to enter a $ 50,000 tournament, believing that contests with prize money are not honorable and would weaken the fighters.
Meanwhile, the aging Hollywood action star Chet Frank enters the nightclub without a security escort, where he is promptly threatened with a broken bottle. Mike intervenes, overwhelms the attacker and those who come to his aid. The next day, Mike receives an expensive watch and an invitation to dinner from Chet. Mike gives the watch to Joe, who can redeem it at the pawnbroker. Laura has the window replaced and starts taking lessons from Mike. At the dinner party, Chet's wife, Zena, arranges a deal that includes the purchase of a large number of clothes from Sondra's company. Chet is also impressed by Mike and invites him to work on his latest film. As Mike and Sondra leave dinner, Mike Chet's business partner Jerry Weiss explains his unique training method. Before a sparring, each fighter must draw one of three balls and whoever draws the black marble must start the fight with a residue.
Mike uses his military experience to answer a few technical questions to Chet on the set, whereupon he is offered the position of co-producer. That same evening, Mike faxes the details of his training methods to Jerry so they can be used in the film. Joe later arrives at Mike's studio to inform him that he has been suspended because Mike's former watch has been found stolen. During dinner, Mike informs Jerry about the incident, who apologizes and promises Mike that he will take care of the matter, which does not happen. When he got home, Mike also finds out that the phone number Zena Sondra gave no longer exists. Sondra is in a panic because she used money borrowed from a loan shark to order fabric for her clothes. When Mike meets with the loan shark to discuss a possible extension of the deadline, he sees Bruno and Marty Brown on television demonstrating Mike's training method for promotional purposes.
Mike hires Laura as his lawyer, but Marty's attorney threatens to hand over an empty cartridge case with Laura's fingerprints to the police if they don't drop the lawsuit. This would prove that Laura tried to kill an off-duty police officer. He also threatens Mike as the actual witness to have covered up the crime by bribing the officer present with a valuable watch. When Joe finds out about this, he feels responsible for the whole situation and takes his own life. Mike decides to take part in the tournament, even if he is short of money and believes he has to support Joe's wife financially.
In the battle arena, Mike finds out that the method of pulling the ball and thus all fights are manipulated. Mike confronts Marty, Jerry and Bruno about his discovery and learns that they hope to win big bets from the fight decisions they have made. In addition, Ricardo is said to be deliberately losing the fight against Morisaki so that the three cheaters can make big bucks in a safe rematch. Mike finds out that Sondra has been forced to betray him because she does not believe that she will be adequately looked after by Mike.
As Mike leaves the arena, he meets Laura, who slaps him after a short conversation (inaudible to the audience). Then Mike re-enters the arena, where he incapacitates some security guards who tried to stop him beforehand. He is challenged by Ricardo, uses a difficult stranglehold on him and thus defeats him in front of the cameras. As a result, Mike makes the acquaintance of Morisaki, who gives him his belt, studded with ivory studs. In addition, he was awarded the title-giving and much sought-after red belt.
background
Mamet described Redbelt as an Akira Kurosawa-style samurai film. He involved several MMA experts in the creation of the film. Randy Couture and Enson Inoue have acting roles, as does John Machado, who also choreographed some of the fights himself.
In the course of the production, Mamet was also honored with the purple belt by Renato Magno, who stood by his side as a Jiu-Jitsu consultant.
The film was produced by Chrisann Verges and equipped by David Wasco. Debra McGuire designed the costumes and Stephen Endelman composed the music. It was filmed by Robert Elswit, edited and edited by Barbara Tulliver. John Machado and Rico Chiapparelli were the fight choreographers. Chiwetel Ejiofors and Tim Allen's stunt doubles were Aaron Toney and Todd Warren.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films ruled that the film draws "interesting characters and creates coherent atmospheric scenes" . However, he does not succeed in “rounding the plot (...).” The “kaleidoscopic study of the milieu” is “full of improbabilities and twists and turns” that do not succeed in having a “second look (...) ]hold"
Web links
- Redbelt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Redbelt. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .