game without rules
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German title | game without rules |
Original title | The Longest Yard |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 2005 |
length | 113 minutes |
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FSK 12 JMK 10 |
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Director | Peter Segal |
script | Sheldon Turner |
production | Jack Giarraputo |
music | Teddy Castellucci |
camera | Dean Semler |
cut | Jeff Gourson |
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Game Without Rules is a 2005 American film about a former football player . He is a remake of the film The Longest Yard ( The Longest Yard and as the fighting machine known) with Burt Reynolds in 1974 and the movie Mean Machine - The fighting machine from 2001. Produced he was Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison Productions .
action
Ex-football star Paul "Wrecking" Crewe is socially ostracized after unproven professional game manipulation. One day while driving drunk through San Diego in his girlfriend's Bentley , he is sentenced to three years in prison in the Texas wasteland after a police chase. Prison director Hazen, a football fan, wants to recruit Crewe as an advisor to the prison guards team, but Crewe declines on the advice of Captain Knauer. However, Crewe can convince the director of the formation of a prison team, which will serve as a preparatory opponent in a game against the prison guards, to prepare the guards team, which has not won a title in the prison league for five years, for the first league game of the season. So Crewe becomes the trainer and quarterback of the prisoner team.
Despite being bullied by the guards, Crewe manages to build and train a team. He receives support from the existentially failed ex-football player Nate Scarborough, who works out the tactics, and the prisoner caretaker, who always procures new equipment from outside. In doing so, he exploits the range of inmates, for example by recruiting particularly aggressive men as players. He also gets information about past injuries of the guards in order to be able to attack them in a targeted manner and exchanges the steroids of one of the guards for estrogen . The most important motivation for most prisoners is the chance to get revenge on the guards for enduring reprisals. In the final game, which is even broadcast on television, appropriate acts of revenge are initially higher than the success of the game. Only after a speech by Crewe do the prisoners play surprisingly well and with a chance of victory. A partial referee is "convinced" of a fair score through targeted attacks with the ball. So that the team of guards does not lose, the prison director tries to blackmail Crewe by accusing him of the murder of Caretaker. In order to escape an imminent extension of his sentence, Crewe first agrees and manipulates the course of the game through alleged bad passes and a feigned injury. Self-doubting and challenged by his players, however, he breaks his deal with Hazen and leads his team to victory. Impressed by Crewe's fighting spirit, the actually brutal Captain Knauer, quarterback of the guard team, assures Crewe of his truthful testimony in the following trial of the murder of fellow inmate Caretaker. The film ends without a statement about the further fate of Crewes.
criticism
According to the Lexicon of International Films , Game Without Rules is “streamlined entertainment, enriched with the usual set pieces of the genre and a lot of clichés”.
Jürgen Armbruster from the editorial team of Filmstarts saw the film as "the most obvious declaration of bankruptcy that Hollywood has made in recent years". Nevertheless, he praised "the staging of the match", for which sports coordinator Mark Ellis was hired, so that the result is "correspondingly high-quality" and "even football grouches will definitely be able to use it". He judged that the result was “a work that, under certain conditions, can still entertain, but at times is really nerve-wracking”, so that the film is “the third-rate remake of a second-rate film with a first-class budget”.
Thorsten Krüger from kino.de was full of praise for the cast and implementation. In his opinion, “Not only do the bones crack at the showdown on the field, but also the gags. After two savvy talents for original comedy had found each other in 50 first dates and Die Wutprobe with director Peter Segal and leading actor Adam Sandler, both now combine their concentrated wit. The lovable buddy comedy, an ode to all underdogs, is a remake of the 1974 film of the same name. Burt Reynolds, who played the leading role at the time, returns here as coach - the icing on the cake in the top cast list. "
TV Spielfilm recommended the film as "fast, weird, high fun factor".
synchronization
role | actor | Voice actor |
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Paul "Wrecking" Crewe | Adam Sandler | Dietmar miracle |
Caretaker | Chris Rock | Oliver Rohrbeck |
Megget | Nelly | Nicola Devico Mamone |
Nate Scarborough | Burt Reynolds | Norbert Langer |
Hazen | James Cromwell | Lothar Blumhagen |
Battle | Bill Goldberg | Tilo Schmitz |
Cheeseburger Eddy | Terry Crews | Detlef Bierstedt |
Captain Knauer | William Fichtner | Udo Schenk |
Guard Dunham | Steve Austin | Gerald Paradise |
Guard Engleheart | Kevin Nash | Ingo Albrecht |
Brucie | Nicholas Turturro | Michael Iwannek |
Switowski | Bob Sapp | Stefan Fredrich |
background
Production costs have been estimated at around $ 82 million. On the opening weekend, the film grossed around $ 47.6 million in the US with 3,634 copies, and in the United States generated total revenues of around $ 158 million. Over $ 190 million has been grossed worldwide. Over 162,000 visitors were counted at the German box office.
Filming began on July 19, 2004 and was carried out exclusively in the USA. Filming locations include Los Angeles and Long Beach , California, as well as some locations in New Mexico . The football game was filmed at Murdock Stadium at El Camino College in Torrance , California . The prison recordings were taken in the unused parts of the New Mexico State Penitentiary , which is also known as the Old Main, where the worst excesses in US prison history occurred on February 2, 1980. The film premiered on May 19, 2005 in Hollywood . It was first seen in German cinemas on September 22, 2005.
Wrestlers Kevin Nash , Goldberg , “Stone Cold” Steve Austin , The Great Khali and former NFL stars Bill Romanowski , Brian Bosworth and Michael Irvin all have roles in this film, and US rappers Bizarre , Proof , Kon Artis , Kuniva , Swift from D12 and Nelly seen in the film. During the basketball game in the prison yard, five of the six members of the rap group D12 can be seen, only Eminem is missing, who is referred to as Sandler in the English original as "Slim Shady" and in the German dubbing as "Eminem for the poor".
Burt Reynolds , who can already be seen in the original from 1974 and is also wearing the shirt number 22, takes on the role of the old football star Nate Scarborough, who was played by Michael Conrad in Robert Aldrich's 1974 film . Besides Reynolds, Ed Lauter is the only actor who can be seen in the original from 1974.
Michael Irvin and Bill Romanowski were given the shirt numbers 88 and 53, the same shirt numbers that they wore during their playing career as football players in the National Football League . Brian Bosworth got the shirt number 44, which he wore in college football . Brian Mann , quarterback for the Los Angeles Avengers arena football league team , acted as Sandler's stunt double.
Both in the game without rules and in the original from 1974 the title Saturday Night Special by Lynyrd Skynyrd can be heard in the opening scene .
Web links
- Movie description
- Film description + criticism
- Official site (English)
- Longest in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Longest Yard atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Approval certificate for game without rules . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2005 (PDF; test number: 103 056 K).
- ↑ Age rating for game without rules . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Game without rules. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Jürgen Armbruster: film review , film starts
- ^ Thorsten Krüger: film review. kino.de
- ^ Film review. TV feature film
- ↑ a b c d e budget and box office results according to the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ box office results. boxofficemojo.com
- ↑ a b c filming locations. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Background information. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
- ↑ a b start dates. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .