Stonewall (2015)

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Movie
German title Stonewall
Original title Stonewall
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2015
length 129 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Roland Emmerich
script Jon Robin Baitz
production Roland Emmerich,
Michael Fossat ,
Marc Frydman ,
Carsten Lorenz
music Rob Simonsen
camera Markus Förderer
cut Adam Wolfe
occupation
synchronization

Stonewall is an American historical film about the story of the uprising in New York's Christopher Street against the police in the summer of 1969, in which a large group of homosexuals defied the arrest at the Stonewall Inn for the first time . The film tells the events from the point of view of the fictional character Danny Winters. Directed by the homosexual director Roland Emmerich , the script is by Jon Robin Baitz . Stonewall celebrated its world premiere on September 18, 2015 as part of the 40th Toronto International Film Festival . The film was released in US cinemas on September 25, 2015 and started on November 19, 2015 in Germany, the director's country of origin. In Austria and Switzerland it will not be seen regularly in theaters.

action

After making out with a boy, Danny Winters is rejected by his parents and flees the American provinces to New York, where he hopes for a liberated gay life. Winters finds himself in the wild sixties, which is teeming with corrupt police officers and homeless youth. Without money or a permanent home, he befriends a group of street kids. They not only introduce him to drag queens , gays and lesbians, but also take him to their favorite bar, the Stonewall Inn. Here Danny meets Ed Murphy, the owner of the club. The Stonewall Inn is run by the Mafia and is anything but a safe place to stay. When Danny and his friends are repeatedly discriminated against, brutally harassed and harassed by the police, the club guests vent their anger and break a window. This act triggers a rethink and a riot. The fight for equality begins. Danny not only witnessed the Stonewall uprising, but also the first official Gay Pride March in 1970.

background

With Stonewall , Emmerich wants to depict the story of the 1969 uprising in order to bring this memorable event closer to a younger generation of gays. In terms of visual aesthetics, Emmerich orientated himself on the photographs that were taken of the uprising in Christopher Street. Emmerich sees the importance of the story told in the fact that there were a few people in New York at the time who looked completely crazy, but who changed the whole world through an uprising.

The first violent clashes took place on the night of June 27-28, 1969, when police officers raided the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street on the corner of 7th Avenue in Greenwich Village. The bar was known for its gay and transgender crowd.

Stonewall received an R rating for depictions of sex and violence, drug use, and vulgar language . It is the first film with international cast to bring homosexuality to US cinemas after the US supreme court ruling on the legality of same-sex marriage . Experts therefore believed that Emmerich had a good chance of being considered at the Oscar awards.

Production history

occupation

Jeremy Irvine joined the crew on April 9, 2014 (as protagonist Danny Winters), on June 3, 2014 Jonathan Rhys Meyers (as Winters' friend Trevor), Ron Perlman (as Stonewall Inn owner Ed Murphy) and Joey King (as Phoebe). Caleb Landry Jones takes on the role of Orphan Annie in Stonewall . The role of Seymour Pine was cast with the Canadian film and stage actor Matt Craven . Other roles went to the Canadian actors Atticus Mitchell , David Cubitt and the Canadian Daytime Emmy Award winner Joanne Vannicola .

King had previously worked with Emmerich at White House Down in 2013 .

Filming

On March 31, 2014, it was announced that the film would be shot in Montreal. Filming began there on June 3, 2014.

synchronization

The dubbing of the film was done at RC Production based on a dialogue book by Alexander Löwe, directed by Marius Clarén .

role actor Voice actor
Danny Winters Jeremy Irvine Raúl Richter
Ed Murphy Ron Perlman Tilo Schmitz
Trevor Jonathan Rhys Meyers Norman Matt
Phoebe Winters Joey King Giovanna Winterfeldt
Orphan Annie Caleb Landry Jones Dirk Stollberg
Seymour Pine Matt Craven Stephan Schwartz
Matthew / Matt Atticus Mitchell Till Völger
Ray Castro Jonny Beauchamp Arne Stephan
Coach Winters David Cubitt Frank Röth
Fat Tony Mark Camacho Sven Brieger
Sam Joanne Vannicola
Joe Altman Karl Glusman Marios Gavrilis
Joyce Winters Andrea Frankle Marion Elskis
Big daddy Kwasi Songui Axel Lutter
Marsha P. Johnson Otoja Abit Marius Clarén
Hans Keller Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht
Queen Tooey Richard Jutras Lutz Mackensy
Terry Yan England Tobias Nath

reception

After the first excerpts from the film were shown, there was criticism, especially on American websites. The critics miss diversity in sexual orientations and ethnicities. Because these first pictures didn't show black people or transsexuals, it was feared that “the film would not be very authentic and the whole thing would look more like an episode from Glee than a historical event”.

After the trailer was released, activists called for a boycott. An online petition received tens of thousands of signatures.

Jan Künemund criticized on Friday that desperately “the formulas of narrative cinema should be used to squeeze a queer position into a heteronormative fit”. The trans friends of the protagonist Danny only served as his key word and gay sex is told in "grotesque prostitution scenes".

In view of the allegations made by activists, Wolfgang Höbel from Spiegel Online recommended that German moviegoers marvel at the film in a friendly manner as “an act of love”, which one knows “that it sometimes goes down the wrong path”. Höbel described the film as a "really sweet historical film", which testifies to the courage to be kitsch, the desire for clear confessions and a proud narrative simplicity.

Christian Horn comes to a similar conclusion at Filmstarts.de : “Of course, the film is not a razor-sharp, unadorned analysis, instead the director makes an experienced high-gloss drama in which he disambiguates the social mood of that time with simple means. He explicitly stages queer emancipation for a mainstream audience, Stonewall is also a film for viewers who may not even know which event Christopher Street Day is referring to. Seen in this way, Emmerich does educational work and promotes in his own way for the equality of queer lifestyles - and that's exactly what the lesbian and gay movement wanted from the beginning. "

Soundtrack

The original soundtrack for the movie Stonewall was released on September 25, 2015.

Title list of the soundtrack

  1. I Say A Little Prayer - Stingray Music
  2. Crackerjack - Richard Marks
  3. It Ain't Fair, But It's Fun - The Fabulous Originals
  4. Reach to the Moon - Lionel Wendling and Susi Gott
  5. Feel It in Your Bones - Directory
  6. City In the Rain - Leaves of Grass
  7. Cast the First Stone - Jay Ramsey
  8. Shadow of a Memory - The Silver Stars
  9. Stop That Calling - The Silver Stars
  10. Make Believe World - Sandy Szigeti
  11. Something in the Air - Thunderclap Newman
  12. Art News - Michel Gaucher and Andre Paul Charlier
  13. It's Your Thing - The Isley Brothers
  14. Blue Eyes - Jose Le Gall
  15. My Mind Goes High - MC 2
  16. Just Be Yourself - The Pretenders
  17. Venus - Shocking Blue
  18. A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum
  19. Show Me What You Got - Frank Williams & The Rocketeers
  20. Amor Do Carnaval - Letizia Felicite Morelli and Gerard Gueudin
  21. Bucolique - Maurice Jeanjean and Georges Tzipine
  22. I Need a Guy - The Lovettes
  23. Another Lover - Richard Myhill
  24. Barber of Seville (Una Voce Poco Fa) - Gioacchino Rossini
  25. Rigoletto - Caro Nome (1st act) - Giuseppe Verdi
  26. All I Want to Be - Daniel Edwardson
  27. Uptown Baby - Josh Phillips and Matthew Moore
  28. Androgyny - Dominic Evans and Raymond Watts
  29. Magenta Nights - Harald Kloser and Thomas Schobel
  30. Please Come Back - Harry Caldwell
  31. I'll Take You There - The Staple Singers

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Certificate of Release for Stonewall . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2015 (PDF; test number: 154 495 K).
  2. ↑ David Rooney, 'Stonewall': TIFF Review In: The Hollywood Reporter, September 18, 2015.
  3. ↑ Herwig-Hakan Mader: 'Stonewall' will probably not start in Austria. In: ggg.at. November 24, 2015, accessed December 26, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Roland Emmerich's 'Stonewall': Trailer hits the barricades In: moviejones.de, August 5, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b c Kevin Clarke: Are the 'Stonewall Riots' washed white? Roland Emmerich's new historical film In: Männer.de, July 6, 2015
  6. ^ A b Henry Barnes: Roland Emmerich's gay rights drama joins the race for the Oscars In: The Guardian, July 22, 2015.
  7. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Stonewall - Where Pride Began. Retrieved November 23, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Emmerich film makes transgender scene angry . In: tagesanzeiger.ch, August 15, 2015.
  9. ↑ Jan Künemund: Stumbling block . In: Friday of November 19, 2015, p. 19.
  10. ↑ Wolfgang Höbel: Emmerich's gay hymn 'Stonewall': An act of love . In: Spiegel Online , November 19, 2015.
  11. ^ Christian Horn: Film Review - Stonewall . In: Filmstarts.de , January 21, 2016.
  12. ↑ Stonewall Soundtrack List Movie (2015) In: songonlyrics.net. Retrieved January 18, 2016.