The Business (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The business |
| Original title | The business |
| Country of production | United Kingdom , Spain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nick Love |
| script | Nick Love |
| production |
Allan Niblo James Richardson |
| music | Ivor Guest |
| camera | Damian Bromley |
| cut | Stuart Gazzard |
| occupation | |
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The Business (. English for: Business ) is a British gangster movie from 2005. The screenplay was written by Nick Love written, produced the film by Allan Niblo and James Richardson .
action
The action takes place in the early 1980s during the Thatcher era : Brit Frankie from the London borough of Peckham flees the police after killing his violent stepfather in an argument. Friends get him a job: He delivers a packet of money to the urbane ex-bank robber Charlie, who lives in Andalusia on the Costa del Sol and earns his living with drug trafficking in a medium-sized way. The Costa del Sol was known as the Costa del Crime ( Coast of Crime ) in the early 1980s . Spain usually did not extradite British gangsters to Great Britain at the time. Since Frankie proves to be particularly honest and does not open the bag, Charlie takes a liking to him. Frankie meets Charlie's business partners, including the psychopath Sammy, who hates him from the start. Charlie asks Frankie to stay in Spain as the gang needs a driver. He is offered an exciting life with sun, drugs, crime and women. Frankie doesn't want to go back to London anyway, where he would be living a nobody's life . He stays and takes part in a murder drive in which the gang murders hostile Dutch gangsters. Frankie is initiated into the cannabis smuggling business "On the Strait of Gibraltar " in Morocco . Frankie falls in love with Carly, the wife of his partner Sammy, which puts him in a difficult position: the violent Sammy would murder him without hesitation if he started an affair. Business is going very well, the fact that Moroccan smuggled children are occasionally shot by the police pushes Frankie down. Jealousy, greed for money and cocaine addiction within the gang lead to considerable tension and Charlie and Sammy eventually separate. Later, Charlie and Frankie decide to import cocaine instead of cannabis , despite the criminal mayor having previously warned both of them not to do so. Charlie and Frankie start doing business with Colombians and make a fortune. Eventually Charlie and Frankie are wanted by the police and have to flee.
A few years later (six months before the 'real-time' narrative), Frankie and Charlie are homeless and completely wrecked. They have become thugs who, as the story progresses, raid a laundromat in order to survive. Frankie meets with Carly and tells her about the plan to make one last deal. He picks up Sammy from home after Carly slipped Sammy a pistol with an empty magazine. When Sammy later tries to shoot Frankie, he again attacks him with a stone. At the same moment the Spanish police appear and Frankie escapes through a sewer while Sammy is shot by the police. When Frankie climbs out of the sewer, Carly is already waiting for him. Frankie discovers a pistol in her pocket and realizes he can't trust her, so he throws Carly out of the car. Frankie drives off into the sunset.
At the end of the theatrical version it is revealed that Carly moved back to her parents, Charlie works as a bouncer in his old bar and Sammy "went to hell". Frankie is said to have gone to Hollywood.
additional
- The Business was nominated for "Best Achievement in Production" at the British Independent Film Awards in 2005.
- Danny Dyer , Tamer Hassan and Roland Manookian had already played leading roles in Nick Love's film The Football Factory a year earlier .
- In the DVD version, however, there is an alternative ending that is typical of gangster films. One last surprise awaits Frankie in this one. The border guards asked him to get out of the car to examine it. Since he has taken over the car from Carly, he gets out, suspecting no harm. But suddenly Carly appears out of nowhere and casually says to the border staff that they should find the spare tire.
- The final sentence, Frankie went to Hollywood, is an allusion to the band name Frankie Goes to Hollywood .
criticism
“Gruff gangster film with pop music. A simple, no-frills story with convincing actors. "
Soundtrack
- Duran Duran - Planet Earth
- Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome
- Mary Jane Girls - All Night Long
- The Cult - Wild Flower
- Loose Ends - Hangin 'On A String
- Rick James - Ghetto Life
- Blondie - Heart Of Glass
- Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
- Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach
- The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
- A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran
- Belouis Some - Imagination
- David Bowie - Modern Love
- Shannon - Let the Music Play
- Talk Talk - It's My Life
- The Knack - My Sharona
- Roxy Music - Avalon
- Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark - Maid Of Orleans
- Adam and the Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier
- Blondie - Call Me
Web links
- The Business in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 16 - No youth approval from The Business at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ^ The Business (2005) Awards . IMDb.com. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
- ^ The Business. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .