The Crying Game
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Crying Game |
| Original title | The Crying Game |
| Country of production | United Kingdom , Japan |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Neil Jordan |
| script | Neil Jordan |
| production | Stephen Woolley |
| music |
Simon Boswell , Anne Dudley , Geoff Stephens |
| camera | Ian Wilson |
| cut | Kant Pan |
| occupation | |
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The Crying Game is a feature of the Irish director and screenwriter Neil Jordan from the year 1992 . The thriller is based on an original script by Jordan and a. Produced by film studios British Screen Productions , Channel Four Films and Nippon Film Development and Finance Inc. The title goes back to a British pop song by Dave Berry from 1964, which is interpreted by one of the main characters in the film. A cover version of the song by Boy George ( Culture Club ) is shown in the credits in the film.
action
During a trip to an amusement park in Northern Ireland , the British soldier Jody is ensnared by the attractive Jew and lured into a trap of the Irish underground army IRA . The terrorist group threatens to kill him in order to free a comrade arrested by the police. The rather gentle co-conspirator Fergus, who is assigned by Maguire, the head of the group, to guard the kidnapped Jody, quickly becomes friends with the Afro-European, and Jody shows him a worn photo of himself and his beautiful girlfriend, Dil. When the British government does not respond to the demands of the IRA, Fergus is given the order to execute Jody. Fergus struggles with himself. When he hesitates to carry out Jody's death sentence, Jody escapes.
While fleeing from Fergus through the woods, Jody is run over by a British troop carrier that accidentally drives by. The British Army becomes aware of the terrorists, they are blown up and their quarters are shot down. Fergus manages to get away with it all and he travels to London with a new identity , where he finds work in construction. "Jimmy", as he calls himself now, tracks down Jody's girlfriend, to whom he wants to deliver the dead man's last message. However, the seductive and sensual Dil casts such a spell over Fergus that he hides the dead man's message. She takes him to her apartment, which is decorated with an installation of Jody's portraits and memorabilia of her lover. Fergus only discovers when he wants to go to bed with her that she has a penis - a fact she thought he was aware of, since he approached her in a gay bar. He beats her, fled in shock. He tries to stay away from Dil, but still feels drawn to her. Fergus' situation becomes more complicated when the two supposedly dead combatants Jude and Maguire turn up at his place. The two are planning an assassination attempt on a London judge and need Fergus to carry out the act. Fergus initially refuses, but is forced to do so by the ruthless Jew by threatening to do something to Dil.
Dil tries in vain to get out of Fergus what he is hiding from her, what he is afraid of. On the day of the planned assassination, Fergus is tied to the bed and held by Dil. She has now found out what connection Fergus had to Jody, but still loves the melancholy Irishman. When Fergus does not show up as agreed, Maguire tries to shoot the judge himself, but is shot by his bodyguards . Jude escapes from the crime scene and seeks revenge. When she wants to make Dil pay for the failed job, she is shot by her. Fergus urges Dil to flee, covers her tracks at the crime scene, faces the police as Judes' alleged murderer in order to save her from prison. Sentenced to a long prison term, Dil regularly visits him, who is waiting outside for his release.
History of origin
The casting for the part of Dil turned out to be extremely difficult for the filmmakers, Stanley Kubrick even warned his friend Neil Jordan that the role could not be cast. Casting director Susie Figgis first became aware of Jaye Davidson after a tip from director Derek Jarman . Davidson was "discovered" at a costume party for Jarman's film Edward II and was immediately offered the role in The Crying Game . Davidson said he was very drunk and not very enthusiastic at the time. At first he thought someone was joking him badly. Still, Davidson took on the role to pay for a pair of handmade leather boots he 'd seen in an issue of Vogue .
synchronization
The German dubbing took place at Neue Tonfilm Munich . Pierre Peters-Arnolds wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Fergus | Stephen Rea | Martin Umbach |
| Jody | Forest Whitaker | Ekkehardt Belle |
| Dil | Jaye Davidson | Sandra Schwittau |
| Jew | Miranda Richardson | Katharina Lopinski |
reception
Neil Jordan's script was rejected by many film studios because of the unexpected twist in the plot ; in retrospect, however, this established the film's financial success. An intelligent and provocative advertising campaign by Miramax exploited the secret of Jaye Davidson's character, and The Crying Game was number 3 on the US box office for weeks . The estimated $ 2.3 million production grossed $ 62 million at the box office in the United States alone. In Germany, the film could not build on the success in the USA and Great Britain at the time.
In 2017 the BFI released a DVD and a Blu-Ray version of the film, supplemented by extensive bonus material ( making of , the alternative version of the end of the film) as well as a detailed interview with Neil Jordan and a 32-page booklet.
Reviews
- "Between IRA terror and passion: Neil Jordan's masterpiece is a puzzle about identity and politics" (Cinema)
- "Jaye Davidson: A special effect on legs!" (Prince)
- "A fantastic thriller." (Sunday Telegraph)
- "Sexy, brutal, overheated." (News Day)
- "It's such a shocker, my blood froze in my veins." (Sunday Mirror)
- “Fascinatingly told and excellently played story of a young man whose self-discovery and decision-making ability can barely keep pace with the events that are coming from outside; In addition, an excellent and pleasurable reflection on appearance and reality. "(Lexicon of international films)
Remarks
- During production, the film ran under the working title The Soldier's Wife (German: " The Soldier's Wife ").
- Producer Stephen Woolley owned Scala cinema in London's Kings Cross at the time of filming . When it came to funding problems with the low-budget film, Woolley borrowed money from the profits of his cinema to keep production going.
- A few weeks after filming began, Jaye Davidson caught the flu . A doctor was called to the film set , who found Davidson in his little trailer and examined him. When the doctor came out of the trailer, he asked director Neil Jordan if he had already considered that his actress might be pregnant. Jordan and the entire film crew burst out laughing, and a little later the doctor was informed about Jaye Davidson's gender.
Awards
Neil Jordan's original mixture of psychological thriller and love story initially turned out to be a flop after the premiere in Great Britain, but in 1992 it enraged and delighted the cinema audience in the USA and was in the favor of the critics. A year later, The Crying Game was nominated for six Academy Awards , but at the time it fell short of Clint Eastwood's Western Merciless and James Ivory's novel adaptation, Reunion in Howards End . Nevertheless, Neil Jordan received the Academy Award for his ambiguous script. The film also won the British Academy Film Award for Best British Production of the Year.
- Best original script
Nominated in the categories
- Best movie
- Best director
- Best Actor ( Stephen Rea )
- Best Supporting Actor ( Jaye Davidson )
- Best cut
- Best British Film
Nominated in the categories
- Best movie
- Best director
- Best Actor ( Stephen Rea )
- Best Supporting Actor ( Jaye Davidson )
- Best Supporting Actress ( Miranda Richardson )
- Best original script
- nominated for best film drama
- Further
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards 1994
- Top Box Office Film
Amanda Awards 1993
- Best foreign film
Australian Film Institute 1993
- Best foreign film
Directors Guild of America Award 1993
- nominated in the category "Best Director"
- nominated as best film
European film award 1993
- Best Achievement
Goya 1994
- nominated as best European film
Independent Spirit Awards 1993
- Best foreign film
London Critics Circle Film Awards 1993
- Best British Director of the Year
- Best British Producer of the Year
- Best British Screenwriter of the Year
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1992
- Best foreign film
- Most Promising Acting Debut (Jaye Davidson)
National Society of Film Critics 1993
- Best Actor (Stephen Rea)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1992
- Best Supporting Actress (Miranda Richardson)
- Best script
- Film producer of the year
- Best original script
Writers' Guild of Great Britain 1993
- Best Screenplay (Film)
The film was voted 26th Best British Films of the 20th Century by the British Film Institute in 1999.
literature
- Neil Jordan: The Crying Game. Vintage Books, London 1993. ISBN 0-09-932711-2 .
- Kamilla Dominika Biskup: "Troubled Fiction". Filming History and Politics of the Irish Republican Army . Political violence of the IRA in films by Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan in a dramaturgical comparison to Ken Loach and Steve McQueen. Diploma thesis University of Vienna. Vienna 2009. Full text, pdf ; Saarbrücken: AV Akademikerverlag 2016. ISBN 978-3-639-80640-3
- Searle Kochberg: Case Stude 3: A medium budget UK production - The Crying Game (Neil Jordan 1992) in: Jill Nelmes (Ed.): Introduction to Film Studies . 5th revised ed. London: Taylor & Francis 2011. ISBN 0-415-58259-8
Web links
- The Crying Game in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- "How We Made The Crying Game". Jack Watkins: Interview with Neil Jordan and Miranda Richardson. The Guardian, February 21, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Crying Game . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2006 (PDF; accessed on February 24, 2018).
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | The Crying Game - The soldier's wife. Retrieved March 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Chris Galloway: The Crying Game. In: CriterionForum.org. February 23, 2017, accessed May 18, 2019 .
- ^ The Crying Game. In: Cinema .de. Retrieved November 3, 2017 .
- ^ The Crying Game. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 3, 2017 .
- ↑ Maria Parmaggio: Neil Jordan. Chicago: Illinois Univ. Press 2008. p. 90
- ↑ The Crying Game at 25: Sex, politics and Oscars BBC ARTS, February 17, 2017, accessed April 6, 2018.