The loveless

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Movie
German title The loveless
Original title The Loveless
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1982
length 83 minutes
Rod
Director Kathryn Bigelow
Monty Montgomery
script Kathryn Bigelow
Monty Montgomery
production A. Kitman Ho
Grafton Nunes
music Robert Gordon
John Lurie
camera Doyle Smith
cut Nancy Kanter
occupation

Die Lieblosen is a film drama by director Kathryn Bigelow and co-director Monty Montgomery , from 1982 . The film is only available in the original English language. On May 12, 1984 the film was shown on the WDR broadcaster , with German subtitles and a slightly different soundtrack.

action

On the way from Detroit to Daytona , a motorcycle gang seeks a workshop to repair a damaged chain on Hurley's Harley-Davidson . The action takes place in an undisclosed location in Georgia , USA, in 1959. Vance arrives first, he had previously helped a prostitute with a flat tire on her T-Bird and emptied her wallet in the process. He's waiting for the others at the Liberty Truck Stop. Augusta serves there. Vance starts talking to her, she says that she has been stuck here since her husband's death. Your boss Evie sees the rockers as a threat.

Then come La Ville, Davis and Debbie. Later, Ricky and Hurley arrive with the broken motorcycle . Vance rents the local workshop from John's father, Buck, where he meets Talena and gets Dixie beer and Thunderbird schnapps in a liquor shop for a black man. Talena tells Vance about her dead mother and father, her father's complicity in her mother's suicide is implied. Her father Tarver gave her a convertible . He can be seen in a short scene in the Schwarzensiedlung in which the father's illegal business is suggested.

Vance spends the afternoon with Talena at the Midway Motel . There they are surprised by Talena's father, who shoots the tires of Talena's 57 Corvette and takes them with him. A possible abuse by the father is indicated. The others drink and dance in the workshop, telling each other anecdotes from their mutual criminal past and playing with their jackknives before they practice target practice in front of the city. On the way back, Tarver and Talena meet them and Tarver drives the car into the ditch because the two of them are having an argument in the car. After Hurley repairs the motorcycle chain, he races against a redneck in the car, which explodes.

In the evening, the residents of the town meet the motorcyclists in the hotel lounge. Debbie has standing sex outside, while her boyfriend Davis is watching Augusta stripping. Tarver persuades his brother Sid to take action against the motorcyclists. He comes to the shooting when Talena shoots her father. She then shoots herself in her father's car. Vance is watching. Davis shoots the bar. At dawn, the motorcyclists leave the place.

Reviews

"Debut film told in a calm, suggestive rhythm of remarkable technical professionalism, which uses music and cinematic quotes to stylize characters and action and create a detailed image of the atmosphere and music of that time."

- Zweiausendeins.de

Trivia

  • The film is a remake of Der Wilde (Original title: The Wild One ) from 1953. Directed by László Benedek and with Marlon Brando in the lead role.
  • The film was equipped with vehicles and props from the 1950s.
  • The soundtrack comes from the actor Robert Gordon , who is known as a rock and roll musician. He took the budget allotted for the music, but did not deliver a complete soundtrack.
  • Robert Gordon used Vance's original 55 Harley as a piece of furniture after filming.
  • There are almost no tracking shots or pans in the film.
  • The fear of thug gangs and the aversion of whites in the south to people of color are discussed in the film.
  • Liz Gans actually worked as a stripper.
  • The film was made in 27 days of shooting on old Highway 17 near Hardeeville near Savannah , Georgia .
  • Morty Montgomery makes a cameo as the redneck's co-driver.
  • The original title of US 17 was changed from rental to Breakdown and later to The Loveless .
  • According to Billy Idol's autobiography "Dancing with myself", "The Loveless" from the album "Charmed Life" is a tribute to the film.

Soundtracks

Premieres

The film premiered at the Filmex Film Festival in Los Angeles in March 1982 . On September 13, 1982 the film was shown at the Toronto Film Festival before it, two years later, on January 20, 1984 in the US cinemas (in New York ) came. In the same year the film was released on May 25 in Sweden under the title Black Leather .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Lieblosen in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed on April 12, 2011
  2. ^ The Loveless Worlds of Kathryn Bigelow. February 1, 2010, accessed December 30, 2010 .
  • Audio commentary with Willem Dafoe, Kathryn Bigelow and Monty Montgomery on the 2004 DVD version