The Missing (film)

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Movie
German title The Missing
Original title The Missing
Country of production United States
original language English , Spanish , Chiricahua
Publishing year 2003
length 137 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 16
Rod
Director Ron Howard
script Ken Kaufman
production Brian Grazer ,
Ron Howard,
Daniel Ostroff
music James Horner
camera Salvatore Totino
cut Daniel P. Hanley ,
Mike Hill
occupation

The Missing is an American film drama by Ron Howard from the year 2003 with Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett in the lead roles. The plot is based on the 1995 novel The Last Ride by Thomas Eidson .

action

The action takes place in New Mexico at the end of the 19th century. Maggie Gilkeson lives with her daughters Dot and Lilly on a farm and her work as a healer. She has a relationship with her neighbor Brake Baldwin who helps her. When her father, Samuel Jones, reappears, who when Maggie was a child had left his family and lived with the Indians, she throws him out of the house.

A gang of deserters Apaches - Scouts coat later Brake, accompany the Dot and Lilly to work. Brake is murdered and Lilly is kidnapped to be sold in Mexico along with other kidnapped girls. Dot can hide and afterwards tells her mother about the disaster. When the local sheriff learns from Maggie what happened, he refuses to pursue the Indians. Maggie therefore sets out to pursue her together with Dot and her father, whose help she now inevitably accepts. During the long ride, father and daughter gradually come closer again.

Two Chiricahua , who come to the aid of the three, become involved in the following battles. With her help, Maggie and her father manage to free the girls and decimate the Apaches, but one of the Chiricahua dies while they are later pursued by the remnants of the gang. But you can temporarily get to safety on a rocky high plateau.

There, at night, there is a showdown between the liberators and their pursuers. During this battle, Samuel dies when he kills the leader of the pursuers. But he saves Maggie's life. His death leads to the defeat of the gang, whose survivors then withdraw. After her disappearance, Maggie finds her father, forgives him and brings home his body, her daughters, Chiricahua, who was injured in the fighting, and the other girls who were rescued.

background

The film was shot in New Mexico between February and June 2003. Its production costs amounted to about 65 million US dollars ; it grossed $ 27 million in US cinemas. In the film, the original Chiricahua language is spoken, a dialect of the Apaches. In return, Tommy Lee Jones and the other Indian actors learned from the Apaches for months. They also learned about their culture in order to make the film realistic.

Reviews

Richard Schickel praised Cate Blanchett's portrayal of Maggie Gilkeson on November 17, 2003 on www.time.com (published in the print edition of TIME November 24, 2003). The film, which is atypical as a western, is reminiscent of the works of James Fenimore Cooper . It also contains mystical elements such as the sorcery of the shaman Chidin.

Lisa Schwarzbaum wrote in Entertainment Weekly on November 19, 2003 that the film was lacking soul, but praised Cate Blanchett.

Kenneth Turan wrote in the Los Angeles Times on November 26, 2003 that the film looked dark and threatening. He praised the intensity of the performances by Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett.

In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on February 7, 2004, Peter Körte described the film as a “respectable late branch of the genre”. His “view of the realities of the West” is sober, his “physical directness convincing”. However, the feeling arises that the leading actors "belong in another film that one would have preferred to see".

Cristina Nord wrote in the TAZ on February 7, 2004 that the film “puts old wine into beautiful skins; Not only his Indians look like something out of the moth box of the 19th century ”. The “gentle modernization” of the genre has resulted in “strange shifts: Maggie, for example, is the rear projection of a modern, tough, working single mom ; her father looks like a hippie who has turned gray in the New Age and indignity ”.

"Great pictures, fabulous actors and a rousing story leave nothing to be desired."

- Cinema

“Stylistically insecure Western, but in the long run it knows how to arouse a surprising amount of interest in its characters, who are characterized by harsh living conditions. Good actors and the excellent landscape photography make the lengths and brutalities largely bearable. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

The film took part in the Berlinale 2004 as a competition entry, whereby Ron Howard was nominated for the Golden Bear . Cate Blanchett, Jenna Boyd and the film for Best Thriller were nominated for the Saturn Award in 2004. Jenna Boyd won the Young Artist Award in 2004 ; Evan Rachel Wood was nominated for the Young Artist Award. James Horner was nominated for the 2004 Golden Satellite Award .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Production report on SonyPictures.com ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sonypictures.com
  2. ^ Certificate of Release for The Missing . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2004 (PDF; test number: 96 827 K).
  3. ↑ Age rating for The Missing . Youth Media Commission .
  4. ^ Business Data for The Missing
  5. ^ The Missing Kultura Extra . Retrieved March 12, 2018.
  6. ^ Critique by Richard Schickel
  7. ^ Critique by Lisa Schwarzbaum
  8. ↑ Review by Kenneth Turan
  9. ^ Film review by Peter Körte, accessed on February 11, 2008
  10. ^ Film review by Cristina Nord, accessed on February 11, 2008
  11. ^ The Missing Cinema . Retrieved March 12, 2018.
  12. ↑ The Missing. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used