The Score (2001)
| Movie | |
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| German title | The Score |
| Original title | The Score |
| Country of production | USA , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 14 |
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| Director | Frank Oz |
| script | Daniel E. Taylor , Kario Salem , Lem Dobbs , Scott Marshall Smith |
| production | Gary Foster , Lee Rich |
| music | Howard Shore |
| camera | Rob Hahn |
| cut | Richard Pearson |
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The Score is a 2001 feature film starring Robert De Niro , Edward Norton and Marlon Brando . It belongs to the genre of heist movies and was the last movie with Marlon Brando, who died in 2004.
action
After the aging Canadian master thief Nick Wells almost got caught in a routine break-in, he decides to retire. Together with his lover, the flight attendant Diane, he wants to lead a legal life. Wells runs a jazz bar and so far has managed to maintain a bourgeois facade. However, he lets himself be persuaded by his client Max to do one last big coup. The goal is a French golden royal scepter worth of 30 million dollars . However, Wells has to throw two of his most important principles overboard for this job : For the first time he is operating in his hometown of Montreal and also has a partner. His partner Jack has already meticulously prepared the complicated coup: Disguised as a moronic cleaning man Brian, he has access to the customs building where the scepter is stored. None of the guards sees it as a threat. With his inside knowledge, the coup should succeed. But he needs Nick to open the safe . Jack and Nick have a strong antipathy for each other from the start. Jack is too pushy and careless for Nick. Both have to buy an access code from a hacker. There is almost a shooting at the handover. Nick has various concerns and actually wants to cancel the project. Max asks him to do the coup after all. He, Max, borrowed money from a mafia boss, and if Nick doesn't succeed, the mafia boss will kill him. In solidarity with Max, Nick changes his mind. Nick sneaks into the customs building through a sewer pipe. Jack turns off the security systems. His superior exposes him, but is threatened and locked away by him. Nick opens the safe with the help of water pressure and gets the scepter. However, Jack works on his own account. Immediately after the successful robbery, he threatens Nick with a weapon in the vault and has the bag with the scepter handed over to him. He forces Nick to take off his mask, exposing him to the risk of being detected on video surveillance. Jack, revealed by his superior, manages to escape.
Nick manages to escape through the canal without being recognized. A short time later, Jack calls Nick to savor his triumph. It turns out, however, that Nick did not trust Jack and had previously swapped the scepter for a piece of scrap without being noticed. While Nick can go undetected and retire with his girlfriend, the police open a nationwide hunt for Jack.
criticism
“Frank Oz, known for lightweight comedies like 'In & Out' and 'Bowfinger's Big Number', made his first dramatic film a personal prestige object - and hopelessly overloaded it with pretentious frills. The sustained pace hardly creates tension, the punch line is foreseeable. "
“A crime thriller that is completely dedicated to the gangster film of the classic direction, revives the old myths and concepts of honor and focuses primarily on the father-son conflict between its two protagonists. An emphatically old-fashioned film in a sedate, largely non-violent staging. "
"One of the best heist films in recent years"
Awards
In 2002, Angela Bassett won a NAACP Image Award for Best Supporting Actress.
production
The Score was shot in the greater Montreal area. During production, Brando regularly argued with director Oz and called him "Miss Piggy". This was an allusion to Oz having been a puppeteer on the Muppet Show (from 1976 to 2001). Oz later blamed himself for the falling out. He reacted very confrontationally to Brando. Brando did not take any more instructions later and demanded that De Niro shoot the scenes with him, which he did. Oz later said that De Niro acted as a mediator between him and Brando.
Trivia
The method used in the film to bypass the safe's security system was the subject of an episode of the Mythbusters series in which an identical safe was supposed to be cracked using the same method. It was found that when the safe lid was opened with the help of an oxygen lance, the entire contents of the safe caught fire and were destroyed in the process. In addition, the safe could not be successfully filled with water because it was fireproof but not waterproof. It was possible to bypass the system and, as in the film, to open the safe, but the stolen property was also badly damaged in the explosion.
In the film, the native New Yorker De Niro runs a jazz bar in Montreal called NYC (New York City), in which the two jazz singers Cassandra Wilson and Mose Allison have guest appearances.
Web links
- The score in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The score atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- The Score at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dirk Jaspers Filmlexikon - The Score ( Memento from January 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ The Score. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Ebert's review in the Chicago Sun Times
- ↑ Jess Cagle: Cinema: How To Make A Score . Time . July 16, 2001. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
- ↑ Jess Cagle, How To Make A Score . In: Time . June 16, 2001. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
- ↑ Capone: Capone With Frank Oz About DEATH AT A FUNERAL, What Went Wrong On STEPFORD, And (Of Course) Yoda !! . In: Aintitcool . August 7, 2007. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
- ^ Nicole Kidman-Frank Oz's Tense Remake . contactmusic.com. February 10, 2003.
- ^ Tim Robey: Brando's trousers - the truth . The Daily Telegraph . September 18, 2001. Retrieved April 27, 2015.