The Town - city without mercy
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Town - city without mercy |
| Original title | The Town |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | Theatrical Version: 124 minutes Extended Cut: 154 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ben Affleck |
| script | Ben Affleck, Peter Craig , Aaron Stockard |
| production |
Graham King , Basil Iwanyk |
| music |
Harry Gregson-Williams , David Buckley |
| camera | Robert Elswit |
| cut | Dylan Tichenor |
| occupation | |
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The Town (Original title: The Town ) is a feature film by the US-American director and actor Ben Affleck from 2010 . The plot is based on Chuck Hogan's novel Endgame ( Prince of Thieves ) and focuses on a group of bank robbers operating in the Boston suburb of Charlestown .
The film premiered at the 67th Venice International Film Festival on September 8, 2010. In Germany and Switzerland, it opened in theaters on September 23, 2010, and in Austria one day later.
action
The film is about a group of robbers who successfully raid banks and money trucks in Charlestown , with the tips and information for the raids coming from the gang boss Fergie, disguised as a small florist. The group is led by Doug MacRay, son of former bank robber Stephen MacRay, who also robbed banks for Fergie. Other members of the group are Albert and Desmond, two friends of Doug's also from Charlestown, and James Coughlin, whose family Doug stayed with after his father's arrest. Doug and James have a very brotherly relationship with each other. The violence-prone James once committed a murder to protect Doug. James went to jail for nine years for this murder.
In a bank robbery, James decides to take Claire Keesey, the branch manager, hostage for safety. However, since they can escape undetected, they release them again a short time later. In retrospect, it turns out that Claire also lives in Charlestown. Fearing that they will be exposed by her, the group decides to have Doug follow them. During the shadowing, however, Doug is approached by Claire, and so gradually a love affair develops between the two. James learns of the relationship by accident, but hides it from the other members of the group.
Meanwhile, the FBI agent Adam Frawley tries to solve the bank robbery. Although he can identify Doug's group as the bank robbers, he cannot prove the robberies to them. After another robbery on a money truck, which resulted in heavy exchanges of fire with the police, Doug's plans change. He wants to get out and start a new life with Claire far away. James feels let down by Doug and is disappointed in him. Gang boss Fergie blackmails Doug to join in the next robbery. He threatens to kill Claire. Fergie also tells Doug that he made Doug's mother addicted to drugs when Doug's father tried to quit. Doug allows himself to be blackmailed and agrees to participate in another heist on the Fenway Park baseball stadium . Claire, meanwhile, learns of Doug's identity as a bank robber from Agent Frawley and doesn't want to hear from him anymore. A later discussion between the two shows that they still love each other.
Agent Frawley manages to find the location of the next robbery through the blackmail of Doug's ex-girlfriend Krista, James' sister. The attack succeeds, but the group is surrounded by the FBI. In a first firefight, Desmond is shot by the special forces. Through a suicide campaign by Albert, Doug and James manage to escape. James is caught by Agent Frawley shortly afterwards. After some thought, he announced that he would give up, only to immediately resume fire on the policemen, although he was out of ammunition - he would rather die than go back to prison. He is shot dead by the police.
Doug is the only one who manages to escape. After killing the gang boss and his bodyguard, he still wants to start a new life with Claire, but finds that the FBI is forced to lure him into a trap. She warns him without the FBI noticing. He leaves town alone and leaves her with a bag with part of his looted fortune, a love letter and a tangerine . The mandarins (Engl. Tangerine ) is an indication of the birthplace of Doug's mother, Tangerine in Orange County , of which he had previously told Claire. The last shots of the film show Doug in a secluded house on a lake in the south, waiting for a reunion with Claire "in this or the next world".
In the Extended Cut with an alternate ending, Doug is shot and killed by the gangsters that Doug and James had previously beaten up while trying to leave town.
reception
Grossing results
The film grossed approximately $ 23.8 million in its first week in the United States and approximately $ 15.6 million in the second week with a drop of 34.5 percent. Overall, the film grossed approximately $ 154 million worldwide on an estimated $ 37 million budget, including about $ 92 million in the United States.
Reviews
The film received generally good reviews. The film magazine Cinema called The Town the best action film since Heat and praised the passionate acting performance of the actors. Ben Affleck, she predicts a great directing career. The TV direct wrote in its review: "A powerful piece of cinema! Affleck is getting better and better as a director ”. TV Spielfilm recognized The Town as “Best Thriller of the Year” and described Affleck's work as “Great Cinema”. TV Movie praised the film as an "exceptional thriller". From the Hörzu is The Town recommended as "Thrilling gangster ballad".
The Metascore service Internet Movie Database found 7.6 out of 10 positive votes for The Town . Rotten Tomatoes has a 94% review score based on 213 reviews. At the same time, 84% of the audience rated the film as positive. At Metacritic , it received a 74% rating based on 42 reviews.
“The Town is a rare breed of adult genre film, full of captivating characters and great acting. [...] Ben Affleck is about to become a great director. "
Awards
The film's cast won the 2010 National Board of Review Award and was nominated for the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award in the same category . Supporting Actor Jeremy Renner received an Oscar , Screen Actors Guild Award , Satellite Award , and Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. The film received Satellite Award nominations for the categories: Best Picture (Drama), Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Editing.
It was Pete Postlethwaite's penultimate film. He was already marked by cancer and died in early 2011. In 2011 he was posthumously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Publishing on DVD and Blu-ray Disc
The Town was released in Germany on January 24, 2011 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc . In addition to the theatrical version, the Blu-ray version contains a 30-minute longer Extended Cut, which contains some new and changed scenes, but does not have a German soundtrack.
In addition, a third cut was released on Blu-ray, which was released in Germany on September 7, 2012 as the "Premium Collection". In addition to the two cut versions of the original Blu-ray release, this contains the Extended Cut with an alternative ending. There is no German soundtrack for this version either.
Web links
- The Town - without mercy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official German-language website
- The Town - without mercy at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- The Town - City Without Mercy by Metacritic (English)
- The Town in the online movie database
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Town - City of No Mercy . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2012 (PDF; test number: 124 351-a V).
- ↑ Age rating for The Town - City Without Mercy . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ The Town (2010). Box Office Mojo, accessed December 27, 2010 .
- ↑ Cinema, October 2010 edition, pp. 36–40, Artur Jung
- ↑ Article in TV direct ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Article in TV feature film
- ↑ Criticism in TV Movie ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ German IMDB
- ↑ The Town - City of No Mercy at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ↑ The Town - City Without Mercy in Metacritic (English)
- ^ Bauer Media Group: Empire 1st edition, page 36, October 2010
- ↑ Nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards . Oskars.org . Retrieved February 3, 2011
- ↑ DigitalVD: The Town - City Without Mercy: from January 24, 2011 on Blu-ray, DVD ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 22, 2010, accessed January 4, 2014
- ↑ Schnittberichte.com: The Town with 3 cuts in the Premium Collection , June 30, 2012, accessed on January 4, 2014
