Tiger land

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Movie
German title Tiger land
Original title Tiger land
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2000
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Joel Schumacher
script Ross Klavan
Michael McGruther
production Beau Flynn
Steven Haft
Arnon Milchan
music Nathan Larson
camera Matthew Libatique
cut Mark Stevens
occupation

Tigerland is an American war drama by Joel Schumacher from the year 2000 .

action

The film shows US Army recruits being prepared for their deployment in the Vietnam War in 1971 . Roland Bozz has a negative attitude towards the army and is deliberately disrespectful to his superiors. In the first scene you can see Bozz being released from prison. The military policeman who picks him up and brings him back to his own unit tells him that next time he will be tried in a military tribunal.

Bozz's unit is given free space before a series of exercises. Bozz himself does not have permission to exit, but has left the camp without permission. In a bar he meets the soldier Jim Paxton from his unit, with whom he befriends. In the bar, Bozz and Paxton meet two girls with whom they spend the night.

Time and again, Bozz helps comrades find loopholes in order to be discharged from the army. For example, he helps a comrade to be released from military service because of his disabled wife. Partly because of this, he comes into conflict with another soldier in his unit named Wilson. One day he threatens him with his weapon and a fight ensues. Wilson pulls the trigger on his pistol, but no shot is released due to a jam .

The unit is practicing on a training area known as Tigerland , on which conditions such as those in Vietnam were partially simulated. Bozz's unit plays Vietnamese in a drill for a group that is surprisingly led by the undischarged Wilson. With Wilson seeking revenge and losing control, Bozz's unit wins the exercise, which turns into a brawl. Wilson threatens Bozz with killing him. During the next ambush exercise, Wilson swaps his practice ammunition for live ammunition and shoots Bozz's unit, whereupon he is arrested. Meanwhile, Bozz stands over Paxton and deliberately fires a blank cartridge at Paxton's face in a scuffle, the muzzle flash of which injures Paxton's eye. As a result, Paxton is initially on sick leave and finally discharged from the army as unfit for service, but he does not suffer any permanent damage to the eye.

At the end of the film, Bozz and the other soldiers are transferred to Vietnam. Before they leave the base in a bus, Paxton and Bozz say goodbye to each other and Paxton promises Bozz to write a book about his deeds. However, Bozz stole Paxton's diary and tore it up on his departure. At the end of the film, Paxton said in an off-screen comment that he would never have seen Bozz afterwards and that he allegedly died in Vietnam. Another would have called Paxton and told him he had seen him in Mexico with a beautiful girl.

Reviews

Kevin Thomas wrote in the Los Angeles Times on October 6, 2000 that the film contained more "psychological tension" than action. This makes him atypical - especially for the director Joel Schumacher, who is known for blockbusters . The film is "fresh", "captivating" and "unpredictable"; his script is " top-notch ".

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was an “exciting variation of the war film genre” that clearly showed “the inhumanity of the drill to kill”. In places it seems like a "television documentary", which corresponds "in an intensive way" to the "blurred reality perception of young men".

Awards

Colin Farrell won the Boston Society of Film Critics Award in 2000 and the London Critics Circle Film Award in 2002 . The script and Cole Hauser were nominated for the 2001 Independent Spirit Award . The film was nominated for the 2001 Political Film Society Award for Exposé .

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

background

The film was shot in Florida , including at Camp Blanding in Starke , where The Jane Files were also shot. Its production amounted to an estimated 7 million US dollars .

The film was shown in a few cinemas in the USA; there were no more than five at a time. He grossed about $ 140,000 . In France over 28,000 moviegoers were counted.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Review by Kevin Thomas (English)
  2. Tigerland. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. Filming locations for Tigerland
  4. "Box office / business" for Tigerland