What women Want

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Movie
German title What women Want
Original title What women want
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2000
length 127 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK unrestricted
Rod
Director Nancy Meyers
script Diane Drake
Josh Goldsmith
Cathy Yuspa
production Carmen Finestra
Stephen McEveety
David McFadzean
music Alan Silvestri
camera Dean Cundey
cut Thomas J. Nordberg
Stephen A. Rotter
occupation

What Women Want (Original title: What Women Want ) is an American comedy film directed by Nancy Meyers from 2000 .

action

Nick Marshall lives as a chauvinist who does not have a long-term relationship with a woman. Now an unpleasant surprise awaits the divorced employee of the Sloane Curtis advertising agency in Chicago : Since the agency wants to target more female audiences, Darcy Maguire is hired as the new creative director . Nick is shocked because he was counting on his own promotion and has now lost to a woman of all people.

The boss, who appears very consistently and dominantly, presents her plan at the first meeting. She gives her employees a package with products made for women and asks for creative ideas. Nick then rehearses in his apartment to the music of Meredith Brooks ' Bitch a . a. Depilatory strips and tights off. When he falls into the bathtub with the hairdryer and receives an electric shock, he undergoes a strange transformation: The next morning, Nick realizes that he can hear the thoughts of women.

This new gift bothers him at first, but a marriage counselor advises him to view his ability as an opportunity - after all, he is now the only "woman who understands" worldwide. Nick is now enjoying success on all levels. He proves to be a caring father buying his daughter Alex a prom dress and impresses his lover Lola with his sexual prowess. But the most important thing for him is professional progress. He "overhears" Darcy and steals her ideas without her discovering him. In doing so, he helps his ailing agency to get a lucrative contract with Nike .

Then his boss Dan Wanamaker dismisses Darcy and promotes him to creative director. However, since Nick has now fallen in love with his competitor, he confesses to Dan that he stole Darcy's ideas and works to get Darcy back her post. When he tries to visit the office worker Erin to prevent her from allegedly attempting suicide, he gets caught in a storm and receives another electric shock, which makes him lose his special ability again. Nevertheless, he is able to comfort his daughter, who was betrayed by her boyfriend Cameron, successfully. Then he visits Darcy and confesses that he has taken advantage of her and that he loves her, and the two make up with a long kiss.

Reviews

The film received mixed reviews, earning a 54% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 121 reviews. At Metacritic one could Metascore of 47, based on 33 reviews, can be achieved.

The film was described as "a successful romantic comedy" and a "lively comedy" (in the magazine Cinema 2/2001). The portrayal of Mel Gibson was widely acclaimed.

The lexicon of international films quoted from the magazine film-dienst 4/2001 that the film was "a not very original comedy that flirts uninspired with the common cliché images of gender roles". He leaves “hardly any space for nuances”.

Awards

Mel Gibson was for the film awards Golden Globe and Blockbuster Entertainment Award nomination. Helen Hunt won the Blockbuster Entertainment Award . Marisa Tomei was nominated for the Blockbuster Entertainment Award and the Golden Satellite Award . Mark Feuerstein was nominated for the Blockbuster Entertainment Award . Ashley Johnson was nominated for the Young Artist Award .

The film received the gold screen , the gold screen with one star, the Bogey Award in platinum and was nominated for the Saturn Award . He was also nominated for the Artios Award from the Casting Society of America .

Alan Silvestri won the ASCAP Film and Television Music Award .

In Germany the film for over 5 million viewers in 50 days was the bogey in platinum excellent.

backgrounds

The masculine characteristics that Mel Gibson lists as particularly desirable in the meeting room scene are based on a survey by Vanity Fair (issue 8/1997). The most frequently mentioned qualities were empathy , humor , loyalty and athleticism . However, the most common answer is not mentioned in the film: intimate hygiene .

The film was shot in Chicago , Culver City , Los Angeles and Beverly Hills . Production costs were estimated at 70 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 374.1 million worldwide, including approximately $ 182.8 million in US cinemas. It had around 6.4 million moviegoers in Germany.

The name of the advertising agency Nick Marshall works for is Sloan, Curtis & Co. This is the same agency that J. C. Wiatt ( Diane Keaton ) works for in the 1987 film Baby Boom .

In 2019 what men want was a remake with reversed gender roles.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What women want at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  2. ↑ What women want at Metacritic (English)
  3. ↑ What women want in the Lexicon of International Films,Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used accessed on September 5, 2007
  4. ^ Filming locations for What Women Want , accessed September 5, 2007
  5. ↑ Box office / business for What Women Want , accessed September 5, 2007