Times change you
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Times change you |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Uli Edel |
| script | Bernd Eichinger |
| production | Bernd Eichinger, Christian Becker |
| music | Bushido |
| camera | Rainer Klausmann |
| cut | Hans Funck |
| occupation | |
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Times change you is a film biography from 2010, for whose screenplay Bernd Eichinger was inspired by the autobiography of the rapper Bushido . Bushido's ninth solo album, which is also entitled Times Change You , also serves as the soundtrack for the film.
The German premiere of the film, which was mainly shot in Berlin-Kreuzberg, took place on February 3, 2010 in Berlin .
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Anis Mohamed Youssef Ferchichi, known as "Bushido", is a successful rapper on tour through Germany when he receives a postcard from his father. Memories of his difficult life so far come back. Now he is reviewing it again.
Anis spends his childhood and youth in a socially deprived area of Berlin. He grew up in a violent environment and his mother was abused by his father. He's not one of the best in school, but he's interested in music. When he was about three years old, his father disappeared. His mother remarries and has a son again with her second husband. But the new husband also leaves the family, and Anis is "the only man in the house". Anis begins using and trading drugs , but stops when his family is ambushed by other dealers.
He turned to music and adopted the stage name "Bushido". Together with his friend Patrick, who later calls himself “Fler”, he is finally signed by the Hardcore Berlin label. When the contract with "Hardcore" seems unfavorable to him, he asks the professional criminal Arafat for help. This threatens the manager of Hardcore Berlin, who then dissolves the contract with Bushido. Slowly but surely the fame is coming. He no longer signed his next contract with Fler, but with “Kay One” and “Nyze”. After his tough youth, he made it, he and his family are happy, and Anis is reconciled with his father again.
Others
- The pop singer Karel Gott , with whom Bushido recorded the top 5 hit " Forever Young" in 2008 , sings the song in the film with Bushido in front of the Brandenburg Gate .
- Martin Semmelrogge appears as a tattoo artist as part of a cameo appearance .
- Some of the graffiti in the film was created by Fler .
- In the film the counterpart to Aggro Berlin Hardcore Berlin and Sido is called “Scalpel”.
- At the Austrian premiere on February 4, 2010 in Vienna , Bushido was not allowed to enter the cinema because the anteroom and the red carpet had been stormed by the fans and security could no longer be guaranteed.
- The umbrella organization of the film industry (SPIO) used the film as an example of productions that were illegally distributed on the Internet before, during or after the cinema releases. The film started extraordinarily well, but as a result the visits to the cinema were suddenly broken off. At the same time, the production headed the “bestseller” lists of illegal peer-to-peer networks or streaming sites.
Music in the film
- Bushido - Times Change (Song from Album 7 )
- Bushido - times change you (song from the album of the same name times change you)
- Chakuza feat. Bizzy Montana (Song from the album Times Change You)
- Bushido - Don't give me your hand (song from album 7)
- Bushido - freestyle
- Bushido - Forgive & Forget (song from album times change you)
- Karel Gott - you know where to go
- Bushido - Dein Bezirk (Rap A cappella ), also known as Electrofaust (Intro to the album Vom Bordstein bis zur Skyline )
- Bushido - 4, 3, 2, 1 Thank you, Aggro Berlin (song from album Heavy Metal Payback )
- Bushido - Intro King of Kingz (Song from the album King of Kingz)
- Bushido - 23 Hours of Cell (song from the album Times Change You)
- Bushido feat. Sissi Boo - Beats
- Bushido feat. Karel Gott - Forever Young (Song from the album Heavy Metal Payback)
- Karel Gott - Maya the Bee
- Bushido - Everything will be fine (song from the album times change you)
- Calvin Samuel, Josh Kessler, Keith Salandy, Marc Ferrari - Go get it
- Philippe Guez - Belly Dancer
- Philippe Guez - Nomad's Land
- Derrick Carolina, Jahmal Durham, Mack Tompkins - Gangsta
- Andrea Coclough - After the violence
- Robert Joseph Walsh - Bedouin Life
- Jack Elliot - Jail Time
- Eliot Pulse, Ray Mitti - Let me see you move
- George Fenion / John Herbert Leach - Bazaar
- Stephan "Gudze" Hinz - Boogie
Bushido and Fler also rap part of the song At Night by Bushido
Reviews
The film received mostly negative reviews. The cinema editors criticized the film characters for being unsympathetic and wasting their time with “stupid sayings, false pride and aggressiveness”, while Bushido “cannot act and his music is not exactly bubbling over with originality”. A critic in the Nordkurier posted it The thesis that director Uli Edel “severely scratches” his life's work, which is based on films like Christiane F. - We Children from Zoo Station , Last Exit Brooklyn or The Baader Meinhof Complex . The reason for this is "the complete lack of differentiation , the awkward commentary, acting and dialogues at the level of a previous evening series." Florian Koch criticized in the evening newspaper that the film "suppresses the argument with archenemy Sido " while it "always appears as a fictional biography is weakest when he seriously wants to analyze the problems of the aggro rappers. ”The criticism of the ddp saw“ self-staging as a cool, upright macho [...] sabotaged by involuntarily funny scenes and amateurish acting. ”From this point of view,“ Bushido is the one plays himself as an adult and tells the story off-screen [...] not a natural acting talent and seems rather embarrassing. "
A similar picture was drawn by Rüdiger Suchsland, who describes the result of the production as a “prollig film” and “involuntary full trash” in which Bushido moves as “a fictional figure of made up warriorism, made up ghetto and made up provocation”. Their self-importance would neither be exhibited nor deconstructed, but also not glorified with glamor, but “simply doubled in a stupid way”. Suchsland sees “a couple of disoriented affluent children” as the target group of the film, who “seriously believe they are“ street ”and stylize themselves to be humiliated and insulted in order to then accept Bushido as their spokesperson."
In contrast, the picture praises the film as “A cinema memorial for Bushido that polarizes and reconciles.” It is “cinema to think about”.
The Süddeutsche Zeitung states that the film “could be called a very ordinary, aesthetically and dramatically unsuccessful film for the newcomer if it were n't for the third kind of event in the ongoing dispute [about the criticism of Islam ].” Critic Jens sees the cause for this -Christian Rabe especially in the fact that "the dark sides of the work of the rapper , who was once launched as a homophobic , sexist and violence-glorifying Berlin gangster [...] have a mild sheen in the film or do not appear at all." the brooding reservations about their own culture, castigated by the critics of Islam, [...] finally no longer exist. ”On this basis, the production offers a“ much more convenient version of the integration ”of migrants than post-structuralist- inspired social theory .
"[...] To convincingly convey the nonsense with sauce, you need the real Bushido - and he even manages it properly in the game scenes. As soon as he explains his own thoughts and actions from the off, however, the film smears: You could hardly have found a more awkward speaker. Sendung mit der Maus goes to the problem area. [...] "
“And then Edel and Eichinger want something else: Bushido is“ contemporary history ”for them, and they want to tell contemporary history. Then it gets dark because you can't iron out all the breaks, edges and folds [...] Where are the stories of the “victims” who fall by the wayside? […] Eichinger […] has made Bushido a friend of men and is his fan . Maybe he should have just made a concert and music film and saved you all the macho nonsense lessons that the film takes so terribly seriously; this whole jabber of " respect " and " honor ", which has long since become a genre , should in all seriousness be sold as off-vote advancement wisdom: be blatant, hardworking, misogynistic, then you too can become a German philistine . "
“[...] The provocative fictional character is trimmed to a family-friendly level , excluding all explosive aspects of his oeuvre . What remains is a "rag to rich" story that is as banal as it is predictable, and which does not provide any insight into the musical development or the social environment of the Berlin rap and hip-hop movement ... "
In February 2014, the film was a rating of 2.6 and 4,086 votes at number 100 of the 100 worst movies rated the IMDb .
See also
Web links
- Times change you in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- "Featurette" with film clips & interviews (video)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Times Change You . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2010 (PDF; test number: 121 300 K).
- ↑ Age ratings for times change you . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b Official German website for the film (cast)
- ↑ Solo album "Times Change You", February 19, 2010 ( Memento from February 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ bilde .: Rapper Bushido: First scenes from his film "Times Change You"
- ↑ Bushido film premieres in Berlin. Zeit Online , archived from the original on February 9, 2010 ; Retrieved February 4, 2010 .
- ↑ End credits of the film
- ↑ Creative industries call for better copyright protection on the Internet , April 26, 2010, heise .
- ↑ cf. Times change you , cinema.de .
- ↑ http://www.nordkurier.de/kino/index.php?id=3235 (different content)
- ↑ Bushido's "Times Change You": Unintentionally funny . In: Abendzeitung , abendzeitung.de .
- ^ Rap scene - Bushido's life confession , Ad Hoc News , ad-hoc-news.de ( Memento from February 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
- ^ Rüdiger Suchsland: heise.de Bushido is becoming gay . In: Telepolis
- ↑ http: //www.bild/unterhaltung/kino/kinoprogramm/2010/02/04/zeiten-aendern-dich/das-leben-von-rapper-bushido-verfilmt-kritik.html (link not available)
- ↑ Jens-Christian Rabe: sueddeutsche.de In the cinema: Bushido An empire, that's it. ( Memento of March 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) February 5, 2010.
- ↑ Hannah Pilarczyk: Bushido film "Times Change You". At Spiegel Online
- ↑ Julia Encke: Der Respekt-Ehre -komplex In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , February 7, 2010, p. 25
- ↑ Times change you. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 9, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. IMDb Charts: IMDb worst 100 - 100 films rated worst by our users , at imdb.de , accessed on February 9, 2014 at 11 p.m.