Down to business, honey
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Original title | Down to business, honey |
Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
original language | German |
Publishing year | 1968 |
length | 80 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 12 |
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Director | May Spils |
script | Werner Enke |
production | Peter Schamoni |
music | Kristian Schultze |
camera | Klaus Koenig |
cut | Ulrike Froehner |
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To the point, Schätze is a German comedy film by May Spils from 1968. The female lead was played by Uschi Glas , the male by Werner Enke . The film, which premiered on January 4, 1968, was one of the commercial successes of “ Junge Deutsche Films ”. He influenced the vernacular, including terms such as "fumble", " dumbass " and "tüllich" as a colloquial abbreviation of "natural." In the US it was called Go for it, Baby .
content
Martin lives in Munich-Schwabing aimless and carefree into the day. He earns his living writing hits for his client Block. Even a break-in that he happened to observe is not particularly interesting to him.
Only his friend Henry persuades him to report the crime to the police. At the police station, however, he shows such a listlessness about the investigation that he himself appears suspicious. Thanks to the brisk Barbara, whom he met shortly before, he can escape first; she distracts the police with a striptease .
Martin is later caught, but his behavior has not changed. In front of the police officer who wants to arrest him, he is bored with a pistol, but at the same time asserts that it is not loaded. The insecure policeman finally fires a shot at him, but even that can't upset Martin. He congratulates the policeman on his luck that it was just a graze.
title
To the point, honey is the beginning of a spontaneously composed four-line phrase with which Martin parodies his work as a hit writer himself: "To the point, honey / don't do any antics / come to bed / let's smoke a cigarette."
Alternative ending
According to the script, Martin - similar to Jean-Paul Belmondo in Out of Breath - was to be shot by a police officer. When Benno Ohnesorg was shot by a police officer shortly after filming began on June 2, 1967 , the end of the film was changed because the filmmakers “didn't want to portray reality”.
song lyrics
The text that Martin finally delivers to his client reflects the laconic attitude of the antihero . Block wants to market the whole thing as a sailor's song:
"Old boy, don't make a face, go quietly to your bunk and don't ask yourself about this or that or whatever, in the end it doesn't matter."
criticism
The film, which was one of the first to deal with the lifestyle of young people on the eve of the 1968 riots , achieved cult status at times. He depicts the milieu of a subculture that ignores the good-and-bad scheme of the bourgeois world and questions its notions of normality.
“A scruffy idler in Schwabing expresses his disaffection with the bourgeois world with pseudo-philosophical sayings and witty cynicisms. Light-handed first film; an intelligent and at times amusing glossy critique of time, in which self-deprecating criticism and the desire for human relationships are unmistakable. Even in retrospect, the film remains one of the few really entertaining auteur films. "
"In their debut, Spils and Enke are unique in their observation of a situation between melancholy and grotesque."
“An all-round burlesque and personable story. Recommended for ages 16 and up. "
Awards
- Golden screen for at least 3 million viewers in 18 months. The film reached around 6.5 million viewers in Germany.
- Federal Film Awards 1968 : Filmband in Gold in the specially created category Dialoge (Werner Enke and May Spils) and in the category Best Young Actor (Werner Enke)
literature
- Heiko Stoff: "Extremely slack". The film “To the point, sweetheart” (1968) - About performance thinking and mind games. In: Contemporary historical research . 11, Issue 3, 2014, pp. 500–507.
- Lisa Wawrzyniak, Reinhold Keiner: To the point, honey. The classic comedy of the 'Young German Film'. MEDIA Net-Edition, Kassel 2011, ISBN 978-3-939988-02-1 . (With a protocol-based script version of the film)
Web links
- To the point, honey in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Down to business, honey in the online movie database
- Down to business, honey at filmportal.de
- Down to business, darling in the Internet Archive (formats: .mp4 and .ogv )
- Extensive study paper on the film
- Sebastian Hammelehle: First comes the sausage bread, then the world revolution! In: Spiegel Online . 4th January 2014
- Heiko Stoff: "Extremely flabby". The film "To the point, sweetheart" (1968): About performance thinking and mind games. In: Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History. 11, 2014, pp. 500-507.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erhard Hahn: Werner Enke was suddenly famous in 1968. Interview with Werner Enke. Nahe-Zeitung No. 173 Idar-Oberstein edition p. 19, July 26, 2008.
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 11/1968.
- ^ The most successful German films since 1968. In: insidekino.com. Retrieved December 22, 2017 .
- ^ German Film Awards 1968. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 7, 1968, p. 32.