August 12, 2015
romantic comedies always act of overcoming barriers between the sexes. Amy and Aaron: Amy Schumer and Bill Hader. Photo: AP
The Hollywood comedy “Dating Queen” acquaints with the amazing comedian Amy Schumer and their radical game with gender roles
In American media is comedian Amy Schumer currently more frequently compared with Donald Trump. “Would not it be funny,” asked about the “Washington Post”, “if Donald Trump and the immensely popular feminist comedienne as a candidate on the same ticket for the presidency?” Overheads finally had the odd couple a penchant for racist jokes. On such a reduction one must first come, but it says something about the contradictory relationship of the American public to the so-called political correctness.
Who pulls against these into battle, can a its mass audience safely. It may well be that Trump, the reactionary populist, and Schumer, attacking the subversive critic of female role models, the same rules of conduct. But a common rhetorical opponents makes them hard to allies. If Trump all Mexicans attacked as drug dealers and rapists in his first major campaign speech, was it nothing witty. In Germany, it would mean something sedition
For Schumer, however, the said in a sketch. “I used to like an appointment with Latinos, today I do not consensual sex rather” self-irony is part the performance. “I play an incorrigible idiot who gives the stupidest stuff by itself,” she explains her role an unflinching sexual Spoilers in which it occurs from a Fettnapf in the next.
All large Comedian invent distinctive characters, who sometimes carry their own name. So Amy Schumer also plays in her first film role this Amy, who earns her living as a writer for a men’s magazine. An imperious chief editor (Tilda Swinton) serves the market of male desires sovereign and plays at the same time the writers against each other. If the pragmatic sex columnist and Sportverächterin Amy now commissioned to portray a sports physician and typical heartthrob, she performs this with quite maliciously to their presumed limits.
Romantic comedies always act of overcoming the barriers between the sexes. Always something to crack, invisible chastity belt just as rough men bowls, only here everything is once turned crosswise. A – hardly more attractive after Illustrated standards in the rest – Sexverliebte device to a surprisingly innocent angels in white. To get him into bed is for them routine, until the shaking becomes a problem. Because of of “Saturday Night Live” -Komiker Bill Hader played Aaron Conners has a highly romantic heart, as one would rather attested it in the classic Hollywood female characters.
Even irony is for them part of the performance: Amy Schumer. Photo: AP
But a simple twist of role models, this is not – for the character of Amy is too complex. It is anything but a reflection of male fantasies of conquest, but on the contrary a high euro matic character. Their example is a father who did not leave his family without holding still before a sermon about the impossibility of the concept of monogamy.
Close to the alcoholism, the character of Amy is anything but as the proud “Dating Queen” the euphemistic German title. “Trainwreck”. The original headline she sees on the contrary as a “train wreck”, which means an inevitable disaster figuratively.
All this sounds more like a drama than for a comedy, but Amy Schumers written herself script is a collection partly delightfully absurd situations and grotesque punchlines. Director Judd Apatow, since “Virgin (40), male, looking …” Hollywood’s leading specialist in the absurd variety of romantic comedies, leaves no template unused. Only this would be a far better film if you had a lot of deleted it, and more room for the drama. And above all the male characters more profile. The inexperienced in matters of love heartthrob is the whole movie is not really alive. The only credible male figure is his best friend, a highly paid professional basketball which respects embarrassed on its spending and acts as a voice of reason in love matters. No wonder that this figure works so well: The theatrically gifted basketball superstar LeBron James plays himself in the role itself
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It would not be much. This includes deepening the tragic dimension of the main character a little. So it’s a long 124 minutes, but become anything but epic comedy. However, it is worth seeing in any case. Since in the early thirties the great comedienne Mae West also established the role model of self-directed Vamps with own film materials, Hollywood has been waiting for a similar talent. Although Amy Schumer outside the antithesis of this beguiling screen icon is – for a person suffering from chronic unrealistic film industry it is a similar blessing
Dating Queen.. USA, 2015. Directed by Judd Apatow. 124 min.
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