Mount Golgotha three crosses at the center Jesus of Nazareth depends. but you only see his feet, in the center of the picture stands a man with a notebook, the talks with the Crucified. What daily wage he received, he wants to know the for extras or for a voice? For a voice says the man on the cross, for he deserves more.
From Jesus we see in “Hail Caesar” only the feet
We are in the year 1951, at Capitol Studios in Hollywood. We are on the set of a new Bible ham. And we are in the new film of the Coen brothers, which the Berlinale opened on Wednesday and “Hail Caesar!” – So today is marketing – takes up the same in theaters next Thursday.
Over the feet we will not get to see Jesus. The actual main role, as in most Biblical epics, belongs to others. In this case, a Roman legionary who is from the Gentiles believers. It looks like Clooney made in his coat of mail. It is also Clooney. But who does not play the main role in “Hail Caesar!”. The due the marvelous Josh Brolin, George Bush already in “W.” has given and the Vietnam veteran in “No Country for Old Men”. Here he returns to the Coens back and embodied – you can not say anything else -. Son of God
which brings us to the pecking order in the good old Hollywood time. God the Father, which was the studio owner, the money bag. But the usually sat not on the west, but on the East Coast in New York, 4000 kilometers away. That which we know as “studio boss”, was his deputy on site. Now we have already seen many Hollywood moguls on the screen, and they were always busy with power games and bought in between starlets on the casting couch.
Eddie Mannix, the Brolin plays it has no time. He is always busy ironing out minor and major disasters. His Wassernixen Star (Scarlett Johansson), who is pregnant, but no man has. The gossip columnist (Tilda Swinton), who tries to blackmail one of his proteges with a gay affair. His biggest Star (George Clooney), which disappears in the middle of Jesus turning and can be found at any of his usual crash courses.
Josh Brolin plays the Fixer
For such crises the studios earlier own people Fixer had called. The most famous Fixer for MGM called – Eddie Mannix. The Coens have put a monument to him, for which he can thank. Firstly, he was apparently not so pleasant shape, as Brolin plays, and also the Coens have the Fixer (usually repute mies) and the boss (the maximum prestige enjoyed) in a character brings. And the longer the film, the more the power of man becomes laden in which all left their problem waste. The earthly god, son of the heavenly, it shall judge.
“Hail Caesar!” has much of an ideal Berlinale opening film: half a dozen stars that boots on the red carpet (except those named even Ralph Fiennes, Frances McDormand and Channing Tatum), movie-in-movie allusions which satisfy the critics, and a enjoyable event which sends a vibrant in the long ten-day festival. In Berlin one else knows quite well what to expect – a lot of socially-relevant, no movie Artistic – but this time it could be different. The competition is full of unskilled or little described leaves, it almost seems as if festival director Dieter Kosslick (it’s his fourth last Berlinale) courageous, because he gets the stars on the carpet, he has sufficiently proved.
Maybe it’s because the media and thus the cinema and thus the festival in great upheaval are. It is not long ago, was the only competition for the festival to new films – in other festivals. Today they tussle with the cinema, television and streaming services. And still with the other festivals.
It is a new era, the one in “Hail Caesar!” can observe, on the edge. At the beginning of the fifties, the studios were still the rulers of the film world, but the ground beneath their feet began to crumble. Television viewers steel, and Eddie Mannix is beset by a headhunter aircraft manufacturer Lockheed to leave this doomed sector and prefer to build solid bombers. A current Abwerbeversuch takes only Lockheed replaced by Amazon.
The real name behind the figures of “Hail Caesar”
it should be the analogies but not too far, the film does not contribute. While it is easy to find real names behind the film characters – Brolin is a mix between Louis B. Mayer and Eddie Mannix, Clooney is Clark Gable, Johansson is an amalgam of Loretta Lynn and Esther Williams – but that today only still Fun Facts. Even the “Hollywood system” no longer has unmasked and the term “star” no longer be deconstructed, and as Joel and Ethan Coen allowed <"teKino" / span class => play relaxed with the blocks of film history, enabling them to leave shortly after Jesus’ crucifixion emerge a soviet submarine.
And so they make out of the studio boss a stressed manager who has perhaps the most beautiful of all jobs in the midst of a factory of dreams. Because they have debited the whole Hollywood discourse as completed – although he, see minority debate at the Oscars sometimes new flares – they can with gentle melancholy in this world of false scenes and fake images revel. They make fun of friendly, but deep in her paintings is a respect for this Wunderort of human history, the Hollywood once was. It may all lying and deceit have been, but the magic was wonderful – and acts today
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