In Capitol Pictures Eddie Mannix has the most important job: He’s the fixer, the man who takes care of seeing that the reality principle not triumphed. Because of the beautiful appearance, the produced the film studio, nobody could believe, whose faith would often disappointed.
Here it is the staff at Hollywood dreams works, notoriously unreliable. The mermaid from the water ballet sleeping with more men than she can remember, and contributes therefore an illegitimate child under the heart, soon they will no longer be forced into her tail. The director, which she indicates that he was probably the father is, but already married.
A very dialogue-heavy salon drama has been lost of the main characters, and the man who must stand, can indeed throw lasso and jump from trees on a galloping horse, but he can recite a set of accidents unfortunately not. A gossip columnist threatened to publish the story of how an admired for his virility Star came to his first role.
Where is Baird Whitlock gone?
And then this morning even a meeting with four ministers recognized. They should give a religious sandals epic their blessing so that no American can think that Hollywood people had denigrated his faith. Mannix has to do well in his circus Folles.
But it gets even thicker “Hail, Caesar!”, the new film by Joel and Ethan Coen, who opened on Thursday the Berlinale and next Thursday comes across Germany in the cinema. Direct Set off the main actor of sandals film is kidnapped, Baird Whitlock, a guy who is more stupid than he looks in his Roman skirt.
where the most important scene is not in the box, that speech in which Whitlock under the cross on which Christ just the sins of the world takes upon himself, by his conversion customer enters. Something you can not just get deleted or occupy a Double. But no one knows where the man ended up. The usual suspicions – Crash pub, script girl – leading nowhere
So Mannix it must once again addressed.. In moments like this, he himself does not know why he did not simply hinschmeißt the clutter and the lure of the Lockheed-Headhunters succumbs, who explains that it is a crisis stronger future would have in the Bomber industry than in Hollywood.
view of the Hollywood abyss
This is all so silly as it sounds. With more verve and more love has long no one taken the lunacy of the classic Hollywood for a ride, and who in the history of film the fifties a little familiar, has added the deciphering of allusions plenty . fun
the pregnant mermaid DeeAnn Moran is Esther Williams, the queen of the water ballet, modeled; the sandal film a hybrid of “Ben Hur” and “The Robe”; the musical scene in the bar, where a crowd schnuckeliger sailors their farewell to the ladies celebrated with a tap dance in which the men come today arg close, only overspeeding of Camp frivolities who musicals always done it.
Under each prop, which is released in any genre-jewelry that is produced at Capitol Pictures, a chasm opens up. The Hollywood people who are supposed to ensure that the people there instead of the revolution dreaming outdoors at the workbenches and the office honeycomb of cowboys, great love and salvation are all astray and Perverse. The stories in which they are involved, should never come into the public eye, because it would remove them on the spot allegiance. On the one hand.
A thoroughly silly story
On the other hand, “Hail, Caesar!” crazily his own denial. Because of the pitfalls and the madness of the follies and absurdities, in which they jump relish, the Coen brothers build a machine that again creates in all its grandeur the cinema. George Clooney – in virtuoso self-denial – as bad as in years, a ham actor in a ridiculous costume with a toy sword and a goofy permanent grin
Ralph. Fiennes as subtle Salon dramas director is an even more offensive schmuck when it was even ever accused of the most malicious libel critics. Scarlett Johansson makes its inner Prolette off the leash, always distracted by the directors like Woody Allen or Sofia Coppola.
There are also a thoroughly stupid story in which embittered communist screenwriters under the spiritual guidance of Herbert Marcuse an actor kidnap, and a stunningly well-played by Josh Brolin hero indeed for his studio without hesitation every lewdness committing, but his confessor scares every single day from sleep to his sins to confess. That he secretly smokes, two, maybe even three – Father, forgive me
Five films in a
and then you sit in the theater and is not the least bit upset by the story, which is one expected. One develops feelings for the unfortunate cowboy who is tormented by the drama director with Aussprachepingeligkeiten, nods knowingly when the Communists the sandals Heini, they have kidnapped, made to believe that they have ever smuggled communist embassies in their scripts, and wants the gossip reporter to hell.
It’s a miracle! The Coens are even more than her Fixer Eddie Mannix. They have not only managed to equal five different films succeeded in a single accommodate, but them is also the proof that you can still make the movie that we thought belonged long set.
Movies, that’s a lesson, are an act of faith. One has to be convinced on the side of the makers of being able to get away with everything, and on the side of the viewer, that is to see a light in them – be it in the form of a lasso throwing Simpels or dancing sailors. Or an embarrassing man in Gladiator Mini feet of the Crucified.
the type of cinema, from the tell the Coens, but has long since gone through the phase of disenchantment. The huge soundstages are no more locations that dreams tailored not mass clothing, but for audiences and niches. Fixer have long been replaced by Publicists and marketing people, men of God are no longer in demand, subversive messages no longer have to be smuggled, but get their own festival series.
The cinema, as it knows Mannix is, dead
and we spectators are so enlightened, left and become tolerant that we a gay Star or unmarried mother are likable as an actor without failings, plus so competently irony that we can almost automatically decipher subtext and intertextuality in each story. In short, the theater, as it was in the days of Eddie Mannix still is, quite dead
But then so is a crazy film like “Hail, Caesar. ! ” Therefore, in the loud Stars do their best to mimic bad actors, and suddenly one thinks: Maybe we should remain seated, even if we have long realized that we do not get to see the truth in Plato’s cave, but lied to , Because we know that it is so beautiful. We would not tolerate it, we lose faith.
“Hail Caesar” ends with Eddie Mannix, the Fixer, the out of the hands of the Communists liberated Star missed a crashing slap, as the branding studio owners as exploiters. He should damn act together again, he shouts at him, and let this irreverent nonsense. Because it everything he had, the Studio owe, and because it was his damned duty, out to give as his best for the people.
And now goeth into the temple of light and believe the revelations that appear to you there. ye anything better not get it.
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