Eine verdeckte Antiterroreinheit namens Black Cell unter der Leitung von Gabriel Shear will mit Geld den Krieg gegen den internationalen Terrorismus finanzieren, aber es ist alles weggeschlo... Alles lesenEine verdeckte Antiterroreinheit namens Black Cell unter der Leitung von Gabriel Shear will mit Geld den Krieg gegen den internationalen Terrorismus finanzieren, aber es ist alles weggeschlossen.Eine verdeckte Antiterroreinheit namens Black Cell unter der Leitung von Gabriel Shear will mit Geld den Krieg gegen den internationalen Terrorismus finanzieren, aber es ist alles weggeschlossen.
- Auszeichnungen
- 5 Gewinne & 10 Nominierungen
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesThomas Jefferson did NOT shoot a man on the White house lawn for treason. This movie is the source of that rumor.
- PatzerIn the film's opening speech, Gabriel Shear discusses Hundstage (1975) as being a "1976" work of "fiction" that didn't "push the envelope" and showed Hollywood's "lack of realism." Dog Day Afternoon was a true story, not fiction, depicted realistically. While the film didn't adhere to every detail of the true story, the ending was accurate. It was released in 1975, and the film's action takes place in 1972.
- Zitate
[first lines]
Gabriel: You know what the problem with Hollywood is? They make shit. Unbelievable, unremarkable shit. Now I'm not some grungy wannabe filmmaker that's searching for existentialism through a haze of bong smoke or something. No, it's easy to pick apart bad acting, short-sighted directing, and a purely moronic stringing together of words that many of the studios term as "prose". No, I'm talking about the lack of realism. Realism; not a pervasive element in today's modern American cinematic vision. Take Dog Day Afternoon, for example. Arguably Pacino's best work, short of Scarface and Godfather Part 1, of course. Masterpiece of directing, easily Lumet's best. The cinematography, the acting, the screenplay, all top-notch. But... they didn't push the envelope. Now what if in Dog Day, Sonny wanted to get away with it, REALLY wanted to get away with it? What if - now here's the tricky part - what if he started killing hostages right away? No mercy, no quarter. "Meet our demands or the pretty blonde in the bellbottoms gets it the back of the head." Bam, splat! What, still no bus? Come on! How many innocent victims splattered across a window would it take to have the city reverse its policy on hostage situations? And this is 1976; there's no CNN, there's no CNBC, there's no internet! Now fast forward to today, present time, same situation. How quickly would the modern media make a frenzy over this? In a matter of hours, it'd be biggest story from Boston to Budapest! Ten hostages die, twenty, thirty; bam bam, right after another, all caught in high-def, computer-enhanced, color corrected. You can practically taste the brain matter. All for what? A bus, a plane? A couple of million dollars that's federally insured? I don't think so. Just a thought. I mean, it's not within the realm of conventional cinema... but what if?
- Crazy CreditsThe last credit reads "Final Password: Vernam", which is part of the website game. (See Trivia). A Vernam cypher is a method of encrypting a message.
- Alternative VersionenAlternate television takes were shot for the scene with Ginger at the pool (she wears a bikini) and where Stanley hacks into the main frame of the Departement of Defense (Helga is not there).
- VerbindungenFeatured in Conversations with Jerry Bruckheimer (2000)
- SoundtracksDark Machine
Written by Paul Oakenfold and Andy Gray
Performed by Paul Oakenfold and Christopher Young
Courtesy of London-Sire Records
Some of this script is a takeoff on Dog Day Afternoon, which Travolta's character re-enacts a role from that famous '70s film. "Shear" talks about that movie during the film.
I almost got discouraged watching this in the first half hour because there is so much computer terminology that I was lost. However, if you find yourself in a similar spot, take heart because that that ends after that first 30 minutes and is no longer a problem.
Credibility and bias aside, it's still a fun movie for at least one viewing, with that early bomb scene most memorable.
- ccthemovieman-1
- 20. Aug. 2006
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- Swordfish
- Drehorte
- Ventura, Kalifornien, USA(Location)
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Box Office
- Budget
- 102.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 69.772.969 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 18.145.632 $
- 10. Juni 2001
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 147.080.413 $
- Laufzeit1 Stunde 39 Minuten
- Sound-Mix
- Seitenverhältnis
- 2.35 : 1