Jackie Cogan est un homme de main engagé pour rétablir l'ordre après que trois idiots aient volé un jeu de cartes protégé par la mafia, provoquant l'effondrement de l'économie criminelle loc... Tout lireJackie Cogan est un homme de main engagé pour rétablir l'ordre après que trois idiots aient volé un jeu de cartes protégé par la mafia, provoquant l'effondrement de l'économie criminelle locale.Jackie Cogan est un homme de main engagé pour rétablir l'ordre après que trois idiots aient volé un jeu de cartes protégé par la mafia, provoquant l'effondrement de l'économie criminelle locale.
- Prix
- 3 victoires et 9 nominations au total
- Kenny Gill
- (as Slaine)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThe Turkish former minister of culture found the movie so offensive that he told the press that he wanted the age bar for this movie to be raised from 13 to 18 or, if possible, remove it from the theaters altogether.
- GaffesAfter using his shotgun and putting it in the getaway car, Jackie wipes down the car of evidence but fails to retrieve his gun and his fingerprints on it.
- Citations
[last lines]
Barack Obama (on TV): [on TV delivering his election victory speech] ... to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many, we are one.
Driver: You hear that line? Line's for you.
Jackie Cogan: Don't make me laugh. We're one people. It's a myth created by Thomas Jefferson.
Driver: Oh, now you're gonna have a go at Jefferson, huh?
Jackie Cogan: My friend, Jefferson's an American saint because he wrote the words, "All men are created equal." Words he clearly didn't believe, since he allowed his own children to live in slavery. He was a rich wine snob who was sick of paying taxes to the Brits. So yeah, he wrote some lovely words and aroused the rabble, and they went out and died for those words, while he sat back and drank his wine and fucked his slave girl. This guy wants to tell me we're living in a community. Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America, you're on your own. America's not a country. It's just a business. Now fucking pay me.
- Autres versionsThere are two versions of this film. One is the theatrical release, and another the rough cut. Runtimes, respectively, are: "1h 37m (97 min)" and "2h 30m (150 min) (rough cut):.
- ConnexionsFeatured in At the Movies: Cannes Film Festival 2012 (2012)
- Bandes originalesDosruk
Written and Performed by Carl Stone
Used with permission of Electro-Acoustic Music (ASCAP)
'Killing Them Softly' is a contemporary multi-narrative crime drama that oversees what crime has become to the mafia since we've seen what years of recession have done to America, post 9/11. It's a film you have to settle into and to watch and listen carefully, yet it provides us with storytelling style very similar to the likes of Quentin Tarantino and classic Danny Boyle.
It also makes good use of some classic conventions and you may notice a little bit of Mean Streets, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Chopper, Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting etc.
When ex-convict Frankie and his Australian heroin-addict friend Russell are employed to hold up a mafia poker game in their rundown dead end town, they get away with it, though causing the local economy to collapse and putting mob boss Markie Trattman (Ray Liotta) in the frame.
The dons send mob enforcer Jackie (Brad Pitt) over to deal with it and to set an example, he methodically sets about cleaning up in due fashion.
That is the plot, pure and simple, but aside from that, 'Killing Them Softly' is more a film about the bleak, harsh reality of crime in the modern day American towns that the government has all but abandoned and it is therefore about the sheer dead-end desperation of a certain breed of people.
Unemployment, recession, drug addiction, violence, desperation, failing health, wilful self-destruction and the disgusting manner in which people regard each other with - it all adds up to one great stark reality. The only way that the government has succeeded in destroying organised crime is by destroying its own country's economy. Desperate people will do anything to survive knowing that, if they give up, they are as good as dead. And that sets the tone for this movie from beginning to end.
Not surprisingly in hindsight, this film has no real lead characters, but universally supporting characters that serve the story until its bitter ending where we are treated to a summary in words between two characters. This helps to give a sense that nobody is of any real importance to each other, which is true to the nature of most of its characters.
If you like your crime movies real, you'll love this. I'm so surprised at how seamless it is, and also how easy it is to watch despite how well acted and intense it becomes. Dark, gritty, grimy, filthy, absurd, depressing and yet bold with a few good laughs!
- DanLives1980
- 14 mars 2013
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Killing Them Softly
- Lieux de tournage
- Claiborne Avenue Bridge, Nouvelle-Orléans, Louisiane, États-Unis(Jackie meeting with Driver under the bridge)
- sociétés de production
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Box-office
- Budget
- 15 000 000 $ US (estimation)
- Brut – États-Unis et Canada
- 15 026 056 $ US
- Fin de semaine d'ouverture – États-Unis et Canada
- 6 812 900 $ US
- 2 déc. 2012
- Brut – à l'échelle mondiale
- 37 930 465 $ US
- Durée1 heure 37 minutes
- Couleur
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 2.35 : 1