जल्लाद का काम करने वाला गुस्सैल, नस्लवादी और ज्यादा मद्यपान करने वाला जेल का गार्ड अपने व्यवहार पर तब गौर करता है जब वह अपने द्वारा मारे गए आखिरी कैदी की अफ्रीकी अमेरिकी पत्नी के साथ प्यार म... सभी पढ़ेंजल्लाद का काम करने वाला गुस्सैल, नस्लवादी और ज्यादा मद्यपान करने वाला जेल का गार्ड अपने व्यवहार पर तब गौर करता है जब वह अपने द्वारा मारे गए आखिरी कैदी की अफ्रीकी अमेरिकी पत्नी के साथ प्यार में पड़ जाता है।जल्लाद का काम करने वाला गुस्सैल, नस्लवादी और ज्यादा मद्यपान करने वाला जेल का गार्ड अपने व्यवहार पर तब गौर करता है जब वह अपने द्वारा मारे गए आखिरी कैदी की अफ्रीकी अमेरिकी पत्नी के साथ प्यार में पड़ जाता है।
- 1 ऑस्कर जीते
- 15 जीत और कुल 23 नामांकन
- Ryrus Cooper
- (as Mos Def)
- Lawrence Musgrove
- (as Sean Combs)
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क्या आपको पता है
- ट्रिवियाBilly Bob Thornton says filming sex scenes made his marriage to Angelina Jolie tough. The actor was wed to Jolie from 2000 to 2003, during which time he filmed this movie - featuring explicit scenes with Halle Berry - which put pressure on them both. He told The Sun newspaper: "If you are an actor, even doing a Disney movie or cartoon voices, you could still be away from each other for six months. Look how it applied to me. I go away and do a film like Monster's Ball with a very explicit sex scene with Halle Berry. She is one of the most beautiful women in the world and I am talking on the phone to my wife, and she says, 'What have you been doing today?' And I say, 'Oh, I did that sex scene with Halle Berry.' You are then asked if you actually touch her. I say, 'I had to - it's in the scene'. Other people's situations are hard, with areas of doubt. But if you are a thousand miles from home on a film set simulating sex with a beautiful woman, it's even tougher."
- गूफ़Throughout the movie there are conflicting references to its being set in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Georgia although the movie was filmed entirely in Louisiana.
- भाव
Sonny Grotowski: You hate me. You hate me, don't you? Answer me! You hate me don't you!
Hank Grotowski: Yes, I hate you. Always have.
Sonny Grotowski: Well I've always loved you.
- क्रेज़ी क्रेडिटThanks to Sam, Austin, Gabrielle. Scott Lambert is thanked twice.
- इसके अलावा अन्य वर्जनThe initial cut of the picture included more explicit footage during the sex scene between Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton, which was trimmed down after the MPAA threatened to give the film a NC-17 rating. The uncut version premiered at the Berlin Film Festival on February 8, 2001. The R-rated US theatrical release is the cut version; the version released theatrically in Canada and most other countries is the uncut version.
- साउंडट्रैकBroken Up and Blue
(1998)
Performed by Red Meat
Written by Jill Olson
Published by Olson Girl Publishing (ASCAP)
Administered by Bug Music, Inc.
Courtesy of Ranchero Records
Some might ask why, because there seems to be nothing really happening at all during the whole movie. Some say the plot is predictable and flat, and the characters too. In my opinion this is just not true. Try to tell the story in one or two lines. Most of the movies can be told in just a short summary, but this does not work for "Monster's Ball" at all. E.g. : "A prison guard falls in love with the wife of a prisoner he just executed". This is a simple tagline, but if you think of what could have happened to this basic plot with other directors, actors or script writers, the feeling of the movie goes in ten thousand different directions. But none of them matches this version. And this is, what makes "Monster's Ball" extremely outstanding.
This movie offers so many different plotlines, questions, and in-depth-characters you simply cannot describe the feeling of the movie and what is really happening here without telling every little bit of it. Yes, it's sad, and it's depressing, and it gives absolutely no answer to any problem at all (which we basically all want, while watching a movie). But in the end, despite all the drama, it's full of warmth and hope. And this is what it's all about. Just after the credits begin to appear, you sit there and think - about anything.
Technically "Monster's Ball" is nearly perfect. There is not a single scene, which could be missed and everything is at it's right place. The excellent music goes with well played characters and the timing makes the whole athmosphere so intense you cannot escape and switch off, even if you know that there will be no "great solution" at all. Some might say it's boring, and yes, you're right - but in this case "Monster's Ball" is simply not the movie you expected.
This one plays with anything we expect from a drama, and this is why most of the other dramas fail and "Monster's Ball" works. Other "so called drama" try to give us solutions, great feelings, great moments in life, and all the other rubbish. But "Monster's Ball" is so slow and intense and ignores all of the standard "drama issues" you have to think for yourselve what this is all about.
For me it's about love, hate, hope, racism, father-son/mother-son relationships, escaping from your past life, death, depressions, failures and many other things. Everything is shown and nothing is really explained. Just like life basically is - full of complex problems we create for ourselves. Some of them can be solved in one or another way, most of them we just ignore, and life still goes on, because we are able to exist with a whole universe of lies around us.
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बॉक्स ऑफ़िस
- बजट
- $40,00,000(अनुमानित)
- US और कनाडा में सकल
- $3,12,73,922
- US और कनाडा में पहले सप्ताह में कुल कमाई
- $1,10,552
- 30 दिस॰ 2001
- दुनिया भर में सकल
- $4,50,11,434
- चलने की अवधि1 घंटा 51 मिनट
- रंग
- ध्वनि मिश्रण
- पक्ष अनुपात
- 2.39 : 1