Taxi (1998 film)

• Samy Naceri: Daniel Morales
• Frédéric Diefenthal: Émilien Coutant - Kerbalec
• Marion Cotillard: Lilly Bertineau
• Manuela Gourary: Camille Coutant - Kerbalec
• Emma Sjöberg: Petra
• Édouard Montoute: Alain
• Bernard Farcy: Commissaire Gibert

Taxi is an action comedy from 1998 directed by Gérard Pires from a script by Luc Besson. The film underwent three sequels and a U.S. remake with the title New York taxi.

Action

Daniel works as a taxi driver in Marseille. However, its real appeal is the car race. After a fast ride on the passenger Emilien, a policeman, he is faced with the choice of losing his driver's license or a month to serve the law enforcement officers as a chauffeur. Together, the two because of the dreaded Mercedes -course to put a gang of German bank robbers, the craft. Here they come not only Daniel's driving skills, but also his former colleagues from pizza delivery to help.

Criticism

" A highly successful comedy in France, go under their dialogues in the German dubbing in corny jokes and senseless Wortwust. Trying to work up virulent feelings of inferiority, ultimately fails also because slapstick is too much confused with destructive fury. "

Awards

At the ceremony for the César Awards in 1999 taxi was nominated in seven categories. While the price of the best French production of the previous year to Erick Zoncas drama love life was given, gained editor Véronique Lange and the two engineer Vincent Tulli and Vincent Arnardi the awards. Were nominated director Gerard Pires, the film music of Akhenaton and Marion Cotillard and Samy Naceri as best young actor.

Effect technique

For the display of the taxi eight vehicles were used, which all were used for another purpose. In Auto 1 and 2, neither motor nor seats, but hydraulic engineering were with 100 m cable. Thus, the scenes were filmed, in which Daniel converts his taxi by pressing a button on a race car. The vehicles 3 and 4 were fitted with spoiler or tuning and were used in the scenes with normal city driving. The vehicles were also equipped with sophisticated equipment such as microphones and camera stands. Taxi number 5 and 6 were alone the racing scenes in the city or on the highway. The Peugeot 406 3.0 24V used in reality have a top speed of 250 km / h In addition, the cars 5 6 possessed no catalytic converter or muffler to the exhaust to make it sound the sound as extreme as possible. The remaining two cars were largely the procurement of spare parts, as always emerged during the filming of defects on the body or the motor.

Furthermore, several Mercedes -Benz E 400 used. The vehicles were redesigned 500 E on the look of the Mercedes -Benz. Several vehicles were destroyed during the filming, the supply would have been difficult due to the lower number of available Mercedes -Benz E 500. Due to the significantly lower price of the Mercedes -Benz 400 E budget was spared beyond. The rear wings were not standard on both models.

Continuations

The film was followed by three sequels so far, all of which were directed by Gérard Krawczyk. Samy Naceri and Frédéric Diefenthal each took the lead roles.

• 2000: Taxi Taxi
• 2003: Taxi 3
• 2007: T4xi