The Longest Yard (2005 film)

The Longest Yard is an American film from 2005 about a former football player. It is a remake of the film The hardest mile ( The Longest Yard The Longest Yard or as known) with Burt Reynolds in 1974 and the film Mean Machine - The Fighting Machine from the year 2001, he was produced by Columbia Pictures and Happy. Madison Productions.

Action

Ex - football star Paul " Wrecking " Crewe is socially ostracized by an unproven professional match-fixing. When he drunk with the Bentley his girlfriend resting one day by San Diego, he is convicted after a chase by the police to three years in prison in the Texas desert. Warden Hazen, a football fan, Crewe would like to recruit a consultant of the team of prison guards, but what he refuses, on the advice of Captain Knauer. However, convincing the director of the education of a prisoner teams that will serve as a preparation opponents in a game against the prison guards in order to prepare the warden team that won in the prison league for five years no title to the first league game of the season Crewe. So Crewe is to coach and quarterback of the prisoner teams.

Although he is harassed by the guards, Crewe manages to build a team and train. He receives support this through the existential failed ex- football player Nate Scarborough, the developed the tactics, and the inmates Caretaker, who procured from outside always new equipment. He takes advantage of the range of detainees by recruits example particularly aggressive men as a player. He also obtains information about past violations of the guards to attack this target can, and exchanges the steroids one of the guards against estrogen. The main motivation is available for most prisoners out on the opportunity to take revenge on the guards for endured reprisals. In the final game, which will even be televised, are initially appropriate revenge on the game success. Only after a speech by Crewe prisoners playing surprisingly well and with chances to win. A partisan referee is "convinced" by targeted attacks with the ball of a fair rating. Thus the keeper team does not lose the warden Crewe tries to extort, by wanting to attach him to murder Caretaker. In order to escape a looming custody extension, Crewe agrees at first also and manipulated the gameplay by alleged bad passes and a feigned injury. Selbstzweifelnd and challenged his players, but he breaks his covenant with Hazen and leads his team to victory. Impressed by Crewes fighting spirit, which is actually brutal Captain Knauer, quarterback of the warden team, Crewe secures his truthful statement to the following process to murder thing on fellow prisoner Caretaker. The film ends without a statement about the fate Crewes.

Criticism

According to the Encyclopedia of the International film is in " The Longest Yard " to " streamlined Entertainment, enriched with the usual clichés of the genre and a lot of clichés ."

Jürgen Armbruster from the editors of film -offs saw in the movie " the most obvious declaration of bankruptcy, has Hollywood brought into being in recent years ". However, he praised " the staging of the match ", was hired for the sports coordinator Mark Ellis, so that the result is "according to quality " and " also football muffle be so well have to do something ." He ruled that emerged was " a work that can maintain under certain conditions still, but sometimes beastly to the nerves exhausted ," so that the movie "The third-rate second-rate remake of a film with a first class budget " is.

Thorsten Krüger kino.de was full of praise for occupation and implementation. In his opinion, " crack at the showdown on the field not only the bones but also the gags. After putting in 50 First Dates and Anger Management had with director Peter Segal and starring Adam Sandler found two savvy talent for original comedy, both now combine again concentrated their joke - Power.. The lovable buddy comedy, an ode to all the underdogs, is a remake of the film of 1974 Burt Reynolds, who was playing the main role, returns here as a coach back - the icing on the cake in lacy cast list ".

TV Feature recommended the film as " fast, sloping, high fun factor ."

Synchronization

Background

Production costs were estimated at an amount of about 82 million U.S. dollars. Already on opening weekend, the film played in the U.S. with 3,634 copies of 47.6 million U.S. dollars, total, he scored in the United States revenues of around 158 million U.S. dollars. Worldwide over 190 million U.S. dollars have been recorded. At the German box office than 162,000 visitors were counted.

Filming began on 19 July 2004 and were conducted exclusively in the United States. The locations include Los Angeles and Long Beach in California as well as some locations in New Mexico. The football game was filmed in Murdock stage of El Camino College in Torrance, California. The prison recordings were made in the unused parts of the New Mexico State Penitentiary, which is among other things also called Old Main, in which occurred the worst excesses of the U.S. prison history on February 2, 1980. Its premiere the film on May 19, 2005 in Hollywood. In the German cinema, he was seen for the first time on 22 September 2005.

The wrestler Kevin Nash, Goldberg, " Stone Cold" Steve Austin, The Great Khali and former NFL stars Bill Romanowski, Brian Bosworth and Michael Irvin have a role in this film, in addition, the U.S. rapper Bizarre, Proof, Kon Artis, Kuniva, Swift from D12 to see and Nelly in the film. During the basketball game in the prison yard, five of the six members of the rap group D12 to see only Eminem is missing, please refer to the, as Sandler is titled in the original English as " Slim Shady " and in the German dubbing as " Eminem for the poor".

Burt Reynolds, which can be seen already in the original from 1974 and there also will wear the number 22 carries, here takes on the role of the old Football Stars Nate Scarborough, has been embodied in Robert Aldrich's film of 1974 by Michael Conrad. In addition to Reynolds Ed Lauter is the only actor who can be seen already in the original from 1974.

Michael Irvin and Bill Romanowski were the jersey numbers 88 and 53, the same jersey numbers they wore during their active career as a football player in the National Football League. Brian Bosworth was given the jersey number 44, which he wore during college football. Brian man, the quarterback of the Arena Football League team Los Angeles Avengers acted as Sandler 's stunt double.

Both in game without rules and in the original from 1974 is heard in the opening scene of the title Saturday Night Special by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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