Dogma (1999)

Regisseur:

Kevin Smith

Drehbuchautor (WGA):

Kevin Smith (written by)

Premierendatum:

12. November 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Abenteuer | Komödie | Fantasy | Mystery

Werbezeile:

Get 'touched' by an angel.

Plot:

An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loophole and re-enter Heaven.

Plot Keywords:

Obsession | Inside Joke | One Word Title | Profanity | Sequel Mentioned During End Credits

Filmpreise:

6 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

I laughed till I cried (really)

Besetzung

Ben Affleck	...	Bartleby
Matt Damon	...	Loki
Linda Fiorentino	...	Bethany Sloane
Jason Mewes	...	Jay
Chris Rock	...	Rufus
Alan Rickman	...	Metatron
Jason Lee	...	Azrael
Salma Hayek	...	Serendipity
Kevin Smith	...	Silent Bob
Janeane Garofalo	...	Liz
George Carlin	...	Cardinal Ignatius Glick
Alanis Morissette	...	God
Brian O'Halloran	...	Grant Hicks (as Brian Christopher O'Halloran)
Bud Cort	...	John Doe Jersey
Dan Etheridge	...	St. Stephen's Priest

Alternativ:

Bearclaw (USA) (fake working title)
God (USA) (working title)
Dogma (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated R for strong language including sex-related dialogue, violence, crude humor and some drug content.

Länge:

130 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Altersfreigabe:

Argentina:16 | Netherlands:16 (DVD rating) | Singapore:(Banned) | USA:TV-14 (tv rating) | Iceland:16 | Netherlands:12 | Australia:MA | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:18A | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Germany:16 (nf) | Hong Kong:IIB | Israel:16 | Malaysia:(Banned) | Norway:15 | South Korea:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R

Drehorte:

600 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Firma:

View Askew Productions

Dies und das:

Rufus's reply, "Know him? Nigga owes me twelve bucks!" when asked if he knows Christ was one of the few lines ad-libbed by Chris Rock. When Rufus awakens on the train, he says the word "poopytrim.", this was not in the script, but has been used in a Kevin Smith film in the past. In Mallrats, when Willam is standing in front of the magic eye poster, he is woken from his trance by Brody and he says "poopytrim", and another ad-lib is when Rock calls Silent Bob "biggie." It was originally written as "tubby."

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: When Rufus falls to Earth, both of his feet are facing the same way. In the next shot, both his feet are facing inward.

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
Announcer: Ladies and Gentlemen, the driving force behind Catholicism WOW, Cardinal Glick.
Cardinal Glick: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Now we all know how the majority and the media in this country view the Catholic church. They think of us as a passe, archaic institution. People find the Bible obtuse... even hokey. Now in an effort to disprove all that the church has appointed this year as a time of renewal...

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in Stick It (2006)

Soundtrack:

Still

I laughed till I cried (really)

I always thought the phrase, "I laughed until I cried," was just an oxymoron. Until it happened to me. I watched Dogma: the funniest movie I have ever seen. The movie seemed designed specifically for my warped sense of humor. It was an incredible mesh of the high-brow and the low-brow.

It had one character who was extremely foul-mouthed, and kept making up hilarious obscene phrases. It also had a lot of perceptive, biting (and very funny) theological and social commentary.

For me, it was sort of like being tickled hard in the ribs for about an hour. When I reached the breath-taking climax of the film, the resolution was such a shock and was so unexpectedly emotional and I was so sore from all the laughing, I actually burst into tears. Now, dammit I am a grown man. I never do that. Not even for anything real, much less a movie. But it happened.