Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)

Regisseur:

Jim Sheridan

Drehbuchautor (WGA):

Terence Winter (written by)

Premierendatum:

9. November 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Biographie | Krimi | Drama | Musik

Werbezeile:

At the end of the day, what will you hang on to?

Plot:

A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music. |

Plot Keywords:

Rap | Murder | Rap Music | Blood | Hip Hop

Filmpreise:

4 wins & 2 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Another Petty Nihilist Hits the Jackpot

US TV Schedule:

Mon. July 21

11:30 PM

BET

Besetzung

50 Cent	...	Marcus (as Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson)
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje	...	Majestic
Joy Bryant	...	Charlene
Omar Benson Miller	...	Keryl
Tory Kittles	...	Justice
Terrence Howard	...	Bama
Ashley Walters	...	Antwan
Marc John Jefferies	...	Young Marcus
Viola Davis	...	Grandma
Sullivan Walker	...	Grandpa
Serena Reeder	...	Katrina
Bill Duke	...	Levar
Mpho Koaho	...	Junebug
Russell Hornsby	...	Odell
Joseph Pierre	...	Uncle Deuce

Alternativ:

Hustler's Ambition (USA) (working title)
Locked and Loaded (USA) (working title)
Untitled 50 Cent Project (USA) (original script title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, drug content, sexuality and nudity.

Länge:

117 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

Norway:15 | Ireland:16 | France:-12 | Australia:MA | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | USA:R (certificate #42138) | UK:15 | Iceland:16 | Sweden:15 | Singapore:R21 (cut) | Netherlands:16 | Japan:R-15 | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Germany:16

Drehorte:

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Firma:

Cent Productions Inc.

Dies und das:

50 Cent watched all of Jim Sheridan's films to prepare for his role. His personal favorite was The Boxer (1997).

Pannen:

Filmfehler: When Majestic is discussing killing the police to Marcus, the shot of the Uptown station house has the same figure ascending its steps in both shots, revealing that one shot was used twice instead of actually using two separate shots of the same location.

Dialogzitate:

Marcus: My voice sounds different.
Charlene: It's better. It's got more pain in it.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in "30 Rock: Cleveland (#1.20)" (2007)

Soundtrack:

I Can't Live without My Radio

Another Petty Nihilist Hits the Jackpot

50 Cent is decidedly no mere circus performer; unlike him, circus performers possess real talent. Yet, while his musical talent is certainly nil, it would be a mistake to argue that he therefore altogether lacks talent. In fact, 50 - very much like the legions of other gangster rappers - possesses great talent: the talent of a virtuoso con artist. 50 is banking on a pandemic of cataclysmically cheapened tastes - in other words, on the very aesthetic decline that made these other blissfully unconscious con artists rich. This extraordinary, innate ability to identify and exploit today's mass degeneration of taste is a truly supreme talent - a talent reaching to the very depths of cynicism. 50's nihilistic celebration of the meaningless and absurd is, of course, very "postmodern," very fashionable. As such we'll doubtless continue to skip and whistle our way to oblivion. Yes, 50 Cent is a joke. Unfortunately, the joke is on us.

As for this "film", I for one believe that if something's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well. So just as it's impossible for me to get excited over a spectacular tattoo, a gold chain, or the latest cutting-edge developments in nose-piercing technology, I have trouble taking seriously anything having to do with 50 cent. He is a thug, a petty nihilist, and a symptom of cultural decline. Nothing more.

I am a black man, and 50 Cent in no way represents me or anyone I know. I think it's shameful the way he's plastered up all over town. What he represents is the worst that our culture has to offer.