Inside Man is an American crime thriller 2006 directed by Spike Lee, and written by Russell Gewirtz. The film centered on the complicated bank theft on Wall Street for 24 hours. This is Denzel Washington's star as Detective Keith Frazier, the NYPD hostage negotiator; Clive Owen as Dalton Russell, the puppeteer who organizes robbery and Jodie Foster as Madeleine White, a Manhattan power broker who is involved in the request of the bank's founder, Arthur Case (Christopher Plummer), to keep something in his burglary protected from robbers. Inside Man marks the fourth film collaboration between Washington and Lee.
Gewirtz spent five years developing the premiere of the film before working on what became his first original scenario. After finishing the script in 2002, Imagine Entertainment bought it to be made by Universal Studio, with founder Imagine Ron Howard directly attached. After Howard resigned, his Pay partner, Brian Grazer began searching for a new director for the project and eventually hired Lee. The subject of photography began in June 2005 and ends in August; filming took place at a location in New York City. Inside Man premiered in New York on March 20, 2006 before being released in North America on March 24, 2006. The film received a generally positive and commercially successful critical response, grossing over $ 184 million worldwide.
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Plot
A man named Dalton Russell sits in an unknown cell and tells the story of how he has done a perfect robbery. In New York, masked robbers, dressed as painters and using variants of the name "Steve" as alias, controlled a Manhattan bank and took hostages and employees. They divided the hostages into groups and held them in different rooms, forcing them not to wear identical clothing with their clothes. The robbers rotated hostages among the various rooms and occasionally tucked themselves secretly into the groups. They also take turns working on non-specific projects that involve the destruction of floors in one of the bank's storage rooms.
Police surround the bank and Detectives Keith Frazier and Bill Mitchell take over the negotiations. Russell, the robber leader, demanded food and the police supplied them with pizza boxes that included a listener. Bugs pick up the language identified by the police as Albanian. They found, however, that the actual conversation was a tape propaganda of the late Albanian communist dictator Enver Hoxha, implying that robbers anticipate surveillance efforts.
When Arthur Case, chairman of the board of directors and founder of the bank, heard the robbery, he hired "fixer" Madeleine White to try to protect the contents of his safe deposit box at the bank. White arranged a conversation with Russell, which allowed him to enter the bank and examine the contents of the box, which included documents from Nazi Germany. Russell implies that Case started his bank with the money he received from the Nazis for unspecified services, which resulted in the deaths of many Jews during World War II. White tells Russell that Case will pay a large sum if he destroys the contents of the box.
Frazier demanded to check the hostages before letting the robbers go and Russell took him around the bank. When he was shown, Frazier attacked Russell, but was constrained by other robbers. Afterwards he explained that he was deliberately trying to provoke Russell and judge that the man was not a murderer. However, this is not proven when the robber executes one of the hostages.
Execution asks the ESU team to act. They plan to storm the bank and use rubber bullets to incapacitate those in it. Frazier found that robbers had installed hearing aids with the police; Aware of police plans, the robbers blew smoke grenades and freed the hostages. Police arrested and questioned everyone but could not distinguish identical clerks from robbers. The bank's search revealed that the robber's weapon was a plastic replica. They found props to fake the execution, but no money or valuables that seemed to have been stolen. With no way of identifying the suspects and uncertain whether the crime had been committed, Frazier's superior ordered him to cancel the case.
Frazier, however, searched for bank records and found that the safe deposit box number 392 had never appeared on any record since the founding of the bank in 1948. He got a search warrant to open it. He was then confronted by White, who informed him of the Nazi case. He tried to persuade Frazier to cancel his investigation, but he refused, playing a tape of incriminating conversation that he had been with him. White confronts Case who admits that the box contains the diamonds and rings he took from a Jewish friend whom he betrayed to the Nazis.
Appeared as Russell's accomplice is:
- Carlos AndrÃÆ' Â © s GÃÆ'³mez as Steve (as Kenneth Damerjian)
- Director Kim as Stevie (Valerie Keepsake)
- James Ransone as Steve-O (Darius Peltz)
- Bernie Rachelle as Chaim, an older Jewish man who works as a professor at Columbia Law School, who teaches genocide courses, forced labor, and war reparations claims, which are part of the plot but not one of "Steves" considering his age and his physique.
Appeared as some of the more famous hostages is Ken Leung as Wing, who is troubled in the bank before the theft by a bosomic woman (played by Samantha Ivers) stands behind him and speaks loudly on his phone; Gerry Vichi as Howard Kurtz, an elderly hostage suffering from chest pains quickly released by robbers; Inheritance Ahluwalia as Vikram Walia, a Sikh bank clerk whose turban was removed by police, which is a sacrilege of religion for a Sikh man; Peter Frechette as Peter Hammond, a bank clerk trying to hide his cell phone from Russell, made him even more upset; Amir Ali Said as Brian Robinson, an 8-year-old boy who talks with Russell and Frazier and who plays murder video games; Ed Onipede Blunt as Ray Robinson, Brian's father; and Marcia Jean Kurtz, who plays an older woman who initially refused to disarm and be forced to do so by Stevie. Kurtz's character is named Miriam Douglas; Kurtz plays hostage named Miriam on Dog Day Afternoon, a bank robbery film, which unlike Inside Man, contains significant violence. Lionel Pina, who also appeared on Dog Day Afternoon as a pizza delivery, appeared on Inside Man as a police pizzeria at the front door of the bank.
Other roles include Cassandra Freeman as Sylvia, Frazier's girlfriend; Peter Gerety as Captain Coughlin, Frazier and Mitchell's boss; Victor Colicchio as Sergeant Collins, the first officer to respond to a bank robbery; Jason Manuel Olazabal as ESU Officer Hernandez; Al Palagonia as Kevin, a sanitation worker who recognized the language as an Albanian, since he had previously married an Albanian-born woman; Florina Petcu as Ilina, an Albanian woman who asked who explained that they heard the recording of Enver Hoxha; Peter Kybart as Mayor of New York City; Anthony Mangano as an ESU officer; and Daryl Mitchell and Ashlie Atkinson as Cellular Command Officers.
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Production
Development
Inside Man is Russell Gewirtz's debut film as screenwriter. Former lawyer, Gewirtz understands the idea while on vacation in several countries. He worked for five years to develop the movie premise. Inexperienced in scriptwriting, Gewirtz studied a number of scenarios before doing them himself, which he titled "The Inside Man". His friend, Daniel M. Rosenberg, helped develop the manuscript. After completion in 2002, the scenario was circulated several times. Rosenberg released a script to a number of Los Angeles agencies, until Universal Studios executives Scott Stuber and Donna Langley persuaded Gewirtz to bring the script to Universal and Imagine Entertainment. Imagine buying a Gewirtz scenario in 2002, and the project started development at Universal, which gave the movie title "Inside Man".
Imagine co-founder Ron Howard sticking to direct the movie, but refused it after being asked by Russell Crowe to lead Cinderella Man (2004). Partner Imagine Howard, Brian Grazer began searching for a new director. After Howard resigned, Menno Meyjes contributed to the Gewirtz scenario, and Terry George incorporated elements of German Nazi ring and diamond ring to the script. Meyjes is negotiating to direct the movie, but after she refuses, Grazer considers this project an opportunity to work with Spike Lee, who already knows the Gewirtz manuscript. Lee said of the scenario, "I love the script and really want to do it. '
After being cast, Denzel Washington and Chiwetel Ejiofor worked together in studying their lines and understanding their character. Lee helped prepare the actors by screening a number of theft films including Dog Day Afternoon (1975) and Serpico (1973). Washington, Ejiofor, Willem Dafoe, and other actors meet and work with members of the New York City Police Department, who share their experiences and stories involving civilians and hostage situations.
Filming
Primary photography
The main photography for Inside Man takes place at a location in New York City; The filming began in June 2005 and ended in August after 43 days. Universal Pictures provides a budget of $ 45 million. With filming in New York, production qualifies for the city's "Made in NY" incentive program. Interior sets were made at Steiner Studios based in New York, and Inside Man is the second film (after 2005 The Producers ) to be taken inside the 15-acre facility.
Locations discovery revealed the former Wall Street bank that had been closed and replaced as a cigar bar. The building stands for a fictional branch of the Manhattan Trust Bank, where bank theft took place. "Without the bank, we have no film," Lee explained. "But it's all over very smoothly, we shot at the heart of Wall Street in a closed bank, it's like having lots of places behind Wall Street." An office in Alexander Hamilton US Custom House doubles as the office of Arthur Case (Christopher Plummer). Plummer believes that the design of the office is very important to his character: "Space really presents the power of Case, so I find that part of my character is just playing really cool about everything." You do not need to push the power, because it's all around you. " The location was also used to film scenes where Frazier faces Madeleine White (Jodie Foster). The American Tract Society building, located at 150 Nassau Street and Spruce Street, Manhattan, doubled as White's office. Cafe Bravo, a coffee shop located at 76 Beaver Street and Hanover Street, is also used for filming. Other shooting locations include Battery Park and the New York Supreme Court House Appeal Division located on East 25th Street and Madison Avenue, Manhattan.
Design
Wynn Thomas oversaw the production design, continuing his 20-year collaboration with Lee. With the former Wall Street bank doubling as the Manhattan Trust franchise, Thomas and his team returned the former bank to the 1920s architectural structure. The first floor underwent renovation and was used as the first place where the hostages were held hostage by robbers. The basement bank is one of the few interior sets made at Steiner Studios. Thomas and his team also designed the Frazier apartment, which he described as "very masculine and rich and very monochromatic in many brown colors." He is also in charge of designing police interrogation rooms, as well as the interior of the New York City Police Department and light duty Command Car vehicles. The actual Mobile Command Vehicle, supplied by the LDV Group, is used for the exterior.
Cinematography
Inside Man is a photography film director Matthew Libatique with Lee. Because filmmakers want to finish with digital intermediate, Libatique chooses to shoot Inside Man in Super 35 format for an aspect ratio of 2.35: 1. He primarily uses Kodak Vision2 500T 5218 and Vision2 Expression 500T 5229 film shares. The film was taken with Arricam and Arriflex cameras and Cooke S4 lenses.
Some scenes in Inside Man require a multi-camera setting, which means that Libatique must instruct and work with some camera operators. Lee wanted to create a visual distinction between Russell (Owen) and Frazier (Washington) characters, while incorporating visual metaphors. The Russell scene, where he masterminded a bank robbery, was shot with Steadicam to show that the character was in control. Frazier's scene, where he was in charge of hostage situations, was filmed with several handheld cameras to display character confusion. Libatique explained, "I said, 'We want to create a sense of control and most of the frames are centered on Clive characters, and we want to have a movement with Denzel.' Having three operators on the same character, I will watch all three. In a handheld shot, long lenses have less movement and a wider lens is essentially more subtle. I will actually talk to the operator and tell him not to be so steady. This is my first time working with many operators where I am not alone. "The phone conversation between Russell and Frazier was shot using two cameras simultaneously recording actors performing in two different sound stage sets at Steiner Studios Steadicam operators Stephen Consentino estimated that 80% of the films were taken with a handheld camera or Steadicam. to film the scene where the hostages were finally released. Technocrane is used for crane shoots that will cover the following moments, where the hostages are placed on the bus.
The film features a number of scenes involving Detective Frazier and Mitchell (Chiwitel Ejiofor) interrogating several hostages during after the robbery. Libatique describes these scenes as "flash-forward" for the show, explaining that Lee "wants a look that will jump out and tell you you're somewhere else." Libatique photographed the scene with Kodak Ektachrome 100D 5285 reversing film. Technicolor then processed film pieces that had been filmed before being passed through a bleach bypass, which neutralized the color temperature and created more contrast. Libatique explains, "Basically, it brings together all the colors... When you try to apply the correction, the film moves in a very strange way."
EFILM's Post-production Facility performs digital intermediate (DI), with Libatique supervising the process and working with colorist Steve Bowen and Steve Scott: "It's very difficult to match all your shots thoroughly when you have three cameras and one lighting arrangement, so I spend some large DI only by holding to the original vision of the difference in color temperature, which I can prefer, compared to the unified color temperature. "The majority of Inside Man is scanned on the Northlight scanner while interrogation scenes must be scanned on Spirit DataCine, because the negative proves "too dense for Northlight to do the task."
Effects
Video game sequence
Inside Man features scenes in which Russell (Owen) interacts with Brian Robinson (Amir Ali Said), an 8-year-old boy who plays violent video game titled "Gangstas iz Genocide" on his book. PlayStation Portable. The scene is interspersed with a 30-second animation sequence of fictional games, in which characters do a drive-by shoot, before killing the targeted target with a hand grenade. Using the Grand Theft Auto franchise as a reference, Lee wants the scene to serve as a social commentary on rap gangsta, violent crime among African Americans and the rising murder rate in video games.
Cinematographer Matthew Libatique enlisted his cousin, Eric Alba, and a team of graphic artists known as the House of Pain to design a 30-second animation sequence. Lee asked for a sequence to show two black characters in a ghetto environment wearing gangster outfits. He also gave artists a clone of two scenarios that ended in murder - one of them being a robbery at an ATM, and the other was a car shoot.
House of Pain spent 10 days working for "Gangstas iz Genocide". Alba digitally photographed an image of a building near Marcy's House in Brooklyn, New York. The parts of the sequence have been visualized earlier in 3D Studio Max, when still imported as texture maps and added to the animated scene scene created in the Maya 3D modeling package. The artists also improvised the use of hand grenades. When Lee saw how hard the order was, he changed the line "Kill Dat Nigga!" as subtitle. The entire sequence is made to play on the screen in full frame. The original running time of the animation sequence is 60 seconds. Lee cut it to 30 seconds, feeling that its shorter length will make more of an impact. After Inside Man 'released theatrical, he regretted the sequence of video games in the movie, saying, "The sad thing is somebody might make a game out of it and consider it an inspiration."
Music
Jazz musician and trumpet Terence Blanchard composed a movie score, marking her eleventh collaboration with Lee. Soundtrack for Inside Man featuring the song "Chaiyya Chaiyya", composed by AR Rahman, originally appeared in Hindi film 1998 Dil Se.. The song was featured during the opening of the movie credits. A remix of the song, titled "Chaiyya, Chaiyya Bollywood Joint" plays during the end of the credits, and features additional Panjabi MC rap lyrics about people with different backgrounds who come together to survive. The soundtrack, titled Inside Man: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, was released on CD in North America on March 21, 2006, through the record label VarÃÆ'¨se Sarabande.
Release
Inside Man held his first show in New York at Ziegfeld Theater on March 20, 2006, to coincide with Lee's 49th birthday. On March 24, 2006, Universal Studios released a movie in 2,818 theaters in North America. The film was given the widest release of every Spike Lee movie, edging the Summer of Sam (1999) by 1,282 theaters. Inside Man was also released in 62 overseas markets. The film was released on DVD on August 8, 2006, on HD DVD on October 23, 2007 and on Blu-ray disc on May 26, 2009.
box office
On its opening day in North America, Inside Man earned $ 9,440,295 for an average of $ 3,350 per theater. On its opening weekend, it has grossed $ 28,954,945, securing the number one position at the box office. Inside Man holds the highest gross opening weekend record when Denzel Washington starred in a vehicle, surpassing Man on Fire (2004) which debuted with $ 22.7 million on its first weekend.
Inside Man has dropped 46.7% on its second weekend, earning $ 15,437,760; it fell to second place behind Ice Age: The Meltdown. The film dropped an additional 40.9% in the third week, bringing in $ 9,131,410, although it remained at number 10 for the weekend, placing the fourth overall. The film remained in the top ten for a fourth consecutive weekend, grossing around $ 6,427,815 and sixth this week. On the fifth weekend, Inside Man has earned an additional $ 3,748,955, while in eighth place. On the sixth weekend, Inside Man quit the top ten box office, completing the eleventh with an estimated $ 2,081,690. The film ended its theatrical broadcast in North America on July 6, 2006 after 15 weeks (105 days) of release. It grossed $ 88,513,495 in the United States and Canada, ranked as Lee's best-selling film, above Malcolm X (1992), which has ended its North American release with more than $ 48 million.
Inside Man was released overseas on March 23, 2006. On the opening weekend, it grossed about $ 9.6 million in ten territories. The film grossed $ 95,862,759 at overseas box office, totaling worldwide $ 184,376,254. In North America, this is the twenty-second best-selling film of 2006, while the film is ranked twenty-one as the highest grossing film released worldwide.
Critical reception
Inside Man has received most positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes tasted 197 reviews, and currently has an 86% rating, making it "Fresh Certified". The important consensus of the site reads, "Spike Lee is energetic and clever in film-heist thriller is a smart genre film that not only rewards in its own way but succeeds in subverting its delicate ornaments with intelligence and skill - and Denzel Washington is great because a negotiator "Metacritic, another review aggregator, commissioned the Inside Man weighted average score of 76 (out of 100) based on 39 reviews from major critics, considered" profitable general reviews ". The CinemaScore poll reported that the average movie theater gave the movie "B" on a scale A to F, with a poll showing that 54% of the audience were male, while 68% were at least 30 years old or older. The American Film Institute was named Inside Man as one of the ten best films of 2006.
Empire gave the film 4 out of 5 stars with the verdict, "This is of course a Spike Lee movie, but there is no Spike Lee Joint, however, he delivered a strong, pacy and often expert take on the genre worn thanks to the work of the lens slippery and cast on a cracked form, Lee proved (probably above all for himself?) that playing it straight is not always a bad thing. "Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe wrote," The basic story is an element , but because Lee and Gewirtz invested it with grit, comedy, and a ton of New York ethnic personality, it's still fresh. " David Ansen of Newsweek commented, "Unexpectedly like some of the plot is the fact that this unapologetic genre film was directed by Spike Lee, who has never sold himself as Mr. Entertainment, but here it is, the combined Spike Lee which is great fun. "Giving the B-rated movie, Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly wrote," Inside Man is a mix of photos of the studio action and Spike Lee together, or again it's a cross between 2006 Spike Lee together and movie indictment of the 1970s style of urban anxiety. "
Not all reviewers give positive Inside Man reviews. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave him mixed reviews, writing, "This is a thriller movie that is strangely reluctant to get results, and when that happens we see why: We can not accept the motives and methods of robbery banks, we can not believe in one character and can not understand the other. "Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the movie one star out of five films, calling it" a very obnoxious and unreasonable film. " Rex Reed from The New York Observer wrote, " Inside Man has two things going for it: a better-than-usual actor and a raincoat look or else it's not different from the nine out of 10 other junk films that are unreasonable, contrived, confusing, uneducated, useless, and easily forgotten that we get lately. "
Canceled order
In November 2006, it was announced that the sequel to Inside Man is in development, with Russell Gewirtz re-advertising the scriptwriting assignment. Under the working title of Inside Man 2 , the film will have Brian Grazer again functioning as a producer. Spike Lee is negotiating to repeat the task of directing it while serving as executive producer along with a return member Daniel M. Rosenberg. In 2008, Terry George was negotiating to write a screenplay for the sequel; he later replaced Gewirtz, whose movie screenplay was abandoned. The plot for the sequel is intended to continue after the first film event, with Dalton Russell (played by Clive Owen) masterminding another robbery, and again matching the intelligence with NYPD hostage negotiator Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington). Lee asserts that Washington, Owen, Jodie Foster, and Chiwetel Ejiofor will all be repeating their roles. He also expressed interest in filming Inside Man 2 during the fall of 2009.
In 2011, it was announced that plans to create Inside Man 2 have been canceled. Lee confirmed this, stating that he could not get funding for the project. "Inside Man is my most successful film, but we can not make the sequel," he said. "And one thing Hollywood does well is the sequel, the movie is not finished yet, we've tried many times, it's not going to happen."
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References
External links
- Official website
- Inside Man on IMDb
- Inside Man at AllMovie
- Inside Man in the TCM Movie Database
- Inside Man in Mojo Box Office
- Inside Man at Rotten Tomatoes
- Inside Man in Metacritic
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