Der Außenseiter Benjamin Purvis mit der Passion für das Verfassen von Science-Fiction-Romanen versteht die Welt nicht mehr, als ihm sein Idol, Dr. Ronald Chevalier seine Geschichte klaut.Der Außenseiter Benjamin Purvis mit der Passion für das Verfassen von Science-Fiction-Romanen versteht die Welt nicht mehr, als ihm sein Idol, Dr. Ronald Chevalier seine Geschichte klaut.Der Außenseiter Benjamin Purvis mit der Passion für das Verfassen von Science-Fiction-Romanen versteht die Welt nicht mehr, als ihm sein Idol, Dr. Ronald Chevalier seine Geschichte klaut.
- Auszeichnungen
- 2 Nominierungen
Robin Ballard
- Female Assistant
- (as Robin D. Ballard)
Jizelle Jade
- Troll Girl
- (as Jizelle Jade Jurquina)
Daniel Love
- Camera Operator
- (as Daniel 'Doc' Love)
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesThe character of Chevalier is based on Utah based science fiction and fantasy writer Dave Farland, who also writes under the name Dave Wolverton, and who conducts popular novel writing workshops and seminars. The "Yeast Lords" is a take off on his popular and best selling books, The Runelords.
- PatzerWhen Chevalier opens "Yeast Lords," the audience hears the second part of the story as though he's reading it, even though it's obvious that he has opened to the first page.
- Crazy CreditsAfter the credits, we see Bronco cutting some of his hair and pasting it with honey on Vanaya's bald head. And then they kiss.
- SoundtracksIn the Year 2525
Written by Rick Evans
Performed by Zager & Evans
Courtesy of The RCA Records Label and The RCA/Jive Label Group, a unite of Sony Music Entertainment
by arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
Ausgewählte Rezension
Uneven but generally entertaining indie comedy
"Gentlemen Broncos" is so off-the-charts weird at times that you often can't tell whether it's breaking new ground as a brilliantly original and creative work - or just trying too hard.
Michael Angarano ("Forbidden Kingdom") plays Benjamin Pervis, a friendless teen who lives with his penniless mom in a geodesic-domed house in rural Utah. Ben is a writer of sci-fi fantasy fiction who has one of his stories stolen by Ronald Chevalier (the delightful Jemaine Clement), a world-famous author with a James Mason voice. Ben also runs into a couple of bizarre indie-film makers who want to make the same story Chevalier stole from him (entitled "Yeast Lords" from the series "Gentlemen Broncos") into one of their shoestring-budget productions.
It's hard to know whether writers Jared and Jerusha Hess (Jared also directed the film) have any real affection for their characters and the world they inhabit or whether they view them merely as objects of out-and-out mockery and ridicule. In fact, the characters, with their mouth-breathing, slack-jawed expressions and atonal line readings, achieve near-freak show status at times. It's this air of condescension, rather than the tale itself, that sometimes makes it hard for us to laugh at what's happening on screen.
Despite this discomfort, however, there is still much to admire in the work. The movie has fun parodying both the unscrupulous nature of the publishing business and the accoutrements of low-budget filmmaking. Clement is marvelously deadpan as the sci-fi penner whose writer's-block forces him to scrap all traces of authorial integrity in pursuit of the almighty buck. And Angarano creates in Benjamin a character we can actually care about and root for. The enactments of scenes from Benjamin's novels are appropriately hokey and cheesy, and the movie also makes astute musical choices, particularly Zager and Evans' 1969 hit "In the Year 2525," which effectively book-ends the story.
Michael Angarano ("Forbidden Kingdom") plays Benjamin Pervis, a friendless teen who lives with his penniless mom in a geodesic-domed house in rural Utah. Ben is a writer of sci-fi fantasy fiction who has one of his stories stolen by Ronald Chevalier (the delightful Jemaine Clement), a world-famous author with a James Mason voice. Ben also runs into a couple of bizarre indie-film makers who want to make the same story Chevalier stole from him (entitled "Yeast Lords" from the series "Gentlemen Broncos") into one of their shoestring-budget productions.
It's hard to know whether writers Jared and Jerusha Hess (Jared also directed the film) have any real affection for their characters and the world they inhabit or whether they view them merely as objects of out-and-out mockery and ridicule. In fact, the characters, with their mouth-breathing, slack-jawed expressions and atonal line readings, achieve near-freak show status at times. It's this air of condescension, rather than the tale itself, that sometimes makes it hard for us to laugh at what's happening on screen.
Despite this discomfort, however, there is still much to admire in the work. The movie has fun parodying both the unscrupulous nature of the publishing business and the accoutrements of low-budget filmmaking. Clement is marvelously deadpan as the sci-fi penner whose writer's-block forces him to scrap all traces of authorial integrity in pursuit of the almighty buck. And Angarano creates in Benjamin a character we can actually care about and root for. The enactments of scenes from Benjamin's novels are appropriately hokey and cheesy, and the movie also makes astute musical choices, particularly Zager and Evans' 1969 hit "In the Year 2525," which effectively book-ends the story.
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- 19. Okt. 2011
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- Budget
- 10.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 113.682 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 11.502 $
- 1. Nov. 2009
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 118.492 $
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