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| The Black Dahlia (2006) |
 Release Date:
30 August 2006
Genre: Crime/ Drama/ Thriller
Director: Brian De Palma
Writer: Josh Friedman (screenplay), James Ellroy (novel)
Runtime: 121 mins
Language: English
Color: Technicolor
MPAA: R
Status: On Dvd/VHS
Filming Dates: 4 April 2005 - ???
Plays: Dwight 'Bucky' Bleichert
Cast:
+ Scarlett Johansson ---- Kay Lake
+ Aaron Eckhart ---- Lee Blanchard
+ Hilary Swank ---- Madeleine Linscott
+ Mia Kirshner ---- Elizabeth Short
+ Mike Starr ---- Det. Russ Millard
+ Fiona Shaw --- Ramona Linscott
+ Patrick Fischler ---- Deputy DA Ellis Loew
+ Rachel Miner ---- Martha Linscott
+ Rose McGowan ---- Sheryl Saddon
Tag line:
+ Inspired by the most notorious unsolved murder in California history.
Synopsis:
In 1946, the former boxers Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) and Lee
Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) are policemen in Los Angeles. Lee has a good
relationship with his chief and uses a box fight between them to promote the
department and get a raise to the police force. They succeed and are
promoted to homicide detectives, working together. Bucky becomes a close
friend of Lee and his girlfriend Kay Lake (Scarlett Johansson), forming a
triangle of love. When the corpse of the aspirant actress Elizabeth Short
(Mia Kirshner) is found mutilated, Lee becomes obsessed to solve the case
called by the press Black Dahlia. Meanwhile, Bucky's investigation leads him
to a Madeleine Linscott (Hilary Swank), the daughter of a powerful and
wealthy constructor that resembles the Black Dahlia. In a environment of
corruption and lies, Bucky discloses hidden truths.
Other Titles:
+ Le Dahlia noir (Canada French title / France)
+ La Dalia negra (Argentina / Spain)
+ Cehennem ciçegi (Turkey)
+ Czarna dalia (Poland)
Filming Locations:
+ Sofia, Bulgaria
+ Los Angeles, California, USA
Production Companies:
+ Universal Pictures
+ Millennium Films
+ Signature Pictures
+ Art Linson Productions
+ Davis-Films
Distributors:
+ Universal Pictures
+ Warner Bros
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| Trivia |
+ The film is based on the book "The Black Dahlia" by James Ellroy.
+ David Fincher had originally planned to direct and intended to make a three hour version shot entirely in black and white. Fincher subsequently left the project apparently because he doubted that he would be able to make the film exactly the way he envisaged.
+ Mark Wahlberg had initially signed on to play Lee Blanchard opposite Josh Hartnett, but scheduling conflicts with the planned _Brazilian Job, The (2008)_ prevented him from taking part even though production on the Italian Job sequel was eventually pushed back.
+ When _Brazilian Job, The (2008)_ was pushed further back in development, Mark Wahlberg, director Brian De Palma's first choice, was once again available for shooting. However, Wahlberg was offered the chance to work with Martin Scorsese on The Departed (2006) and thusly turned down the role, which eventually went to Aaron Eckhart.
+ In the earlier drafts, the Linscotts were written as the Spragues.
+ Mia Kirshner was originally intended to be feeding lines to potential actors in screen tests. However, her performance so caught the attention of director Brian De Palma and writer Josh Friedman that she was cast as Elizabeth Short and her role expanded significantly compared to the novel.
+ Brian De Palma met Rose McGowan a year before the filming of this movie, and offered her the role of Sherryl Saddon.
+ James Horner was previously attached, before Mark Isham was hired to score the film.
+ Gwen Stefani was considered for the role of Kay Lake.
+ The film opened the 63rd Venice Film Festival in 2006.
+ The book was optioned in 1986. It took twenty years for it to be made.
+ The voice behind the camera interviewing the Black Dahlia is Brian De Palma himself
+ Average Shot Length = ~7.3 seconds.
+ Brian De Palma offered the role of Madeleine Linscott to Eva Green, but she turned it down because she didn't want to be typecast as a "femme fatale" and the role went to Hilary Swank.
+ James Ellroy's book was based in part on the true story of the murder of Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress who'd moved to Hollywood in the late 1940s from Medford, Massachusetts. A drifter and hanger-on who never managed to break into films, she disappeared in early January 1947. On January 15, 1947 her horribly mutilated corpse was found in an empty lot in South Central Los Angeles. Her murderer was never publicly identified or apprehended.
+ Maggie Gyllenhaal was offered the part of Elizabeth Short but turned it down.
+ When Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert goes searching through some photographs, you can see a real autopsy photo of Elizabeth Short.
+ The silent film Bleichert, Lake and Blanchard attend is The Man Who Laughs (1928) starring Conrad Veidt.
+ The screen test that character's keep watching are not in the James Elroy novel. They were a plot device created by screenwriter Josh Friedman. The real Elizabeth Short claimed to have screen tested at major studios but no such footage has ever been found.
+ Rose McGowan's character Sheryl Saddon appears to be inspired by a real person, one Sherryl Maylond, who had shared a room with Elizabeth Short and six other girls.
+ In at least one earlier version of the script, Kay has auburn hair, not blond hair, as she does in the film.
+ The romance between Bleichert and Kay Lake is dramatically streamlined in the film; in the novel, they are married and eventually separated during the time that the case comes to a resolution.
+ In the novel Bleichert arrests Madeleine while he kills her in the film.
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| Goofs and Mistakes |
+ Anachronisms: The light switch on the wall next
to Kay's sliding door is of a type not available in the 1940s.
+ Anachronisms: When Bucky Bleichert enters Sheryl Saddon's bedroom
to get the suitcase, there is a postcard-sized picture of Bettie Page on the
wall. Bettie Page did not start modeling until 1950 and The Black Dahlia
(2006) takes place in 1946-47.
+ Continuity: When Kay pours champagne at the dinner table, she fills
Lee's glass twice.
+ Continuity: When Bucky and Madeleine are talking at Buck's car, the
bonnet is glittering with raindrops. A few seconds later, when they continue
their conversation inside the car, the bonnet is dry.
+ Anachronisms: Elizabeth Short's police booking photo from 1943 uses
the typeface Eurostile, which was created in 1951.
+ Errors in geography: In the diner scene the cash register shows a
purchase of 4d which was the British symbol for pence, not something you're
likely to see in LA.
+ Factual errors: Characters who knew Elizabeth Short refer to her as
'Betty' constantly. Though Elizabeth was known during her childhood as Betty
by family and friends, she preferred to be called 'Beth' and nobody who knew
her in Los Angeles knew her as Betty. It's unlikely that they would refer to
her by this name.
+ Plot holes: SPOILER: Elizabeth's friend, who acted with her in the
lesbian movie just before Elizabeth died, has a fully developed copy of the
movie. How did she get the undeveloped film? When did she get it? And if she
had no money, how did she get it developed?
+ Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: Madeleine's eyes clamp shut just as
Bucky shoots her, as if she knew it was coming. Her eyes are open in the
next shot where she is lying dead on the floor. |
| Quotes |
+ Kay Lake: [to Bucky, about
Madeleine] She looks like that dead girl! How sick are you?
+ Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert: [voiceover] The
basic rule of homicide applied: nothing stays buried forever. Corpses.
Ghosts. Nothing stays buried forever. Nothing.
+ Madeleine Linscott: Elizabeth and I made love once. I just did
it to see what it would be like with someone who looked like me.
+ Elizabeth Short: Please, say that you care, or say that you
think that I'm... beautiful.
+ Madeleine Linscott: [to Bucky] I think you'd
rather fuck me than kill me. But you don't have the guts to do either.
+ Emmet Linscott: What kind of name is Bleichert? Dutch?
Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert: German.
Emmet Linscott: Ah, a great people, the Germans. Hitler was a bit
excessive.
+ Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert: [voiceover]
Always she'd be there. Never between us; always in the middle.
+ Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert: [walking out on
her] You stupid slut!
Madeleine Linscott: Stay, Sugar, stay!
+ Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert: I don't get modern art.
Madeleine Linscott: I doubt modern art gets you, either.
+ [first lines]
Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert: [voiceover] Mr.
Fire versus Mr. Ice. For everything people were making it out to be, you'd
think it was our first fight. It wasn't. And it wouldn't be our last.
+ Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert: [voiceover, upon
seeing the letters "BD" carved into Kay's back] Bobby DeWitt. Who are
these men who feed on others? What do they feel when they cut their names
into somebody else's life?
[pause]
Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert: It was the case that made Lee's
career. He never said a word about it and I'd never asked. One of Lee's
snitches fingered Bobby DeWitt, a small-time pimp with a yard-long rap, as
the brains behind the job. DeWitt never spoke the entire trial, never
coughing up the dough even after damning character testimony from some of
his girls, including one Katherine Lake, formerly of Siox Falls, South
Dakota and looking to go straight. DeWitt got ten to life in San Quentin.
Lee got Kay, or maybe it was the other way around.
+ Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert: [voiceover]
Junior Nash was an inbred Okie shit-kicker who came west and took all us
locals for easy marks just because we prefer our cowboys to look like Gene
Autry. Of course, I didn't care if he was a hard man or what he thought
about anything. He raped children and beat senior citizens to death. He was
a coward, and I wanted to put him down.
+ Kay Lake: Well, this is nice, isn't it?
Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert: What?
Kay Lake: You and Lee partners. It's nice. It couldn't have worked
out better if you'd planned it, could it, Dwight?
Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert: Well, I could've beat him.
Lee Blanchard: Except you didn't.
Kay Lake: I don't know, sweetheart. Bucky was somebody back in the
day. And here we all are...
Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert: It's nice.
Kay Lake: It's more than nice. Might even be worth those front teeth
of yours, Dwight.
[Lee and Kay laugh, and Bucky stands up to raise his glass]
Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert: A toast... to Proposition B.
Lee Blanchard: [raising his glass] To the
Bleichert-Blanchard rematch, bigger than Louis-Schmeling.
Kay Lake: [raising her glass] To my... supercops! |
| Awards and Nominations |
+ Academy Awards: Best Achievement in Cinematography (Nominated)
+ ASC Award: Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases (Nominated)
+ Silver Ribbon: Best Production Design (WON)
+ Golden Reel Award: Best Sound Editing for Sound Effects and Foley in a Foreign Film (Nominated)
+ Satellite Award: Best Cinematography (Nominated)
+ Satellite Award: Best Costume Design (Nominated)
+ Teen Choice Award: Choice Movie Actress - Scarlett Johansson (Nominated)
+ Venice Film Festival: Golden Lion - Brian De Palma (Nominated)
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| Release and Reception |
+ Budget: 50 million
+ USA box office: 22.5 million
+ Opening weekend: 10 million
+ Worldwide Box Office:49 million
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| DVD Information |
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video,
Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English, German
Region: Region 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audio: Dolby Digital Surround Sound 5.1 - English,
French, Spanish
Number of Discs: 1 (Single Side Dual
Layer)
Classification: R
Studio: Universal Studios
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Run Time: 122 minutes
Additional Release Materials:
1. REALITY AND FICTION: THE STORY OF THE BLACK DAHLIA
2. THE CASE FILE
3. THE DE PALMA TOUCH PRESENTED BY VOLKSWAGEN
Note: Some of the above information may vary due to different DVD versions.
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NBC Universal and
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| Soundtrack Information |
Lucky Number Slevin : Music From the Motion Picture
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Label: Silva America
Artist: Mark Isham
Tracks:
1. The Zoot Suit Riots
2. At Norton and Coliseum
3. The Dahlia
4. The Two of Us
5. Mr. Fire versus Mr. Ice
6. Madeline
7. Dwight and Kay
8. Hollywoodland
9. Red Arrow Inn
10. Men Who Feed on Others
11. Super Cops
12. Death at the Olympic
13. No Other Way
14. Betty Short
15. Nothing Stays Buried Forever
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| The Novel |
Author: James Ellroy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Buy the book at AMAZON. |
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