The film "9 and a half weeks": music, actors and roles

Erotic melodrama "9 and a half weeks" came out in the mid-eighties andhas gained popularity with millions of viewers. This film became a classic of world cinema. The names of the main actors are known to everyone. How was the legendary picture created? Who wrote the music for the film "9 and a half weeks"?

Plot

Elizabeth McGraw - young, single woman. Not so long ago she got divorced. Elizabeth works in an art gallery. One day he meets John Gray in New York - a charming young millionaire. A rather strange relationship is established between them.

A variety of erotic fantasies that Johnrealizes with the help of Elizabeth, not always to her liking. But she can not refuse him. The film "9 and a half weeks" is filled with metaphors and symbols. Many scenes from melodrama were repeatedly used by other directors, including as a parody. Exactly 9 and a half weeks continue the relationship between Elizabeth and John. Hence the name.

The plot of the film may seem uncomplicated. But when creating this picture, new ones were used for that time receptions. Her success is due to the excellent acting game, quality directing work and camera skills.

From the history of the film

Erotic melodrama was released on February 14, 1985. Film "9 and a half weeks" for obvious reasons can not be attributed to the pictures intended for wide viewing. Ordinary melodrama this film is also not call. Compared with most of the erotic films, which in recent years go to the screens, "9 and a half weeks" the plot is in some way even chaste. But American critics in the 80's were of a different opinion. Let's recall the history of the film.

In the seventies on the shelves of US bookstores appeared ROman Elizabeth McNeill. He was translated into Russian much later. And when this happened, I did not get much success in our country. Book "9 and a half weeks" was published under a pseudonym. The authorship belongs to the editor-in-chief of the famous American magazine with a feminist touch. The novel caused a resonance in society. This work, as is often the case in such cases, instantly interested in Hollywood cinematographers.

Main roles

Adrian Line, after reading the book, decided to make a film that would not talk about people with perverted fantasy, but about personalities rather complicated. This he, perhaps, succeeded. Later the feat Laina tried to repeat and other directors, but they did not achieve much success. Actors and roles in the film "9 and a half weeks", as, indeed, in other paintings, which are destined to become classics, were selected quite a long time. The main female role was claimed and Andy McDowell, and Sigourney Weaver. As for the image millionaire from irrepressible fantasy, then it could be a completely different actor on the screen.

Mickey Rourke, toa Strangely enough, I got into this movie quite by accident. Before that, he played very different characters. On filming the film "9 and a half weeks" before actor there was an uneasy task: to create an image of a man possessing boundless charm, bordering on magnetism, but at the same time prone to sadism. They say, to invite to this role Mickey Rprick insisted the producer. The main character, as is known, played by Kim Basinger.

Shooting the film "9 and a half weeks"

Actors working on the creation of images were given not easy. Especially performer of the main female role. The film was created in chronological order of. In this scheme, I insisted producer, believing that only this way it will be possible to show the psychological experiences of the main character. In order to force Beysinger Enter the image, Lain sometimes had to remove her out of balance. For example, producer aboutSuddenly stated that Mickey Roorke purports to spread about her impartial gossip.

Shooting ended in 1984. How did the American viewers react to this film? Surprisingly, according tomillet, most of them did not like the picture. During the premiere display approximately half the audience left the hall before the final frames began. The film could have failed at the box office. But the unexpected happened. AND for director, and for the producer, and for the American public. The picture suddenly won a crazy popularity in Europe, but first of all in France and Italy. In Paris, it was demonstrated for five years.

Mickey Rourke

This actor the biography is quite interesting. Once in his youth, he dug ditches and traded drugs. But there were problems with the law. Roorke, since childhood dreamed of becoming actor, took sisters a small amount and went to New York. Success has come not right away. Mickey Roorke stubbornly attended castings, but directors not have seen in him the performer is even an insignificant, secondary role. He had to find another job in the unskilled low-paid work.

The first films in which this actor played are little known. Success came to him after the release of the film "Fighting small fish". And this happened two years before the shooting "9 and a half weeks". Erotic melodrama made from Mickey Rprick a world-famous celebrity. Since then, he's been in low-profile moviese was removed. Roorke abandoned many roles, including from the main in the film "Rain Man", which later greatly regretted.

Today in this actor it is difficult to find out a millionaire with a fascinating smile and bizarre fantasies. Appearance of Mickey Rprick with age has changed beyond recognition. In the nineties he played more and more in action films, while several times starred in erotic cinematapes. But the previous success has not reached.

Kim Basinger

The name of this actress is associated with filmstrip "9 and a half weeks". After all, the project was the most successfulFor her and in terms of career, and from the financial point of view. In the early eighties, Kim Baysinger played in the movie series about the agent 007. Took part in the filming several comedies. The melodrama of 1985 made her, like Mickey Rprick, world celebrity.

The film Laina, as already mentioned, was perceived quite coldly in the 80s to American audiences. Critics have dedicated picture set angry reviews. Has got to actors, and the director, and the writer. Kim Baysinger received "Gold raspberry". Anti-prizes "awarded" there was also a screenwriter.

Music "9 and a half weeks"

After the release of the film, popularity came not only to actors. They became real hits and compositions, which sounded in this film. Today, few know aboutthen famous song, under which the heroine Kim Bshesinger dances striptease in "9 and a half weeks", Joe Cocker wrote just for this picture. The low, hoarse baritone of a British singer sounds in many films. One day Joe Cocker was awarded even a prize "Oscar" for the best composition to the film. Song from the film "9 and a half weeks" for known reasons was not noted by critics. But it has become in some way a classic.

Bryan Ferry and Jean-Michel Jarre

To erotic melodrama B. Ferri wrote composition Slave To Love. The British singer and musician began his career in the sixties. Then he formed the band The Banshees. In the early seventies began a solo career of Brian Ferri, and about this time he wrote several compositions for films, including a film, about which goes speech in this article.

In the final frames of the melodrama, the heroine Kim Bshesinger, after parting with John, in tears wandering by New York streets. And then a lyrical melody sounds, which did not become a hit, but is very beloved by the audience, especially by women. Who wrote this song?

Her the author is Jean-Michel Jarre. This man began to learn to play the piano at the age of five. After graduation he entered the Paris Conservatoire. Besides, He played the guitar in various groups. In the sixties Zhen-Michel Fapr carried away electronic music and released a single in this genre. He wrote a huge number of compositions for television and cinema and is a laureate of several prestigious musical awards.

In film "9 and a half weeks" (in the photo above you can see the footage from the film), the music of Stuart also sounds Copeland, Corey Hart, John Taylor, Brian Ino.