Hail, Caesar!
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Directed by | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
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Narrated by | Roderick Jaynes |
Music by | Carter Burwell |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 106 minutes[1] |
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Language | English |
Budget | $22 million[2] |
Box office | $63.6 million[2] |
Hail, Caesar! is a 2016
First talked about by the Coens in 2004, Hail, Caesar! was originally to take place in the 1920s and follow actors performing a play about
Hail, Caesar! grossed $63 million worldwide on a $22 million budget and received positive reviews from critics. The film was chosen by National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2016,[4] and received Production Design nominations at the 89th Academy Awards[5] and 70th British Academy Film Awards.[6]
Plot
In 1951 Hollywood, Eddie Mannix is head of physical production at Capitol Pictures. His duties as the studio "
Baird Whitlock, the talented but dim-witted star of the studio's newest major production Hail, Caesar! A Tale of the Christ, is drugged and abducted. He awakens at a meeting of "The Future", a group of blacklisted Communist screenwriters, and is easily won over to their cause. The Future send a ransom note demanding $100,000 for Baird's return, which Mannix procures from the studio. He convinces Thora to withhold a story in exchange for information on singing Western film star Hobie Doyle.
Hobie has been hopelessly miscast in a sophisticated comedy of manners and, despite the efforts of director Laurence Laurentz, cannot overcome his thick Western American accent. When Laurentz requests Hobie's removal, Mannix convinces him to continue his coaching. Hobie admits to Mannix his unease about the role, but Mannix reassures him and confides in him about Baird's kidnapping.
That evening, Hobie attends the premiere of his latest Western with starlet Carlotta Valdez, as arranged by Mannix. The pair are accosted by the Thacker sisters, but Hobie spots the briefcase of ransom money, carried by
Baird spouts his newfound Communist beliefs to Mannix, who slaps Baird and orders him to "go out and be a star" and finish Hail, Caesar! The next morning, Mannix learns that DeAnna has married Silverman. Mannix declines Lockheed's offer, remaining at Capitol Pictures. Thora tells him that her column will reveal Baird won his role in an earlier picture by having sex with Laurentz, but Mannix tells her that if he exposes her source, Burt—a Communist and recent Soviet defector—it will tarnish her reputation. Thora backs down from running the story and Mannix moves on, confident in his role in life.
Cast
- Josh Brolin as Edward "Eddie" Mannix, a tough but conflicted "fixer" who keeps actors' scandals out of the press.[7][8]
- George Clooney as Baird Whitlock, a Robert Taylor-type film star.[9]
- Alden Ehrenreich as Hobart "Hobie" Doyle, a singing cowboy in the Gene Autry and Roy Rogers mold who is miscast as an urbane comic lead.[10]
- Ralph Fiennes as Laurence Laurentz, an acclaimed European film director, long-time resident in the United States.[11]
- Scarlett Johansson as DeeAnna Moran, an Esther Williams-type actress who becomes pregnant while her film is in production.[12][13]
- Frances McDormand as film editor C.C. Calhoun,[14][15] inspired by female film cutters of the era including Dede Allen or Margaret Booth.
- Tilda Swinton as both Thora Thacker and Thessaly Thacker, feuding identical twin sister gossip columnists, mimicking the rivalry between Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons.[16][17]
- Channing Tatum as Burt Gurney, a mysterious Gene Kelly-type actor/dancer. Another of Mannix's clients.[18]
- Alison Pill as Connie Mannix, Eddie Mannix's wife and mother of their two children.[19]
- Veronica Osorio as Carlotta Valdez,[20] a Carmen Miranda-type actress.[21]
- Emily Beecham[22] as Dierdre, an actress who appears opposite Hobie Doyle in Doyle's debut non-Western film role.
- Heather Goldenhersh as Natalie, Mannix's secretary[23]
- Wayne Knight as unnamed film extra and Communist operative who carries out the kidnapping of Baird Whitlock.[24]
- Jonah Hill as Joseph Silverman, a surety agent who works with the studio.[12][13]
- Max Baker as John Howard Hermann, head of a communist screenwriters "study group".[25]
- Christopher Lambert as Arne Seslum, a Scandinavian filmmaker, who is most likely the father of DeeAnna's child.[26]
- Geoffrey Cantor as Sid Siegelstein, a Capitol Productions lawyer
- Ian Blackman as Cuddahy,[27] an agent for Lockheed trying to headhunt Mannix.
- Fred Melamed as Fred, a Communist screenwriter[25]
- Patrick Fischler as Benedict, a Communist screenwriter[25]
- David Krumholtz as Herschel, a Communist screenwriter[25]
- Fisher Stevens as a Communist screenwriter[25]
- Alex Karpovsky as Mr. Smitrovich[25]
- Greg Baldwin as Dutch Zweistrong, a Communist screenwriter[25]
- Clancy Brown as co-star Gracchus in Hail, Caesar!: A Tale of the Christ[25]
- Robert Picardo[28] as Rabbi
- Allan Havey as Protestant Clergyman
- Natasha Bassett as Gloria DeLamour[29]
- John Bluthal as Herbert Marcuse[30]
- Dolph Lundgren (uncredited)[31] as the Soviet submarine commander who brings Burt Gurney to Russia.[32]
- Robert Trebor as the producer of Hail, Caesar!
- Michael Gambon as the narrator[9][33]
Production
Development
The Coens first pitched the story to George Clooney in 1999 during the shooting of O Brother, Where Art Thou? Ethan Coen described it as a "thought experiment" rather than a viable project.[34] The film was originally going to follow "a troupe of actors in the 1920s putting on a play about ancient Rome", with the focus on a matinée idol.[35] Clooney was to play the main character, "a hammy actor with a pencil mustache".[36][37][38] In February 2008, the Coens said the film had no script and was only an idea. They pitched it to Clooney as an opportunity to play a "numbskull" following his roles in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Intolerable Cruelty (2003) and Burn After Reading (2008).[39]
The project was mentioned in a December 2013 interview about Inside Llewyn Davis. Joel Coen said they were working on Hail, Caesar!, and that it would likely be their next project.[40] In May 2014, the Coens reconfirmed the film's development, with the plot now focused on a "fixer" working in the 1950s Hollywood film industry.[35][41]
Historical context
Set in 1951,[42] Hail, Caesar! takes place at a transitional time for the film industry. The studio system was breaking down, and a Supreme Court ruling had forced studios to divest their movie theaters. Television, then still in its early years, threatened to pull away audiences. The Cold War and the Red Scare were both under way. Hollywood responded with escapist fare: westerns, highly choreographed dance and aquatic spectacles, and Roman epics with massive casts.[43]
In
Casting
In December 2013, the Coens confirmed that Clooney remained involved with the project.
Costume design
Costume designer Mary Zophres began work 12 weeks ahead of shooting, researching period wardrobe from the late 1940s on the assumption that most people routinely wear clothes purchased over the past few years. She designed for a working film studio of the early 1950s, plus six genre films, each of which featured a major actor working on the set for about a week. Photos from the MGM library and the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences showed that film crews dressed more formally than today—no shorts or sneakers. Zophres produced about 15 boards of preliminary sketches, including "sculptural Technicolor gowns" for the ballroom drama inspired by the work of Charles James. Her double-breasted suit for Brolin was intended to blend with his skin tone, his moustache was styled after Walt Disney's, his hair was permed, and his character alone wore a fedora. Zophres modeled Tatum's look on Troy Donahue and Tyrone Power. The costumes in Ben Hur in particular served as references for the gladiator sequences, although Zophres employed the contemporary technique of using painted hard plastic foam instead of metal. The film ultimately required more than 2,500 costumes, including 170 Roman extras, 120 Israelites and about 45 slaves. About 500 of the costumes were custom-made. Toward the end of the shoot, the scope of the project overtook the budget, and Zophres completed some of the sewing herself.[48][49][50]
Filming and locations
In October 2014, Roger Deakins posted on his website that he would be the film's cinematographer and was shooting test footage.[51] Principal photography on the film began in Los Angeles, California, on November 10, 2014.[14] According to the Los Angeles Times, the Coen brothers' decision to film in Los Angeles increased filming activity in the city, which had previously been down by "a double-digit percentage ... in the fourth quarter [of 2014]".[8][52] In December, Clooney was photographed in full Roman regalia while filming scenes in Downtown Los Angeles.[53]
Tatum dyed his hair blond for his role
Hail, Caesar! was the first movie that Deakins shot on film since True Grit in 2010. The Coens themselves had said that their previous movie, Inside Llewyn Davis, would probably be their last use of the medium.[56] But with Hail, Caesar!'s classic Hollywood theme making film an obvious choice, Deakins agreed to give it one more try. "I don't mind", he recalled saying, "I'll shoot it on a cell phone if you like." Ultimately, film proved a limited palette due to the narrowing choices of stocks and processing options in the wake of digital cinematography. Deakins did not recall encountering those kinds of problems on earlier projects. "But it makes me nervous now. I don't want to do that again, frankly. I don't think the infrastructure's there."[57]
Southern California locations were used throughout the film, presenting a challenge to location manager John Panzarella. He noted that "period locations are disappearing fast", including several employed in an earlier film he scouted, the 1997 Oscar-winning L.A. Confidential. The Warner Bros. studio, which has retained its vintage buildings, stood in for most of the fictitious Capitol Pictures Productions after trailers, electrical hookups, and other contemporary fixtures were removed. Union Station in downtown Los Angeles was used for some studio exteriors. The synchronized swimming scene with Johansson was choreographed and directed by Mesha Kussman, and performed by the Aqualillies, a Los Angeles-based group of professional synchronized swimmers.[58] They worked at the water tank on Stage 30 at Sony Pictures Studios; the tank was also used for Esther Williams films and was under restoration until a week before shooting.[48] The wood-paneled conference room where Mannix vets the movie with religious leaders was filmed at the Cravens Estate's drawing room in Pasadena. The office of general counsel Sid Siegelstein was shot at a 1929 building in Los Angeles's Arts District later owned by Southwestern Bag Company. The building was designed by the same architecture firm as UCLA's Royce Hall.[43][59]
Locations for scenes beyond Capitol Pictures included the Appian Way scenes, shot at the Big Sky Movie Ranch in Simi Valley, and the western sequence, filmed at Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park. The well of Jehoshaphat sequence was shot at Bronson Canyon, formerly a quarry, in Griffith Park. The nightclub interiors, the scene of Carlotta and Hobie's date, was shot at the Hollywood Palladium, with the exterior at the Fonda Theatre and some reverse shots at the Chapman Plaza in Koreatown.[60] Carlotta's house exterior was filmed at a 1927 home in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles; this was also the locale for The Good Luck Bar, which stood in for the Imperial Gardens Chinese restaurant. The movie premiere was shot in the Los Angeles Theatre, selected for its spacious lobby.[43][59]
Post-production
Digital effects for Hail, Caesar! encompassed three areas: standard effects like Ehrenreich's lasso tricks, period effects including a matte painting of Rome that referenced the 1951 film
Music and soundtrack album
The soundtrack album for the film, Hail Caesar!: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, features the original score by
Release
Hail, Caesar! had its world premiere at the
Reception
Box office
Hail, Caesar! grossed $30.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $33.1 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $63.2 million against a production budget of $22 million.[2]
The film was released in North America on February 5, 2016, alongside Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and The Choice, and was projected to gross $9–11 million from 2,231 theaters in its opening weekend.[72] Hail, Caesar! made $4.3 million on its first day (including $543,000 from Thursday night previews).[73] The film went on to gross $11.4 million in its opening weekend, finishing second at the box office behind Kung Fu Panda 3 ($21.2 million).[74] In its second weekend, it grossed $6.4 million (a 44% drop), finishing 6th at the box office.[75]
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 86% based on 361 reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Packed with period detail and perfectly cast, Hail, Caesar! finds the Coen brothers delivering an agreeably lightweight love letter to post-war Hollywood."[76] On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 72 out of 100, based on 50 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[77]
The New Yorker's Richard Brody called the film "a comedy, and a scintillating, uproarious one, filled with fast and light touches of exquisite incongruity in scenes that have the expansiveness of relaxed precision, performed and timed with the spontaneous authority of jazz."[78] In the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan called the film a "droll tribute to and spoof of Hollywood past [that] amuses from beginning to end with its site specific re-creation of the studio system and the movies that made it famous." The Coens were "helped enormously by a splendid and committed ensemble cast."[79]
John Anderson of The Wall Street Journal wrote: "A dispiritingly vitriolic, only sporadically funny satire of '50s Hollywood, Hail, Caesar! verifies a suspicion long held here, that the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, really hate the movies. Their central character, Eddie Mannix...is being wooed by Lockheed. Better hours. Better pay. Lifetime employment. Fewer nut jobs. And work that wouldn't be quite so... frivolous. The movie makes a strong case that the Coen brothers feel the same way. You start to wonder why you're sitting there watching."[80]
The Atlantic associate editor David Sims concluded the opposite. Coen protagonists, he wrote, sometimes ask questions of higher powers—and receive no answer. "In Hail, Caesar! the answer is given, and it's as hopeful as one could expect from the Coens: Cinema's somber, weighty moments matter, but equally crucial are the frivolous, joyful bits of entertainment—watching Channing Tatum tap-dance on a table, or George Clooney ramble overwritten monologues."[81]
Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote that Hail, Caesar! falls between the filmmakers' masterworks and duds. "It's a typically sly, off-center comedy, once again set against the machinery of the motion-picture business. And, as usual with the Coens, it has more going on than there might seem, including in its wrangling over God and ideology, art and entertainment."[82]
Richard Roeper gave the film four out of four stars, calling it one of his favorite movies ever made about making movies.[83] IGN gave the film 7.7/10, saying, "Hail, Caesar! may not be one of the Coen Brothers' finest efforts—and it might not engage viewers beyond Los Angeles or those who truly understand or work in the film industry—but it's nevertheless a fun, charming, and oft-hilarious take on Hollywood's Golden Age."[84] In The Village Voice, Melissa Anderson praised the performances, but found that the tone and humor of the film "too often goes flat."[85]
Audience response
Audiences polled by
Accolades
List of awards and nominations | |||||
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Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
Academy Awards | February 26, 2017 | Best Production Design | Jess Gonchor and Nancy Haigh | Nominated | [86] [87] |
ACE Eddie Awards | January 27, 2017 | Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical | Roderick Jaynes | Nominated | [88] |
Art Directors Guild Awards
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February 11, 2017 | Excellence in Production Design for a Period Film | Jess Gonchor | Nominated | [89] |
British Academy Film Awards | February 12, 2017 | Best Production Design | Jess Gonchor and Nancy Haigh | Nominated | [90] |
Chicago Film Critics Association | December 15, 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Alden Ehrenreich | Nominated | [91] |
Costume Designers Guild | February 21, 2017 | Excellence in Period Film | Mary Zophres | Nominated | [92] |
Critics' Choice Awards | December 11, 2016 | Best Comedy | Hail, Caesar! | Nominated | [93] |
Denver Film Critics Society | January 16, 2017 | Best Comedy | Hail, Caesar! | Nominated | [94] |
Detroit Film Critics Society | December 19, 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Alden Ehrenreich | Nominated | [95] |
Location Managers Guild Awards | April 8, 2017 | Outstanding Locations in a Period Film | John Panzarella, Leslie Thorson | Nominated | [96] |
Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild | February 19, 2017 | Feature-Length Motion Picture – Period and/or Character Make-Up | Jean Ann Black, Zoe Hay and Julie Hewett | Nominated | [97] |
Feature-Length Motion Picture – Period and/or Character Hair Styling | Cydney Cornell, Matt Danon and Pauletta Lewis-Irwin | Won | |||
San Diego Film Critics Society | December 12, 2016 | Best Comedy Performance | Alden Ehrenreich | Nominated | [98] [99] |
Best Production Design | Jess Gonchor | Won | |||
Breakthrough Artist | Alden Ehrenreich | Nominated | |||
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association
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December 18, 2016 | Best Cinematography | Roger Deakins | Nominated | [100] |
Best Production Design | Jess Gonchor | Nominated | |||
Best Comedy | Hail, Caesar! | Won | |||
Best Scene | "Would that it were so simple." | Nominated |
Notes
- ^ Roderick Jaynes is the shared pseudonym used by the Coen brothers for their editing, but in this movie they also added another editing pseudonym
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External links
- Official website
- Hail, Caesar! at IMDb
- Animated teasers, commissioned by Universal for social media
- Official screenplay