Insignificance

Insignificance is a 1985 British drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Theresa Russell, Tony Curtis and Michael Emil.

The film is based on the eponymous play by Tony Johnson from 1982 about four people who meet in a hotel room in New York in 1953. Although they are not mentioned by name is Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein. Joe DiMaggio and senator Joseph McCarthy.

Insignificance was at the release in cinemas no large commercial success, while also the criticism was divided. The film hold in addition to the Cannes Golden Palm for which it was nominated. Only later got a cult status Insignificance and nowadays it is seen as a classic.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == A professor comes to New York to give a lecture on the theory of relativity. It is a sultry evening and after the lecture the professor goes to his hotel room to freshen up. Not long after that, a beautiful actress in a wafer-thin white dress inside. Both talk about the theory of the professor and the actress turns out to be smarter than the professor originally thought. Using toys present in the hotel room she explains how, in her view, the theory of relativity works. Excited, the professor further over time and space, while the actress talks about her inability to have children. Then go to bed with each other the professor and actress. The situation becomes complicated when the baseball player, the jealous ex-husband of the actress, enters. The baseball player is totally illiterate and can only in exasperation a calendar with pictures of his ex-wife tear up. As well as the senator enters the hotel room creates a remarkable coming together of people who seemingly have nothing to do with each other. The senator is a fervent Communists Hunter and suspect the professor of ' red ' sympathies. In the discussion that they have says the senator that the crap is that the Russians have lost so many million people in the Second World War. As the professor and the actress are alone again, escalates the situation as the professor throws his documents with his theory out the window. At that time the atomic bomb explodes and the actress is hurled out the window, her white dress covered with blood spatter. Everything flies on fire and running the film back and at that time the order restored. The actress takes her stuff together, greeting the professor and leaves the hotel room. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit] == Playwright Terry Johnson took the still fledgling 1950s as a starting point. The years of reconstruction in the us, but also the dark time of the witch hunt for Communists by senator Joseph McCarthy. The time that the atom bomb could come any time from the air, but also the time of the films Marilyn Monroe and the baseball successes of Joe DiMaggio. Theoretically had Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joseph McCarthy and Joe DiMaggio were able to meet each other in a hotel room in New York in 1953. But that didn't happen. At least not in our universe in normal time. But the film plays on the theme of relativity. According to Einstein is light speed constant and he uses this to find a new relationship between space and time. So he came to the conclusion that the time for a given observer slower then goes for another observer while they move at different speeds relative to each other. In reality, however, that mutual speed according to Einstein is relative. The observer does not measure that his own time slow down, nor the other observer would perceive this, they are both quiet compared to themselves and the time expires for them normally. Measurements are no longer absolutely, each observer is according to Einstein, however, equivalent. Another observer can measure speed and yet another right. Johnson plays with this given by four objects in a room together that do come from the same era, but in 1953 else moved in relation to each other. The conversations that the four have with each other are purely symbolic. All four they represent the four pillars of American society: entertainment (the actress), Science (the professor), politics (the senator) and sport (baseball player). From the conversations show that they have lived up to their childhood dream, but also that they are not happy have become. The frustration about this brings the senator to the crying and the baseball player until tearing up pictures of his ex-wife.The actress from it in her grief that they do not have children. There is sex, but no pregnancy, an unfulfilled wish. But seen in the time it's all relative and insignificant. The measurable time to emphasise this plays an important role. The watch of the professor stands still at 8: 19, the time when the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. Also all the other clocks in the film give this time to. The professor has worked on the theory that stood at the foot of the atomic bomb and that governed his life. Just now he puts into words the relativity of time, there seems to be an end to all to come, because he has tampered with the building blocks of life. His frustration finds his way in the atomic explosion and is then channeled into the roll back the time. Roeg brings all this inbeeld via image transitions those thoughts flashes symbolize. Flashbacks, flashforwards and striking camera positions give the movie a chaotic and depressing impression. He stresses the stereotype choice of the protagonists, for example, by the movie starting with the equally iconic scene from The Seven Year Itch whereMarilyn Monroe dress up blowing above the heteluchtrooster. ==Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nicholas Roeg worked, as usual with his regular actress, Theresa Russell, who steps into the shoes of Marilyn Monroe. She stood in front of the actor who in 1959 in Some Like It Hot stood opposite the real Monroe, Tony Curtis. The actor was just fired from the Betty Ford Clinic where he was treated for his alcohol and cocaine addiction. 1993 Curtis writes In his autobiography that Roeg him precisely because of Some Like It Hot for the film had asked. It's no secret that Curtis got hate to Monroe during the recordings of Some Like It Hot. Roeg admitted he with the choice of Curtis for the film the irony and chance wanted to emphasize. He knew what it meant for Curtis after all these years to have to stand in front of Monroe again, though it was then Theresa Russell in disguise. The movie plays in New York, but only a few scarce outdoor shots are made in that city.The rest of the shots was made in Lee Studios in Wembley, London, England. ==Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Prizes<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="48" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;font-family:sans-serif;color:rgb(15,15,95);">Technical Grand Prize at the Cannes Festival ==Sources<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 4 Production
 * 5 Music
 * 6 Prices
 * 7 Sources
 * "Jupiter Variations" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
 * "America" (Stuart Argabright)
 * "When Your Heart Runs Out of Time" (Will Jennings)
 * "Wild Hearts" (Will Jennings/ Roy Orbison)
 * "Life Goes On" (Will Jennings/ Stanley Myers)
 * Neil Sinyard, "The movies or Nicolas Roeg". London, 1991
 * Tony Curtis, "Tony Curtis, the autobiography", London 1994