Phon Range

Phon Range ( Phon Booth ; the Cabin in Quebec) is a film states-unien of Joel Schumacher, left in 2002.

Synopsis

With New York, a lying and potentially adulterous press attaché finds himself under the fire of a franc-tireur whereas it is in a phone box; the gunner wants that it amends its faults. Quickly, it is encircled by the police force and the television cameras because it is suspected of having killed a man who wanted to make it leave the cabin.

Summary

Comments

Initially envisaged with the the United States in 2002, the exit was pushed back several times to avoid a coincidence with the topicality of two embusqués gunners terrorizing the area of Washington, cd..

The film introduces several topics of reflection:

the introduction points out the importance taken by the telephony in the previous years, and in particular, of the Mobile phone. She concludes herself by a nostalgic note on the phone boxes,
the history scrambles well the reference marks of and Mal of the spectator by making of the omnipresent character to the screen a liar without ethics which hopes to mislead his wife, and of its opponent an ordinary citizen avenging the company by the assassination,
the influence of the media by their presence on the various spot of a Fait (here, the murder of Leon by Stu, suspect because he does not want to hang up again the telephone).

For another film having used a murderer justifying his murders by morals: to see Se7en .

Data sheet

original Title: Phon Booth (literally: Phone box ), exploited under this title in Belgium and in the rest of the world
Title in France: Phon Range (literally: Play of the telephone or telephone Play )
Title in Quebec: the Cabin
Realization: Joel Schumacher
Scenario: Larry Cohen
Lasted: 80 minutes (1h20)
Music: Harry Gregson-Williams (additional: Mel Wesson, Clay Duncan, Martin Tillman and Justin Caine Burnett)
Comings out date: September 10th 2002 (First with the International festival of film of Toronto), April 4th 2003 (the USA, Canada), June 25th 2003 (Belgium), August 27th 2003 (France)

Distribution

Colin Farrell: Stuart " Stu" Shepard
Kiefer Sutherland : the gunner embusqué (or sniper )
Forest Whitaker: the captain ED Ramey
Richard T. Jones: the Jonas sergeant Sticks
Radha Mitchell: Kelly Shepard
Katie Holmes: Pamela " Pam" McFadden
Paula Jai Parker, Arian Waring Ash and Tia Texada: stripteaseuses the
John Enos III: Leon, the bouncer of the strip tease
Keith Nobbs: Adam, assistance of Stu
Dell Yount: the deliveryman of pizza pie
James MacDonald: the negotiator of the police force
Josh Feed: Mario, owner of discotheque

Turning

The scenes of film were turned to Los Angeles, which posed the problem of the natural light, different from that visible with the Latitude of New York.

For the decoration carried out in four days, part of the 5th street in Los Angeles was made up to resemble a street of New York with sordid shops (of which an important box of strip tease in the intrigue). To recreate the impression to be with the foot of very high buildings which return the sunlight on the street, the machinists assembled slopes of projectors at the top of the buildings and fixed retractable white curtains on several frontages. During turning, these slopes and curtains were quickly retractable to make it possible to film plans of cut.

Turning was carried out in ten days only (against more than one month usually). The scenes of this Fiction in real-time were turned in the chronological order, and by several cameras simultaneously (up to four); that to compensate for the weak time of turning. The actor Kiefer Sutherland thus arrived the tenth and last day of turning for the only scene of film where it appears.

The assembly consisted in binding the various filmed plans and adding the voice of Sutherland in the dialogs by telephone of its character with Stu.

External bond

Critical on filmdeculte.com
'' Phone Range '' on Internet Movie Database

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