Michael Collins

Titolo originale: Michael Collins
Regia: Neil Jordan |
Anno: 1996
Origine: Ireland | United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Guerra Dramma Thriller Storia
Tag: civil war | fight | presidential election | freedom fighter | biography | ireland | irish easter rebellion (1916) | 1920s | assination | irish history | irish | assassinated |
Cast: Liam Neeson | Aidan Quinn | Stephen Rea | Alan Rickman | Julia Roberts | Ian Hart | Brendan Gleeson | Stuart Graham | Sean McGinley | Gerard McSorley | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Charles Dance | Richard Ingram | John Kenny | Ronan McCairbre | Jer O'Leary | Mike Dwyer | Martin Murphy | Gary Whelan | Frank O'Sullivan | Frank Laverty | Owen O'Neill | Liam De Staic | Owen Roe | Paul Bennett | Claude Clancy | Paul Hickey | Tom Murphy | David Gorry | Gary Lydon | David Wilmot | Joe Hanley | Colm Coogan | Aiden Grennell | Dave Seymour | Ian McElhinney | Tony Clarkin | Luke Hayden | Gary Powell | Max Hafler | Laura Brennan | Aidan Kelly | Jim Isherwood | Michael James Ford | Mal Whyte | Martin Phillips | Aisling O'Sullivan | Malcolm Douglas | Brian 'Joker' Mulvey | Frank Patterson | Peter O'Brien | Michael McCabe | Vinnie McCabe | Alan Stanford | Gary Mullan | Barry Barnes | Denis Conway | Don Wycherley | Paraic Breathnach | Terry Woods | Conor Breen | Lesley Conroy | Karl Dawson | Alan Joyce | Gareth Molan | Deirdre Mulrooney | Joe Redmond | Jean Kennedy Smith | Ian Dillon |

Il film segue sette anni della breve e ardente vita di Michael Collins, discusso eroe dell'indipendenza irlandese, ucciso in un'imboscata da altri irlandesi.

Approfondimenti

The director Neil Jordan issued a statement in which he attempted to justify Collins' work by saying [...] D
Despite containing several brutal scenes of violence, the film was given a very lenient 'PG' rating [...] D
Liam Neeson was 43 when this movie was made. The real-life Michael Collins was 31 when he died. D
The Treaty ports were returned to Ireland in 1938, ensuring the country could remain neutral through [...] D
The character Ned Broy is a composite of Ned Broy, a double agent in the police, and Dick McKee, Com [...] D
The first DVD release was flippable, and had two sides, much like an old LP (similar to the first DV [...] D
After he had delivered a hit in the form of Intervista col vampiro (1994) to its studio, David Geffe [...] D
Mary-Louise Parker was at the point of being signed for the part of Kitty, when Neil Jordan got a ca [...] D
Richard Harris and Kevin McClory, planned a Michael Collins biopic in the mid 1960s. D
Alan Rickman, Brendan Gleeson, and Ian Hart all appeared in Harry Potter films. D
John Boorman's short segment from Lumière and Company (1995) was filmed on the set of this movie [...] D
The film cast includes one Oscar winner: Julia Roberts; and two Oscar nominees: Liam Neeson and Step [...] D
Recently released documents show that Michael Collins used former Black and Tans against the IRA dur [...] D
Jonathan Rhys Meyers's character could represent the post-Free State founding, and later versions of [...] D
Michael Collins adopted guerrilla tactics used by the Boers during the Second Boer War (1899-1902). D
The film, like most films of historical characters, alters real events for dramatic effect. Harry Bo [...] D
Robert Redford spent a short time in Dublin in the early '80s doing research on an unrealized Michae [...] D
Michael Collins was a major influence on the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Cuban R [...] D
The final song by Elliot Goldenthal in the film, "Funeral/Coda," is actually Goldenthal's rejected f [...] D
Brendan Gleeson played Collins in The Treaty (1991). Liam Neeson consulted with Gleeson during pre-p [...] D
Michael Collins was accusing of betraying Ireland by signing the Anglo-Irish Treaty as it confirmed [...] D
This was originally going to be a Kevin Costner feature. D
The film suggests that Eamon De Valera ordered the assassination of Michael Collins. De Valera alway [...] D
When the film was in production, the IRA exploded a bomb in London's Canary Wharf, thereby ending a [...] D
John Turturro turned down the role of Eamon de Valera. D
It is considered likely that Collins was killed by a dum-dum bullet fired by Denis "Sonny" O'Neill, [...] D
Matt Dillon was originally up for the part of Harry Boland. D
The film takes place from 1916 to 1922. D
Many of the Black and Tans served with the 10th Irish Division during World War I. D
Gabriel Byrne was attached to the role of Michael Collins when Michael Cimino was set to direct. D
Bray Wanderers' Carlisle Grounds substituted for 1920's Croke Park, at a cost of approximately one m [...] D
Tom Cruise was offered the Jonathan Rhys Meyers cameo of the assassin. Cruise would later co-star in [...] D
The vast exterior set of the GPO (General Post Office), cost IR£1.5 million, which RTE News descr [...] D

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Errori

The car that de Valera gets into after arriving by boat has the registration 15 D 1, which indicates [...] D
In the Croke Park scene an armoured car opens fire on the crowd. In reality an armoured car was neve [...] D
Michael Collins is shown wearing a wrist watch. These were developed specifically for World War I ai [...] D
Eamon de Valera is shown surrendering with the General Post Office garrison after the Easter Rising. [...] D
In the film, it shows Ned Broy (Stephen Rea), a double agent in Dublin Castle being tortured and mur [...] D
The film's introduction states that the United Kingdom was the foremost world power at the beginning [...] D
The film presents Tom Cullen's death as being hanged after being trapped by the British in one of IR [...] D
(at around 7 mins) We see Collins and Boland on a train, and it says May 1918. They are going to a r [...] D
One of the sailing vessels pictured in the background as Collins, Boland, and Kitty Kiernan walk alo [...] D
The opening title sequence refers to Ireland as a colony but it was actually a full and equal part o [...] D
The opening title sequence refers to "Britain" invading Ireland 700 years ago. In fact Britain would [...] D
During the raid on Four Courts, over the shoulder of the leftmost soldier a 1980s-vintage bus can be [...] D
Ned Broy provides to his new boss a picture of Michael Collins, but that same picture was taken from [...] D
After they break out Eamon de Valera from prison and are driving away in the car, there is a brief s [...] D
During the Easter Rising scenes, the Volunteers and Citizen Army are shown marching out of the Gener [...] D
When the cabinet are trying to convince Collins to engage in civil war Arthur Griffith says 'They ha [...] D
When Michael Collins returns from London after the negotiation, he rides a car with Harry Boland and [...] D
Thomas MacDonagh surrendered at Jacob's Factory; he wasn't present with GPO leaders Pearse, Clarke o [...] D
During the "Croke Park" scene in Bray, the DART lines are visible in the background. D
During the Easter Rising scenes, Collins is shown wearing the uniform of a full Lieutenant in the Ir [...] D
Harry Boland was in America when Collins returned to Ireland with the treaty, not in Dublin as shown [...] D
In a close up of Michael and Kitty a tram goes past left to right in the back ground but with the el [...] D
Joe O'Reilly was not with Collins in Beal na mBlath on 22 August 1922. D

Frase

Michael Collins: I would plead with every person h [...] D
Michael Collins: Give *us* the future, we've had e [...] D
Michael Collins: Once I start, they'll be no stopp [...] D
Michael Collins: We have a weapon more powerful... [...] D
Eamon de Valera: [running away from the police whi [...] D
Eamon de Valera: They call us murderers. Michael [...] D
[Michael Collins arrives at the ceremony to take d [...] D
Lincoln prison chaplain: I can't understand your p [...] D
Soames: Sufficient unto the day the evil thereof, [...] D
Kitty Kiernan: Is it true, Mick, that all of the w [...] D
[Collins and his men have just intercepted an inte [...] D
[repeated line] Joe O'Reilly: Jesus Christ, Mick, [...] D
Michael Collins: I hate them for making hate neces [...] D
Harry Boland: What happens next time? Michael Col [...] D
Cathal Brugha: The Minister is as usual exceeding [...] D
[as the British flag comes down] Michael Collins: [...] D
Soames: The problem with the Irish is that they'll [...] D
Ned Broy: [when he was arrested] Let me go! I know [...] D
Michael Collins: I want peace and quiet. I want it [...] D
Michael Collins: There was a man in west Cork who [...] D
Michael Collins: There is one weapon that the Brit [...] D
Harry Boland: Oh, did you hear there's a butterfly [...] D
Kitty Kiernan: So which one of you gunslingers is [...] D
Eamon de Valera: The Irish people established the [...] D
Joe O'Reilly: You know what he'd say if he saw you [...] D
Michael Collins: If they shut me up, who will take [...] D
[first lines] Joe O'Reilly: [dictating a letter] [...] D

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