Tears of the Black Tiger

Tears of the Black Tiger (2000)

ฟ้าทะลายโจร

Die schöne Rumpoey steht mit ihrem Sonnenschirm im Regen und weint: Ihre Jugendliebe Dum ist nicht gekommen, um mit ihr zu fliehen. Nun muss sie den Wunschkandidaten ihres Vaters, den ehrgeizigen Polizeioffizier Kumjorn, heiraten. Dum, in der Welt der Banditen besser bekannt als Revolverheld Black Tiger, erledigt gerade stilsicher eine Bande von Verrätern und kommt zu spät. Rumpoeys und Dums Romanze ist von Anfang an hoffnungslos, denn sie leben in völlig unterschiedlichen Welten. Während Dum, ein einfacher Bauernjunge, nach der Rache an den Mördern seiner Familie zum gefürchteten Outlaw wird, entwickelt sich der verwöhnte Fratz Rumpoey zu einer feinen Dame. Obwohl sie sich lieben, lässt das Schicksal sie nicht zueinander finden und bis zum tragischen Ausgang der Geschichte wird klar: Keine Frau leidet so stilvoll wie Rumpoey und niemandes Augen sind so samten wie Dums.

Erscheinungsdatum
2000-09-29
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (43)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 50 Min.
Genres
Liebesfilm, Komödie, Action, Western
Regie
วิศิษฏ์ ศาสนเที่ยง

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Tears of the Black Tiger is a 2000 Thai action-adventure film written and directed by Wisit Sasanatieng. The story of a tragic romance between Dum, a fatalistic, working-class hero, who has become an outlaw, and Rumpoey, the upper-class daughter of a provincial governor, it is equal parts homage to and parody of Thai action films and romantic melodramas of the 1950s and 1960s.

Production

While Tears of the Black Tiger has been compared to the Revisionist Westerns of Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone, director Wisit Sasanatieng drew on many Thai cultural influences in the creation of the film, including Thai films of the 1950s made by pioneering director Rattana Pestonji, whose films Wisit had viewed in screenings at the Thailand National Film Archive.

"Whenever the Film Archive screened an old film, I'd be there. Usually, I'd be the only one there", Wisit said in an interview at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2000. "Most Thai audiences dislike Thai movies, especially the old ones, which they consider nam nao", he said, using the Thai language euphemism for the old films, which are viewed as stagnant and clichéd. Literally, nam nao means "stinky water."

"What I saw in them was a way to stay true to the spirit of those old styles of Thai filmmaking, as well as a way to make them new again. And none of the older generation of filmmakers impressed me more than Rattana Pestonji."

In addition to Rattana's 1950s and 1960s drama films, Tears of the Black Tiger draws on 1960s and 1970s Thai action cinema, derisively termed by critics as raboed phoo khao phao krathom ("bomb the mountain, burn the huts") films. Among the stars from this era were Mitr Chaibancha and Sombat Metanee, who co-stars as gang leader Fai.

Still more influences include the novels of Thai humorist Por Intharapalit and an old Thai pop ballad, "Fon Sang Fah" ("When the Rain Bids the Sky Farewell"). "I do love those 'rain' songs. I kept picturing a beautiful frame of two guys shooting each other in the rain. And that sparked it all", Wisit said in an interview for the film's production notes.

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