The film "Black Dahlia": actors, plot, interesting facts

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The Black Dahlia is a collaboration between German, French and American filmmakers. The costly feature-length feature film debuted at the box office in August 2006. The film directed by Brian De Palma was watched by 3.4 million viewers in the US alone. The Black Dahlia actors - Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Mia Kirshner, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank and others. The music for the film was created by composer Mark Isham.

The picture, which was filmed on several continents, belongs to the category of films of the age limit for viewing 16 +. In 2007, The Black Dahlia was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Cinematography category. In 2006 she participated in the competition program of the Venice Film Festival. The real name of this movie is Black Dahlia, but the Russian distributor Central Partnership chose to call it Black Orchid.

Synopsis

Brian De Palma's film, inwhich are based on real events, include thriller, crime, detective, drama as cinematic genres. The plot of the picture originates in the second half of the 1940s. The main characters are two police officers who are looking for those who were involved in the murder of a young lady, Elizabeth Short. During the investigation, one of them finds evidence of the involvement of a friend of the murdered woman in her death.

Story base

Black Dahlia was called in the media the girl Elizabeth Short, found dead in one of the districts of the city of Los Angeles in early 1947. The discovered corpse of Elizabeth was a body cut in half, the internal organs of which were absent. The girl's face was horribly disfigured, someone cut her mouth from ear to ear. The police detained more than two dozen suspects, but they could not solve this crime. The story of this murder became the basis for the novel by the American writer James Elroy, who creates in the detective genre. His work from the Los Angeles Quartet series has already been filmed several times.

Project information

In The Black Orchid, the priestess of love Cake Lake, who was friends with one of the detectives, is played by actress Scarlett Johansson. At first, the role of the character was supposed to be played by singer Gwen Stefani, but for some reason this did not happen. The girl who was killed was offered to portray actress Maggie Gyllenhaal on the screen, but she refused. If this film were made by David Fincher, who was offered to direct it, then thiscinematic project would be a 180 minute black and white film.

The film was filmed in Bulgaria and the USA. "Black Dahlia" was musically designed by Mark Isham, taking this work from composer James Horner. Madeline was supposed to be played by Eva Green.

Scarlett Johansson

The actress in one of her interviews spoke about her work on this film. Scarlett Johansson laments that she had to work intensively for several months, and even when she was ill with the flu, she was forced to appear on the set of this cinematic project, because, according to her, "movie time is money." The actress classifies the 2006 film The Black Dahlia as a film noir, in which "lie and truth are tightly woven together." Talking about the director of this film, Brian De Palma, the actress focuses on his fantastic ability to create projects "with blood, violence and sex."

Brief information about the actress

Scarlett Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 in Manhattan (USA). Today she is not only an actress, but also a director, she also writes scripts and produces. The track record of the actress includes 166 cinematic works, including roles in the films The Avengers, The Horse Whisperer, We Bought a Zoo, and The Other Boleyn Girl. Climbing the Hollywood Olympus began in 1994, playing in the film "North". In 2017, she took part in the creation of the films "Ghost in the Shell", "Very Bad Girls". Now shebusy in the projects "Isle of Dogs", "Avengers 4", "Beautiful, but doomed", etc. The actress, whose height is 160 cm, according to the zodiac sign is Scorpio. She was married to Ryan Reynolds and Romain Dauriac. Mother of one child. At the time of writing, the actress is 33 years old.

The lead actor. Josh Hartnett

In the film "The Black Dahlia" actor Josh Hartnett played the main character - police officer Dwyat Blaikert. When the shooting of this cinematic project took place, information periodically appeared in the media about the romantic relationship that began at that time between Josh Hartnett and Scarlett Johansson.

Josh Hartnett was born on July 21, 1978 in Saint Paul (USA). His track record includes 86 cinematic works. He became famous for his roles in the films Lucky Number Slevin, Obsession, Pearl Harbor, The Faculty. At the dawn of his acting career, he played in the TV series "Cracker" and in the feature film "Halloween: 20 Years Later" in 1998. In 2017, he appeared in the projects "At a depth of 6 feet", "Oh Lucy", "Mountains and stones". Now he is acting in the films The Long Home, Highway for Players, A Memorable Moment, etc. The actor’s height is 191 cm.