Ace in the Hole
(El gran carnaval / Cadenas de roca / The Big Carnival)
(USA, 1951] [B/N, 111 m.].
Género: Comedia negra, Sátira.
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Ficha técnica.
Dirección: Billy Wilder.
Argumento: Victor Desny (historia, no acreditado).
Guión: Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman.
Fotografía: Charles B. Lang Jr. (B&W)
Música: Hugo Friedhofer.
Producción: Billy Wilder, William Schorr.
Productora: Paramount Pictures.
Sinopsis: Charles Tatum es un periodista sin escrúpulos que atraviesa una mala racha a causa de su adicción al alcohol, razón por la que se ha visto obligado a trabajar en un pequeño diario de Nuevo México. Cuando un minero indio se queda atrapado en un túnel, Tatum ve la oportunidad de volver a triunfar en el mundo del periodismo. Entonces, en connivencia con el sheriff del pueblo, no sólo convierte el caso en un espectáculo, sino que, además, retrasa cuanto puede el rescate. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Lejos de sus registros cómicos habituales, pero con el colmillo más retorcido que nunca, Wilder ofrece aquí uno de los más duros retratos del egoísmo humano y la crueldad de la sociedad contemporánea que se hayan rodado jamás. Coqueteando con la sátira periodística, la tragicomedia, el drama clásico y el cine negro, “El gran carnaval” se erige en un desolador ejemplo de cómo las más bajas pasiones –el ansia de fama, poder y dinero, pero también la cobardía, la estupidez y la lujuria- gobiernan nuestros actos. Evidentemente, el paso del tiempo, como demuestran a diario la prensa y la televisión, no ha hecho sino agigantar su lucidez y su valor. Excelente. (Daniel Andreas: FILMAFFINITY)
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"Me parece la crítica más lúcida y feroz que el cine ha hecho nunca sobre la manipulación que ejerce cierto periodismo y sobre el morbo y el egoismo de las masas." (Carlos Boyero: Diario El Mundo)
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"Tan cruel como real" (Javier Ocaña: Cinemanía)
AMG SYNOPSIS: Paramount's ace screenwriting team of Billy Wilder, Walter Newman and Lesser Samuels came up with their bitterest, most trenchant screenplay to date with 1951's The Big Carnival--which, perhaps significantly, was one of the team's few flops. Kirk Douglas stars as a hotshot big-city reporter who has drunk himself out of every job he's ever held. Reduced to working for a backwater New Mexico daily, Douglas smells an opportunity to return to the Big Time when a miner (Richard Benedict) is trapped in a cave-in. Thanks to Douglas' promotional savvy, the miner's plight turns into a national news event, attracting thousands of onlookers, newsreel cameramen, radio commentators and sideshow hucksters. To prolong the ballyhoo, Douglas deliberately slows down the rescue of the unfortunate miner--who dies as a result. Thoroughly disgusted with himself, Douglas returns to his newsroom to deliver an impassionated speech of self-hatred, then drops dead at the feet of his startled editor. Test-marketed under the title Ace in the Hole, The Big Carnival turned out to be too bitter a pill for audiences to swallow. As a result, Billy Wilder would never write or direct so uncompromising a project again. -- Hal Erickson
AMG REVIEW: A movie truly ahead of its time, Ace in the Hole (also known as The Big Carnival) turned out to be too bitter and cynical for moviegoers in 1951. An unrelenting portrait of media sensationalism and the human obsession with tragedy that propels it, the film is based on a true story that also spawned Robert Penn Warren's novel The Cave. Director, screenwriter, and producer Billy Wilder suffered perhaps the biggest commercial and critical failure of his career with Ace, losing much of his standing at Paramount, even though the movie was released between two of his most enduring and popular triumphs, Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Stalag 17 (1953). Ace was perhaps not up to the standard of those works, but it clearly stands as one of Wilder's many achievements. It's hardly surprising that this film failed to find a mainstream audience, despite the added attraction of emerging star Kirk Douglas in the lead. American culture wouldn't be ready for such a large dose of pessimism until the 1970s; even then, a film such as 1976's Network, which clearly paralleled the tone of Wilder's effort, was dismissed by many viewers as too hysterical. -- Brendon Hanley
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