Burke e Hare

Título original: Burke & Hare

2010
R
1 h 31 min

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6,1/10

22 mil

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Isla Fisher, Simon Pegg, and Andy Serkis in Burke e Hare (2010)

A black comedy about two 19th century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school.

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Uma comédia de humor negro sobre dois ladrões de túmulos do século XIX, que encontram um negócio lucrativo fornecendo cadáveres para uma escola de medicina de Edimburgo.Uma comédia de humor negro sobre dois ladrões de túmulos do século XIX, que encontram um negócio lucrativo fornecendo cadáveres para uma escola de medicina de Edimburgo.Uma comédia de humor negro sobre dois ladrões de túmulos do século XIX, que encontram um negócio lucrativo fornecendo cadáveres para uma escola de medicina de Edimburgo.

Direção
- John Landis
Roteiristas
- Piers Ashworth
- Nick Moorcroft
Artistas

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AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb

6,1/10

22 mil

SUA AVALIAÇÃO

Direção
- John Landis
Roteiristas
- Piers Ashworth
- Nick Moorcroft
Artistas

Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro

Prêmios
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Curiosidades
Amongst many cultural and historical jokes interwoven in the plot, one occurs when Dr. Alexander Monro (Tim Curry) says to Dr. Lister (George Potts), "your breath is appalling." Although the timeline is somewhat off, with Lister being of a later generation than that portrayed during the events of this movie, he was nonetheless the pioneer of using carbolic acid for the sterilization of surgical instruments and cleaning of wounds during the 1860s. This effectively revolutionized surgery and saved the lives of countless patients who would otherwise have died of infection or had to have limbs amputated due to gangrene. He is also after whom the famous antiseptic mouthwash product Listerine was named, hence the ironic joke about his breath being appalling.

Erros de gravação
Two hangings are shown in the film, in the style of a "long drop" designed to break the neck and cause instant death. This style was first introduced in the 1870s by William Marwood as a more humane approach. Before then, and certainly in 1828-1829 when the film was set, the victim was simply suspended by a rope around the neck and choked to death by suffocation.

Citações
William Burke: I had confidence in a fart once, and I shat all over myself.

Cenas durante ou pós-créditos
This is a true story. Except for the parts that are not.

Conexões
Featured in Breakfast: Episode dated 18 October 2010 (2010)

Trilhas sonoras
Scotland the Brave
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(opening sequence)

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7/10

Landis Comeback

Burke and Hare is a story of two men in Scotland in the late XIX century barely making a dime when an opportunity comes along to earn hard cash by killing people and selling their bodies to the benefit of science.

This movie may seem morally rotten at its core making a comedy out of murder, but it succeeds at it while quite a lot of comedies with far less harmful plots don't, not to mention that some of the most popular TV shows of today make it fit right in. John Landis comedies much in common with ZAZ productions and sometimes are almost live action cartoons. The title characters are shown as flawed people in a desperate situation which they think justifies their actions - we don't laugh with them, only at them. And that's intentional.

John Landis came back with a surprisingly decent feature. It's as if the MTV-style cinema revolution has passed him by (the one that hit the new Sherlock Holmes square in the face). No camera gymnastics, no forced sensual assault, all the action and physical comedy happens in frame. Burke and Hare is his first 2.35:1 feature and it shows - the frame at first appears a little too wide, like if the characters were taken from a 16:9 movie and arranged accordingly. By the way, "highly entertaining", "very funny" and "packed with the cream of British talent" - those bits on the poster aren't far from the truth.