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Hardcore (1979)

Drama | 109 minutes
3,37 197 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 109 minuten

Alternative title: Spoorloos

Country: United States

Directed by: Paul Schrader

Stars: George C. Scott, Peter Boyle and Season Hubley

IMDb score: 7,1 (15.520)

Releasedate: 9 February 1979

Hardcore plot

"Oh my God, that's my daughter."

Jake Van Dorn (Scott) is a deeply conservative, religious person. One day, his daughter disappears during a youth gathering in California. He orders a private detective (Boyle) to find her, who stumbles upon a porn/snuff movie starring her. Van Dorn leaves for LA where he scours the local porn scene in search of his daughter. A descent into hell...

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Zinema (crew films)

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George's believer.

Iron eater George C. Scott knows how to hold the attention. Despite being rather miscast in this crime drama, it is he who makes the difference. Not as a Dutch believer, but as a desperate father looking for his daughter in the sex industry. The story is weak and the execution average, but thanks to the protagonist, the viewer stays focused.

Reasonable.

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scorsese

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Good film in which a father goes looking for his daughter when she goes missing. The film takes you into the underworld of the porn and sex industry. The dark and somewhat depressing tone fits well with this. It sometimes drops a bit here and there, but the moments between the father and the girl he pays are well written. George C. Scott certainly does not disappoint in the lead role.

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Bobbejaantje

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A strong film whose title apparently has a double meaning. It might as well refer to the conservative religious leanings of the community from which George C Scott's character comes. Although I think that up to 99% of the audience thinks of something else with this title. The name and connotations have also not helped the film to find acceptance with a wider audience. Compare it with the fame of Taxi Driver. Includes several similar themes, also written by Paul Schrader. Hardcore has a fine structure and basically shows George C Scott's descent into the earthly hell, or compare it to Orpheus' journey into the underworld, in this case looking to bring his daughter back to the top to bring. This journey takes him past peep shows and brothels (on location) in which he becomes acquainted with an attitude of exploitation, secrecy and oppression. I think that Paul Schrader handled this sensitive material with great integrity. Despite the potential present, the sexualized women and men are portrayed in an almost clinical manner. There is nudity, but as a viewer I never got the feeling that the camera wanted to seduce me into something.

The film's Calvinist element harks back to Schrader's own childhood. The basic idea of the young girl ending up in the sex industry was based on media coverage from that time. It's great that Schrader succeeds in streamlining those elements into a single whole. And apparently The Searchers by John Ford was also a source of inspiration. In retrospect, there are indeed some similarities.

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