Ronin is a 1998 American action thriller film written by John David Zeik and David Mamet (using the pseudonym Richard Weisz) and directed by John Frankenheimer. It stars Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård, Sean Bean, and Jonathan Pryce. In the story, a team of former special operatives is hired to steal a mysterious, heavily guarded briefcase while navigating a maze of shifting loyalties. The film is noted for its realistic car chases in Nice and Paris and its convoluted plot, using the case as a MacGuffin.
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Directed by | John Frankenheimer |
Produced by | Frank Mancuso Jr. |
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Story by | J.D. Zeik |
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Music by | Elia Cmiral |
Cinematography | Robert Fraisse |
Edited by | Tony Gibbs |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $55 million |
Box office | $70.7 million |
Frankenheimer signed in 1997 to direct Zeik's screenplay, which Mamet rewrote significantly to expand De Niro's role and develop plot details. Principal photography was done in France from November 3, 1997 to March 3, 1998 and was supervised by the French cinematographer Robert Fraisse. Vehicle stunts were coordinated and performed by professional race-car drivers. Elia Cmiral scored the film, his first for a major studio.
Ronin premiered at the 1998 Venice Film Festival before its general release on September 25. Performing moderately well at the box office, the film had a warm critical reception. Considered a return to form for Frankenheimer, it was his last well-received feature film. Film critic and historian Stephen Prince called Ronin Frankenheimer's "end-of-career masterpiece". The car chases, which were favorably compared to Bullitt and The French Connection, made several media outlets' lists as some of the best portrayed in film.
Screenplay
At a bistro in Montmartre, Irish operative Deirdre meets with former special operatives-turned-mercenaries Sam and Larry (Americans) and Vincent (a Frenchman). She takes them to a warehouse where fellow mercenaries (the Englishman Spence and the German Gregor) are waiting, and briefs them on their mission: to attack a heavily armed convoy and steal a large metallic briefcase, the contents of which are never revealed. As the team prepares, Deirdre meets with handler Seamus O'Rourke, who says that the Russian mafia is bidding for the case and the team must intervene. After Spence is exposed as a fraud by Sam and dismissed, the others leave for Nice. Sam and Deirdre are attracted to each other during a stakeout. On the day of the sale, Deirdre's team ambushes the convoy at La Turbie and pursue the survivors to Nice. After a gunfight at the port, Gregor steals the case and disappears.
He sells the case to the Russians, but is forced to kill his contact when he betrays him. Gregor contacts Mikhi (the Russian mobster in charge of the deal), and makes him agree to another meeting. The team tracks Gregor through one of Sam's CIA contacts and corners him in the Arles Amphitheatre, where he is meeting two of Mikhi's men. Gregor flees and is captured by Seamus, who kills Larry and escapes with Deirdre. Sam is shot while saving Vincent's life and is brought to a villa in Les Baux-de-Provence owned by Vincent's friend, Jean-Pierre. After removing the bullet and letting Sam recuperate, Vincent asks Jean-Pierre to help them find Gregor and the Irishmen.
In Paris, Gregor is brutally interrogated into leading Seamus and Deirdre to a post office where they retrieve the case. Sam and Vincent pursue them in a high-speed chase, which ends when Vincent shoots Deirdre's tire and sends her car over an overpass under construction. When Sam and Vincent fire at him, Gregor takes cover behind the flipped car (which is set ablaze by the gunfire). Gregor flees with the case, while road workers rescue Deirdre and Seamus from the burning vehicle. Sam and Vincent decide to track down the Russians and learn from one of Jean-Pierre's contacts that they are involved with figure-skater Natacha Kirilova (Mikhi's girlfriend), who is appearing at Le Zénith.
During his girlfriend's performance that night Mikhi meets with Gregor, who says that a sniper in the arena will shoot Natacha if Mikhi betrays him. Mikhi kills Gregor and leaves with the case, letting the sniper kill Natacha. Sam and Vincent follow the panicked crowd out of the arena in time to see Seamus shoot Mikhi and steal the case. Sam runs ahead and finds Deirdre waiting in the getaway car; he tells her to leave, revealing himself as a CIA agent pursuing Seamus and not the case. Deirdre drives away, forcing Seamus to run back to the arena with Sam in pursuit. Seamus ambushes Sam, and is fatally shot by Vincent.
Sam and Vincent later talk in the bistro where they first met, while a radio broadcast announces that a peace agreement was reached between Sinn Féin and the British government (partially as a result of Seamus' death). Sam looks toward the door expectantly, but Vincent tells him that Deirdre will not be coming back. Sam drives off with his CIA contact, and Vincent pays the bill and leaves.
- Robert De Niro as Sam:
An American mercenary formerly associated with the CIA. According to director John Frankenheimer, De Niro "was always dream casting" for the film. - Jean Reno as Vincent:
A French gunman who befriends Sam. Frankenheimer sought to establish the friendship between Reno's and De Niro's characters, since he considered it pivotal to the story and wanted to strengthen the off-screen bond between the actors. - Natascha McElhone as Deirdre:
An IRA operative commissioned to steal a briefcase by Seamus O'Rourke. McElhone had a dialect coach on set to help her speak with a Northern Irish accent. McElhone said she was thrilled to do the role because she got to portray a character that moved the action forward. - Sean Bean as Spence:
An English firearms specialist. During production, Frankenheimer did not know what the future held for the character and thought about having him killed by shooting him off-screen (after the team drove out of the warehouse) or snatched from a Parisian street into a van driven by the IRA. Ultimately, he dismissed him from the team. Bean described the character as egotistic and "a little bit out of his depth". - Stellan Skarsgård as Gregor:
A German computer specialist formerly associated with the KGB. A fan of Skarsgård, Frankenheimer praised the Swedish actor for "bring so much to the role." Of the character's backstory, Skarsgård suggested that Gregor was abandoned by his wife and son, for which he became "quite suicidal and cold". - Jonathan Pryce as Seamus O'Rourke:
A rogue operative in pursuit of the case through Deirdre. Like McElhone, the Welsh Pryce was coached to hone his Northern Irish accent. - Skipp Sudduth as Larry:
Another American and the team's designated driver. Sudduth, who had appeared in Frankenheimer's George Wallace (1997), performed most of his driving stunts. - Michael Lonsdale as Jean-Pierre:
Vincent's friend and colleague whose pastime is creating miniatures. Frankenheimer intended to make the character a miniature artist, partially due to his own love of creating miniatures. The film was Lonsdale's third collaboration with Frankenheimer. - Katarina Witt as Natacha Kirilova:
A Russian figure skater. Witt wanted to become an actress after a career as a figure skater; Frankenheimer had always wanted to shoot an ice-skating scene, and cast her in the film. - Féodor Atkine as Mikhi:
Leader of the Russian mafia
Frankenheimer, who signed to direct Ronin in 1997, agreed that he "could do it rather well. It seemed to fit into things that I know what to do." He explained that choosing the project gave him the opportunity to apply his broad knowledge and understanding of France, especially Paris, in which he resided for many years: "I would not have been able to do the film nearly as well anywhere else". His films The Train (1963), Grand Prix (1966), Impossible Object (1973), and French Connection II (1975) were shot in France. According to Frankenheimer, French authorities helped him circumvent a strict Paris ordinance prohibiting film productions from firing guns in the city which was enacted after many civilian complaints about gunfire produced by production crews. Two factors influenced the decision: officials wanted an American action film (like Ronin) to be filmed in Paris, since few had been shot since the law was passed, and they wanted to boost France's reputation as a filming location.
Many of Ronin's principal crew members had worked with Frankenheimer on television films: editor Tony Gibbs on George Wallace, set designer Michael Z. Hanan on George Wallace and The Burning Season (1994), and costume designer May Routh on Andersonville (1996). Frankenheimer chose French cinematographer Robert Fraisse to help him achieve the look and style he envisioned for the film. Fraisse impressed Frankenheimer with his work on the police thriller Citizen X (1995), which convinced the director that Fraisse could handle the more than 2,000 setups he planned for Ronin. Frank Mancuso Jr. was the film's producer.
Screenplay
Film newcomer John David Zeik conceived the idea for Ronin after reading James Clavell's novel, Sh?gun, at age 15. It gave him background on r?nin (masterless samurai), which he incorporated into a screenplay years later. On choosing France as the story's key location, Zeik said: "Many years in Nice, I stared into the sun and saw the silhouettes of five heavily-armed gendarmes
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