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Consumer Protection Department of Justice Press Releases
Wilmington – Attorney General Beau Biden advised consumers today to be on the lookout for gift cards scams during the holiday shopping season.
"Gift cards have become popular holiday gifts," said Biden, noting that the National Retail Federation estimates that 81.1 percent of consumers will buy at least one gift card this holiday season, "but they have also become tempting targets for criminals wanting to defraud consumers."
According to Biden's Consumer Protection Unit and the Better Business Bureau, consumers should take the following steps when purchasing gift cards:
• Get gift cards from stores and businesses you know and trust, avoid cards from online auction sites because the card could be fraudulent or already used;
• Check to see if the card has an expiration date.
• Read the fine print to determine whether any fees are associated with purchasing the card and whether fees will be deducted from the card when it is redeemed.
• Inspect the card if you are buying it in person to ensure that all of the protective stickers are still in place and that the PIN number on the back of the card is not visible.
• When giving the card, include the original receipt so the card can be replaced if lost or stolen.
Biden also warned Delawareans to be aware of a text-messaging scam involving gift cards. Fake text messages are sent to individuals claiming that the recipient has won a free gift card from well-known national store. In reality, the message is just an attempt to obtain personal information. The message also contains a link that shoppers are directed to follow. When the recipients click on the link, they are asked for information such as their email address and phone number, and for answers to personal questions about their health and other matters, such as whether want to further their education.
Shoppers who think they may have been the victim of a gift card scam or who have received a text message claiming that they have won a free gift card should alert Biden's Consumer Protection Unit by calling 800-220-5424 or sending an email to email@example.com.
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Author(s): | Yuxiang Liu; Houxun H. Miao; Vladimir A. Aksyuk; Kartik A. Srinivasan; |
Title: | Wide Cantilever Stiffness Range Cavity Optomechanical Sensors for Atomic Force Microscopy |
Published: | July 30, 2012 |
Abstract: | We report on progress in developing compact sensors for atomic force microscopy (AFM), in which the mechanical transducer is integrated with near-field optical readout on a single chip. Building upon previous work in which the motion of a nanoscale, doubly-clamped cantilever (sub-pg effective mass, 2.2 MHz frequency, and stiffness ≈ 0.14 N/m) was transduced with sub-fm/Hz1/2 displacement sensitivity by an adjacent high quality factor silicon microdisk cavity, here, we show that simple modifications to the system geometry allow us to extend our sensing platform to a wide range of cantilever stiffness. In particular, we show that fm/Hz1/2 (or better) displacement sensitivity can be achieved while the cantilever stiffness is varied over four orders of magnitude (≈0.01 N/m to ≈290 N/m). The ability to transduce both very soft and very stiff cantilevers extends the range of applicability of this technique, potentially ranging from interrogation of microbiological samples (soft cantilevers) to imaging with high resolution (stiff cantilevers). Along with mechanical frequencies (>250 kHz) that are much higher than those used in conventional AFM probes of similar stiffness, these results suggest that our cavity optomechanical sensors may have application in a wide variety of high-bandwidth AFM measurements. |
Citation: | Optics Express |
Volume: | 20 |
Issue: | 16 |
Pages: | pp. 18268 - 18280 |
Keywords: | Lasers and laser optics: Microcavities, Microscopy: Scanning microscopy, Optical devices: optical microelectromechanical devices |
Research Areas: | Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), Nanophotonics |
PDF version: | Click here to retrieve PDF version of paper (1MB) |

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Bad Romance
"Bad Romance" | ||||
Single by Lady Gaga | ||||
from the album The Fame Monster | ||||
Released | October 26, 2009 | |||
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Genre | Dance-pop | |||
Length | 4:54 | |||
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Lady Gaga singles chronology | ||||
"Bad Romance" is a song by American singer Lady Gaga from her third extended play, The Fame Monster (2009). It was written and produced by Gaga and RedOne. Lyrically, "Bad Romance" explores Gaga's attraction to individuals with whom romance never works, her preference for lonely relationships and the paranoia she experienced while on tour. Following an illegal demo leak, Gaga showcased the final product at Alexander McQueen's show at the Paris Fashion Week in October 2009, followed by the release of the single's cover art. Musically, "Bad Romance" features a spoken bridge, a full-throated chorus and sung lyrics about being in love with one's best friend. The song, which is imbued with elements of Germanesque house and techno, as well as music from 1980s and the 1990s, was touted by Gaga as an experimental pop record. The song contains a few lines in French.
Most commentators were enticed by "Bad Romance", which they declared one of the highlights of The Fame Monster album. It was included in the 'best-of' lists in several media outlets such as Rolling Stone and Pitchfork Media, and acquired two Grammy Awards for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Short Form Music Video. In the United States, "Bad Romance" peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, and it has been certified ten-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), having sold nearly 5.6 million digital downloads as of April 2015. It achieved worldwide success by topping the charts in a variety of markets, ultimately selling 12 million copies worldwide, thus becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time.
The accompanying music video of "Bad Romance" features Gaga inside a surreal white bathhouse. There, she gets kidnapped by a group of supermodels who drug her and sell her to the Russian mafia for sexual slavery. The music video ends with Gaga killing the man who bought her. The song's video garnered acclaim from critics, who not only applauded the risqué and symbolic nature of the plot, but its artistic direction and vivid imagery. In 2011, the music video was voted the best video of the 2000s decade by readers of Billboard. It was nominated for numerous superlatives, including ten awards at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, where the singer won seven, including a recognition for Video of the Year. Gaga has performed "Bad Romance" on various television programs, such as Saturday Night Live, at various award ceremonies, such as the 2009 American Music Awards, and in three of her tours, the most recent being ArtRave: The Artpop Ball.
Gaga collaborated with Nadir "RedOne" Khayat in writing "Bad Romance", with Khayat taking charge of production. The song was recorded at Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles and FC Walvisch Recording Media Studios in Amsterdam.[2] "Bad Romance" was released as the lead single from The Fame Monster (2009), Gaga's follow-up to her debut album, The Fame (2008).[3] Before its official release, a demo version of the song was published illegally on the internet, prompting Gaga to comment via Twitter, "leaked next single is makin my ears bleed. Wait till you hear the real version."[4] A snippet of the song was performed on Saturday Night Live on October 3, 2009, along with "Poker Face" and "LoveGame".[5][6] The final version of "Bad Romance" premiered during the finale of fashion designer Alexander McQueen's 2010 Paris Fashion Week show,[7] and the song's release followed on October 19, 2009.[8]
According to Gaga, the song was one of her initial efforts among the songs that she wrote in 2009 while touring. The songs composed during that time were about the various abstract "monsters"—metaphors for her paranoias—that she faced during the tour. One of these concepts became the inspiration behind "Bad Romance".[9][10] Gaga explained that she generally felt lonely when she was involved in a relationship and concluded that she was attracted to men with whom romance never works.[11] "Bad Romance" explores her preference for such lonely relationships and her poor choice in men.[11] Gaga wrote the lyrics of "Bad Romance" in Norway on her tour bus. She further elaborated on the writing process in an interview with Grazia:
I was in Russia, then Germany, and spent a lot of time in Eastern Europe. There is this amazing German house-techno music, so I wanted to make a pop experimental record. I kind of wanted to leave the '80s a little bit, so the chorus is a '90s melody, which is what the inspiration was. There was certainly some whisky involved in the writing of the record. It's about being in love with your best friend.[12]
A 30-second sample of "Bad Romance" where the chorus is played, supported by the 'Rah-rah' hook
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"Bad Romance" is a dance-pop song with house, new wave and techno influences.[12][13] According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, "Bad Romance" is set in common time with a metronome of 119 beats per minute. It is composed in the key of A minor, with Gaga's vocal range spanning from the low-note of E3 to the high-note of C5. The song follows in the chord progression of Am–C–F–C–G in the verses and F–G–Am–C–F–G–E–Am in the chorus.[14] The song opens with Gaga singing a portion of the chorus, then transitioning into the "Rah-rah--ah-ah-ah, Roma-roma-ma, Gaga-ooh-la-la" hook. It is followed by the sound of drum beats and keyboards.[4] After the first verse, the pre-chorus follows, with Gaga voicing the lines, "You know that I want you, And you know that I need you, I want your bad, your bad romance". The full-throated chorus then follows, where she sings, "I want your love, And I want your revenge, You and me could write a bad romance ... Caught in a bad romance".[4]
Gil Kaufman from MTV News found similarities between the tempo of "Bad Romance" and that of Gaga's previous single "Poker Face".[4] Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine noticed the 1980s influences that resonate throughout the track: "If melodies could be time-stamped, these would have '80s' branded on their asses."[13] Daniel Brockman of The Phoenix pinpointed not only the declarations of liberation "from a significant other", but the Depeche Mode and Madonna-esque qualities that permeate "Bad Romance".[15] To Pitchfork Media journalist, Scott Plagenhoef, Gaga was able to transform her persona to reflect various female entertainers of similar vein, often reminiscent of the likes of Britney Spears, Madonna and Amy Winehouse.[16] Simon Price from The Independent heard characteristics of Boney M in the chorus, and stated that the first line of the song, "I want your ugly, I want your disease", established the grim tone of The Fame Monster.[17]
The lyrics address aspects of a bad relationship, but also reference fashion in the line, "Walk, walk fashion baby, Work it move that bitch crazy."[2][18] In an interview, Gaga pointed out that in the verse, "I want your psycho, your vertigo shtick, Want you in my Rear Window, Baby, you're sick", she was listing Alfred Hitchcock films; she said, "What I'm really trying to say is I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much."[19]
Critical reception[edit]
"Bad Romance" received acclaim from a variety of music commentators. In a 2011 review for the song, Rolling Stone declared it the best song in Gaga's discography. Epitomizing the "essence of Gagaism", the publication was enamored by the song's "relentlessly" catchy chorus and "pummeling [sic]" beat, which reflected a track that was "grand", "joyful" and "melancholy".[20] Kaufman, while applauding the drastic transition into a bombastic "Erasure-esque throb during the chorus", felt that the instant catch that was apparent in her earlier singles was absent in "Bad Romance".[4] Kitty Empire of The Guardian argued that instances such as this established Gaga as a figure comparable to Madonna.[21]
Referring to her emerging popularity, Jon Dolan from Rolling Stone notes that "Bad Romance" makes the singer's name a "Teutonic chant".[22] A columnist from the aforementioned publication, Daniel Kreps, while writing about the song's initial leak, felt that the song was comparable to "Poker Face" and was not on a par with her other singles.[18] Christopher John Farley from The Wall Street Journal praised the "Jabberwockian" catchiness of the hook,[23] while Michael Hubbard from MusicOMH opined that the chorus of the song was Gaga's best yet.[24] Pitchfork Media placed "Bad Romance" at number 39 in its top 100 tracks of 2009, saying that it was "epic in construction",[25]and Edna Gundersen of USA Today commented that the song was a "ferocious club thumper" that possessed a "sordid underbelly".[26] The Boston Public Health Commission rated "Bad Romance" as number 10 on its list of "Top 10 List of Songs with Unhealthy Relationship Ingredients".[27]
Mikael Wood of the Los Angeles Times wrote about the lead single's "turbocharged Euro-soul",[28] while BBC critic Paul Lester summed up "Bad Romance" as a song with "cheesy rave synths, the now typically Gaga stomping beat and a controversy-lite lyric."[29] Monica Herrera from Billboard, while saying that it was not as catchy as Gaga's previous efforts, commended the track's "wicked sex appeal",[30] and Jon Blistein from L Magazine wrote about the organization of the song. He felt that "Bad Romance" "[revelled] in the nightmare it tries to create with Hitchcock references and somber vocals", but lacked cohesion, that it was an amalgamation of "Cher song", "faux-European accented verse", "power disco chorus" and "bland spoken-word bridge".[31]
Chart performance[edit]
In the United States, "Bad Romance" debuted at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 14, 2009, making it Gaga's highest debuting song on the chart at the time. It sold 143,000 paid digital downloads in its first week.[32] After two weeks the song moved from number 11 to number two, which became its peak. It held the spot for seven non-consecutive weeks, held out of the top spot by Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys and Tik Tok by Kesha. The movement to the runner-up spot was first spurred by a 49% digital gain, which took the song to the top of the Hot Digital Songs chart, selling 209,000 digital copies that week.[33] "Bad Romance" became Gaga's third-highest peaking song on the Hot 100, behind "Just Dance" and "Poker Face".[33] The song was certified ten-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipment of ten million copies of the single.[34] As of April 2015, "Bad Romance" has sold 5,570,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen Soundscan,[35] making Gaga the second artist in digital history to have three singles—along with "Just Dance" and "Poker Face"—pass the five million mark in digital sales.[36][37] After RIAA started including video streams in their tabulation of the single certifications, "Bad Romance" was certified diamond for ten million in total of sales and streaming.[38] "Bad Romance" debuted on the Pop Songs chart at number 38[39] and moved to the number one position, making it Gaga's fifth consecutive number one single on the chart.[40] The same week it also topped the Hot Dance Club Songs chart.[40] According to Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, "Bad Romance" set the record for most weekly plays in the 17-year history of the Pop Songs chart, registering 10,859 plays from 130 radio stations monitored for the chart. The record was later broken by Kesha, with her song "Tik Tok".[41][42]
The song debuted on the ARIA Charts of Australia at number 16,[43] and at number 33 on the New Zealand RIANZ charts.[44] The next week, "Bad Romance" was the greatest gainer on the ARIA charts and moved to position three.[45] In its seventh week on the chart, the song reached a new peak of two in Australia,[46] and a peak of three in New Zealand.[44] The song was certified four-times platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for shipment of 280,000 copies of the single.[47] On October 29, 2009, "Bad Romance" debuted on the Irish Singles Chart at number 20; it reached the top in its seventh week.[48][49] On the Canadian Hot 100, "Bad Romance" debuted at number 58.[50] The following week it reached number one, making it the third song by Gaga to top the Canadian chart.[51] After being replaced by "Tik Tok" for two weeks, "Bad Romance" again claimed the top spot on the chart.[52] The Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) certified "Bad Romance" seven-times platinum, for shipment of 280,000 copies of the single.[53]
After its release in the United Kingdom, "Bad Romance" debuted at number 14 on the UK Singles Chart.[54] In December 2009, the song reached the top spot, making it Gaga's third UK number one single.[55] She became the first female in British chart history to have three number one singles in one year.[56] Two weeks later, in the first week of 2010, "Bad Romance" returned to the number one spot, making her only the second female artist of the 21st century to have two separate runs at the top spot.[57] "Bad Romance" was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), for shipment of 400,000 copies of the single.[58] The release of her single "Applause" in August 2013 prompted an increase in sales of "Bad Romance", pushing it across the one million sales threshold in the UK, thus making Lady Gaga one of only 17 artists ever to have had a single in the UK that has reached more than one million sales.[59] In Sweden, the song debuted at number three and after two weeks reached the top of the chart.[60][61] Across Europe the song debuted on the main charts of Austria, Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia), Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland (where it was in the top 50 for 65 weeks from late 2009 to early 2011),[62] Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland.[63] On the European Hot 100 Singles chart, "Bad Romance" reached number-one remaining there for two weeks.[64] According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the song sold 9.7 million copies worldwide in 2010, and went on to sell 12 million in total, thus becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time.[65][66]
Music video[edit]
During an interview with Rolling Stone, Gaga confirmed that film director Francis Lawrence had directed the music video for "Bad Romance" and that she was impressed with the final version.[67] She explained, "I knew [Lawrence's] ability as a director is so much higher than what I could [do]."[68] Her creative team Haus of Gaga managed the art direction,[67] and the final video premiered on November 10, 2009. Gaga described her experience of working with Lawrence:
I wanted somebody with a tremendous understanding of how to make a pop video, because my biggest challenge working with directors is that I am the director and I write the treatments and I get the fashion and I decide what it's about and it's very hard to find directors that will relinquish any sort of input from the artist. ... But Francis and I worked together. ... It was collaborative. He's a really pop video director and a filmmaker. He did I Am Legend and I'm a huge Will Smith fan, so I knew he could execute the video in a way that I could give him all my weirdest, most psychotic ideas ... But it would come across to and be relevant to the public.[68]
The concept of the music video was a joint collaboration between Gaga and Lawrence.[69] Originally, the video was going to be shot in New York City, with more elaborate sets, including sets outdoors.[69] The idea was scrapped, however, for budgetary reasons: the budget for the video was low and there was no product placement.[69] Because of Gaga's schedule, the video was shot in Los Angeles over a two-day period.[69] Lawrence described Gaga's work ethic and creativity during the video shoot: "She loves the art form of music videos and she is a real creative partner and has great ideas and really cool and unique tastes. She has a great team working with her as well, helping build really fantastic things that she wears. She works hard, she shows up on time and she's pretty spontaneous ... it was great ... if she had a new song and wanted to do something, I would do it in a second. She was really fun to work with."[69]
Gaga created a pair of razor-blade sunglasses—which she believed portrayed tough female spirit—to wear in the video, explaining "I wanted to design a pair for some of the toughest chicks and some of my girlfriends ... they used to keep razor blades in the side of their mouths ... That tough female spirit is something that I want to project. It's meant to be, 'This is my shield, this is my weapon, this is my inner sense of fame, this is my monster.'"[68] Gaga also said that the video shows "how the entertainment industry can, in a metaphorical way, simulate human trafficking - products being sold, the woman perceived as a commodity."[70] The white latex suits in the video were inspired by the wolf costume from the film Where the Wild Things Are.[71] Gaga also wore designer Alexander McQueen's 12-inch (300 mm) high shoes[72] and the famous "Alien" shoes.[73]
The main idea behind the video is that of Gaga getting kidnapped by a group of supermodels who drug her and then sell her off to the Russian mafia for a million rubles. It takes place in a fluorescent white bathhouse.[68][74] The video begins with Gaga sitting on a white throne in a brightly-lit white room. The scene shows her wearing the razor-blade glasses and surrounded by people and a harlequin Great Dane. She has her finger on the mute button of an iPod speaker, and as she releases it, "Bad Romance" begins to play and a dimly-lit bathhouse is shown. A bright light pans across the walls, activating fluorescent lighting, which shines through a sign reading "Bath Haus of GaGa". As the first hook of the song begins, a group of female dancers wearing white long-sleeved leotards with knee-high boots and matching crowns crawl out of white, coffin-like pods. The center pod has "Mons†er" written on it, and Gaga emerges wearing an outfit similar to those worn by the others, who begin to dance behind her. A pastiche of ensuing scenes alternates between Gaga singing to herself in front of a mirror and lying in a bathtub.
When the chorus of the song begins, two women pull Gaga out of the bathtub, rip her clothes off and force her to drink a glass of vodka. As the second verse begins, Gaga, wearing a diamond-covered outfit topped with a crown, seductively dances for a group of men bidding for her. She straddles one of the men, played by Slovenian model Jurij Bradač,[75] and performs a lap dance for him. Afterwards, the man raises his bid and becomes the highest bidder for her. When the chorus is played for the third time, Gaga is shown wearing a faux-polar bear hide jacket. She walks towards the man, who is sitting on a bed and unbuttoning his shirt, while drinking a glass of vodka. Gaga has a look of indifference on her face and removes her jacket and sunglasses. Suddenly, the bed spontaneously combusts with the man still sitting on it, and Gaga sings in a sinister way in front of the flames. The video ends with her lying beside a smoldering skeleton, on top of the destroyed bed, covered in ashes. With soot smeared across her body, she calmly smokes a cigarette while her pyrotechnic bra activates.
Upon its release, the video received general acclaim from critics and fans.[73] Tim Stack from Entertainment Weekly called the video "amazing" and added, "I don't think Gaga has ever looked prettier than in the close-ups where she's more stripped down."[76] Jennifer Cady of E! was also impressed by the video and commented, "This music video really makes us appreciate everything Gaga actually brings to pop music. She's exciting to watch, plain and simple. ... We need someone like Gaga to really bring it. To put actual thought and care into her product so that it feels alive".[77] Issie Lapowsky of New York Daily News thought Gaga laid the "theatrics on thick" in the video but complimented her for wearing minimal makeup, calling it "refreshingly normal".[78] Todd Martens of the Los Angeles Times said that the video brought back his faith in performance art, and that "Gaga brings enough [drama] on her own, thank you very much."[79] He also thought the set for the video "worthy of a feature-length film". Daniel Kreps from Rolling Stone felt that the scenes from the music video were reminiscent of the work of Stanley Kubrick. He added that in "Bad Romance" Gaga portrays her craziest ideas yet.[80]
Jocelyn Vena from MTV believed that the video was symbolic and portrayed how "the old Gaga is over, here's the brand-new Gaga: the one who seems to delight in pushing the boundaries and exploring all manner of sexual proclivities". She further believed that the video was a testament to Gaga's brilliance "as an artist that uses the video art form as the jump-off point for the next leg of their career".[81] In 2011, Claire Suddath of Time said that although later Gaga videos were more elaborate, "Bad Romance" was Gaga at her best.[82] In Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame, Emily Herbert drew comparisons between the underlying theme of the video and the theme of The Fame Monster—the relationship with fame.[73]She wrote, "Was this the price that Gaga had to pay for the fame she so desired? Did she feel as if she'd had to prostitute herself in some way? The themes were all based around sex, decadence, and corruption; alcohol and even cigarettes, twenty-first century society's biggest no-no, were present, and so by implication ... drugs."[73] The Wall Street Journal noted Gaga as one of the few pop stars of the present time who really understood spectacle, fashion, shock, choreography—all the things that Madonna and Michael Jackson were masters of in the 1980s.[23]
The video and its choreography also drew many comparisons with the music video of Michael Jackson's Thriller, both having robotic, zombie-like arm movements and morbid themes. Tim Stack from Entertainment Weekly compared some of the dance choreography of the video with the choreography in "Thriller".[76] Issie Lapowsky of New York Daily News compared the pods in the video with coffins and called the dance "zombie-like"; Gaga "[stole] a page from Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' video", she said.[78] Los Angeles Times said the video had some "twitchy, 'Thriller'-like dance moves",[79] while The Wall Street Journal compared the shock art of "Bad Romance" with the shock art of Michael Jackson during the 1980s.[23] Evan Sawdey of PopMatters also compared the video with "Thriller", but was not sure whether Gaga was deliberately paying homage to it, or this was "just another excuse for Gaga to wear the mostweirdass outfits ever designed by mankind".[83]
Rolling Stone ranked the song at number nine on its list of the "25 Best Songs of 2009",[84] and on February 13, 2011, the single won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.[85] In 2015, Billboard named the song as "The Biggest Hot 100 Hit to Peak at No. 2", describing it as a "modern classic".[86]
On August 3, 2010, the music video received 10 nominations at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, in the categories of Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Special Effects, Best Choreography, Best Direction, Best Dance Video, Best Pop Video, Best Female Video and Video of the Year, tying with Peter Gabriel's song "Sledgehammer" for the record of most nominations for a single video in the history of the MTV Video Music Award. The video went on to win seven of the categories.[87] It also won the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video.[85] In 2011, "Bad Romance" was voted the best video of the 2000s decade by readers of Billboard, narrowly beating Britney Spears's "Toxic".[88] Time magazine also included "Bad Romance" on its list of best music videos since the 1980s.[82]
Year | Award | Category | Result |
2010 | |||
MTV Video Music Awards | Video of the Year | Won | |
Best Female Video | Won | ||
Best Pop Video | Won | ||
Best Dance Video | Won | ||
Best Art Direction | Nominated | ||
Best Choreography | Won | ||
Best Cinematography | Nominated | ||
Best Direction | Won | ||
Best Editing | Won | ||
Best Special Effects | Nominated | ||
MTV Europe Music Awards | Best Song | Won | |
International Dance Music Awards | Best Music Video | Won | |
UK Music Video Awards | Best International Video | Won | |
2011 | Grammy Awards | Female Pop Vocal Performance | Won |
Best Short Form Music Video | Won | ||
Billboard Music Awards | Top Streaming Song (Video) | Nominated | |
Top Dance Song | Nominated | ||
BMI Awards | Award-Winning Songs | Won |
Live performances[edit]
A portion of the song was performed on Saturday Night Live on October 3, 2009. Gaga wore a complex outfit called "The Orb", designed by Nasir Mazhar and her creative team Haus of Gaga.[6] Described by Gaga as a "fashion installation", it consisted of concentric metallic rings that revolved around her. After finishing her performance of "LoveGame", Gaga sat at her piano and played an acoustic version of the chorus of "Bad Romance".[4][89] She performed the song on the TV show Gossip Girl, during the episode called "The Last Days of Disco Stick".[90] The performance took place at a private show arranged by Blair Waldorf, one of the characters from Gossip Girl.[91] In an interview with MTV, Gaga explained that the decision to perform on the show was inspired by her sister. She stated that she did not want the performance to be out of tune with the storyline of the show, so she worked with the scriptwriters to incorporate it into the plot. The performance included many ladders, symbolizing bad luck, and featured Gaga wearing a 35-foot (11 m) long dress.[92] According to the show's executive producer Stephanie Savage, the song incorporated a few Gossip Girl-specific lyrics.[90] The performance began with Gaga emerging from two giant doors wearing a large red gown. She climbed up a ladder, from where she sang parts of the song, and her male dancers danced around the ladder as she continued to sing.[93]
"Bad Romance" was also performed at the 2009 American Music Awards, where she coupled it with "Speechless" from The Fame Monster. Gaga was dressed in a flesh-colored bodysuit wrapped with white piping and embedded with flashing lights, imitating ribs and a spine. The performance started with "Bad Romance", with Gaga dancing around the stage and ultimately breaking open a glass door with the microphone stand.[94] It was performed on The Jay Leno Show, where Gaga wore a pair of black sunglasses and a black jacket with shoulder pads that extended above her head. Her male back-up dancers were dressed in black suits and S&M-inspired headgear.[95] Both "Bad Romance" and "Speechless" were performed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on November 25, 2009.[96] Gaga performed "Bad Romance" on the British TV show The X Factor on December 6, 2009.[97] The performance there had her singing inside a 4-m long bathtub and playing the piano while sitting on a toilet.[98] "Bad Romance" was performed as the last song of Gaga's The Monster Ball Tour. Wearing an '80s-inspired white power suit with exaggerated high shoulders and high-waisted pants, she performed the song while standing in a human-sized gyroscope.[99][100] On January 15, 2010, Gaga performed "Bad Romance" as part of a three-song medley on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Gaga was dressed in a metallic jacket and had spikes in her hair, and she carried a spiked ball dangling from a chain held in her hand.[101] "Bad Romance" was also performed at NBC's Today Show, along with "Alejandro", "Teeth" and her later 2011 single called "You and I".[102] In May 2011, Gaga performed the song during Radio 1's Big Weekend in Carlisle, Cumbria.[103]
She also performed the song on Good Morning America as a part of their "Summer Concert Series". It was the opening song of the show. Gaga entered the stage flying on a harness and stretching out her hands towards the audience, as steam billowed from center-stage. Once the song started her dancers removed the white cape she was wearing, to reveal her in red fishnet stockings with black felt pieces, a red leotard and black lace boots.[104] The song was added to the set list for Gaga's 2012 Born This Way Ball. It was performed after an interlude by Mother G.O.A.T. The performance featured the original choreography, with Gaga wearing a white, ram-style outfit designed by Haus of Gaga. During the European leg of the tour, Gaga began the performance in an egg-shaped container reminiscent of the one that she emerged from at the 53rd Grammy Awards.[105] In 2014, Gaga performed the song on her ArtRave: The Artpop Ball tour, in a neon anime inspired dress.[106]
Cover versions[edit]
On March 14, 2010, Marco Hietala from Nightwish covered the song on the Finnish choir-singing TV show Kuorosota.[107] Hayley Williams, the lead singer from the band Paramore, covered a piano version of the song and posted it on her Twitter page on March 28, 2010.[108][109] On March 29, 2010, Thirty Seconds to Mars covered the song in BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge.[110][111] The cover was later released as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of the band's album This Is War and reached number 11 on the UK Rock Chart.[112] Glee performed it during one of its episodes titled "Theatricality", as a group number for which the actors donned Lady Gaga outfits. When glee club New Directions member Rachel Berry discovers that rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline are planning to perform a Lady Gaga number at Regionals, the character Will (Matthew Morrison) sets the club a Gaga assignment. The girls and Kurt then create costumes inspired by Gaga and perform "Bad Romance".[113] The version sold 48,000 digital downloads according to Nielsen Soundscan, and entered the Billboard Hot 100 at 54, staying on the chart for one week.[114]
Singer Lissie posted a cover of the song on YouTube. Her version of "Bad Romance" received praise from filmmaker David Lynch[115] and The Washington Post writer David Malitz, who included it on "Click Track – Singles Files", the newspaper's weekly playlist.[116] The Grandmono Orchestra also covered the song, with Dutch singer Caro Emerald, on June 1, 2011. This was included as a bonus track on Caro's debut album, Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor, and has received many positive criticisms.[117] Singer Lulu and actor Cuba Gooding, Jr. performed a version of "Bad Romance" as a duet during the August 5, 2011 episode of Chris Moyles' Quiz Night on Channel 4 in the UK.[118] The song was covered with lyric changes by Alvin and the Chipmunks and The Chipettes in the 2011 film Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and features on its soundtrack.[119]
Track listing[edit]
Credits and personnel[edit]
- Recording and management
- Recorded at Record Plant Studios (Los Angeles, California) and FC Walvisch (Amsterdam)
- Mastered at Oasis Mastering (Burbank, California)
- Published by Sony ATV Songs, LLC, RedOne Productions LLC (BMI), Stefani Germanotta P/K/A Lady Gaga (BMI), House Of Gaga Publishing Inc. and Glojoe Music Inc. (BMI)
- Personnel
- Lady Gaga – lead vocals, songwriter, co-producer, vocal arrangement, background vocals
- RedOne – songwriter, producer, vocal editing, vocal arrangement, background vocals, audio engineering, instrumentation, programming, recording
- Johny Severin – vocal editing
- Dave Russell – audio engineering
- Eelco Bakker – audio engineering
- Mark "Spike" Stent – audio mixing
- Gene Grimaldi – audio mastering
Credits adapted from The Fame Monster album liner notes.[2]
Region | Certification | Sales/shipments |
Australia (ARIA)[47] | 4× Platinum | 280,000^ |
Belgium (BEA)[172] | Gold | 15,000* |
Canada (Music Canada)[53] | 7× Platinum | 560,000^ |
Denmark (IFPI Denmark)[173] | Platinum | 15,000^ |
France (SNEP)[174] | Platinum | 250,000* |
Germany (BVMI)[175] | Platinum | 300,000^ |
Italy (FIMI)[176] | 2× Platinum | 60,000* |
Japan (RIAJ)[177] | Platinum | 250,000^ |
New Zealand (RMNZ)[178] | 2× Platinum | 30,000* |
Russia (NFPF)[179] | Gold | 50,000* |
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[180] | 2× Platinum | 80,000^ |
Sweden (GLF)[181] | 2× Platinum | 40,000x |
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[182] | Platinum | 30,000x |
United Kingdom (BPI)[58] | Platinum | 1,000,000[59] |
United States (RIAA)[34] | Diamond | 5,570,000[35] |
*sales figures based on certification alone |
Since May 9, 2013, RIAA certifications for digital singles include on-demand audio and/or video song streams in addition to downloads, resulting in the 10× Platinum certification for the track.[38]
Release history[edit]
Region | Date | Format |
France[183] | October 23, 2009 | Digital download |
Ireland[184] | ||
United Kingdom[185] | October 25, 2009 | |
United States[186] | October 26, 2009 | |
Finland[187] | October 27, 2009 | |
Germany[188] | ||
Norway[189] | ||
Spain[190] | ||
Sweden[187] | ||
United Kingdom[191] | November 23, 2009 | CD single |
Australia[192] | November 27, 2009 | |
United States[193] | December 22, 2009 | The Remixes – Digital download |
United States[193][194] | January 12, 2010 | The Remixes – CD single |
France[195] | January 18, 2010 | CD single |
United States[126] | February 9, 2010 | The Remixes Part 2 – Digital download |
See also[edit]
- List of best-selling singles
- List of best-selling singles in the United States
- List of number-one hits of 2009 (Austria)
- List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2009 (Canada)
- List of number-one hits in Denmark
- List of number-one singles (Sweden)
- List of number-one singles of 2009 and 2010 (Finland)
- List of number-one hits of 2009 (Italy)
- List of number-one singles of 2009 and 2010 (Ireland)
- List of number-one singles of 2009 and 2010 (UK)
- List of European number-one hits of 2010
- List of number-one hits of 2010 (France)
- List of number-one hits of 2010 (Germany)
- List of number-one singles of 2010 (Hungary)
- List of number-one singles (Romania)
- List of number-one dance singles of 2009 (U.S.)
- List of number-one dance singles of 2010 (U.S.)
- List of number-one dance airplay hits of 2010 (U.S.)
- List of Mainstream Top 40 number-one hits of 2010 (U.S.)
- List of number-one singles of 2010 (Spain)
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DB8 August 24, 2012 11:41 AM Last Edited 970 days ago There's going to be a lot of BS spewed out regarding this move and who said what to who and who's doing what and why does he get preferential treatment and blah blah blah blah blah, but I for one am delighted he's back on a bike he can actually do well on. Yes, there's a bit of egg on his face, but I think the humility will do him good and motivate him a lot for next season. The only bad will be that he won't really push that Ducati to his limit for the rest of the season, which isn't great, but understandable. Reply Report abuse 22 agree 13 disagree
snapper - Unregistered August 24, 2012 11:50 AM Clearly, Rossi has to keep his head low until he starts beating Jorge consistently (and even rossi not sure about it) 23 agree 6 disagree
DB8 August 24, 2012 11:52 AM @ Fraud46 - I kind of agree, but I actually think that shows him in a good light, as money is obviously not everything to him. that's an easy thing to say when you've got millions in the bank, but he is obviously still ambitious and loves the sport. (I probably shouldn't have used the word ambition in a pro vale rant) Reply Report abuse 23 agree 2 disagree
hey - Unregistered August 24, 2012 11:53 AM MotoGP politics, no wonder Spies and Dovi are furious! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 34 agree 11 disagree
vale - Unregistered August 24, 2012 11:53 AM well why do ppl think that rossi has to win for duc as a must..he has won enuf atleast more than anyone currently can compete..years before when he joined yamaha you guys said its for money , now when he say he is joining to have fun, u ppl are again unable to digest..whether he waste three more years these yung lads cannot over take him in history..and in case of casey..heheh he found him out of championship FOR PUSHING 100%..duc approaching furusawa is clear that they admit that its their fault and not the rider.. 16 agree 9 disagree
Ammar August 24, 2012 11:56 AM Last Edited 970 days ago to be honest, rossi earns close to half his salary in endorsements.....off the total 30 million per year at ducati...15-17 was ducati's contract amount and 13 was from endorsements...so say he earns 2-4 million at yamaha, he still will be earning close to 20 million in the year which i think will still be more than lorenzo..... Reply Report abuse 13 agree 1 disagree
Daniel the exalted - Unregistered August 24, 2012 11:56 AM Fraud46, why do you always go on comments sections and attack Valentino? I'll tell you one thing, for most of the time you look like a real dumbass 98 agree 14 disagree
Support MotoGP - Unregistered August 24, 2012 11:57 AM I would imagine the last thing a sports superstar like Rossi with a huge fan base and millions in the bank would be crying to go back to Yamaha. He can go to WSB, WRC, practically anywhere.Rossi is the equivalent of Schumacher in F1. His record in modern motorcycle racing is unsurpassed. He has nothing to prove. Casey is, sadly, retiring which leaves Pedrosa and Lorenzo to grab the wins from now on. Rossi will still win races too, but in 2013, on a competative machine. People should have more respect for racers, especially when Rossi and Edwards were involved in that horrific accident with Marco Simoncelli(RIP).The fact Rossi and Edwards can even put their leg over a motorcycle after that traumatic accident speaks volumes of their bravery and determination to be racers. Which is why we all love and watch MotoGP, to see racing. 97 agree 6 disagree
vale - Unregistered August 24, 2012 11:57 AM on a crap bike if rossi can come upto 1.2 sec close to the so called perfect machines of honda.,well then u gotta question about thier potential riding the honda..and rossi at the top in wet clearly shows that hes pushing and yeah TAKIG THE RISK..bt not to brake ankle.. 23 agree 6 disagree
THE FAN - Unregistered August 24, 2012 11:57 AM dont worry, one race like 2010 motegi and fireworks will start. Vale being vale will race like he alwayz does and Jorge being the No.1 rider wont like it, all this IF...he can be on the front row.. 5 agree 2 disagree


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This quick, saucy dish is great over polenta, pasta, rice, or risotto.
In a medium bowl, toss the mushrooms with 1/2 tsp. salt and a few grinds of pepper. Heat the oil and butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat until the butter melts and most of its foam cooks off, about 1 min. Meanwhile, season the chicken with 3/4 tsp. salt and a few generous grinds of pepper. Spread the flour on a large plate and lightly dredge the chicken. Sauté the chicken pieces, flipping after 2 min., until they're lightly brown on both sides, about 4 min. total (it's all right if the sides of the chicken are still raw). Add the mushrooms and cook, stirring, until they start to soften and brown in places, about 3 min. Add the chicken broth, caramelized onions, and sun-dried tomatoes. Bring to a boil and then reduce to a gentle simmer. Cover and cook until the chicken is firm to the touch and cooked through (check by slicing into one of the thicker pieces) and the mushrooms are tender, about 6 min. Stir in the vinegar, the Tabasco, and half of the parsley. Taste for salt and pepper and serve sprinkled with the remaining parsley.
nutrition information (per serving): Size : based on four servings; Calories (kcal): 460; Fat (g): fat g 19; Fat Calories (kcal): 170; Saturated Fat (g): sat fat g 5; Protein (g): protein g 40; Monounsaturated Fat (g): 11; Carbohydrates (g): carbs g 32; Polyunsaturated Fat (g): 2; Sodium (mg): sodium mg 760; Cholesterol (mg): cholesterol mg 105; Fiber (g): fiber g 4;
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Machete (film)
Machete | |
Theatrical release poster
Directed by | Robert Rodriguez Ethan Maniquis |
Produced by | Robert Rodriguez Elizabeth Avellan Rick Schwartz |
Written by | Robert Rodriguez Álvaro Rodriguez |
Starring | Danny Trejo Steven Seagal Michelle Rodriguez Jeff Fahey Cheech Marin Lindsay Lohan Don Johnson Jessica Alba Robert De Niro |
Music by | Chingon[1] |
Cinematography | Jimmy Lindsey |
Edited by | Robert Rodriguez Rebecca Rodriguez |
company |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox[2] (North America) Sony Pictures Releasing International (International) |
Release dates
Running time
105 minutes[3] |
Country | United States |
Language | English Spanish |
Budget | $10.5 million[4][5] |
Box office | $44,093,316[5] |
Machete is a 2010 American action film written, produced, and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis. This film is an expansion of a fake trailer that was included in Rodriguez's and Quentin Tarantino's 2007 Grindhouse double-feature. Machete continues the B movie and exploitation style of Grindhouse,[6] and includes some of the footage. The film stars Danny Trejo in his first lead role as the title character, and co-stars Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Don Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin and Jeff Fahey. This was Steven Seagal's first theatrical release film in eight years since his starring role in 2002's Half Past Dead. Machete was released in the United States by 20th Century Fox and Rodriguez's company, Troublemaker Studios, on September 3, 2010.[7] A sequel, Machete Kills, was released on October 11, 2013.
The story revolves around Machete Cortez (Danny Trejo), a former Mexican Federal. The film opens in Mexico with Machete and his younger partner on a mission to rescue a kidnapped girl (Mayra J. Leal). During the operation, his partner is killed, the kidnapped girl stabs him before being killed herself, and Machete is betrayed by his corrupt Chief to the powerful drug lord, Rogelio Torrez (Steven Seagal), who kills Machete's wife and implies that he will kill his daughter before leaving him for dead.
Three years later, a down-and-out Machete roams Texas, scraping by on yard work. Michael Booth (Jeff Fahey), a local businessman and spin doctor, explains to Machete that corrupt Texas State Senator John McLaughlin (Robert De Niro) is sending hundreds of illegal immigrants out of the country. In order to stop this, Booth offers Machete $150,000 to kill McLaughlin. Machete accepts the murder contract after Booth threatens to kill him if he does not.
Machete trains a rifle on McLaughlin from a rooftop during a rally, but before he fires he sees one of Booth's henchmen aiming at him. The henchman shoots Machete in the shoulder and then shoots McLaughlin in the leg. It is revealed that Booth orchestrated the attempted assassination as part of a false flag operation to gain public support for McLaughlin's secure border campaign. By setting up Machete as the gunman, the conspirators make it appear that an outlaw illegal Mexican immigrant has tried to assassinate the senator, who is known for his tough stance on illegal immigration.
An injured Machete escapes capture by Booth and is taken to a hospital to be treated for wounds, escaping once again from Booth's henchmen at the hospital. Agent Sartana Rivera (Jessica Alba), a persistent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, is sent by her superior to find and capture the injured Machete. Machete, with the help of Luz (Michelle Rodriguez), aka Shé, the leader of an illegal immigrant aid movement known as the Network, recruits Padre (Cheech Marin), his "holy" brother. To take revenge on Booth, Machete kidnaps Booth's wife and his daughter, April (Lindsay Lohan), after "starring" in an amateur adult film with them. He also collects evidence from Booth's house linking McLaughlin and the Mexican drug lord in a major drug trafficking deal. After encountering Machete, Sartana begins to develop an interest in him. Elsewhere, Booth, who is revealed to be working for Torrez, hires a hitman, Osiris Amanpour (Tom Savini), to assist in the hunt for Machete.
Booth and Osiris kill Padre in his church, but do not find his own wife and daughter. Unbeknownst to Booth, the church has cameras. Through the CCTV recordings, the news of McLaughlin's corruption and faked assassination is eventually aired on national television. Infuriated, McLaughlin kills Booth and heads back to join Torrez to kill Machete. In order to eliminate the people who double-crossed him, Machete gathers the Mexican Network and leads them to the base of the border vigilantes, led by Von Jackson (Don Johnson).
During this confrontation, the Mexican illegals triumph over the border vigilantes. Jackson tries to escape, but Luz shoots him in the back of the head. Machete fights Torrez, culminating with the drug lord committing seppuku with one of Machete's blades with which he has just been stabbed. April shows up wearing a nun's habit after escaping from the church and shoots McLaughlin after figuring out that he has killed her father.
McLaughlin, injured, manages to escape, but he is later killed by the last remnants of his own border vigilante group, who mistake him for a Mexican. The film ends with Machete meeting with Sartana, who gives him a green card. They kiss and ride off into the night.
Before the credits roll, on the screen it says that Machete will return in Machete Kills and Machete Kills Again.
- Danny Trejo as Machete Cortez, "a legendary ex-Federale with a deadly attitude and the skills to match."[8]
- Robert De Niro as Senator John McLaughlin, a politician campaigning to incite hatred against illegal immigrants.[9]
- Jessica Alba as Sartana Rivera, "a beautiful Immigrations Officer torn between enforcing the law and doing what is popular in the eyes of her familia."[8] Alba also portrays Sartana's twin sister in deleted scenes only.
- Steven Seagal as Rogelio Torrez, a drug lord, as well as Machete's former partner with the Federales.[10]
- Michelle Rodriguez as Luz/Shé, "a taco-truck lady with a revolutionary heart."[8]
- Jeff Fahey as Michael Booth, "a ruthless businessman with an endless payroll of killers."[8]
- Cheech Marin as Padre Benicio Del Toro, Machete's brother, "a priest who's good with blessings, but better with guns."[8]
- Don Johnson as Von Jackson, "a twisted border vigilante leading a small army."[8] The character was originally known as "Lt. Stillman" and was meant to be Sartana's superior.
- Lindsay Lohan as April Booth, "a socialite with a penchant for guns" and "a nun with a gun."[11]
- Shea Whigham as Sniper, Booth's right-hand man and bodyguard.
- Daryl Sabara as Julio
- Gilbert Trejo as Jorge
- Ara Celi as Reporter
- Tom Savini as Osiris Amanpour, a hitman hired by Booth to kill Machete.
- Billy Blair as Billy, Von Jackson's henchman.[12]
- Felix Sabates as Doctor Felix
- Electra and Elise Avellan as Nurses Mona and Lisa[13]
- Mayra J. Leal as Naked Girl
- Juan Gabriel Pareja as Rico
- Alicia Marek as June Booth, the socialite wife of Michael Booth and April's mother.[14]
- Tito Larriva as Culebra Cruzado
- Cheryl "Chin" Cunningham as Torrez' henchwoman[14]
- Nimród Antal as Booth's bodyguard #1
According to Rodriguez, the origins of the film go back to Desperado. He says, "When I met Danny, I said, 'This guy should be like the Mexican Jean-Claude Van Damme or Charles Bronson, putting out a movie every year and his name should be Machete'. So I decided to do that way back when, never got around to it until finally now. So now, of course, I want to keep going and do a feature".[15] Rodriguez stated, "There weren't any action movies that with a Latin flavor that could play to a broad audience. When I watched [director] John Woo's movies, they made me want to be Asian. Woo and [actor] Chow Yun-Fat's Hard Boiled and The Killer really inspired me to make films that would create that feeling in the Latin arena".[16]
In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Rodriguez said that he wrote the screenplay back in 1993 when he cast Trejo in Desperado. "So I wrote him this idea of a federale from Mexico who gets hired to do hatchet jobs in the U.S. I had heard sometimes FBI or DEA have a really tough job that they don't want to get their own agents killed on, they'll hire an agent from Mexico to come do the job for $25,000. I thought, 'That's Machete. He would come and do a really dangerous job for a lot of money to him but for everyone else over here it's peanuts'. But I never got around to making it".[17]
Instead, during the filming of Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse, Rodriguez shot lobby cards and sequences from parts of the original script in 2006 for a fake trailer featuring Danny Trejo, Cheech Marin, as well as Jeff Fahey. At South by Southwest in March 2007, Rodriguez announced that he would be expanding his trailer for Machete into a feature-length film.[18] He announced that it would be a bonus feature on the Planet Terror DVD, but the film ended up being produced as a theatrical release.[18][19]
During Comic-Con International 2008, he took the time to speak about Machete, including such topics as the film's status, possible sequels, as well as production priorities.[20] It was also revealed that he has regularly pulled sequences from it for his other productions including Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
Rodriguez had always planned on being the head-director of the film, since he usually uses his "one-man crew" technique. In April 2009, it was announced that Ethan Maniquis, who is a long-time editor of Rodriguez's films, would be co-directing the film with Rodriguez.[21][22] At the Comic-Con 2010 event in San Diego, Trejo commented on Rodriguez: "He's a genius. He's an absolute genius. He makes movie-making fun. You know, he makes you wanna go to work. A lot of people wake up saying 'I woke up before my alarm went off' just 'cause you're excited to work with him. You wonder 'what is he going to come up with today?', because every day, he's like inventing something new. So it's awesome to work with somebody like that".[23] "Robert has an incredible vision and is very precise, and [working on his films] you feel like you're in the middle of something both big and experiential. And that anything is possible", states Jeff Fahey, who has collaborated with Rodriguez on Machete and Grindhouse.
The film's lead role had always been intended for Danny Trejo, as Rodriguez mentioned. The two had met during the filming of Rodriguez's film, Desperado. "Nobody really knew about Desperado, yet the local townspeople would flock to see Danny, thinking he was the star of the movie, even though his part was very small", Rodriguez remembers. "He has incredible presence, and I knew I had found Machete. So, I handed him a knife, and told him to start practicing".[16]
Trejo, Cheech Marin, as well as Jeff Fahey were announced to be reprising their characters in the trailer for the film. Tito Larriva did not reprise his primary role as the sniper who shoots Machete and was replaced by Shea Whigham. Michelle Rodriguez was the first actress to be cast in the film who wasn't in the original trailer. Chris Cooper was approached for the role of Senator McLaughlin. After Cooper turned down the role, Robert De Niro was cast instead. "From the moment you get Robert De Niro in your movie, all the other actors come running", says Robert Rodriguez on De Niro's involvement in the film.[24]
"What I liked about the character was that it was a fun thing to do in a sense of irony and it's not taken seriously. He's not taken seriously on one level so that frees you to have fun without being weighted down by some requirements", says De Niro on playing his character.[25] Lindsay Lohan was revealed to be cast in the film in July 2009. "Lindsay's cool", Rodriguez said of Lohan. "There's actually a cool part in the movie for her if she takes it".[26] Lohan portrays April Booth, the socialite daughter of Booth, the man who double-crosses Machete. "April was born into a life of privilege and takes everything she has for granted", says Lohan. "But she undergoes a big change. As an actress, I like pushing the envelope".[24] Lohan recolored her hair from auburn red to platinum blonde.[27]
Jonah Hill was originally cast as Julio,[28] but was replaced by Daryl Sabara, who had worked with Rodriguez, Marin, as well as Trejo on the set of the Spy Kids franchise. Jessica Alba said of her role of Agent Sartana, "My character is an Immigrations Officer and she hunts him (Machete) down, but finds out that he was double-crossed himself. She wrestles with her own right-wing kind of mentality because she's all about enforcing the law and doing what the system tells you".[29]
"The cast may have sounded bizarre to some people when first announced. But when you watch Machete, you see that the actors fit their roles very well. The eclectic mix really works. Danny's worked in hundreds of movies and probably worked with everyone in Machete at some point. Everyone just loves Danny and appreciated the fact he was finally getting to be the star of his own film. I remember Robert De Niro, who worked with Danny in Heat telling him that, '[Machete] is going to be really good for you'."[24]
Regarding the nudity that was present in the film, Rodriguez mentioned that he deliberately set the first scene with a nude woman (actress Mayra Leal) to make the audience think that subsequent scenes show more than they actually do.[30] Jessica Alba mentioned that for her shower scene, "I had undies on, and I had other stuff on, and they just sort of etched it out in post [production]. That's not really me. I'm better covered up".[31]
Filming for the fake trailer for Grindhouse began in the summer of 2006, while Rodriguez was also filming Planet Terror. The scenes that Rodriguez shot only consisted of scenes involving Danny Trejo, Cheech Marin, Jeff Fahey, as well as Tito Larriva. Some of the scenes filmed for the trailer were left intact in the film, while others have been re-shot.
Principal photography began on July 29, 2009 in and around the city of Austin, Texas. Lindsay Lohan filmed her role in three days, two in August and one in September.[32] Principal photography of the film ended on September 24, 2009.
The first trailer was released and attached to Planet Terror in 2007. On July 28, 2010, it was confirmed that Machete would headline the Venice Film Festival held on September 1, 2010, at a special midnight screening, followed by the general theatrical release on September 3.[33][34]
The film was released in the U.S. on September 3, 2010,[35] by 20th Century Fox.[36] The film appeared on 3,400 screens at 2,670 locations.[37]
The film was released in Australia on November 11 and in Mexico on November 12, 2010.[citation needed]
A fake trailer for the film was released on May 5, 2010, through Ain't It Cool News. The trailer opened with Danny Trejo saying, "This is Machete with a special Cinco de Mayo message to Arizona", followed by scenes of gunfire, bloodshed, and highlights of the cast.[38] The fake trailer combined elements of the Machete trailer that appeared in Grindhouse with footage from the actual film,[39] and implied that the film would be about Machete leading a revolt against anti-immigration politicians and border vigilantes.[39] According to Fox News, critics of illegal immigration were offended by the contents of the movie trailer.[40] Production of the film predates the legislation, however.[38]
Several film websites, including Internet Movie Database, reported that it was the official teaser for the film.[39] However, Rodriguez later revealed the trailer to be a joke, explaining "it was Cinco de Mayo and I had too much tequila". The official theatrical trailer was released on July 8, 2010.[39] It was then attached with Predators, which Rodriguez produced, and later shown before The Expendables.[39] A red band trailer featuring more gruesome scenes from the film was released on July 23, 2010.[41]
Box office performance
Film | Release date | Box office revenue | Box office ranking | Budget | Reference | |||
United States | United States | International | Worldwide | All-time United States | All-time worldwide | |||
Machete | September 2010 | $26,593,646 | $17,499,670 | $44,093,316 | #2,179 | Unknown | $10,500,000 | [42] |
Machete opened in 2,670 theaters in the United States on September 3[43] and earned $14,102,888 for its four-day weekend, placing second at the box office behind The American.[44] The film opened at #2 behind The American and took in $3,866,357—$1,448 per theater—on its opening day and $14,102,888—$4,001 per theater—on its opening weekend. Machete placed fourth at the box office by the end of the week after Resident Evil: Afterlife opened in theaters, totaling $20,916,709.
Machete has made $26,593,646 in the United States as of November 18, 2010.[5] The film has made an extra $17,499,670 in foreign markets, bringing the gross total of $44,093,316, as of November 18, 2010.[45]
Critical reception
Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Entertainment Weekly |
Machete | 72% (178 reviews)[46] | 60/100 (29 reviews)[47] | B[48] |
Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 73% based on 178 reviews, with an average rating of 6.3 out of 10 giving the film a "certified fresh" rank. The site's general consensus is that, "Machete is messy, violent, shallow, and tasteless -- and that's precisely the point of one of the summer's most cartoonishly enjoyable films".[49] Another aggregator, Metacritic, gives the film a score of 60% based on 29 reviews.[50] Jessica Alba won a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress, along with her other roles in The Killer Inside Me, Little Fockers and Valentine's Day.[51]
Home media
Rodriguez has expressed in an interview that an even more violent director's cut will be released on home media.[52]
The R-rated theatrical version of Machete was released on DVD and Blu-ray on January 4, 2011.
On the week ending January 9, 2011, Machete debuted atop the DVD sales chart in America. The DVD sold 691,317 copies in its first week of release.[53]
In the Blu-ray deleted scenes, Rose McGowan is featured as one of Osiris's henchmen named Boots McCoy; one scene shows her confronting Luz and shooting her through a cat she is holding, hitting her in the eye and seemingly killing her. However, in the film, this action was given to Von Jackson, and it is later revealed Luz is merely blinded. In other deleted scenes Jessica Alba also plays the role of Sis, Sartana's twin sister. McCoy later shows up and slits her throat with a razor blade, thinking she is actually Sartana.
According to Trejo, Rodriguez has scripts for the first of two Machete sequels, tentatively titled Machete Kills and Machete Kills Again.[54] Both these titles appear in the end credits of the film's theatrical release. At the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con, Rodriguez said that both sequels have been greenlit. The trailer for the third film, Machete Kills Again,[55] precedes the second film as a "Coming Attraction".[56][57] Machete Kills was released on October 11, 2013.
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