The film is based on the classic noir film, Double Indemnity, which is itself based on a James M. Like Against All Odds, Body Heat could have come right out of the 1940s and feels more like a classic noir than a neo-noir. Emmet Walsh is great in one of the film’s smaller roles. It’s all very confusing but leads to an extremely satisfying outcome. There is a disconnect between what the audience sees and what is actually true, a classic film noir technique one character is buried alive in a horrific scene, and later he is back in the picture, even though it was assumed that he was murdered.
A private detective uncovers the affair, and then things just go downhill.
The characters in Blood Simple are basic noir prototypes and the plot involves standard noir tropes, with a Coen Brothers take on it.Ī great Frances McDormand stars as Abby, who is cheating on her husband Julian Marty (Dan Hedaya) with Ray (John Getz). The plot involves people planning murders, dead bodies disappearing, and other events that have a touch of humor to them, and refer back to Hitchcock’s macabre comedy, The Trouble With Harry. Although most of their films have noir elements to some degree, this film is an outright noir and tribute to past cinema. It is a high tension film with explicit violence and sex, and it is very suspenseful and mysterious, shot as a modern neo-noir, and using tropes like fake identities, sleazy killers, mental illness, deception, and more.īlood Simple is a film noir from the Coen Brothers, and their first feature. But, in this dark and murky world, nothing is as it seems and all the characters have secrets to hide. Things are going fine until the dancer, Holly, played by Melanie Griffith, is attacked by a strange man who kills her in a gruesome fashion with a power drill. This theme of voyeurism (and it's relationship to the scopophilia of watching a movie) nods to the best Hitchcock films like Psycho and Rear Window. When Sam shows him the apartment, he tells him of another bonus - that a woman across the way from the Penthouse dances seductively in front of the window every single night, and the penthouse has a high-powered telescope, so they can spy on her sexually suggestive dancing. Scully meets Sam (played by Gregg Henry) who gives him an amazing opportunity when his rich friend with a beautiful penthouse apartment leaves and needs a house sitter, and he immediately says yes to this opportunity. Craig Wasson is a relatively weak actor (considering that Brian De Palma usually uses strong male leads like Al Pacino, John Travolta, or Nicolas Cage), but the casting is rather brilliant, because his character Jake Scully is an out of work (and weak) actor who lost his last job because of his intense claustrophobia, and has lost a place to live after his girlfriend dumps him.
There have been many great noir films produced or filmed in Japan (especially in the 50s and 60s) and its dark underworld of violence, corruption, counterfeiting money, and worse, and this is a great example of an American noir that references this and takes on an international perspective.īody Double is another Brian De Palma film that qualifies as a neo-noir, and is a classic suspense movie from a director who idolizes 'the master of suspense,' Alfred Hitchcock. In one memorable scene, the police are ambushed and one of the characters is decapitated. Related: Best Detective Movies from the 80s, Ranked The criminal they are pursuing returns to America and so do the two detectives, still hunting him down. Ken Takakura plays their police boss, Assistant Inspector Matsumoto, as they delve deeply into the shady Japanese criminal world that is run by powerful and ruthless Yakuza. He escapes in Japan, and the Japanese police allow them to join in their manhunt for the wanted man. Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia are American cops assigned to take Sato Koji (played by Yusaku Matsuda) for extradition purposes. Dick's Blade Runner, Hannibal) film from 1989, so we can assume it will be a great viewing experience.
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