Blood Simple. [Region 2]
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In Theaters : 18 January, 1985 |
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Blood Simple. [Region 2] description
The debut film of director Joel Coen and his brother-producer Ethan Coen, 1983's Blood Simple is grisly comic noir that marries the feverish toughness of pulp thrillers with the ghoulishness of even pulpier horror. (Imagine the novels of Jim Thompson somehow fused with the comic tabloid Weird Tales, and you get the idea.) The story concerns a Texas bar owner (Dan Hedaya) who hires a seedy private detective (M. Emmett Walsh) to follow his cheating wife (Frances McDormand in her first film appearance), and then kill her and her lover (John Getz). The gumshoe turns the tables on his client, and suddenly a bad situation gets much, much worse, with some violent goings-on that are as elemental as they are shocking. (A scene in which a character who has been buried alive suddenly emerges from his own grave instantly becomes an archetypal nightmare.) Shot by Barry Sonnenfeld before he became an A-list director in Hollywood, Blood Simple established the hyperreal look and feel of the Coens' productions (undoubtedly inspired a bit by filmmaker Sam Raimi, whose The Evil Dead had just been coedited by Joel). Sections of the film have proved to be an endurance test for art-house movie fans, particularly an extended climax that involves one shock after another but ends with a laugh at the absurdity of criminal ambition. This is definitely one of the triumphs of the 1980s and the American independent film scene in general. --Tom Keogh |
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How Can Directors Do So Well On Their First?
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| You would think a first would be rough, something where you can say, "Ok, I see some Coen Brothers in that" And so the directors fine tune their craft and slowly, over the course of many years, develop the instincts or sensibilities and begin to master their craft. This was my first time watching this movie, a movie which came out when I was born, and it seems the Coen Brothers mastered their craft before they began. This movie, which brings the viewer to the realizations long before the characters, has a way of getting us to realize once again as the characters are awakened to what has been done. This is particularly poignant when Getz's character unnecessarily cleans up the crime scene and tells his lover the job is finished. To which she innocently replies, "What job"? Getz's face turns from a manic smile to a somber frown. The movie is just simply near perfect. As was its acting. Frances McDormand gives us an "Ok, I see some Fargo performance in that" and M. Emmet Walsh's persona scares the hell out of us. The cinematography is stunning, thus we cannot forget to mention Barry Sonnenfeld , who would later bring us the kooky Adams Family and much later, Men in Black. Proof of his skills, and the Coen Brothers is a scene midway through the movie where there is not a word spoken for 15 minutes and Getz's character's ethical pondering, physical disgust, words, shouting, and crying are done by slight changes in facial expressions only. |
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