Blood Simple - Eine mörderische Nacht

Originaltitel: Blood Simple

1984
18
1 Std. 39 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,5/10

108.039

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

2.750

540

Blood Simple - Eine mörderische Nacht (1984)

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Dark Comedy Crime Drama Thriller

Ein reicher, aber eifersüchtiger Mann beauftragt einen Privatdetektiv, um seine untreue Frau und deren neuen Liebhaber zu töten. Allerdings ist nichts so einfach, wie es scheint, wenn es um ... Alles lesenEin reicher, aber eifersüchtiger Mann beauftragt einen Privatdetektiv, um seine untreue Frau und deren neuen Liebhaber zu töten. Allerdings ist nichts so einfach, wie es scheint, wenn es um Mord geht.Ein reicher, aber eifersüchtiger Mann beauftragt einen Privatdetektiv, um seine untreue Frau und deren neuen Liebhaber zu töten. Allerdings ist nichts so einfach, wie es scheint, wenn es um Mord geht.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,5/10

108.039

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

2.750

540

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 5 Gewinne & 7 Nominierungen

Radio Evangelist
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(as Rev. William Preston Robertson)

Holly Hunter

Helene Trend
(Synchronisation)
(Nicht genannt)

Barry Sonnenfeld

Marty's Vomiting
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On the advice of Sam Raimi, the Coens went door-to-door showing potential investors a two minute 'trailer' of the film they planned to make. They ultimately raised $750,000 in a little over a year, enough to begin production of the movie.

Patzer
The box of shells from which Abby dumps three live rounds is clearly labeled "blanks" and .32 caliber. Abby said earlier that the gun her husband gave her is a .38.

Zitate
[first lines]
Private Detective Visser: [narrating] The world is full o' complainers. An' the fact is, nothin' comes with a guarantee. Now I don't care if you're the pope of Rome, President of the United States or Man of the Year; somethin' can all go wrong. Now go on ahead, y'know, complain, tell your problems to your neighbor, ask for help, 'n watch him fly. Now, in Russia, they got it mapped out so that everyone pulls for everyone else... that's the theory, anyway. But what I know about is Texas, an' down here... you're on your own.

Crazy Credits
Opening credits list the main cast, but none of the crew. All of the crew credits are at the end of the film, starting with Joel Coen as director.

Alternative Versionen
When Blood Simple was first released, two quotes appeared over black, before the opening credits. One was from Dashiell Hammet explaining what "blood simple" meant and the second was from Alfred Hitchcock about how difficult it really would be to kill a man.

Verbindungen
Featured in At the Movies: Vision Quest/Turk 182/Blood Simple/Mischief (1985)

Soundtracks
It's the Same Old Song
By Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland
Performed by The Four Tops
Used by Permission of Motown Record Corporation and Jobete Music Co., Inc.

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Good Study

The Coens are like Soderbergh, they alternate between risky adventures and "commercial" projects. Only in the Coens' world, it is not so much a matter of commercialism but a matter of respect for the genre. Half of their films are profoundly layered, with a typical genre at the "bottom" and all sorts of annotation and commentary in layers on the top.

Its the same in abstract painting, the real stuff that is: to be good at distancing yourself from representational art, you have to master it before you leave it. So the Coens work on mastering a genre before they extend it (and goof all over it).

Naturally, their first project is a straight genre picture. Naturally, it is good (even excellent in its class), if not particularly novel.

Noir is an abused term. I think there are only two notions that are necessary. The first is the existence of a capricious fate, producing coincidences that toy with humans (usually humans). The second is the placement of the viewer (via the camera) in some sort of conspiracy with this fate. In some nefarious way, the viewer _causes_ some of these.

You'll have to decide whether a noir film made after the period in which it was developed can be enjoyed in the same way. It does necessarily carry some distance, the study rather than the intuition. But the hardest thing in noir is ending. These guys do it as perfectly as I know: the last vision of a dying man, watching something inconsequential but inevitable.