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A lewd love letter to the “Body Double” movie *Note! Contains spoilers.
2023.01.30
*This article touches on the ending of the story, so we recommend watching the movie before reading it.
"Body Double" synopsis
Jake, a struggling actor who specializes in B-movies, is left behind by a friend who lives in a mansion in Hollywood, and every night he looks through a telescope at the beautiful girl next door, Gloria, who performs a Gloria by the window, giving him a passionate look. One night, Jake was sneaking around as usual when he suddenly witnessed her being brutally murdered by someone.
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Vulgar, vulgar, obscene, vulgar. I wonder what's behind this overwhelming B-grade feel that sticks so tightly to Brian De Palma movies (I'm praising them). He was recognized as a major director with `` Scarface '' (1983) starring Al Pacino, and just when he thought that he would be directing big budget Big in the future, his next work was even more vulgar, more vulgar, and more obscene. ``Body Double'' (1984) is a more vulgar erotic thriller. Isn't that great?
De Palma came up with the idea for the film while filming The Dressed to Kill (1980). He had an epiphany when he asked a Body Double double to act nude in an early scene in which Angie Dickinson is taking a shower. Wouldn't a suspense movie with a Body Double motif be pretty cool? He immediately approached screenwriter Robert J. Avrech and asked him to co-write the script. Abrek was overwhelmed by the young filmmaker's passion.
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``Brian De Palma told me the rough idea for ``Body Double.'' An innocent man is framed for a murder by a beautiful woman, and he solves the mystery with the help of a beautiful blonde. , I immediately responded to the Hitchcockian theme. Both Brian and I were, and still are, huge fans of Alfred Hitchcock's films, including Rear Window (1954) and Vertigo (58). ) and we discussed the storytelling that Hitchcock used in those two films. So in a sense, I was transposing De Palma's ideas into Hitchcock's ideas. Yo” (*1)
In `` Rear Window ,'' a photographer who lives in a wheelchair witnesses the incident from his apartment. `` Vertigo '' is about a former detective who is afraid of heights and falls in love with a mysterious married woman. De Palma and Abreck mix two of Hitchcock's masterpieces together and create a story about ``Jake (Craig Wasson), a claustrophobic struggling actor who spends his nights spying on women's sexy dances through a telescope. A plot with a B-class feel is created. The punch line, in which the real culprit was a husband who targeted a wealthy wife's property, is probably an homage to `` Turn Dial M! '' (54).
De Palma, who has overtly referenced `` Vertigo '' in ` `Obsession '' (1976) and `` Psycho '' (1960) in `` A Dressed to Kill '', takes a comprehensive look at Hitchcock's films in ``Body Double''. I ended up using it as a reference.
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