"It's a great story with lots of fantastic twists and sudden, unexpected scenes and fraught with the mystery of fate." , William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist .
In Los Angeles, an insurance salesman (Fred McMurray) plot along with a client (Barbara Stanwyck) to kill the husband of this and collect the substantial compensation and life insurance. Everything is complicated when it comes in the investigation of the insurance company owner (Edward G. Robinson).
The black film was just an artistic movement organic. In fact, he started for all purposes with Bane , as the film and the genre itself was itself as an outpost, and the background was a changing America where he began to speak of where I could get evil. Run
late 30's and early 40's, and the American public had lost some of its innocence (even today is still quite puritanical and hypocritical) and demanded more adult stories about how people actually behave. And the black film was the answer. Although the beginning of this film genre is found in magazines, pamphlets and cartoons "hard-boiled" very typical of the 30's and usually written by people current and often side with the criminal.
As a curiosity, we can cite, for example, the work The postman always rings twice two, the author James M. cain sent a copy to all studies and ultimately the book rights were bought by MGM, we are talking about the year 34, and the Hays Code to the doors the studio decided to keep the adaptation of the play in a drawer with the intention of save for the future, but that if, far more rosy.
With strong vigilance in the film and the yoke of censorship always on top, there was a wave of self-censorship. But James M. Cain all this helped him to continue writing (the literature had these absurd moral codes) and Doom wrote , thinking that the film never would.
Originally published in eight chapters in serial in Liberty magazine , it is rather a short novel. But before such a scenario of "freedom" film and adaptability of certain works, how Bane was to the big screen? There are two versions:
1 ยบ It is said that Secretary of Billy Wilder missed a day at his job and he like a madman looking for it everywhere, it turns out that was in the bathroom reading the work and stated dirtector himself. "If this interest to my secretary in this way, should be great." But really this sounds more like legend and joke than anything else.
2 The producer Joseph Sistrom recommended it when both trabajban director at Paramount, read it and looked so good that it did not stop to get the rights. This, Dear friends, is more credible.
At this time, Billy Wilder had directed only two films The highest and lowest and Five Graves to Cairo , both of a conventional style, and saw Double Indemnity the opportunity to innovate, but Hollywood saw that story some intractable ... frighten away, Wilder felt he had to take it forward, I wanted a movie that would leave Hollywood with his mouth open and the rest of the world stunned.
Billy Wilder was a successful screenwriter (Ninotchka ), and was convinced of one thing: it was better to write with another person to write alone, I thought that 1 +1 = 3. Besides
Brackett read the script and he said it was "crap, or look better. " so he quickly had to find someone with whom he wrote the script. First elected to Cain, but he was already working for another producer, so the producer Joe Sistrom said that Raymond Chandler was very similar to the writer, and so we recommended to read The Big Sleep .
The problem was that this would be Chandler's first foray into film and was, in this sense, very naive. Moreover, when the director gave him the first draft of the script, threw it directly into the wall and snapped: "It sucks, Mr. Chandler."
From that very moment, Billy Wilder took under his tutelage to the writer, and employ about four months to complete the script enclosed in Wilder's office in the offices of the Paramount ... eventually became a couple from hell, and what were their personalities clashed immediately: Billy was enthusiastic, fun, funny, Raymond opposite. In addition, Wilder and Chandler drank too much alcohol was a recovering alcoholic ... This collaboration brought him back to drinking. Wilder
not stop walking around the office to ponder the scenes while holding a stick, something that infuriated his partner. One day, Chandler went to see one of the directors of study with the intention to resign and drew up a list of complaints, some of them very funny, for example, saying that it bothered him that Wilder wore a hat.
Nevertheless, pulled out the day that today, and according to film critics and scholars in general, and Wilder in particular is one of his best films.
Billy Wilder and Barbara Stanwyck.
Wilder insisted from the start, Mrs. Dietrichson be played by Barbara Stanwyck (who at this time was the highest paid actress in Hollywood). In fact, the highest-paid woman in America. To this we add the sexual charm given off ... and the result is a big star.
But she was not the work involved in this film: "I can not make a murderer. This will kill my career." to Wilder replied, "Hey, are you an actress or a mouse?" .
And the next question was no less complicated, because nobody wanted to play Walter Neff. "I only do comedy with Claudette Colbert" said Fred McMurray when Billy Wilder met with him, but the director wanted me to be on the tape, as it gave the character profile: the actor was able to draw interpretations of types I could go from the more decent the most cynical. His interpretation of action is crucial, because it is able to subvert the ability and instinct murderer.
And it is curious that in the end you liking her character Unlike all the treacherous Mrs. Dietrichson.
not underestimate a child's estate, Edward G. Robinson, whose character has a lot of monologues ... all nailed to perfection.
But this movie is not only good players, also has an excellent picture, signed by John F. Seitz. Basically played with the lights and shadows to create a dynamic atmosphere and help the viewer to get used to the rhythm of the script and the performances. Another
genialdad are the textures of light, for example, when first arrive Neff Once the home of Mr. Dietrichson can be seen floating in the air as dust particles (aluminum powder fell on the set of filming) and venetian blinds create a light effect which simulate a prison. Too much long scenes prevail in almost total darkness ... and that is the quintessential noir gender.
addition, at this time the color began to draw the attention of producers, executives and public as something new, so supporters of b / n did nothing to further enhance the virtues of this texture to the help of Therefore, the lights and shadows tell the story.
The house where the film was shot partly in English colonial style, still stands today, and not only used the front, also the door, hall and staircase, which takes place one of the most memorable scenes Ribbon: When Barbara Stanwyck appears with your towel after taking a "sun bath" ... that entry is unforgettable, wrapped in her towel, with the ankle bracelet ... Cain in the book makes it down the stairs wearing pajamas inside, if preferred Wilder but wrapped in a towel and leave it in the top of the house and make it appear behind a curtain, petty differences and visual touches to gain So its seductive power. This entry defines the character.
Other attractions of the film are the costumes and hair and makeup, and most striking are the lips of the actor and the blonde wig she wears ... Wilder wanted and had an exterior shape as false as its interior. A whole femme fatale.
The detail of the wig is curious: Barbara and Billy went together to buy the wig and when she finally saw the lead on, Stanwyck said she was very cheap, to which he replied that his was a woman persnaje easy and so that was the ideal choice.
Another curiosity of the shooting is found at the scene after the assassination, when both players leave the crime scene and are mounted on the car does not start and gives the feeling that they will get, Fred McMurray told the director that the scene would not work and bored the public. Today we see at any thriller such situations, but to the shooting of this film, not seen any scenes alike.
Many detective stories are based on murder and homicide, in sexuality, temperament and are transmitted up the heat. Here all this should go or make it appear less explicit form possible, because in the novel are basically born as a fornicator an adulteress as the core, but this we must add that there are two murderers. And thirdly, the film explains how to run a perfect crime ... and censorship came on the scene. However, tell Billy Wilder could not make ua thing was like putting a bull cloak, immediately react, how? plague the film two-way dialogue and other small details that go into the subconscious of the viewer. The more in tune with this is the scene in which Phyllis comes by night to Neff's house to plan the assassination, talk about what they will do and how it carried out, then lie down on the couch and kiss. Occur then cut. Appears after lying on the couch smoking a cigarette in a rather relaxed and she touch up her makeup is not very difficult to draw clear that just making love.
may improve the film censorship as a way to show the killing was to occur in the mind of every spectator. It would have been free explicit and visceral vision of murder, and had ended by converitrse one of so many B movies totally dispensable, but instead we see Barbara Stanwyck driving the car, with a face of satisfaction and an incredibly subtle contained an expression of joy hardly improved. Wonderful.
was totally impossible in 1943 when shooting the film, the moral code would allow a final ruling as reflected in Cain's novel: a double suicide. The Hays Code did not allow suicide as a way of resolving a plot. Filmed two endings: the one seen on the tape, and another in which the hero is entering the gas chamber, but not incorporated into the entire film because in the previous pass everyone was shocked by such final .
do not know how would that end, I can say is that the end we can see in the film is absolutely heartbreaking, a kind of coda.
And we came to the premiere. At the same time the tape was premiered Selznick Since you left, his great film for that year. The slogan used to promote it was " Since you left, the most famous words from 'Gone with the Wind ', which was also produced by him in the year 39. Wilder hated all the pomp, and began advertise your movie on its own: " Bane, the most important word in films 'Broken Lilies' , the biggest movie of Griffith therefore important." Selznick took him to the demons in that moment and thought to sue, but then Hitchcock took another slogan: "From 'Doom' , the most famous words in film Billy Wilder," a wonderful comment. And is that a lot of English director Double indemnity. His teammates knew what the Austro-Hungarian had made, and also knew who had opened many doors for this kind of thing.
praised Wilder's criticism, but for those who had more praise was for the interpretation of Barbara Stanwyck. They also surprised a lot (for good) Fred McMurray.
Then came the Oscars, and although the movie chose to seven golden statuettes, Wilder was afraid Siguiedo tape my way , which was Paramount's big bet for this year, and feared that split the vote. And the director is satisfied cabals Going My Way began to add accolades, one after another ...
And if you see the two bands now think, what were they thinking? Going My Way is a good movie, but nothing compared to Perdition .
Nevertheless, the success of Wilder expectartivas were passed: Billy always complained of being considered one of the second, under Hitchcock, Hawks or Ford was now regarded by all and the rest of the profession as one of the most important visible heads of cinema.
After this film, Chandler left the cinema, even though Paramount offered him two thousand dollars a week. Billy Wilder, in his next film, The Lost Weekend , reflected in Chandler from the outside. The Oscars not won the won Bane Lost Weekend. The writer responded with a series of incendiary writings were against the situation of writers in Hollywood, and by implication against Wilder.
As Fred McMurray, continued playing roles in family films and comedies, and made television, so this tape served to perpetuate it in cinematic history. The one he won after this film was Stanwyck, who established himself as one of the great figures of the decade and extended its record. She became the queen of black cinema and is very complicated to get you through this.
"I did it for money. I did it all for a woman. I did not get the money. I did not get the woman." Walter Neff (Fred McMurray).
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR, AND THAT IN 2011 ALL YOUR DREAMS Reality.
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