Basically, there’s a really good reason it’s called Body Heat. In fact, you may need to seek medical attention post-double feature.
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While Phyllis Dietrichson of Double Indemnity will set your hair on end, make your skin sweat, and leave you writhing in your seat for the “je ne sais quoi” of the unattainable, Kathleen Turner’s role (and feature film debut!!) as Matty Walker will only increase your condition to a fever pitch. Fun Fact: Harrison, who worked with Wilder for most of his career, had previously teamed up with New Beverly Cinema’s featured artist of the month, Andrew Stone, on Stolen Heaven (1938)!
#BODY HEAT MOVIE REVIEW PROFESSIONAL#
A Hollywood professional since the silent era, Doane Harrison served as editor. It would’ve been impossible for Insurance Agent Walter Neff (played by Fred MacMurray, doing a remarkable career turn from comedy to crime-drama in this role) not to fall into her spider web.Ĭinematographer John Seitz, best known for his work on several Preston Sturges films as well as a variety of films noir, shot Double Indemnity and his work truly transforms the picture, lifting it into a visual smorgasbord of erotic tension with a few shots here, a few lighting shifts there. The bathing cloth appears to be seconds from falling off, her skin is glowing in the well-curated light and it is quite clear that underneath that terrycloth she is as naked as the day she was born.
However, upon the introduction of Phyllis Dietrichson (played indelibly by Barbara Stanwyck), we view her standing at the top of the stairs, towel barely wrapped around her voluptuous form.
There must be no unacceptable exposure.” No problem, right? Right. Breen wrote, “the bath towel must properly cover Phyllis, and should certainly go below her knees. To get that prized “yes,” restrictions were set – the most entertaining regarded the towel length and physical revelation of Ms. Paramount resubmitted Double Indemnity in script form in 1943, receiving a modicum of approval from Breen. Such people are the offal of literature, not because they write about dirty things, but because they do it in a dirty way.” In a letter to his publisher, Chandler complained, “ is every kind of writer I detest…a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and a board fence and nobody looking. What were they gonna do? Lie? Breen’s final word? No way, Jose.Ĭain, of course, was the writer that even renowned crime fiction author Raymond Chandler considered filthy. Breen went ballistic, however, writing that “the leading characters are murderers who cheat the law and die at their own hands the story deals improperly with an illicit and adulterous sex relationship.” None of that was untrue. Breen in 1935 to get the okay on a film adaptation. Cain’s original novel, while not officially published until 1943, was submitted to PCA head honcho Joseph I.
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Thereby, it also isn’t much of a reveal to say that this hot and steamy Femme Fatale Power Structure also serves as the yummy center of the films showing at the New Beverly on July 15 th and 16 th, Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) and Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan, 1981).ĭouble Indemnity was made during the height of the Production Code Era and there were plenty of things that the Production Code Administration (PCA) found questionable about the work. If you are familiar with the film noir genre, the “ Femme Fatale + male protagonist = complete devastation” formula isn’t much of a spoiler. Depends on the film and the femme fatale! Actually, they probably will do anything asked. The promise of Something More exuded by the femme fatale’s almost preternatural sex appeal leads to a drug-like high causing these men to do almost anything asked. By that point though, they just don’t give a toss. The men who get involved with these perilous and persuasive women are self-aware enough to know that the deeper the intimacy, the more danger will follow and the greater likelihood of Imminent Doom. An alluring and intoxicating character, she is the figure in the film that wields the most power, the best and the worst thing to happen to the protagonist. One of the greatest things film noir ever did was establish the femme fatale. Double Indemnity and Body Heat make a dangerous double feature, screening together July 15 th & 16 th at the New Bev.
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