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    A person can get so ambitious that it can have a negative impact on that person’s life. As in James M. Cain book “Double Indemnity”‚ Walter is one of the focal characters that has many ambitions. Walter is a clever man who works at a well know insurance company and has made his own company as well. A well established man with his life a success a good job‚ getting paid good money‚ and single what more can a man want. Walter was so clever that he turned very ambitious one day. His life would change

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    Amanda Artinger Ms. Owen Noir 6 March 2012 Double Indemnity The film Double Indemnity _________ the classic Film Noir conventions and characteristics. From the very beginning of the film‚ the audience is introduced to a setting of a dark city night‚ with streetlights creating reflections off the water gleaming from the pavement. The mood is enhanced through German expressionalism; almost completely dark lighting was used as well as vertical lines to enhance drama and mood. In one scene‚ the blinds

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    Double Indemnity (1944 Billy Wilder) 1) Give a brief description of the narrative‚ what are the cause and effect links‚ which propel the narrative? Walter Neff is a successful insurance salesman for Pacific All Risk returning who sits down at his desk and tells a story into a Dictaphone to Keyes. A story about how Walter meets Phyllis during a house call to renew an automobile insurance policy for her husband. A flirtation occurs not until Phyllis wonders how she could take out a policy on her husband’s

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    Double Indemnity The movie that I watched this week is a 1944 American film called‚ Double Indemnity. This film was directed by Billy Wilder‚ produced by Buddy Desylva and Joseph Sistrom and co-writen by Wilder and Raymond Chandler. The script was based off a 1943 novel with the same title and was written by James M. Cain. The film stars Fred MacMurray as Waler Neff an insurance salesman‚ Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson a housewife who wishes her husband dead and Edward G. Robinson

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    Susan Pickle ENG-111 Professor Gross Double Indemnity Double Indemnity Film Noir “Double Indemnity” is the classic example of the film noir style and also set some standards for movies to come. Film noir is not necessarily a type of genre but rather a tone that branched of from the crime/gangster sags of the 1930’s. It has certain elements such as crime‚ greed‚ and violence that are supposed to represent the same type of evils in society and of course a moral conflict at the base of the

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    Description of a scene Within the film‚ “Double Indemnity”‚ there exists quite the diversity of scenes that are presented to the viewer. A particular two minute stretch of the film is interesting in itself as it provides a good example of the sheer number of particular details that can make a film like this stand out from the rest. The first shot of the film exists as one of the most impressive as it takes place primarily within an elevator with minimal camera movement. This medium shot is the longest

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    Journal 3 – Double Indemnity (7-14) “That’s all it takes‚ one drop of fear‚ to curdle love into hate” (Cain 54) – As soon as he set his eyes upon Mrs. Nirdlinger‚ Walter was in love. Both Walter and Phyllis may have an evident lust for money‚ but Walter’s infatuation with Phyllis’s being definitely encouraged his violent actions. It is interesting that Walter is already coming to realize this. Walter realizes what he has been lured in to and is trying to put some blame on Mrs. Nirdlinger’s sex appeal

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    is intricate to American society; Film Noir. Noir is a unique blend of dark iconography‚ tough guy characters‚ and criminal investigations. It’s also unique in the sense that the setting for Noir films can literally be anywhere‚ as long as it has the previous mentioned elements. In order for Noir to be discussed as a genre‚ one needs to look at films that describe it. The 1944 film Double Indemnity is one example of what Noir looks like. It has 3 essential characteristics of noir film: dark iconography

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    Distorted Environment‚ Immorality‚ Lust‚ Film Noir‚ Double Indemnity Double Indemnity is a film that involved a distorted and obscured environment that causes different moods and emotions. At the beginning of the film‚ you can observe the darkness of the city and careless drivers driving at a high speed. This atmosphere gives a feeling that there are mysteries‚ intensity‚ loneliness‚ sadness‚ horror‚ confusion‚ and danger. Double Indemnity involves self-destruction‚ disappointment‚ manipulation

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    generic codes and conventions of film noir with more recent neo-noirs; the films I’m going to use to do this are Double Indemnity and Pulp Fiction. I’m also going to investigate the relationship between original film noirs and the Hollywood studio system and contemporary production contexts in the North American Film Industry. The first film I’m going to be looking at is Double Indemnity‚ a classic noir film which follows Walter Neff‚ an insurance salesman who meets Phyllis Dietrichson and is roped

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