Double indemnity was made just after the war‚ during a period of time where men felt insecure‚ as women had become more powerful and independent. This is represented in the film by a negative portrayal of Phyllis. A common type of woman featuring in noir films is the femme fatale‚ which challenges the most traditional role of the woman and the nuclear family. She refuses to play the role of devoted wife and loving mother that society prescribes for women. She finds marriage to be confining‚ loveless
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Realism: Citizen Kane & Double Indemnity Movies have long been known to create a portal through which its viewers can transcend through their own realities and experience the unimaginable. The visual‚ sounds‚ and narrative of great movies immediately attract the focus of its audience as they move into a trance for those 1-2 hours of screen time. While many great movies introduce their audiences to varying experiences that heighten their senses and grasp their focus‚ some measure of relatability
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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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Assignment Submitted By Yours Name here Submitted To Yours Instructor Name here To Meet the Needs of the Course May‚ 2016. I have selected two movies Double Indemnity and Crossfire. The theme which I have found perfect for both of these movies is aestheticism (aesthetics). In philosophy‚ aesthetics is now and then thought to be a piece of a bigger philosophical class called Axiology. Axiology is a range of reasoning that studies values and esteems judgments. Whether millions are spent on a
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Double Indemnity Double Indemnity‚ the movie and the book that describes how a perfect crime or what was thought of perfect went wrong. The author of Double Indemnity‚ James Cain shows and tells the audience a summary of what is going to happen in just the opening scene of the book and in the movie. The opening scene is significant because it reveals what is going to happen in the story. The opening scene in the movie begins with a car speeding through a dark‚ wet Los Angeles intersection where
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October 8‚ 2012 The Denotation of Film Noir When one thinks of what film noir is‚ their mind should automatically flash to Double Indemnity. This ingenious film directed by Billy Wilder exploits all of the true characteristics of film noir. All of the main attributes to film noir are seen first in Double Indemnity which was not only the pioneer to this genre‚ but is still considered one of the greatest movies of all time. It was a risky move to put out this movie when it was
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Using the director’s and prop managers’ choices of lighting‚ soundtrack‚ and certain camera angles‚ Double Indemnity manages to set a specific mood of dangerous and doomed attraction. This atmosphere is brilliantly conveyed through the strategic use of low-key lighting. In black and white cinematography‚ an effect‚ called chiaroscuro‚ is implemented to give the film an air of mystery and crime. Based on a painting technique of the same name‚ cinematographers set the scene such that darkness dominates
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How does Lady Macbeth incorporate the role of a femme fatale? Gothic literature was introduced by Horace Walpole in 1764 with his novel The Castle of Otranto. This makes Macbeth retrospectively gothic as it was written in the 1600’s. It includes some of the main features of the gothic genre such as‚ murder‚ secrets‚ death and femme fatale. A femme fatale is a darker representation of women‚ often used in the gothic genre. It is someone who uses their femininity and sexuality to get what they want
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Double Indemnity: Love of Manipulation or Manipulation of Love? “The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words‚ you can control the people who must use the words” (Phillip K. Dick). Manipulation in this book can be summed up in one phrase: It takes two to tango. This dance takes total control of the manipulator and the person being manipulated. Beauty and lust are two common methods of manipulating others. This novel successfully
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The Seven Deadly Sins Brianna Kibler Introduction To Film Studies- HUM/150 Dominic Biondi The 1944 film “Double Indemnity” is about an insurance salesman‚ Walter Neff‚ who gets entangled in a plot to kill an unhappy wife’s husband‚ Phyllis Dietrichson‚ over greed. They work together to stage a suicide that should later be determined accidental. Little does the salesman know the wife will get what she wants‚ no matter the cost. This paper will dissect the movie to help illuminate underlying
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