A Comparison Of Two Classic Fi
The two films I chose to compare and contrast are my two favorite films of the course, Double Indemnity, and The Last Seduction. These films prove that although many years have passed, decades in fact, the plots of many film noirs have stayed the same. Through all the similarities however, the transition from film noirs of the 40's, and modern film noirs is very much prevalent. These films involve the most intricate of murder plans in any modern movies I have seen, and though the one in The Last Seductions doesn't exactly go without problems, it could easily have worked had Mike been up for it. These movies are decades apart, but deal with the exact same issue, double indemnity. It's ...
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you a story. The flashbacks to him sitting there, smoking his cigarette as he knows he has been sucked into doing something he wouldn't ordinarily do capture the true mood of what's to come. What he also can't come to grips with is the fact that all this was over a woman. Both men in the movies, though you only see them after one particular girl, seem to be quite fickle. Walter sees Phyllis at the top of the stares, and almost immediately is at her mercy. The scenes where the men in both movies meet the girls that they think are the women of their dreams, are almost identical. Walter tries to sweet talk Phyllis, but she quickly lets Neff know that she is uninterested, and brings up her husband's name on which note Neff leaves. Mike first meets "Wendy" in Ray's Bar after she finds out that Chicago is another 10-12 hours. Mike's attention immediately turns to Wendy as she rudely orders a drink from the bar, and has some choice words for the owner after he denies her of a ...
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herself with a man who she thinks she can talk into doing in her husband. The difference in these two movies is the roles of the genders. In Double Indemnity, Neff is the mastermind behind the entire murder, and Phyllis is just along for the ride until she gets her money. After that, she has the option of ditching the man who got her away from her husband, or staying with him. In The Last Seduction, Wendy has all the right moves, and tricks up her sleeve. From sticking the nailed board under the car of her stalker to writing the fake note to Mike from his wife, she pulled all the right strings at all the right times. The irony of all the characters in general, is that the women had ...
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