Blood Simple

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Blood Simple is a 1984 American neo-noir crime movie written, edited, produced and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. This is the directorial debut of Coens and the first big movie cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who later became a famous director, as well as the feature film feature Joel Coen's wife, Frances McDormand, who later starred in many of its features.

The title of the film comes from Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest (1929) novel, where the term "blood simple" describes the mindset of people who are horrified and frightened after long drowning in situations of violence.

In 2001, the director's piece was released. It's ranked No. 98 in AFI 100 Years... 100 Thrills. The film also puts No. 73 in Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.

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Plot

Abby and Ray were driving through the heavy rain at night, discussing Abby's bad marriage. Ray drove to the motel, where he and Abby had sex. Abby's husband, Julian Marty, has hired a private detective, Lorren Visser, to follow Abby. Visser took photos of the meeting and sent it to Marty. Ray is a bartender working at Marty's bar.

Marty was humiliated when his attempt to abduct Abby from Ray's home failed, so he then hired Visser to kill the couple. Visser broke into Ray's house, stole an Abby pistol, and photographed the sleeping couple through the bedroom window. He presents the doctor's photograph of the couple's "corpse" to Marty as proof that they have been killed. Marty went to the bathroom to throw up and opened the safe to give Visser the fare. Visser shot Marty with an Abby pistol, leaving his weapon on the scene as proof that he killed Marty.

Ray returns to the bar and accidentally kicks Abby's gun, shoots him. He finds Marty who is immobile and decides to cover up the murder, which he considers to have been done by Abby. He loaded his body into his backseat and placed Abby's pistol in the pocket of his coat. While Ray was riding the countryside at night, he realized that Marty was alive, despite being seriously injured. Ray buried Marty alive, but not before taking the gun.

The desperate Ray told Abby, "I cleared up your mess." Abby insisted she "did not do anything funny." By the time Ray leaves Abby's apartment, each is convinced that the other has done something to hurt Marty. Ray left the gun, now containing one turn, with Abby.

Visser watched Abby first and then Ray visited the bar office. When leaving the bar, Ray realizes that he's being followed and goes to Abby's apartment realizing that he might be in danger. After Abby arrived, Visser, who shot from the nearest roof with a shotgun, shot Ray through the window. When Abby heard footsteps approaching, she quickly picked up Ray's knife and hid in the bathroom. Visser enters the bathroom to kill her, but finds the bathroom empty and the window opens. Reaching out the window, she opened another window to the next room, but Abby slammed the sash across her wrist and pushed the knife through her hand into the window sill. He shoots through the wall, then passes over and releases his knife, while Abby steps back and waits outside the bathroom, holding his gun. When Visser will appear, he shoots through the door, hitting him. Visser, lying on the bathroom floor, badly wounded, burst out laughing.

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Cast

• John Getz as Ray
• Frances McDormand as Abby
• And Hedaya as Julian Marty
• M. Emmet Walsh as Lorren Visser

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Funding

The Coen brothers took the trailer they made - which showed "a man dragging a shovel beside the car stopped halfway, back toward the other man he was about to kill" and "shotgun hole in the wall" - and a projector and went around to homes and workplaces of people to show it. Daniel Bacaner was one of the first to invest the money in the project. He also became an executive producer and introduced Coens to other potential supporters. The entire process of increasing the $ 1.5 million needs takes a year.

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Production

The film was taken at several locations in the city of Austin and Hutto, Texas for an eight-week period in the fall of 1982. The film spent a year post-production and was completed in 1983.

Blood Simple is Frances McDormand's screen debut.

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Reception

Although the film is only a success in the box office simple, it is a very big success. It currently holds a 94% "fresh" ranking at Rotten Tomatoes, where a critical consensus reads: "Brutal violence and surprisingly humorous in equal measure, Blood Simple offers the early evidence of Coen Brothers' crooked sensitivity and ingenuity of filmmaking. "The film earns about $ 3 million. His first major public show was the USA Film Festival in Dallas, followed by the Sundance Film Festival, where he received the Grand Jury Prize. The brothers took the film to the Toronto Film Festival, Cannes, and the New York Film Festival. They are very proud of their movie, especially for having raised funds using homemade trailers.

The film is recognized by the American Film Institute in this list:

• 2001: AFI 100 Years... 100 Thrills - # 98

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Directed Cut and home media

VHS Version

Video MCA Home The original VHS video and LaserDisc were released on October 10, 1985, with a running time of 96 minutes.

The film was released on Universal Pictures Home Entertainment VHS tape for the second time in 1995 with a running time of 99 minutes.

Unusual for such exercises, "Directed Cut" is about three minutes shorter than the original 1985 theatrical release. The Coens reduces the walking time with more rigorous editing, shortening some shooting and removing others altogether. In addition, they solved the old rights issues with music: the original theatrical version of the film uses the use of The Four Tops "This is the Same Old Song" (1965); Coens replaced it with Neil Diamond, "I'm a Believer" (1966) for the 1995 home video edition at VHS. The Director's piece restored the Four Puncak's song.

DVD 2001 release

The 2001 DVD release features some DVD parodies of "special features". One is the introduction to the film by the fictitious film historian "Mortimer Young", who claims "Director Cut" eliminates some "boring bits" and adds another section; this is also included in the theatrical release of "Directed Cut". It was also re-released on VHS in 2001.

The 2001 DVD release also includes an audio commentary by "Kenneth Loring", the fictitious artistic director of the equally fictional "Forever Young Film" film. Loring offers some really fake "facts": for example, he claims scenes with Ray and Abby driving in the rain, talking about Marty, acting upside down and upside down, to synchronize the headlights of a passing car just as certain sentences are said. (He claims recording the scene in reverse and upside down is a logical choice to get the right timing, and the actors wear hair sprays to keep their hair downward.) Elsewhere in the comments, he claims that, in a scene with both dialogues and music, the actors just say the words and record them in post-production, so they will not interfere with music; that Marty's dog is animatronic; that the sweat on the various actors is "sweat film", gathered from the sides of the Palomino horses; that Fred Astaire and Rosemary Clooney at one time were meant to film; and that the buzzing fly is not real, but the product of the computer-generated image. "Loring" is voiced by actor Jim Piddock, using a script written by the Coen brothers.

Set Box

In 2005, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment released the Coen Brothers Collection of Voice Boxes which was included in the 2001 version. Then in 2007, MGM Home Entertainment released the Box Coen Brothers Video Collection version without any special features. DVDs were sold separately in 2008. Finally in 2011, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released a blu-ray box set from The Minds of the Coen Brothers, including an artificial commentary track. Blu-ray is sold separately as well.

Collection Criteria

In June 2016, the Criteria Collection announced that it will release a special edition of Blu-ray and DVD movies in September with a new 4K digital transfer supervised and approved by Barry Sonnenfeld and Coens, along with new special features.

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Soundtrack

Carter Burwell wrote a score of Blood Simple , the first of his collaborations with the Coen brothers. Blood Simple is also the first feature film score for Burwell; and after his work in this film, he became a much-needed composer in Hollywood. In 2016 he has scored 16 Coen Brothers films.

The score for Blood Simple is a mixture of solo piano and electronic ambient sound. One song, "Monkey Chant", is based on kecak, " Ramayana Monkey Chant" from Bali.

In 1987, seven choices from the Burwell score Blood Simple were released on the 17-track album which also featured a selection of the next movie soundtrack, Raising Arizona (1987)).

Blood Choice Simple on the 1987 album:

1. "Crash and Burn" (2:40)
2. "Blood Simple" (3:33)
3. "Gang Chain" (4:47)
4. "The March" (3:34)
5. "Monkey Chant" (1: 4)
6. "Shooting" (2:52)
7. "Blood Simpler" (1:22)

Other songs from the movie that are not in the album:

• "This is the Same Old Song", written by Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland, conducted by The Four Tops
• "Louie Louie", written by Richard Berry, performed by Toots & amp; Maytals
• "The Lady in Red", written by M. Dixon and A. Wrubel, performed by Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra
• "Rogaciano"
• "He'll Have to Go", written by Joe Allison and Audrey Allison, arranged by Jim Roberge, conducted by Joan Black
• "El Sueno", written by Camilo Namen, performed by Johnny Ventura y su Combo
• "Anahi" was done by Maria Luisa Buchino and her Llameros
• "Sweet Dreams", written by Don Gibson, performed by Patsy Cline

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Chinese remake

In December 2009, Zhang Yimou released a remake of Chinese film. The film, titled A Simple Noodle Story (internationally known as A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop), is set in a Chinese noodle shop in the desert and revolves around the owner the restaurant plans to kill his adulterous wife and lover.

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See also

• Movie portal
• United States Portal

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References

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External links

• Simple Blood on IMDb
• Simple Blood in the American Movies Film Catalog
• Simple Blood in the TCM Movie Database
• Simple Blood at AllMovie
• Simple Blood in Mojo Box Office
• Simple Blood at Rotten Tomatoes

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