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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Van Brooks, William Creamer, Raquel Gavia, John Getz, Nancy Ginger
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0883904112853
Format: Color
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-09-16
Running Time: 96
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1984
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A man hires a sleazy private eye to have his wife & her lover killed byt the killer decides that murdering the husband would be the perfect crime instead. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 09/16/2008 Starring: M Emmett Walsh Dan Hedaya Run time: 96 minutes Rating: R
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Summary: The first masterpiece by the Coen brothers
Comment: This early 1980s film started the Coen brothers journey into one of the best filmmaking teams ever.
I have been wanting to see this movie for a long time and was happy I landed on this copy. While it is a good transfer to DVD, some of the others who commented on this said many scenes were deleted from the original. Since it was my first time to view this, I loved it and was totally impressed, now I want to see the original in its entirety.
The Coen brothers always add a sense of "weirdness" to their films, making them totally unique. This one will keep you interested also. I rate this my third favorite Coen brothers film behind No Country for Old Men and Fargo.
The movie has its gore and very well done.
Briefly, a Texas bar owner, Marty (Dan Hedaya) suspects his wife, Aby (Frances McDormand) is cheating on him and hires a seedy private detective (M. Emmett Walsh) to follow her. Aby is discovered to be playing around with one of Marty's employees, Ray (John Getz). After getting this news, he rehires the seedy gumshoe to kill his wife and her lover. The detective turns on Marty and the gore and horror commence.
If you like Coen brothers' films, you'll love this one, if you like horror, gore and suspense this is definitely for you, and they always add a bit of comedy to their films, enjoy...Now I want to see the original copy without all the deleted scenes.
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Summary: It all began with this little movie from the Brothers Coen
Comment: Geniuses have to begin somewhere, and Blood Simple happens to be the first film by Joel and Ethan Coen, the team that later produced "Raising Arizona", "Fargo" and "No Country For Old Men".
Unknown and without much in the way of budget, the Coens give us the best film noir since movies began being made in color. The film is bloody, indeed, but not for a moment simple.
Dan Hedaya plays Julian Marty, a bar owner who's doing pretty good for himself, except that his wife, played by Frances McDormand in her film debut, is having an affair with bartender Ray, played by John Getz. Marty hires a detective, played by M. Emmett Walsh, to follow the adulterous couple.
In typical Coen fashion, things go wrong. Not a little fly in the ointment. No, we're talking completely over the top, whole-hog wrong.
Like the Coen films that follow, there's a streak of humor that runs through this dark tale, and like the later films, there is violence and not just "bang-bang, you're dead" violence.
The characters criss-cross and double-cross and the story keeps folding back in on itself, like my grandmother's biscuit batter. The result is just as good as grandma's biscuits, and that's saying something.
Not simply good for "Coen Completionists", "Blood Simple" is a ripping good tale, but not for the faint of heart.
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Summary: What a Treat!
Comment: The Coens pack a lot of goin's-on into this clever murder for hire/love story/comedy/thriller that is both brutal and darkly humorous at the same time. Quirky and riveting. One of their best.
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Summary: The electrifying first film from the Coen's
Comment: Before No Country For Old Men, before The Big Lebowski, and before Fargo; Joel and Ethan Coen crafted this homage to the crime-noir. Blood Simple stars Dan Hedaya as a sleezy bar owner who plots to have his cheating wife (Frances McDormand in her screen debut) and his bartender (John Getz) with whom she is having an affair murdered. Things don't quite go as planned however when the hitman he hires (M. Emmet Walsh) turns the tables, and things begin to spiral out of control for everyone involved. Simply speaking, Blood Simple is a riveting ride with plenty of atmosphere and even some unnerving moments that seem straight out of a horror flick, and for it's entire running time will keep you glued to the screen. It isn't as sophisticated or well-crafted as their later works would be, but there isn't any denying that Blood Simple didn't set the stage for the greatness from the Coen brothers to come.
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Summary: There's nothing simple about this bloodbath...
Comment: Without doubt one of the Coen's darkest films, `Blood Simple' is also one of their best. Slow, brooding and manipulative, `Blood Simple' unfolds like one of the most unsettling horror movies of our generation, and it does so with such distinguished fire we can't help but be stirred inside. This is one of those movies that are so mesmerizing that one doesn't initially notice the haunting aspects of the plot until it is too late and we are sucked deep inside.
The film follows Ray and Abby, two lovers who are hiding from Abby's vengeful husband Julian (who also happens to be Ray's boss). When Julian can't take his wife's cheating heart any longer he hires Private Investigator Loren Visser to kill them, but when Loren decides to try and pull one over on Julian everything goes downhill and spirals into an amalgam of tragedy.
The films darkness sheds light on the overwhelming consequences of betrayal, and while Julian doesn't appear to be the most respectable of men his wife's actions are really the root cause of the characters turmoil. `Blood Simple' is a wonderful example of the cold and obviously embellished results of a wandering heart and it exposes the evil that is lingering in us all, waiting for a chance of justifiably expose itself. On the outset the film may appear to be nothing more than a well constructed horror thriller but it is a very smart character study and a truly mesmerizing answer to the cheating spouse. Even the ending is remarkable intelligent and on point with the films reasoning for it leaves the guilty party (ambiguous SPOILER here) alone to contemplate her actions.
The performances within this film are also stellar. I was most impressed with Dan Hedaya, an actor who always seems to find himself with a thankless supporting role. He is finally given a chance to exercise his acting muscle here as Julian and is utterly commanding and fear inspiring in each scene. Frances McDormand makes one amazing debut here, proving why she is so loved in the first place. The film is not very interested in her until the third act really, but she is so moving in that act. M. Emmet Walsh is incredibly creepy as Loren and John Getz is effectively apathetic (another smart play on the `other man' persona).
The final few frames of the film are some of the most intensely crafted scenes in the history of the genre and that whole `hand coming through the window' scene is remarkable to say the least. If you take nothing else away from this film, take away the fact that that last scene is one of the best scenes in the history of film.
`Blood Simple' is dark and gory and intense. It's also humorous (this is a Coen film) and intelligent. Underneath the films `horror' veneer is a film about as honest as they come in its dissection of the marital bonds and the aftereffects of their severing.
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