Of course, I'm referring to the murder of sexy dancer Gloria Revelle. It's a movie scene so infamous, it got a reference in Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho, which dealt with the subject mater you'd expect.
What was director Brian De Palma thinking? The rud e contrast between the husband's ugly face mask and Gloria's green eyes, the helpless pleading for her life, the earlier set up of Gloria dancing for the Peeping Tom and of course, the appearance of the murder weapon, a drill, as it points towards her soft tummy -- all of this is enough to give many a 12-year-old guy psychosexual fallout, for decades to come.
Shame on you, Mr. De Palma, for you constructed a whole feature film around a single scene so violently misogynistic that the rest of your movie will forever take a background role.
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Réponse de tmdb53400018
le 3 février 2023 à 02h02
That's a false dichotomy.
What do you mean by that?
Réponse de tmdb53400018
le 12 février 2023 à 11h23
Thanks for that!
And as for the rest of your post, that's definitely your opinion--"The film in question is one of De Palma's lesser works" would probably be a more popular opinion, with all that sludge about Holly Body and the Vertigo rip considered.
Réponse de tmdb53400018
le 13 février 2023 à 16h51
Great
Réponse de wonder2wonder
le 14 février 2023 à 22h21
When I saw this movie, it reminded me of Alfred Hitchcock's movies "Rear Window (1954)" and "Vertigo (1958)", so I already knew what the plot would be like.
The violent death was shocking, and when I saw the murder weapon I thought: 'Has the killer from the slasher movie "The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)" returned?'
Réponse de tmdb53400018
le 15 février 2023 à 09h59
Right -- I wasn't quite sure whether to classify the plot line as an "homage" or a "rip." Haha.