outline for presentation " Blood Simple"

Outline for the Presentation  (100 Points)

Blood Simple

I.                    Introduce your film and provide the premise of the film in three sentences or fewer.

a.       Blood Simple is a story of adulterous actions Between Abby, Marty’s wife, and the bartender Ray.  Marty is the typical jealous husband that hires a private investigator named Visser.  This is a love triangle story that ends wrong.  And three people end up dead and the only one that survives is Abby.

II.            Characteristics and Conventions of the Film that Link it to Classic Film Noir

1.      Narration

a.       At opening of the movie starts with a narration, which give the best representation of film Noir.  It gives the audience s sense of anxiety because they don’t know what to expect from the film due to Visser’s words which express how it does not matter how important you are you will never guess the person who will stab you in the back.

2.       Ambiguous protagonist

a.       Ray represents the ambiguous  protagonist, because he tends to be a simple normal bartender but the love for Abby drags him to the bad side.  He thinks Abby killed her husband so when he finds Marty shot he hides evidence.  He finds out that Marty was not dead so he takes him to the fields in Texas and buries him alive.   

3.       Visual elements

a.       Visual elements from classic noir are shown in the film. Many of the scenes when murder , or something bad is going to happen, it will take place in the night time. These scenes gives anxiety and mistrust.

II.                  Elements of the Film that Deviate from Classic Film Noir and Link it to Neo Noir

                                                               i.      Neo- Noir

1.       Noir has changes throughout the years. The genre is now considered Neo- Noir, it has taken the characteristics to a new level theirs more graphic violence, sex, murder.

1.       Intermixing of races

a.       The Neo- noir introduce a new element which is the introduction of different races, they don’t only show the white people.  The introduction of different races shows the audience the anxieties of this time. And before when only whites appeared in the film, that showed only the anxiety’s they had.

2.      Crucial graphics

a.       The classic Noir film did not show graphic murders but the new and improved Neo-noir do.The film involves violence and murder.  Visser Shoots Ray from another building : this scene shows all the blood flowing from Rays back and how it goes through his chest.  This was a very graphic murder.

3.      Double Crosses

a.      Double indemnity has double cross that gives the noir and neo noir feeling due to anxiety and mystery, that Abby thinks that the husband is fallowing them, but that does not stop them from having their affair, they go to a hotel and have sex.  

Quotes from Outside Sources (These may be inserted anywhere in the outline)

Source One:

Context:  Provide a signal phrase that includes the title of the source and the author:	Quote from the Source: Be sure to include the page number	Significance: How does this quote relate to the topic of your essay?
The movie “Blood Simple” opens with a narration from Visser.	“ The world is full of Complainers, and the fact is, nothing comes with a guarantee.  Now I don’t care if you’re the pope of Rome, president of the united states or man of the year something can all go wrong… what I know about Texas, and down here, you’re on your won”.	This quote gives the film the classic noir feeling because it starts with a flashback.  But not only that but its gives the audience anxiety because the way he expresses his words that does not matter how important a person is you will never guess who will stab you in the back.

Source Two:

Context: Provide a signal phrase that includes the title of the source and the author:	Quote from the Source: Be sure to include the page number	Significance: How does this quote relate to the topic of your essay?
According to Matt Murray	““Blood Simple” is classified as a mystery.  But for a few scattered counterexamples, the plot machinations are always known to the audience. Not mystery, but misunderstandings”	This demonstrated that the twists and turns.  The audience has an idea whats happening, but don’t know who to expect it from.  The characters get trapped in personal desertion.  They have helplessness understanding of who did what .