Blood Simple: It's The Same Old Postmodernism | Film Analysis
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- What does the use of The Four Tops' track 'It's The Same Old Song' in the Coen Brothers' 'Blood Simple' tell us about the way we are meant to understand the film?
Some Spoilers. For educational purposes only. Fair use.
Coen Brothers interviewed by Nat Segaloff for "Movie Loft & Company"
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This is amazing! Thanks for the video, please do not stop doing these essays. I am serious, as a political science student I truly amazed by your simulakr analysis. Thanks man, you can't imagine how videos like this make me happy.
Taner Frudi Thanks a lot; I’m glad to be able to help
A classic noir concept slightly updated for the time, not in Bogarts California but in dusty, spartan West Texas. All about trust, multiple mistrust, hesitant love, and what would you do to save a lover. Francis Durmond is always great, but especially super here.
I think you missed here anyway that Same old Song's lyrics are essentially a definition of the "Blood Simple" phenomenon which underlies the comedy of the film. Once the victim is gone, I.e. Dead, the song of life has new and disconcerting meaning to the newly self-minted murderer.
Dashiell Hammet's phrase, "Blood Simple" or at least he brought it to literary light, I think.
I like directors who use music in an ironic way 👍
bro fix your audio you just shouted in my ear
Tell me how, and I will.
@@TakeMeToYourCinema fair point. i don't know how. i'm sorry for the ignorant and unfair comment. i will stop mentioning problems i have no solution to. this was a good video. i hope you work out how to improve your audio.
@@TakeMeToYourCinema I use a tascam lav mic for my voice over. You get less reverb that way. Or the cheaper Rode lav mic plugged into a phone would work the same.
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Bro, if you got yourself a cheap microphone to remove echo your videos would be so much better. You can get a good inexpensive microphone from Amazon. It’d increase your production value, and you would increase your sub count dramatically and those who are already listening would be grateful. 😊
Very nice video. The song always felt perfect for the film, but I never thought about how it could be a deliberate reference to the film’s pastiche like that
Amazing man, keep up the great work!
Thanks a lot; glad you enjoyed it.
Brilliant work as ever. That fact that you're not as popular a video essayist as some of the other far inferior ones out there is puzzling.
Thanks for the kind words. Perhaps its to do with the idiosyncrasy of my video topics?
Well yes there's that :p
It's not puzzling tbh - in the first 20 seconds I was like, hmm, his mic is loud and the audio levels in general are bad. Maybe the script is good, but I'm not gonna listen to it.
appreciate this very much, keep these up!
Great video essay!
Cool parallel
I would like to see someone compare it with No Country For Old Men
What did the ending of blood simple mean when he was staring up at the faucet?
The Coens like ambiguous endings, so you have to do so.e work here, but may never really know.
A main theme of this movie was imprecision (key mistakes) and chance (the bullet alignment in the chamber). Those two things sealed Visser's fate. As he's lying down accepting his fate, he looks up and sees CERTAINTY. That water drip will not forget anything, and it will do what it naturally does -- no exceptions... no imprecision, no chance. I believe this is the most likely explanation... a contrast between human folly in a world of chance and the rock solid, never altering natural order.
I would also add that the certainty aspect of the natural order, as contrasted to human folly, was couched in a problem. A leaky faucet is a hassle and a prpblem... there is nowhere to run from such things... they always exist
And Visser realized this, and to his very last breath, he did not complain about it.
There may be some allusion to cultural programming as well (Texas style vs. Russia style), but this may be a stretch. I'd have to think about it some more...
amazing work! May I ask you what you study or how you end up making essays like this? How do you gather the information?
I'm a humanities student, so its just a case of transferring the research skills developed for that, and transferring them over. I do a lot of reading, and a lot of watching interviews.
@@TakeMeToYourCinema so you find out about the movies they are making reference to through interviews? or you you actually notice the reference because youve seen some of this stuff yourself?
@@greegeo A little of column A, a little of column B.
@@TakeMeToYourCinema thanks
Movie A Futile and Stupid Gesture about Douglas Kenney - creator of Lampoon magazine, SNL (not intentionally) and most profitable comedy movie of that time Cadyshack and his suicide was black star converse snickers same converse as in Coens move Four tops - it' the same old song. If you can not create completely something different why wait ? Chuck Taylor All-Stars converse snickers :)
Nice write
You are a rate bird mate
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