Blow Out - Death erases all traces
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Blow Out - death erases all traces |
| Original title | Blow out |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Brian De Palma |
| script | Brian De Palma |
| production |
George Litto , Fred Caruso |
| music | Pino Donaggio |
| camera | Vilmos Zsigmond |
| cut | Paul Hirsch |
| occupation | |
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Blow Out is an American thriller from 1981, directed by Brian De Palma .
action
For the cheap production of a horror film, the sound engineer Jack Terry lacks not only a suitable death scream for the central scene but also authentic wind noises.
When recording the nocturnal sounds of nature with a special microphone, he witnessed an accident. The presidential candidate George McRyan comes off the road on a bridge and crashes his car into a lake. Jack rushes to help and dives for the car. He sees the bleeding McRyan through the panes, but cannot free him. However, he manages to save his companion Sally from the vehicle.
The police are already putting massive pressure on Sally and Jack in the hospital. He should withdraw his statement that he heard a shot shortly before the accident and even recorded it. To protect the family's reputation, Sally's presence in the presidential candidate's vehicle should also not be made public.
Jack initially agrees to the officials' demands. After listening to his tape recordings, however, he realizes that it was not an accident, but that a targeted shot burst a tire in the vehicle. That is why he continues to research on his own.
When the press bought a series of photos of the accident and these were printed in the newspapers, Jack created a film from the individual images and added his tape recordings to it. In this way he can pinpoint the location of the shooter based on the muzzle flash seen in one of the photos. The police don't believe him and believe the muzzle flash is a nuisance in the photo. A short time later, however, she contacts Jack and requests the film. When he is examined by the police, however, the tape is erased, as are all the tapes in his recording studio.
Jack is now finally convinced that there is a conspiracy, someone is trying to cover up something and that he and Sally are in great danger. That is why he agrees to a TV reporter's proposal to make a statement in front of the camera in order to reach an audience of millions with his statement as well as with his image and sound material.
In the meantime it is clear that Sally played a double game. An accomplice took compromising photos of her with well-known personalities in order to then blackmail them with the pictures. Because Sally is now plagued by remorse, she doesn't want to make a statement on television. However, she procures her accomplice's original film for Jack to be released on television.
The TV reporter wants to get in touch again about a meeting, but it is not the TV reporter, but the shooter from the night of the accident who arranges the meeting after he manipulated Jack's telephone connection to ensure that Jack cannot be reached by the real reporter .
Sally is separated from Jack during the bogus handover, who glued a microphone to her, but cannot follow her fast enough. So Jack doesn't manage to save Sally. However, since he is within range of her microphone, he can record her death scream as she is strangled. Jack can overpower and stab her killer.
Jack passes the recording of this death scream on to his boss, who is delighted with the quality, while Jack tears well up in his eyes.
Others
- The budget of the film was around 18 million US dollars, but only brought in 12 million again.
- The tape recorder used by Travolta is a NAGRA III from the Swiss company Kudelski .
- Quentin Tarantino , who counts Blow Out as one of his three favorite films, cast John Travolta for Pulp Fiction because he thinks Travolta's acting performance in Blow Out is phenomenal.
- The title alludes superficially to the supposed "blown tire", in the sense of "a blown-out tire".
criticism
"Optically brilliant thriller, staged effectively and exciting, but careless in the logical development of the story."
“A gripping thriller, not always logical, but brilliantly photographed and played. Director Brian De Palma once again adorns his film with many quotes from the works of great directors, especially Alfred Hitchcock (» Psycho «) and Michelangelo Antonionis (» Blow Up «). "
swell
- ↑ Blow Out - Death erases all traces. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .