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Blood Simple
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Blood Simple is 1984 American neo-noir crime thriller about a Texas bar owner who is certain that his wife is cheating on him and hires a private detective to spy on her. But that's only the beginning.Written and directed by The Coen Brothers, this was their debut film and it features many of their stylistic trademarks. The cast includes Frances McDormand, John Getz, Dan Hedaya, and M. Emmet Walsh. | |
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Dropped link to Greed: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
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Dropped link to IronicDeath: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN | |
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Daydream Surprise | |
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Daydream Surprise: Abby believes that Marty appears in her apartment, but it turns out to be a dream. | |
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Arc Symbol | |
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Arc Symbol: Fans are cropping up in various places. | |
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Blowing Smoke Rings | |
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Blowing Smoke Rings: Visser does this during his first meeting with Marty, indicating that Marty's attempt at tough-guy intimidation isn't working. | |
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The Hyena | |
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The Hyena: Detective Visser. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Abby and Ray could have avoided a lot of trouble if they had just talked to each other. Somewhat justified in that the conversation topic is one almost anybody would reasonably be extremely uncomfortable to honestly talk about. | |
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The Voice | |
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The Voice: An uncredited Holly Hunter as Helene, who leaves a message on Meurice's answering machine. | |
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Fat, Sweaty Southerner in a White Suit | |
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Fat, Sweaty Southerner in a White Suit: Visser. | |
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All There in the Script | |
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All There in the Script: The credits only identify Visser as "Private Detective". | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Played with all over the place. It's a vital part of the plot that the characters keep losing or forgetting about the various items presented to us, the viewers, as obvious Plot Coupons. There's also an actual gun, namely Abby's pearl-handled .38. The number of bullets it contains is also a Chekhov's Gun, as indeed are the chambers they're in - if you pay attention to how they're loaded near the start, you'll know exactly when it will and won't fire. And finally, there's one Red Herring of sorts - Visser's lighter being forgotten on Marty's desk never gets discovered. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Meurice, Ray's fellow bartender at Marty's club. Ironically—or perhaps fittingly—he's Locked Out of the Loop (even more than the characters listed under the respective heading above) and isn't aware at all of what's going on between the quartet of main characters. | |
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Literary Allusion Title | |
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Literary Allusion Title: To a line from Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest in which "blood simple" is a term coined to describe the addled, fearful mindset people are in after a prolonged immersion in violent situations. | |
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Psycho for Hire | |
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Psycho for Hire: Visser initially comes across as little more than a buffoonish, washed-out private investigator, but he turns out to be a murderous double crosser who's happy to play hitman if the price is right, and then some. | |
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Bathroom Break-Out | |
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Bathroom Break-Out: Abby flees from Visser through her bathroom window into the next room. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Seemingly played straight with Visser's refusal to murder the couple. Averted later when he has no problem murdering Marty, framing Abby for it, and ultimately trying to kill her and Ray to cover his tracks. | |
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Good Is Dumb | |
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Good Is Dumb: While Ray may not be conventionally "good," he's about as close as a film noir character gets. And he has got to be about the dumbest character ever to wander into a crime movie. | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
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Face Death with Dignity: After being fatally shot by Abby, Visser simply laughs at the dark twist of her thinking he was Marty and dies calmly. | |
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New Old West | |
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New Old West: Like several of the Coens' films. | |
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Time-Passes Montage | |
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Time Passes Montage: A shot from Ray's window dissolved from night to day. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The film goes to agonizing lengths to show just how extremely difficult and messy disposing of a corpse actually is, from the difficulty of cleaning up the crime scene to being constantly on guard so as not to be caught to the sheer physical strain of hauling a fully grown person around and digging a grave. By the end of the night, Ray is left extremely physically and emotionally shaken. | |
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Shoot the Messenger | |
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Shoot the Messenger: Discussed, and inverted. Oh Lord, how it's inverted. | |
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Darkened Building Shootout | |
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Darkened Building Shootout: The finale plays out in the darkened living room of Abby's apartment. | |
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Stress Vomit | |
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Stress Vomit: Invoked. When Marty learns that Abby and Ray are dead he used the bathroom, pretending to vomit but really just replaces a photograph in the envelope. | |
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Delivered by the victim. After Abby shoots him and says "I'm not afraid of you, Marty" (she hasn't seen that it's Visser and believes it to be Marty back from the dead), Visser bursts into laughter and proclaims: "Well Ma'am if I see him, I'll give him the message." | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: Downplayed as this is (probably) only a secondary motive of what happens, but Visser still doesn't take lightly to being insulted by Marty... | |
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Lucky Charms Title | |
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Lucky Charms Title: The period in the title. | |
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Ransacked Room | |
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Ransacked Room: Visser searches and turns over Marty's entire office, looking for the photo. | |
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Have You Told Anyone Else? | |
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Have You Told Anyone Else?: "Nobody knows you hired me?" Unlike the typical examples, even perceptive audience is not supposed to understand that the perfectly natural question is really this trope until a bit later. | |
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The Remake | |
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The Remake / Foreign Remake: Zhang Yimou remade this film in 2010 as A Woman, A Gun, and a Noodle Shop. It was widely criticized for its replacement of the Black Comedy from the original with broad slapstick violence. The Coens liked it, though, and joked that they should remake Raise the Red Lantern in return. | |
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Mugging the Monster | |
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Mugging the Monster: Insulting Visser turns out very badly for Marty. | |
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Impaled Palm | |
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Impaled Palm: Abby nails Visser's hand to a windowsill with a steak knife. | |
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Conversation Casualty | |
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Conversation Casualty: Visser shoots Marty during their talk. | |
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Sympathetic Adulterer | |
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Sympathetic Adulterer: Abby, the closest thing the movie has to a heroic character, cheats on her husband Marty, who's generally an unpleasant jerk and ultimately violent. | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality: The "heroes" are a selfish adulterous couple, one of whom buries a man alive. The villains? Wooh boy... | |
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Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon | |
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Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon: Subverted. Ray gives the murder weapon a good manhandling as soon as he sees it, but the gun is never examined by the police, so this doesn't matter. | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Twice. | |
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GallowsHumour | |
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Gallows Humour: This is a Coen Brothers film, after all. | |
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Counting Bullets | |
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Counting Bullets: The observing audience can count along. Early on we see Abby check for bullets in her purse — she has just three. Visser uses the first bullet on Marty. Ray fires the second by accidentally kicking it. Marty pulls the trigger three times at Ray before being buried alive, none of the chambers containing a bullet. That leaves one bullet and one chamber. Of course, Abby has no way of knowing this when pulling the trigger on Visser. | |
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Door Handle Scare | |
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Door Handle Scare: The camera zooms in on the door handle when Visser approaches Abby's apartment door. | |
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Instant Death Bullet | |
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Instant Death Bullet: Subverted. Played straight when The private eye shoots Marty. but later shown to be a rather horrific aversion when he regains consciousness just in time to be buried alive | |
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Digital Destruction | |
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Digital Destruction: Not much effort was put into the UK DVD release. It has a generally low-resolution look, and scratches and cue dotsnote dots on the top right of the frame to tell the cinema projectionist when to change reels can sometimes be seen. | |
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Film Noir | |
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Film Noir | |
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Skeleton Key Card | |
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Skeleton Key Card: Used by Visser to get into Ray's house. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: Ray, and he doesn't either. | |
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Not Afraid of You Anymore | |
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Not Afraid of You Anymore: Subverted in that it is someone else she is confronting. | |
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Sleeping with the Boss's Wife | |
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Sleeping with the Boss's Wife: Ray sleeps with his boss Marty's wife, Abby, resulting in Ray and Marty's deaths. | |
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Opening Monologue | |
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Opening Monologue: Visser gives one. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: The film made a point of showing the "Employees must Wash their Hands" sign. The irony was Visser was washing his hands of his employers murder - by framing Ray and Abby. | |
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Exiled to the Couch | |
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Exiled to the Couch: Ray and Abby discuss who takes the couch at Ray's place. | |
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Re-Cut | |
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Re-Cut: The Coens have quipped that this is the first film in Hollywood history for which the Director's Cut actually REMOVES material. | |
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There Are No Police | |
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There Are No Police: Despite all of the gunfire and various altercations throughout the film, there are never any police present at any time, unlike the Coen's later films (especially Fargo) in which the police play a large role in the plot. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: M. Emmet Walsh's scene stealing Private Detective is actually named Loren Visser. His first name is shown engraved on his Zippo lighter early in the film, but his last name is not mentioned. | |
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Hyper-Awareness | |
| Blood Simple / int_d2cf1dce | comment |
Hyper-Awareness: Totally averted, causing the loss of Chekhov's Guns. | |
| Blood Simple / int_d2cf1dce | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Blood Simple / int_d2cf1dce | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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| Blood Simple / int_d952cef0 | type |
Killing in Self-Defense | |
| Blood Simple / int_d952cef0 | comment |
Killing in Self-Defense: When Abby manages to fight off and kill Visser. | |
| Blood Simple / int_d952cef0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple / int_d952cef0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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| Blood Simple / int_de9047ac | type |
Gambit Pileup | |
| Blood Simple / int_de9047ac | comment |
Gambit Pileup: Visser wanted to get the money, kill Marty, and frame Abby for murder so he stole and left her gun at the scene. But then Ray showed up, saw the gun and mistakenly believed that Abby killed him. | |
| Blood Simple / int_de9047ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple / int_de9047ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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| Blood Simple / int_dfe687c9 | type |
Alone with the Psycho | |
| Blood Simple / int_dfe687c9 | comment |
Alone with the Psycho: Abby with Visser in the movie's final minutes. | |
| Blood Simple / int_dfe687c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple / int_dfe687c9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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| Blood Simple / int_e28f88b8 | type |
Last-Name Basis | |
| Blood Simple / int_e28f88b8 | comment |
Last-Name Basis: No one ever calls Marty by his first name, Julian, and you'd be forgiven for thinking "Marty" is his first name. | |
| Blood Simple / int_e28f88b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple / int_e28f88b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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| Blood Simple / int_e2f7ab99 | type |
Assassin Outclassin' | |
| Blood Simple / int_e2f7ab99 | comment |
Assassin Outclassin': Abby manages to fight off and kill Visser. | |
| Blood Simple / int_e2f7ab99 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple / int_e2f7ab99 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple | hasFeature |
Blood Simple / int_e2f7ab99 | |
| Blood Simple / int_e3847ee8 | type |
Cigarette of Anxiety | |
| Blood Simple / int_e3847ee8 | comment |
Cigarette of Anxiety: Meurice, in confronting Ray over what he thinks is his ransacking of Marty's safe, takes a cigarette out of Ray's mouth because "these things are nothing but coffin nails." But right afterwards, as he is walking away, Meurice lights up himself. | |
| Blood Simple / int_e3847ee8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple / int_e3847ee8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple | hasFeature |
Blood Simple / int_e3847ee8 | |
| Blood Simple / int_e73f6217 | type |
Feet-First Introduction | |
| Blood Simple / int_e73f6217 | comment |
Feet-First Introduction: The first we see of Marty are his boots resting on his desk. | |
| Blood Simple / int_e73f6217 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple / int_e73f6217 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Blood Simple / int_e73f6217 | |
| Blood Simple / int_e91cc721 | type |
In the Style of | |
| Blood Simple / int_e91cc721 | comment |
In the Style of: In the background of an early bar scene, you can hear a country-and-western version of the theme from Chariots of Fire. | |
| Blood Simple / int_e91cc721 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple / int_e91cc721 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple | hasFeature |
Blood Simple / int_e91cc721 | |
| Blood Simple / int_eaf5a1ac | type |
Groin Attack | |
| Blood Simple / int_eaf5a1ac | comment |
Groin Attack: Abby kicks Marty in the balls when the latter attacks her. | |
| Blood Simple / int_eaf5a1ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple / int_eaf5a1ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple | hasFeature |
Blood Simple / int_eaf5a1ac | |
| Blood Simple / int_ed503b22 | type |
Match Cut | |
| Blood Simple / int_ed503b22 | comment |
Match Cut: From Meurice poking the button on his answering machine to Ray poking a still-damp bloodstain in the back seat of his car. | |
| Blood Simple / int_ed503b22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple / int_ed503b22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Blood Simple / int_ed503b22 | |
| Blood Simple / int_edaedf90 | type |
Vomit Discretion Shot | |
| Blood Simple / int_edaedf90 | comment |
Vomit Discretion Shot: Once. | |
| Blood Simple / int_edaedf90 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple / int_edaedf90 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple | hasFeature |
Blood Simple / int_edaedf90 | |
| Blood Simple / int_f06b07ff | type |
Locked Out of the Loop | |
| Blood Simple / int_f06b07ff | comment |
Locked Out of the Loop: An interesting case where every major character is locked out of the loop to some degree due to a mixture of intentional deceit and Poor Communication Kills, to the point that an observant viewer knows more than all of the cast combined. Marty is under the impression Visser actually went through with killing Ray and Abby, not realizing the photographic proof the private detective provided was actually fabricated. Visser doesn't know Marty secreted one of his doctored photos of Ray and Abby's "corpses" into his safe - and doesn't know that nobody has ever found his lighter... Ray thinks that Abby shot Marty when Visser actually pulled the trigger and framed her for it. He's likely not even aware Visser exists by the time the private eye snipes him at the climax. Abby knows the least out of anybody, with Ray assuming she shot Marty, but for some reason never explicitly telling her he assumes this. Like Ray, she's not aware that Visser is involved until she fatally shoots him thinking he's Marty. | |
| Blood Simple / int_f06b07ff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple / int_f06b07ff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple | hasFeature |
Blood Simple / int_f06b07ff | |
| Blood Simple / int_f8f71b5f | type |
Buried Alive | |
| Blood Simple / int_f8f71b5f | comment |
Buried Alive: Ray does this to Marty, more out of panic — he's discovered that Marty's still alive after assuming Abby shot him to death — than sadism. | |
| Blood Simple / int_f8f71b5f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple / int_f8f71b5f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple | hasFeature |
Blood Simple / int_f8f71b5f | |
| Blood Simple / int_fa9bb6b4 | type |
The Exit Is That Way | |
| Blood Simple / int_fa9bb6b4 | comment |
The Exit Is That Way: After Marty fails to kill Abby at Ray's house, he angrily drives off down the street...and returns a moment later driving in the opposite direction, since the street is a dead end. | |
| Blood Simple / int_fa9bb6b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple / int_fa9bb6b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Blood Simple / int_fa9bb6b4 | |
| Blood Simple / int_ff6ae1f6 | type |
Evil-Detecting Dog | |
| Blood Simple / int_ff6ae1f6 | comment |
Evil-Detecting Dog: Inverted. Abby's dog's happy reaction is what makes her realize Marty's in the house. | |
| Blood Simple / int_ff6ae1f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blood Simple / int_ff6ae1f6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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