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Body Heat

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Body Heat	label	Body Heat
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Body Heat	comment	Body Heat is a 1981 neo-noir erotic thriller. It was directed by Lawrence Kasdan and stars William Hurt and Kathleen Turner.Ned Racine is an incompetent and sleazy Florida lawyer who begins an affair with Matty, a seductive woman married to a wealthy man. Fearful that her husband would find out about them and leave her penniless, Matty convinces Ned to kill her husband so they can be together.
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Body Heat / int_108c268e	type	Hotter and Sexier
Body Heat / int_108c268e	comment	Hotter and Sexier: Specifically, to Double Indemnity and (less directly) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), actually showing the sexuality those earlier films could only hint at. More generally, the film is one for Film Noir in general—and in being so, it helped set the standard for the Film Noir-Erotic Film trend of The '80s and The '90s.
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Body Heat / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Body Heat / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Midway through the film, during the meeting concerning the new will, Miles Hardin mentions an earlier case involving an incompetently-prepared will which led to Ned facing a malpractice suit. Ned later learns that Matty heard of this case from the plantiffs' attorney in the suit before she first met Ned, which causes him to realize her duplicity for the first time.
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Body Heat / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Body Heat / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Ned's detective friend Oscar, who warns him against sleeping with Matty and eventually unravels the murder plot against Edmund. Also Ned's criminal friend Teddy, who is pretty level-headed and tries to dissuade him from what he thinks is merely an arson despite supplying him with the bomb.
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Body Heat / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Body Heat / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: The Femme Fatale has effortlessly manipulated the dumb lawyer throughout the film and convinced him to murder her rich husband. She fakes her own death and leaves the country with her late husband's money, while the lawyer is left to take the rap for two homicides.
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Body Heat / int_2ebc9c4e	type	Sunshine Noir
Body Heat / int_2ebc9c4e	comment	Sunshine Noir: a neo-noir film that takes place in sunlit Florida.
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Body Heat / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
Body Heat / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: In the film, Matty exploits a loophole in Florida law by forging Edmund's will in such a way that it violates the rule against perpetuities and is rendered null and void, "as if there were no will at all", which automatically leaves her with the entire estate. It wouldn't quite work this way in reality on account that Edmund had already made a previous will. In Florida, while a later-executed valid will or codicil supersedes any previous will, it doesn't necessarily revoke that previous will. A probate court would attempt to reconcile the wills to the extent possible, and only sections of the previous will that could not be reconciled with the new will would be considered revoked. The ultimate outcome would be a hybrid of the original will and the later will.
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Body Heat / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
Body Heat / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: The fact that Ned had gotten concrete confirmation of his theory—and his cop friend indicated that he needed proof to go looking for "Mary Ann". Also, we are left wondering from Matty's/Mary Ann's expression if she partly regrets all she's done.
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Body Heat / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Body Heat / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Ned finds himself manipulated into taking the rap for two murders while Matty/Mary Ann makes off overseas with her dead husband's money.
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Body Heat / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Body Heat / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The film begins and ends with characters commenting on the heat.
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Body Heat / int_614a4e11	type	Do You Want to Copulate?
Body Heat / int_614a4e11	comment	Do You Want to Copulate?: Ned walks up to someone whom he thinks is the wealthy married woman he's having an affair with, straight-up blurting out "Hey lady, do you wanna fuck?". It turns out it's actually one of her friends who resembles her quite heavily, who snarks that the locals sure are friendly.
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Body Heat / int_649f5bec	type	Creepy Souvenir
Body Heat / int_649f5bec	comment	Creepy Souvenir: The sunglasses Matty is wearing at the end are set in the glasses frame of her late husband.
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Body Heat / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Body Heat / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Matty backstabs every single person in the movie.
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Body Heat / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Body Heat / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Kathleen Turner, in spades.
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Body Heat / int_98bb5d19	type	Mistaken from Behind
Body Heat / int_98bb5d19	comment	Mistaken from Behind: Provides both a bit of comic relief and a Chekhov's Gun when Ned thinks he sees Matty in the garden.
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Body Heat / int_a6bf7a7b	type	Ambulance Chaser
Body Heat / int_a6bf7a7b	comment	Ambulance Chaser: Even before being seduced into a murder plot, it's clear that Ned Racine is a particularly disreputable low-rent lawyer.
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Body Heat / int_a734c20	type	Black Widow
Body Heat / int_a734c20	comment	Black Widow: Matty/Mary Ann. Seduces her lover into killing her husband, then leaves him to take the rap for this and yet another murder. And in a state like Florida, he could very well be on his way to death row for that.
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Body Heat / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
Body Heat / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir: Solidified the genre's return.
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Body Heat / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Body Heat / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Matty goes behind Ned's back and forges a new, poorly-written will that, under Florida law, will be automatically voided and leave Edmund's entire estate to her.
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Body Heat / int_b402fa9f	type	Tropical Epilogue
Body Heat / int_b402fa9f	comment	Tropical Epilogue: Kathleen Turner's character ends this way, whatever her name may be.
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Body Heat / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
Body Heat / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: Matty's husband is implied more than once to have been involved in some shady business, but we see none of this onscreen and the man is pretty jovial in most of his scenes.
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Body Heat / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Body Heat / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Matty's husband is implied to be this. Though he himself comes across as a somewhat likeable fellow, the implication grows throughout the film that his group of businessmen are involved in some pretty crooked stuff—to the point that Ned's D.A. friend notes it's almost a good thing the man is dead.
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Body Heat / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Body Heat / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Ned figures out that Matty/Mary Ann is alive. Unfortunately, given his involvement in her husband's murder as well as the numerous other crimes he's committed, no one believes him.
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Body Heat / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Body Heat / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Mary-Ann is the clearer example, due to the uncanny resemblance between she and Matty but a subtler example is the judge who is comically annoyed by Ned's incompetence in the first scene. The fraudulent will comes up in front of him and he voids it to punish Ned out of annoyance.
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Body Heat / int_e3cee2e7	type	Empathic Environment
Body Heat / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: The film takes place during an especially hot Florida summer, setting the perfect scenery for a plot centered around sexual desire for a woman leading a man to his doom.
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Body Heat / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Body Heat / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Like Double Indemnity (which it's a vague remake of), it's based on the Snyder-Gray murder.
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Body Heat / int_e4c0b2b6	type	Primal Scene
Body Heat / int_e4c0b2b6	comment	Primal Scene: Edmund's niece walks in on Matty and Ned, but she doesn't get a clear look at Ned's face. After Edmund's murder, it comes back to haunt them when the little girl tells the cops what she saw, though she can't remember what the man looked like. As it so happens, Ned is at the police station on other business when this happens and one of the cops mentions it to him. Knowing that they're suspicious of him and Matty and that if he tries to avoid being seen by the little girl it will confirm that he has something to hide, he calls their bluff by approaching the girl and her mother and directly addressing them.
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Body Heat / int_eae41a	type	The Vamp
Body Heat / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: Mary Ann Simpson is explicitly labeled "The Vamp" in her high school yearbook. She's Kathleen Turner's character, which we've been lead to believe is Matty Tyler Walker, and has been playing Ned Racine, the real Matty Tyler, and her husband for all they are worth.
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Body Heat / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Body Heat / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Matty/Mary Ann makes it seem like she died as a result of her own bomb, in order to frame Ned for her "death" and run off with the money they had stolen from her murdered husband.
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