Term Papers on Blood Simple

Term Paper Title	Blood Simple
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	3.56

Blood Simple

“The world is full of complainers.  But the fact is, nothing comes with a guarantee.  I don’t care if you are the Pope of Rome, President of the United State, or Man of the Year, something can go wrong,” according to Vesser, the detective in Blood Simple (1984) which shows what can happen when a plan goes awry.  Marty, a small bar owner in Texas, suspects his wife, Abby’s infidelity with one of his bartenders, Ray, and hires Vesser to kill them.  The cinematography illustrates how circumstances drive human beings, rather than their free will.   By using mixture of lighting, camera angels, and sound, the Coen brother portraits how does Abby’s affair lead to complicated and bloody murders.  This is particularly evident in the scene where Marty offers to pay $10,000 to kill Abby and Ray.

Meeting Vesser on top of the hill, Marty plans to propose the murdering plan. Throughout this scene, the bright sunlight functions as hard, side lighting. In shot 1, by using these lighting, Marty has been portrait as unattractive and drawn.  The medium close up shot and side light shows his split personality and complicated emotions:  he wants to kill Abby, whom he still in love with , because jealous predominates his mind.  During this shot, some kids near by is playing delightful music which contracts Marty’s weighty emotions.   In shot 2, everything is a diverge of Marty’s unpleasant mood: the spacious location, Marty’s bright yellow suit and the lively background music.  All of these make him more irritated. In addition, having both Marty and Vesser on the same frame further distinguishes Marty from this superficially lively environment.  Underneath the surface, Marty who is planning a murder is scared as well deep inside of him; he is also in a less powerful position even through he imitated the appointment.   This is proved by both using the long shot films Marty, back facing viewers, walks toward Vesser and putting Vesser in sharp focus.

The setting switches from open environment to inside the car at shot 3 imply something that is more secretive will happen. The telephoto lens put both Marty and Vesser in the same visual frame, and side lighting presents half of Marty in the shadow.  This further indicate Marty is in a contradictory situation that he does not want to seek help from this detective or commit any crime deep down, but the humiliation and jealous drives him insane.  Vesser triggers Marty’s termination for crime in order to get himself some business, wearing the saturated color suit mocks his immorality.  Finally at shot 4, Marty who is very vulnerable deeply, proposed his plan.  The sound of the kids' car is heard screeching away,...

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