Indemnity

critic’s eyes everywhere. Double Indemnity, made in 1944, The Seven Year Itch, made in 1955, and Some like it hot, made in 1959. Billy Wilder’s style in his films could be described as comic in most of his films but some of them like Double Indemnity could be described as dark as it is a film noir. Over the decades Billy Wilder’s films do improves in style. In his earlier film Double Indemnity Wilder uses Black and white film instead of color film. Since Double Indemnity is a film noir, the…

Double Indemnity, a film based on fraud and betrayal in regards to insurance money, carried out by Walter Neff and Phyllis Dietrichson. This film is a perfect classic example of film noir, as the film has various aspects of depicting characters in an ambiguous manner with the addition of dark shadows, moody aesthetics, intense music and mis-en-scene to express the shots well. In particular, the opening scene of Walter entering his apartment building to his room is divided into five simultaneous…

Phyllis’ character traits in Double Indemnity are classified as seductive and manipulative because she takes advantage of her attractive looks to pursue self-interests and ambitions that the society perceives to be immoral. According to the film, women are presented as having two distinctive personality traits: power hungry and dangerous. At the beginning of the film, Phyllis Dietrichson is depicted as a woman who is struggling and is being controlled by her husband. According to her, He…

Annotated bibliography Name: An Vinh Nguyen Tutor and tutorial time: How does Double Indemnity represent gender? This annotated bibliography showcases a brief account of my further research on gender representation, one of the most unique features of film noir in Double Indemnity. Angryanchovie's viewpoint quite one-sided since it pays too much attention to masculinity. Bronfen's argument is sometimes lengthy and complicated, thus resulting in confusion to the readers. Although the text…

fiction before, aimed at exploring the darkest corners of the human nature in the cold and indifferent world. The research shows that the readings, Red Wind and Double Indemnity, of Chandler and Cain fully comply with the…

This paper expresses the formal elements and stylistic choices in the clip watched of Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilders. The clip is a length of two minutes and thirty-four seconds and is contained into 5 shots. The sequence is set with two men that are entering an elevator and are having a conversation, while one of the two characters exits the elevator, walking through the aisle to enter his office. The sequence proceeds with the man entering his office and started to have the…

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The biggest difference that separates these movies from each other is the dialogue that happens throughout them because of how it tells the story and develops it. Double Indemnity uses a more typical approach while following only one main character so that he may develop more and be the most dominant character in the film. However, this approach lacks different views of other characters in the movie. Magnolia follows several…

Director Billy Wilder’s, Double Indemnity (1944) has all of the characteristics of a classic film noir, using every low-key lighting trick in this richly textured black and white that masterfully portrays a neglected wife in a plot with passion, adultery and murder. With powerful performances by both actors, Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff, the tall, handsome insurance salesman who is enamored by Barbara Stanwyck, whose portrayal is one of the greatest femme fatales of all time, cold and…

on the populations that view these films. Gender, specifically, plays a crucial role in creating films with such influence. By looking at the “movement” of film noir, an influence of gender roles can be displayed and analyzed. In the film Double Indemnity, we can see how the use of the treatments of masculinity and the Femme Fatale character reinforce gender roles of the 1940s and 1950s. Men in film noir, specifically…