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  1. en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki › Body_DoubleBody Double - Wikipedia

    Body Double is a 1984 American neo-noir erotic thriller film directed, co-written, and produced by Brian De Palma. It stars Craig Wasson , Gregg Henry , Melanie Griffith and Deborah Shelton . The film is a direct homage to the 1950s films of Alfred Hitchcock , specifically Rear Window , Vertigo and Dial M for Murder , taking plot lines and ...

  2. Body Double (1984) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Menu. Movies. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. TV Shows.

  3. "Body Double" is an exhilarating exercise in pure filmmaking, a thriller in the Hitchcock tradition in which there's no particular point except that the hero is flawed, weak, and in terrible danger -- and we identify with him completely. The movie is so cleverly constructed, with the emphasis on visual storytelling rather than dialogue, that we are neither faster nor slower than the hero as he ...

  4. "Body Double" finds Brian De Palma at the zenith of his cinematic virtuosity. Jan 4, 2018 Full Review Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Body Double, while not his finest, is the best ...

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  5. Body Double, like many of his films, even begins with a movie within the movie, in this case a cheesy vampire flick by way of an eighties rock video. The film open in saturated giallo color and hokey old clichés like the graveyard with headstones and crosses and howling wolves on the soundtrack. As the camera cranes down through the earth and ...

  6. Jun 28, 2024 · In filmmaking, a double is a person on set who is used to pose as another actor. While their face is not shown, their body is used to pretend they are someone else. There are several specific modifications to this, like being a hand double, butt double, or boob double, depending on what is shown in the shot.

  7. www.metacritic.com › movie › body-doubleBody Double - Metacritic

    Body Double, while not his finest, is the best candidate as De Palma’s signature film. It’s a wicked, feature-length double entendre from a Doublemint era. Take it at face value, take it for its prurience or take it for all it’s worth. Hell, try taking on all three at once.

  8. Body Double is a 1984 American erotic thriller-horror film co-written and directed by Brian De Palma and starring Craig Wasson, Gregg Henry, Melanie Griffith, and Deborah Shelton. The original musical score was composed by Pino Donaggio. The film was a direct homage to the films of Alfred Hitchcock, specifically Rear Window (1954) and Vertigo ...

  9. Sep 5, 2023 · A body double or actor double is a professional substitute—whenever a script calls for something an actor is unable or unwilling to do, the body double is brought in to take that actor’s place ...

  10. Nov 5, 2016 · Body Double’s consciously derivative thriller plot is as dense with meta-text as any film in De Palma’s career; the searing personal material, which has been buried underneath the film’s superficial happenings with precision and élan, must be discovered with the eyes. The script’s pared and often poetically obscene dialogue is but a ...

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