She was given the lead in their big budget feature, Body Heat, in her third month in contract. Her first movie with the company, The Smiths, topped sales charts immediately and has continued to be a best seller. One of the brilliant touches of Kasdan's screenplay is the way he makes Ned Racine think he is the initiator of Matty Walker's plans. It is important that the man not be a dummy he needs to be smart enough to think of the plan himself. “Body Heat” is a movie about a woman who gets a man to commit murder for her. He was still unfamiliar: a tall, already balding, indolently handsome man with a certain lazy arrogance to his speech, as if amused by his own intelligence. Hurt had been in one movie before “Body Heat” (Ken Russell's “Altered States” in 1980). And a slight overbite (later corrected, I think) gave a playful edge to her challenging dialogue (“You're not too smart, are you?” she says soon after meeting him. She had “angry eyes,” the critic David Thomson observed. But the voice, with its elusive hint of a Latin accent, was challenging. Slender, with hair down to her shoulders, she evoked aspects of Barbara Stanwyck and Lauren Bacall. Turner in her first movie role was an intriguing original. Suddenly a woman in white stands up, turns around and walks straight toward him. We can see straight down the center aisle to the bandstand. Hurt, playing a cocky but lazy lawyer named Ned Racine, is strolling on a pier where an exhausted band is listlessly playing. Turner's entrance in “Body Heat” announces that she is the film's center of power. Women are rarely allowed to be bold and devious in the movies most directors are men, and they see women as goals, prizes, enemies, lovers and friends, but rarely as protagonists. (I think the moment occurs in the scene where she leads Hurt by her hand in that manner a man is least inclined to argue with.) The moment we believe that, the movie stops being an exercise and starts working. It exploits the personal style of its stars to insinuate itself Kael is unfair to Turner, who in her debut role played a woman so sexually confident that we can believe her lover (William Hurt) could be dazed into doing almost anything for her. But it has a power that transcends its sources. Yes, Lawrence Kasdan's “Body Heat” (1981) is aware of the films that inspired it-especially Billy Wilder's “Double Indemnity” (1944). He finds himself trapped in a dangerous web which binds and turns him into the pawn of a calculating and manipulative woman.Īnd yet if bad modern noir can play like a parody, good noir still has the power to seduce. A small-time attorney becomes entranced with a beautiful, young woman married to a rich and powerful man. These firemen and women are fueling the flames of passion in their fire station. Language: English DD5.1 Quality: 720p BluRay Size: 1.1GB Movie Resolution: 1280.720 Subtitle: N/A Format: Mkv.
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