Article Title: Double Indemnity: Overview Article
Author: Rob Nixon
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Blog #5- Double Indemnity:Overview Article
Wow!!! Double Indemnity is two big words that you don't hear often. Would you know the meaning to Double Indemnity? I do, the meaning of these two words are really fascinating to me. Overall what Double Indemnity means is two types of either damages or losses that someone would provoke. Well I found an article that Rob Nixon wrote about Double Indemnity. Rob couldn’t be more right about the novel when he said that to him it was a cold-blooded, brutal, highly stylized, and informed with a black sense of humor. I agree with Rob Nixon. I mostly believed that overall it was highly stylized because of the form that the actors talked with each other in the film. In the article that I have chosen it had also said that Barbara Stanwyck was afraid of the role for who she was going to play which was Phyllis Nirdlinger. Barbara was scared because for the other movies that she’s had been in she would play an innocent role in which she liked to be and for Double Indemnity a murderer. In my article that I have chosen I read that Edward G. Robinson also known as Barton Keyes in the film was best known for a gangster that he acted out for in the film Little Caesars in the year 1930. When I read that section about Edward G. Robinson I had thought about him and connected his acting with Double Indemnity and thought to myself how Edward G. Keyes would act in the movie Little Gangsters because in the film Double Indemnity I could see him playing a gangster for Little Caesars. In Double Indemnity Edward G. Robinson played a lethal lover nemesis which was a shrewd investigator who was able to sense a phony insurance from a mile away. For the role that Edward G. Robinson got was an excellent part that he played in Double Indemnity because he acted out his role very well. I would have to say that Double Indemnity was an incredible film from the nineteen fortys.
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You are right you do not hear those two words everyday. I agree with you that it was a great film in the 1940s it sounds like the review that your read went beyond just the movie. You did a really good job explaining your review in your own words and your point of view really explained a lot to me how you put it. That is weird how Barbra Stanwyck usually plays innocent roles in her other movies, she seemed like a professional at betrayal and back stabbing people. Mr. Keyes looks like a little gangster he is always talking loud and he looks like he has short man syndrome with his cheap cigars. The perfect example of Keyes looking like a gangster is when he finds Walter in his office giving his confession he has his fedora on and his jacket. Just that look on his face shows he is a gangster
ReplyDeleteYes I agree with you. Always love to read your writing. Very good delivery of the words. Great job done!
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