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1. • Extremely well-crafted moody crime film

     • Double Indemnity is an extremely well-crafted moody crime film that transcends the nature of its plotting with an unprecedented, unmatched, unsurpassable subtlety that made the main characters lifelike, and made the story thought-provoking in the first place.
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   Is Double Indemnity a film noir?

   • Double Indemnity is a seminal example of film noir. It is often compared with Wilder's other acclaimed film noir Sunset Boulevard (1950).

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   What makes Double Indemnity a good movie?

   • Thus one of the greatest achievements of Double Indemnity is to create a specific film noir mood of danger and attraction. An atmosphere that echoes the character’s immorality, and that is brilliantly conveyed through the particular use of low-key lighting as a visual representative of the protagonists’ psychological states.

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   What is the plot of Double Indemnity?

   • Double Indemnity adopts film noir’s and crime fiction’s properties, and responds to these anticipations. The plot is based around a crime of passion and adultery. The men wear dark suits, gangster-like hats and smoke cigarettes endlessly. The women wear elegant dresses and luxurious jewellery; they move around fluidly to display their sex-appeal.

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   Is double indemnity based on a true story?

   • Double Indemnity is a 1944 American film noir directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. Wilder and Raymond Chandler adapted the screenplay from James M. Cain 's novel of the same name, which ran as an eight-part serial in Liberty magazine in 1936.

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   What is Double Indemnity?

   • It is essential to understand the characteristics of film noir’s aesthetic to appreciate Double Indemnity ‘s richness. The term has first been used in 1946 by French critics to describe the rise of crime dramas in Hollywood that explored sexual motivations and growing cynicism.

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   Is Double Indemnity a melodrama?

   • Double Indemnity was one of the first Hollywood films to exploit the power of the banal. The film’s swirling Miklós Rósza score gives us the sense that we are watching a torrid melodrama about human beings at the edge of the abyss, but the key scenes play out in deliberately dreary settings: grocery stores, offices and living rooms.

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   Double Indemnity adopts film noir’s and crime fiction’s properties, and responds to these anticipations. The plot is based around a crime of passion and adultery. The men wear dark suits, gangster-like hats and smoke cigarettes endlessly.

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   Dec 20, 1998 · The puzzle of Billy Wilder‘s “Double Indemnity,” the enigma that keeps it new, is what these two people really think of one another. They strut through the routine of a noir murder plot, with the tough talk and the cold sex play.

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   Double Indemnity is a 1944 American film noir directed by ... happy-go-lucky good guys" in light comedies. ... at the Internet Movie Script Database; Double Indemnity

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   In this classic film noir, insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) gets roped into a murderous scheme when he falls for the sensual Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), who is intent on...

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   • Actors: Fred Macmurray

   • Director: Billy Wilder
   • Category: Crime, Drama

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   Sep 26, 2024 · Double Indemnity Grade: A+. One of the greatest noirs ever made — and one of the greatest of all films, for that matter — Double Indemnity is engrossing from the get-go. The acting is superb, the twists and turns of the story are exquisite and the pacing is fantastic.

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   Jul 5, 2024 · Lines between heroes and villains are deliberately blurred. Film historians have long acknowledged Double Indemnity as the quintessential film noir – a movie that (as Martin Scorsese put it ...

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    Double Indemnity is positively the best murder film I’ve ever, ever seen. And it’s good old straight old, villainous murder without any psychological alleyways to get lost in. Full...