Dead Again Black and White Movie
Dead Again | |
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Directed by | Kenneth Branagh |
Written by | Scott Frank |
Produced by | Lindsay Doran |
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Cinematography | Matthew F. Leonetti |
Edited by | Peter Due east. Berger |
Music by | Patrick Doyle |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
Land | United states |
Language | English |
Budget | $15 million[ commendation needed ] |
Box office | $38 million (Usa)[1] |
Dead Again is a 1991 American neo-noir[2] romantic thriller film directed past Kenneth Branagh and written past Scott Frank. It stars Branagh and Emma Thompson, with Andy García, Derek Jacobi, Hanna Schygulla, Wayne Knight, and Robin Williams appearing in supporting roles.
Dead Again was a moderate box part success and received positive reviews from the majority of critics. Jacobi was nominated for a BAFTA Honor for Best Player in a Supporting Role, and Patrick Doyle, who composed the picture show's music, was nominated for a Aureate Earth for Best Original Score.
Plot [edit]
Newspapers particular the 1948 murder of Margaret Strauss, who was stabbed during a robbery; her anklet is missing. Her husband, composer Roman Strauss, is constitute guilty of the crime and condemned to expiry. Before his execution, Roman is visited by reporter Gray Baker. Asked if he killed Margaret, Roman appears to whisper something in Bakery'southward ear. Baker does non disclose Roman's reply.
Forty-three years later, individual detective Mike Church investigates the identity of a woman who has appeared at the orphanage where he grew upward. She has amnesia, cannot speak and has nightmares. Mike takes her in and asks his friend, Pete Dugan, to publish her picture and his contact info. Antiques dealer and hypnotist Franklyn Madson approaches Mike, suggesting hypnosis may help her recover her memory.
When the session is unsuccessful, Madson suggests they experiment with past life regression. Mike is skeptical, but the woman details Margaret and Roman's lives in third person, from courtship to their wedding. When the session ends, she can speak simply still has amnesia. Madson shows them Life magazine articles covering the murder. Mike and the woman bear a striking resemblance to Roman and Margaret. Mike visits erstwhile psychiatrist Cozy Carlisle, who insists they continue to encounter Madson; delving into the issues between Margaret and Roman may resolve her amnesia.
Mike nicknames the woman "Grace", and falls in love with her. A man named Doug appears and claims she is his fiancée Katherine, just Mike discovers he is lying and chases him off. Hypnotized, Grace remembers that Roman suffered from writer's block and is broke. He believes that Margaret is flirting with Baker, whom she met on their nuptials day. Margaret cannot convince him she is faithful and catches Frankie, the son of their housekeeper Inga, looking through her jewelry box. She asks Roman to dismiss Inga but Roman refuses, saying that Inga saved his life in Nazi Frg.
Grace sees Mike continuing over Margaret with scissors, and is convinced he intends to impale her. Mike insists that he would never hurt her, simply when he accidentally calls her "Margaret", he agrees to let Madson regress him. During his regression, he realizes that he was Margaret and Grace was actually Roman, but is unable to tell Madson or Grace well-nigh this revelation.
Pete Dugan tells Mike that he has identified Grace every bit creative person Amanda Sharp. Amanda/Grace, still afraid of Mike, accompanies Dugan and Madson to her flat; her artwork focuses on scissors. Madson gives her a gun to protect herself from Mike. Mike visits Greyness Bakery in a nursing dwelling and asks him about Roman's secret, simply Baker insists that Roman said zero to him. Baker is convinced that Roman did non kill his married woman and suggests Mike find Inga, who would know what happened.
Mike realizes that Madson is Frankie. He questions Inga, who explains that she declared her love to Roman but he rebuffed her. Frankie blamed Margaret for his female parent'due south unhappiness and killed her with pair of scissors, and then stole her anklet. Roman after was institute covered in his wife's blood and holding the murder weapon.
Afterwards Roman's execution, Inga took Frankie to London where he learned about hypnotherapy and past-life regression. After returning to LA, Frankie was convinced that Margaret's spirit would seek revenge. Seeing Amanda's photo in the newspaper, he knew she had returned. He hired Doug, an actor, to separate Mike and Amanda and distract Amanda while he waited to kill her. Inga apologizes for her role in Margaret's decease, giving Mike the anklet. After Mike leaves to detect Amanda, Frankie/Madson smothers Inga with a pillow.
Mike tries to tell Amanda the truth. Terrified, she shoots him. Madson arrives and reveals that he is Frankie. Amanda tries to shoot him likewise, but the gun jams and he knocks her out. He puts the scissors he used to kill Margaret in Mike'southward hand and tries to get in look similar Amanda killed him and committed suicide. Mike revives and stabs Madson in the leg with the scissors. In the ensuing struggle, Mike grabs the gun from Madson. Dugan arrives, misconstrues the scene and tackles Mike. As Madson reaches for the dropped pistol, Amanda stabs him in the back with the scissors. In a rage, Madson pulls the scissors out and charges at Mike, only he quickly positions Amanda'south pair of scissors sculpture so that Madson impales himself.
A closing montage shows Mike and Amanda embracing, superimposed over Margaret and Roman in happier times.
Bandage [edit]
- Kenneth Branagh as Mike Church/Roman Strauss
- Emma Thompson every bit Grace/Margaret Strauss
- Andy García every bit Gray Baker
- Derek Jacobi equally Franklyn Madson
- Wayne Knight every bit "Piccolo" Pete Dugan
- Robin Williams every bit Dr. Cozy Carlisle
- Hanna Schygulla as Inga
- Campbell Scott every bit Doug
- Jo Anderson as Sister Madeleine
- Lois Hall every bit Sister Constance
- Richard Easton as Father Timothy
- Gregor Hesse as Frankie
- Obba Babatundé as Sid
- Vasek Simek as Otto Kline
- Christine Ebersole as Lydia Larson
- Raymond Cruz as supermarket clerk
Production [edit]
According to the director's commentary on the DVD, the movie was filmed entirely in colour. After exam screenings, information technology was decided to use blackness and white for the "by" sequences to help articulate up audition confusion. The final frame, one time the mystery is solved, blooms from black and white to color.
Release [edit]
Dead Once again was released on August 23, 1991 in the United States and Oct 25, 1991 in the United Kingdom. Information technology was afterwards entered into the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 1992.[3]
Home media [edit]
The film was released on DVD on June 27, 2000 through Paramount Home Amusement. The DVD Special Features include 2 sound commentaries and a theatrical trailer.[4]
It was then released for the get-go time on Blu-ray on Oct v, 2021;[five] on the film's 30th anniversary.
Reception [edit]
Critical response [edit]
Dead Again was well received by most critics. On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 83% based on reviews from 47 critics.[6] On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 66 out of 100, based on reviews from xix critics.[vii] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a class "A-" on scale of A to F.[8]
Chicago Sun-Times moving picture critic Roger Ebert gave the moving picture a glowing 4 star review, cartoon comparisons to the works of Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock, stating, "Dead Again is Kenneth Branagh once over again demonstrating that he has a natural flair for bold theatrical gesture. If Henry V, the start motion picture he directed and starred in, caused people to compare him to Olivier, Dead Over again will inspire comparisons to Welles and Hitchcock - and the Olivier of Hitchcock's Rebecca. I practise not suggest Branagh is already as nifty a director as Welles and Hitchcock, although he has a adept get-go in that direction. What I hateful is that his spirit, his daring, is in the same league. He is not interested in making timid movies."[9] James Berardinelli also gave the film a four star review, praising Branagh'southward direction and all levels of the product, from the screenplay by Scott Frank to Patrick Doyle'south score, stating, "...Branagh has combined all of these cinematic elements into an accomplishment that rivals Hitchcock's best work and stands out as 1 of the almost intriguing and memorable thrillers of the 1990s."[10]
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone viewed the film negatively, praising some elements of Branagh's direction while criticizing the romance, proverb, "In his efforts to crowd the screen with character and incident, Branagh cheats on the one element that might accept given resonance to the mystery: the dear story. Branagh and Thompson (married in existent life) are sublime actors, but they never develop a disarming ardor every bit either couple. How could they when the director is so busy playing tricks? Dead Over again isn't a disaster, just a miscalculation from a prodigious talent who has forgotten that you squeeze the life out of romance when you lot don't give information technology space to breathe."[11]
Vincent Canby of The New York Times gave the movie a lukewarm review, calling it "a big, convoluted, entertainingly dizzy romantic mystery melodrama" and concluding, "Dead Again is somewhen a lot simpler than information technology pretends to be. The explanation of the mystery is a rather commonplace letdown, only probably nothing short of mass murder could successfully top the baroque buildup. In this way, too, the movie is true-blue to its antecedents, while still being a lot of fun."[12]
In 2016, Jason Bailey at Flavorwire, repeated Roger Ebert'due south initial directorial comparisons, writing that, "Dead Once more is 1 of the most Hitchcockian thrillers this side of De Palma, with easily traceable influences of Olivier-fronted Rebecca (in the creepy, needy housekeeper), Psycho (the mysterious one-time mother in the next room), Dial M for Murder (the scissors as murder weapon), and Spellbound (the therapeutic elements, plus a quickie reference to Salvador Dalí, who advised on that motion picture'southward dream sequences)".[13]
Box office [edit]
Expressionless Again grossed $iii,479,395 during its opening weekend, playing on 450 screens. It eventually grossed more than than $38 million by the end of its theatrical run.[i]
Accolades [edit]
Media [edit]
Expressionless Again was one of several influences on the 1999 conceptual album, Metropolis pt. 2: Scenes From a Retentivity, by the American progressive metal ring Dream Theater.[14]
Information technology was also unofficially remade into a 1998 Malayalam film Mayilpeelikkavu
References [edit]
- ^ a b "Dead Again (1991)". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved August 25, 2019.
- ^ Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; eds. (1992). Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd ed.). Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Printing. ISBN 0-87951-479-5
- ^ "Berlinale: 1992 Program". berlinale.de . Retrieved May 24, 2011.
- ^ Dead Again (1991). ASIN 6305882525.
- ^ Dead Once more Blu-ray , retrieved October 13, 2021
- ^ "Dead Once again". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved Oct three, 2011.
- ^ "Dead Once more". Metacritic.
- ^ "Cinemascore". Archived from the original on December 20, 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (Baronial 23, 1991). "Dead Again". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved August 24, 2019.
- ^ Berardinelli, James. "Dead Again". ReelViews . Retrieved January 21, 2012.
- ^ Travers, Peter (August 23, 1991). "Expressionless Again". Rolling Stone . Retrieved Jan 21, 2012.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (August 23, 1991). "Expressionless Once more". The New York Times . Retrieved January 21, 2012.
- ^ "2d Glance: Kenneth Branagh'southward Twisty, Dizzy 'Dead Again'". Flavorwire. August 22, 2016. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
- ^ "Mike Portnoy.com The Official Website". www.mikeportnoy.com . Retrieved October 30, 2018.
External links [edit]
- Dead Again at IMDb
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Again
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