Word: brides
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...These movies will introduce the novice to all manner of Woolrich obsessions. The hero who sees things no one believes (?Phantom Lady,? ?Fear Is the Night,? ?Night Has a Thousand Eyes,? ?The Window,? ?Martha?). The heroine whom love drives to deception (?No Man of Her Own?), murder (?The Bride Wore Black,? ?Mississippi Mermaid?) or near-death (?Martha?). The obtuse cop (?Phantom,? ?Black Angel,? ?Fear,? ?Thousand Eyes,? ?The Window,? ?Rear Window?). The letter with ominous news (?No Man,? ?Rear,? ?Mermaid?). The murderous or suicidal impulses on an el platform or train overpass (?Phantom,? ?Thousand,? ?The Window,? ?No Man?). The race...
...Woolrich original had a different twist in mind: the twisting of the woman?s righteous quest into soulless revenge, as, one by one, the suspects die off and our heroine grows callouses on her conscience. The book was a variation on Woolrich?s first novel, ?The Bride Wore Black,? which was also the story of a woman who, having been infected by wrongful death, spreads the contagion around to other innocent people. (The woman may have transferred her husband?s betrayal onto other...
...meadow in ecstatic slow motion - really. And it dispenses with the novel?s resolution. Woolrich?s killer was the best friend of two of the men; in the film (where he?s played by Jean-Claude Brialy) his function is merely to cast a net of suspicion on the bride. [SPOILER] In the film, the killer is one of the group of five (brutish Daniel Boulanger), who is put in jail before Julie can kill him. Julie materializes at the artist?s funeral, is arrested and jailed. In prison, she is assigned kitchen duty, and commits her ultimate murder just...
...director, best known for ?The Four Hundred Blows? and ?Jules and Jim? (warm Truffaut), also loved psychological thrillers (cool Truffaut). This one is cool - freon cold. Truffaut did a book-length interview with Hitchcock, and ?Bride? is supposed to be his homage to the Master of Suspense. But Julie, in her uninflected implacability, belongs less to Hitchcock than to Robert Bresson, the great French minimalist. His heroines - Joan of Arc, Mouchette, the suicidal young wife in ?Une femme douce? - all bear the cross of living. All seek the transcendence of death...
...Jean Renoir said every author writes the same story over and over. Woolrich surely did. He?d latch onto a plot, then refine it, try correcting its flaws, in a later novel. In ?Bride? he created a vengeance machine, a killer of all killers; in the 1948 ?Rendezvous in Black? his bitter protagonist decides to kill, not the five men responsible for his girlfriend?s death, but the person each of the presumed guilty men loves most, so that they will live out their lives in grief, as he has. (In 1972 Italian director Umberto Lenzi filmed the novel - without...