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Watch: Blood Simple 1984 123movies, Full Movie Online – Texas bar owner Julian Marty, who is generally regarded as not a nice person, hires shady private detective Loren Visser, who is able to obtain what Marty requests evidence – in this instance, photographic – that his wife, Abby, and one of his bartenders, Ray, are having an affair. As Ray and Abby realize that Marty has found out about them, it allows them to plan for their future away from Marty, while being up front with Marty about the situation. Marty, in turn, decides to hire Visser once again, this time to kill Abby and Ray, and dispose of their bodies so that they won’t be found. The out-in-the-open affair and the contract hit lead to some actions based on self-interest and a standoff of sorts between the four players, which is compounded in complexity by some wrong assumptions of what has happened, with an innocent bystander, another of the Marty’s bartenders, Meurice, potentially, and unwittingly, adding to the scenario..
Plot: The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
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The Coens’ first great piece of cinema
As far as directorial debuts go, few are as ambitious and inventive as the Coen brothers’ first film, Blood Simple, as it mixes genres and moods in a way that anticipated Tarantino’s similar experiments by a decade, while still retaining an apparent simplicity, both narratively and formally, that few people originally saw as the beginning of one of American cinema’s most extraordinary careers.

Set in a stark Texas landscape, Blood Simple opens on a premise that seems to be borrowed from the likes of Double Indemnity or The Postman Always Rings Twice: someone steals another man’s wife. However, the two adulterous lovers (Jamie Getz and Frances McDormand) do not plan to assassinate the betrayed husband (Dan Hedaya). On the contrary, he hires a sleazy PI (M. Emmett Walsh) to spy on them to carry out some twisted plan of his own. That is, until the investigator goes rogue and the situation escalates in the most grotesque of ways.

This escalation is matched by the Coens’ constant shifts between genres, achieved through lighting, music and camera movements. Noir, straightforward thriller, horror, black comedy: Blood Simple is each of these and all of them at once, but the transition is never forced or unnatural; in fact, these transitions occur because somehow the story itself demands that they happen. In a way, this is a film that is aware of its own fictitious nature and toys with it as much as possible – because it can. This has since become a trademark of the two brothers, and it is as fresh and original now as it was back in 1984.

The same can be said of the four main actors: Getz and McDormand (soon to be Mrs. Joel Coen) form a solid leading couple, thoroughly menaced by the sudden ferocity of Hedaya, then best known for playing Rhea Perlman’s dim-witted ex-husband on Cheers (an image he gladly, and expertly, reverses here). And then there’s Walsh, who takes his practically identical role in Blade Runner and increases the character’s unlikability, turning in one of the most brutally charming villainous performances of the ’80s (and of the Coen canon).

Joel and Ethan Coen had a very clear idea of what they wanted to achieve in the movie business from the get-go, and Blood Simple is one of the best examples of this: for 90 minutes, it takes you to a whole new world, one that most people are happy to revisit as often as they can.

Visual Flair, Quirky Characters & Offbeat Humour
The first offerings of most filmmakers provide an interesting indication of the directions in which their future output is likely to develop. “Blood Simple” on the other hand is an example of a fully realised entity which contains so many of the qualities and stylistic touches which are now synonymous with the Coen Brothers’ entire body of work that it’s evident just how clear a vision they had of what they wanted to achieve right from the very start. For their debut, they brought to the screen a stereotypical film noir which contained familiar ingredients and themes, such as murder, betrayal, corruption, deceit, double crosses and plot twists and added black humour, gruesome violence and some compellingly eccentric characters.

The movie has a strong visual style which is produced by clever use of light, shadows and colour and also a variety of typical film noir camera angles. The disconcerting mood which this creates is also further enhanced by the predominantly laconic interactions between the characters and the fact that everyone in the movie is distrustful of everyone else. The screenplay is excellent and the amount of suspense and intrigue generated makes the story intense and very engaging throughout.

Texas bar owner Julian Marty (Dan Hedaya) harbours suspicions about his wife Abby (Frances McDormand) and hires seedy private detective Loren Visser (M.Emmet-Walsh) to follow her. When Visser’s investigations reveal that Abby is having an affair with one of Marty’s employees, a barman called Ray (John Getz), Marty responds by offering Visser $10,000 to kill the couple. The private detective subsequently doctors a photograph he’d taken of Abby and Ray together to give the appearance that they’d been killed and meets with Marty to collect his money. Marty accepts the photograph as authentic and duly pays Visser his fee. When the transaction is complete, Visser promptly shoots Marty in the chest and leaves the gun (which belongs to Abby) close by.

The circumstances of Marty’s murder lead to a sequence of misunderstandings and complications. Initially when Ray arrives at the crime scene and sees Abby’s gun, he quickly deduces that she must’ve killed her husband and so he tries to cover up her crime. He moves the body which he intends to bury, into his car and drives down a highway but discovers that Marty (who had appeared to be dead) is still living. Ray goes ahead anyway and buries Marty alive.

Later, when Ray tells Abby what he’s done to protect her and she doesn’t understand, he assumes that she’s being deceitful and this impression is reinforced sometime afterwards when she takes a silent telephone call which he assumes is from another lover. When Abby goes to the bar to check on what Ray has told her, she gets the impression that he must’ve gone to see Marty and got involved in a fight over the amount of wages which were due to him.

More serious trouble for the couple develops, however, when Visser realises that he’s left a clue to his guilt at Marty’s bar and sets about tying up all the loose ends. This involves the planned elimination of Abby and Ray and eventually brings the action to its gripping and very original climax.

Ray’s an extremely familiar type of noir character as he’s an ordinary guy who’s unwittingly drawn into a situation which he doesn’t understand, where events go increasingly out of control and where he isn’t able to do anything to prevent matters from getting even worse. John Getz is suitably unpretentious in this role and conveys his character’s bewilderment and growing sense of anxiety with great skill. Frances McDormand is also wonderfully understated as the adulterous Abby who’s similarly baffled by what happens and frequently misunderstands what’s going on.

Julian Marty is emotionally wounded, bitter and jealous and his powerful need for revenge drives him to seek the most violent and permanent solution possible. This is rather ironic considering his evident distaste for the course of action he’s chosen and also the fact that he becomes physically sick on seeing Visser’s photographs. Dan Hedaya portrays Marty’s complex mixture of emotions very convincingly in a performance which contributes strongly to the success of the film.

The stand out performance of the movie is provided by M.Emmet-Walsh who, as the sly, sweaty and totally unscrupulous private detective exudes a brand of wickedness which conveys forcibly the thoroughly despicable nature of his character. His complete lack of morality also makes him very comfortable in his own skin and this quality together with his often jovial demeanour make him particularly disturbing and fascinating. Emmet-Walsh’s ability to capture the whole range of this villain’s characteristics is extremely impressive and compelling.

Considering its low budget and the Coen Brothers’ lack of experience at the time when the film was made, “Blood Simple” is an extremely enjoyable and good quality movie.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 39 min (99 min), 1 hr 36 min (96 min) (director’s cut)
Budget 1500000
Revenue 3851855
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Writer Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Actors John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
Country United States
Awards 6 wins & 8 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Ultra Stereo (original version), Dolby Digital (director’s cut)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex 35 BL, Zeiss Super Speed Lenses
Laboratory DuArt Film Laboratories, New York (NY), USA
Film Length 2,708 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K – 2021 Remaster), Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm