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| producer = Ethan Coen Joel Coen | writer = Joel Coen Ethan Coen | starring = John Getz Frances McDormand Dan Hedaya Samm-Art Williams M. Emmet Walsh | music = Carter Burwell | cinematography = Barry Sonnenfeld | editing = Joel Coen Ethan Coen Don Wiegmann | production companies=River Road Productions Foxton Entertainment | distributor = Circle Films () USA Films () | released = (Toronto International Film Festival) (New York Film Festival) January 18, 1985 (USA) | runtime = 99 minutes〔http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086979/technical?ref_=tt_dt_spec〕 | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = $3,851,855〔http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=bloodsimple.htm〕 }} ''Blood Simple'' is a 1984 American neo-noir psychological crime thriller film written, edited, produced and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It was the directorial debut of the Coens and the first major film of cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who later became a noted director, as well as the feature film debut of Joel Coen's wife Frances McDormand, who subsequently starred in many of his features. The film's title derives from the Dashiell Hammett novel ''Red Harvest'' (1929), in which the term "blood simple" describes the addled, fearful mindset of people after a prolonged immersion in violent situations. In 2001, a "Director's Cut" DVD was released. It ranked #98 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills. The film also placed #73 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments. ==Plot== Julian Marty (Dan Hedaya), who owns a Texas bar, suspects his wife Abby (Frances McDormand) is having an affair with one of his bartenders, Ray (John Getz). She protects herself with a revolver and three bullets. Marty hires private detective Loren Visser (M. Emmet Walsh) to take photos of Ray and Abby in bed at a local motel. Visser phones them while they are in the motel room, but remains silent. When Visser reports back to Marty, he teases Marty about being cuckolded. The morning after their tryst, Marty makes a silent phone call to Ray and Abby. The following day, Ray confronts Marty and quits his job. Marty threatens Ray's life and advises him to not trust Abby, that she will one day tell him she "hasn't done anything funny," and he won't believe her. Marty then hires Visser to kill the couple while he takes a fishing trip to Corpus Christi to establish an alibi. Visser breaks into Ray's home, steals Abby's gun, and photographs the sleeping couple through the bedroom window. Visser presents a photo apparently of their corpses to Marty, who dumps four dead fish on his desk. He goes to the bathroom to vomit, then opens the safe to give Visser his $10,000 fee. Visser then shoots Marty with Abby's gun in a double cross, leaving her gun at the scene, and accidentally leaving his cigarette lighter. Ray returns to the bar to get his last paycheck. He accidentally kicks Abby's gun firing it. He finds a motionless Marty. He decides to cover up the murder, cleans up the blood, and disposes of evidence in a backyard incinerator, loading Marty's body with Abby's gun in the body's coat pocket into his back seat. While Ray is driving down a lonely country road at night to dispose of the body he sees that Marty is still alive and stops the car and runs into a field. When he catches his breath and returns to the car, Marty is out of the car and slowly crawling down the road. Ray struggles to get him back into the car as a truck approaches. The scene jumps to Ray digging a grave in a freshly plowed field. As he throw dirt onto Marty's body, Marty pulls the gun out and tries twice to shoot Ray, but the gun just clicks at the empty chambers. Ray takes the gun and buries Marty alive. Ray calls Abby from a phone booth and tells her he loves her, and she thanks him. Visser burns the doctored photos, but realizes one is missing; He decides Marty must have locked it in the bar's safe when he was taking out his payment. Visser also realizes he left his cigarette lighter in Marty's office. A distraught Ray tells Abby, "I cleaned up your mess". Abby insists she "hasn't done anything funny." They argue. They are interrupted by a telephone call from Visser, who says nothing. Abby tells Ray that it was Marty again. A confused Ray storms out. The other bartender, Meurice, listens to several old phone messages from Marty, accusing him or Ray of stealing money from the safe. Meurice arrives at Ray's house and accuses him of stealing money from the safe. Ray is silent, hiding the blood in the backseat of his car. Visser goes to the bar to get the photo and the lighter. He takes a hammer to the safe, but is interrupted by Abby who wants to find out why Ray has been acting so strangely. Visser hides. Abby finds the bar ransacked. Abby finds Ray packing to leave, and tells him she thinks he killed Marty. Ray explains that he found her gun at the bar and that he buried Marty alive. She leaves with the misunderstanding still not resolved. Meurice later tries to assure her that Marty is still alive. Ray returns once more to the bar and finds Visser's faked photo, and leaves for Abby's apartment, noticing headlights in his rear view mirror. When Abby arrives home she turns on a light and finds Ray looking out the large window. He tells Abby to turn off the light, because he thinks someone is watching. Abby thinks Ray is threatening her and turns the light back on. Visser is on a nearby rooftop with a rifle, and shoots Ray dead through the window. Barely escaping a second shot, and then hearing approaching footsteps, Abby knocks out the light bulb with her shoe. She hides in the bathroom as Visser arrives. Visser goes to the bathroom to kill Abby, muttering, "I don't know what you two thought you were going to pull off ," but he finds the bathroom empty and the window open. Reaching out the window, he opens the window to the next room, but Abby slams the sash down on his wrist and drives a knife through his gloved hand into the sill. Visser shoots holes through the wall, then punches through, and removes the knife while Abby retreats and waits outside the bathroom, holding the gun Ray returned to her. As Visser is about to emerge, she fires through the door, hitting him. "I'm not afraid of you, Marty", Abby says. Visser, lying on the bathroom floor, mortally wounded, bursts into cackling laughter. "Well, ma'am, if I see him, I'll sure give him the message," he says. Visser focus on a water droplet forming directly over his head, on the pipes under the bathroom sink. The Four Tops' "It's the Same Old Song" (1965) start to play and as the droplet falls the screen cuts to black. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blood Simple」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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