Sunday 5 February 2012

Do 'The Killers' and 'Double Indemnity' follow Torodov's Theory?

Toroduv's theory: Equilibrium, disruption, recognition, reaction and new equilibrium.

To answer this question I re-searched online the story of these two films.


Firstly, 'The killers.'



The killers was released on the 28th of Augest 1946, it's an American film-noir directed by Robert Siodmak and produced by Mark hellinger. You can click this link for a detailed plot.


I believe that this film follows the theory, as it start and ends with an equilibrium. For example, the start:
"Two hit men, Max and Al (William Conrad and Charles McGraw), come to a small town to kill gas station attendant Ole Andreson[2] (Burt Lancaster), aka "the Swede". The Swede's coworker warns him, but strangely, he makes no attempt to flee, and they kill him."


The End: "When Lupinsky asks the dying Big Jim why he had the Swede killed, Big Jim tells him he could not take the chance that another member of the gang might find the Swede, as he had. Kitty begs her husband to exonerate her in a deathbed confession, but he dies first."


Secondly, 'Double Indemnity'


Double Indemnity was released on the 6th of Sepetember, 1944. It was also an American film-noir directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Buddy Desylva and Joseph Sistrom. You can click here for a detailed plot.




The start of the film is a narrative, "The dictation becomes the story of the film, told in flashback." Because of this, I think that Double Indemnity doesn't follow Toroduv's Theory.

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