{"id":15577,"date":"2023-03-26T22:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15577"},"modified":"2023-03-26T11:15:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T15:15:54","slug":"body-double-1984-brian-de-palma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15577","title":{"rendered":"Body Double (1984, Brian De Palma)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Rotterdance I was in a Rear Vertigo Window Remix mood, and De Palma got me covered.  It&#8217;s suspense-comedy, with lead guy Jake (Nancy&#8217;s sympathetic doctor in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14617\">Nightmare on Elm Street 3<\/a><\/em>) as the world&#8217;s most awkward loser, set up to witness a fake crime.  He&#8217;s introduced being fired from the movie <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14504\">Vampire&#8217;s Kiss<\/a><\/em> since he can&#8217;t perform his grave scene due to <del>high anxiety<\/del> claustrophobia, then going home to catch his wife enthusiastically cheating.  He does get to kiss the girl he&#8217;s stalking (Deborah Shelton of <em>Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II<\/em>) after almost chasing down her purse snatcher, but fails to save her life in an absolute mess of a driller-killer murder scene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/bodydouble.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Enter Melanie Griffith, too thin to be a porn star.  Now an accomplished stalker, Jake starts acting money after his sex scene with Melanie, impresses her with the fancy place where he&#8217;s staying, then reveals that he&#8217;s familiar enough with her work to have recognized her through the telescope in the staged crime scene.  He overcomes his claustrophobia, defeats the murderer, and gets re-cast in <em>Vampire&#8217;s Kiss<\/em>.  Really not a great movie but pretty fun.  Between <em>Scarface<\/em> and <em>Wise Guys<\/em>, De Palma had to get the 1980s out of his system, making a movie that contains a whole Frankie Goes to Hollywood music video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Rotterdance I was in a Rear Vertigo Window Remix mood, and De Palma got me covered. It&#8217;s suspense-comedy, with lead guy Jake (Nancy&#8217;s sympathetic doctor in Nightmare on Elm Street 3) as the world&#8217;s most awkward loser, set up to witness a fake crime. He&#8217;s introduced being fired from the movie Vampire&#8217;s Kiss since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,38,91,1218],"class_list":["post-15577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-brian-de-palma","tag-filmmaking","tag-pornography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15602,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577\/revisions\/15602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}