BLOW OUT established De Palma as a Major filmmaker in recent american movies in 1981, but the movie was a disaster in theaters and nobody loved it with the exception of the prestigious critic from "The New Yorker" Pauline Kael that defended De Palma and the movie saying that "it was a great movie". Blow Out is the culmination of De Palma's works saying to the audience a moral message. John Travolta as a soundman recordist, Jack Terry, does his best job until today as a mature character at 27 and Nancy Allen as Sally Bedina, a hooker, is beautiful and human. DePalma builts a political fantasy -echoes of Chappaquidick, etc.- with their cinefilic obsessions -since Hitchcock, but particularly Antonioni's "BlowUp", Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" for Burke character starring by the sadist John Lithgow- and their personal and shocked style, derivative and misogism. As others "autors" in the seventies -Lucas, Scorsese, Lynch, Cimino, Coppola,...- De Palma was a great lover of movies,in essence their favourite is "Vertigo", and for that was accused of plagiarism in all their movies, specially in "Obsession" (1975), "Dressed to kill" (1980) or "Body Double" (1984) where De Palma reworked Hitchcock traumas and their own De Palma's traumas and really obsessions over abuse of power, revenges, late capitalism, Shakespeare's theatre.
BLOW OUT is a sensitive and surrealistic mural of conspiracies and a plausible effort that we live in a corrupted society where everybody has their particular responsibilities. No one is innocent and the images of Vilmos Zsigmond cinematographer offers us an idealisitic vision of a big loser (Travolta) at the end of the film, one of the most horrific endings never shooted with Godard influences, but De Palma as a big idealistic moviegoer and "cinefile" tries to elaborate a unique and particular vision of the reality. The results were tragical in box-office after their released in 24 July when Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was a big success in US and Europe, including Venice Film Festival on September '81. Quentin Tarantino rediscovers Travolta seeing and seeing Blow Out and the honest intentions of their vulnerable hero and the citizen insecurity around this controversial production, a very artistic triumph. De Palma is in United States as Truffaut is in France. They are both really obsessions about maturity, crazy loves, emotional disorders and problems of adaptation to the society. They are autobiographical and sincere with them and with the audience; they are really tragical and romantic in their charged emotional films. In essence, BLOW OUT is a true vision of a robotized society, full of circles and circles and this is the vision of a really artist, the vision of the insecurity male. BLOW OUT is a very serious, dramatic and violent movie that works in diferents levels of analisis with an strong suspense style and a very effective performances. The music score was composed by the brilliant italian musician Pino Donaggio that never appeared on records or cassettes in 1981 -what a pity!- and the visual style of the movie was composed by three colors -red, blue and yellow- with an splendid use of the scope prints. BLOW OUT is a masterpiece of the macabre with political references. All the people need to see it with a virgin mentality. brilliant italian musician Pino Donaggio
BLOW OUT is a sensitive and surrealistic mural of conspiracies and a plausible effort that we live in a corrupted society where everybody has their particular responsibilities. No one is innocent and the images of Vilmos Zsigmond cinematographer offers us an idealisitic vision of a big loser (Travolta) at the end of the film, one of the most horrific endings never shooted with Godard influences, but De Palma as a big idealistic moviegoer and "cinefile" tries to elaborate a unique and particular vision of the reality. The results were tragical in box-office after their released in 24 July when Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was a big success in US and Europe, including Venice Film Festival on September '81. Quentin Tarantino rediscovers Travolta seeing and seeing Blow Out and the honest intentions of their vulnerable hero and the citizen insecurity around this controversial production, a very artistic triumph. De Palma is in United States as Truffaut is in France. They are both really obsessions about maturity, crazy loves, emotional disorders and problems of adaptation to the society. They are autobiographical and sincere with them and with the audience; they are really tragical and romantic in their charged emotional films. In essence, BLOW OUT is a true vision of a robotized society, full of circles and circles and this is the vision of a really artist, the vision of the insecurity male. BLOW OUT is a very serious, dramatic and violent movie that works in diferents levels of analisis with an strong suspense style and a very effective performances. The music score was composed by the brilliant italian musician Pino Donaggio that never appeared on records or cassettes in 1981 -what a pity!- and the visual style of the movie was composed by three colors -red, blue and yellow- with an splendid use of the scope prints. BLOW OUT is a masterpiece of the macabre with political references. All the people need to see it with a virgin mentality. brilliant italian musician Pino Donaggio