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Blow Out
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With this Blow Out Poster, immerse yourself in the thrilling world of Blow Out, the cult film by Brian de Palma. This exclusive poster gives you a taste of this thrilling and emotional thriller that will keep you in suspense from start to finish. Discover the strong emotions of this cinematic masterpiece, between tension, suspense and intrigue, through virtuoso staging and a remarkable interpretation by John Travolta and Nancy Allen. Order your poster now to relive the unforgettable Blow Out experience.
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Blow Out is a 1981 American neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Brian De Palma. The film stars John Travolta as Jack Terry, a Philadelphia movie sound effects technician who, while recording sounds for a low-budget slasher film, unwittingly captures audio evidence of an assassination involving a hopeful presidential. Nancy Allen plays Sally Bedina, a young woman involved in crime. The supporting cast includes John Lithgow and Dennis Franz. The film's tagline in advertisements was: "Murder has a sound all its own."
Directly based on Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blowup, the film replaces the medium of photography with the medium of audio recording. The concept for Blow Out came to De Palma while working on the thriller Dressed to Kill (1980). The film was shot in the late fall and winter of 1980 at various locations in Philadelphia on a relatively large budget of $18 million.
Blow Out opened to minimal public interest at the time of release despite mostly positive critical reception. Travolta and Allen's lead performances, De Palma's direction, and the visual style have been cited as the film's strengths. Critics have also recognized the stylistic and narrative connection to the work of Alfred Hitchcock, whom De Palma admires, and giallo films. In the years since its theatrical release, it has developed cult film status and received a home press release from the Criterion Collection, a company specializing in "important classic and contemporary film", which has revived public interest in the film. Quentin Tarantino praises De Palma as the "greatest director of his generation" and cites Blow Out as one of his three favorite films that he would take to a desert island.
While in post-production on the co-ed low-budget slasher film Frenzy, Philadelphia sound technician Jack Terry (Travolta) is asked by his producer Sam to achieve a more realistic scream and better sound effects. wind. While recording potential sound effects at a local park, he sees a car guard drive off the road and dive into a nearby stream. The driver is killed, but Jack manages to save a young woman named Sally Bedina (Allen) and accompanies her to the hospital. There, a detective questions Jack about the accident and Jack asks Sally for a drink. He learns that Governor George McRyan was driving the car and that Sally was his escort. McRyan's associates attempt to hide Sally's involvement and persuade Jack to smuggle her out of the hospital.
Jack listens to the audio tape he recorded of the accident, in which he distinctly hears a gunshot just before the tire blowout that caused the accident, suspecting that the accident was actually an assassination. He learns from a news report that, apparently by coincidence, Manny Karp (Franz) was also in the park that night and filmed the accident with a motion picture camera. When Karp sells stills from his film to a local tabloid, Jack splices them together into rough film, syncs them with his recorded audio, and finds visible flash and smoke from the fired gun. Although initially reluctant, Sally eventually agrees to cooperate with Jack to privately investigate the incident. When they go out for drinks, Jack reveals how he left his previous career as part of a government commission to root out police corruption after a wiretap operation he was involved in, which resulted in the death of an undercover cop named Freddie Corso.
Unbeknownst to Jack, Sally and Karp were both frequent blackmail co-conspirators who were hired as part of a larger plot against presidential hopeful McRyan. A rival candidate had hired Burke (Lithgow) to hook McRyan up with a prostitute, take unflattering photos of the pair and publish them so that McRyan would drop out of the race. However, Burke decided to change the plan by blowing out McRyan's car tire with a gunshot, thus causing the accident. When authorities arrived to find McRyan with Sally, Karp would be there to film the whole thing. After botching Sally's cover-up by murdering a lookalike, Burke murders two other female lookalikes with piano wire and blames the death on a serial killer, "the Liberty Bell Strangler", so he can cover the cover-up when Sally is successfully murdered.
To help Jack investigate McRyan's murder, Sally steals Karp's film which, synchronized with Jack's audio, clearly reveals the gunshot that precipitated the eruption. Nevertheless, no one believes Jack's story and a seemingly widespread conspiracy immediately silences his every move. Local talk show host Frank Donahue (Curt May) asks to interview Jack on-air and release his tapes, which Jack ultimately agrees to. Burke tracks the development through a tap on Jack's phone, calls Sally as Donahue and asks her to meet him at a train station with the tapes. When Sally tells Jack about Donahue's call, he becomes suspicious. He copies the audio tapes, but cannot copy the movie until Sally meets.
Shadowing a remotely wired Sally, Jack is alarmed to see that his supposed contact is actually Burke. Immediately realizing she is in danger, Jack attempts to warn her, but Sally and Burke slip out of reach and into a parade. Jack manually rushes through town, trying to fend them off and save Sally, but crashes his Jeep and is knocked out. By the time he wakes up, Burke has gotten the film from Sally and thrown it into a river. He then takes Sally to a roof and attacks her. Still listening to his headset, Jack spots them. He surprises Burke and manages to stab him to death with his own weapon, but it is too late: he has already strangled Sally. A devastated Jack takes her lifeless body in his arms.
Burke's death, combined with the loss of the film, ties up the final loose end. Jack's audio tapes alone are insufficient to prove a shooting and the cover-up is successful. Jack begins listening to the recording of Sally's voice repeatedly, becoming obsessed with it. In the last scene, he is back in the editing room and used Sally's death scream in the slasher film. Ecstatic that Jack has found the perfect scream, Sam plays it several times, forcing Jack to cover his ears.
