FILM 1431: BLOW OUT
TRIVIA: Quentin Tarantino stated
in an interview that this film is his favorite Brian De Palma movie. In
fact, Tarantino cast John Travolta
in Pulp Fiction (1994)
because he liked his performance in this movie so much.
In the French version, John Travolta's voice was
dubbed by Gérard Depardieu.
The use of a split-focus diopter
lens is evident in several scenes, in particular the sound recording scene and
the hospital scene. The split-focus lens is attached to the main lens, and it
affects only the left or right portion of the main lens' view. This changes the
focal distance of part of the image, allowing objects at two distances (in the
foreground and background) to be in sharp focus.
The idea of a man discovering a
crime by listening to a recording is a reinterpretation of Michelangelo Antonioni's
film Blow-Up (1966), but using
sound instead of photographs.
Brian De Palma got the
idea for the story while doing the sound mix on his previous movie, Dressed to Kill (1980).
John Travolta and Nancy Allen had previously
starred in Carrie (1976).
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