Watching a 1944 murder mystery called Double Indemnity. About an insurance man who helps a hot blonde set up an insurance policy on her husband without his knowledge, then kills him to collect. Big cat and mouse with a clever antagonist/different insurance guy who suspects murder follows.
This kind of thing was pretty common back in the day, The Maltese Falcon was another crime drama where you follow the thief as the main character. I wonder if the point of those movies was to put ideas in people's heads, maybe drive them into crime.
That or the stories were admissions from the people who took over.
Watching Body Heat.
Tries to be a murder mystery like Double Indemnity, but being made in 1981 it has a very 70's vibe to it. Main character has a Magnum PI style mustache, somewhat balding middle aged look instead of young and chiseled of 1944.
Of course the sexual innuendo is way more pronounced too. I kind of miss that with modern shows, no more casual hedonism, it's all about woke nonsense or MAGA stereotypes.
I mean you can't even imagine an Animal House in this climate, nobody gets to just have fun anymore and be stupid.
Originally posted by Nuke Nixon
"nobody gets to just have fun anymore and be stupid"Guess you didn't watch She Hulk, that's all they did.
Forgot it even existed. 🙂
Might have to watch it then. That one comic run where they just had fun was good. The one where Herc beats the crap out of The Constrictor, and just as She-Hulk is about to get him off beats the crap out of him again in court, then brags about it in song.