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Actors: Mickey Rourke, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling, Brownie McGhee, Robert DeNiro
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Angel Heart |
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Scuzzy New York private eye Harry Angel (Rourke) is hired by magnetic and mysterious Louis Cyphre (De Niro) for five grand to track down a missing singer named Johnny Favourite. Favourite reportedly suffered amnesia during World War II (it is now 1955) and received extensive plastic surgery to change his looks. The trail leads Angel to a voodoo cult in Louisiana, in particular a wild young woman named Epiphany Proudfoot (Bonet). Based on a potboiler novel by William Hjortsberg called _Falling Angel_, this 1987 horror noir by writer-director Alan Parker features some graphic violence and sex (which got Bonet fired from "The Cosby Show").
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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New York, 1955. Grimy private detective Harry Angel is hired to track down a missing singer by an enigmatic man named Louis Cyphre. Angel's trek takes him down to New Orleans, where things quickly grow bizarre and horrifying. A cult movie since its release, it attracted contorversy due to a very graphic sex scene.
--Ben, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Angel Heart |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Fantasy/Magic in story?
Yes
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of story:
- incest (ick!)
- orgies!
- voyeurism!
Horror film?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- private investigator
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- wild
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- bulging muscles
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
Body type
- very skinny (woman)
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 40%
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- long-lived adults
Profession/status:
- Prince/Nobleman/King
- mastermind
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- can change shapes
- mind control
- teleportation
- can cast all sorts of spells
- can read emotions
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
- eccentric
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) long girliemon hair
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
- Genius
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
- Deep South
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
- New Orleans
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- resort/hotel
- sewers/subways
- building
- church/synagogue
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- licking
- orgies
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- sex under blankets
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- boiling
- rough sex
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- Things that change shape/morph
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Jazz/r&b
Is this movie based on a
- book
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