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Actors: Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi, Barbara Cupisti, Antonella Vitale
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Opera |
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OPERA is a movie written, produced and directed by Dario Argento in 1987.
Betty is a young opera singer who's got the chance of her life when the female lead singer of Verdi's Macbeth is injured in a car accident the day before the first show. Her performance is great but her boyfriend is savagely stabbed before her very eyes in the same night. A violent killer is after her and forces her to watch every murder he will commit on the next days. The handsome police inspector Santini decides to place her under protection.
Superb giallo with a Dario Argento in top form. Recommended.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Opera |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Moderately Challenging
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 80%
Murders of set profession?
- artists
Misc. Plotlets
- victim dies just after sex
Kind of mystery?
- skilled citizen investigator
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- artist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- medium/shoulderlgn, straight (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- cynical
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Italy
- Switzerland
Forest?
Yes
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- in awe
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
Kind of violence:
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- flamed
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- nasty human transformations
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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