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Actors: Rutger Hauer, Rebecca De Mornay, Ron Silver
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Blind Side |
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When California entrepreneurs Doug and Lynn Kaines (Silver and De Mornay) drive across the border to scout Mexican factory sites, they accidentally kill a policeman walking on the dark highway.
Fearing the law, they choose to do nothing until Jake Shell (Hauer) a charming yet terrifying stranger, shows up at their home persistently asking for work. After each rejection, he threateningly returns until the intimidated couple trick him into meeting at their attorney's office. It is there that Shell admits he's “on the run” and insinuates what he might have seen in Mexico, “it's amazing what you can learn just sitting by the side of the road.”
Be forewarned of a perfectly-paced scene in which, driving through a car wash hearing only the rhythmic equipment, the windshield wipers suddenly dislodge a bloody eyebrow.
The torment continues as Shell beats their receptionist in a bondage scene, Lynn loses her baby, and Doug and Shell face off in a mismatched fist fight. Eventually, Doug must search Shell's trailer to find the one piece of physical evidence that will prove the couple's innocence.
--Angry Jim Magin, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Blind Side |
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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:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- hunted by killer/stalker
Blackmail & Seduction
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- law enforcement gone bad
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- business executive
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- killer
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Mexico
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 2
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- use of artificial tools
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- mission to protect something
- mental battles
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- frying (electrocuted)
- run over
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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