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Actors: Tom Berenger, Melanie Griffith, Billy Dee Williams, Rae Dawn Chong, Rossano Brazzi, Jack Scalia
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Fear City |
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Written by Nicholas St. John, FEAR CITY is a movie directed by Abel Ferrara in 1984.
Tom Berenger runs a talent agency supplying young strippers to NYC night-clubs. He will soon be out of business if the knife-killer who has begun to slash young strippers in the street is not quickly arrested. Meanwhile, we are invited to follow the killer's point of view whose idea is to deliver NYC from the criminals and the easy-going young girls in order to reach Purity. Berenger, a former boxer, decides to resume training in order to be fit when he'll confront the public enemy.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Fear City |
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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 - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 60%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- catching/stopping killer
- hunted by killer/stalker
Horror film?
Yes
Horror Plotlets:
- mad guy with knife likes to slice
Criminal enemy is...
- known killer
If this is a criminal POV story...
- killing innocent people
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- small businessman
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard curly (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- prison
- sewers/subways
- church/synagogue
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
- seeing nude female butt
Kind of violence:
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- hanging
- perforation--swords/knives
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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