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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Color of Night |
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Bruce Willis plays a psychatrist who moves in with an old collage buddy played by Scott Bakula who also is a psychatrist after a patient comits suicide from his office. And when his friend is murdered he must take over the therapy group. He then meets a young woman(Jane March) who he falls in love with. Soon he becomes a target of the killer himself as patients start turning up dead. He becomes the suspect in the murders and must not only save his life but the lifes of his remaining patients and of the young woman Rose.
--Xenos Existo, Resident Scholar
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After his college is murdered, disgraced psychologist Bill Cappa (willis) moves to California to take over his college's patients and to uncover a killer. He suspects that one of his college's patients is responsible. The trouble begins when Cappa gets involved with a mysterious woman with links to Bill's patients. Bill is soon over his head in a dangerous game of cat and mouse where everyone is a suspect and death is just around the corner.
--Ryan, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Color of Night |
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Plot
How difficult to spot villain?
- Difficult, but some clues given
- Challenging
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 80%
Special suspect?
- lover
- chronically deranged person
Kind of mystery?
- skilled citizen investigator
- amateur citizen investigator
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- doctor
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) very short/crewcut
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
Body type
- average build (man)
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed?
- full frontal
How much in movie?
- 20%
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- artist
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
- deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
- muscular (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
- rude people
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- lesbians!
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
- sex under blankets
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 ()
Kind of violence:
- mental battles
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- impaled
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- A huge amnt of foul language
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