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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''BlowUp'' and ''Film/TheConversation''.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''BlowUp'' ''Film/BlowUp'' and ''Film/TheConversation''.
**''Film/TheConversation''. The ending in particular is one to [[spoiler: ''Film/{{Chinatown}}''.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The conspiracy that hired Burke wants absolutely nothing more to do with him after he kills [=McRyan=], partially because his job is done, partially because they got sick with his psychotic tactics and ''they'' only wanted to {{Blackmail}} [=McRyan=]. Even then, Burke decides to clean up loose ends...
* KarmaHoudini: The people who hired Burke are never captured or even suspected. On ''their'' (feeble) defense, they invoke EvenEvilHasStandards on Burke and cut him loose early in the film.
* KarmaHoudini: The people who hired Burke are never captured or even suspected. On ''their'' (feeble) defense, they invoke EvenEvilHasStandards on Burke and cut him loose early in the film.
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* ExactWords: Burke's EstablishingCharacterMoment is him contacting the people who hired him after he's killed [=McRyan=]. They are foaming at the mouth for such an action and he tells them back that he was hired to "take ([=McRyan=]) out of the race", and ''killing him'' was "[[WithinParameters within the parameters of the order]]".
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* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: Jack manages to kill the assassin, but Sally is also killed. Ironically, as a result, the cover-up is a success.]]
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* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Jack manages to kill the assassin, but Sally is also killed. Ironically, as a result, the cover-up is a success.]]
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** The ending in particular is one to [[spoiler: ''Film/{{Chinatown}}''.]]
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* PsychoForHire: Burke. He quite enjoys the murders he commits.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The plot takes elements of several real-life political scandals, including Chappaquiddick, [[JohnFKennedy JFK]]'s assassination and Watergate.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The plot takes elements of several real-life political scandals, including Chappaquiddick, [[JohnFKennedy [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy JFK]]'s assassination and Watergate.
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''Blow Out'' is a 1981 thriller directed by BrianDePalma and starring JohnTravolta, Nancy Allen and JohnLithgow.
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''Blow Out'' is a 1981 thriller directed by BrianDePalma Creator/BrianDePalma and starring JohnTravolta, Nancy Allen Creator/JohnTravolta, Creator/NancyAllen and JohnLithgow.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''BlowUp'' and ''TheConversation''.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[NYPDBlue Sipowicz]] is Manny Karp, the sleazy private eye/photographer who took pictures of the death.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To BlowUp.''BlowUp'' and ''TheConversation''.
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* SerialKiller: Played with; Burke [[SerialKillerSpecificTarget pretends to be one so his eventual murder of Sally won't be as suspicious]], but he is heavily implied to be sociopathic anyway.
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* SerialKiller: Played with; Burke [[SerialKillerSpecificTarget [[SerialKillingsSpecificTarget pretends to be one so his eventual murder of Sally won't be as suspicious]], but he is heavily implied to be sociopathic anyway.
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* SerialKillerSpecificTarget: As mentioned above, Burke plots to kill Sally, the last witness, but doesn't want to make her murder look suspicious. He begins targeting women who look like her in the hope that, when he finally ''does'' get around to killing Sally, she'll be dismissed as just another victim of the lone psycho. [[spoiler: That's exactly how it ends up playing out.]]
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* SerialKillerSpecificTarget: SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: As mentioned above, Burke plots to kill Sally, the last witness, but doesn't want to make her murder look suspicious. He begins targeting women who look like her in the hope that, when he finally ''does'' get around to killing Sally, she'll be dismissed as just another victim of the lone psycho. [[spoiler: That's exactly how it ends up playing out.]]
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* SerialKiller: Played with; Burke pretends to be one so his eventual murder of Sally won't be as suspicious, but he is heavily implied to be sociopathic anyway.
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* SerialKiller: Played with; Burke [[SerialKillerSpecificTarget pretends to be one so his eventual murder of Sally won't be as suspicious, suspicious]], but he is heavily implied to be sociopathic anyway.anyway.
* SerialKillerSpecificTarget: As mentioned above, Burke plots to kill Sally, the last witness, but doesn't want to make her murder look suspicious. He begins targeting women who look like her in the hope that, when he finally ''does'' get around to killing Sally, she'll be dismissed as just another victim of the lone psycho. [[spoiler: That's exactly how it ends up playing out.]]
* SerialKillerSpecificTarget: As mentioned above, Burke plots to kill Sally, the last witness, but doesn't want to make her murder look suspicious. He begins targeting women who look like her in the hope that, when he finally ''does'' get around to killing Sally, she'll be dismissed as just another victim of the lone psycho. [[spoiler: That's exactly how it ends up playing out.]]
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The plot takes elements of several real-life political scandals, including Chappaquiddick, [[JohnFKennedy JKK]]'s assassination and Watergate.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The plot takes elements of several real-life political scandals, including Chappaquiddick, [[JohnFKennedy JKK]]'s JFK]]'s assassination and Watergate.
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* {{Blackmail}}: It's why Sally was in the car and Manny was taking photographs; to blackmail [=McRyan=] into dropping out of the race. Of course, Burke had other plans...
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* ConspiracyTheorist: Everyone dismisses Jack as this; even Sally, when she of all people has reason to believe him.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: Everyone (except Donahue, the TV reporter) dismisses Jack as this; even Sally, when she of all people has reason to believe him.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[NYPDBlue Sipowicz]] is a sleazy photographer and Sally's partner.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[NYPDBlue Sipowicz]] is a Manny Karp, the sleazy photographer and Sally's partner.private eye/photographer who took pictures of the death.
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At the hospital, Jack discovers the man in the car was Governor McRyan, a possible presidential candidate. Lawrence Henry, McRyan's chief adviser, tells Jack not to tell anyone else about Sally being in the car. Jack is okay with that, at first. He's less okay with the fact Henry and the police seem content with the explanation McRyan's tire simply blew out. Jack is sure he recorded the tire being shot out right before the car went over the water. What he doesn't know is the man who shot out the tire, Burke (Lithgow), who was working on behalf of others to stop McRyan, is now out to get both Jack and Sally.
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At the hospital, Jack discovers the man in the car was Governor McRyan, [=McRyan=], a possible presidential candidate. Lawrence Henry, McRyan's [=McRyan=]'s chief adviser, tells Jack not to tell anyone else about Sally being in the car. Jack is okay with that, at first. He's less okay with the fact Henry and the police seem content with the explanation McRyan's [=McRyan=]'s tire simply blew out. Jack is sure he recorded the tire being shot out right before the car went over the water. What he doesn't know is the man who shot out the tire, Burke (Lithgow), who was working on behalf of others to stop McRyan, [=McRyan=], is now out to get both Jack and Sally.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The plot takes elements of several real-life political scandals, including Chappaquiddick, the assassination of JFK, and Watergate.
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* SerialKiller: Played with; Burke pretends to be one so his eventual murder of Sally won't be as suspicious.
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** Also counts as {{Foreshadowing}}; he wires Sally for her meeting with whom she thinks is Donahue, and although things don't go exactly the same, they end up just as badly.
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** Also counts as {{Foreshadowing}}; [[spoiler: he wires Sally for her meeting with whom she thinks is Donahue, and although things don't go exactly the same, they end up just as badly.badly]].
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* BrickJoke: A pretty dark one. The scream that Jack finds is Sally's from her murder.
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* BrickJoke: A pretty dark one. The At the beginning of the film, Jack is trying to record a good scream that Jack finds is for the film-within-a-film. [[spoiler: He ends up using Sally's from her murder.dying scream.]]
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* TakeThat: The [[ShowWithinAShow horror film]] Jack is working on, and which we see at the beginning, is De Palma's slam at slasher films; ironic, since critics lumped his previous film, DressedToKill, in with other slasher films.
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* TakeThat: The [[ShowWithinAShow horror film]] Jack is working on, and which we see at the beginning, is De Palma's slam at slasher films; ironic, since critics lumped his previous film, DressedToKill, ''Dressed To Kill'', in with other slasher films.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: Everyone dismisses Jack as this; even Sally, when she of all people has reason to believe him.
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''Blow Out'' is a 1981 thriller directed by BrianDePalma and starring JohnTravolta.
Travolta plays Jack, a sound technician for a low-budget exploitation film, who is told to find more a realistic scream for a slasher victim. While recording potential sound effects, he sees a car veer off into a pond and rescues the passenger. It turns out that the deceased driver was the governor and a front-runner for president. He slowly discovers that the accident was actually an assassination.
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''Blow Out'' is a 1981 thriller directed by BrianDePalma and starring JohnTravolta.
JohnTravolta, Nancy Allen and JohnLithgow.
Travolta plays Jack, a sound technician for a low-budget exploitation film, who is told to find more a realistic scream for a slasher victim.While One night, he's out in the woods by a road, recording potential general sound effects, he sees a effects. A car veer comes down the road, there's an explosion, and it goes off the side of the road and into a pond the water. Jack rushes to the water and rescues the passenger. It turns out that the deceased driver was the governor and a front-runner for president. jumps in. He slowly discovers that a man dead in the accident car and a woman named Sally (Allen) trying to get out. Eventually, Jack is able to break a window in the car and pull Sally out to safety.
At the hospital, Jack discovers the man in the car wasactually an assassination.
Governor McRyan, a possible presidential candidate. Lawrence Henry, McRyan's chief adviser, tells Jack not to tell anyone else about Sally being in the car. Jack is okay with that, at first. He's less okay with the fact Henry and the police seem content with the explanation McRyan's tire simply blew out. Jack is sure he recorded the tire being shot out right before the car went over the water. What he doesn't know is the man who shot out the tire, Burke (Lithgow), who was working on behalf of others to stop McRyan, is now out to get both Jack and Sally.
QuentinTarantino, no less, has called this DePalma's best film.
Travolta plays Jack, a sound technician for a low-budget exploitation film, who is told to find more a realistic scream for a slasher victim.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[NYPDBlue Sipowicz]] is a sleazy photographer and Sally's partner.
* SerialKiller: Played with; Burke pretends to be one so his eventual murder of Sally won't be as suspicious.
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Jack used to work for the police department, until he wired an undercover cop whose cover was blown - the cop was sweating so much it shorted the wire, and he was found out - and the cop was killed as a result. We see the story play out as he tells it to Sally.
** Also counts as {{Foreshadowing}}; he wires Sally for her meeting with whom she thinks is Donahue, and although things don't go exactly the same, they end up just as badly.
* SerialKiller: Played with; Burke pretends to be one so his eventual murder of Sally won't be as suspicious.
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Jack used to work for the police department, until he wired an undercover cop whose cover was blown - the cop was sweating so much it shorted the wire, and he was found out - and the cop was killed as a result. We see the story play out as he tells it to Sally.
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''Blow Out'' is a 1981 thriller directed by Brian De Palma and starting JohnTravolta.
Travolta plays Jack, a sound technician for a low-budget exploitation film who is told to find more realistic scream for a slasher victim. While recording potential sound effects, he sees a car veer off into a pond and rescues the passenger. It turns out that the deceased driver was the governor and a front-runner for president. He slowly uncovers that the accident was actually an assassination.
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''Blow Out'' is a 1981 thriller directed by Brian De Palma BrianDePalma and starting JohnTravolta.
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