{"id":15814,"date":"2016-07-15T04:15:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T08:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15814"},"modified":"2016-07-08T20:21:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T00:21:24","slug":"15-not-so-simple-facts-about-blood-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15814","title":{"rendered":"15 Not-So-Simple Facts About &#8220;Blood Simple&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z071516bloodsimple_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/pre>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Garin Pirnia&nbsp;<\/b>and <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\"><strong>Mental_Floss<\/strong><\/a> present <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/82579\/15-not-so-simple-facts-about-blood-simple\"><strong>15 Not-So-Simple Facts About <em>Blood Simple<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. &nbsp;Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1. ITS TITLE WAS INSPIRED BY DASHIELL HAMMETT\u2019S <\/span><\/strong><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">RED HARVEST.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>\u201cIt\u2019s an expression he used to describe what happens to somebody psychologically once they\u2019ve committed murder,\u201d Joel Coen told <em>Time Out<\/em>. \u201cThey go \u2018blood simple\u2019 in the slang sense of \u2018simple,\u2019 meaning crazy. But it\u2019s left up to the audience to ponder the implications; they\u2019re never spelled out in the film itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">3. THE COENS\u2014AND MANY OF THE CAST AND CREW\u2014HAD NEVER BEEN ON A FILM SET BEFORE.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nJoel Coen admitted in <em>My First Movie<\/em>, \u201cThe first day of shooting on&nbsp;<em>Blood Simple<\/em> was the first time I\u2019d ever been on a feature movie set in any capacity, even as a visitor.\u201d Coen had previously worked as an assistant editor on horror films, including 1981\u2019s <em>The Evil Dead<\/em>. Coen mentioned how Sonnenfeld would throw up after looking at the dailies, because he was so nervous working on the film. \u201cEveryone was in the same boat,\u201d Joel said. \u201cThe gaffer had never gaffered a feature. The sound guy, the mixer on the set, had never mixed a feature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">4. THE COENS CHOSE TO MAKE A FILM NOIR BECAUSE OF THE GENRE\u2019S PRACTICALITY.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nThe Coens liked hard-boiled fiction authors James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler, and used them to their advantage in writing the script. \u201cIt\u2019s certainly a genre that is entertaining, and we also picked it for very practical reasons,\u201d Ethan said. \u201cWe knew we weren\u2019t going to have a big budget. The financing would not allow it. We could build something on the genre and the appeal it has.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s also a genre that allows you to get by rather modestly in some ways,\u201d Joel added. \u201cYou can limit the number of characters, put them into a confined set. There\u2019s no need to go for large-scale effects or scatter them through the film, and those cost a lot of money. So it was a pragmatic decision that determined what film we would make.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garin Pirnia&nbsp;and Mental_Floss present 15 Not-So-Simple Facts About Blood Simple. &nbsp;Here are three of my favorites&#8230; 1. 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