Bloo-The Devil's Own

In the opening scenes of The Devil’s Own, we see a young boy having dinner with his family when masked men burst into their cottage and in front of the boy’s eyes the father is gunned down. This is a devastating event since Frankie was close with his father. Twenty years later, Frankie McGuire is part of the IRA and the audience can tell that the death of his father is one of the reasons why he joined the IRA.

After a battle on the streets of Belfast, Frankie escapes to New York where he is placed in the home of honest cop Tom O’Meara, his wife and three daughters who have no idea of their guest’s true identity. The movie is mostly centered around the surrogate father and son relationship between Tom and Frankie. Tom and Frankie bond while playing pool against the Italians. Another scene which shows that Frankie is part of the O’Meara family is the confirmation party. Frankie dances with the daughters and Tom even pulls Frankie into the picture.

Through the O’Meara family, Frankie gets a taste of what it is like to have a family who loves and respects each other. This shows that Frankie is not a cold-blooded terrorist, but he has a softer side too. The scene in which Frankie comes to the aid when masked men intrude Tom’s house shows that Frankie feels he is part of the family and wants to protect the O’Meara.

Bloo-Patriot Games

‘’Not for honor. Not for country. For his wife and child’’ is one of the teasers for Patriot Games. This perfectly sets the tone for the movie. The focus of attention in the movie is not political action but family in the broadest sense of meaning. There are several families in this movie. First of all, the traditional family is represented by the Ryan family and the Royal Family. However, both the CIA and the split group of the IRA function as non-nuclear families. I will focus on the Ryan family, the Miller brothers and the split group IRA who are important in creating the plot points.

In the beginning of the movie, Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA split group assassination attempt on relatives of the Royal family. Jack Ryan intervenes not only because the Royal family was attacked but also his family was threatened. During this interference, Jack kills Sean Miller’s younger brother. This sets the whole movie into motion. Devastated by his loss, Sean Miller’s focus becomes entirely Jack Ryan. Sean uses the split group to avenge his brother’s death. The split group could be considered as a family since they have helped Sean to escape and helped him in his attempt to kill Jack Ryan’s wife and daughter. However, Sean betrays ‘’his family’’ in that he is more interested in his own agenda namely killing Jack Ryan and his family than killing the Royal family. Sean even kills his own partners since they formed an obstacle in his pursuit for Jack. This shows that Sean is not completely loyal to his organizational family.

Jack wants to protect his family from Miller and this drives his actions. He does whatever he needs to do to protect his family even if this does mean that he has to rejoin the CIA. Jack thinks the CIA can offer his family protection while at the same time he uses the CIA to go after Miller after he has tried to kill his wife and daughter.

Bloo - Frantic

‘’Do you know where you are?’’ This is what Sondra Walker says to her husband Dr. Richard Walker as they drive from the airport to their Paris hotel. They are in Paris to attend a medical convention. These words foreshadow the feelings of displacement that Ford’s character will experience. After they have checked into their hotel, Dr. Richard Walker takes a shower and in those few minutes his wife disappears. This disappearance and a confusion between two identical pieces of luggage leads Ford into the Paris underground.

Polanski makes us of several noir elements in the film namely isolation, helplessness, and the femme fatale. When Sondra has vanished, Richard leaves the hotel to search for his wife. Through his wife disappearance, Richard must step out of his comfort zone, which is shown when he decides to search the hotel lobby. The camera follows Richard from a distance so that he looks slightly diminished and out of his element. Isolation and helplessness are also shown when he wanders into a flower shop and tries to explain to the people who work there about his wife. However, they don’t speak English and can’t help him. This is an example of the isolation and helplessness he feels since his wife was the one who arranged everything for him and she spoke French. Another example is when he goes to the local cops and the American Embassy but neither are much help. We see how Walker struggles in Paris, unable to speak French, disoriented, and unable to convince anyone that his wife has been kidnapped, this creates the feeling of isolation. Along his way in search of his wife, he meets Michelle, a mysterious young woman who picked up Sondra’s suitcase. She is the femme fatale in this film. She is constantly tempting him and as the classic temptress she dies at the end of the film.

In this scene, we see Richard Walker standing in a parking lot. The lighting is low key which creates a suspense except for his face which expresses worry and anxiety. The camera proxemics for this scene is social, we see him standing alone in the parking lot which refers to the isolation he feels. The framing is loose which shows that he eventually will overcome his entrapment.

Bloo- Presumed Innocent

Presumed Innocent gives several hints that Rusty Sabich might be the killer of Carolyn. However, because of a lack of evidence, and many flaws in the trial, the case is dismissed and Rusty can return to his daily life.

One afternoon, when Sabich is repairing the fence, he is runmaging through his toolbox, when he finds the murder weapon: a small hammer with blood and blond hair on it. His face devoid with emotion, Rusty goes to the basement and destroys the evidence of Carolyn's blood and hair. This scene already shows that Sabich feels guilty and that he knows he is in an indirect way responsible for the death of Carolyn,even though he haven't heard the story yet. His wife Barbar enters as he's cleaning off the murder weapon. ''I did it'', she says. These words have a double meaning: Barbara is speaking of her job interview, while Rusty thinks she is confessing the murder. She looks shocked when she sees the murder weapon and goes upstairs.

In the final scene, Barbara tells her husband what she did and more importantly why. Rusty's guilt manifests itself since he realizes that not only does he feel guilty because of his adultery but also that his adultery caused his wife to kill Carolyn - it was the inexorable consequence.

Rusty feels that he is responsible for Carolyn's death. He now must live with the pain, the loss of Carolyn, the guilt of his adultery, and a marriage destroyed by either his infidelity and Barbara's murder of Carloyn.

Bloo - Witness and Mosquito Coast

By witnessing a murder, Samuel's innocence is lost as Samuel tells his grandfather Eli that he is willing to kill a bad man, because he has witnessed ''the evil.'' Eli, who is portrayed as the wise and old traditional patriarch, takes over the role of the father figure by letting Samuel sitting on his lap and teaches him about the dangers of the gun and tells Samuel that the Amish believe that killing someone is wrong. He mentions to Samuel, '' the gun of the hand is for the taking of human life.'' The camera zooms to encompass an eyelevel close-up of Samuel looking into the worried expression of Eli. Eli asks him ''Will you kill?'' Samuel replies '' I would only kill the bad men.'' This shows how Samuel's Amish morals and values are corrupted. This does not fit into the morals and values of the Amish. Eli tries to explain that violence is not the answer to all of men's problems, but Samuel knows that this does not work in the ''real world'' since he has witnessed ''evil'' with his own eyes. Although, Samuel is very young, he has experienced and seen evil which his grandfather probably hasn't. In this particular scene, the dominant are Eli and Samuel which is passed over to the gun on the table which is slightly light emphasizing the importance of the discussion between the grandfather and the boy and that the gun is the reason why the two are emotionally distanced from each other.

'' I grew up with the belief that the world belonged to him and that everything he said was true.'' This is what Charlie Fox says about his father at the beginning of Mosquito Coast. This quote shows that Charlie idolized his father and that he believed in his father's dreams. Initially, Charlie obeyed his father without a question, but as the story develops Charlie comes to question his father's methods and loses his belief in him especially when Allie locks up the armed bandits in ''Fat Boy'' in an attempt to freeze them alive. The idea backfires when the men begin shooting in ''Fat Boy'' and as a result set themselves, along with the rest of the village in flames. We see Allie's face lightened up by the fire. His glasses reflect the flames which make him look like a mad men. Together with ''Fat Boy'', his sanity and utopian ideals goes up into flames as well. In the next shot, the dominant is again Allie who is sitting on the ground looking at his destroyed dream. His family sits behind him and Charlie sits close next to him, but he looks angry at his father. This shows that he questions his father. Even though, the proxemics are personal, there is a gap between father and son. Just like Samuel, Charlie has lost his innocence, because the person who he trusted and idolized destroyed his world and has put his family in danger. Charlie realizes he needs to grow up in order to save his family.

Bloo - Last Crusade

In the Indiana Jones Trilogy, we see Indiana Jones in different stages of the knight’s journey. In Temple of Doom, we see Indiana’s transformation from a mercenary knight into an indentured knight, and in Raiders of the Lost Ark we see him again as an indentured knight. However, his journey is not yet completed. He has to go on a Grail quest in order to become a Grail quest knight. This final stage is shown

in the Last Crusade, but not only do we get to see him as a Grail quest knight, we also see the other stages of his journey as

well. All these stages come back in the film to show Indiana’s development and it helps the audience to understand where Indiana is coming from.

In the first scene, Indiana Jones is presented as a mercenary knight. He steels the Cross of Coronado, which he had stolen

before when he was a child. Even though he acknowledges the value of the Cross by saying ‘’it belongs in a museum’’, in the end he also steels it for his own good.

Throughout the film, Indy transforms into the indentured knight. Serving for a lord is one characteristic of the indentured

knight. In the beginning of the film, Walter Donovan is his ‘’lord’’, because he assigns Indiana to find the grail. He gets another task, when he learns that the Nazis are also looking for the grail and have bad intentions with it plus they have abducted his father. Indiana must find the grail first to save the world.



One of the elements that belongs to the Grail quest knight is that the knight must atone with his father and submit to his ‘’spiritual authority’’. Henry Jones senior represents the spiritual authority, he understands that it is not about the chalice but about ‘’illumination’’. Indiana, on the contrary, does not understand this. After eluding the Nazi soldiers on the motorcycles, Indy and his father come to a fork in the road with a sign indicating left to Berlin where the diary is or right to Venice, to save Marcus. Because Indiana is still in the stage of the indentured knight, he wants to go to Venice, because he feels an obligation to Marcus to save him. However, his father understands the spirituality that comes with finding the Grail and tries to convince Indiana to go to Berlin. Eventually, Indiana submits to his father’s will and they go to Berlin. This shows that Indiana partially understands that it is not about finding the Grail itself but about spiritual enlightenment.

Bloo - Princess Leia in The Empire Strikes Back

In the Star Wars Trilogy, Princess Leia is both the Goddess as the Temptress figure.

In Joseph Campbell's explanation about the Goddess, the hero feels an unconditional love for the Goddess. Now it is unclear if this is the case with Leia and Luke, but Luke feels connected to Leia (which we come to understand why in the Return of the Jedi). This connection is shown in the scene when Luke is hanging from an antenna and calls out to Leia for help. Leia telepathically connects with Luke and orders Lando to turn around the Falcon and they save Luke just in time.

However, it is not really clear to me how Leia functions as a temptress in The Empire Strikes Back. The only thing that comes to mind is the scene in which Luke has a vision of his friends in danger. Luke wants to break off his training to rescue his friends, but Yoda says Luke is not ready yet to face Darth Vader and that if Luke decides to go he could bring his friends in danger. However, despite Yoda's advice, Luke decides to go. In this way, Leia can be perceived as a temptress because she distracts Luke from his purpose which is to finish his Jedi training.