This is yet another film based on true events in the United States. The "Murder of the Heart" is a true crime incident with considerable influence in the United States in the 1940s, and the hero and heroine in the incident are still notorious to this day.
Of course, such a famous story cannot be the first time it has been brought to the screen. In 1970, it was adapted into a black and white film called "The Honeymoon Killers" (The Honeymoon Killers), and was later used for the stage play "Dark Red The form of "Blood" was moved to the theater. This time, it was brought back to the big screen by Hollywood director Todd Robinson, which also has a strange origin.
Director Todd Robinson has been in Hollywood for ten years. Before that, he mainly focused on filming TV series and unknown TV movies. This film is his first important film work. He can invite John Travolta and Selma Haye. Gram, James Gandolfini and other big-name Hollywood stars participated in the performance, and received key publicity from the company, which is really eye-catching and surprising. That's not only due to Todd Robinson's recognized ability to direct, but also because the producers believe the film is a story that Todd Robinson really wanted to tell and would tell well. It turns out that in "Murder of the Heart", the prototype of the role of the police detective played by John Travolta is Todd Robinson's grandfather, Aimer Robinson. It was he and his colleagues who investigated and detected the heart. Murder. It later became a story told by grandfather to his grandson in front of his knees. This legend, which reminds the old man of his bravery and passion, gave the grandson who became a director the most inspiration and details in the future. Todd Robinson said that he grew up listening to his grandfather telling this story, and naturally he is full of different experiences and interests in this story.
Fortunately, Todd Robinson invited many powerful Hollywood stars to form the shooting team. John Travolta, who plays his grandfather, has starred in too many films that everyone is familiar with, such as "Changing Face", "Pulp Fiction", and "Operation Swordfish". He has both strength, popularity and box-office appeal ability; the heroine Baker's actor Searle Ma Hayek, an Oscar-nominated actress, has shown her powerful acting skills in many films such as "Frida". As for the actor of Charles Haydenbant, it is the famous TV star and actor James Gandolfini of HBO's signature drama "The Sopranos". Such a cast is of great help in recreating the legendary crime events of the last century in the director's imagination. In order to reproduce the atmosphere of the 1940s, the film chose to shoot in Jacksonville, a port city in northeastern Florida, where the scenery is just in line with the dark, evil, cruel atmosphere in the film.
Before Selma Hayek, Baker in the other two performance versions faithfully restored the image of the character prototype Baker being overweight. When the real Baker was executed in the electric chair at the end, he couldn't even sit because he was too fat. Into the electric chair. But to let the beautiful Hayek sacrifice her image and gain weight to that extent is really unbearable for the director, and it is a kind of destruction to Hayek, which is too difficult to achieve. Therefore, the crew retained Hayek's original sexy appearance, through the thin appearance of Fernandez's actor Jared Leto to contrast Hayek's plump appearance and the endless heroine Baker's Expansive desire.
Just as Baker dominated the crime scene, Selma Hayek dominated the performance of the film. Her excellent performance in the film leaves two other actors, John Travolta and James Gandolfini, far behind. Her slightly neurotic performance not only recreates the grumpy, brutal, and wicked qualities of Baker, the female mastermind of the Heart murder case, but also brings out the director's request for the atmosphere of 1940s film noir. In this film, the audience completely forgets that this is the sexy Mexican actress named Selma Hayek, and forgets all the other roles she has played, good and bad.
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