Talk:Body Double

Could someone provide a more thought-out explanation on the film?

I watched the trailer for the movie, and was completely confused. When I read the plot summery, I was confused beyond all recognition. Could someone please give more than a one-paragraph description?

Jake is a B-movie actor who's claustrophobic. He finds out his girlfriend is cheating on him, but since it is her house, he is forced to leave, his other actor friend gives him an offer to house-sit his place while he goes and shoots a movie. He also shows Jake the "hidden secret" of the house, if he looks through a telescope through the window, he sees a girl later named Gloria, nightly undress and does a strip-tease and other provactive things. He becomes obsessed with her and tries to talk to her. One night, when he looks through the telescope, he realizes he is witnessing a murder of Gloria...basic plot w/o spoilers:)

It's essentially a remake of Vertigo. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.140.223.12 (talk) 03:26, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

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More than a paragraph wouldn't help you, because the plot has been not unreasonably described as full of holes, senseless, with an ambiguous ending. Herein lie 'spoilers':

An abusive husband wishing to off his wife, installs an unwitting tenancy-seeker in a distant house, pointing out that with a telescope he can voyeuristically view her through her window at night and she is conveniently prone to acting out erotic fantasies. [This because the husband needs a witness to view that her murder (the witness, of course, knows nothing of the plot) is seen to be both collateral damage to a faked 'robbery' (to throw off any detective's suspicions it was plain murder and nothing else), and to be done by someone other than the husband, though it is in fact the husband heavily disguised.] 'Body Double' refers to the fact that the husband hires a disguised near-match to stand in for his wife when she doesn't happen to be in at night.

On the appointed night of the murder, it goes off as planned, in spite of the tenant—seeing through the scope that her death could be imminent by a potential run-in with the 'robber'—rushing over to prevent the deed. Later, watching a porn-flick he notices an actress do the identical moves and tracks her down to find more details of just who hired her. This involves him in the porn-industry, much de Palma ensues, and the story goes downhill, or (depending on your opinion of the director's cinematic world-view)  uphill, from there. JohndanR (talk) 19:16, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

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John Lautner house featured?

Is the house where the protagonist housesits the Chemosphere designed by John Lautner? 209.236.250.213 (talk) 14:28, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Plagiarism of Hitchcock

Above it is suggested that this film is “a remake of Vertigo”. Isn’t there also a strong element of “Rear Window” in the voyeur impotently witnessing a murder and of "Psycho" in the disguised murderer? --Hors-la-loi (talk) 22:35, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

   (Plagiarism is a term of art from law rather than a reasonably close synonym of "ripoff", and is not applicable to either a tribute (the case here) or remakes.)
   In any case, a colleague's edit has greatly improved the lead since this talk section was created, and pointing that out will probably close this section's discussion... unless someone else thinks portraying a crucial action, and only later revealing the character involved is a mid-20th-century invention.
--Jerzy•t 14:27 & 14:34, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

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Co-director credit removed

I am removing the unsourced co-director credit for Bernard Rose (segment Relax). There's no record here or elsewhere that Rose directed any part of Body Double. He did direct the original music video for Relax but this isn't used anywhere in the movie. Pearce.duncan (talk) 05:30, 25 May 2022 (UTC)