Blow Out

Film crew visible during overhead shot after Jack crashes through police barricade.

Manny Karp's cigar jumps from his mouth to his hand as he sits Sally down during their conversation in his apartment.

When Burke murders a girl who looks like Sally, to establish the fictitious serial killer's MO, and turns her over to look at her face, the dead girl blinks.

After Jack gets out of his vehicle to go into the train station to try to find Sally, he leaves his Jeep door open.

When he comes out and gets back in the door is closed.

Jack is able to recreate the footage of the car crashing by cutting out selected frames in the newspaper and turning them into a film reel.

These photos would not be enough, as film reels require 24 frames a second to appear as a seamless moving image.

In the pre-credit "slasher movie" sequence, the shadowed reflections of both the "slasher" (intended or, at least, credible) and the camera operator and his Steadicam (unintended) can be soon in the tile wall to the right of the showering girl.

Perhaps the reason the girl was hired, as explained to John T's character in the projection room by the film's producer, was thought to be a sufficient distraction so as to preclude a retake.

When Jack drives his Jeep into the store window it breaks before he hits it.

As the Burke character (John Lithgow) speaks to his contact from the "secure" public phone in downtown Philadelphia, the same maroon MGB convertible is seen directly across in the same metered space throughout the conversations that take place on different days.

A murder-mystery, by filmmakers and for filmmakers. Brian De Palma reinvigorated the genre again with Blow Out, with an interesting twist.

I remember watching this many years ago and enjoying it, and only recently caught up with it again. It's probably the last half-decent film John Travolta acted in before he was resurrected in Pulp Fiction more than a decade later.

This movie seems to be forgotten, it has only 41k votes and a 7.4.

Blow Out (1981) *** 1/2 (out of 4) Sound engineer Jack Terry (John Travolta) is out recording sound for a movie he's working on when he accidentally records a car going through a gate and into a creek. Jack races into the water where he's able to pull out of woman (Nancy Allen) but soon he learns that the man in the car is a Governor with plans on running for President.

"Blow Out," Brian DePalma's 1981 thriller, is three fourths of a great film capped off by a preposterous, off-the-rails ending.John Travolta gives a very good performance as a movie sound man who captures the audio of a car crash that kills a U.

There is a reason that Blow Out is not among one of John Travolta well known movies, this movie is older than me so I have no idea how it was advertised but the movie itself left much to be desired! I longed for the public in the movie to get access to what us the real viewers got access to, there were parts that were so unrealistic in a film that takes you back convincingly into a quintessential 80's time frame and it just leaves you with either a bitter sweet nostalgia or bitter sweet retroactive learning experience!

John Travolta plays Jack Terry, a Hollywood sound technician who records odd and unique sounds for use in low budget films he is currently working on. On one such assignment on location, he accidentally records the sound of a car accident that kills a presidential candidate and injures his mistress Sally(played by Nancy Allen).

A superbly crafted film in shot composition, camera movements and positions. Editing, sound, costumes and acting all coordinate under the framework of the script very harmoniously.

I like Brian De Palma's works. he's hell of director and also it was good movie but it doesn't have a good ending.