A passer-by picks up the neck and throws it back down, not realizing it is from Beck's guitar. Then, he has second thoughts about it, throws it on the pavement, and walks away. The photographer grabs the neck and runs out of the club before anyone can snatch it from him. A buzz in Beck's amplifier angers him so much, he smashes his guitar on stage, then throws its neck into the crowd. All the negatives and prints are gone except for one very grainy blowup of what is possibly the body.Īfter driving into town, he sees the woman and follows her into a club where The Yardbirds, featuring both Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck on guitar and Keith Relf on vocals, are seen performing the song "Stroll On". Thomas returns to find his studio ransacked. He tells them to leave, saying, "Tomorrow! Tomorrow!"įurther examination of a blurred figure under a bush makes Thomas suspect the man in the park may have been murdered after all, during the time Thomas was arguing with the woman around the bend.Īs evening falls, the photographer goes back to the park and finds the body of the man, but he has not brought his camera and is scared off by the sound of a twig breaking, as if being stepped on. Awakening, he finds they hope he will photograph them, but he realizes there may be more to the photographs in the park. Thomas is disturbed by a knock on the door, and it is the two girls again, with whom he has a romp in his studio and falls asleep. Thomas excitedly calls Ron, claiming his impromptu photo session may have saved a man's life. They reveal Jane worriedly looking at a third person lurking in the trees with a pistol. Thomas, curious, makes multiple zooms of the black-and-white film of Jane and her lover. She, in turn, writes down a false telephone number and gives it to him. She and Thomas have a conversation and flirt, but he deliberately hands her a different film roll. Back at his studio, Jane arrives, asking desperately for the film. Thomas then meets his agent Ron for lunch, and notices a man following him and looking into his car. He refuses and photographs her as she runs away through a meadow. The woman, Jane, is furious at being photographed, and pursues Thomas, demands his film, and ultimately tries to snatch his camera. Wandering into Maryon Park, Thomas takes photos of two lovers. As he departs the studio, two teenaged girls who are aspiring models ask to speak with him, but Thomas drives off to visit at an antique shop. He grows bored and walks off, leaving the models and production staff in the lurch. Īfter spending the night at a doss house, where he has taken pictures for a book of art photos, photographer Thomas is late for a photo shoot with model Veruschka at his studio, which in turn makes him late for a shoot with other models later in the morning. 144 in the Sight & Sound critics' poll of the world's greatest films. īlowup would inspire subsequent films, including Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974), and Brian De Palma's Blow Out (1981). Its subsequent critical and box-office success influenced the abandonment of the code in 1968 in favour of the MPAA film rating system. The American release of the counterculture-era film with its explicit sexual content was in direct defiance of Hollywood's Production Code. In the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival, Blowup won the Palme d'Or, the festival's highest honour. The film is set within the mod subculture of 1960s Swinging London. The film's non- diegetic music was scored by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, while rock group the Yardbirds also feature. The screenplay was by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra, with English dialogue by British playwright Edward Bond. The film's plot was inspired by Julio Cortázar's short story " Las babas del diablo" (1959). The film also stars Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Tsai Chin, Peter Bowles, and Gillian Hills, as well as 1960s model Veruschka. It was Antonioni's first entirely English-language film, and stars David Hemmings as a London fashion photographer who believes he has unwittingly captured a murder on film. Blowup (sometimes styled as Blow-up or Blow Up) is a 1966 mystery thriller film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and produced by Carlo Ponti.
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