Matty is slick enough to make the simple minded Ned think it was all his idea. With Matty’s help, Ned unknowingly soon finds himself coming up with a plan to murder her husband. Matty wants to leave her husband, but he made her sign a pre-nuptial agreement that would leave her with hardly anything if she did divorce him. I don’t know what you’re talking about.” He say’s “You shouldn’t wear that body.” Ned tells her, “Maybe, you shouldn’t wear a dress like that.” She replies, “This is a blouse and a skirt. She’s married, unhappily, to Edmund Walker (Richard Crenna), a slimy millionaire. Ned is a low rent, not too bright lawyer who gets hooked on Matty as soon as he spots her in a clinging white dress at a boardwalk concert one hot evening. She actually might have fallen in love with the guy. The final shot of Matty, now living in some faraway exotic country with a young stud by her side shows a woman who is possibly conflicted, maybe even regretful that she double-crossed Ned who sits in a jail cell. Additionally, Matty Walker, unlike other deadly femme fatales, gets away with her plan. Let’s face it, sex, seduction, double dealing is what all these films are about. They could only hint or suggest at the sex going on. But Kasdan goes deeper into the sexuality than either of those two earlier films or others from that period. All have a love triangle consisting of a seductive woman, a male sap and a husband who ends up dead. Body Heat has been criticized for being derivative of the classic noirs of the 1940’s particularly the aforementioned Double Indemnity, and you could also include The Postman Always Rings Twice. While the film takes place in modern day (1981) Florida it is strictly 1940’s noir in structure, style and mood. When it gets this hot, people try to kill each other.” Florida in the middle of the summer is one hot deadly bitch! Always starts hopping in weather like this. Preston) “How’s the cop business, Oscar?” He replies, “Real good. It’s the engine or something.” Finally, there is crime, the third element affected by the heat. Kathleen Turner’s femme fatale, Matty Walker tells Ned, “My temperature runs a couple of degrees high, around a hundred.
It’s not the way people talk in real life, but hey this is noir land.
Second is Kasdan’s spicy dialogue, reminiscent of Billy Wilder’s classic noir Double Indemnity, it boils over with suggestive stylish dialogue just the way it ought to be. It may be 1981 Florida, but air-conditioning seems to be a rarity which adds to the unsettling feel. In this same scene, Racine, bare-chested and sweating, is leaning next to an open window searching for a breeze. I just stepped out of the shower and started sweating again,” a woman William Hurt’s Ned Racine has just spent the night with states.
Right from the opening scene Florida’s oppressive hot weather plays a major character in the film. Shirts are constantly seen with sweat stains.
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Every character’s skin glistens with beads of sweat.
First up, the obvious the stifling hot Florida weather. The heat of the title reflects three important elements of the film. Lawrence Kasdan’s Body Heat takes place in a small, dreadfully hot, humid Southern Florida coastal town.