Blog#5

Reading the article did cause me to reconsider certain aspects of the film and novel. In the article " I Love you Too; Sexual Warfare and Homoeroticism in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity by Brain Gallagher suggest that Keyes and Walter have more then just a man friendship. It suggest that they are more then just two friends working together an that Keyes and Walter were closer. At first I viewed Keyes and Walter relationship as a father and son tough love bond. That if Walter was caught between a twisted love affair with Phyllis and Keyes and that if Keyes really wanted Walter. Now at first I thought O no it can't be like that but after reading the novel and watching the film a start putting two and two together with different scenes and parts of both film and novel. In more then one scene Walter tells Keyes that he loved him and how Walter would keep lighting Keyes cigars. And even when Keyes finds out what really happen doesn't just feed Walter to the dogs.  Other insights that I gained reading this article is how some of the characters roles are so different in the film and novel. How Phyllis role in the film is not as cold hearted and ruthless as it is in the novel. The novel tells it all, all the people she had really murder and how careless she really was and her disregard for one's life. In the novel she killed to get what she wanted and when it boiled down to it, it was money. She killed her  husband's first wife for money she wanted to inherit cause the wife was next in line and then she killed the three little kids. And then he murders her husband for his insurance money. Then turns on Walter and wants him dead and try's to kill him by shooting him. But in the film Phyllis is made to seem in a away trying to get out of a marriage because her husband mistreats her and slaps her around when he drinks, so she wants him dead. And when she double crosses Walter in the film makes it seem like she can't shoot him a second time because she did really love him. For the novel I'm not encouraged to challenge any of the author's conclusion because I liked the novel ending better than the films ending.