Blog #5

 The article that I read was Multiple Indemnity written by Penelope Pelizzon. This article talks about the time period that film noir started and it also gives a little background about the film Double Indemnity. I liked the beginning of this article because it talked about the original ending to the film. The original ending was supposed to show Walter entering the gas chamber for execution and the film ends with shots of Keyes face showing multiple horrified faces. The article states that this ending was changed because it was too gruesome for Hollywood at the time and it had to be changed. I think that this ending would have been much better for the film and the book. To me both endings that we saw just do not end with a bang. Excuse the pun. But I do feel that this ending is more appropriate for the world today since there is really nothing that films do not show now. Although this article was not really about how noir relates to the novel or film, I chose it because I have parts of it that I can use for my paper.