Brian de palma robert asahina essay

Sherman, while driving back from the John F. Kennedy International Airport with his gold digging girlfriend Maria Ruskin (Melanie Griffith) takes a distracted turn and ends up in the Bronx where a hit-and-run with a black teenager earmarks the start of Sherman’s fall from grace.

The story of a sound man working on a sleazy exploitation horror, who accidentally catches a recording of what his gut is telling him is a covered-up murder, offers the star of Pulp Fiction and Grease an opportunity to shine in all his talent. And what talent it is.

At the same time, you are deeply and emotionally involved in it.” A controversial and towering figure in American filmmaking, Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is also one of the most divisive and misunderstood.

The pyrotechnics and the whirlybird camera are no longer saying ‘Look at me;’ they give the film authority.”