• Screening: Week Four

• Reading: Naremore

• Discussion questions:

A. What is Naremore's view of the alternative ending and whether it should have been added to the finished film? Do you agree? Why?

B. What aspects of modernity does Naremore find in the film, and how does he think they are being used?

C. Naremore quotes Mike Davis saying that the Chandler-Marlowe voice was a "romanticized simulacrum of the writer's relationship to studio hacks and moguls." In what ways do you find this "voice" presented and visualized in Double Indemnity? Give specific examples.

D. Explain and elaborate on this quote from Naremore: "Because of Wilder, Double Indemnity is profoundly indebted to Weimar Germany."

E. How does Naremore compare the Keyes/Neff relationship with that of Neff/Phyllis?