Death of a Salesman (1985)

Death of a Salesman is a 1985 drama film based on the eponymous play by Arthur Miller from 1949. The film was directed by Volker Schlöndorff and it stars Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, John Malkovich, Stephen Lang and Charles Durning.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The film follows the play faithfully, with the situations and used the dialogue verbatim from Miller's work come.
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The story revolves around the conflict between Willy Loman and his son Biff. Willy is a commercial traveller, and though he is not successful, he wants this not face it. An attempt to Biff in his footsteps failed to enter into force. In addition, discovered Biff that his father has an extramarital affair. Another conflict point is the fact that Willy his dead brother Ben (Uncle Ben) sees as an example for his son. Willy hallucinates and begins to confuse the past and present, in which he communicates with his deceased brother. This means that his family in need of money gets stuck because there's accounts and debts have to be paid for. To help his family decide to commitsuicide to Willy, to get in an accident with a sabotaged car by him. With the money from his life insurance policy and his family now has the ability to open accounts and debts to pay. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit] == The film is one of the many film adaptations based on Arthur Miller's work. Death of a Salesman from 1951 was the first with Fredric March and starring Kevin McCarthy respectively as Willy and Biff; the film appeared two years after Miller his play had been released. Then was released four television films, including this one from 1985: in 1966 with Lee j. Cobb and George Segal, in 1996 with Warren Mitchell and Iain Glen and in 2000 with Brian Dennehy and Ron Eldard.

Death of a Salesman was recorded in a studio at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, New York, which is evident in the film.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="178" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  the Orange-like light creates a counterfeit outdoor atmosphere.