Drawing on Chion’s definition of cinema as a “verbocentric” phenomenon, and Pasolini’s intuition that image and word in film are a “bi-unity”, this article argues for the phantasmatic and potentially subversive quality of voice-over narration in Garnett’s drama. In contrast to the novel’s first-person narrator who manipulates the reader into complete surrender, the voice-over in Garnett’s movie promises intimacy and finally steals it away by exposing the artifice of cinema. Starring John Garfield, the film capitalizes on the main actor’s plaintive voice and unpolished American diction to seduce the audience into ‘the hallucination of a fully sensory world’ (Doane). The Postman Always Rings Twice (Garnett, 1946) was the first Hollywood adaptation of Cain’s novel, marketed as its most accurate rendition. Taking on an adaptation perspective, the article demonstrates how the echo effect is key to both writing and filming activity, and the dead hero a distinctively noir type of posthumous narrator. Traditionally regarded as a faulty by-product of narrative fiction, voice-over has recently come into focus as a transgressive and quintessentially cinematic device that traverses genres, borrows from different media and challenges distinctions between image, sound and word. The video was originally called "Garfield is a fat orange cat who loves to eat and sleep" for the first week it was uploaded, but was renamed after a line in the video.Focusing on asynchronous sound and its relation to cinematic image, this article explores the role of disembodied narration.Jon: where Are the 3-cheese pizzas Garfielf: I ate those food Jon: where Are the taco shells? Garfielf: I ate those food Jon: where did all the hamburger helper go Garfielf: *BRUP* Jon: You're such a bad kitty that's it I've had it with you that does it I'm done that's the last straw Grarfileld Trivia I'm a cat who loves to snooze Jon: garfield you lazy cat Garfielf: I hate alram clocks I'm am hungry I want some lasaga Jon: you're eating us out of house and home, garmfield Garfielf: enough with the Chit Chat let's get some grub going Grub time. Garfielf: you're going into orbit, you stupid mutt Jon: GAAAAARRRFIIIELD!!! Garfielf: time for a nap. Jon: dont do it, garfielf, that's our pet dog odie. Why are you so fat? Garfielf: I eat, Jon. Garfielf: I gotta have a good meal Jon: Garfield, you fat cat. 1.15.7 Jon: You're such a bad kitty that's it I've had it with you that does it I'm done that's the last straw Grarfileld.1.15.5 Jon: where did all the hamburger helper go.1.15.1 Jon: where Are the 3-cheese pizzas.1.14 Garfielf: enough with the Chit Chat let's get some grub going.1.13 Jon: you're eating us out of house and home, garmfield.1.7 Garfielf: you're going into orbit, you stupid mutt.1.6 Jon: dont do it, garfielf, that's our pet dog odie.1.5 it's time to kick odie of the table.
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