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Plot summary
After a night at a doss house, where he takes pictures for a book of art photographs, Thomas is late to his London studio and grows bored with the modeling sessions, then walks out. He drives to an antique shop near Maryon Park, then wanders into the park and furtively photographs two lovers: an older man in his sixties and a woman in her thirties, Jane. Furious, she chases him and demands the film, grabbing at his camera, and he refuses. Over lunch with his agent Ron, he notices a man watching him and peering into his car. Back at his studio, Jane is waiting, desperate for the roll; they talk and flirt, and he hands her a different one.
Cast
- Claude Chagrinas Mime
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- Susan Brodrickas Antique Shop Owner (uncredited)
- Peggy Moffittas Model (uncredited)
- Melanie Hampshireas Model (uncredited)
- Charlie Birdas Homeless Man (uncredited)
- Robin Burnsas Homeless Man (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Blow-Up (1966)
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- Michelangelo Antonioni was not satisfied with the grass of Maryon Park in Charlton, so he had it painted green for the shoot. The park itself has changed little since.
- Sean Connery was offered the photographer but walked away when Antonioni refused to let him read the script, and Terence Stamp was dropped shortly before filming when Antonioni saw David Hemmings on stage in Dylan Thomas's Adventures in the Skin Trade.
- MGM could not get the film approved under the American Production Code and the National Legion of Decency condemned it, so the studio pushed it out through a subsidiary, Premier Productions. Its success helped abolish the Code in favour of the MPAA rating system.
SPOILER
Actor Ronan O'Casey blamed the film's famous ambiguity on money. He wrote to Roger Ebert in 1999 that the scenes showing the murder being planned and its aftermath, with Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles, were never shot because the production went seriously over budget.- Photographer John Cowan rented his studio at 39 Princes Place in Notting Hill to Antonioni for much of the interior and exterior shooting, and Cowan's own photographic murals appear in the film.
