![]() ![]() ![]() And he hasn't confined himself strictly to the conventions of his material. Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote and directed the film, has learned the lessons of ''Double Indemnity'' and ''The Postman Always Rings Twice'' very well. ''Body Heat,'' which opens today at the Loews State and other theaters, can lay some claim to a textbook perfection. They don't make movies like that anymore - but oh, how they try. Those rules - which say the world is a sultry, shadowy place full of characters motivated solely by lust and greed - have little to do with anything lifelike, and everything to do with the 1940's film noir classics from which ''Body Heat'' is skillfully, though slavishly, derived. Pretty soon people start thinking the old rules are no longer in effect.'' A character says that in ''Body Heat,'' though in this movie the old rules are the only ones that matter.
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