Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent

Comparative essay SA3: Alfred Hitchcock's film North By Northwest (1959) and Jane Harper’s 2017 novel The Dry both effectively use key thriller conventions of mistaken identity, the feeling of being trapped, and character development to instil both feelings of suspense, and anxiousness among their audience. The variety of codes and conventions harnessed in both texts portray how “Thrillers are a great way of exploring the complexities of human nature” (John Grisham). The audience can follow the feelings of suspense, based on the composer's choice of language, setting, and tone. Hitchcock composes the film to reflect the cultural norms of the 1950s, showing the city as materialistic while indulging in the paranoia of espionage.

The scene that I will be discussing for this paper is called “He’s a spy” from the movie Young Guns. In this scene, Billy and his gang are confronted by Murphy’s men. With the mise-en-scene, this helps the viewer identify that the time period being portrayed here is the late 1870’s or the early 1880’s. The mise-en-scene being used for this movie is important in telling the story from a different era as in today’s world, no one dresses this way anymore. Also to include from this scene is the lighting. I will attempt to give an explicit description of the use of the lighting and the sun and how the cinematographer designed for the use of it. Furthermore, I will also discuss the people that are directly involved with the making of Young Guns, the director, the production designer and the art director and their roles and responsibilities.

Later Helen meets a boy named collie. He lives in the same apartment building as Helen. Julie meets a man named Bud. Ray and Julie go to the Greggs house to investigate. They met David’s sister Megan. She then tells Julie about how the wreck affected her family’s life. They found out that they didn’t just kill a boy, they destroyed a whole family. On the way out of the house Ray notices something about the house, that someone much taller than Megan was painting the house. After this they study the evidence. Later Helen walks into her apartment room, and hears a voice behind her. She is startled to see Collie sitting in a chair in the corner. He then proceeded to tell Helen how he knew. Helen tried to lock her self in the bathroom. While in there she tried to look for a way out. Collie tried to take the hinges off the door to get in. Helen Jumped out of the bathroom window, and fell and became unconscious. Meanwhile Julie is waiting for Bud to go to the movies. Her mother insists that she does not go, and Julie agrees. Bud came to the door, and convinced Julie to walk with him to his car. Bud then squeezed Julie’s hand, so she can’t get away. He told her how he found out, and that he was angered by the fact that she sent yellow roses. He said it was like sunshine, but there was none. He then put his hands around her throat and started strangling her. Ray came up and hit Bud on the head with a flash light. He found out from the paint on Bud’s hand from the Gregg’s house. The reason he didn’t kill Ray was because he said that losing Julie would be the worst punishment for

Utilizing powerful foreshadowing, Connell emphasizes a feeling of uneasiness and suspicion within the reader. During the hunt, General Zaroff is on the trail of the unknowing

I will talk about how auteur theory can be applied to the study of Hitchcock’s North by Northwest and vertigo.

Literary devices will be a primary source used to compare and contrast the narrative and stylistic choices made in the short story, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, and the film 2081 directed by Chandler Tuttle. In the film the director is able to express visuals, sounds, and physical characters, to establish a firm idea of how the characters within the story act and feel based on their surroundings and what is happening around them. However, an Author in a short story is reliant on his words alone to paint the picture for the reader to understand the movement of the plot and its impact on the atmosphere. The literary devices used in creating and shaping pieces of literature will heavily impact the point of view of the

In Vertigo, Hitchcock begins with building credibility and composure in Scottie’s character. The film starts off with a chasing scene in

Vanderman is released from the police department and is hit with a newspaper that states about his “nervous breakdown” he had at the police department. The reporter that ran the story does not feel the least bit threatened by Vanderman during the fit and anger he expresses in the reporter’s office and this communication only leads to Vanderman escorted off the premises by the police once again. The reporter that was shown in the beginning of the film, who was beaten up by Penelope’s mom, overhears the accusations Vanderman is making about Penelope and uses Vanderman to his advantage as the reporter knows the impact a new story would have against the Wilhern’s. Within all the communication between characters through the first 20 minute of the film, each character shows their own sign of dominance and strength to allow the audience to know the importance of the

Yates has successfully told such a tragic story without copious amounts of exaggeration or dramatization, all whilst written in a chronological manner. The lives of Ian Huntley, the killer, and Maxine Carr, his fiancé who provided him with an alibi, are told throughout the entire book. Their lives were described leading up to, during and after the murders - this is also the case for Holly Wells’ and Jessica Chapman and their families. In particular, the lives of Huntley and Carr before the murders were of a specific focus in this book. As the reader, this is beneficial as it successfully paints a picture of what these two individuals were like.

The reader’s first introduction to Butcher is crucial in the author’s construction of his character. Immediately, the characterisation of Butcher as a villain is apparent as “With no warning, his hand shot out and grabbed Jamie’s throat, the grip instant and vice-like…”. This characterisation of Butcher (what he says and does) effects the way the reader responds to him and the corruption and violence that he represents. Jamie has done nothing to provoke Butcher, yet is treated with hostility from the very first interaction between the two characters, as proved by the “vice-like” nature of the grip. Another thing that uncovers the traits of a character is what they say. Butcher uses threatening language throughout a new kind of dreaming, such as when he says “One wrong move, son, and your brains are all over that wall” before handcuffing and injuring Jamie. In conclusion, the actions and dialogue of Butcher is a technique of characterisation that Eaton uses to position readers to respond to his antagonistic character and the theme of corruption with distaste, simultaneously advancing the reader’s empathy for

The Alfred Hitchcock film; Vertigo is a narrative film that is a perfect example of a Hollywood Classical Film. I will be examining the following characteristics of the film Vertigo: 1)individual characters who act as casual agents, the main characters in Vertigo, 2)desire to reach to goals, 3)conflicts, 4)appointments, 5)deadlines, 6)James Stewart’s focus shifts and 7)Kim Novak’s characters drives the action in the film. Most of the film is viewed in the 3rd person, except for the reaction shots (point of view shot) which are seen through the eyes of the main character.(1st person) The film has a strong closure and uses continuity editing(180 degree rule). The stylistic (technical) film form of Vertigo makes the film much more

Today, there are a lot of movies shot in the spy genre. The special effects amaze with its inimitability and with each film are becoming brighter and more exciting. In this paper I want to analyze one of the most impressive and most of the first films about spies "Casino Royale" filmed by Martin Campbell and compare it with the eponymous book written by Ian Fleming, which soon served as the plot for the film. In such way it will be seen how the spy genre have been changed for decades. “Casino Royale” is one of the first Fleming’s novels and it was released with the absence of big success in 1953.

He hopes by finding the dead body of Ray Brower his brother Billy wouldn’t worry about reporting the dead body to the police, since he found it while using a hotwired car and he hope his friend will stop picking on him and earn alit more respect from them. Vern is probably the least brave among his friends which makes him look like the weakest link in the group. “No, huh-uh!' Vern's face knotted in thought. '

Hollywood cinema is primarily subjected to telling stories. The inclination of Hollywood narratives comes not just from good chronicles but from good story telling. The following essay will discuss Hollywood’s commercial aesthetic as applied to storytelling, expand on the characteristics of the “principles of classical film narration” and evaluate alternative modes of narration and other deviations from the classical mode.

1. Throughout the story suspense is aroused and maintained excellently. This is achieved by the character the author creates. Mr. Martin is characterized as a neat and cautious man, who never took a smoke or a drink in his life. Our suspense is aroused when the author states that it has been “a week to the day since Mr. Martin had decided to rub out Mrs. Ulgine Barrows”. This arouses our suspense because we are told Mr. Martin is planning to murder this woman. The suspense is maintained with Mr. Martin’s thoughts. We as an audience are given his thoughts through the use of the 3rd person omniscient point of view. His thoughts are mostly on the issue on his dislike of Mrs. Barrows. Because of this, he