Alfred Hitcotck's 1958 Vertigo

Through distinctive images composers develop interest, drawing the responder in and thus providing insight into the experiences of others. This is demonstrated in Amanda Lohrey’s novella ‘Vertigo’ as Luke and Anna find themselves in a new and disorientating environment as they attempt to build a new life and in the ‘The Red Tree’ composed by Shaun Tan, through the nameless girl’s journey as she attempts to find herself and her place in the world. Meaning created by distinctive images creates interest thus permitting the responder to gain a greater understanding on how the experiences help shape one’s self.

looks at how the director choose to introduce the situation the characters face, the conflict that happens and the resolution of the story.

Alfred Hitchcock has a very unique style of directing that he incorporates into many of his films. His style of editing, use of expressionism, and his techniques for creating suspense are amongst some of his many qualities that makes his films unique. The film Vertigo was a very technical film that displayed many different themes, and meanings. In Vertigo, Hitchcock dealt with themes like the fear of death, and the power of appearance. Alfred Hitchcock has a very distinct way of utilizing editing.

In 1958 Alfred Hitchcock released what is considered the greatest film of all time, Vertigo. Vertigo is a film noir thriller that stars James Stewart and Kim Novak. Stewart's character, Scottie Ferguson, is sent to follow and investigate his old friend’s wife, Madeline. He spies on her strange actions and at the time falls deeply in love with her. The viewer is given a restricted narrative through the eyes of former detective, who suffers from vertigo, as he follows Madeline through San Francisco. The audience views the film from the same perspective as Scottie. Hitchcock pompously puts the viewer into Scottie’s eyes in scenes where he is following Madeline give Scottie a voyeuristic sense. The narrative is later switched to unrestricted as

A thriller is a type of film that usually instills excitement and suspense into the audience. A thriller is commonly described as a tense edge of the seat environment. The movie, Vertigo, is one of the most famous thrillers ever made. However, Vertigo does not fit into the stereotypical genre of thriller. Vertigo, often viewed as an experimental film because it was one of the first major thrillers of that time that used many different and innovative camera techniques. These techniques used in this film are different types of lighting, montage, intense music, etc. Vertigo is known to be one of Hitchcock’s best movies because of his unique sense of style and his famous

Hitchcock’s Psycho is a great representative of horror and thriller genres. The director masterfully creates an atmosphere of suspense and creates tension. Hitchcock blends characteristics of a thriller with horror, making the audience terrified. The director creates situations that can happen to anybody of the viewers, and thus, makes such scenes even more scaring and disturbing. For instance, the scene of the murder in a shower impresses the audience to a

Afterward, he became heart broken and fell into a depression for a few months. Soon, after he began to replace Madeleine with other people. One day when he was in downtown San Francisco, he saw a woman who looked like Madeleine. The woman's name was Judy Barden. John approached her and asked her out on a date. As they began to fall in love John began to change her into Madeleine. One night when Judy and John where about to go out to dinner, he noticed that Judy had a necklace that was similar to Corlata's necklace. To create closure in his life, John took Judy to the Spanish monastery and her forced to go into the tower, where he overcame his “Vertigo” where Judy confesses to John that Gavin was using both of them in his plan to murder his wife. During her confession, Judy became frightened and fell to her death.

Vertigo (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) is known today as Hitchcock’s greatest achievement (Ross. G, 2017). It is a tale of male aggression and visual control. Many of his other films involve strange motifs, themes, symbols and unpredictable characters, however ‘Vertigo’ has a much deeper intent. On release it, it dropped at the box office, wasn’t understood by audiences and could have ruined Hitchcock’s career all together. it only made $2.8m on release (Canning. B, 2010), Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) the year before made over 6 times that amount at $18m (Steinberg/Cobbett ,1980). Hitchcock being an influential Auteur didn’t fall after the release, but over time has been studied by many and his once flop of cinema has become an absolute masterpiece - trumping ‘Citizen Kane’ for the place of greatest film of all time (Bfi, 2017).

The article “Reversal and Recognition in Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO” by Irmak Ertuna-Howison compares Vertigo to Aristotle’s literarry theories. The author recognizes that Vertigo meets the requirements for a good tragedy according to Aristotole through plot and character. The article goes on to discuss and compare the use of tragic characters in the film, specifically the protagonist Scotty. According to the author, the films attempts to intsall pity and fear in the audience through a connection to Scotty. The articles ends with a description of the film’s structure and how it compares to a perfect Aristotelian

There can be no discussion of Hitchcock’s distinctive filmic language and meticulous mise-en-scene without a discussion of his paintings. It is through the image of Vertigo’s Carlotta Valdes that Hitchcock identifies, projects, and explores our deepest anxieties about scopophilia, voyeurism, exploitation, and reality, and in the process, exposes the dark aspects of our characters that are often repressed. That concept of multiple identities is the essence of Hitchcock’s cinema and the essence of the film. Paintings in Vertigo make sense of and illuminate the moth-to-flame relationships Scottie has with the multiple, yet singular identities of Madeleine, Judy, and Carlotta, and in the process, erode the line between certainty and doubt. Hitchcock’s paintings explore the often obsessive and exploitative nature of its characters, and explain how the paintings themselves occupy, and force the characters to occupy, the void between reality and illusion.

I agree with people who say movies aren’t based on real life experience, but I am pretty sure producers have specific messages to tell their audience. Movies might be long and time taking, but when there is free time to spend why not lay back and watch a good movie? Today I will be reviewing one of my favorite movies of all time, Tokyo Drift.

Vertigo creates suspense through deception, the initial impersonation being unknown to the protagonist, Scottie, until the very end. There are multiple occurrences of replication in the film, which disorient and enthrall the viewer. Scottie himself orchestrates the construction of one of the facsimiles in order to ‘resurrect’ a woman whose death caused him much guilt. Hitchcock says of Scottie in Hitchcock by Truffault, “the man wants to go to bed with a woman who’s dead; he is indulging in a form of necrophilia”(244). Scottie though seemingly normal becomes obsessed with the idea of creating a double to love. The obsession he has with creating the ideal doppelganger for Madeline causes him to spiral out of contro. Scottie started out with the best of intentions, but due to the treachery of an old friend and a need to ‘fix’ what he had ‘broken’ his actions end up perpetuating more violence. The use of doubles in Vertigo successfully blurs the boundaries of individuality, resulting in one of cinema’s most striking

The ideal audiences for the film Vertigo could be separate into middle age working class male and middle age female or housewife. Male ideal audiences would probably felt attached to John by his job which is the mystery detective and also the ability that he could had the beautiful woman by side which is Madeleine. Female audiences would usually project themselves to Madeline, who has attractive appearance, elegant personality and also wealthy background. The whole story is about the mystery of this beautiful lady Madeline, which is one of the most appealing plots that could drag audiences’ attention.

The film that I have chosen as a case study for my final paper is: Pan’s labyrinth (2006) by director Guillermo del Toro, and it is a case of real-fantastic cinema. Here I present my essay entitled “ The narrative power of sound in Pan’s labyrinth “of Guillermo Del Toro . It will analyze the sound design , the identification of its elements, the ways in which they are presented and their interrelations, to understand and explain how these elements work together in conjunction with the visual image, to support the narration of the story. Consequently, this research seeks to answer the question: How does the sound in the film ‘Pans Labyrinth' relates to

Understanding movies comes from describing and analyzing the cinematic, theatrical, and literary elements that combine to create meaning. These steps create a basic understanding of the artistic and technical elements found in moviemaking. In addition, the major characteristics of different film genres and classic movies will be analyzed. The purpose of this paper is analyzing the Academy Award winning film Chicago. This paper will describe the six steps that a person should think about when watching a movie. These steps include, (1) analysis of the narrative: story, plot and meaning; (2) theatrical elements, (3) cinematography, (4) editing, (5) sound and the (6) complete package.