Comparison Of Hitchcock And Humor Films

Premeditated cameo appearances. These characteristics depict every Alfred Hitchcock film ever produced. Known for his unique style of psychologically disturbing thrillers, with a tendency to engage his audience in voyeurism, he quickly became a household name after the release of his first sound film in 1929. Hitchcock’s career only gained velocity from there; producing a myriad of successful films in his fifty year span of filmmaking. Arguably the most notable came in 1958, Vertigo; a film chock full of dynamic characters, impressive visual effects, and most importantly, overlooked motifs of self identity, external

How auteur theory can be applied to the study of Hitchcock’s North by Northwest and Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock was a renowned film director known for his elements of suspense and psychological thrillers. His most popular work Psycho is adapted from a novel of the same name written by Robert Bloch. The story of a phoenix secretary (Marion Crane) who embezzled money from a client is used to unveil the psycho in the male character (Norman Bates). The success of the film is greatly relied on Hitchcock’s unique techniques in creating tension and suspense. Elements that contributed to the success of the film include motifs, and narrative perspective used.

Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock, was shocking for its time. Made in the 1960's when film censorship was very tight to today's standards, Hitchcock pushed the limits of what could be shown and did with psycho things that had never been done before. The cinematic art, symbolism and sub-conscious images in this film were brilliant for the time and still are now. Realised for this, psycho has been copied in many ways and the things that made it great have become very clichéd.

In the movie “North by Northwest,” by Alfred Hitchcock he shows how a film can have an influence on a historical event. Alfred Hitchcock was born August 13, 1899 and died April 29, 1980 being sometimes referred as “The Master Of Suspense.” During Hitchcock’s career some major historical events took place, in which he used his films to reflect and sometimes respond to those events. Hitchcock’s films both reflected and sometimes also intervened in contemporary social and political events during his career.

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

Glancy’s analysis explains that by not noticing Hitchcock’s hidden messages, it affirms the political apathy of the audience. Glancy notes that Hitchcock purposely marries Memory’s death with “dancers kick[ing] their legs in unison” in the final scene to demonstrate how simple it is to distract a viewer with entertainment (75). Glancy also discusses Hitchcock’s underlying political theories, calling Britain a “potentially unstable and volatile country” and even alludes to Hitler by giving Hannay a “Hitler-style moustache”, but these thoughtful details go unnoticed by viewers and critics (79). To the audience, it seems that the mystery of ‘The 39 Steps’ was all the film had to offer. Glancy argues that if humans were more inquisitive, critical, and fearless, there would have more attention placed on Hitchcock’s powerful, political

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The amount of critical analysis surrounding Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo is itself dizzying, but as the film has recently been restored, it seems appropriate to provide it with a fresh critical reading. The purpose of this paper then, is to draw this film out of the past with a reading that offers not only a new way of understanding it, but a close look at the culture that produced it. Specifically, Vertigo offers its most exciting ideas when contextualized in a culture of consumerism. Consumerism shaped the film, and also shapes the way we view it. The desire of the consumer is the driving force behind not only our economy, but our mode of seeing the world, and seeing films. As consumers,

Although, Hitchcock mainly focused on emotion in his films paying closer attention to dialogue would make this film brilliant. When the characters finally did speak you couldn’t get a good understanding of what they were saying due to their rush in speech. The characters spoke very fast to the point where you had to listen closely to conversation or you would miss what they were saying, this is where the importance of reading the emotion on the character's face is vital. A common theme that is shared throughout the entire film is that your past can and will haunt your future.

The aim of a film is to evoke a response from the audience and depending on the individual spectator's background this response will vary. In this presentation, I am going to be focusing on how directors such as Alfred Hitchcock , David Fincher and David Lynch have the ability to make the spectator feel uncomfortable through subliminal messages and film language such as mise en scene and sound. As most film fans know, the idea of social discomfort in films was pushed into the mainstream by the 'Master of Suspense', Alfred Hitchcock. His breakout film, 'The Lodger' (1926), which follows the story of a protagonist who is falsely accused of a crime, shows his early efforts of upsetting the spectator. Despite 'The Lodger' being considered his

Elliot, Alan R (2010b), “There is a look to Hitchcock films and the way they are put together that are really unique signature,” said Steven Mamber, a professor in UCLA’s Film, Television and Digiral Media Department. Elliot, Alan R also wrote in 1939, British director Hitchcock had produced a bunch of movies and sixteen talkies films including “The 39 Steps,” “Blackmail” and “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” According to the “Hitchcock’s Blackmail in Spectacular Hong Kong Outdoor Screening (2013),” From his directorial debut in 1925 with The Pleasure Garden to Blackmail (1929) Hitchcock created a group to films which already revel his genius at work, and show that the brilliance of the Hitchcock tough, so admired in later works, was there at the very beginning of his career” (n.p).

More often than not, the written narrative is highly privileged, causing individuals to not seek out other adaptations. One of the most complex tasks when adapting a film is staying ‘faithful.’ While many try to produce parallel adaptations to the written narrative, english film director and producer Alfred Hitchcock is not afraid of stray away from this, intertwining both suspense and thrill within his films. Hitchcock is known to take apart texts to their bare cardinal functions and then put them back together with a new story line. Hitchcock makes it clear that his adaptation of Herbert Brean’s article in Life Time Magazine “A Case of Identity” will not be similar to his previous adaptations. They will not be similar in the sense that this story is based off of a true story, and that every single thing that occurs during this film is true. He proceeds to state that even though it is true, it will be more suspenseful and thrilling than any of his previous films. Through this adaptation multiple key features were transferred whereas others were altered drastically to fit the style of film or were removed entirely from the script.

The film Sunset Boulevard directed by Billy Wilder and staring the main characters of Norma Desmond, Joe Gillis, and Max Von Mayerling is ideal example of how important film making techniques help depict a movie's core theme intentions with vivid clarity. Classic Hollywood is the first thing that comes to mind when one speaks about this film's style. This signature category combined with the visual style of realism and it's continuity editing; detailed mise-en-scene and all of its characteristics; and lastly the use of reoccurring motifs with formalistic qualities make the audience grasp the central theme of just how vicious the actual motion industry can be to the individuals that keep its

Out of the 326.1 million people in the United States, not everyone is going to enjoy the same things (United States Census Bureau). When it comes to movies, not everyone is going to enjoy the same genres; it has been statistically proven. Although it does not rank the highest on the charts, comedy movies are much more enjoyable than horror movies for many reasons.