Rear Window Film Analysis

1. What is the title of this film? When was it made? Who wrote the original novel?

The mise-en-scene of this shot hints at important information about Jeffries, his neighbors, and the neighborhood in general. But what the camera does tells us something much stronger: Rear Window is a film about voyeurism, and a commentary on audiences watching drama on a screen.

The story begins with James Stewart (L.B. Jefferies), a professional photographer on a wheelchair due to an accident. He was sitting on his wheelchair in the morning near his rear window watching his neighbors, who has their windows open. He saw Sara Berner (Woman on Fire Escape), Frank Cady (Man on Fire Escape) slept on their balcony, Georgine Darcy (Miss Torso) dancing, Havis Davenport (Newlywed), and Rand Harper (Newlywed) who just moved into the apartment complex, and Lars Thorwald who is a salesman irritated by his sick wife, Irene Winston (Mrs. Emma Thorwald). Around dinner time, Jeff’s girlfriend, Grace Kelly

Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is a uniquely captivating film that is an exemplary style of cinematic craftsmanship. Reaching into the minds of the characters, as well as the audience, Alfred Hitchcock is the master at utilizing the juxtaposition of images to bring us into the minds of the characters. In Rear Window, the story is so distinctively executed that it allows us to relate to our own curiosities, question our identities, and ponder our closest relationships. What is happening on the screen is merely a projection of our own anxieties, our own existence, and our self-ambiguity as portrayed by the characters in this wonderful film.

In Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, L.B. Jeffries, played by Jimmy Stewart, becomes completely obsessed with spending all of his waking hours watching his neighbors from his wheelchair. He even uses a camera to better his view and thus enhances his role as both a spectator and a voyeur. This contributes to the creation of a movie being played right outside Jeffries’ window. In this “movie within the movie” his neighbors’ lives become the subject for the plot. Each window represents a different film screen, each which is focused upon only when Jeffries directs his attention to it. He witnesses both the anxieties associated with the beginning of a marriage and the heartache of relationships ending. The

The start of this film begins with Joseph Merrick’s incredible story being written into a play by Bernard Pomerance in 1979. This play is actually still performed from time to time and a wonderful play to see. Lynch’s film version was released

The viewer can effortlessly understand that Jeff’s actions in bugging in his neighbors represent his boredom and isolation in his apartment. However, the four day period of the film, allows Jeff to understand more about himself and what decisions que decides to take for future events. The props throughout this movie are essential, the audience are shown everything through Jeff’s eyes using binoculars, which represent his sight. Allowing the audience to get a real feel for Jeff and his isolation. This cinematic technique allows the audience to find with Jeff as they watch the situation literally through his eyes. According to Elizabeth Cowie, in “Rear Window Ethics,” “such playfulness makes Rear Window appear exhibinitionist, ofr the filma drwas attention to

A treasure many modern films have poorly executed. Let us explore “The Man Who Knew Too Little”, “Rear Window” and see what appeals to human curiosity. “Rear Window” was one of the first of its kind. Hitchcock permits the audience into witnessing the lives of many

The Blind Side is a 2009 American semi-biographical drama film written and directed by John Lee Hancock. The film took place at Memphis, Tennesse and featured Michael Oher, an offensive lineman who played for the Baltimore Raven of the NFL. For most of his childhood life, 17 year old Oher has been in foster care with different families yet runs away every time he was placed in a new home. His life change when his friend’s father asks Burt Cotton, coach of Wingate Christian School, to help his son and Mike enrol. Impressed by Mike’s size and athleticism, Cotton gets him admitted despite his abysmal academic record. At his new school, Oher was befriended by a boy named Sean Jr. “SJ”. One cold night, SJ’s mother Leigh Anne

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film “Rear Window” demonstrated a suspenseful and terrifying storyline, which captured the attention of a variety of audiences. The film focuses on James Stuart (Jeff) and ultimately his neighbors who live around him. Stuart is crippled from the beginning of the movie and is unable to leave his apartment. Due to his immobility, he remains confined in his home with a broken leg and begins to watch his neighbor’s particular behaviors and routines. The film progresses into drama and suspense that is seen through music, lighting, film editing processing and extensive detail to the neighborhood being watched. Rear Window exhibits these details in the scene where Grace Kelly who plays the role of Lisa, attempts to

[A hush comes over the crowd] “Hello men and women of the audience before I begin I’d like to acknowledge that the more I’ve spoken about feminism over the last several years, the more I have realised that fighting for women’s rights has too often become synonymous with man hating. If there is one thing you take away today it is that this, has, to stop. [Pauses for effect], [Looks around the hall]. Feminism by definition is the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. This brings me to Hitchcock’s movie ‘Rear Window’ and the ways in which it suggests a negative attitude towards women.

The films Two cars one night and Boy directed by Taika Waititi are based in New Zealand. Two cars one night is a short film and the idea for the movie Boy was derived from it. Taika Waititi uses the film aspects of light and dark lighting and symbolism to portray the themes and his style of directing through his movie Boy and his short film two cars one night. Waititi uses the lens of a child to portray what is happening throughout the movie plot to show the lasting moments in childhood. As a director Taika Waititi expresses his concerns of viewing through the lens of innocence or a child. He explains that what being creative is about having fun and looking at life through like a sort of the lens of a child 's eye through a ted talk. As it

The opening images of Rear Window introduces the audience to J.B. Jefferies apartment with the window curtains rising. The camera is facing outside the window which reveals the small courtyard. After the camera gives the audience a tour of the courtyard, it then shows us Jeff sleeping on his wheel chair. From this, the audience should be able to perceive there is no privacy at all for the neighbors. What one does, everyone is able to see (only if they are observing). The music in the beginning sets the mood, the audience should feel safe and mellow as if nothing bad is going to happen. There is not one suspicion which tells the audience there will be a murder case throughout this film. With that in mind, the theme is portrayed through Jeff’s perspective from his observation of the neighbors. He observes the love life of his neighbors while he is questioning his own

Other cast members were Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Pete Postlethwaite, Kevin Pollak, and Chazz Palminteri; the movie was released on February 16, 1995. Furthermore the film has a bunch twist and turns that leads to the movie’s final scene; which no one sees it coming.

This film was made by the man who people call “the master of suspense”, Alfred Hitchcock. This film is one of the many of the suspenseful films he made and is in with the British classic categories for his film. This was made in 1935 but