Secret Window Opens With A Straight On Shot

The scene begins with the camera moving towards a door made of radiant red glass. The camera then moves to from Scottie’s position at the bar. Scottie does not see Madeleine directly therefore the camera does not directly occupy his point of view. Madeleine appears and pauses. She appears through a doorway, which may suggest that there is something in her past that will reemerge. As she exits, the mirror images signal give us a clue to what we will eventually discover - that there are two

With the ending near, the narrator gradually descends into madness. While examining the wallpaper closely at night she narrates, “The woman behind it shakes it!” she writes, “and she crawls around fast and her crawling shakes it all over.” “And in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard” (Gilman 516). The woman that the narrator sees is actually herself. It is a projection of her because she cannot escape John’s control just how the woman cannot escape the wallpaper. Her illness has become so great she thinks a woman is shaking the wallpaper around the entire room. The problem here is John’s treatment. It has caused her to believe in ghostly objects that do not exist. The phrase, “her crawling shakes it all over” shows how John’s treatment has affected her. The narrator crawls and creeps around the room. She goes

The opening scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window essentially acts as one long establishing shot — only rather than establishing just the location of a scene, it establishes the entire film in more ways than one. One particularly important shot in the scene, beginning 00:02:36 into the film, tells the audience much of what it will need to know about Rear Window’s setting, characters, and themes.

The blazing light was shining in my face and a slight breeze blew through the arched windows. I spotted an open chest in the attic, whilst spring cleaning. The outside rim of the box was covered in dust and cobbled webs; the hinge was rusty, making a creak noise against the ghost-quiet room. Rummaging my hand around the chest there was a scratchy-substance digging against my fingers. As the sun faded from my sight I lifted up the mysterious object. It was an old rustic book; I flipped through the delicate pages, every touch made a crinkling

Sexual infidelity is demonstrated through Charlie’s mother Ruth, who has an affair with the local policeman. Before Laura died she had wrote a letter to Jasper informing him how on the nights he did not go up to her window her father barged into her room screaming and hitting her, “my father came to my door and he wasn’t gentle and he wasn’t kind”. She could not take the pain anymore and as Eliza recounts the story to Jasper and Charlie, slow eerie music begins to play in the background. The film shows how on the dark gloomy night Laura climbed the tree and sat there until she dropped. The director uses front on shots with a dark contrast to add to the misery of the event. Another example of sexual abuse is when Laura’s beaten body hangs from a tree limp and lifeless. Fast eerie music begins to play and a front on shot focusing on a branch with Laura’s hanging body in the background giving a sense of mystery to the viewer. At the end of the film the letter Laura wrote to Jasper shows that Laura’s death was connected to the sexual abuse from her

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

“Secret Window, Secret Garden”, by Stephen King, is a story about Mort Rainey, a writer accused of plagiarism by John Shooter, a mysterious man from Mississippi. Shooter threatens Mort, and promises to do revenge if he does not get his story back. The story untangles with Mort having startled dreams and conversations with himself. His plan is to prove that the story does not belong to Shooter, however some events will prevent him from doing that. Amy Milner, Mort’s ex-wife, and her current husband, Ted Milner, are also victims and suspects, together with Mort. As the plot changes, with deaths and strange things happening, the existence of Shooter is questioned. The book and the movie have a similar context, although they follow and end with different plots, giving the readers quite a few scenes to be compared.

The audience is aware that the events shown take place within a day, as well as the location of the characters. This thorough editing style is suddenly interrupted by an unconventional montage. The montage is unconventional in the sense that instead of using cuts, it uses movement to proceed to the next scene; for instance, a car would pass through the original scene that the spectator was viewing and then the new scene would be in its place. The montage also appears to be peculiar because of its random nature. The scene before the montage shows Casper engaging in sexual intercourse with Jennie, who is unconscious on a couch while surrounded by other unconscious kids. Despite whispering no, her intoxicated struggle against him fails and the scene fades to black. Their hushed voices are replaced by somber music, which ushers in the montage of the film. The audience is then presented with random takes of a man rocking back and forth on a street corner, a man banging his head against a gate, and a man with his hands lifted toward the sky in a park; while people walk by as if their behavior is ordinary. The montage allows these random elements to be joined together to provoke insight into the character’s environment and how it has caused them to believe that their behavior is normal; because they are surrounded by sex, drugs, and

In the beginning of the novel, the reader is introduced to Richard Enfield. He is a distant cousin of Utterson and a companion for Sunday walks. On one of their walks, Enfield looked at his companion and said “Did you ever remark that door? It is connected in my mind, with a very odd story.” Utterson was very intrigued with the statement, so he listened to the story. The story begins with Mr.Enfield coming home from some place at about 3 in the morning when he came across a little girl, about 8 or 10 years old, running across the street. She was running as fast as she could when out of nowhere, a little man trampled her and left her crying in the street. Enfield chased after the man and insisted he returned to the scene. Once they got back, they saw that a crowd had accumulated. The large crowd frightened the man, so he requested that the family of the young girl follow him back to his house. He wrote a

A series of visual shots tell the story of The Place Beyond the Pines with little dialogue from each character. Even though little narration is given, I watch each character struggle internally while they struggle with external problems through the

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

The Graveyard Book written by Neil Gaiman is a fictional book published in 2008. The setting in the beginning of the story is in a house in the middle of the night, but it very quickly transitions to a graveyard. Towards the end, the setting is all throughout the town, in which the house and graveyard are located. This book is written in the third person point of view. Having a third person point of view helps the author tell the story the way he wants to by not showing an emotional connection with the protagonist but still making the reader develop positive emotions toward the protagonist.

The first thirty seconds of this clip are of the main character, Mort Rainey in his car. The first thing we see is the book in his hands, the depth of focus changes as he runs his finger across the stubs of pages. The focus changes as the character makes a discovery, this could be to emphasise to the audience how important this discovery might come to be. Then we are shown the character himself, the only thing slightly obscuring our view of him is the steering wheel, this adds to the creation of the setting. The symbolic idea behind having the character in his car at this particular moment, could be to show that he is still discovering things, he hasn't got all of the answers yet, but he's well on his way.

We are taken from the point where Margaret meets artist Walter and naively marries him to their everyday life of painting together and living happily. The movie continues with the Walter trying to make a living off of their art by selling it in art galleries. We are then taken to Walter’s small gallery space in the Hungry I nightclub where he finds his wife’s work is liked more than his. Walter mistakes a couple’s compliment for his work, but was for one of Margaret’s “Big Eyes”; Walter takes credit for his wife’s work and deceives his buyers and admirers. Walter issues a whole plan to convince Margaret to sell the paintings as his own creations. When Margaret allows him, thinking it would be the best for all of them, things turn around. The movie takes a turn from a sweet story, to something twisted. Walter’s greed for fame and money takes over him and he is willing to hurt the woman he