Alfred Hitchcock Essay

It began with his most elaborate plan to commit the perfect bank robbery. Dalton Russell (Clive Owen) uses his cunning abilities to rob a bank, alongside his crew, by holding hostages and making them all dress with similar apparel to mislead the police. As the police rush to the scene, a Detective Keith Frazer (Denzel Washington) is put in charge of the case to negotiate with the robbers. Throughout the film, Russell is always two steps ahead of the police. He manages to bug the police and as

What does suspense mean to you? In my opinion, suspense means not knowing what is going to happen next. Suspense is when one is on the edge of their seat, anxious to see what will happen next. The most suspenseful film we have watched in this class is Jaws. Jaws is the most suspenseful film we have watched because it applies many of the different senses to build suspense. The most important way the director builds suspense is by using score. The “da da da da da da” sound when Jaws is coming builds

One of my favorite films which exhibits similar characteristics to a work that we have examined, is The Usual Suspects starring Kevin Spacey. A work which we have examined, which this film can be associated with is Double Indemnity. In The Usual Suspects; a group of five criminals, some former, are placed together in a suspect screening room. Eventually the five of the criminals are forced to work together to achieve a common goal, which is to complete the mission assigned by the mysterious Keyser

The opening sequence of Hitchcock’s 1958 Vertigo alone is able to inform the audience of two of the film’s major motifs; identities and obsession. “The eyes are the window the the soul” is an age-old metaphor, and Hitchcock uses the pervasiveness of this idea to his advantage, cluing the audience in on the duality and imminent spirals of obsession that the two main characters will fall into. The woman’s eyes appear fearful, darting from left to right, foreshadowing the dual identities the main characters

Case Conceptualization In the movie Psycho, Norman Bates showed signs of Dissociative Identity Disorder. We came to this conclusion based off of his many behaviors and the way he talks about his mother. Norman cross dresses as his mother in the film, while dressing as her, he also copies his mother’s behavior and what is assumed to be how she acted while she was still alive. Later in the film it is discovered that Norman actually believes that he is his mother and thinks it is her that is committing

The book, Murder at the Margin by Marshall Jevons begins with a vacation at the Cinnamon Bay Plantation for the ideal Caribbean island getaway with a man Henry Spearman and his wife Pidge Spearman. Mr. Spearman is an economist at Harvard University and the president of the economics association, this vacation is a way for him to unwind from all his obligations. Instead there was another distraction that the vacation offered, a mystery, after murder was committed. In the beginning the author brings

Auteur theory supports the director as a singular author of a film: this is a term that essentially means, “author” comparable to a writer that is an author of a novel. Andrew Sarris, who is a film critic from the US states, “The strong director imposes his own personality on a film; the weak director allows the personalities of others to run rampant.” (Sarris, 1968) This suggests that a good director leaves his/her personal signature or mark on his artwork, a distinct style or a constant theme

The movie Rear View Mirror, L. B. Jefferies, a photographer in the year 1942, resorts to watching his neighbors lives from his rear window after breaking his leg. Stella, Jeffris nurse drops by, insisting that his people watching is creepy and an invasion of privacy. Close to night Jeffries girlfriend, Lisa drops by to eat dinner with him, also insisting that his watching should cease. From his views he sees “Miss Torso”, “Miss Lonelyhearts”, A musician, and married couples. The first night starts

constructed colour selection intensified the mood of each scene while escalating narrative complexities such as secrecy and danger. A lack of colour can further increase a character’s depth. For instance, at the beginning of the film, we meet Marion Crane who is involved in a torrid love affair with Sam Loomis (0:03:14). We discover that their romance often takes place in sleazy motels with the passion kept secret from judgemental eyes. Despite implying that their rendezvous is scandalous, Marion

Films Revisited. In the text, Wood discusses how Hitchcock controls the audience through editing and camera movement like a poet controls the reader through verse rhythms. To illustrate his point, Woods discusses how traumatic horror is conveyed in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India and Hitchcock’s film. Woods conclude that it is better conveyed through visual images in Hitchcock’s film rather than through the text in the novel. Because of this, Hitchcock is considered to be more of a poet than a novelist