Alfred Hitchcock

Excellent Audiovisual Design Lone Survivor's high-quality soundtrack facilitates the horror extremely well. Its versatility allows it to call upon eerie, foreboding ambient tracks, reminiscent of the experimental noise genre, to establish an oppressive ambiance; which coats Lone Survivor's quieter moments sinisterly. The dread infused by the soundtrack is largely responsible for elevating proceedings from odd to creepy, and freaky to terrifying; exemplified by the pause instilled in the player when

Slasher films began making their appearances in the 1960’s-70’s, and have since them made their periodic appearances in film. At its core, slasher films send a message to punish female sexuality and to return to more traditional gender roles. Psycho begins with the introduction of a conventionally attractive woman driving a car, we ca assume that she is running away from something. As she’s driving, a montage forms in the background to give us insight into who she is. We learn that she once worked

The last suspenseful movie I saw constantly kept me at the edge of my seat, just waiting to see what will happen next in the plot and to the characters. The movie created that suspense by including long dialogue and plot structure that was filled with important information about the story and the characters. Whenever a dramatic scene took place, for example if the character was searching for the murderer in their home and was about to come across the killer, the film would quickly shift to a next

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

In Rear Window, Hitchcock uses visuals in order to capture the perfect cinematic film and experience. We as the viewers identify with Jeff because much like how he is watching his neighbors, we are also speculating his life as a film. Our hero, L.B. Jeffries or “Jeff”, out of boredom creates an outdoor theater for himself by spying on his the people outside his window. Hitchcock uses “murder-as-entertainment” and the idea of watching a cinematic film as ways to captivate the viewers and make us subconsciously

“Film Art” defines traditional classical Hollywood cinema as “fictional filmmaking . . . dominated by a single tradition of narrative form” (Bordwell, Thompson, “Film Art”, 100). Psycho set the bar for suspense films with its spine-tingling twists and turns that kept the viewer guessing. The film took traditional elements of classical Hollywood cinema to a higher degree. Camera shots, use of space on and off camera, and character’s characteristics all led the viewer on a wild cinematic ride unheard

After The Birds Hitchcock ended his horror movies and made a film called Marnie. He ended his famous three Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho and then made the Birds, which had a woman who had some inner problems but could function. To Marnie which is Hitchcock first film and the first ever film to have a main character who is completely broken and a leading man who is almost a villain and could be villains or jerks in another film and make them your lead. You have Marnie who creates fake identities

Director Matthew Vaughn has brought some visually striking films to the big screen in his fairly short career, from the brilliant Layer Cake, to the movie which many credit as saving the X-Men franchise, First Class, he certainly knows his way around a camera. However, Kingsman: The Secret Service is probably his riskiest proposition yet. Can a dark comedy about upper-class British spies, with their tailor-made suits, compete with the very best films in the genre? Thankfully the answer is a resounding

Mitch is an attractive man who was once an item with Annie. Another beautiful blonde, Melanie comes along, and the viewer is classical conditioned to want Mitch and Melanie to couple up. Their relationship is rarely talked about nor solidified. Hitchcock plays into the viewers desires by showing Mitch peck the back of Melanie’s neck like a bird, and another moment shows a passionate embrace between the two that seems awkward and forced. The classic Hollywood story of watching two attractive individuals

Ultimately, this space has contained limitless amounts of power and purpose. From the time of the shooting, Holmes was the individual who obtained power and changed the purpose of the movie theater. Whether it was because of distress, the want to hurt, or just out of random, Holmes took action, occupied an intended space, and transformed its purpose that powerfully affected and changed everyone and everything for good. As for now, the power that this space currently holds for people is quite heavy