Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window
Rear Window
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelley, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr
Screenplay: John Michael Hayes based on a short story “It Had to be Murder” by Cornell Woolrich published 1942
Cinematography: Robert Burks
Music: Franz Waxman
Paramount Pictures
Use of Subjective point of view.
Someone said there are two kinds of people in the world, there are people who observe world as it passes by and there are people who are active, adventurers who are part of the world. Normally, J.B. “Jeff” Jeffries is considered the latter. He works as a famous professional photographer until he gets a little too close to the …show more content…
A world in which is defined by the court yard. It opens with a jazz melody which is supposed to be the streets of Greenwich Village circa. 1950’s. after that, there basically is no score. The only music was when someone was playing music across the way. If someone was listening to a record, or playing the piano, you’d hear it. But other then tat there was no score. Which was very unusual and at that time daring soundtrack. It gives a kind of sense that nobody is intruding, this is real. And Hitchcock was aware of that. The interesting thing is how he shot it in order to get the sound quality that he did. He actually shot live sound from Jeffries POV to capture the distance between the window he was sitting in and the various apartments across the way. The hollow sound is pretty …show more content…
First, his personal life: will he end up marrying the glamorous and successful Lisa? And what’s going on outside the window of his apartment, in the windows of all the apartments across the way. To some degree to avoid looking at his own problems he focuses on what’s going on out there. We as the voyeurs can focus with him. See various dramas unfolding and in one way or another illustrating life and relationships. For better or ill. Miss Torso, whether a Queen Bee with her pick of the drones, or fighting off a pack of hungry wolves. There is a great sadness to Miss Lonely Hearts, a woman with an overwhelming desire for a man, yet not knowing what to do when she coaxes one in from the streets. There's a honeymoon joke in the actions of newlyweds. He's seen raising the shade at intervals only to be called back to her arms by the bride. A composer; a couple with a little dog, and the other types glimpsed all seem like real people, and their soundless contributions give the principles top-notch support. We meanwhile, are seeing Lisa come into his apartment and present the promise of a relationship that could be unbelievably good, but he
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelley, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr
Screenplay: John Michael Hayes based on a short story “It Had to be Murder” by Cornell Woolrich published 1942
Cinematography: Robert Burks
Music: Franz Waxman
Paramount Pictures
Use of Subjective point of view.
Someone said there are two kinds of people in the world, there are people who observe world as it passes by and there are people who are active, adventurers who are part of the world. Normally, J.B. “Jeff” Jeffries is considered the latter. He works as a famous professional photographer until he gets a little too close to the …show more content…
A world in which is defined by the court yard. It opens with a jazz melody which is supposed to be the streets of Greenwich Village circa. 1950’s. after that, there basically is no score. The only music was when someone was playing music across the way. If someone was listening to a record, or playing the piano, you’d hear it. But other then tat there was no score. Which was very unusual and at that time daring soundtrack. It gives a kind of sense that nobody is intruding, this is real. And Hitchcock was aware of that. The interesting thing is how he shot it in order to get the sound quality that he did. He actually shot live sound from Jeffries POV to capture the distance between the window he was sitting in and the various apartments across the way. The hollow sound is pretty …show more content…
First, his personal life: will he end up marrying the glamorous and successful Lisa? And what’s going on outside the window of his apartment, in the windows of all the apartments across the way. To some degree to avoid looking at his own problems he focuses on what’s going on out there. We as the voyeurs can focus with him. See various dramas unfolding and in one way or another illustrating life and relationships. For better or ill. Miss Torso, whether a Queen Bee with her pick of the drones, or fighting off a pack of hungry wolves. There is a great sadness to Miss Lonely Hearts, a woman with an overwhelming desire for a man, yet not knowing what to do when she coaxes one in from the streets. There's a honeymoon joke in the actions of newlyweds. He's seen raising the shade at intervals only to be called back to her arms by the bride. A composer; a couple with a little dog, and the other types glimpsed all seem like real people, and their soundless contributions give the principles top-notch support. We meanwhile, are seeing Lisa come into his apartment and present the promise of a relationship that could be unbelievably good, but he