Vertigo
Vertigo
Vertigo is a very deeply loved masterpiece of Alfred Hitchcock’s. He made a stack of movies, yet Vertigo happens to be my favorite. The movie is about the inner and outer journey of two characters involved willingly and unwillingly in a set-up. In fact, there were a lot of behind the scenes ideas that the average movie-goer may not have known about yet.
The movie begins with Jimmy Stewart talking to his friend after a long sequence where he is chasing a burglar on a roof top. In a word, he is a detective. The detective almost falls to his death and is pulled up by a police officer when the police officer falls to his death, of course, trying to save Detective Scottie when Scottie is finally helped to safety by another policemen. That is how Scottie gets vertigo.
In the next scene he is safe; laughs with his friend, Barbara Bell Geddes the bra maker, and steps up onto a chair when all of the sudden he gets his vertigo back, and almost falls off the chair. I see a lot of movies and this one is a masterpiece because the plot is unbendingly well thought out. What I mean is that you are set on a collision course to the final scene with the amount of tension and curiosity the director foreshadows. Jimmy Stewart plays Scottie, and Kim Novak plays the wife of a rich businessman also Scotties highschool chum who wants her, Madeleine, to be followed because she has exhibited some scary behavior. Scottie takes on the job yet still has a problem with his vertigo, for which the movie is named after. She leads him through art museums, old apartment buildings, and flower shops when she finally throws herself into the San Francisco bay, gets rescued by Scottie and falls in love that night. Now, remember this is someone else’s woman, and she seems to be a bit unstable. Scottie does not seem to care that she is someone else’s, and throws caution to the wind; he goes with her on some of her curious jaunts. One of them is through Muir Woods, California,
Vertigo is a very deeply loved masterpiece of Alfred Hitchcock’s. He made a stack of movies, yet Vertigo happens to be my favorite. The movie is about the inner and outer journey of two characters involved willingly and unwillingly in a set-up. In fact, there were a lot of behind the scenes ideas that the average movie-goer may not have known about yet.
The movie begins with Jimmy Stewart talking to his friend after a long sequence where he is chasing a burglar on a roof top. In a word, he is a detective. The detective almost falls to his death and is pulled up by a police officer when the police officer falls to his death, of course, trying to save Detective Scottie when Scottie is finally helped to safety by another policemen. That is how Scottie gets vertigo.
In the next scene he is safe; laughs with his friend, Barbara Bell Geddes the bra maker, and steps up onto a chair when all of the sudden he gets his vertigo back, and almost falls off the chair. I see a lot of movies and this one is a masterpiece because the plot is unbendingly well thought out. What I mean is that you are set on a collision course to the final scene with the amount of tension and curiosity the director foreshadows. Jimmy Stewart plays Scottie, and Kim Novak plays the wife of a rich businessman also Scotties highschool chum who wants her, Madeleine, to be followed because she has exhibited some scary behavior. Scottie takes on the job yet still has a problem with his vertigo, for which the movie is named after. She leads him through art museums, old apartment buildings, and flower shops when she finally throws herself into the San Francisco bay, gets rescued by Scottie and falls in love that night. Now, remember this is someone else’s woman, and she seems to be a bit unstable. Scottie does not seem to care that she is someone else’s, and throws caution to the wind; he goes with her on some of her curious jaunts. One of them is through Muir Woods, California,