Vertigo – Hitchcock Defying Genre “…alternatively‚ a film can revise or reject the conventions associated with its genre” - Bordwell Based on the French novel D’Entre les Morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac‚ Vertigo is arguably one of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpieces and the “strangest‚ yet most hauntingly beautiful film he had ever made” (Adair‚ 2002). At the time‚ its far-fetched plot drew a mixed response from critics – Time magazine called the movie a “Hitchcock and bull story” – but
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Cinema in 1975. She came up with the idea of the Male Gaze. The idea that the woman is passive and the male is active. So the woman is the image and the man is the bare of the look which very much indicates the man has the power of the woman. In vertigo this is evident within the first scene the Ernie’s Restaurant when Scottie goes to meet Madeline for the first time. Where they don’t actually meet‚ they don’t even make eye contact. It is very much active male and passive female. Madeline is there
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Vertigo (1958) deals with three loves-one obstructed‚ one hopeless‚ one soured and fourth haunted. Galvin Elster (Tom Helmore) married his wife Madeleine (Kim Novak) for wife’s money and later when he wanted to get rid of her‚ a false Madeleine is introduced and Scottie (James Stewart) falls in love with her who dies hopeless‚ and the new Madeleine Judy Barton (Kim Novak) becomes soured due to lack of love from Scottie and the fourth Midge Wood (Barbara Bel Geddes) haunted by the lover in asylum
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Hitchcock and “Psycho” Sir Alfred Hitchcock was an English film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. Hitchchock remains one of the most famous directors in movie history‚ not only because of his droll public image‚ but also because of the enduring appeal of so many of his films. His very name inspires fond grins from many viewers and how even some of his less famous works undeniably hold their attention. “He knew something universal
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Psycho Psycho is a 1960 horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Anthony Perkins‚ Janet Leigh‚ Vera Miles and John Gavin. The film is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The main theme that Hitchcock tries to express to the audience is dual or split personalities. Everyone has a subconscious battle with good and evil; he shows this in many different ways using lighting‚ different camera techniques‚ mise-en-scene and silence. Also he used a string orchestra to add
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A Clockwork Orange and American Psycho are both used as texts by their authors to satirically comment on their different societies‚ Burgess writing as a warning of the chaos the social revolution of the 1950’s and ‘60s might bring‚ while Ellis is commenting on the commercialism of the incredibly capitalist 1980’s‚ and how humanism has almost been abandoned because of this. Both Burgess and Ellis’s satirical commentary of their societies is evident through the characters of their violent psychotic
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ysisPsycho Final Analysis Joel Schain Film and Literature Period 3 10/2/12 Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho has been ranked as one of the top 10 best horror/suspense films of all time because of his unique way of filmmaking. Some of the many significant cinematic elements uses include internal diegetic sound‚ and dissolving. Internal diegetic sound was used throughout Hitchcock’s Psycho to create the illusion that Norman Bate’s mother was still alive. Only at the very end of the film do you find
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Michael Capellupo ENG 101-006 Prof. Duchaney November 5‚ 2013 The Mind of an American Psycho American Psycho‚ Mary Harron’s film adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis’ novel of the same name‚ explores the concept and personality of Patrick Bateman‚ a wealthy power hungry business man who lives out a psychopath fantasy of murdering numerous people around him. He uses his ego to act out all the evil fantasies he wishes he could do in his real life. The whole time he is trying to comprehend what his
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American Psycho: Character development: Patrick Bateman is a fine working man‚ who is a part of the company Pierce and Pierce. Bateman is what you would call a yuppie‚ a person who has a lot of money to use‚ one who really thinks of what he is wearing. It has to be the best of the best. The reason for doing the murders he does‚ is because he is upset with the world that he lives in. He actually hates himself and everyone who ruins the world‚ and that is the people he kills. He start out
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American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis Setting: Manhattan‚ New York City‚ late 1980s Major Characters: Patrick Bateman‚ a “rich kid” who works on Wall Street whose life primarily consists of staying on top of current trends‚ making sure he has the best of the best‚ and keeping himself looking as good as possible; Evelyn Richards‚ Bateman’s obsessed and spoiled girlfriend; Timothy Price‚ a friend of Bateman’s‚ thought to be killed‚ but appears at the end of the book as a more subdued character; Luis
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