In Alfred Hitchcock’s The Rear Window‚ we’re introduced to L.B. Jefferies‚ a middle-aged man‚ injured in a photo-shoot accident. Because of his limited mobility‚ he passes time observing his neighbors through a window‚ overlooking his apartment lot. Through L.B.J.’s lens‚ the audience is introduced to a recently moved in‚ newly-wed couple. One day‚ L.B.J. sees the husband peering out of his window‚ wearing a white tank-top‚ with a cigarette in one hand‚ smoke already in his mouth. He appears to
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Rear Window (1954) is an intriguing‚ brilliant‚ macabre Hitchcockian visual study of obsessive human curiosity and voyeurism. John Michael Hayes’ screenplay was based on Cornell Woolrich’s (with pen-name William Irish) original 1942 short story or novelette‚ It Had to Be Murder. This film masterpiece was made entirely on one confined set built at Paramount Studios - a realistic courtyard composed of 32 apartments (12 completely furnished) - at a non-existent address in Manhattan (125 W. 9th Street)
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Rear Window The film I choose to watch and analyze for film techniques is Rear Window‚ Alfred Hitchcock‚ Paramount Pictures‚ 1954. Alfred Hitchcock was known as the “Master of Suspense” for his skills at directing psychological thrillers. How many directors today could make a great thriller like Rear Window work with a camera‚ lights‚ and a window? The fear was not projected up on the movie screen but within the minds of his audiences viewing it. Rear Window has a classification of Genre as a
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Psycho‚ Perfect Crime‚ The Man Who Knew Too Much and Rear Window. At first it was quite difficult to pinpoint a particular film to choose as he used brilliant techniques in all of them. However‚ I have chosen to talk about Rear Window. This is because the fact that the whole film occurs in the same setting and still holds our interest is very hard to do but he was able to by using diverse camera angles and playing with lighting. The film Rear Window is about a man called Jeffries who breaks his leg
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stand out are the thrillers Rear Window and Psycho. These films capture the viewer and create an atmosphere so unique and fresh that you feel as though you personally know the characters; sometimes you even feel like you’re becoming the characters. Although the films have many similarities they both have completely different moods and themes. Most importantly the films can still hold up against today’s incredibly high-budget Hollywood movies. A main theme in Rear Window is voyeurism‚ exhibited by
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After watching Rear Window for a second time I’ve come to realize that not only is Alfred Hitchcock a great director‚ but also a great movie watcher. What I’m trying to say is that he knows exactly what people want to see in certain movies. Voyeurism captures the attention of anyone‚ viewers want to “spy” on the characters without being seen‚ and they want to be in positions that reality doesn’t allow them to be in. Hitchcock knows this feeling all too well‚ making one of the greatest movies of all
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Rear Window and Vertigo are two Hitchcock films in which the main character shows voyeuristic behavior‚ experiences relationship problems and suffers from some sort of a handicap‚ be it physical or psychological. Rear Window has to do with a group of peeping toms. As his broken leg heals‚ wheelchair-bound L.B. Jefferies becomes absorbed with the parade of life outside his window and soon fixates on a mysterious man whose behavior has Jefferies convinced a murder has taken place. Many would believe
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Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rear Window released in 1954 portrays the power shift between the fictional couple‚ L.B Jeffries and Lisa Freemont. In the beginning of the film the viewers see Lisa as a perfect‚ high maintenance‚ wealthy woman who did everything to grasp Jeffries attention and prove to him that she is a worthy wife‚ but Jeffries believes "she’s too perfect‚ she’s too talented‚ she’s too beautiful‚ she’s too sophisticated‚ she’s too everything". Despite Jeffries being in a cast‚ sitting in
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ESSAY – EXTENSION ENGLISH Anil’s Ghost‚ Rear Window and 2 ORTS: crime fiction genre‚ texts‚ contexts‚ values and techniques “While the genre of crime writing covers a wide diversity of texts‚ these texts all engage with investigating a crime and associated social and moral issues” Conventions shape a text and are adopted to suit a specific audience or contextual purpose. The genre of crime writing covers a wide diversity of texts that through the composer’s contextual influences and intentions
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Firstly I would like to say that Rear window is a true classic film. The film is a is the mother of all suspense thriller film and the director Alfred Hitchcock is the father of the genre. The predictability of the film proof its originality ‚pioneered and innocence compared to the films of its genre today. Films today has matured from its roots which is Rear Window but have not lost its core elements. The only difference between films today of the same genre and Rear Window is that movies nowadays forcefully
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