Hitchcock's Rope: Fact or Fiction
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ค. 2024
- Detailed look at Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 classic film Rope and whether it can be seen as a factual retelling of the 1924 Leopold and Loeb crime of the century. Warning: due to the graphic facts of the century-old murder, the material covered in this video may not be suitable for all viewers.
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The Trouble With Harry is my favourite Hitchcock. Love his morbid sense of humor and that one is a great showcase for it. I'm also big on Frenzy. Rebecca too. My nan auditioned for the title role and had tea with Olivier whom she and grandad previously ran into, and not just literally, at the UK Gone With the Wind premiere.
My faves are
1. Rear Window
2. North by Northwest
3. Psycho
4. Notorious
5. Dial M for Murder
6. The Lady Vanishes
7. Rebecca
8. Rope
9. Lifeboat
10. Can’t decide between The 39 Steps, Foreign Correspondent, Shadow of a Doubt, Saboteur for final slot. Spellbound might be up there but I haven’t been able to find it streaming anywhere so I’ve only seen it once forever ago.
And yes please make more about Hitchcock! His leading ladies, his wrong man theme, his repressed sexuality themes, his leading men, his technical innovations, how he has inspired other filmmakers.
Great list!! I love to see Rebecca on it. And those are all wonderful ideas for Hitchcock videos, more will definitely come!
Lifeboat is also a great single scenery Hitchcock film. They’re almost like theatre plays.
My Hitchcock top 10:
1. Rear Window
2. Psycho
3. To Catch a Thief
4. North by Northwest
5. Dial M for Murder
6. Vertigo
7. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 version)
8. Notorious
9. The Birds
10. Rope
(Rope was already #10 on my list before this documentary 😉). I’d love if you do more Hitchcock. Maybe some documentary on signature Hitchcock elements that come back in many of his movies (trains, stairs, clocks, eating, his cameo, blondes, innocent man accused, single setting, voyeurism, sexuality, etc)
Can’t disagree with those picks at all! To Catch a Thief is higher than most people put it, but I do love it. And yes those are great ideas!! We definitely will be making some more Hitchcock videos in the future ;)
I love Grace Kelly (as a strong female and her brutality), so that already makes me rank “To Catch a Thief” higher, but what I love most about the film is that it’s not a typical Hitchcock (there is no murder plot) but on the other hand it is (it’s all about a wrongfully accused “innocent” man). Plus the classy French riviera of the 1950s is something I absolutely adored. It also inspired the entire The Pink Panther film series (the films with Peter Sellers as inspector Clouseau, not the cartoon), which was very successful in the 1960s-1970s
Honestly I never knew that it inspired the Pink Panther films, but it makes so much sense! That’s one of the coolest fun facts ever, haha.
@@whenthepicturesgotbigger On a more sad note: Grace Kelly (by then princess of Monaco) died in a car crash on the same road they filmed her racing in her car with Cary Grant to escape his police tail (well, it was obviously a studio shot but the projected images in the back were shot on the same road)
Wow, another very interesting trivia note. I did know how Grace Kelly died, but not that it was on that road. Very, very interesting. That’s a fun fact for the ages
Just discovered Rope about 5yrs ago (and my 20yr old son aw well) we love it more every time we see it! Dial M and N by NW and Rear Window are at the top for me with this rounding out no. 4 for me. Also, love spotting his daughter Patricia in various one's of his too.
Rope is based on the play of the same name by the British writer Patrick Hamilton. It opened in the West end in the late 1920s. The play was set in Mayfair. Although the basic premise came from the Loeb and Leopold story, Hamilton was more interested in philosophical issues. The play was very British. Hitchcock had to adapt it somewhat for the American market, but his film has a very British tone. And that is also why, as you said, the film has a play-like quality.
The "Superman" theory of Nietzsche was a driving justification of the Nazi philosophy. The murderers were Jewish. The reason it was filmed in "real time" was to make the audience confront how they had dealt with the Nazi menace, which Hitchcock alludes to in his reference to history, as ROPE was using pre-WW2 events to talk to post-WW2 emotions.
More than time for the Master! Was The Lodger the other one kind of based on a true crime? I never realised Compulsion was the same story. It makes total sense now. It gave me an idea, a tough one: characters that show up in plenty of movies from different eras, like that lawyer.
Great documentary as ever. I love Hitchcock’s Rope, but don’t place onscreen texts that are different from your narrative. Looking at the images and listening to your narrative is one thing but meanwhile also reading texts on the name jokes takes your focus away from the actual story you’re trying to tell (makes it less powerful)
Interesting video here! I must admit that Rope is among my less favorite Hitchcock films, but maybe I need to watch it again. 🤔 I like Rear Window and To Catch A Thief, but that may be because Grace Kelly. I remember what a big deal it was in the early 1980s when, after Hitchcock passed away, it was announced five of his films (a list which included Rope) would finally be re-released. It was a very rare circumstance where Hitchcock himself had owned these particular five films (Rear Window, Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Trouble With Harry and Rope) and for his own reasons took them out of circulation.
My dad told my brother and myself that he remembered Rope being a part of a Hitchcock movie festival at the Nuart Theater in Santa Monica when he was in college at UCLA in the 1980s. I know he said he and his brother lived near the theater and saw some Hitchcock films there that month when all those lost films must have been shown in public for one of the first times in years. Not sure if he saw Rope there though?
Wow, never knew that. Can you imagine films like Rear Window and Vertigo being out of circulation for 3 decades? 😮😮😮
What about Arthur Laurents writing?
There’s so much more to say about Rope and unfortunately I didn’t mention the great Arthur Laurents in this video and his relationship with Farley Granger. I really tried to focus the video on the connection to Leopold and Loeb as well as the technical aspects of the film. But a video on Laurents is a great idea!
fix your audio.