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Vertigo: The 5 Things That Sets It Apart
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video we take a look at the 1958 film, Vertigo, and what makes it a masterpiece.
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I was pleasantly surprised when I saw Vertigo show up on your channel list. This is one of the greats. I loved it when I first saw it in the mid-nineties on my special edition vhs copy. I agree with your assessment. One of the things I really enjoyed in the film was the sequences where Scotty tails Madeline through San Francisco. Knowing how Hitchcock fastidiously storyboarded everything, and I trying to map out the sequence in my head and follow interior to exterior, real city street to back projection, etc. I always felt the 50's were a very surreal decade when it comes to the movies, and Vertigo is very trippy. Especially the swirling colors, that superimposed close up of Scotty falling, or breaking the fourth wall and him looking out at the audience. I have to mention this since you included a close up of Barbara Bel Geddes. When I watched Dallas when I was a kid, I always thought she was a captivating presence on the tv, I never knew why, and then I saw Vertigo as a teen and said "Ah that's why, she was a fox."
Thanks Eli! Yeah, I didn't mention Bel Geddes. She is revelatory in Vertigo. I always wondered what happened between her character and John after the events of Vertigo. I read there was a scene where John returns to her place and the radio is playing to reveal the potential arrest of Gavin in Europe, but Hitchcock kept it out of the final cut. So interesting.
You took it WAAAY back on this one. Absolute masterpiece… I remember watching this with my mother. I was a kid with the attention span of a fly but I couldn’t take my eyes of it. Very haunting movie. It’s like watching a Edward Hopper painting in motion. The ending still gives me the heebie jeebies.
The pacing is slow isn’t it? But I am with you, I couldn’t look away. I was hooked. Also, great analogy about Edward Hooper!
@@livingthepast It’s super slow. All those movies from that era are like that. It’s like watching a sculptor slowly work down the stone to reveal the form as opposed to watching a video game, which is how movies are today.
What is interesting is when I see younger people say Star Wars: A New Hope is slow and boring. I thought it was so fast paced when I was young, but compared to today's editing it IS slow. Haha.
@@livingthepast I hear ya
Top Hitchcock and my absolute favorite film of all time.
I’d love to know more about what you think about the mise-en-scene in that office scene
... and of cause Bernard Herrmann's amazing score ; )
This was the first Hitchcock I ever watched in my mid twenties. I wish you’d been my Univesity film prof! Fundamentally made me fall in love with film as an art form..
To me the most interesting tidbit is that Jimmy Stwewart hated the notoriety the film created for his otherwise squeaky clean WASPy image and renounced it and Hitchcock for the rest of his days 😂
How do we feel about the Downie Jr. Remake? I just prey they make sure there is a brilliant director and cinematographer at the helm. I’d almost love to see someone like Rian Johnson take this on and get back to his routes, but with stylish set pieces and staging of a Wes Anderson film?
Thanks! Yes, I saw the remake coming and I am interested, but not excited. I agree with you though about Rian Johnson. He would be wonderful working with material like Vertigo.
Jimmy hated it? Nah I read an interview with him saying, that he was in fact very pleased with the whole scene going up into the tower at the end. He also stated; "Its part of the craft to do something entirely different from the image you've created, this is a part of the business".
Hey I know this one