Rope (1948) Review - Old Timey Movies
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- My breakdown and review of the Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Rope (1948). The classic movie was the first full colour film from the master of suspense and possibly the first movie ever to attempt to be 1 single take. Obviously it is not all one take as that was literally impossible at the time but Mr. Hitchcock admirably tries his best and uses his perfect pacing to hide the few obvious cuts. Join me as we delve into the background of the film as we learn about the infamous case of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb that inspired the play that became the movie. We will break down the characters touching upon the gay subtext and don't worry we will keep the silliness up everywhere else. The film stars A listers Jimmy Stewart, Farley Granger and the underrated John Dall.
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Time Stamps
00:00 Introduction
01:28 Context
02:40 The Set
03:25 Real murder inspiration0
04:25 Gay Subtext
07:00 The movie leads
08:35 Film Recap
12:25 Jimmy Stewart
12:55 The guests arrive
16:05 Our final guest
16:45 Summary
18:00 Party pacing
19:00 The Purge
20:00 A Detective story
20:45 The party ends
22:15 Party Success
23:00 The final game
25:20 Underrated movie
#hitchcock #rope #review #jimmystewart - บันเทิง
Phew, this one took a while. Another Old Timey Movie in the bag possibly the last Old Timey Movie so I am happy to end with my personal favourite film. If you would be interested in seeing more Old Timey Movies do let me know in the comments, I had a lot of films I want to cover but I think the people have spoken and want more Beano and Cartoon pilots.
I'd love to see more! Keep them coming please!!
The drama!!!
My favorite Hitchcock film and this is the most scathingly witty and entertaining review of it ever made.
@scottgarver5782 Oh wow, thank you so much 💓 Easily my favourite too.
Ngl, the writer complaining about the scene at 9:00 is funny as he’s the one who wrote it.
Haha that's true
Rope is one of my favorites and I loved your take on it. I hope you do more old timey movies!
I expected no one to watch this like my other 2 old timey movies so I think it's encouraged me to do more for sure :) Maybe the quiet man or a fun Noir. Thank you 😊 🙏
The flashing neon light is actually the SECOND cameo! The first happens on the street during the title sequence.
Yes, at the very beginning, I liked this one more. It was very clever, and I noticed it myself, so I felt proud 😅 the begining one I had looked up before
Have always loved this movie. Fictional version of the Leopold/Loeb murder case. Always thought John Dall was underrated as an actor. Too bad he died young, else he would be more well known, I'd say. Check him out in 'The Man who Cheated Himself' with Lee J Cobb and Jane Wyatt...
Yea, I want to watch more of him. I have heard his other best film is gun crazy. Thanks for the other suggestions
Excellent analysis + i love your sense of humour.
New subscriber here. :)
Thank you so much 😭
On Beano what about the idea of why that Dennis's parents had new redesigns in the shows and I was referring to there 2010s incarnations on both of them
I LOVE Rope!!! So glad you are giving it much-deserved honor. So well acted, written and directed. His continuous flow experiment was a huge success in my opinion. I respectfully differ with the commenter who thought the murder should not have been shown. I am glad it was. Knowing the body was in the box the whole time added a great deal of creepiness and suspense for me! Thanks to the other writer about the talented John Dall’s other good movie that he recommended. I loved him in The Corn is Green, too. Kudos to Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, and the excellent Edith Evanson as the maid. She is always terrific! Farley Granger and Jimmy Stewart - of course.
The continuous flow really makes it feel like you are at the party listening in all the different conversations and witnessing Cadell figure everything out. I agree with everything you said it's why rope is my favourite movie amd I never get sick of watching it
Great movie done in a amazing style.
You refer to Farley Granger as Stewart Granger a couple of times. Very different actors.
Yes, they are very different, I had done a review of footsteps in the fog with Stewarr Granger before this, and since then, I have been messing mixing them up constantly. I think I put the actual name over him when I say it wrong. Zi tried rerecording, but the audio quality was so different it wouldn't work it was very jarring. I call Kenneth David once as well. Live and learn. You should check out my footsteps review. It's a great movie with Stewart Granger, and who knows, maybe I accidently call him Farley 😅
You deserve more subs
Thabks so much :) maybe when I am able to upload more frequently
I agree completely. Rope is at least as good as either Rear Window or Dial M For Murder. It's very solid if unconventionally shot. I've watched it at least a dozen times and I still like it. I'm always mystified by people who dismiss it as if its ostensible failure were self-evident. I don't know what they're talking about. Even Jimmy Stewart, who almost no one seems to think a fitting choice for the film, is excellent. Great casting, throughout. It's use of color and the dynamic backdrop is wonderful. But Hitch shouldn't have shown the actual murder; that was a big mistake! He should have left the question of whether they had really killed David to the denouement of Rupert opening the chest. While still a great movie, that would have made it much bretter.
I really don't get the people who dismiss it as a failed experiment, I feel they haven't really watched it because when you actually see it, you get sucked into the film so quickly and the style of filming really makes you feel like you're at the party watching it all unfold. I can't imagine anyone else, but Stewart in the film, I think he really does capture that eccentric but inspiring university teacher that the boys would all look up to
@@theashtubereviews People forget that they're "actors" with skills for playing other people. Sure, Jimmy Stewart isn't much of a turn-on but how many ubermensch housemasters are? :)
BUT...! Imagine that you, the re-editor of Rope, were to simply snip out the giveaway shots and sounds of the murder itself, leaving the film perfectly ambiguous with the heavy breathing and obvious post-whateveritwas guilt of the... was it murder? Or something else? You see, THAT'S why Hitchcock had to show the murder because, without it, it would have been UNACCEPTABLY (to the censors) ambiguous with one of the choices being the unspeakable "IT." It would then have been an 'unambiguously' fantastic film but one that couldn't have gotten made in the period in which it was. "Am I right" to quote "Mr. Memory" in "The Thirty-Nine Steps?
@davidkennerly that's a really great point, I never even thought of that, it makes perfect sense
@@theashtubereviews I have ALWAYS wanted to do that, i.e. re-cut Rope and show it to people who have never seen it before. I think that it should be a posthumous "director's cut," going forward, taking the presumptuous liberty of asserting Hitch's preference. I would then like to screen it at the Castro Theater here in San Francisco where everyone has seen it before. I would love that. Rope would then be the huge success it deserves (in my imagination, anyway).