The term "gaslighting" comes from the movie (or the play), but the movie is called "gaslight' because of the raising and lowering of the gaslight when Sergius is searching.
Can’t believe you figured out the plot twists so quickly! You’re so kind Henry and that was really on display in this reaction. There’s a great classic you may want to check out at some point called The Heiress (1949). Also deals with mental abuse. I think you’d find it very interesting. Anyway, love your reactions. Have a great day !
I have watched Gaslight a couple of times. But I never noticed the shadow. I doff my hat to you, sir. Well spotted. Excellent reaction as well, of course.
The term “gaslight” comes from the play on which this film (and another film version made earlier, in 1940) is based, so the play and films gave rise to the term, not the other way around. “The term "gaslighting" was coined from the 1938 British play called Gas Light, in which a husband manipulates a wife into thinking she is crazy by slyly changing the intensity of the gas lights in their home when she is left alone. He does this in an attempt to make her believe she cannot trust herself or her memory.” “Psychologists use the term “gaslighting” to refer to a specific type of manipulation where the manipulator is trying to get someone else (or a group of people) to question their own reality, memory or perceptions. And it’s always a serious problem, according to psychologists.”
Ingrid Bergman really turns in a great performance in this movie. You can really just feel her being twisted and turned by her husband. It always gratified me that she had that one servant who also reluctantly gaslighted her, but in this case to help save her. I like her saying how she sees "just how it is."
Great reaction!! Ingrid Bergman more than deserved the Oscar for her performance. Charles Boyer played a true snake. Angela Lansbury nailed her role as Nancy. Joseph Cotten to he rescue!
There was a British movie of the same name, based on the same book, in 1940. Some consider that one better - I like both. One thing I learned about gaslights is that, at least in America, this was an early public utility, NOT well regulated because not much was in those days (1800's). There were many small neighborhood companies which were set up to produce and distribute gas to homes (via underground pipes of course). In order to save money, they often lowered the pressure in the wee hours of the night. Sometimes they lowered it so low, the flames went out. When the pressure was turned back up, the unburned gas merely escaped into the house, poisoning the residents or leading to a spectacular explosion.
Well, that's dangerous 😱. Poisoned to death or explode to bits. If that happens while one is sleeping, I suppose it's not the worst way to go. But it's better to NOT go that way 😅
Great reaction. This film always feels close to home because I've actually witnessed something similar although murder wasn't in the situation, it was still a glaring example of a personality disorder called malignant narcissism, often a person who appears charming to nearly everyone yet are really quite evil so they appear to get away with anything and all the performances in this really exemplify all its aspects.
The 1940 version is also worth watching!! It may be hard to find because the MGM studio heads tried to bury it and for a long time, it was nearly impossible to see.
The 1939 version is available on TH-cam. It was filmed in England at the beginning of the war and, for fear of the stages being mistaken by the Germans for aircraft hangers, was the only production that was being made at that studio. This allowed all the sets to be up for the entire shoot and for the movie to be shot in chronological order. This gives the film an amazing ability to tighten the tension bit by bit and scene by scene. Anton Walbrook's performance is, perhaps, subtler than Boyer's. Both are excellent.
In the time of the movie's setting, women could be commiteed to an asylum for just about anything on the say so of their spouse, parents, brother. Angry? Commit her. Post-partum? Commit her. Want her money but not her? Commit her. That's one reason why the Ingrid Bergman character appears so meek. She's afraid of not just going mad, but of being sent to an asylum. I'm glad a lot of TH-camrs are reviewing this movie because it explains so well the origin of the term, "gaslight."
a few more movie mentions - too few on YT have reacted to, and are top tier: The Day of the Jackel 10 Rillington Place (based on true events - wrong man died, the right man died later, but still the former died innocent - and all sadly true history) Being There Ordinary People Breaker Morant (based on true events/history) - and many more...............the above are great for discovery/starters however. 3-cents.
Sociopaths like that treat everyone as objects and tools. His Prague wife would've been treated the same. Hopefully she would be freed by his come-uppance, as well.
Great reaction and so prompt guessing, even about the glove !!! 😮 Congratulations. Charles Boyer, whom you should have mentioned in your prologue, was nominated for his role as a disgusting villain ; if you want to see him in an opposite role, watch All This and Heaven Too (Anatole Litvak - 1940) starring Bette Davis. I am glad that you showed Dame May Whitty ❤ along the movie, second or third characters really added interest in those old films.
This was the first movie where I saw Charles Boyer, and he was so good at this role that I hated him. It took several movies, notably "All This and Heaven Too" before I brought myself around and realized how wonderful an actor he was.
16 min - ya Adnoids(sp) - had mine removed at 4 yrs old - nasal infections - similar to tonsils - had the removed 3 yrs later. still alergy invaded. lol. great to see you watching "oldies" Joe Cotton was top actor (you are watching him here, and in Shadow of a Doubt) but have you seen "the 3rd man"??????? he is in it as well as the master of talent Orson Wells (both were in Citizen Kane BTW). "the 3rd man" great movie. and lets not forget the other talent of the 40's - Teresa Wright, who was in A shadow of a doubt, but BUT also in two other top tier movies of that time, "The Little Foxes" and maybe the best movie of all time "The Best Years of Our Lives". other fab prehistoric movies forgotten today that have a message: Marty All About Eve A Face in the Crowd 2-cents. PS - thanks for covering the "oldies" - i.e. prehistoric BW movie classics - YT in general does not value them, thanks for valuing them. PPS - there were a few newer movies in color and 70s' era you may value that have been forgotten by mass culture. Rollerball Colossis the Forbin Project The Lathe of Heaven Silent Running Planet of the Apes (the other 4 are good too)
@@henryellow Hi Henry for your replies to me - and thanks for noting my list of great moviea. Let me just say to burn the 9's out - and leave only the top of the top - per "what it means to be human": "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) a perfect 10 and "Nothing But a Man" - not sure if I mentioned that one with you are with another reactor? Its a 10. The former is honored and remembered as a classic - sadly the latter which is as good as the former - has been forgotten totally today even though it is 20 yrs newer (1964). There are 50 more movies 99 percent as good - but those two are top of the tops for me. and of course 1000 more that are good and "8's" - and a million that are ok, and billions of movies and tv shows that are utter trash. FYI Theodore Sturgeon (1950's Sci Fiction writer) had a personal "law" - per his views (which I share) - "90-percent of everything is crap" - lol. Sad but true.. BTW "Nothing But a Man" is so forgotten that there has been a hidef free to view bootleg copy of it here on YT!!!!!!! for years!!!!!!!!!!!! (just like another insanely good and bleak movie about World War 3 - "Threads"..............another "forgotten gem" - but i warn you - you will lose 2 weeks from your life with each viewing of "Threads" due to its realism of a "post world war 3 world" - I personally saw it 15 yrs ago on DVD - so lost 2 wks then, then in 2015 the bluray limited released was printed - so bought it, since 2015 I watched that bluray 3 times - once eary 5 yrs or so). So I've lost almost a quarter of a year viewing that damned British 80's movie 4 times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-/........;-). oh ya - 3 more bleak - remove weeks from life (they are GOOD movies - but bad for your health). "City of Life and Death" (2009 - it here on YT - like "nothing but a man" - here because its was never well known - here in hidef - since 7 yrs ago at least) - Chinese movie with eng subs, "new" - 2009 - but filmed in Black and White - about World war 2 and the Jap conquest of Nanking. top 10 movie of all time BTW "Snowtown" - true story, Australian - bleak as fk, no message - just bleak as hell. 2010? "Come and See" Russian 1980s movie about fighting the nazis. a top 100. ok I've rambled enough - if you wish you can take notes of the movies above and view them at your convience. and thank you Sir for replying to me on the movies we love - i esp love seeing you discover gems I've loved for decades. ;-). Peace Sir!
third one i’ve seen of yours i’ve seen nearly all the classics since i was 8 or ten on my black and white tv in my room back then only gay boys like me loved old movies, as a general rule even now i only see straight guys on yt who love them - the old lady dame may whittey was indeed in lady vanishes she is always superb you must see her other great films esp NIGHT MUST FALL and MRS MINIVER
The term "gaslighting" comes from the movie (or the play), but the movie is called "gaslight' because of the raising and lowering of the gaslight when Sergius is searching.
Can’t believe you figured out the plot twists so quickly!
You’re so kind Henry and that was really on display in this reaction. There’s a great classic you may want to check out at some point called The Heiress (1949). Also deals with mental abuse. I think you’d find it very interesting. Anyway, love your reactions. Have a great day !
I agree - the Heiress Is a great movie. Also agree with your comments about Henry, he is a great reactor.
Aw, thank you! 😊
I'll add The Heiress to my list 👍🏻
You have a wonderful day too!
Charles Boyer, Angela Lansbury, and Ingrid Bergman were all nominated for Oscars for this. Bergman won.
It's one of my favorite movies since the 70s.
I have watched Gaslight a couple of times. But I never noticed the shadow. I doff my hat to you, sir. Well spotted.
Excellent reaction as well, of course.
The term “gaslight” comes from the play on which this film (and another film version made earlier, in 1940) is based, so the play and films gave rise to the term, not the other way around.
“The term "gaslighting" was coined from the 1938 British play called Gas Light, in which a husband manipulates a wife into thinking she is crazy by slyly changing the intensity of the gas lights in their home when she is left alone. He does this in an attempt to make her believe she cannot trust herself or her memory.”
“Psychologists use the term “gaslighting” to refer to a specific type of manipulation where the manipulator is trying to get someone else (or a group of people) to question their own reality, memory or perceptions. And it’s always a serious problem, according to psychologists.”
I see. Now I know the origin of the word 👍🏻
Thanks for sharing! 😊
Ingrid Bergman really turns in a great performance in this movie. You can really just feel her being twisted and turned by her husband. It always gratified me that she had that one servant who also reluctantly gaslighted her, but in this case to help save her. I like her saying how she sees "just how it is."
Great reaction!! Ingrid Bergman more than deserved the Oscar for her performance. Charles Boyer played a true snake. Angela Lansbury nailed her role as Nancy. Joseph Cotten to he rescue!
Wonderful attention to the detail of the shadow against the wall during credits!
There was a British movie of the same name, based on the same book, in 1940. Some consider that one better - I like both.
One thing I learned about gaslights is that, at least in America, this was an early public utility, NOT well regulated because not much was in those days (1800's). There were many small neighborhood companies which were set up to produce and distribute gas to homes (via underground pipes of course). In order to save money, they often lowered the pressure in the wee hours of the night. Sometimes they lowered it so low, the flames went out. When the pressure was turned back up, the unburned gas merely escaped into the house, poisoning the residents or leading to a spectacular explosion.
The 1940 version is available on TH-cam.
Well, that's dangerous 😱. Poisoned to death or explode to bits. If that happens while one is sleeping, I suppose it's not the worst way to go. But it's better to NOT go that way 😅
Great reaction. This film always feels close to home because I've actually witnessed something similar although murder wasn't in the situation, it was still a glaring example of a personality disorder called malignant narcissism, often a person who appears charming to nearly everyone yet are really quite evil so they appear to get away with anything and all the performances in this really exemplify all its aspects.
I so appreciate you taking on these older films. You've been reviewing some of my all-time favorites.
Hope you enjoyed them! There's more to come 😊
I never noticed the shadow. Very observant. Great reaction as always!
Charles Boyer, who played Gregory, is a well-known very accomplished, successful actor.
Yes, as mentioned, there’s a slightly earlier British version (which I like even more)
The 1940 version is also worth watching!! It may be hard to find because the MGM studio heads tried to bury it and for a long time, it was nearly impossible to see.
It is an extra on the DVD of this version (at least some versions of the DVD).
I have the DVD that has both versions on it.
The 1939 version is available on TH-cam. It was filmed in England at the beginning of the war and, for fear of the stages being mistaken by the Germans for aircraft hangers, was the only production that was being made at that studio. This allowed all the sets to be up for the entire shoot and for the movie to be shot in chronological order. This gives the film an amazing ability to tighten the tension bit by bit and scene by scene. Anton Walbrook's performance is, perhaps, subtler than Boyer's. Both are excellent.
@@TedLittle-yp7uj Good info. Thank you. I will add it to my ever-growing list of things to watch.
The term gaslighting that we use today came from this movie.
In the time of the movie's setting, women could be commiteed to an asylum for just about anything on the say so of their spouse, parents, brother. Angry? Commit her. Post-partum? Commit her. Want her money but not her? Commit her. That's one reason why the Ingrid Bergman character appears so meek. She's afraid of not just going mad, but of being sent to an asylum. I'm glad a lot of TH-camrs are reviewing this movie because it explains so well the origin of the term, "gaslight."
Sending a woman to the asylum just because? That's the real crazy! 🤯
a few more movie mentions - too few on YT have reacted to, and are top tier:
The Day of the Jackel
10 Rillington Place (based on true events - wrong man died, the right man died later, but still the former died innocent - and all sadly true history)
Being There
Ordinary People
Breaker Morant (based on true events/history)
- and many more...............the above are great for discovery/starters however.
3-cents.
Oh, I've never heard of these movies before.
Sure, I'll add them too, thanks! 😊
Sociopaths like that treat everyone as objects and tools. His Prague wife would've been treated the same. Hopefully she would be freed by his come-uppance, as well.
I'm surprised Gregory even had a wife. Did he marry her before or after Alice's murder, I wonder? 🤔
Great reaction and so prompt guessing, even about the glove !!! 😮
Congratulations.
Charles Boyer, whom you should have mentioned in your prologue, was nominated for his role as a disgusting villain ; if you want to see him in an opposite role, watch All This and Heaven Too (Anatole Litvak - 1940) starring Bette Davis.
I am glad that you showed Dame May Whitty ❤ along the movie, second or third characters really added interest in those old films.
Glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Sure, I'll add that movie to my list. Thanks for your suggestion! 😉
This was the first movie where I saw Charles Boyer, and he was so good at this role that I hated him. It took several movies, notably "All This and Heaven Too" before I brought myself around and realized how wonderful an actor he was.
Me too! He played a despicable role in this movie.
I recently added All This and Heaven Too. So I'll check it out eventually 😊
I believe the sitting for this movie was supposed to be the 1800s. There was no laws against mental abuse or domestic abuse.
Fun fact: the roar of the MGM lion is not actually a lion, but a tiger’s roar.
16 min - ya Adnoids(sp) - had mine removed at 4 yrs old - nasal infections - similar to tonsils - had the removed 3 yrs later. still alergy invaded. lol.
great to see you watching "oldies" Joe Cotton was top actor (you are watching him here, and in Shadow of a Doubt) but have you seen "the 3rd man"??????? he is in it as well as the master of talent Orson Wells (both were in Citizen Kane BTW). "the 3rd man" great movie.
and lets not forget the other talent of the 40's - Teresa Wright, who was in A shadow of a doubt, but BUT also in two other top tier movies of that time, "The Little Foxes" and maybe the best movie of all time "The Best Years of Our Lives".
other fab prehistoric movies forgotten today that have a message:
Marty
All About Eve
A Face in the Crowd
2-cents.
PS - thanks for covering the "oldies" - i.e. prehistoric BW movie classics - YT in general does not value them, thanks for valuing them.
PPS - there were a few newer movies in color and 70s' era you may value that have been forgotten by mass culture.
Rollerball
Colossis the Forbin Project
The Lathe of Heaven
Silent Running
Planet of the Apes (the other 4 are good too)
The first six movies you mentioned are on my list. I haven't watched them yet, but I will eventually.
I'll add the rest to my list too! 😉
@@henryellow Hi Henry for your replies to me - and thanks for noting my list of great moviea. Let me just say to burn the 9's out - and leave only the top of the top - per "what it means to be human":
"The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) a perfect 10
and
"Nothing But a Man" - not sure if I mentioned that one with you are with another reactor? Its a 10.
The former is honored and remembered as a classic - sadly the latter which is as good as the former - has been forgotten totally today even though it is 20 yrs newer (1964).
There are 50 more movies 99 percent as good - but those two are top of the tops for me.
and of course 1000 more that are good and "8's" - and a million that are ok, and billions of movies and tv shows that are utter trash.
FYI Theodore Sturgeon (1950's Sci Fiction writer) had a personal "law" - per his views (which I share) - "90-percent of everything is crap" - lol. Sad but true..
BTW "Nothing But a Man" is so forgotten that there has been a hidef free to view bootleg copy of it here on YT!!!!!!! for years!!!!!!!!!!!! (just like another insanely good and bleak movie about World War 3 - "Threads"..............another "forgotten gem" - but i warn you - you will lose 2 weeks from your life with each viewing of "Threads" due to its realism of a "post world war 3 world" - I personally saw it 15 yrs ago on DVD - so lost 2 wks then, then in 2015 the bluray limited released was printed - so bought it, since 2015 I watched that bluray 3 times - once eary 5 yrs or so). So I've lost almost a quarter of a year viewing that damned British 80's movie 4 times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
;-/........;-).
oh ya - 3 more bleak - remove weeks from life (they are GOOD movies - but bad for your health).
"City of Life and Death" (2009 - it here on YT - like "nothing but a man" - here because its was never well known - here in hidef - since 7 yrs ago at least) - Chinese movie with eng subs, "new" - 2009 - but filmed in Black and White - about World war 2 and the Jap conquest of Nanking. top 10 movie of all time BTW
"Snowtown" - true story, Australian - bleak as fk, no message - just bleak as hell. 2010?
"Come and See" Russian 1980s movie about fighting the nazis. a top 100.
ok I've rambled enough - if you wish you can take notes of the movies above and view them at your convience.
and thank you Sir for replying to me on the movies we love - i esp love seeing you discover gems I've loved for decades. ;-).
Peace Sir!
I'll include these into my list too! Thanks for your suggestions and thanks for sharing your "life" experience about these movies 😉
third one i’ve seen of yours i’ve seen nearly all the classics since i was 8 or ten on my black and white tv in my room back then only gay boys like me loved old movies, as a general rule even now i only see straight guys on yt who love them - the old lady dame may whittey was indeed in lady vanishes she is always superb you must see her other great films esp NIGHT MUST FALL and MRS MINIVER
spelling WHITTY 1865-1948
I'll add those two movies to my list. Thanks for your suggestion! 😊