Alfred Hitchcock's Use Of Suspense In Film

Alfred Hitchcock is the master of suspense as we have learned over the course of this semester. Three main things that we’ve in his movies were; he would use mounting tension, as seen in rope; he would use the grand reveal as seen in vertigo; and he would balance his suspense with humor as seen mostly in north by northwest. These three things could all be considered suspenseful, especially around the fifties and sixties.
The first style of suspense, mounting tension was shown in rope. One secret of suspense is called dramatic irony, which is when a character says something that is only relevant to the audience, major uses of this trick are displayed at the end of the movie where Brandon will prod at a character in a way that only makes sense to the viewers which allowed tension to build as you wanted the character to find this information out. You then sit at the edge of the seat until they find out …show more content…
This is your main thought. In addition, you have this added value. You watch the woman resisting being changed back. . . . Now you have a woman who realizes this is a man who’s practically unmasking her.” The beginning part of the movie where you are left clueless followed by an exposition block helps to increase the suspense by making Scotty seem more pitiable and pathetic, as you learn he was taken advantage of, the real suspense then follows afterwards as Hitchcock said by wondering what he is going to do