While, Stewart’s unbiased and conservative way of writing was very enjoyable, his writing style was not perfect. It is understandable to expand on ideas but, the writing would often fall off topic. Stewart would often go off on tangents, and he would not always reroute back into the main topic. In the same sense, the writing would often jump around and leave you without a complete thought. He also had a knack for focusing on the Three Fifths Compromise, and Small State vs. Big State debate; this was likely due to his contact with law.…
Music and angles are a very key point in films of all kinds. This particular film Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock is a prime example of the importance of camera angles and movies. Director Hitchcock himself said that “33% of the effect of Psycho was due to the music.” That is just the music alone, add in the camera angles and it makes up the majority of the movies suspense! Psycho, is a horror film in which a man named Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) runs a motel, but suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder.…
Movies, books, and short stories all create and utilize suspense in many different ways, shapes, and forms. From the tension and worry feeling shown in movies, to foreshadowing about what will happen in literature. Author Daphne du Maurier and filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock both used many ways to create suspense in their takes on the horror story, “The Birds.” However, only one author utilized suspense the best. Between du Maurier’s short story and Hitchcock's film, Hitchcock’s film did a better job of creating and utilizing suspense with the use of the element of sound, camera angles used in scenes, and the emotion shown through the actors/characters.…
While introducing the characters, the play did a splendid job at giving us an amazing description and a well detailed background of each character with the biography paragraphs that the play provided. However, the descriptions offered does not necessarily give us information about their personality. The personality of a character is important to the audience because the personality of a character is a dependent variable of the audience in reference if the audience likes that character or not. Therefore, the play does a brilliant job at describing the characters, their backgrounds, and history, but the movie offered us more of the character’s personality than that of the…
His two movies rear window (1954) and shadow of a doubt (1943) show clear links and examples to his distinctive style. Hitchcock uses a number of recurring theme and techniques which are easily recognisable. One theme is 'voyeurism' in multiple films. In rear window the film is based off Jeff peering into the lives of his neighbours without them suspecting a thing.…
Composers use distinctively visual techniques to create connections between characters and to examine human experiences and relationships. Through the abundance of techniques, visual images deliver messages that help the audience to gain an understanding of the world around them. Such techniques are portrayed extensively through the rich tapestry of the novella ‘Vertigo’ by Amanda Lohrey, supported by the small, distinct illustrations by Lorraine Briggs, and the poem ‘We are going’ by Oodgeroo Noonuccal. Similarly, both of these pieces explore the concepts of grief, and the importance of the natural world, portraying how each element affects humankind and provides insight into the resilience and our ability to transform after…
Alfred Hitchcock was a film director from England who moved the United States in 1939. He was famously known as the “Master of Suspense”. Hitchcock’s golden years of his cinema career were from the 1950’s to the 1960’s. During this time, he made various famous films, such as Vertigo, North by the Northwest, and Psycho. When we compare these films it’s hard to find something they might have in common.…
The story of Scottie and Judy in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo seems like the typical Hollywood romantic thriller: a man falls in love with an imposter and must come to terms with her deception when her true identity is revealed. Having spent the majority of the film getting to know a blond hair female in a light grey dress, Scottie seems to have fallen in love with Madeleine whose features he sees daily rather than, Judy, the actress. By playing Madeleine, Judy turns her own body into a unique medium, one that Giorgio Agamben would consider vulnerable since it often loses control of forming voluntary gestures, the facial expressions, body and hand movements one makes, and reverts back to unconsciously performing one’s natural gestures. At the…
Throughout the film industry, Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho has revolutionized the horror genre with his ways of merging the obvious with the mysterious. Alfred Hitchcock, ‘Master of Suspense,’ is known for his filming techniques which made his film stand out compared to other horror films during his period. Hitchcock used these techniques throughout the film Psycho to allow the viewers to get an insight of what is happening in the film. One of the most important scenes, where Hitchcock used several of techniques to reveal the film, is the parlor scene. The shot-by-shot analysis of the parlor scene is characterized by dialogue, lighting, symbols, and the four-quadrant rule.…
Psycho (1960) by Alfred Hitchcock thrills the audience with its suspense, and creeps the audience with the mind of Norman Bates. Often times in the film, what makes a scene scary is not with what is shown, but what is implied. The viewers often know more than the characters themselves, full of suspense and anticipation to the fate of each characters. Psycho, being a psychological thriller, ends up having much of the characters having something to hide from other characters, as well as the viewers.…
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.…
Alfred Hitchcock 's 1960 film Psycho saw audiences introduced to a shy, isolated, but derrannged character - Norman Bates. The uncomfortable combination of both sympathy and disgust is slowly revealed through Bates ' history and the events that change him during the movie. Using sound, camera angles, and reorganisation of the generic conventions of horror films, Hitchcock constructed Bates ' character in a way that kept the audience in suspense as to whether he was truly a monster or just a young man suffering mental-instability. Norman Bates was originally written as a middle-aged, overweight, disconsolate man; a character screen audiences would recognise, but not embrace. Hitchcock "permenantly altered the face of the horror-film monster" (Freeland 2000, 161) not only by casting a skinny, fresh-faced Anthony Perkins whom audiences already knew as a young romantic lead, but by inviting audiences…
The Birds, which introduced Alfred Hitchcock who known as the master of suspense, as its director in 1963, is one of the oldest horror films in American history. In my paper, I will analyze the uses of narrative in the movie supported by the signs, images and metaphors. The film told about bird attacks to people who lived in Bodega Bay in California (“Alfred Hitchcock - The Birds 1963”, 2016). These attacks took place in a few days.…
Norman’s monster-like crimes are intensified by the music and lighting in the 1960’s thriller Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock that stem from his longing and attachment to his dead…
I am going to be analysing Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and will be looking at the key concepts of Laura Mulvey’s male gaze (SOURCE), manifest and latent content (Storey, DATE) id, ego and superego (SOURCE) and the conscious and unconscious (SOURCE). These concepts are present in the film and I will be looking at how Hitchcock brings these ideas to life. In Vertigo we are shown the concept of id, ego and superego through the portrayal of the main characters, especially Scottie.…