Clifton Webb

Clifton Webb

  • Born: 1889-11-19
  • Height: 5' 10½" (1.79 m)
  • Extended Reading
    • Harrison 2022-05-29 21:09:10

      Resurrected from the dead, this movie is 15 years earlier than "Victorian"

      There is no gratitude and no allowance, and do not easily accept that others treat you well for no reason, otherwise it will be difficult for you to get away if you are trapped.

    • Arjun 2022-09-23 08:22:27

      black

      The film was released in 1944 and is a suspenseful noir film on love. The film starts from the investigation into the mysterious death of a beautiful advertising model Lola. While investigating the relevant people, the detective Mike in charge of this case learned many things about Lola from the...

    • Donavon 2022-05-29 16:06:54

      7/10. Revisit,. Use the division of space to accurately establish dramatic contradictions. For example, in the rest room of a cocktail party, a lady in white stands provocatively robbing a man against Laura who is sitting in a black dress. The contrast between black and white and the height of the diagonal composition show the relationship between strength and weakness; The writer first had a conversation with the detective in the bathtub, and then the writer put on his shirt in front of the mirror, and turned to follow the detective who was two steps backwards. The white pillars and the window separated the two persons who were probing each other with light. After the dialogue, the camera followed the writer. Back in the mirror, it reflects the detective sitting down, a beam of light on the background wall and the brim of the hat covering the eyes of the detective, expressing the unknown side of the writer meaningfully. The narration cooperates with the writer’s point of view to form a contradiction between external behavior and psychological motivation. Laura sincerely asked for an autograph when he first met, and the writer indifferently refused. However, in fact, he was obsessed with Laura. Infatuated, men tried to frame Laura into an ideal appearance. Laura who appeared alive in the door frame broke the male fantasy. The detective angrily used the lamp in the interrogation room to illuminate her true appearance, and the writer accompanied him with his fanaticism. The broadcast sound wanted to murder Laura in front of the dressing table again.

    • Dominique 2022-05-29 11:37:11

      Rewatch, I really underestimated it before, because on the surface the film does appear "literary". Preminger used this calm method to keep the secrets of the character's deepest secrets, but most movies just want to pierce through. It (the movie will end if you pierce it). Although Lydecker's ending proves that he is an unreliable narrator, his narration is also "the truth."

    Laura quotes

    • Waldo Lydecker: Look around. Is this the home of a dame? Look at her.

      Mark McPherson: Not bad.

      Waldo Lydecker: Jacoby was in love with her when he painted it... But he never captured her vibrance, her warmth.

    • Mark McPherson: Why did you say they played Brahms's First and Beethoven's Ninth at the concert Friday night? They changed the program at the last minute and played nothing but Sibelius.

      Shelby Carpenter: I suppose I should have told you in the first place. You see, I'd been working on that advertising campaign with Laura. Well, we'd been working so hard, I just couldn't keep my eyes open. I didn't hear a note at the concert. I fell asleep.

      Waldo Lydecker: Next he'll produce photographic evidence of his dreams.

      Shelby Carpenter: I know it sounds suspicious, but I'm resigned to that by now. I'm a natural-born suspect just because I'm not the conventional type.