Very Hitchcock, very pioneer

Alayna 2022-04-19 09:01:42

In terms of genre, it's a standard Hitchcock movie. Different from other Greek-style suspense dramas, this film has a scene explaining who the murderer is from the very beginning, and its suspense is arranged to follow the murderer's perspective to track how the crime was discovered.

The entire movie takes place in a Manhattan apartment. The scenario is very simple. The progression of the plot is all based on dialogue. In order to "play with the heartbeat" after a self-confessed perfect murder case, two talented Harvard students invited their classmates and school professors to have a party at their home, and they were finally played by Stewart, a film fanatic, as a suspicious person. The professor found clues, and as a result, the crime was exposed.

This film is Hitchcock's earliest color film, and it is also an original film in the use of long shots. The entire film only uses 11 shots, only 11 cuts, and a few are soft cuts (the editing method that shows the continuity of the shot by panning the lens to the dark place), which can be clearly seen on the screen There are only 4 editing scenes, and it can almost be regarded as a peculiar movie in one shot.

Two Harvard high school students are gay, but the movie did not explain. America was much more conservative then than it is now, and audiences weren't ready to accept homosexuality in movies.

In addition, the heroine's appearance is amazing, but this actor is unknown, and some information about her cannot be found on the Internet.

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  • Katlynn 2021-11-13 08:01:22

    A man kills a cannon fodder man with a man who dreams of him in order to impress the man he dreams of... The man who dreams of him is a waste of wood, and the man he dreams of is a cynic... It is about this stupid man that should be used to write a fan. The story... ps. The American language in the 1940s doesn’t seem to sound as bad as it is now? ...

  • Meaghan 2022-04-22 07:01:08

    8.5/10. ①Believing that he is Nietzsche's superman, Blanton, who likes to kill with art, and Philip, who is obsessed with him, killed their classmate, put him in a wooden box in their apartment, and then held a party in the apartment and invited their teacher Ru Burt, the classmate's aunt, father, fiancée, and others, used this to add to the "artistic" of the murder. ②The movie consists of 10 long shots, some of which are connected by blocking transitions. Although there are hard cuts in the middle of the movie (it is a pity that the "pseudo-one mirror" has not been realized), the overall continuous space-time still creates an oversized "bomb in the room". However, many transitions/subplots in the plot dilute the suspense and tension of the bomb in the continuous time and space (such as the part where Jenny complained to Kenneth because he invited him), which greatly reduces the meaning of long shots. In addition, the movie is continuous time and space, that is, more than an hour, but outside the window has changed from day to night, which is a time bug. Overall, it was a relatively unsuccessful experiment. ③ In the latter part of the film, Rupert's subjective long shot is used to express his thoughts on solving the case. Wonderful.

Rope quotes

  • Mrs. Wilson: Mr. Cadell got a bad leg in the war for his courage. And you've got your sleeve in the celery, Mr. Phillip.

  • Brandon: There's champagne in the icebox.

    Mrs. Wilson: Oh, we're not giving them champagne?

    Brandon: We are.

    Mrs. Wilson: Oh, well, it's going to be that kind of party. I'd better doll up a little.