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Frida 2021-10-20 17:23:15

The biggest advantage of watching old movies, especially classic movies, is that I can clearly see what I want to learn. Hitchcock's movies easily make me feel this way. The sound school and soundtrack in the thrilling place, how to imply the turn of the plot, close-ups and editing...all are typical "teaching materials".

During the first conversation between Roger and Van Dan, Van Dan closed the curtains, the light suddenly dimmed, and the atmosphere of horror began. Then Van turned on the lamp behind him. He was carrying the light and his face looked gloomy, but Roger It was illuminated very brightly. Then Roger was drunk. He nearly fell into the sea while driving. The most thrilling shot was a close-up of a piece of sand on the shore with broken wheels. Then he turned around and drove away.

Roger went to the United Nations to find Mr. Tang and found that the man in the villa that night was not its owner. At this time, the spy threw a knife behind the hall and stabbed Tang to death. This was the first naked murder scene in the film. It was unexpected.

What really counts in the textbook is the section where Roger was hunted down by a plane on the country road. I was curious when I saw the illustrations of each shot in the book. In the last scene, Roger was rolled under the truck and the plane hit the truck directly. Roger finally ran away.

Roger lurked into his home on the outskirts of Van Dan (as an engineering student, I have to say that the house is quite bullish). Under the railing, he saw Leonard put a gun behind him when he was talking to Van Dan. A new suspense has appeared, is he going to kill the master? The protagonist is as puzzled as the audience at this moment. The ending was unexpected. He used the heroine's empty gun. At this moment, the audience's attention completely turned to the heroine's dangerous situation.

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last escape on the statue of the president was of course the most thrilling. The weirdness of music also reached its climax at this time. But the ending is obviously predictable (old movie, and old Hollywood movie...) Despite this, I am not at all tired of any of the scenes, whether it is hunting, stalking or the intimacy of the heroes and heroines...because I always It is a new trick that will appear in the next second. Maybe this is the magic of Hitchcock.

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  • Therese 2022-03-22 09:01:13

    The suspenseful techniques that have not settled one after another, from the script to the photography are all at the textbook level. Suddenly I felt that Hitchcock would be quite good in making romance movies, and the way he killed people by airplane was too capricious~~~~~~~

  • Henri 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    With such a huge logical error, this film has become a classic =, = The sound effects are not bad, and every set of skirts of the heroine is very beautiful. As for the last train going into the hole. . .

North by Northwest quotes

  • Phillip Vandamm: Seems to me you fellows could stand a little less training from the F.B.I. and a little more from the Actor's Studio.

  • Bureaucrat: So horribly sad. How is it I feel like laughing?