After the Hitchcock & David O. Selznick contract, Selznick & Hitchcock were both control freaks and their collaboration wasn't pleasant. Hitchcock set up his own production company to be free to create. Hitchcock's first film for Atlantic Pictures was the experimental film "The Rope", which consisted of a single long shot, which was also Hitchcock's first film. Chicock's first color film, "The Rope" is a typical Hitchcock film, with two typical elements of Hitchcock - a suspense film with the theme of guilt and psychosexual disorder. "Under the Capricornus" is a far cry from Hitchcock's iconic suspense, a costume drama where Hitchcock plays like a toy, and in some ways he also reinterprets what he shot for Selznick , which defines a film in color: it borrows some elements from Rebecca from The Butterfly Dream, and finally it recreates the long-take aesthetics similar to Rope's, but this time it doesn't make them into one uninterrupted shot; Hitch Kirk used characters from other films to create characters: Millie, the jealous and evil housekeeper, from Rebecca 1940, the jealous butler Mrs Danvers' sister, Henrietta from Notorious 1946, Alicia The cousin, played by Ingrid Bergman, has a woman who tries to poison her because of her guilty past and is saved by an outsider who loves her. Before the Governor's Ball, Flusky suggested that his wife Henrietta wear a ruby necklace to match her dress, and when Charles, who was taking her to the ball, thought green was better, the camera moved slyly behind Flusky, showing him hiding in his back hand. A string of ruby necklaces, which is similar to Suspicious in "Deep Suspicion" The use of the glass of milk is comparable to the use of objects but here symbolizing an emotional state, the ruby is a symbol telling the viewer his loyalty to Henrietta. The evil housekeeper is from Rebecca in "Butterfly Dream", the consequences of poison being mistaken for alcoholism are from "Beauty's Plan" notorious1946, and I think "Vertigo" vertigo1958 is a direct beneficiary of this film's experiment. Those long takes are like the long gallery scenes in Vertigo vertigo, like making a movie for the sake of it, in Hitchcock's The Ropes or Orson Welles' Citizen Kane's long takes than do it here better. While the upper part "The Ropes" was a box-office failure, "Under Capricorn" was an outright fiasco, and the box-office failure annoyed Helmer, and even film management withdrew the film. In Hitchcock & François Truffaut Interview, Alfred Hitchcock Criticizes Under Capricorn 'I Don't Deal With Costume Painting' Which Could Explain Why It It is the least seen film by the director, the worst Hitchcock film. Hitchcock blamed screenwriter James Breedy for the reason, the original novel Helen Simpson's 1937 "Under Capricorn" is a comedy, and audiences who have read the original novel expected comedy; Misguided by the expectations of the suspense film, it turned out to be a psychological drama, and both audiences were disappointed with this costume film; perhaps also because the heroine Ingrid Bergman & the Italian director of the neorealist film Roberto B. The Rossellini scandal came to light, and Ingrid Bergman herself became a box-office poison. Although the French have always considered this to be a great film, this view is not universal, such as Truffaut raving about it but also aware of its limitations, such as casting. Hitchcock returned to thrillers after Under Capricorn, and the next two films were black and white. I don't think it's close to 2 hours that new information is revealed to the audience through the camera to advance the plot and solve the mystery until the actor's lines reveal the mystery, which is already very late in the film; Henrietta obviously fell in love with it at the same time Husband & Charles, but the movie doesn't handle it well enough for the audience to be confused, both men play lead roles in the movie; if the focus of the later plot conflict is set so that if Henrietta insists on her confession, she Will be deported back to Ireland to face trial, and if he doesn't insist on his confession, Flusky will be hanged for a second felony, and there is also a moral dilemma for Charlie Adare: saving Flusky will lose Henrietta, Saving Henrietta will lose Flusky, which is also Hitchcock's third element - the triangle relationship. The strength accumulated for so long in the first half is powerless later, there is no conflict and rhythm, making people drowsy . / In a small 19th-century Australian town, Ingrid Bergman & Joseph Cotton (both have worked with directors before: Bergman's Fascination, The Beauties, Cotton's Shadow of Doubt) ), played by Joseph Cotton as Sam Flusky, a wealthy Irish landowner who was sentenced seven years ago for the murder of his wife's brother and fled to Australia together. Cotton was the home of Ingrid Bergman. The coachman, Cotton plays a lowly, rude, sullen spouse. Irish immigrant Charles Adare Adare (Michael Wilding) Playing, the ailing British actor whose ex-wife is Elizabeth Taylor), a graceful and dashing Irish gentleman, cousin of Cecil Parker, the new governor of this small Australian colony, who hopes to make a fortune in Sydney without a penny, Will Ding wilding met Cotton, a successful but notorious wealthy landowner, through the introduction of the banker Guzman, and was invited to dinner at Cotton's house. Here are a few good long shots: In the uninterrupted rhythm, wilding plays The charles, to the groom, who wouldn't want to stay a minute longer at the spooky gothic Flusky manor "white house" for dinner, stood on the porch and followed Cotton from room to room to the servants. Order, plus the housekeeper Millie played by Margaret Leighto, excellent performance of the cruel and manipulative pua housekeeper, the housekeeper fell in love with the male host Cotton, poisoned the hostess Inge Ingrid Bergman, and instigated the male host to doubt the relationship between Ingrid Bergman & Wilding. During the dinner, wilding discovers that Adare Henrietta, played by Cotton's wife Ingrid Bergman, had known each other since childhood. When Erding wilding took the heroine Henrietta to the ball, Flusky jealously went to the Governor's Ball under the instigation of the housekeeper, and humiliated the three of them in front of the Sydney upper class. After returning to the manor, Ingrid Berger Mann told the truth of the past. It turned out that Flusky was guilty of manslaughter for his wife. Flusky also accidentally shot Charlie Adare and faced the charge of committing the second felony and was hanged. Henrietta confessed that he had previously The crime of killing a brother by mistake. The hostess Ingrid Bergman is a bourgeois, evil "white house" prisoner who was persecuted by the housekeeper for several years and nearly poisoned to death. Charles sets aside the colonial social customs he was told to help Henrietta regain. Courage to live, audiences follow Wilding and Hitchcock to rescue Ingrid Bergman from "drowning," a warm, happy, smiling Ingrid Bergman (who, according to Donald Spoto, Hitchcock). Chuck's interest in Bergman was the motivation for making "Capricorn." Donald Spoto is an American biographer who has written many biographies of the film industry, such as Mike in this film. Biography of Wilding & Hitchcock et al), here used a clever metaphor, Wilding put his black coat behind the glass window of the door to "show" Ingrid Bergman her own reflection , Out of self-loathing, she didn't want to look in the mirror and didn't want to see herself. Under Wilding's guidance, the woman bloomed again like a withered petal. / As soon as I lifted the quilt, the Neanderthal head on Ingrid Bergman's bed caught me off guard. /
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