The creation of a classic style

Agnes 2022-03-24 09:02:11

Over dinner, Uncle Charlie complimented small town life in Santa Rosa, California, where he said the women were hardworking, not the rich, spoiled women of the city. Then came a vicious monologue:
"These women, these useless women, what do they do? In hotels, in the best hotels, you can see thousands of these women every day. They Eating money, drinking/losing cards, having fun all day and night. Smells like copper and only shows off jewelry. These horrible...fat, old, greedy women."
That's a very powerful finishing touch in the film A scene, not only is the process of little Charlie confirming that his uncle is the murderer, but also makes the audience have the same suspicion, bringing us closer to the same conclusion as little Charlie. This scene also suggests that Charlie is a little crazy; his murder is not just for theft, but with a deep hatred of women.
In this scene, director Hitchcock's close-up framing endows the scene with a unique power and gives the audience a great shock. In "Silence of the Lambs", Jonathan Demme also used this technique to film the murderer Hannibal Lecter, deeply bringing the audience's mood into the story.
"Breathless" director Jean-Luc Godard praised: "He (Hitchcock) made the whole world tremble. At the same time, he made the thriller a literary work."

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Extended Reading
  • Bernita 2022-01-03 08:01:14

    1. Xi Pang's favorite work depicts an ideal Rockwell-style American town and puts extreme evil in it. 2. Teresa White is so beautiful that Joseph Cotton plays one of the most evil villains in film history. 3. Table lectures and slowly approaching close-up shots, smoke-bearing train stations, and library depression angle rising shots and long shadows. 4. The repeated presentation of the "two" motif. 5. Widow Waltz. 6. See also the perfect murder dialogue. (9.5/10)

  • Franz 2022-03-24 09:02:11

    In a Hitchcock movie, there are a lot of jokes in this rare, like the regular dad always discussing how to kill each other with friends who like detective novels, the talkative nerdy daughter, the calculating young son, when The mother said that her brother was spoiled, and the camera immediately turned to her pouting little son, who wanted to die of laughter. As for the main line, it's quite boring. There are some empty scenes of the bustling American street scene in the movie. The visited family is also a typical example of the middle class in the small town. It belongs to Hitchcock's little satire of the American dream system. Widow Qian's serial killer, in the first half of the story, used some fragmentary clues to create his threat, but after the second half of the truth was revealed, the plot organization was very laborious. The male protagonist's performance of assassinating his niece was mentally retarded. In addition, the love with her daughter is inexplicable (but this makes the audience expect him to save the scene in the end, and the actual setting is Xi Fatt's little teasing to the audience), the daughter found out that the uncle she admired was the real murderer. , it stands to reason that the second half should be a tight-paced duel between uncle and nephew, but this expectation is obviously not satisfied.

Shadow of a Doubt quotes

  • Emma Newton: Well, for heaven's sake, don't talk about women like that in front of my club! You'll be tarred and feathered.

  • Fred Saunders: We play games. I ask questions and she knows all the answers. The only trouble is I can't make out what she knows and what she's making up.