Robert Walker

Robert Walker

  • Born: 1918-10-13
  • Height: 6' (1.83 m)
  • Extended Reading
    • Caden 2022-03-20 09:01:34

      Hitchcock's Law: Don't talk to strangers

      Similar to the Lumiere Brothers' "The Arrival of a Train", two taxis enter a tall stone arch at the train station at the same time, followed by a parallel montage of cross-cuts, two men in suits and leather shoes, like Two parallel rails meet at the railway station. This is where the wonderful...

    • Kirk 2022-03-22 09:01:34

      The Outlier's Story

      1. Society rejects outliers. Hitchcock's Bruno mirrors the deviants of America in the 1950s: Oedipus, homosexuality, homicide. At the end of the film, Bruno is killed by accident, neither by trial by execution nor by escaping capture. This implies the extreme fear and rejection of outliers in the...

    • Priscilla 2022-04-21 09:01:45

      Hitchcock has long abandoned the concept of "murderer", telling you who the murderer is early, and is not keen to find the murderer. So the next episode may be the protagonist's dealings with the murderer, or it may be for the audience to watch how the protagonist of the authorities and fans discovers the truth. One of the ways Hitchcock's films endure is to channel the audience's nervousness about "finding the murderer" into the rest of the film. But as far as "Stranger on a Train" is concerned, the frequent editing of the protagonist playing a tennis match and the murderer looking for a lighter at the train station is the most nervous moment in the whole film.

    • Jane 2022-03-25 09:01:06

      The murderous impulse in everyone's heart, several wonderful images: 1.Bruno strangled Guy's wife through the reflection through his glasses; 2.Guy saw Bruno waiting for him on the empty steps in the distance. Shots; 3. During Guy's game, all the spectators' heads turned back and forth with the tennis ball, but Bruno was stationary; 4. The high-speed spinning merry-go-round

    Strangers on a Train quotes

    • Guy Haines: Doesn't that bloodhound ever relax? He sticks so close he's beginning to grow on me - like a fungus.

    • Bruno: I have the perfect weapon right here: these two hands.