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Antonina 2023-05-09 06:41:25
This piece is heavily influenced by expressionism, especially Fritz Lang, which is manifested in a lot of low key tones, shadows, the use of space outside the painting (the two scuffle behind the curtains), and staircase motifs. The first 10 minutes is a silent movie. Subjective shot (knife neon). soundbridge of homogenous images (body...
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Dell 2023-05-01 09:54:33
Britain's first sound film. Hitchcock also made a silent film version. The hallucination of the heroine to the neon light after the murder is very clever. The ending is a bit rushed and owes the audience a...
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Athena 2023-04-25 17:44:44
Let me agree that most of them are repeating what has been done...
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Margaretta 2023-04-19 02:38:31
Audio version, a few montages and shots are...
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Royce 2023-04-17 11:33:13
When the audio technology was handed over, Xi Pang was undecided about whether to make a silent film or a sound film, so he tried to avoid close-ups of the mouth during conversations in order to make a compromise. The killing sequence still continues the silent film routine, while the dining table sequence is a forward-looking use of sound. The details show great talent, but the second half is lethargic and overall unsatisfactory. PS: At that time, there was no front and back, and the dialogue...
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Marques 2023-04-12 15:00:37
I was fortunate to watch Hitchcock's classic BFI restoration of the silent film "Blackmail" with the live piano soundtrack. How many years will this live house-like story experience only happen once? The two years, 1929 and 2013, are connected in series under the action of pianist John Sweeny...
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Tremaine 2023-02-21 05:30:47
Blu-ray repair, 85 minutes audio version. The two versions of silent film and sound film were released at the same time, and it was the first sound film in the UK, and the film was of milestone significance. It is also a typical character relationship structure between the police and his girlfriend, which is similar to the character setting of "The Tenant". The use of props is very refined, gloves, bread knife, two paintings, the arms of the clothes model, the stairs, etc. The narrative is...
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Alphonso 2023-02-09 01:31:54
Audio version. It can be said to be very good, basically integrating the achievements of the entire European film at that time. Mirror confrontation, ashtray montage, shadow usage, spiral staircase cascading, chasing scene composition. Reminds me of "The Goddess" and "The Lowest Man". knife...knife... The classic storyline and final chase scene has been...
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Kacey 2023-01-30 11:10:48
The state is very bad.... a little ill.. The fat man has been on the show for a long time, and the train passengers who were harassed by the children did not forget to protest with the parents of the children | 20191206AH Retrospective Rewatch D'après la pièce Blackmail de Charles Bennett./Version muette /Accompagnement musical par Jacques...
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Marcia 2023-01-25 17:21:27
【Asia Premiere at Shanghai Film Museum】BFI FILM FOREVER is dedicated to...
Blackmail Comments
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Emiliano 2022-10-20 22:36:10
Behind Britain's first sound film is a powerful subversion of traditional narrative
There are always milestones in Hitchcock's sequence - debut, first Hollywood film, first film in color, and so on. In these junctures, Blackmail has been neglected and not given the place it deserves, it was hastily produced in the place of the sound film, and as the first sound film for Hitchcock...
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Wiley 2022-10-20 18:43:13
nonexistent victim
People often think of The Tenant as a true Hitchcock film. And "Blackmail" opened the sound film era for the suspense master, which was also the first sound film in the UK. It now appears that the metaphors Hitchcock fascinated and the details that people relished can be found in "Blackmail", which...
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Tracy: Perhaps its rather fortunate that your little secret only came into the hands of a man like me. Do you know, there are some men who would make money out of a thing like that? What a chance for blackmail. Oh, oh, that's awful. I couldn't do a thing like that.
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Tracy: Look here, Frank, why can't we both of us chuck the whole thing now? I've got nothing against you. You've got nothing against me. Except, of course, I had some cash from you, but, well, I wasn't serious!
