Blackmail

By 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 personally and in the UK, it seems Not as dazzling as "Rear Window" and "Psycho", but still has an extremely important...

By 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 strongly suggests that this is his first masterpiece.

       Some of the montage techniques in the film are unusual by any standards even now, especially the opening 15 minutes. This is...

By Talon 2023-09-25 02:15:17

The first time I watched the premiere... It is said that a lot of celebrities came.. But... Few know each other... Xi Fat's consistent style... The live soundtrack is a bit out of...

By Nestor 2023-09-22 06:16:35

The victim is not lovely; the murderer is not lovely; the blackmailer is not lovely. . . Although Xi Pang is Mozi's first idol, even though he was born in 1929, he is still 3 stars. It must be admitted that there are many wonderful shots: the use of soot to imply the passage of time; the killing of people in the off-painting space; the superimposition of the dazed...

By Madisyn 2023-09-14 17:28:27

Britain's first sound film. The picture that I see has been repaired, and it may be the same now. . At the end of the story, it was not clear how the woman got out of the...

By Emmitt 2023-09-12 14:58:21

It's quite good, especially in the few scenes in the painter's room, the performance of female characters in Lao Xi's early works has always been very flawed. Thanks to the excellent heroine, this part is in place, the movements are not broken, and the performance is accurate and rhythmic. The ending is meaningful and beyond my expectations than the plot. The sketches are much better than some of the early big scheduling works. Samsung and a...

By Lizzie 2023-07-23 20:04:54

On the occasion of the opening of the Shanghai Film Museum, Studio No. 5 did a great event. The projections, manuals, masks, and introductions were all meticulously done. The newly restored silent film version was accompanied by FM3 electronic music. The long shot of going up the stairs, the terrifying close-up of shrugging arms, the shadow of getting up and strangling the neck, and the chase of the dome in the great long-range view are all deeply impressive. It's just that most people can't...