Rope

Rope

  • Director: Alfred Hitchcock
  • Writer: Hume Cronyn,Patrick Hamilton,Arthur Laurents
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: September 25, 1948
  • Runtime: 1h 20min
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
  • "Rope" is a mystery film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and John Dall Thompson . It was released in Canada on August 23, 1948.
    The film is adapted from real cases and tells the story of two gay men conspiring to strangle David with a rope, then using the bookcase of the hidden body as a guest table to show off their wisdom, and deliberately giving a lot of hints to the suspicious professor   .

    Details

    • Release date September 25, 1948
    • Filming locations Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
    • Production companies Warner Bros., Transatlantic Pictures

    Box office

    Budget

    $1,500,000 (estimated)

    Gross worldwide

    $10,590

    Movie reviews

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    • By Norwood 2022-06-22 11:42:16

      Rope--The Murder Plan Of Two Criminals

      Even though we knew about the murder in advance and that the crime would eventually be unmasked, we couldn't help but get nervous as the camera panned. The film is really tense. It is adapted from a play script.

      Both criminals have their own faults: Philip is too nervous, Brandon is too complacent, and what he calls the perfect murder isn't perfect at...

    • By Meaghan 2022-04-22 07:01:08

      Reaper of Souls Story Introduction

      Reaper of Souls


      Act 1
      Brendan and Philip kill their best friend David. In order to find excitement, Braden also put David's body in a box at home, and then used the box as a dining table; and then held a PARTY, inviting good friends including David's father to participate - David's father I was supposed to borrow a few books.
      Braden is bold and confident, Philip is timid and cowardly. Although Philip opposed the proposal, in the end he had to listen to Braden.
      The...

    • By Jerald 2022-04-22 07:01:08

      Love triangle, partner, teacher and student. The network of protagonists of an art storm

      The content of this article is only for me to commemorate this movie, it is only my personal viewing experience, and it is not worth mentioning. (So ​​in order to save your time, don't read it below)

      I'm not a professional about Hitchcock, the filmmaking itself, and the many cultural aspects of his story, so I don't judge or understand it, just read other film reviews and materials to understand it.

      And as an ordinary spectator, I can only go straight to the content of the story...

    • By Idella 2022-04-21 09:01:44

      movies to learn

      In a work of art, some can be learned and some cannot be learned. The "learning" mentioned here refers to the form of expression, and it should be the method of narration in the film.
      Hitchcock is undoubtedly the master of episodic films, let's talk about his "Rope" (Rope, 1948, also translated "Reaper of Souls"). This is one of Heath's strange films, one that almost all of the critics dismissed as the most successful, but none of them avoided it.
        Its story is truly gruesome:...

    • By Mossie 2022-04-21 09:01:44

      kill gracefully

      I don't know when I started to know the name of Hitchcock. The movie theater of that year, that big dilapidated house, may have shown one of his films in the dark. "Butterfly Dream"? "Cape Capture"? "Rear Window"? "Catch a Thief"? I don't remember, I really don't remember. But I must have seen this bloated Leo man somewhere, he's so ostentatious and pushy, it's impossible to forget to let me meet him.

      Now I remember, he was sitting in the lobby of a hotel in "Out of the Iron Curtain"...

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    • By Norval 2023-09-11 10:32:44

      Due to the physical limitations of long shots, 8 knives in 80 minutes can only be done in a single-scene secret room space. Deformed things like the Russian Ark that are designed to pretend to be weird and affect the essence of the film are not art at all. Hitchcock, this fat old London man can really...

    • By Chadd 2023-07-20 19:51:43

      The small space and "one shot" make this film so CULT and wonderful, the tense psychological battle from beginning to end, but the character of Joubert is a bit disgusting, and the theory is untenable, Bai let Bolanton fall in love with it , Bolanton performed for a long time, but the central idea was untenable again. Poor. Secretly feel that Bolanton and Philip have homosexual tendencies. ....

    • By Lavonne 2023-07-16 20:35:49

      A murder deliberately disguised as philosophy. Every shot in the film interprets a philosophical...

    • By Dorthy 2023-07-04 19:29:56

      Very powerful creativity. The whole is almost a stage play, but it is very tolerant. The performance is a bit unremarkable, but the application of long shots in the whole play is very...

    • By Dock 2023-06-22 17:55:18

      7.6 points. Long, long takes are a huge test for both the camera and the actors. But the director's pursuit of "stage" makes the film less exciting. The language of film shots is quite helpful to the narrative. For example, a set of shots when James Stewart guessed how the murderer killed is very classic! However, this is a movie from 65 years ago after all. A sense of reverence arises...

    Movie plot

    Brandon and Philip are two college students with homosexual tendencies. The two of them conspired to strangle classmate David with a rope and put David's body in a book box. In order to show off their "wisdom", they spread tablecloths on the bookcases, set up tableware, and then invited the deceased's parents, fiancées, classmates and teachers to a banquet. The banquet was held on David's coffin. Brandt lied about David's going out,...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    During the shooting of "Imperial Soul", Alfred Hitchcock divided a film into eight sections, covering the black screen with a close-up of the character's back or the lid, or using the character's sight as the editing point.
    Alfred Hitchcock adopted the "one mirror to the end" shooting method in "Imperial Soul". In order to achieve the effect, all the cast and crew conducted a 10-day rehearsal before the film was officially filmed.

    Evaluation action

    The plot and theme of the film are unique, but it is insignificant compared with the film’s attempts in film technology. The film is a bold experiment by Hitchcock. He has made unprecedented attempts at the use and effects of long shots, and the entire film almost does not need to be edited, which also breaks the rules of montage. At the end of the film, Rupert's analysis of the case reflects the exploratory nature of the long shot. It...
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    Movie quotes

    • Rupert Cadell: By what right do you dare to say that there's a superior few to which you belong?

    • Brandon: Mrs. Wilson, champagne!

      Kenneth: Oh, it isn't someone's birthday, is it?

      Brandon: Don't look so worried, Kenneth. It's, uh, really almost the opposite.

    • Brandon: I've always thought that it was out of character for David to drink anything as corrupt as whiskey.

      Phillip: Out of character for him to be murdered, too.