Vertigo

Vertigo

  • Director: Alfred Hitchcock
  • Writer: Alec Coppel,Samuel A. Taylor,Pierre Boileau
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: May 22, 1958
  • Runtime: 2h 8min
  • Also known as: Darkling I Listen
  • "Vertigo" is a suspenseful film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Kim Novak . It was released in the United States on May 9, 1958.
    The film tells the story of private detective Scottie entrusted by Gavin Esther to follow Mullen, leading to a murder case. In 2007, the film was selected as one of the "100 Best Films of the 100 Years" by the American Film Institute   . In 2012, the British magazine "Video and Hearing" selected the "Top Ten Film History Films", which ranked first   .

    Details

    • Release date May 22, 1958
    • Filming locations Fort Point, Presidio, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, California, USA
    • Production companies Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $2,479,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $7,705,225

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $252,880

    Gross worldwide

    $7,797,728

    Movie reviews

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    • By Barrett 2022-04-23 07:01:08

      Favorite Hitchcock Movie

      Madeleine an hour ago, Judy an hour later, changed her name and identity but still had the same soul. In the first half, she performed a play with her old classmate to cover up his crime of killing his wife, but in it she inevitably fell in love with the male lead; in the second half, she should have left here with the money given by her old classmate to start a new one. life, but she did not leave the city because of this relationship that should not exist, and after...

    • By Horacio 2022-04-23 07:01:08

      confuse

      Like most of Hitchcock's predecessors, Vertigo's plot revolves around an elaborate conspiracy. Gavin Esther was a shipbuilder and his wife Madeline was a wealthy woman. In order to defraud a huge inheritance, Esther devised a conspiracy to murder his wife. He first picks detective Scottie (James Stewart), who suffers from acrophobia, and tells him that Madeleine is possessed by one of her ancestors who committed suicide, and hires him to keep his wife safe. Scottie stalks his wife. Little...

    • By Garth 2022-04-23 07:01:08

      <Vertigo>

      The style of painting and outfits are so beautiful. At that time, Audrey Hepburn's fair lady style and Gregory Peck's old-fashioned gentleman style were also popular in the United States. It's like watching a picture of sophisticated grace Kim Novak and Vivien Lei looking at an old-fashioned poster of Coca-Cola. It looks like it came out of an oil painting? Always green. ever living vertigo's lines are written down and they are actually quite like a poem. There is no ecstasy but a...

    • By Kailyn 2022-04-23 07:01:08

      Sacrifice and paranoid love or suspense go against Hitchcock's point of view of suspense

      The whole story is a classic "unexpected, reasonable". When I watched Madeleine for the first time, I was telling a sad story. Later, Scotty's despair and sadness after Madeleine's death was also very empathetic. Until the appearance of Judy, the story seems to be sublimated to the top, in fact, it is more like a modern romance. Judy's sacrifice made me have no hope of rekindling their love, and I was surprised by Scotty's transformation , Because of the two previous traumas,...

    • By Camylle 2022-04-23 07:01:08

      Vertigo's Ordinary Non-Professional Perspective

      【Including plot】I haven't watched an old movie for a long time. I have heard that Hitchcock's films are very interesting before, and this time I really experienced it. Ordinary audiences like me, the most direct feeling is that I had a hard time at the beginning, and I felt that the movie was very long. As time goes by, curiosity becomes heavier and heavier - the heroine sometimes seems to have been changed soul for so long before, what is the situation in the end? If the movie were to tell...

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    • By Eloise 2023-09-29 10:46:15

      The kiss scene on the coast of 5.0 simply cannot be surpassed. Blonde...

    • By Annabelle 2023-09-18 17:02:51

      This is a successful case of treating acrophobia with two lives. The suspense is exposed in advance with the necklace, which is suspected to be the subconscious hope of the heroine. The female No. 2 is completely tasteless, and the male protagonist faints too...

    • By Camylle 2023-09-14 17:16:05

      Every time I look at Fatty Xi, it is my duty to find the figure of this...

    • By Frieda 2023-09-13 18:04:22

      8.0/10 points. 2018.08.31, Rewatch, Universal Blu-ray. When I rewatched it, I thought I hadn't seen it, but after watching it, I actually remembered it. . . Kim Novak, a beauty that fits the temperament of the 1950s and 1960s, with broad shoulders and big bones, big breasts and plump girls, with deep facial features. . . The conspiracy is too tortuous, the operation is too strong, and the credibility is not high. . . Afterwards, the girl didn't run and still wandered in the old place. Isn't...

    • By Isabel 2023-08-20 00:50:00

      Really quite amazing first half, the second half is not very fond of, but considering the 1959 shoot this kind of film is already a very...

    Movie plot

    Police Officer Scottie Ferguson developed a fear of heights after being frightened by a miss in a high building during a hunt. Although the physical injury was completely healed, the fear of heights seemed incurable, so he had to resign from the police station and become a private investigator. One day, Gavin Esther, Scottie’s former classmate, came to him and commissioned him to follow his wife Marlen as a private detective. Marlen...
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    Movie Highlights

    When Kim Novak was filming the fall into the water, Hitchcock found that it was fun to jump into the water again and again for Cape Kim Novak. In fact, this shot has reached Hitchcock's standards, but he insisted on making Kim Novak take many shots for fun.
    At the end of filming, the film’s screenwriter Sam Taylor proposed to add Novak’s subjective point of view flashback, but Hitchcock has deleted the play from all copies. In the end,...
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    Piercing lens

    When Scottie turned into the flower shop in the alley, there was no window on the wall to his right. When he got out of the car, the window appeared.
    When Marlen woke up in Scotty's bed, Scotty walked out of his bedroom with a chair on each side of the door. When he re-entered the bedroom, one chair disappeared and the other was moved.
    When Scottie and Mullen were talking on the beach, there was a tree between them. Marlen put her left...
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    Evaluation action

    "Victorius" is a classic of the 1950s. The film is full of mystery and is one of the most frank and confessional works in Hitchcock's control art. In "Victorius", the themes of male desire peep and female self-gaze exist at the same time. The film uses different visual images to well reflect the internal gender psychological structure mechanism that produces visual pleasure in the film narrative (review of "Film Criticism")  .

    Movie quotes

    • [first lines]

      Officer on rooftop: Give me your hand. Give me your hand.

    • Madeleine: [pointing to the margin of a cross-section of a Sequoia who had lived for over a thousand years] Here I was born, and there I died. It was only a moment for you; you took no notice.

    • Scottie: What's this doohickey?

      Midge: It's a brassiere! You know about those things, you're a big boy now.

      Scottie: I've never run across one like that.

      Midge: It's brand new. Revolutionary up-lift: No shoulder straps, no back straps, but it does everything a brassiere should do. Works on the principle of the cantilevered bridge.

      Scottie: It does?

      Midge: An aircraft engineer down the peninsula designed it; he worked it out in his spare time.

      Scottie: Kind of a hobby, a do-it-yourself kind of thing!