Seeing singing walking, looking for the devil playing the violin

Libbie 2021-12-30 17:21:42

Xi Fat is second from left


The name has six words, and at the same time, each one is a single syllable. This beautiful name contains simple and clean elements, unfinished rhyme, ambiguity in meaning, temptation and provocation to readers, and it hides great potential for reorganization and extension. Hitchcock felt that he should shoot a third time after taking another shot.

And everyone will not ask for anything else in this work.

Hitchcock was able to wrap his darkness with the most exquisite pictures in Hollywood, turning fright into deeper suspense and fear. For example, the son Hank, the film starts with his trouble-making, and introduces the first suspenseful character, Hank is smart, curious, and obedient, showing all the characteristics of a baby; then when Louis and the heroine and heroine are drinking together, Han Ke sang a cute little song with his mother Joe, and then outside the screen, he escaped into the unknown with Joe’s “I asked a nanny to watch him”. For an experienced audience, it is unknown whether his son In addition to accidents, there is another question, is he not related to the main storyline of the suspense? The fear that I felt when my son was kidnapped was largely due to the fact that similar shots had a lot of foreshadowing before. And after the initial shaping of the son, the fear of falling into danger, and the tension that has been invisible for most of the time, the last scene of singing to save people will be more powerful.

We can even see the song walking clearly


Xi Pang sang. We can even see the movement of the song clearly. This kind of artistic shaping ability is a big gap between him and ordinary Hollywood film directors; and this clarity, to a large extent, prevented him from being recognized by artists at the time.

Although clarity is also a quality pursued by some artists, they also trim themes and stories accordingly to reach the realm of invisible elephants and loud sounds. And Hitchcock is fascinated by too many things, murder, psychoanalysis, sexuality... He is really not a monk. He may still be a demon — he has all the fear, suspense, tricks, all the bad intentions, and knows how to hide him, and he is very humorous — Joe snatches his seat in a rage, and then waits for Ben awkwardly to move his legs. Where to put the moment, you are like seeing that naughty bad boy suddenly obediently tidying the table. When Joe was alert, Ben was impatient, and then Mrs. Drayton immediately stared and turned her eyes to face Ben, and you saw the little demon jumping and laughing while playing the violin. Not to mention two people pretending to hold books in the monastery and complaining to each other, it's time for Joe to attract attention because of his talent as a singer—Doris Day is sometimes more like a child than his sensible son.

The squares here, and the triangles of the theater, are geometric shapes that contain demons.


The film uses the symphony as the background at the beginning of the subtitles, and slowly pushes the camera in front of the gongs. When the gong is hit at the last time, the two circular tiles of the gongs occupy the screen, and the symbolist sees the geometric lines. It will be excited, and he just put it in front as a response, and at the same time, it also makes the two scenes of Morocco and London equally important while not being separated. The exotic atmosphere of Morocco no longer appears after the first part of the protagonists left, but as the place of the mystery, the audience can also see the shadow of the mysterious tree there, and the closed London also casts a mysterious color. Xi Pang may not carefully tear apart people's spirit and desire layer by layer in this film, but he at least let us see how the two cities overlap. It may be the majestic music or the exciting plot that stirs the fantasy of the two cities, but when the two cities overlap each other, the audience is not immune. They can only fall into Greece like the cover of "Victorius". In Ou Kirk, a work that he himself was fascinated by and remade.

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Extended Reading
  • Dahlia 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    Everyone went to see the Thames Parade, and I chose to sit at the BFI and watch old movies. It's actually a chatter movie, and it's making fun of Britons everywhere.

  • Alec 2021-12-30 17:21:42

    Hitchcock's skills in audio-visual language and mastery of control can be a model for suspense films. The concert hall, from the arrangement to the editing of the camera, and even the advancement of the story by the sound, are all exciting and unforgettable.

The Man Who Knew Too Much quotes

  • Edward Drayton: No-one will know.

    Rien: No-one except one.

  • Rien: Will you have the money when I return?

    Edward Drayton: [dressed as a clergyman] Don't you trust me?

    Rien: What is your English proverb? "A wolf in sheep's clothing."