Her name is Rebecca

Elouise 2022-03-23 09:01:39

This is Hitchcock's third film I watched after "The Thirty-Nine Steps" and "Bird", and I have some thoughts to share with you.

1. About the critical point of the

film The film was watched in two days, and the interval happened to be the scene where Derwent told the truth. I feel that the whole film is based on this as the dividing point. The first half is the suspenseful part. The atmosphere is weird, it is like a horror film, especially the room where Rebecca lives in Manderley Manor, and Danforth's gloomy The face, the stiff voice, and the white light hitting her face was horrific. Of course, the most terrifying thing is that the whole manor is filled with the smell of Rebecca, and even the air is filled with the smell of Rebecca. You can imagine how terrible this feeling is! The old man has used the light to the extreme here, and the black and white background is really good... The second half solved the suspense, it was Derwent manslaughter, but the wonderful thing is still to come. It turns out that Rebecca is already terminally ill, she Deliberately angered Derwent and ended her life (but one question, why did she do this? Was it to get revenge on him?).

2. Joan Fontaine's performance on several roles

is very good, the excitement and fear of jumping from a low-level person to the hostess of the manor, the depression and collapse of Rebecca's shadow, the love and dedication to Derwent and when she knows the truth Later, I still love him persistently. Joan Fontaine's performance is delicate and moving, which is worthy of praise.

Laurence Olivier also brilliantly performed a good man who turned from love to hate, and finally killed his beloved for the sake of family dignity (I always thought he was a good man, hehe), and played the love-hate relationship to the extreme.

The classmates who have watched this film will definitely remember this housekeeper, yes, Judith nderson successfully portrayed a love-hate relationship, she can destroy everything for the person she loves, and the scene of burning down the manor at the end makes me think about it now Trembling, to love someone will destroy all those who try to replace her. Wouldn't this kind of love make people shudder?

One of the most important characters in the film is Rebecca. This woman has never left the country from start to finish, but she haunts every corner of the manor all the time. I have to sigh that the old man is indeed a master.

All in all, this is a film about love, hate and destruction. Derwent loves and hates Rebecca and destroys her. Danfoss loves Rebecca and therefore hates and destroys all substitutes. At the end of the film, Derwent and his wife are still doomed to be a tragedy, because after the fire at Manderley Manor, the air is still filled with the smell of a woman, her name Rebecc
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Rebecca quotes

  • Mrs. Danvers: [brings out a negligee from under the bedcovers] Did you ever see anything so delicate?

    [motions the second Mrs. de Winter over]

    Mrs. Danvers: Look, you can see my hand through it!

  • Mrs. Danvers: [just as the second Mrs. de Winter reaches for the door] You wouldn't think she'd been gone so long, would you? Sometimes, when I walk along the corridor, I fancy I hear her just behind me. That quick light step, I couldn't mistake it anywhere. It's not only in this room, it's in all the rooms in the house. I can almost hear it now.

    [turns to the petrified second Mrs. de Winter]

    Mrs. Danvers: Do you think the dead come back and watch the living?

    The Second Mrs. de Winter: [sobbing] N-no, I don't believe it.

    Mrs. Danvers: Sometimes, I wonder if she doesn't come back here to Manderley, to watch you and Mr. de Winter together. You look tired. Why don't you stay here a while and rest, and listen to the sea? It's so soothing. Listen to it.

    [turning away towards the window as the second Mrs. de Winter slips out the door]

    Mrs. Danvers: Listen. Listen to the sea.