Master's Lens

Grady 2022-03-24 09:01:35

A closed scene, few shots, few characters, and 80 minutes in length make people feel like they are watching a play. Although the script of this film is indeed adapted from a play, the director Hitchcock would never simply move the stage play to the big screen.
He knows best to only let the viewer see what he wants the viewer to see, we don't have to choose, we will enjoy everything he presents to us.
Through his ingenious lens scheduling and several key editing, even if we knew the truth from the beginning, he still kept our eyes away from the screen. For example, when the female housekeeper was cleaning the table, only the female housekeeper went back and forth in the camera. The figure and half of the calm observer Rubert, the existence of others is only through the sound of dialogue, but our hearts have been raised unconsciously.
Similarly, when Rupert restored the crime scene, the camera followed Rupert's guidance and swept through the empty scenes, allowing the viewer to fill in the unrepresented part of the truth with his own imagination.
Some movies will still be watched decades later, probably because some of these movies will never go out of style and will always be worthy of our tribute waiting for us to experience for ourselves.

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Extended Reading
  • Serenity 2022-03-26 09:01:04

    [A] Apart from some strange value debates now, Hitchcock is still able to explain the meaning of "movie" at this extreme under the framework of such a "stage play". The carefully arranged figures are so wonderful after the rhythm of the painting and the aftertaste, creating a more detailed beauty in the omission and blank space. And the classic shot of swinging the door and hiding the rope is even more so. The fragmentation of the internal space, the link of external information, and the meaning of the film are completely constructed at this moment. As for the overall time bug problem (the one-hour banquet ended in less than half an hour), in my opinion, it is another manifestation of Xifa's strength, and it can be compressed with motion under long shots that are almost "space-time synchronization". Time, and as unnoticed as possible by the audience, it is terrifying to think about. In fact, except for those hidden editing points, there are also four very obvious front and back shots in the film. On the surface, it is the destruction of its immersive perception. In fact, it is the simplest and most effective cohesion method at the level of image and text, while the break of the long shot is a Really achieved these three positive and negative fights. The achievements of "Reaper of Souls" are no longer simply summed up as "experimental films".

  • Cathy 2022-03-27 09:01:04

    I heard that Hitchcock later destroyed the film of this film, I want to know why. Is it because he didn't have a chance to appear in the film? O(∩_∩)O

Rope quotes

  • Phillip: How did it feel... during it?

    Brandon: I don't remember feeling very much of anything... until his body went limp and I knew it was over. I felt tremendously exhilarated. How did you feel?

  • Brandon: [referring to his nearly empty glass of champagne] Kenneth, there's too much air in your glass.