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
  • Dee 2022-04-23 07:01:40

    Not the usual reasoning about finding a murderer, but witnessing the characters to discover the crime, everything takes place in the living room, the use of the camera is unique, and the ending is nerve-wracking. The theme is about the influence of World War II, talking about the pros and cons of human beings and the power to deal with life, criminals commit suicide because of arrogance.

  • Barbara 2022-03-21 09:01:40

    James Stewart was paid extremely high, with a budget of 1.5 million and 300,000, but this film was the only work he did not like in the cooperation with Hitch. At that time, he also half-jokingly suggested to Hitchcock that since you made the movie into a stage play, why not pull in the temporary stand to sell tickets to the outside world? ... Personally, I think that the "great significance" of the Soul Requisition Cord is precisely that it uses cunning tricks to pierce the illusion of people's worship of long shots. It's like the reverse of the plot in a Soderbergh thriller: I told you that there was a drug in the water, but it wasn't, but the other party pretended to be in a coma for fear of revealing the truth, but instead exposed it. Reaper of Souls, I also told you in advance that one shot goes to the end. In fact, there are no less than ten light and dark breakpoints, but the audience doesn't care, and still thinks the story is very catchy, so it proves that it has nothing to do with the long shot.

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.