I couldn't let Alfred Hitchcock's birthday pass without doing an episode where all of the connections start and end with my favorite Hitchcock film... Rear Window.
Fun video, thanks. I have always loved the look of Rear Window. The sets, costumes and colors are so alive. My favorite fun fact about RW is that the composer across the courtyard is played by Ross Bagdasarian. He became hugely famous a few years later for creating and recording The Chipmunk Song. I guess Bagdasarian was the real David Seville. 🙂 If you remember the end credits of the Chipmunks reboot in the 80's , it says the name Bagdasarian to the tune of "Hot Cross Buns"
Thelma gives us so many memorable lines "I don't care. I've been looked at before" "Just where do you suppose he cut her up?" "If you ask me she's spread out all over town, leg in the east river..." "No one's invented a polite word for murder yet" and "I don't want any part of it."
Thanks. I try to bring it back to where I started on these. That makes it a little more challenging for me, but it also gives me a place to end them. Otherwise I’d just go on forever.
At first I thought WOW, this showed everything BUT, 'Rear Window'!! But after I saw what you were doing, I was impressed. It looked like you strayed from the base story, like alot of uploader's do. Clever😉👍!!!
that scene in Robin Hood where Errol Flynn and Olivia de Haviland are on horses, the palomino horse that Olicvia is riding is Trigger at age 4. He would soon become Roy Roger's famous steed-----if you notice Trigger was a ham even then as he tries to nip Robini Hood's horse.
You could have taken this on many different routes, starting with Hitch's deliberately making the villain Lars look like David O. Selznick, Hitchcock's least favorite person. Rear Window is one of his best, only surpassed, IMHO, by Vertigo.
Thanks. I have a lot of dumb trivia in my head and I regularly spot similarities in movies. Plus I do a lot of research if I can’t find a link that makes sense. As an example, my wife was watching The Revenant a couple of nights ago (I haven’t gotten to that one yet). I walked in on the scene where Leo cut open a dead horse and crawled in to keep from freezing. I immediately thought of Luke doing that at the start of The Empire Strikes Back, and I haven’t watched Empire since it was in the theaters in 1980.
That’s exactly how these get done. The trick is to try to bring them back to where they started, otherwise I think I could go on for hours with some of these threads.
