But the husband couldn’t be sure how the police would react. He could’ve been charged. The police might have thought the claim of vertigo was phony and Scottie did push her off. Either way the husband would get away with the crime.
I always felt the green color meant a covetous love. It's not just green, its emerald green like a gem you'd want to possess. I never felt Scotty was in love but lust. He wanted to possess her, another man's wife. Red is a very lustful color and in the red room at the very end of the spiral is this emerald gem Scotty wants to possess. He must have her. That's not love. The image of Judy in black profile against the green. Here Scotty is in love with the idea of love, the green, not Judy, he doesn't even see Judy, here in black profile. It's all about the green color, a memory of her that he still seeks to posses. He only sees the green, the idea of her, not her. When he sees her on the street, he is seeing green everywhere cause he is looking for her everywhere and Judy walks by and the obsession can continue. Was Scotty in love? He'll no! It was all about possession. He asks her to change her hair, he says, "It can't matter to you." I'm not aware of any woman who doesn't care about her hair. This is full obsession/possession mode. RUN GIRL, RUN!
I remember watching this film for a college paper. and wow. I never sought out classic films because I had preconceived ideas about it being “outdated” but I absolutely loved this film (which shouldn’t be a surprise based on its positive reception). this film really changed my perspective on films as a concept within time.
The moment i watched Vertigo, it became my new favorite movie. And Kim Novak my favorite actress. And to think, that the initial choice of Hitchcock for leading actress was Vera Miles, the sister from 1960 Psycho. I don't think it would have worked that well with her. Thankfully, destiny helped both the movie, Kim Novak and Hitchcock.
great essay, as usual! I always felt like Vertigo uses color also too make rather common spaces seem surreal, something that Dario Argento took even further in Suspiria a bit later, setting the path for directors like Wong Kar Wai or Nicolas Winding Refn who achieve a great portion of their visual storytelling through supernatural colors and lights. I think Vertigo might have been a predecessor in that regard.
Billy Chapman, and video maker As a longtrime film and Hitchcock buff, particularly of Vertigo, I haven't read anything, so far, about Saul Bass being a "visual consultant" on Vertigo. The movie was Hitchcock's visual plan, LONG before it was even shot. In fact, Hitchcock had to tell Kim Novak that he had planned the ideas for her wardrobe before it was shot, as he said to her when she told him that she didn't want to wear that grey outfit, for starters. For the record, Hitchcock DID say in an interview that since Saul Bass was interested in the production of Psycho, that Hitchcock let him be "pictorial consultant" on THAT, which he gave him credit for, as seen in the titles for Psycho, which Bass designed, along with his storyboard for the shower scene. Anyone disagree or have recent information I haven't read of in the last 4 plus decades? Bring it on, thanks.
You are wrong, Saul Bass only has credits for the titles shared with John Whitney not as a consultant as in Psycho. The credit and applause for the color are for Robert Burks the Director of Photography of this sublime film.
The film wasn't "voted by Sight & Sound" as the greatest of all time. Contributors to its once a decade poll, film critics in other words, from all over the world, THEIR selection put it top.
Well done I watched another video saying that the green represents the eternal and although I agree with what they said I also love your take on it and agree with yours as well!
1:21 "So that Scottie can be framed for her murder" ? You mean, so that Scottie can witness the faked suicide of Gavin's wife. The green in Vertigo represents rebirth and immortality. As in, the rebirth of Madeleine as Judy, and Scottie's never-ending (immortal) obsession with Madeleine. It also suggests a supernatural ghostly element, as in, Judy is an apparition of Madeleine: rebirth and afterlife. In addition, it also suggests illusion or magic, as in, the first time Scottie sees Madeleine, she's not the real Madeleine, she's Judy pretending to be Madeleine, she is a trick or mirage, and the small amount of green in her dress not only makes her stand out from the red background, but also provides a hint that she isn't who we (and Scottie) think she is. The red represents fear, anxiety, guilt, and danger. Scottie is gradually becoming infatuated with an old friend's wife and the red represents the treacherous path he's choosing to go down. Oh and for the record, Saul Bass didn't act as a "visual consultant" on Vertigo, he was a pictorial consultant on Psycho, which of course was shot in black and white.
First of all, your quality is great. I love it! Did you see Avatar The Last Airbender? I know its not live action and all but it got a lot of potential for video essays.
I'm actually finishing up season 4 of Korra right now! I love Avatar. I have no plans to write anything about it... Mostly because I don't think I can say anything that hasn't been said.
Hitchcock worked intensely with Edith Head to design the legendary grey suit and such spectacular clothes as the Ernie's green and black dress. Ernie's (My parents took me there when I was kid 60 years ago) was always spectacularly red. It was a favorite restaurant of Hitch's so he would have known it well. Saul Bass's role in all this is not very convincing.
what really threw me off is that in these old movies everyone looks the same. It was very confusing at first. also :Because I wanted to continue the video in my phone I typed the exact title of the video in the RU-vid searchbar and the video didn't show up in the results. What is going on there?
Channels with few subscribers are often buried by the algorithm. If you want to see more of my content, generally you should either like the video or subscribe... As for the "everyone looks the same" I think I get what you mean. You just have to understand that back then it was a different style of acting and performances. It's not that they look the same, but think of it like this. It can be easy to lump foreign things into one aesthetic, such as the "Middle Eastern" look, or the "Asian" look or the "African" look, when these cultures are varied and incredibly different... It's a similar thing with "Old Hollywood". It's just your mind isn't accustomed to this style and aesthetic. The more you watch, learn, etc, the easier it becomes to differentiate and appreciate the subtleties.
I showed it to students who had the same problem, especially since all the men look the same, but it was fun for me to explain to them who each of the look alike men are in the film. And i was excited that they loved the film; thank God for subtitles - the were English Kearners whose first language was not English.
Man, turn off the music..! The music itself is fine, but it's BLOCKING SPEECH. (You're supposed to know about film production and yet you're blocking speech?)
I think the ending scene is unintentionally hilarious too, and Rear Window is superior in terms of Hitchcock films... But apart from that I think this film is still extremely good.
@@FilmEye I don't think the ending is hilarious. When I saw the film for the first time it provoked me a strange sensation, but after a lot of viewings of this marvelous masterpiece, I think that Judy at that moment realises mentally that the shadow of the nun could be two options: the spirit of dead Madeleine or the best option for me, she was the witness of the crime and herself the real Madeleine throwed of the tower by Elster's hands and feared by that, she slid down. I agree that Rear Window has one of the best scripts but camera artwork included too, other great masterpiece.
@@FilmEye "Unintentionally hilarious" ending? I'm baffled how you could react that way to a tragedy.... Are you new to watching any classic film made before Star Wars? To be fair, you at least mention Rear Window, from 1954, so that shows some amount of depth, understanding.
