My favourite actor So many masterpieces... (Including the VERY underrated film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, one of my favourite yet completely unknown movies)
@@JohnnyChicago, I don't think the film has aged badly visually. The clothing and vehicles were part of the times and that's the style that people wore. At least there was more classiness, which is something I think a lot of people need to consider before they come out of their houses dressing the way they do. I think the film has aged better than a lot of the newer films coming out today which looks bad and hasn't aged one bit.
Cette musique a apporté un peu de lumière, d'émerveillement et d'humour dans une période d'obscurité et de lassitude dans ma vie. En l'écoutant de nombreuses années plus tard, ma sensibilité et mon admiration que je ressentais pour elle grandirent. Écoute difficile au début, Herrmann oriente la direction orchestrale de son intelligence écorchée, jusqu'à ce qu'il vous entraîne inévitablement dans son univers. Chaque écoute révèle un peu plus son mystère, sa magie. Leur œuvre devient inéluctablement intemporelle "Impériale"
You're close. He had just finished the final parts of the score for Taxi Driver on December 23rd. He died on Christmas eve, 1975. Obsession was his second-to-final score.
One of the most beautiful films and one of the most beautiful music in the history of cinema, actually. For those who saw it (many times like me) and loved it, we would all have liked, I think, a different end, more beautiful, for the main interpreters of this beautiful film of Love and Suspense that keeps you in suspense until the final denouement but the end, terrible, falls like the ax of a divine justice that has nothing to do with feelings human beings and desire.We do not come out quite unscathed from this movie that leaves us a taste of bitterness and desolation in the heart and as the "hero", images that haunt us and that we replay in a loop without finding a favorable outcome or any redemption.Admirable!
This is like a modern version of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. The climax and the musical tone.. I causiously presume it had some influences on this and Bernard Herrman himself
i’m so happy reading this comment! i thought the same thing and wondered if i was alone. it seemed so fitting - a theme of longing, a story about two characters who love each other dearly but it could never be. the parallel is super interesting to me!
If you LOVE this... you've gotta check out his music for "7th Voyage of Sinbad" ... especially the "Overture" and "The Princess" are ultra-romantic classics...
+Paula Perez i think you'll find similarities in music progressions with all Romantic composers, which is the era Herrmann loved the most. I think you've just picked up on a progression with your ears.
Indeed. I hear some parts of Puccini's intermezzo from Manon Lescaut as well. Anyway, great music is always related to some other music - if you allow me this truism.
+ZiPolishHammer It would be an homage, if the music was reapplied into a complimentary context, or if the action on-screen clearly referenced the action of Vertigo. The Artist just exploits Herman's score for its emotional power and lays it crudely over the climactic suspense scene without any visual or thematic link to the source film that originated it. Saying, "Vertigo is an old movie and The Artist is about old movies" is not justification. The Artist has nothing to do with Vertigo; it just steals its music.
just listened to Wagner's Libestom from Triste and Isolde and sure enough, Bernard Herrman's work does not hide its source of origin at all. But in place of a mere homage or pastiche, I dare say that Herrman advanced and refined Wagner's masterful work, while reverently keeping true to its essence... I believe that in 100 years from now, Bernard Herrman will be treated as one of the great master composers of this era, equal alongside past giants like Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven.
Again and Again ,it' s never ends ...When you have a deeply ROMANTIC Soul, this Masterful Musical Composition which has made a mark in the History of Cinema is a Suffering when you remember the scenes of the film, this feeling clings to You and does not leave you, overwhelms you and leaves you almost panting like the miserable main character, marked for life by this terrible Drama who loses for the second time, the Love of his Life but this time, definitively...
I encountered this track when I watched "The Artist" film years ago. Due to nostalgia, I decided to search more into this and yeah, I should honestly watch Vertigo. Besides, "The Artist" still is one of my favourite movies so it's safe to assume that Vertigo will be amazing.
Yeah, if you haven't watched Vertigo yet you definitely should. It's aged really well in my opinion, and is considered one of the best movies of all time for a reason.
I cant stop watching the films over and over all masterpieces and music wonderfully sets the scene. I used to own every Hitchcock film wver made alas lost all my sentimental items.❤
Okay, okay, okay. Let's cut to the chase. I do not particularly enjoy being made a fool of, especially in front of others (I watched VERTIGO with my roomate in the movie theater in Lima, Perú). My only consolation is that, back in 1985 I was about 22 or 23 years old. Hence, blame it on the naïvité and unsophistication proper of that age! It comes with the territory. But it's okay. You know why? Because, due to the fact that ALFRED HITCHCOCK got me SO GOOD, that I most definitely and without the shadow of doubt, I humbly accepted him as one of the few true cinematographic geniuses of the XX Century. Yep. Yep. Yep. It hadn’t even been half the movie when Madeleine jumped from that tower and, well, the female protagonist was gone. "Now what?" I said to myself? Oh, boy, more than an hour of the movie still to go and the film was over! What a waste of money! What a waste of my time. Or was it?.... Because, when I finally realized who Judy actually was, I started having serious problems with my jaw because, never before had it dropped so deep SO fast! OMG! If I remember correctly, I think I felt goosebumps all over (it was dark in the movie, so I didn't actually see them). Yep. Yep. Yep. From then on, it was a nonstop, SALVE, Alfred Hitchcok!
Many of us would have liked to know such a beautiful love story but at the same time, no one of us would have liked to be in the place of the miserable "Hero" and the tragic end that awaits him. ...
Bernard Herrmann était un génie. La musique de Vertigo peut se comparer avec ce qu'il a fait plus tard pour Fahrenheit 451, de François Truffaut. C'est d'un style similaire.
Has anyone noticed the similarity that the soundtrack to Inception has to this theme? I'm thinking in particular the final track on the Inception OST titled "Time". Seems like Zimmer was making a little joke about "vertigo" perhaps.
+Saifongjunfan Used to illustrate a similar transformation as Isolde's. In that moment she becomes his ideal and dies as a person. Similar to Isolde in the Liebestod
2:57 Unfortunately I heard this music in an absolutely hilarious SNL skit called Greenhilly when I was a kid and it kinda ruined this scene for me when I finally saw Vertigo.
Bernard Herrmann's score for Vertigo is one of the great achievements in cinema. With that said: except for elements of Kim Novak's haunting performance, I've found it a difficult film to enjoy According to an interview Hitchcock gave to Francois Truffaut, Hitch blamed the bad early reviews for Vertigo on the fact that 49-year-old Jimmy Stewart looked too old to play a convincing love interest for the 24-year-old Kim Novak. In a recorded conversation with director Henry Jaglom, Orson Welles said that Vertigo was "worse" than Rear Window. (Mr Welles had mixed opinions regarding both Hitchcock and Stewart...among many others in Hollywood.) As it turned out, Vertigo would be the fourth-and-final movie Alfred Hitchcock made with Jimmy Stewart.
