I can’t imagine anyone but Stewart in this role. He’s able to be completely sympathetic and sweet in his obsessive possessive frustrating drive to grasp for the unobtainable
I can only imagine George Peppard as the one actor of this era who could have pulled off the Scottie role and then probably not as well as Stewart did, because Stewart had suffered a lot.
@@yohei72What planet do you reside on?😂 Friedkin, as always, is a knowledgable, fascinating, insightful and down to earth fellow who is a charismatic raconteur...and this is clearly no exception
Love listening to William Friedkin’s experiences and interpretations regarding movies and moviemaking. He’s a wealth of information about action behind the scenes. Yes, he sometimes embellishes the narrative, but it only enhances the story. RIP, Mr Friedkin, you are much appreciated. ❤❤❤❤
My favorite quote from the Basic Instinct DVD commentary: Director Verhoeven: "This shot of her coming down the stair ees a tribute to Vertigo." Cinematographer Renny Harlin: "Vat are you talkeen about? The whole movie ees a tribute to Vertigo! The staircase, gimmee a break!"
No. It is one of the movies film student types love to masturbate to, though. Intellectually AND literally. It has a LOT of those "rule breaking" moments that people with huge egos and small talents and skills like to present as an example of non-existence of rules in art - and thus proof of their garbage being "art actually". The truth is the exact opposite. An artist must know and have full control of rules of the art - technically, emotionally and intellectually - in order to be able to break them in such a way to achieve the intended effect. Break, not mangle. E.g. Lens flare is a flaw unique to photographic tools. There is no lens flare in painting, sculpting or theater. Leaving it in or adding it is a choice which can achieve certain effects - associations of summer, heat, blinding lights of oncoming traffic, glittering of inanimate objects as if they are alive... Dumping it in "because it's cool" we get JarJarist and Snyderist trash. Incompetent egoist idiots producing garbage. Similarly, students of film with no actual talent, little or no skill but with huge egos look at Hitchcock playing with light, color, perspective, animation, extreme closeups... TO PRESENT A MIND THAT IS BREAKING APART... and come out thinking that extreme visual effects are "cool".
It's weird how Hitchcock is much like Stewart's character in Vertigo. Hitchcock couldn't have Grace Kelly so he, like Stewart, made his own version. Not only here but in Psycho and The Birds too.
I already miss Friedkin so much. And I agree about Stewart, love him but felt he was miscast in this. Among the top actors of the time I'd have preferred someone more obsessive and a little younger such as Montgomery Clift, Charlton Heston, or even Paul Newman or Marlon Brando.
Couldn't disagree more (with you or Friedkin--ha ha). Stewart's all-american/boy next door/every man image really helps to bring the audience into the movie, IMO. Not to mention it's some of the best acting ever recorded on film.
Agreed. He looks more like Novak's father throughout. Great actor, but in the VHS version you can see just how much make-up Stewart is wearing (as well as his toupee). Ralph Meeker would have been fantastic in my opinion.
Kim Novak has the right quality for the role and is very good. And more effective than Vera Miles would have been. Miles was Hitchcock's choice for the role.
Kim Novak was so beautiful and sexy and Herrmann´s music is just awesome. What I don´t like so much are all those back projections and matte paintings Hitchcock used to put in his films.
Friedkin has it backwards. Acrophobia does not cause vertigo. If anything, it's the reverse. Vertigo is a condition usually caused by a problem with inner ear fluid which normally enables people to stand without dizziness and be able to walk a straight line. I have vertigo. It causes one to feel unsteady and looking over heights, such as being on the observation deck and looking over, is very mentally uncomfortable. Hence, the vertigo can cause fear of heights. When it's severe, the room and objects literally can seem to be spinning. It's a fear of not being able to prevent yourself from falling. I can fly and look out the window with minimal difficulty. Why? Because I am surrounded by the fuselage. However, if the windows were floor to ceiling, I'd flip out in fear since I would no longer have a visible, reliable barrier in front of me. BTW, I largely agree with his other comments. In fact, Vertigo is my absolute favorite film of all time, Kim Novak is my favorite actress of all time. I cannot see any other actress doing the role justice. I'm glad that Vera Miles did not get the role as Hitchcock originally wanted. I do disagree with James Stewart not being ideal. His chemistry is perfect with Kim.
This is friedken crazy but I am watching RAD right now. Send me an Angel. Huh Anywho, VERTIGO,such a Great movie, excemptified by its Amazing musical score Rest Easy William❤
Reading all those stupid comments about Trump being in a Hitchcock movie, please ,keep you sleazy combover for election days if this is what USA has become ! (and let's have DVDs to watch and rewatch Sir Alfred's movies and his great actors-actresses )!
@@FanfanbalibarI think you've misunderstood the post. Friedkin has a similar accent to Trump ( to British ears at least ) and a similar tone. Obviously William wasn't a wannabe authoritarian bampot but his voice can sound like Trump at times.
12:38 Is it a bit concerning how Friedkin brings up "making love to a dead person"? I mean, if I got a nickel for every time he said it, I'd have 2 nickels... but it's still pretty concerning. And now that someone has mentioned how much he sounds like Trump, I can't unhear it. 11:14 "The audience at this point is completely confused." Is it me, or did anyone picture something out of *Airplane!* Out of context, this is a hilarious line. It's like you're trying to compliment a movie, only to go so avant garde with your compliment that it circles back around and slaps it in the face.
Ehh.. I definitely never felt “concerned” during this video, not even once lol. I think you’re making way too much of what he said there. And there’s nothing insulting about the “audience is confused” line either. Believe it or not, some artists’ intention is not to hand-hold and spoon-feed the audience every step of the way, and is sometimes even to deliberately confuse them a bit.
Although we disagree about the movie as a whole, Friedkin gets to the point of it at 6:41 - "Hitchcock's not interested in the story". That's right, and that's the problem with Vertigo. There's SO much plotting in the movie, almost all of it based on what the villains assume Stewart will do. Seems to me Hitch should've cared more about what story there was. If he had, he might have taken into account that Stewart might just drop off Novak at the hospital after diving in the Bay, would NOT follow Novak up the stairs at the mission, and, most egregiously, have the real killer turn Judy loose after a small payoff ... so that she could blab about the whole affair to the cops later? Hitchcock was better than this. "Mood" means nothing if the story is ridiculous.
Cinema isn't a deduction argument for a mathematical statement. Cinema is a dance between the creatives and the viewer. Good cinema doesn't need to be spelled out. In any form of art, to eliminate the illogical and irrational is to injure it's beauty.
HItchcock movies are filled with plot holes. Logic & plausibility are beside the point. Like Friedkin said, his movies aren't based on the real world, but rather a kind of dream state.
I always found Friedkin to be full of shit, but BOY the crap he pulls out of his ass here. Most of the shit he attributes to Hitchcock's "psychology" IS LITERALLY FROM THE BOOK. But hey, it's nothing compared to Truffaut just making up a story that the authors of the book wrote it in order to sell it to Hitchcock. It's amazing how self-deluding and ignorant film people can be.
AND IT'S AMAZING HOW VULGAR YOU ARE, STUPID,ETC....... SHIT, ASS, ARTETHE MAIN WORDS FROM YOUR POOR VOCABULARY YOU REPEAT HERE, WHERE WERE YOU BORN ? IN WHAT SUBURB. IN A ALCOHOLIC FAMILY, THE WHOLE L OT OF DEROGATORY PERSON !
