The two primary suspects of the Clutter case, Richard Eugene Hitchcock and Perry Edward Smith, were arrested on December 30, 1959 for driving a stolen vehicle in Las Vegas, Nevada. Alvin Dewey, the KBI detective assigned to the case, was informed by a colleague that the suspects were arrested, fearing that he would lose his chance to interrogate them, he decided to drive to Las Vegas. When first questioned about their involvement in the quadruple homicide, both suspects deny having anything to do with the horrific crime and recount a phony story they had conceived and thoroughly rehearsed. Perry is the first to succumb to the detective's scrupulous questioning, and proceeded to recount what really occurred on the evening in question. Hitchcock…
Each of the elements of drama in the story help it know what happens in the story. Like when Ronald swerves on the Brooklyn Bridge and barely misses the Hitchhiker, Ronald does not know that he is dead and the audience does not know that Ronald is dead. The sound of him swerving is when he crashes. That is the only reason the audience has to believe that Ronald died on the Brooklyn…
I called Ms Hitchcock and she wanted to share two concerns. First, that she still needs assistance with CV to stay away from multiple psychological, mental and controlling abusers, specifically, from her stepfather and the father of her child, Jacob.…
Even though we, as the audience know that the main characters don't survive, the way he stages these close-calls makes the viewer uncertain as to what the ending will really be. This technique also helps to showcase the tragic flaw that makes up the tragical Romeo. In the actual death scene itself, Luhrman did an excellent job of showing the passion, misfortune, and sorrow of the film. There is some debate on the change that Luhrman made concerning if he did Shakespeare's original play justice. The fact that Friar Lawrence didn't even appear is a crucial factor that was not included in his adaptation. Luhrman did this to illustrate the romance of such a dramatic scene in the final act of the movie, without the interruption of Friar Lawrence to destroy the sad beauty of it . At the end of the day Luhrman's interpretation of the play was a extraordinary, contemporary, and beautifully…
The only sound playing is the rapid flapping of the soft black feathers. It feels as though it will never cease. All that is shown is a black, shiny wall of furious birds. It traps viewers and develops a feeling of helplessness. They feel as though they are suffocating from torn feathers cluttering their airways even though their rational side tells them none of it’s real. This is what audience members of the movie, “The Birds”, reported feeling during the immersive experience. Some felt so claustrophobic that they had panic attacks. Cinema: the art of tapping in to an audience’s deepest emotions and using it to provoke a specific sensation. Few are able to master this fine art, however, “The Birds” by Hitchcock is a perfect example of a…
In the novel Rebecca, du Maurier uses techniques, such as dialogue and setting description, to create suspense and tension. But in the movie, Hitchcock uses different techniques, like music and scenery, to create the right kind of suspense and tension for his audience. The plots are the same, but the techniques are not.…
According to The Film Experience " … a film bears the creative imprint of one individual, usually the director …" and that it " … is taken to reveal the personality of its director …" such that the director is referred to as an auteur (p. 464). Certain decisions made by the director Alfred Hitchcock to employ similar idealistic themes throughout the movies Psycho, The Birds and Rear Window let him express his creative style. Voyeurism is undoubtedly the most recognizable feature in Hitchcock’s movies, similarly addressed in each movie in the form of an assault, where the audience’s dimension of voyeurism feels somewhat compromised as the characters of each movie are poetically punished for their voyeurism following an eloquent, skin crawling suspense, causing both the audience and characters to reflect and question the voyeurism we are somewhat predetermined to do.…
The Life of Alfred Hitchcock "Always make the audience suffer as much as possible". Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was one of the first celebrity director. Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1899 in Heytonstone, England. His early life could be compared to a Charles Dickens novel full of hard work.…
Rear Window is a 1954 suspense film, which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was written by John Michael Hayes. The film starts James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter and Raymond Burr. The plot of the film is about a photographer who confined to a wheel chair after being in a racecar accident because he was trying to take a picture. Jeffries is the main character the one confined to a wheel chair is also in love with Lisa Fermont his girlfriend. However, Jeffries does not want to get married because he is afraid that after getting married he would have to give up his photography career and freedom, because he thinks that Lisa Fermont is not physically prepared to travel with him. After being stuck in his apartment for…
In the case of Edgar Sawtelle, Edgar believes his father was murdered by his own uncle, Claude, but has trouble proving this because of lack of evidence. Throughout the novel, Edgar tried to prove his uncle guilty after first suspecting he was the murderer by following up on his uncle and trying to spark a reaction by recreating the scene. To express his theme, Wroblewski’s novel, was an allusion to the Broadway show Hamlet. Not only does he base most of his characters names off of the play, but he also has a very similar plot. Hamlet’s plot was also about a boy’s father who had died and had suspected there was foul play involved between his father and his uncle after being approached by a mysterious ghost. By making his novel an allusion to Hamlet, this further expresses his theme by giving the readers an outside source to further their understanding about the plot. Another main literary feature used in this novel to express revenge and the goal of getting justice was shown by using foreshadowing. Between the bickering and the arguing of his father Gar and Claude, and the sudden death of Gar, it wasn’t too hard to predict who had done it. The reader would likely get a sense of what was going to happen and how it…
Shakespeare uses foreshadowing and foreboding to hint to the audience at what the lovers' fate will be. We know something bad is going to happen because Shakespeare uses language like "severing clouds in yonder east:" and "nights candles are burnt…
First of all, it is evident that the very detailed description cannot translate to cinematic form. To replicate this, the suspense is portrayed through the faces of the young actors who are, in my view, simply not talented enough to be able to properly bring out our emotions with the poorly performed dialog.…
Setting and mood are methods of direction that can change a film's ambiance and bring on an adundance of intelligent thoughts. Hawke and Branagh both reproduced Hamlet with a setting and mood that were both appealing for an audience. For instance, Hawke created a film much unlike Shakespeare's play with a modern day setting. At the start of the film, the mood was set using modern visuals and melodies. Then a soliloquy of Hamlet was seen stating his troubling inner emotions. These scenes created a mood of youth and despair which eventually would become very effective in the plot of the film and the development of Hamlet's character. Branagh's version created a setting and a mood similar to Shakespeare's original play. The beginning of the play opened with two guards waiting for the appearance of a ghost. Traditional music and dark visuals like a statue of Hamlet's father created a mood of darkness and anxiety. This gave the film suspense which was much needed for the story. Clearly,…
In Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Alfred Hitchcock creates many moments of suspense and mystery. Throughout the entire film the audience is taken through a ride of high moments of suspense and filled with a large impact of mystery. Personally this is one of my favorite films and I really liked the film imagery that Hitchcock used throughout the film. There were many moments where Hitchcock used a variety of his infamous techniques of cutting between scenes. In fact, Shadow of a Doubt was one of his favorite films to direct. In one of his interviews with Peter Bogdanovich, Hitchcock compared the cutting of scenes as music notes. He even once compared himself to an Orchestra Conductor, who is in charge of making sure each scene heightens the audience’s…
Because of the camera framing, the viewer can identify the main characters. The use of close up shots draws attention and focuses on the characters to show their expression and emotion. The use of low angled long shots gives a sense of drama and tension. Also, the body language of the characters helps communicate with the audience in addition to their speech.…
