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North By Northwest Analysis
North by northwest, by Alfred Hitchcock is a thriller that captivates due to the intrigue that raises the plot and the quality of the performance. A publicist is confused with another person. He is involved in a persecution that takes him to several cities in the United States. He is fleeing from people who want to kill him. Along the way, he finds a very beautiful woman who helps him. He ends up falling in love with her without knowing that she is a government agent involved in the case. The scene chosen for analysis contains a lot of shots that vary between the protagonist and what he observes. Everything happens in the middle of a road in a desert. There it is suppose to taking place a meeting between the protagonist and the person whom he is being confused. The scene begins with a stablishing shot that places the viewer. The protagonist arrives in a bus. Then the director uses a master shot where the protagonist is seen on an empty road. We see him analyzing the situation. This is …show more content…
In this shot Hitchcock uses a POV. Again there is an exchange between POV and medium shots. A person gets out of the car, we see this in a master shot that shows us for the first time two characters. They are at each side of the road looking straight ahead. This shot places us in a situation expected and unique in the scene.
While the main actor nears the other carácter, there are used a tracking shot with medium shot of the secondary character. After this and using medium shot is carried out the first dialogue of the scene. Then, we see a POV from both observing the aircraft. This is very important in the scene since the secondary character says to the main carácter how strange seems that the aircraft is spraying where there are no crops. Following this, there is a master shot of a bus that approaches, the secondary character rises and the bus
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