Personally, I think Hitchcock's works are below the average level, but there are still many fantastic ideas. The film was shot on 1959.
Hitchcock just finished filming "vertigo", which is the deepest and darkest film with Hitchcock as the theme. It's cold, confused and tragic. Of course, such a film will not be very popular with the audience. Therefore, "Northwest"
"North" was made into a film with no connotation and pure entertainment nature. This is Hitchcock's first thriller, which was later imitated by 007 series and many movies.
In the plot of the film, North by Northwest is very similar to his other early work, Thirty-nine Steps. The innocent hero is mistaken for his own identity, and then both the bad guys and the police chase him down, meet the girl, have love and have a happy ending.
The opening part of this film seems to be very famous. The lines like racing cars have evolved into the glass walls of the United Nations building, reflecting the real-world traffic. Hitchcock's director shot appears at the beginning, a passerby who missed the bus because he was late.
Highlights include:
The hero hid outside the house and watched a bad guy beat another bad guy with a fake pistol he found.
The hero tried to throw a matchbox with a warning to the heroine who didn't realize it.
But this film is the most classic and is talked about by people. You don't have to watch this film, but you have to watch this part of the scene, which is the scene where the plane kills people.
Hitchcock was very proud when talking about this scene. He said that if someone else designed the plot of dating and killing people, the dating place would definitely be chosen in the narrow and dirty streets of slums, at night, preferably when it was foggy.
In the process of waiting for someone, things like drunks and cats knocking over flowerpots happen from time to time. However, I deliberately chose the date in the big summer, at noon, the sun is shining and the corn field is vast. Neither the murderer nor the victim can be found anywhere.
Hide.
This design is unreasonable from the plot point of view. No bad guy would think of killing people in such a stupid way. But this is the performance of the director's skill. The paving at the beginning shows that the corn field is vast.
The feeling that no one has nowhere to hide. The director kept taking turns to show the protagonist's anxious expression, as well as the empty cornfields and occasional passing cars he saw. Later, the characters appeared more exciting, which was created by the plot on the one hand.
The protagonist (and the audience) is more uneasy and confused, and at the same time, a slightly humorous dialogue tries to alleviate and paralyze this anxiety. Of course, the final climax also fully demonstrated the skills of photography and editing (don't forget this is
59 years). The interval between each charge of the plane and the hero's failure to stop the car gave the audience a more nervous opportunity. Everyone knows that music can be more effective, but this long shot just has no background music.
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It is also worth mentioning that there are two montages in the last shot. First, from the edge of the cliff of Mount Presidential, the hero tried to pull the heroine up, cut her down and pulled her directly into the train sleeper. After a brief lingering, the second montage cut the scene of them lying directly on the bed outside the train. At that time,
The train is entering the cave. ...
For the audience in the late 1950s, it was already very yellow and violent.