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Spellbound and Marnie

posted 15 years ago by pr1mal_1
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Anyone else notice the similarities between these two films?

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[–] Zvoni 14 years ago

I might be fan of color-phobias, because these two hit me the most alongside Hitch's better known ones.

Amazing movies. Spellbound is 10/10, Marnie is 9/10. Also liked a lot of Dial M. These three movies are not often mentioned.

Spellbound is packed with cinematographic genius and little details like that Dali-stuff and outstanding performance by Ingrid Bergman. One thing I mentioned about Hitchcock-trademarks: There were no nagging old lady in this one.

[–] Doctor_Mabuse1 13 years ago

One might see MARNIE as the mature expression of the core idea of SPELLBOUND.

Doctor Mabuse, Evil Genius, King of Crime

[–] hickshotel 9 years ago

I just rewatched both of these back to back and was thinking they both had similar ideas with the color phobias and bad childhood memories that they blocked. Even though it gets a lot of hate for a Hitchcock film, I actually preferred Marnie more, I really liked Sean Connery's performance and thought Spellbound was a little annoying with the constant psychobabble: ie: guilt complex every 5 minutes. Does anyone agree or disagree?

[–] franzkabuki 9 years ago

They both have plenty of psychobabble, but Marnie's a definite improvement over Spellbound as it handles its phobias more realistically and seems better informed. Spellbound is just totally silly with all the dream interpretations and stuff.

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