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SISKEL & EBERT REVIEW -- "VERTIGO"

posted 9 years ago by tsrts
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[–] heyuactor 8 years ago

Very interesting. I guess the comparison to Hitchcock's obsessiveness was warranted but it seems a bit over-the-top. I don't think he made the whole movie because of things he felt about women. He was making a great suspense story, too.

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[–] IceboxMovies 8 years ago

Very interesting. I guess the comparison to Hitchcock's obsessiveness was warranted but it seems a bit over-the-top. I don't think he made the whole movie because of things he felt about women.

It's not over-the-top. It's true. Hitchcock's possessiveness of his actresses is well-documented, particularly the way he psychologically-tortured Tippi Hedren and made sure that her subsequent career was ruined.

He was making a great suspense story, too.

Yes, but suspense is not enough to carry Hitchcock's best films. His best films always have some sort of perverted angle to them. Even with a movie like Marnie, the screenwriters acknowledged that the only reason he wanted to do the movie in the first place was to do that scene where Sean Connery rapes Tippi Hedren on their wedding night.

His weakest films are ones without a sex-obsessions angle... movies like Torn Curtain or Topaz, for example, where the suspense is not enough to make the movie work.