rusk watching vehicle drive away
reminded me of car sinking into swamp in psycho.
Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite?
Interesting. Indeed...the killer making sure that the body is "out of his life."
Its a great cloes-up shot, too, of 1972 candor.
He's in the diner off-site bathroom, faking(or maybe not) urination at a urinal while looking through a window broken so that ANYONE using that urinal can look out the window(one figures that a drunken customer broke it to watch someone and the management just decided to leave it that way). Its rather an off-color visual joke, and the colors of blue night and Rusk's gold hair are, as usual, oddly pleasnat to look at.
The whole blue/orange, blue/gold, blue/yellow were interesting combos---Dicko in blue and Babs in orange was jarring. Frenzy had Hitch's most interesting color schemes.
shareThe color scheme is great and bold and solid.
Babs' orange suit proves important because we will see it again several times after she's dead and it becomes a plot device(Rusk keeps it in his drawers and then moves it to Blaney's bag).
Some writer suggested that the colors were the colors of the Covent Garden fruit and vegatable market: oranges, blueberrys, plums, grapes, etc.
Bob Rusk is Hitchcock's first "psychopath in color"(after Uncle Charlie, Bruno Anthony, Norman Bates) and Hitchcock seems to have made sure that Rusk's butterscotch-red hair was "distinctive."