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Body Double 1984
To say that Brian De Palma's Body Double was influenced by Alfred Hitchcock and his film Vertigo is an understatement; Body Double almost is Vertigo. As far as plot is concerned, Vertigo and Body Double tell almost the same overall story; only the details are different. Both feature a man who becomes obsessed with a woman who dies. And then that man finds another woman who resembles the first one, and he falls in love with her, and then he…
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Rear Window 1954
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Rear Window's plot is much more conventional and linear than Vertigo's. Almost all of Rear Window is a murder mystery. I say almost because it starts out as the story of Jeffries. What Hitchcock does is incorporate the murder mystery into the story of Jeffries. With Vertigo, things are much more complicated. The entire film is a murder mystery disguised as a psychological, supernatural romance thriller, but it's still much more than a murder mystery. I'm just typing away…Translated from by
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Rashomon 1950
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Everything in Rashomon made perfect sense. I took the movie to be about how people distort the truth. From the beginning, when retelling the witness' account, Kurosawa often has the camera placed in a way that around the edges of each shot, the frame is slightly obscured by parts of bushes. Even eye-witness accounts aren't fully reliable. At the end, we find out that the actual witness' account wasn't even reliable: he left out crucial information for selfish reasons. I…
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Psycho 1960
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The introductory credits are Saul Bass' creation, as they are in Vertigo. They feature animated typeface that movies in conjunction with the music, which brings up another similarity...
Both are scored by Bernard Hermann and have distinct musical themes that reappear throughout the film. Both film scores also rely heavily on strings. Both scores, also, are integral to the film; without them, the images on the screen would be much less suspenseful, evocative, beautiful, etc.
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