This video essay was awesome! I am in second year at university studying film & currently writing an essay about the presentation of the female point of view in Hitchcock films; your video has helped me know what expand on! Subscribed :)
@historyofhorror0001
4 жыл бұрын
Much appreciated, and thanks aplenty!
@eustuskamau4875
3 жыл бұрын
i am working on a similar paper..kindly give me some tips
@subversivelysurreal3645
3 жыл бұрын
It’s a great video, I could listen to you analyze women in each of his films. I really do adore ‘Rebecca’ also. The only line that breaks my brain is, ‘You thought that I loved Rebecca? You thought that?’ I found that DeWinter line ought to have been cut, or read differently (rewritten), in that he obviously had to have known that he hadn’t told his wife that one ☝🏾 minor detail. Still, I love it and ‘Notorious’ quite a lot.
@isabelfox5509
3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful commentary on a great director and his fraught relationships with women. I love Hitchcock movies, with Shadow of a Doubt, Rebecca and of course, Psycho being favorites!
@subversivelysurreal3645
3 жыл бұрын
It’s interesting that you described the genre of horror as being female, in that I (had always assumed) that younger men are the audience of horror.
@subversivelysurreal3645
3 жыл бұрын
In ‘Shadow of a Doubt’ I love that Theresa Wright’s character confronts her Uncle Charlie (played by Joseph Cotton), and tells him, (yes I paraphrase), “-I’ll kill you myself.” Although I was always amazed by the fact that as the film opens, she’s presented as a young woman ‘having the doldrums’, yet she doesn’t do anything. She’s graduated from high school, she’s not studying, nor does she have any sort of job. Evidently it eventually ‘occurs’ to her that her own mother could, just as a one off, mind you, use a little ‘help’. I still very much like and relate to her character. I also love her high school peer in the bar, ‘I love jewelry, real jewelry.’
@themysteriousdomainmoviepalace
2 жыл бұрын
Have you noticed those crows in The Birds look like the silhouette of Alfred Hitchcock?
@historyofhorror0001
2 жыл бұрын
Really? I'll have to check that out, and besides, I'll take any excuse to re-visit The Birds.
@sethvermaaten7584
3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting analysis and thoughts!
@subversivelysurreal3645
3 жыл бұрын
I love ‘Marnie’, and Tippi Hendren in it. It’s unnerving, knowing that he destroyed her career out of spite. The Birds is a film that I always disliked, from the mere ‘the way it begins’ image of Melanie Daniels, to ‘the way it ends image of Melanie Daniels. Still, it’s ‘Vertigo’ that loses me in both it’s merciless treatment of Jane, who wants to be treated as Jane, and yet, after a recent rewatch, I discovered that it broke ‘the Hitchcock rule’. I always define it as a bunch of armed men creeping up a staircase towards men playing cards. If you use the POV of the card game, it’s action. However, if you show the audience the image of the men creeping closer to the audience, yet keep the actors unwitting, that’s suspense. Show the audience more than the characters know. Yet I felt like that rule was shattered in ‘Vertigo’. Perhaps had it began with the murderous husband training Judy in what to do, then had the husband employ Scotty...you see my point. Still, none of the characters engender my affection, so much in that they aren’t really multi dimensional, for me. Yet people love this movie.
@FS-qi1kj
4 жыл бұрын
fantastic video! i doing an essay comparing the female characters in gone girl and vertigo so this is great help :))
@historyofhorror0001
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks aplenty. Much luck with your essay.
@citycrusher9308
4 жыл бұрын
@@historyofhorror0001 ''Centuries of being treated like second class citizens'' lol - Someone has no knowledge of history.(Hint: it's you)
@eustuskamau4875
3 жыл бұрын
which female characters did you compare.i am having a similar paper
@BillSmith-ed4jg
2 жыл бұрын
Pretty good as amateur discussions go Unfortunately degenerates into political correctness
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