When you look at the pictures below, you probably won’t go “Ooh, that’s him and that’s that guy!”. When i write their names, Frank Darabont and Paul Schrader, you still probably won’t know who they are. Even when i name the following movie titles: The Green Mile, The Mist, Shawshank Redemption and Raging Bull, Taxi Driver it still will be hard to think of a way to connect those movies with the pictures below.
I haven’t been watching Hitchcock movies for a very long time yet (about a year or 2). The movies that i did see (Rear Window, The Wrong Man, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Birds, I confess and some more) by the master of suspense really show that he deserves that title. With Rope he decided to make a movie out of a play. The whole story is set within an apartment and is the first movie he shot in color.
What really stands out when you watch this movie are the extremely long takes (like we also know from Orson Welles’ Touch of evil (the opening shot is very impressive) or a movie like Children of Men). The complete movie only has 10 segments for which the transitions, for the most part, are concealed by making clever use of the back of an actor or something else. Continue reading
