The film that I have chosen to base my assessment on is Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948). With reference to this film I will closely examine its production, distribution and exhibition. I will also consider film techniques, special effects and audience. In examining all these factors I will also bear in mind the year and era of the production and the implications that may have occurred as a resultThe film that I have chosen to base my assessment on is Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948). With reference to this film I will closely examine its production, distribution and exhibition. I will also consider film techniques, special effects and audience. In examining all these factors I will also bear in mind the year and era of the production and the implications that may have occurred as a result.
Rope, a screenplay based on a stage play by Patrick Hamilton, has been described by many as a milestone in Alfred Hitchcock's career with it being the first film he had produced as well as directed, his first colour film and possibly one of his biggest technical challenges.
English: Studio publicity photo of Alfred Hitchcoc...
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In Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959)The film centres on the action of two young homosexuals Brandon (John Dall) and Philip (Farley Grainger). The two boys take a rope and strangle a college friend, David (Dick Hogan), for a quick thrill, and then conceal his body in a chest in a room where David's parents and friends are later to have a cocktail party. The boys serve the buffet on top of what now is David's coffin and this scene is given a sense of eeriness as we see candles lighten and placed on the chest adding a funeral sense to the scene which is only apparent to the audience. Among the guests at the party is their former college professor Rupert Cadell...