Rear Window; Alfred Hitchcock

After pumping resurrect window for a blurb time Ive come to realize that not only is Alfred Hitchcock a great director, still similarly a great t starization watcher. What Im trying to say is that he knows exactly what spate want to keep in line in certain imageizations. Voyeurism captures the attention of anyone, viewers want to spy on the characters without beingness seen, and they want to be in positions that reality doesnt tot eitheryow them to be in. Hitchcock knows this intuitive feelinging alone in addition well, making one of the greatest icons of all time or so that one obsession viewers have.This is wherefore stomach window is a great movie for ENC 1102, along with the romantic tension and multiple subplots. The start-off time a saw the movie I actually didnt see the voyeurism of the film, mostly because it was in my high school humanities class and was told to figure out the story behind the thriller. The teacher told us to find out the mystery of M r. Thorwald. But aft(prenominal) refreshing myself of the movie a received that Hitchcock was a very smart, nosy man, just interchangeable the rest of society.I pictured Hitchcock in the wheelchair watching all those people out of his window, and then myself and came to realize that anyone would watch if it were open to you. This led me to recognize that the movie, behind the aversion investigation, was all nearly voyeurism and how people love to see without being seen. I watched it with my br current(prenominal), who is a film study at UCF, and he too thought the same thing. We discussed the movie afterwards and he came to appreciate the movie for being tool in one area.The one person that does relieve oneself to live the voyeurism in the movie is James Stewart. Hes the perfect main character, L. B Jeff Jeffries, who is a photojournalist. While on the labor he broke his leg at an auto race after a big crash. Because of this he is confined to his testify flatbed and beg ins to watch all his neighbors and how they go about their day. Behind his building is a courtyard joined by three separate buildings. Throughout these three building are various characters that Jefferies watches.Theres a frustrated yet fun loving composer in the building to his right, a middle mountd distich with a small dog, a dancer who seems to enjoy practicing her routines, a lone few woman who seems to live in a fantasy world, and a salesman and his unfounded married woman all in the building in front of him and a pair of isolated newlyweds that live behind the shades of their apartment window to his left. As he sits cooped up in his apartment he begins to notice anyones behaviors, when all at one time the salesmans wife has disappeared. Jeffries and his girlfriend, Lisa Freemont, played by Grace Kelly, become suspicious of the salesman Mr.Thorwald. He begins to watch him every day and notices things that make him that more suspicious, ilk sending a suitcase off somew here, having all his wifes jewelry, or washing the knife and saw in his sink. Where did she go? Whats in the trunk that the salesman ships extraneous? Whats he been doing with the knives and the saw that he cleans at the kitchen sink? Rear Window was released on August 1, 1954 and was changeful in Los Angeles, California. Its company is Paramount Pictures and is in full color and sound. It is listed under many different types of genres like crime, mysteries, thriller and romance.It was nominated for four Oscars, take up cinematography, best director, best sound, and best writing. It was nominated in nine other categories at smaller award ceremonies and won four of them. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and had two main characters, L. B Jeffries and Lisa Freemont. Though the movie is one of the greatest ever do by Hitchcock and is supposed to be shot through a rear window, I find it hard for people to have take in a movie with two main shots. In the movie you see the buildings and c ourtyard the majority of the time, the other shots being the one of Jeffries apartment and close ups on the individuals in their homes.A user from IMDB. com didnt like the movie at all, I got impatient with Hitchcocks penchant for manipulating reality, as if it didnt matter, in setting up his character conflicts towards suspenseful endings. Its all to do with believing what you see. One should not take for granted any audiences, all of whom are familiar with real life. (Johnclark-1). Mr. Clark went on to talk about how he felt Hitchcock didnt bring in reality into the film, one of the examples being that in New York no one ever left their doors unlatched and windows open, in fact we installed police locks says Clark.So some other reason some people didnt feel this movie should be ranked as one of the greatest all time. But we go venture to voyeurism, and people faecest help but be nosy, and get into other peoples business. Because of this one obsession Hitchcock gets you tangl ed in subplots and thrilling carrying into action stories. Unless you pay close attention and watch for those unrealistic moments in the movie, you will never even notice them. As I sat and watched the movie never did I figure about what people in New York really do with their doors or how often their leave their windows open.What Im trying to say is that you will never notice these things unless you were told about them prior to watching the movie. I must admit, after reading that review I did see those moments in the film, but never did I think about them when I saw it the first two times. I am more than positive that if you show this in an ENC 1102 class they too will not notice the unrealistic lifestyle in the movie. Another couple reasons to show it in ENC 1102 is because of the voyeurism, romantic tension, and the films multiple subplots.If on that point is a group of people that love to be part of drama, and know everyones business, its the age group of 18 to 20 year old c ollege students. They will be so enriched with all the inquisitiveness going on in the movie that they wont have problems for a week or two in their personal lives. The movie provides an insight on all the characters that live in buildings around that courtyard, and a voice over from Jeffries that voices his thoughts on all their lives. That brings me to my next point, the multiple subplots in the movie.Hitchcock gives the viewers all kinds of stories from the romantic couple who are rarely seen, to the bachelorette ballerina who brings home a guy every night, to the women who raiset get a man and begins to make believe she invites one over for dinner. Another couple with the dog, they show love to each other through the dog, then the musician who throws parties to show off his new music, but struggles just to get there and finally the salesman and his wife, the main story, the murder. Hitchcock develops all these plots that revolve around murder case. They all have something to d o with it, or are related in some way to that couple.I go int believe an 1101 class could keep up with multiple plots as in Rear Window. And then theres the romantic tension between Jefferies and his girlfriend Lisa. Its just other part of the movie that anyone could relate to, not just 1102. Jeffries is very intrigued by this woman but has a heavier burden on his mind, the crime across the courtyard. She insists time after time, but he never really takes his mind completely off the situation at hand. As I sat a watched Rear Window for the second time with my brother I asked him a couple questions throughout the movie to get his, soon to be, expertise on what he thought about certain parts.It was a good realize for me knowing that he has a better eye for things that regular movie goers like myself usually dont tend to catch. He helped me understand the movie a little more, and discussed with me what Hitchcock was trying to do in his film. Even though hes close enough, my brother doesnt count as a critic, here are some experts on what they thought about the movie. James Berardinelli liked the movie mainly, once again, because of it voyeurism. He though Hitchcock had a great background on voyeurism, One of the most engrossing, and, in its own way, groundbreaking, studies of voyeurism is Alfred Hitchcocks Rear Window.The film is universally regarded as a classic, and a strong cadre of critics and scholars considers this to be the directors best feature. (Berardinelli p. 1). He goes on to talk about the movie and its suspense, but also the great main character played by James Stewart, Not only does the movie generate an intensely suspenseful and intrigue situation, but it develops a compelling and memorable character L. B. Jefferies, a top-flight photographer who, as the resoluteness of an accident that left him in a leg cast. (p. 1). Another praise on the movie comes from Christopher zip he too thought the movie was a classic. The aspect of the movie that c aught his eye was the way Hitchcock made it all from a rear window, the master craftsmanship on display, placing virtually the entire film in spite of appearance the confines of L. B Jeffries apartment has few parallels in modern cinema. (Null p. 1). He too agrees with me on another aspect of this great film, helping it to be one of the all time greatest, not only for Hitchcock but for all movies.And finally my last critic is Lucia Bozzola, who liked the film for its one main shot, Keeping the television camera in Jeffs apartment (except for a couple shots near the climax), Hitchcock limits the audiences view to what Jeff can see and hear from his immobilized perch. (Bozzola p. 1). Even though I thought this could be a problem for some viewers, it is still a great feat to shoot close to an entire movie on one main shot another reason why Rear Window is one of the greatest.So after reading all the reviews from the critics and getting diverse answers from regular movie viewers, a pe rson who has yet to see the film should see it for themselves and decide on what they think. As for showing it to either an 1101 or 1102 class, I think it should be seen by more mentally mature young adults in 1102. Primarily due to the voyeurism in the movie, watching all different characters I think they could keep up with it more. This is why Rear Window is a great movie for ENC 1102, along with the romantic tension and multiple subplots.I thank you for your interest in my movie selection and leave you with this, a quote from James Berardinelli, Simply put, Rear Window is a great film, perhaps one of the finest ever committed to celluloid. All of the elements are perfect (or nearly so), including the acting, script, camerawork, music (by Franz Waxman), and of course, direction. The brilliance of the movie is that, in addition to keeping viewers on the edges of their seats, it involves us in the lives of all of the characters, from Jeffries and Lisa to Miss Torso. There isnt a mom ent of waste in 113 minutes of screen time.