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There must be some other Hitchcock fans on AW. I've been on a Hitchcock kick all summer and need to get some thoughts out.
Personally, my favorite film of his is 'Rope.' It's not the best Hitchcock film (out of the ones I've seen, I'd give that honour to 'Rear Window') but I can have a pretty morbid sense of humor and the film is as much a dark comedy as it is a suspense film. The basic plot is that two young men want to commit the prefect murder, so they kill an old classmate and stuff his body in a trunk.
They then take things a step further and invite the dead guys friends and family over for a party, using the trunk as a table to serve finger food off of. Over the course of the night some of the smarter guests (including Jimmy Stewert) start to realize that something more is going on then a simple party.
It's also a fun film in that Hitchcock tried to film it all in one shot. Back than cameras could only film for something like ten minutes at a time, so the director had to hide the cuts in the film through tricks like someone in a dark suit stepping in front of the camera.
I like Rope because it combines both a good suspense story with technical deftness. I'm curious to see what Hitchcock films other AWers enjoy and why.
Personally, my favorite film of his is 'Rope.' It's not the best Hitchcock film (out of the ones I've seen, I'd give that honour to 'Rear Window') but I can have a pretty morbid sense of humor and the film is as much a dark comedy as it is a suspense film. The basic plot is that two young men want to commit the prefect murder, so they kill an old classmate and stuff his body in a trunk.
They then take things a step further and invite the dead guys friends and family over for a party, using the trunk as a table to serve finger food off of. Over the course of the night some of the smarter guests (including Jimmy Stewert) start to realize that something more is going on then a simple party.
It's also a fun film in that Hitchcock tried to film it all in one shot. Back than cameras could only film for something like ten minutes at a time, so the director had to hide the cuts in the film through tricks like someone in a dark suit stepping in front of the camera.
I like Rope because it combines both a good suspense story with technical deftness. I'm curious to see what Hitchcock films other AWers enjoy and why.