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Rope review

rope is a tantalising and nail bitting film where we are held in suspense in what the fate of the maincharacters will be after they commits a murder in the open scene we meet brandon and Philip thekillers in this film. We watch them commit amurder on there old friend David by stranglinghim to death with a piece of rope we thenwatch as brandon reveals in his and masterplan and we watches Philip slowly cracksunder the guilt of his crime.this is only the start to the pressure andtension as brandon being so infrualled in hisbrilliance ups the chances of some oneworking it out by throwing a dinner party withthe victims family and loved ones bing theguests and then using the wooden chest he

hid the body in as the main table.

a shot of davids murder by the rope

as we watch you start to see Hitchcock had planned for us to feel tense for the rest of the film as itshot in real time with the chest that the body is hidden in just insight making us wait for the body tobe discovered and as we watch we start to hear David the victims family start to worry over wherehe could be making this truly more unbar bale brandon becomes this truly evil character who westart to despise for he truly reveals in his intellect and thinks he better then all the others exempthis old school master who invited to test himself against and to show off to as if he was back in

school trying to get a gold star.

we also see a strange romance and homoerotic vibe coming from the main characters brandonand Philip where brandon takes on this romance over Philip pushing him round and telling what todo and Philip obeys and then sulks for the film like a gilded lover who's partner is more interestedin his own excellence to pay attention to him this relationship could be down to the real people thisfilm was based off of who where a Leopold and Richard Loeb who were upper-class Chicago lawstudents who went on a crime spree which culminated in the murder of a teenage boy.Hutchinson. (2012 ) Like snobbish Brandon and Philip, the real-life murderers consideredthemselves Nietzschean supermen whose superiority of intellect exempted them from laws thatgovern the rest of us. "Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man,

the inferior man, because he needs them," claims Brandon, the deluded mastermind of the murder.to kill someone and to get away with it too just so someone can feed the own intellectual vanity is atruly evil thing but its the sort of physiology which infrualls Hitchcocks imagination as a director likethe characters Hitchcock is trying to perform a feet of deception in his film.Canby . (1984). Hitchcock was interested in seeing whether he could find a cinematic equivalent tothe play, which takes place in the actual length of time of the story. To do this, he decided to shootit in what would appear to be one long, continuous ''take,'' without cutaways or any other breaks inthe action, though in fact there would have to be a disguised break every 10 minutes, which was asmuch film as the camera could contain.Hitchcock accomplishes this by by having the camera appear to pan across someones back or intoa piece of furniture during which he would change the reel.although not all the cuts are perfect hisobsession with telling a story without resorting to the usual methods of montage, and without

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cutting from one shot to another,results in a film of unusual,fascinating technical facility, whosechilliness and tension building almostperfectly suits the subject.

this film plays out like your watching aplay happen and the actors play therepart perfectly they all seem to work inperfect unseen to each other playingoff each other we are not privy tosuch film work these days but the waywe watch jimmy Stewart's characterrupert cadelle work out the crimewhich is layer out in front of him wesee how.

a shot of the set and the huge camera they a had to wheel around

Robert Snow. (2011). The film is excellently plotted, with all the twists and turns of an AgathaChristie murder mystery. The difference is, it is a murder mystery seen from a different perspective that of the perpetrators and so the suspense in the movie is not generated by a lack ofinformation about the killers, but by whether or not the murderers will be found out.

the plot is the main key to this film it is a entreating film with beautiful acting and a amazing set with

a backdrop which changes as the day goes on but the film lacks some twist to it as we are privy tothe information of who did the murder it becomes this morality argument where we are both againstand for the murders as a audience where never shore if we want brandon and Philip to get caughtor not the only character who seems worth meting is David who seems to be the better of all thesecharacters maybe thats what hitchcoock was trying to portray maybe brandon and Philip arnt thesuperior beings seeing as they lack the moral intelligence to judge there actions as a evil act.maybe they killed the one person who was intellectually superior and could have said power tochose who has life and death but maybe that is not mans place as rupert says well never know

as a feet of suspense i fell this film ticks the right box and brings a new edge to hitchcocks filmworld

Pamela Hutchinson. (2012 ). My favourite Hitchcock: Rope.Available:

http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2012/jul/27/my-favourite-

hitchcock-rope. Last accessed jan 2014.

Vincent Canby . (1984). HITCHCOCK'S 'ROPE': A STUNT TO BEHOLD.Available: http://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/03/movies/hitchcock-s-

rope-a-stunt-to-behold.html. Last accessed jan 2014.

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Robert Snow. (2011). REVIEWS OF CLASSIC MOVIES: HITCHCOCKS

ROPE.Available: http://robertsnow.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/review-

rope-1948/. Last accessed jan 2014.

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