Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 btw : (1:13:41–1:14:14) : Theory : Longest duration of out-of-phase in Hollywood history? Speaking of Lost Highway : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 Over the years, the story of Vertigo has been labelled "preposterous". Theory : this time for Hitchcock, the entire story is the MacGuffin! Is this story more or less ridiculous than, say, the Bertelsmann Tyranny? Or, say, anything else happening at this moment in 2023? Perhaps those Spectators who label the story of Vertigo "preposterous" are the same good folk who prioritize the "waking" order of Reason over the dream-order of Truth (which hurts). Wide-awake Reason, may I remind these good people, has brought us to the Uplifting Utopia of 2023. Only Art can take us out of 2023. And who wouldn't want to escape 2023? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 (1:55:04) Judy’s girlish lips again : an ambivalent opening of the mouth (recalling her frightened child sleep-babble self) : Remember “Downtown, shopping.” (47:58–48:00)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 PEOPLE : (1:45:17) “I guess I could phone the store in the morning and make some excuse.” FADE OUT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 Lynchian energy . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 Geometry. One walks horizontally through a door. One falls vertically from a height. But . . . in what direction is the following going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 (1:45:47) Out of the Past : How many Pasts are in this shot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 (1:45:56) Body Double. After almost an entire movie of walking around on his own. . . . But what does anything mean? Look how they're looking at different outlooks. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 A dream of a 1930s movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 (1:46:48) The color brown : a very bad omen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 (1:47:32) The gold-framed mirror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 The first mirror in Vertigo that looks like a door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 (edited) (1:48:16) The Spectator. This is the one and only time in Vertigo that a disinterested onlooker solely and silently occupies a shot. Why now? As the film plunges headlong towards its end, this "distancing" adds vertigo to Vertigo. . . . Edited January 30, 2023 by Jeff Bernstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 (edited) However, there is the old woman of the McKittrick Hotel (32:02) : an associated detail to consider. But Midge (52:42) : she is very interested : Edited January 30, 2023 by Jeff Bernstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 Vertigo on hold. My account has reached the limit of its jpg capacity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 “Tim, my account has reached the limit of its jpg capacity!” “Hi, Jeffrey. If you upgrade to a premium membership the upload limits are much higher.” “Tim, you mean you are requesting I pay to help your site out?” That is not going to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 Plainview's "people". Okay, okay. It is going to happen. I have to finish what I've started, or the cut-off will hurt more than this imbecilic situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 Does this mean I can now post every minute of every day for the next 24 years? Awesome. I am paying, after all. Gracias. Just joking. We'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 (edited) Vertigo : connecting and reconnecting geometry foreshadowing : (2:02:13) note : ashen brown Nabokov, Lolita : “Mission Dolores: good title for book.” (37:41) bridge joining them : (38:22) pillars dividing them : (1:11:36–1:11:48) overhead : and shot transitions to white door : which becomes fullscreen. White = oblivion of open space : Dissolves to Madeleine-death sequence : (1:26:24) overhead at hospital : Madeleine in mind? First shot post-credits : horizontal bar : Next scene opens with vertical cane : Edited January 30, 2023 by Jeff Bernstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 Patterns. Track out : Track in : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 Repetition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 (edited) Side by Side The following are two-shots of men and women in Vertigo up to (1:48:03). At first glance, which shots are the most serenely composed? (1:48:03), for example, recalls the irony of the "order" of Edited January 30, 2023 by Jeff Bernstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted January 30, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 30, 2023 "Oh, now, Midge, don't be so motherly." "Mother's here." (1:48:20) Now, JS is acting the father to Judy the recalcitrant child. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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