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What an awesome film! Saw it today for the third time at a Christian social gathering.
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Hitchcock's Vertigo
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Love it!Have you watched "High Anxiety", the Hitchcock spoof by Mel Brooks?
It's an awesome parody of several Hitchcock films all rolled into one. Absolutely brilliant
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Yes incredibility good as were many of Hitchcock's films. Vertigo is I think my favourite. Own a copy of it. Probably watch it once a year.
Vertigo had so many good things going for it. Very well cast with James Stewart, Kim Novak and other greats. Fantastic story and one other thing seldom mentioned the sound track (background music) composed by Bernard Herrmann absolutely brilliant.
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Have you watched "High Anxiety", the Hitchcock spoof by Mel Brooks?
It's an awesome parody of several Hitchcock films all rolled into one. Absolutely brilliant
Haven't seen it, I'll look into it!
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I've tried watching Vertigo a few times over the years and simply cannot get into it. It feels like it plods along at such a slow pace that just bores me to the point of turning it off after twenty minutes or so. Personally, I consider Psycho his masterpiece (have seen it maybe 15 times - no I'm not exaggerating) but also think Rope is genius with its editing. It's definitely an underrated classic. I find The Birds interesting when viewed as a commentary on relationships between women, women and men, and a man and his mother (know I'm not talking about Norman Bates! 
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Vertigo scores because of how well each scene is constructed and the clever use of thematic colours (green, red), symbols (flowers, Golden Gate Bridge, Coit Tower). I learned recently that in the driving scenes when Scottie is following Madeleine he is nearly always driving downhill: falling->falling in love. He puts a small flower in Judy Barton's buttonhole but it is much less than the Madeleine/Carlotta flower spray symbolizing the inferiority of their relationship to his love for the imaginary Madeleine.
It is a dark film with so-called good guy Scottie embracing his recreation of what he believes is a dead woman - at the climax of Herrmann's score. The scene by the Golden Gate Bridge is just so dramatic (not the obvious swimming pool - well the water there must have been heavily polluted then). Will he finally settle down with Midge and her domestic set of copperware?
It is a dark film with so-called good guy Scottie embracing his recreation of what he believes is a dead woman - at the climax of Herrmann's score. The scene by the Golden Gate Bridge is just so dramatic (not the obvious swimming pool - well the water there must have been heavily polluted then). Will he finally settle down with Midge and her domestic set of copperware?
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