The Opening Scene from Rope (1948) | Hitchcock Presents
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I love how Hitchcock almost makes the audience complicit in the murder. By the end you actually feel a little bit scared that the murderers are going to get caught.
Truly
Those sickos.
Pouring champagne into martini glasses.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is one of my favourite Hitchcock films of all time. Simple yet ingenious
Boring as hell. All that time contemplating.
@@kyereCatL
Too disturbing for me. Sick bastards.
I'd heard of it but never saw it.When I did I realized that Hitch Was a genius. They still don't come any better!
So True. You've got good insight 👀
The first time I saw this part I thought “that’s dumb, how could he scream while being strangled?”. Later I realized, he was hit on the head first, struggled with those guys for minutes and what we see is actually his last breath”.
How do you know he was hit on the head?
@@bobjones2460 Rupert says that in finale.
yeah, they just couldn't show the whole thing because of the Hays Code
Farley Granger absolutely nailed his role.
It's curious how the scene soon after they hide the body can be re-read as a post-coitum exchange (the cigarette...)
Ben Mankiewicz (from TCM) says that while AH didn't acknowledge it, his fellow filmmaker says this film was based on a 1920s Chicago murder and that both murderers were lovers.
One of my favorites too, along with THE BIRDS, REAR WINDOW, PSYCHO, AND VERTIGO.
I loved rear window and psycho🙂👏
Rebecca too
One of Hitchcock's best film. Marine, Psycho, and Rope. One word titled films says it all. Hail Hitchcock!
Was Marine good? Never seen it.
@@shaneogden3622 Marnie :)
5:57 How bizarre it is to think that him saying "We're alive, truly and wonderfully alive", being both so young, knowing that this was filmed in 1948 and they're all long gone.
Oh yeah Alfred H. These days no movies compare to his. Gracias.
Turns light on
“Don’t. Not just yet. Let’s stay this way for a minute.”
Turns light off
I LOVE the subtleties in this film. 😊
I’m just a bit confused as to why they believed David was ‘inferior’
-He was engaged (almost anyway) to a beautiful woman
-His family was rich
-He was pretty smart (as implied later in the movie)
-He went to school at Harvard
That doesn’t sound ‘inferior’ to me….
He failed exams at Harvard.
@@andrewcocos
Where is that implied in the movie? It’s only implied by his girlfriend that he didn’t need to study for exams as he was ‘too bright’
@@JohnRichards67 oops, I'm not a native speaker and have misinterpreted "he was a Harvard undergraduate". My bad.
@@andrewcocos
No worries! I understand some words can be confusing to people who learn English later on in life. Your grammar is excellent!
The whole point of the "exercise" was to kill someone for whom there was no motive. The victim's crime was that there was crime: He was unexceptionable, a mediocrity nand thus not worthy of life in their eyes.
The truly sad and disturbing part of this movie is Philip's character. Philip teeter-totters between his disgust/panic/hysteria and his twisted relationship with Brandon in which he must play the role of cool accomplice. But the truth is Philip is not evil like Brandon. This is why Philip caves in to his remorse, guilt and horror over what he has done. Philip has a heart, Brandon does not. In this way, Philip is more of a victim than David, the murder victim is. David's pain ends quickly. Philips pain goes on and on. Philip is truly a victim of torture here. We see a tortured and abused child who must put a mask over his pain and anguish as he endures more pain and torture, completely under the control of Brandon, his abuser. But Philip cannot hold the charade for long as his true feelings keep exploding over the facade. It is in Philp's moments of despair that we feel the true suspense and horror of this genius film.
It's also totally normal for you to feel empathy for Phillip because you see his pain , but this kind of thing is why it is so important to focus on the victims rather than the perpetrators- that's why they say victims are forgotten..because they are dead and can't get any more attention like the killers can. That's one more reason it is so hard for the families of the victims.
@JO-so1dk How do you know Hitchcock and the screenwriter intended for Philip to be a survivor of child abuse?
Brilliant review of Phillip’s character!
As a big fan of AH especially his TV shows this is more like an episode of Hitchock Hour but in
color. It's one of his best despite the absurd negative reviews. It's got a great story acting and
directing. Stewart really takes the movie up a notch when he enters. The two star murderers
were perfect choice and you can find them in many classic mystery movies. both excellent.
Stewart Granger was one of AH favs and in Strangers on a Train a classic. This movie starts
off excellent and never lets up. The ending was only let down but not so much to ruin movie.
a must see.
I never seen or heard of this one and i am old school
I've heard of this picture however never seen it now I'm going to.
This is a genius way to create constant tension and paranoia throughout the whole movie:
make the main characters guilty of murder, and have the corpse in a place where there is always a risk that someone will find it.
My fav forever and ever ➰
Wow I will watch this movie Ty Cheryl R!!
5:53 =Hopefully at this age, everybody knows that a perfect murder is a murder that is forgotten and unfound... From the act to the clean-up to the years that follow...
dig those zoots!
Started getting the sense of similarities between the characters and a real life murder carried out by two guys that considered themselves "Ubermensch" commiting the perfect crime. Turns out Leopold and Loeb were inspirations for the film.
Great scene!!
The opening scene looks beautiful Georgian London!
- Before the Germans bombed and destroyed these stunning buildings!
John Dall was in 2 or 3 episodes 🤔 of PERRY MASON. Not a bad actor, Farley Granger is not too bad either.
What a beautiful apartment. It seems unnecessary that these ultra successful guys would want to commit murder for nothing. No point to do a crime when they already have it all
No, the brains of the murder had a superiority complex. He thought his victim was inferior to him. His accomplice was also an enabler and a coward.
Anybody know what block that is?
David screams on he cusp of suffocation.
Philip casually doing the strangling would indicate he was committed and composed than the portrayal we immediately got there after.
I thought for the subject matter the movie deserved to have more depth to it, and not just content on asking the moral question of the value of human life.
It's ok for a little hour long picture, but it needed some extra meat to it, at least that's my opinion.
one long shot for each reel. incredible simple to look at, creative as hell to film and edit. Touche' Mr Hitchcock once again. Point, Set, Match.
I , even after aĺl these years, can't say whether I like or dislike this film...
This film might just be "merely occupying space," for both what it says and what it only vaguely intimates...No definite statement need apply, apparently!
Yes, vague dialogue, vague purpose, indecisive writers and a director that didn't enjoy rowing once his oars hit the water!
Feels as if, without any moral certainty, he just kept rowing until he hit bottom somewhere, got out, and left everything just where he grounded lt.
It's my understanding that Hitchcock himself avoided looking back on this one.
In thinking about this film, it feels as if it is more an 'off-broadway play' production as opposed to its official 'movie format.'
Melodramatic, emotive in a bad way
writers still working out the moral of the story and whether this play has anything to offer in the way of entertainment value. Here, in this production, there is not one likeable
lead actor, no one to identify with, no one to cheer for and even the dead guy was used like a 'prop!'
The true test of a valuable film is the question: Would I pay money to see this a second time?!
For me, the answer is, 'no.'
The guy in the dark suit looks like he could be Nene Afflecks grandfather, Ben should get a DNA test, and maybe this time he’ll find out that one of his ancestors didn’t own slaves, and have to hide the evidence like he did for that PBS show, lol
Reminds me of my childhood
The opening scene shouldn’t have worked, when you are being strangled, you can’t scream out as it tightens your vocal cords, although maybe it’s believable, given the tiny little rope they got
Have not seen this movie. But apparently there is no real motive for the murder other as an intellectual and moral experiment. A rather silly premise. Humans almost always have motives for targeting a particular victim.
But there is a motive. They wanted to see if they could get away with it. A thrill kill that plays out in the movie once you watch it.
@@opwave79 Have now seen the movie and enjoyed it. Great acting and dialogue. But the premise is still absurd. Killers say so themselves at 06:15 "Nobody commits a murder just to see if they can get away with it. Nobody ever does that. But we did"... Sure there are thrill killers but they tend to be crazy psychopaths. Not proper upscale gentlemen. College professors or whatever these killers are. The premise is laughable.
It's not a silly premise. It's based on Leopold and Loeb, two brilliant upper-class Jewish University of Chicago students who murdered a student as an intellectual and moral experiment. See the movie Compulsion.
Rope is the only movie I feel Hitchcock made a mistake....
What mistake?
@@carl_anderson9315 I always felt the suspense would have been greater if the viewer didn't know from the very beginning there was a body in the trunk.
@@steppy3736 Oh, I get it. I guess Hitchcock’s purpose was not the “what” but the “how”. But valid point.
@@carl_anderson9315 I always felt when Jimmy Stewart's character was figuring out what happened, the viewer could have figured it along with him.
Ben Mankiewicz (Channel TCM) quoted from Hitchcock's fellow filmmaker that he thought the same: should not have revealed the murder in the opening.
chad douglas does not appear in this movie what a flop
Poorest acting i have ever seen.
You might wanna venture a bitter further in the movie before arriving to such extreme conclusion..
@@KenshoBeats she's just a random thing
you gotta be kidding?
Honestly I thought they were both really perfect in the roles
I believe this was from a short story or book done in the middle 1920's. Hitchcock followed the book; not the modern day hip-hop audience. Good for him!
Actually it's based on the Leopold and Loeb case from the 20s. Other films inspired by that case are Compulsion (with Orson Wells) and Murder by Numbers (Ryan Gosling).
The film is based on a 1929 British play, ROPE'S END, by Patrick Hamilton. The play was inspired by the Leopold and Loeb murder case.
Ks-101 because they have encroached upon every aspect of culture and society