FILM STUDENT WATCHES *NORTH BY NORTHWEST(1959)* FOR THE FIRST TIME | MOVIE REACTION
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My name is Elie Moses and I am a 23 Year Old film student. I decided to watch Alfred Hitchcock's critically acclaimed and top 250 IMDB film North by Northwest (1959) for the first time! Here is my movie reaction!
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Not Hitchcock's best imo but i still had fun with this. Didn't expect it to make me laugh that much and I thought the dialogue with the romance was awesome. Not many films write romantic dialogue like that anymore. Oh and i chose that shot from the film as the thumbnail cos i just love it!
If you want, here’s a short, very fun appearance by Eva Marie Saint as the mystery guest on What’s My Line during the filming of NxNW. Just fast forward to 20:40.
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@@johnmoreland6089 thank you 😊 I love what's my line. I'm bingeing it but didn't arrive to that one
@Michelle Angel Such a great show. I binged it all earlier this year.
Mildred Pierce (1945) and Imitation of Life (1959) are stand-outs around that time approximate time - at least in my opinion.
While not Alfred Hitchcock's finest work - it's solid enough. I didn't see this film until a couple of years ago, and it required a re-viewing to soak it all in.
Amazing review as always Elie!
In some ways it's like The 39 Steps in style (one of his neglected 30s films) but a bigger budget. Budget and Hollywood aren't everything though and it's too stiff for me. Hitchcock has some underrated/unknown films and others like this and The Birds which are ok but surely overrated because of publicity/stars.
I grew up in Jackson Heights on Long Island. Every time I see this film, I chuckle as there are NO dramatic cliffs along the shore with few guard rails. Long Island is rolling glacial moraine.
All credit to ERNEST LEHMAN for his screenplay -- one of the best that Hitchcock ever got, in my opinion, just in terms of witty dialogue and smart structure. Lehman wrote screenplays for many now-classic films of the 1950s and 60s.
It's important to remember that until about 1960, "making love" meant simply acting romantic in public.
The scenes in train stations were shot on location. Usually in this period (certainly at times in this movie, like the drunk driving sequence) "process shots" are pretty obvious with the high-definition remastering available.
Eva Marie Saint was a highly respected actress of the period (she had already won an Academy Award for On the Waterfront), though never really a top superstar. She is still alive, and in good mental and physical shape, at 98.
I really enjoy this kind of spy funny scripted films. My favorite is The Thin Man which I recommend
If you watch closely on this movie you can see where they dubbed "never make love...." to "Never discuss love..."
If you look hard, when he got shot with the "Blank" a little boy covered his ear up before the shot. I think they did the scene a few times and the boy was tired of hearing the shot, LOL. Hitch liked the overall shot and just left it in. My Fav. Hitchcock Movie, its just a fun watch, its not his best, but it is a lot of peoples Fav.
Thanks for commenting Hitchcock’s films, I am waiting eagerly for Shadow of a Doubt and Dial M For Murder.
Mother : « Roger, pay the two dollars » is actually a quotation of a sketch of the 1945 film Ziegfeld Follies.
PS : Great job recognising juror#6 of 12 Angry Men, never could, but l confess I am no physiognomist at all 😁 !
Eva Marie Saint did several well regarded movies. But, seeing as she was alive and on top of her career at this time, Marilyn Monroe was the Marilyn Monroe of this time.
This had a Casablanca level of cool one liners. Oh wow I wrote that before you made your comment. :) Cary Grant was considered to be cast as James Bond.
I felt that this was a confirmation of just how charismatic Cary Grant's persona was. Didn't he once say the coolest thing ever ''I wish I was Cary Grant.''
Fun fact: One of the working titles for NBNW was "The Man on Lincoln's Nose".
If you're not already aware Martin Landau is Juliet's (Drusilla ) father
Elie, you should absolutely react to *Ed Wood.* Martin won an Oscar playing Bela Lugosi and Juliet appears in it as well. Great film about Hollywood.
All these peak Hitchcocks from the 50s are best seen on a real movie screen
Yes, filming was made at the actual Mt Rushmore monument but they were not given permission to film on it, so a model was built for the scenes where they climb on it.
Now… When will you treat yourself to early British black and white Hitchcock classics like The 39 Steps, and The Lady Vanishes? Very witty, exciting early favorites of his brilliant work. Do a poll!
Almost everyone rode trains back then and every conductor knew to check all the bathrooms as they came along to punch tickets.
Nice reaction. The best flirting ever put on film is Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in "To Have or Have Not," in my opinion.
at 45:18 you'll notice a little kid in the background who covers his ears BEFORE the shots are fired. this film was a huge influence on the coming "bond 007" spy films that began in 1962 with "dr. no." all hitchcock films contain a fair amount of humor but "the trouble with harry" (1955) is his only true comedy. and its a pretty dark comedy indeed.
The first notes of the main title give me chills every 1:38 time I hear it.
For a long time, I never understood when his mother says "Roger, just pay the $2." Found out there was a short vaudeville sketch where a guy gets a $2 fine and decides to fight it on principal, which keeps getting him into more and more trouble. This was done in several film shorts with different versions. The one I saw starts off with a traffic light going green and red quickly. A driver starts and stops his car and a policemen gives him a ticket (because of course the light works fine when the cop looks at it.
The James Bond books were published in the 1950’s and films began to come out in the early 1960’s. Another influence was a British tv series called Dangerman that first came out in 1960 and introduced its main character with the line: “My name is Drake-John Drake” which was similar to the line used in the Bond films.
Thank you for reacting to films that are worth reacting to.
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Early films were mostly done on sets as the camera equipment was the size of a washer or stove. Plus eacj day's take had to be processed in a lab before the next day, so they could see what they got, which is hard to do out in the real world. By the '50's, on-location became more common but then another fluke emerged. The cameras couldn't really work in dim light, so for nighttime shots, they shot them during the day and underexposed them. You see the "moon" always casts such strong shadows and a car's headlights don't cast a visible beam. In this film, you can see this around the villain's house over the cliffs.
When I was a kid my family visited Mt. Rushmore and I remember my older siblings talking in the lobby about "this is where he got shot". My mother was quick to add "that was just a movie" to keep me from being scandalized.
In a number of Hitchcock films, he explores the idea of the "everyday man" caught up in a web of intrigue.
"Saboteur" is an earlier Hitchcock with the same theme. It hits a lot of the same notes as "North by Northwest," right down to a climactic fight scene atop a national monument.
@@bobbuethe1477an underrated Hitchcock movie.
You raised an interesting question regarding the Bond series and other later spy movies. Ian Fleming wrote Casino Royale in 1953 which is before this film came out. Interesting. Of course the first theatrical Bon film released is Dr. No (1962)
Eva Marie Saint is very much a movie star name but unlike many stars of the time it is the name she was born with. While she always was presented as a lovely woman the level of glamour she is flashing here is an anomaly in her screen work. The dye was sort of cast by her big breakthrough Oscar winning role as Edie in "On the Waterfront" and afterward she tended to be cast or choose more down to earth roles than the exotic spy she essays in this. Happily she is still with us at 98!
Yes, one of a handful of great old stars still here.
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Alfred did recreate the Mount Rushmore scene. He couldn't get permission to film there.
You pointed out Eva Marie Saint's acting- she had won the Best Actress Oscar the previous year in a gritty drama about waterfront rackets and corruption, called 'On the Waterfront' with Marlon Brando. If you haven't done it yet, it's the one with his 'I coulda been a contender' speech. So she was the serious actress being inducted into the thriller ranks here.
My favorite Hitchcock films are The Lady Vanishes, Dial M for Murder. Two non-Hitchcock Hitchcock films, the 1957 Witness for the Prosecution (from an Agatha Christie story) and Charade.
You should see Cary Grant with Audrey Hepburn in "Charade," often called the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock didn't make.
Not sure if that one shot you mention in the train station might have been added later, but most of the filming done in Chicago was at the actual train station, as also the shots were done at the real Ambassador Hotel, downtown shots and Midway Airport in Chicago.
I've been rewatching all of the Hitchcock movies in chronological order in the last couple of years and this movie is the latest I've rewatched. It's always been my favourite (or in my top 3). I love how Cary Grant is in the same suit up until he's in the hospital (after his "death"). At the auction James Mason calls him out for playing roles and predicts his next role will be a dead man (which it is). The main characters are all acting different parts--so there's a meta level to the movie. Hitchcock characters often have double identities, multiple names. R.O.T--the O stands for nothing--could be a joke on David O. Selznick whose middle initial stood for nothing. If you want to take it more seriously, the nothing at the middle of his name suggests he's a hollow man--just a man in a suit. I love how Roger is put into these amazing tableaus, all distinctly shot by Hitch. Cary's acting is perfect--he can be funny and then charming and then aloof. Roger becomes whatever he needs to be for that scene. I wonder if his third marriage will last--she did try to get him killed and would have succeeded. On first viewing, this movie might just seem a good action movie, but there's a lot more going on that becomes apparent on rewatch.
I'm not a fan of Cary Grant, he always seems in the same stereotypical role. And I don't feel the chemistry with his female co-star.
Both actors were asked to play James Bond.
I understand they couldn't get permission to film at the United Nations, so they managed to sneak in some action and film it without anyone noticing. I think the shot looking straight down outside is one of these.
Fun reaction to this classic Hitch film. Not my favorite of his, but the performances and the dialogue are absolutely terrific. I wish more movies today had the witty quality of this dialogue. Keep the classics coming, Elie!
You may notice that the very final shot of the movie is symbolic of something.
Reveal thy secrets
@@eliemoses Well, the two of them are in bed on their honeymoon, and it switches to a shot of a train entering a tunnel.....
@@brandonflorida1092 funt times got it
The Broccoli's admitted this film was the template for the Bond films. Grant was offered the part and turned it down as he was at that point too old. But he'd created the character and Hitchcock and Ernest Lehman created the approach.
This was the original James Bond film, just without James Bond!
See "The 39 Steps".
Totally agree. Feels fresher for me than NBNW which is decent but feels stiff with the acting and script at times. Love the two actors at the heart of The 39 Steps.
And see "Charade" with Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, and others -- every bit as good as the best Hitchcock but not by Hitchcock.
Cary Grant was offered James Bond but said said he would only do it for one movie
Top 5 Hitchcock for me (the others are Psycho, Rear Window, Notorious and Vertigo). If you enjoyed this one you will also love Charade also with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn and directed by Stanley Donen (Singin' in the rain). The best Hitchcock movie not directed by Hitchcock.
That's an awesome Top 5 Hitchcock. Mine are, 1. Rear Window 2. Dial M For Murder 3. North By Northwest 4. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) 5. Vertigo
Arabesque and The Prize are others.
And the French film Diabolique.
Love your channel. There’s one classic movie no one seems to review: The Grapes of Wrath. One of the greatest movies of all time. Just a suggestion. Peace.
Another great Hitchcock about a case of mistaken identity is “The Wrong Man” starring Henry Fonda, but instead of a suspenseful romantic comedy, it is quite a serious film based on a true story and has tragic implications.
Yes, that's one of his great ones that get neglected. And it was made in the US so even stranger it gets neglected there, maybe it's too serious for some.
Sorry, I must bid farewell. Can't take laughing when there is absolutely nothing to laugh at, wish you well.