MOVIE REACTION North by Northwest (1959) First Time Watching Reaction Review
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- It's like Who's On First but much more exciting
Sorry if this reaction seems a overly chopped up! We had intended for it to be longer, but the copygoblins were not kind to us about this movie.
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My favourite Hitchcock movie with Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason. Three Hollywood legends.
He wasn't hiding in the train's luggage department, that was a fold-down bed. Pullman cars had seating arrangements during the day which converted to "berths" (beds) at night. (The seat functioned like a futon to provide a "lower berth.") A porter assigned to each car would make the change, which required a special key to keep passengers from doing this themselves - which she admits to having attained. Later she tells him he can sleep on the floor (to keep it moral enough for the Hays Code censorship at the time), but he really could have slept in the upper bunk and she in the lower. (See last sequence in the movie where they both climb up to a upper berth.)
BTW, just about every railroad conductor in the world from when toilets were first put in passenger cars to now routinely checks each restroom as he goes along collecting tickets.
A bus stop in the middle of nowhere was common at that time. I was on a Greyhound coming east out of LA in the mid 60s and the bus stopped in the middle of nowhere in the Arizona desert and an ancient looking Indian got on, set on the stairs by the driver and then got off in the middle of nowhere about 50 miles farther on. If you haven't seen it another Hitchcock film well worth watching is "Rear Window" and a creepy murder/suspense one is 'Rope". Good reaction on this one. It is one of my favorites
Thank-you @randallshuck2976 for your explanation.
"Take the Greyhound Bus that leaves Chicago... for Indianapolis. and ask the driver to let you off at Prairie Stop, Highway 41."
In the movie "Prairie Stop" is the name of the bus stop where Cary Grant's character exits the Indianapolis bound Greyhound Lines' bus, so it is of course in the middle of nowhere, a most rural and isolated bus stop for people who also live in the middle of nowhere (when this legendary scene was filmed in October 1958) and for which in this case, provides transportation for them between Chicago, Illinois and Indianapolis, Indiana.
Happy Birthday to Eva Marie Saint/Eve Kendall. She'll be 100 on the fourth of July, 2024.
An icon, a legend!
For the longest time this was my favorite movie. It still kinda is if you can have two favorite movies, but then it would be 3 because Kill Bill (counting both volumes are one) is my other favorite. Vertigo being behind KB and NBNW.
ha ha....great job getting the joke at the end. Just to put into context, most people in 1959 wouldn't have questioned that some random lady on the train would help Cary Grant (who was the biggest movie star in the world at the time). Of course she's gonna fall for Cary Grant & help him get away from the police. Who wouldn't? But you guys figured out that she was a spy for the other side before it was revealed. Great job!
A common trope (roughly half) of Hitchcock movies is the everyman who gets caught up in bigger, sinister, things, by mistake. (In The Lady Vanishes, it is instead an everywoman.)
A shorthand way of looking at nearly any Hitchcock film is to think of it as a "who am I" rather than a "who done it." Often, we see the protagonist struggling to break away from an identity imposed by society to realise an inner identity. Thornhill starts out as a stereotypical ad executive with all the stereotypical traits and vices, transitions to being mistaken as a spy, a murderer, and a victim and finally establishes himself as a man.
My favorite Hitchcock movies are from his Gaumont-British era. Tight budgets, great acting and glorious black and white.
Hitchcock is great because he used the same suspense driver in most of his movies but made them entertaining.
Yeah, Hitchcock is by far my favorite film director. He may be the only director where he's directed 10 or more films that I consider to be classics/masterpieces. I'm not even sure if any other director has more than 4 or 5 films that I put in that special category.
@@drlee2 Two directors that I like because they always made interesting movies are Jacques Tourneur and Anthony Mann. They are less well known.
See REAR WINDOW!
Great reaction, guys!
You all have just viewed one film of the extensive Alfred Hitchcock collection. There are many more Hitchcock films that you need to view.
Most of Hitchcock movies are based on a person (usually a man) being in the wrong place at the wrong. Suspense is the audience knowing certain facts i.e., an innocent man and how the plot unfolds. Thrillers are when the audience is aghast at the action plot devices in a movie.
How in the hell did Hitchcock get that last scene past the censor? 😃
0:56 Hitchcock oeuvre was suspense not thrillers.
You two have a talent for talking over important dialogue and missing the point.
Glad (one of) you noticed that the waiter called out for Kaplan at the beginning! Maybe it was because you knew it was a case of mistaken identity. (The other guy was understandably distracted by the character snapping for a server lol.) It’s brief, but a surprising number of people miss that moment. I guess I did too the first time I watched it-but I was just a kid! XD
Anyway, of course since they think he’s a spy, nothing he says or shows them comes across as anything other than rehearsed lies and forged documents lol. A lot of people say this is like the first James Bond movie, but his love interest here is more the usually unflappable, smooth operator type.
Now you mention it, maybe the only reason the court looked into what happened to Thornhill is because he’s a well-to-do, “respectable” white gentleman. As opposed to potentially throwing him in jail for years waiting for trial after trial. 😬 But of course we know that rich (or rich seeming) people have very much stolen and done all sorts of things they don’t need to do. XD
He's Cary fricken Grant. Did you get a good look at him??
One of the best looking men to ever walk the earth.
Totally understand she would throw her self at him lol.
I notice that I lot of young reactors tend to get uncomfortable when watching scenes from older films of women coming on very strongly to men that they are attracted to. I mean, it's not a freakin crime but they sure act like it is. And any guy that comes onto a woman is automatically a creep and a pervert! lol
Lol! I’m glad they noticed she was distracting him. She didn’t answer his valid questions about why she was throwing herself at an alleged mǔrdërēr. There aren’t THAT many beautiful women who love kìllérs, and they don’t usually act quite like that. Nor do most women, even thirsty ones. Though perhaps I’m underestimating people. XD
I just enjoy that she purposefully comes across as a male fantasy, and certainly a femme fatale. Our protagonist is super adaptable but enough of a dingus to plausibly be very distracted in this situation haha.
Catch-up Packets at 16m. 17s. : "Say something , do something."
No, how about YOU begin and learn to shut up and watch?
At 26:43 in this video, keep your eyes on the background kid in the blue shirt (just to the right of the leads). He’s been through multiple takes of this scene, and apparently doesn’t look forward to the loud gunshot he knows is coming!
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good pick-up
A movie so influential it found it's way into a kids movie! Turns out Thornhill was chased by Ernie and Bert! Lol😊
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Yeah, Thornhill was pretty much stuck and screwed from the beginning! lol He couldn't go back to his regular boring life until Van Damme was actually apprehended and prosecuted.
Roger and Eve left the train and he was disguised as a porter and wearing a redcap. Then the police are searching for him in a sea of redcaps and you commented it was a great disguise. Funny that in the discussion you mentioned Raiders of The Lost Ark. Remember the marketplace scene and Indy is searching for Marion who is being abducted in a large basket? Cut to Indy running to the caanera ending in a headshot with s look of horror on his face. We wonder what horrible thing is Indy looking at? And we laugh because it's a sea of large baskets being carried. So Indy dashes from basket to basket and pulls them down looking for Narion. I've always wondered if Spielberg and Lucas were paying tribute to the sea of redcaps scene by haivng Indy search a sea of baskets. Side note: one of Spielberg's favorite movies is It's A Wonderfil Life. When George is in the sequence when he was never born and he leaves his Mom's boarding house in despair and runs to the camera with a look of horror on his face. I've always wondered if that headshot also inspired Spielberg to have the headshot of Indy.
14:25 Jeremy Slate is in this movie as a policeman in Grand Central, but I can never pick him out.
@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344: In the original full length version of "NORTH BY NORTHWEST" (1959), at 42 minutes and 51 seconds through 42:57, Jeremy Slate is seen (standing to the right) as one of the two N.Y.P.D. patrolman posted outside the legendary Main Concourse Information Booth (with its clock atop) in Grand Central Terminal, and on the lookout for Cary Grant's "Roger Thornhill" as he manages to slip past behind them.
@@meyerhave Jeremy Slate had a full career but is not well known. My favorite role of his is as Wes in "Hells Angels '69." 1969. It's a fun movie in which you get to see the actual members of the Oakland Chapter of the Hell's Angels frozen in time. You get to see what Sonny Barger looked like in 1969.
I didn't find this the strongest of reactions, but it was redeemed by their getting the train through the tunnel joke at the end. NbNw has one of the greatest endings ever put on film. Brilliant filmmaking from Hitchcock.
A famous movie critic (or was it a director?) called the last shot "the most impertinent shot in movie history" to avoid the Hayes code.
What is a “strong reaction”?
@@NoelleMar One that understand the movie well and fully appreciates it.
5:47 Cohorts are always so stupid. These 2 guys with the limousine pick up the wrong man on flimsy evidence in the bar then they can't even murder him! Like those Imperial Storm Troopers in Star Wars...most of them can't hit the broad side of a barn with their laser blasters.
It’s not as bad as that!! They didn’t try to off him with a laser and were instead trying to make his d**th look like an accident. He was a miraculously good drunk driver. It’s slightly funnier to me that our hero gets away from the UN after supposedly offing someone in front of everyone as well as a few other “surprise” escapes. I have to defend these mugs for some reason lol.
My least favorite of Hitch's "famous" film, mostly because of the ludicrous "Cary's Mom" portrayal... why wasn't she his sister, for goodness sake! THAT would have been believable!! Far more so than his mother-!! Jessie Royce Landis was born 8 years before Cary, for goodness sake-! For first-decade watchers, that won't matter but somewhere after seeing this film after 2 decades - and now more - it's a prime irritant that Hitch should have never created.
If you look down on Mt. Rushmore using Google Earth (both 2D and 3D), you’ll see it’s not at all flat and level, certainly with no room for a large house and landing strip. 😂 However, you *can* see the door of the vault dug into the wall. You can look up what the deal is with that.
I always love hearing James Mason (Vandamm) speak, such a rich voice, and Martin Landau (henchman Leonard) was one of the all-time best character actors.
Landau said he wanted to portray Leonard as gay and in love with Vandamm, and Hitchcock let him run with it. In the 1950s, that was pretty much limited to mentions of his impeccable fashion sense, his “woman’s intuition,” and Vandamm saying “you’re jealous!” about Eve.
"If you look down on Mt. Rushmore using Google Earth (both 2D and 3D), you’ll see it’s not at all flat and level, certainly with no room for a large house and landing strip."
... and that, "@TerryAllenSwartos", I would hope you would know and realize is the poetic license and fantasy used in filmmaking.
So what is your point?
Of course there is no actual room geographically atop Mount Rushmore "... for a large house and landing strip."
No different and just as similar when earlier in this same film there is ABSOLUTELY NO stretch, as shot in the scene, of Long Island, New York's North Shore that has cliffsides anywhere as steep to which Hitchcock wanted the moviegoer to think Cary and his "borrowed" Mercedes were going to drive off the cliff and down into his character's fatal doom upon Long Island Sound.
@@meyerhave Maybe the person edited their comment so I missed it, but I assume the point was just a fun fact? What’s wrong with that? Lol.
I guess that makes sense especially since they were allowed to code villains as not straight. James Mason’s character seems vaguely aware and not too bothered.