But the husband couldn’t be sure how the police would react. He could’ve been charged. The police might have thought the claim of vertigo was phony and Scottie did push her off. Either way the husband would get away with the crime.
I always felt the green color meant a covetous love. It's not just green, its emerald green like a gem you'd want to possess. I never felt Scotty was in love but lust. He wanted to possess her, another man's wife. Red is a very lustful color and in the red room at the very end of the spiral is this emerald gem Scotty wants to possess. He must have her. That's not love. The image of Judy in black profile against the green. Here Scotty is in love with the idea of love, the green, not Judy, he doesn't even see Judy, here in black profile. It's all about the green color, a memory of her that he still seeks to posses. He only sees the green, the idea of her, not her. When he sees her on the street, he is seeing green everywhere cause he is looking for her everywhere and Judy walks by and the obsession can continue. Was Scotty in love? He'll no! It was all about possession. He asks her to change her hair, he says, "It can't matter to you." I'm not aware of any woman who doesn't care about her hair. This is full obsession/possession mode. RUN GIRL, RUN!
I remember watching this film for a college paper. and wow. I never sought out classic films because I had preconceived ideas about it being “outdated” but I absolutely loved this film (which shouldn’t be a surprise based on its positive reception). this film really changed my perspective on films as a concept within time.
great essay, as usual! I always felt like Vertigo uses color also too make rather common spaces seem surreal, something that Dario Argento took even further in Suspiria a bit later, setting the path for directors like Wong Kar Wai or Nicolas Winding Refn who achieve a great portion of their visual storytelling through supernatural colors and lights. I think Vertigo might have been a predecessor in that regard.
You could also argue that the way Powell and Pressburger (Powell was a contemporary of Hitchcock) used colour also had an influence on Argento and indeed other giallo filmmakers
Billy Chapman, and video maker As a longtrime film and Hitchcock buff, particularly of Vertigo, I haven't read anything, so far, about Saul Bass being a "visual consultant" on Vertigo. The movie was Hitchcock's visual plan, LONG before it was even shot. In fact, Hitchcock had to tell Kim Novak that he had planned the ideas for her wardrobe before it was shot, as he said to her when she told him that she didn't want to wear that grey outfit, for starters. For the record, Hitchcock DID say in an interview that since Saul Bass was interested in the production of Psycho, that Hitchcock let him be "pictorial consultant" on THAT, which he gave him credit for, as seen in the titles for Psycho, which Bass designed, along with his storyboard for the shower scene. Anyone disagree or have recent information I haven't read of in the last 4 plus decades? Bring it on, thanks.
The moment i watched Vertigo, it became my new favorite movie. And Kim Novak my favorite actress. And to think, that the initial choice of Hitchcock for leading actress was Vera Miles, the sister from 1960 Psycho. I don't think it would have worked that well with her. Thankfully, destiny helped both the movie, Kim Novak and Hitchcock.
You are wrong, Saul Bass only has credits for the titles shared with John Whitney not as a consultant as in Psycho. The credit and applause for the color are for Robert Burks the Director of Photography of this sublime film.
Well done I watched another video saying that the green represents the eternal and although I agree with what they said I also love your take on it and agree with yours as well!
1:21 "So that Scottie can be framed for her murder" ? You mean, so that Scottie can witness the faked suicide of Gavin's wife. The green in Vertigo represents rebirth and immortality. As in, the rebirth of Madeleine as Judy, and Scottie's never-ending (immortal) obsession with Madeleine. It also suggests a supernatural ghostly element, as in, Judy is an apparition of Madeleine: rebirth and afterlife. In addition, it also suggests illusion or magic, as in, the first time Scottie sees Madeleine, she's not the real Madeleine, she's Judy pretending to be Madeleine, she is a trick or mirage, and the small amount of green in her dress not only makes her stand out from the red background, but also provides a hint that she isn't who we (and Scottie) think she is. The red represents fear, anxiety, guilt, and danger. Scottie is gradually becoming infatuated with an old friend's wife and the red represents the treacherous path he's choosing to go down. Oh and for the record, Saul Bass didn't act as a "visual consultant" on Vertigo, he was a pictorial consultant on Psycho, which of course was shot in black and white.
The film wasn't "voted by Sight & Sound" as the greatest of all time. Contributors to its once a decade poll, film critics in other words, from all over the world, THEIR selection put it top.
As others have stated, Scottie was not framed for her murder. Elstree picked Scottie bc he knew his acrophobia would give him such bad vertigo he would be unable to chase Madeline (Judy) up the stairs to see Elsteee throw his already-deceased wife onto the church roof. This convinced everyone that Madeline killed herself in order to escape the haunting of Carlotta.
First of all, your quality is great. I love it! Did you see Avatar The Last Airbender? I know its not live action and all but it got a lot of potential for video essays.
I'm actually finishing up season 4 of Korra right now! I love Avatar. I have no plans to write anything about it... Mostly because I don't think I can say anything that hasn't been said.
Hitchcock worked intensely with Edith Head to design the legendary grey suit and such spectacular clothes as the Ernie's green and black dress. Ernie's (My parents took me there when I was kid 60 years ago) was always spectacularly red. It was a favorite restaurant of Hitch's so he would have known it well. Saul Bass's role in all this is not very convincing.
what really threw me off is that in these old movies everyone looks the same. It was very confusing at first. also :Because I wanted to continue the video in my phone I typed the exact title of the video in the UA-cam searchbar and the video didn't show up in the results. What is going on there?
Channels with few subscribers are often buried by the algorithm. If you want to see more of my content, generally you should either like the video or subscribe... As for the "everyone looks the same" I think I get what you mean. You just have to understand that back then it was a different style of acting and performances. It's not that they look the same, but think of it like this. It can be easy to lump foreign things into one aesthetic, such as the "Middle Eastern" look, or the "Asian" look or the "African" look, when these cultures are varied and incredibly different... It's a similar thing with "Old Hollywood". It's just your mind isn't accustomed to this style and aesthetic. The more you watch, learn, etc, the easier it becomes to differentiate and appreciate the subtleties.
I showed it to students who had the same problem, especially since all the men look the same, but it was fun for me to explain to them who each of the look alike men are in the film. And i was excited that they loved the film; thank God for subtitles - the were English Kearners whose first language was not English.
Man, turn off the music..! The music itself is fine, but it's BLOCKING SPEECH. (You're supposed to know about film production and yet you're blocking speech?)
I think the ending scene is unintentionally hilarious too, and Rear Window is superior in terms of Hitchcock films... But apart from that I think this film is still extremely good.
@@FilmEye I don't think the ending is hilarious. When I saw the film for the first time it provoked me a strange sensation, but after a lot of viewings of this marvelous masterpiece, I think that Judy at that moment realises mentally that the shadow of the nun could be two options: the spirit of dead Madeleine or the best option for me, she was the witness of the crime and herself the real Madeleine throwed of the tower by Elster's hands and feared by that, she slid down. I agree that Rear Window has one of the best scripts but camera artwork included too, other great masterpiece.
@@FilmEye "Unintentionally hilarious" ending? I'm baffled how you could react that way to a tragedy.... Are you new to watching any classic film made before Star Wars? To be fair, you at least mention Rear Window, from 1954, so that shows some amount of depth, understanding.
The plot wasn’t that he was going to be framed for the murder. He was to be a witness to suicide that covered up a murder
Exactly
But the husband couldn’t be sure how the police would react. He could’ve been charged. The police might have thought the claim of vertigo was phony and Scottie did push her off. Either way the husband would get away with the crime.
I always felt the green color meant a covetous love. It's not just green, its emerald green like a gem you'd want to possess. I never felt Scotty was in love but lust. He wanted to possess her, another man's wife. Red is a very lustful color and in the red room at the very end of the spiral is this emerald gem Scotty wants to possess. He must have her. That's not love.
The image of Judy in black profile against the green. Here Scotty is in love with the idea of love, the green, not Judy, he doesn't even see Judy, here in black profile. It's all about the green color, a memory of her that he still seeks to posses. He only sees the green, the idea of her, not her.
When he sees her on the street, he is seeing green everywhere cause he is looking for her everywhere and Judy walks by and the obsession can continue. Was Scotty in love? He'll no! It was all about possession. He asks her to change her hair, he says, "It can't matter to you." I'm not aware of any woman who doesn't care about her hair. This is full obsession/possession mode. RUN GIRL, RUN!
this comment is an infinitely more well-founded and meaningful analysis than the video is lmao
I remember watching this film for a college paper. and wow. I never sought out classic films because I had preconceived ideas about it being “outdated” but I absolutely loved this film (which shouldn’t be a surprise based on its positive reception). this film really changed my perspective on films as a concept within time.
I recommend Rear Window. One of the best scripts ever in my opinion
pretentious nonsense....
@@RobertSlover then why click on the video?
@@penelopekitson8060 ?
Alfred Hitchcock in 1958: *I need colour for this film to work.*
Alfred Hitchcock in 1960: *Nah, I’m good.*
It was a cost-cutting due to the economic failure of Vertigo , But Hitchcock uses shadows symbolically in Psycho
@@quarti1031Oh! I have heard somewhere that he didn't want people to see the blood and gore in real colours
@@yashh0909yes that's also true
@@yashh0909 True and he wanted to make with a television crew cheaply and quickly.
@@yashh0909 It was also due to the Hays code back then that graphic blood wouldn't of been allowed. The code went from 1934-1968.
Excellent video on an excellent movie.
Thank you!
Yep definitely gonna be famous for the quality 👏. Keep it up
Thank you so much!
Half of the credit goes to the amazing writer behind this one, my friend Billy. Genius, that guy is.
Love it! You will be gaining a ton of subscribers with this quality!
Thank you!
great essay, as usual! I always felt like Vertigo uses color also too make rather common spaces seem surreal, something that Dario Argento took even further in Suspiria a bit later, setting the path for directors like Wong Kar Wai or Nicolas Winding Refn who achieve a great portion of their visual storytelling through supernatural colors and lights. I think Vertigo might have been a predecessor in that regard.
You could also argue that the way Powell and Pressburger (Powell was a contemporary of Hitchcock) used colour also had an influence on Argento and indeed other giallo filmmakers
Billy Chapman, and video maker As a longtrime film and Hitchcock buff, particularly of Vertigo, I haven't read anything, so far, about Saul Bass being a "visual consultant" on Vertigo. The movie was Hitchcock's visual plan, LONG before it was even shot. In fact, Hitchcock had to tell Kim Novak that he had planned the ideas for her wardrobe before it was shot, as he said to her when she told him that she didn't want to wear that grey outfit, for starters. For the record, Hitchcock DID say in an interview that since Saul Bass was interested in the production of Psycho, that Hitchcock let him be "pictorial consultant" on THAT, which he gave him credit for, as seen in the titles for Psycho, which Bass designed, along with his storyboard for the shower scene. Anyone disagree or have recent information I haven't read of in the last 4 plus decades? Bring it on, thanks.
Great work with this
I just came across your channel and I gotta say, your videos are amazing.
Wow, thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed them!
Hi , green is not a primary color , it's a secondary color.
What?!? Green is one of the primary colors of light along with red and blue.
RGB
The moment i watched Vertigo, it became my new favorite movie. And Kim Novak my favorite actress. And to think, that the initial choice of Hitchcock for leading actress was Vera Miles, the sister from 1960 Psycho. I don't think it would have worked that well with her. Thankfully, destiny helped both the movie, Kim Novak and Hitchcock.
Excellent video. Keep up the good work!
You are wrong, Saul Bass only has credits for the titles shared with John Whitney not as a consultant as in Psycho. The credit and applause for the color are for Robert Burks the Director of Photography of this sublime film.
Well done I watched another video saying that the green represents the eternal and although I agree with what they said I also love your take on it and agree with yours as well!
1:21 "So that Scottie can be framed for her murder" ? You mean, so that Scottie can witness the faked suicide of Gavin's wife.
The green in Vertigo represents rebirth and immortality. As in, the rebirth of Madeleine as Judy, and Scottie's never-ending (immortal) obsession with Madeleine. It also suggests a supernatural ghostly element, as in, Judy is an apparition of Madeleine: rebirth and afterlife. In addition, it also suggests illusion or magic, as in, the first time Scottie sees Madeleine, she's not the real Madeleine, she's Judy pretending to be Madeleine, she is a trick or mirage, and the small amount of green in her dress not only makes her stand out from the red background, but also provides a hint that she isn't who we (and Scottie) think she is.
The red represents fear, anxiety, guilt, and danger. Scottie is gradually becoming infatuated with an old friend's wife and the red represents the treacherous path he's choosing to go down.
Oh and for the record, Saul Bass didn't act as a "visual consultant" on Vertigo, he was a pictorial consultant on Psycho, which of course was shot in black and white.
The film wasn't "voted by Sight & Sound" as the greatest of all time. Contributors to its once a decade poll, film critics in other words, from all over the world, THEIR selection put it top.
As others have stated, Scottie was not framed for her murder. Elstree picked Scottie bc he knew his acrophobia would give him such bad vertigo he would be unable to chase Madeline (Judy) up the stairs to see Elsteee throw his already-deceased wife onto the church roof. This convinced everyone that Madeline killed herself in order to escape the haunting of Carlotta.
Nice channel! You're in the right way!
First of all, your quality is great. I love it!
Did you see Avatar The Last Airbender? I know its not live action and all but it got a lot of potential for video essays.
I'm actually finishing up season 4 of Korra right now! I love Avatar.
I have no plans to write anything about it... Mostly because I don't think I can say anything that hasn't been said.
Please give Halt and Catch Fire a try if you can. I'm curious to see what you make of it. :)
Nice video
He wasn't being framed
Omg
I know man like, like this is, THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER!!!
Where did you get the clips?
lame analysis. scotty isnt being framed for anything.
Can u make a video on mr robot. IMO its the greatest show of all time.
Watching that show right now (on the third season). It’s so good
OH NOOOOOOOO ! NO!!! NO WAY! IT'S FOR TEENAGERS !
What Scotty doesn't know 🤭
Green means dead
Hitchcock worked intensely with Edith Head to design the legendary grey suit and such spectacular clothes as the Ernie's green and black dress. Ernie's (My parents took me there when I was kid 60 years ago) was always spectacularly red. It was a favorite restaurant of Hitch's so he would have known it well. Saul Bass's role in all this is not very convincing.
I think you are giving Bass more credit than he is due as if Hitchcock is some hack.
what really threw me off is that in these old movies everyone looks the same. It was very confusing at first.
also :Because I wanted to continue the video in my phone I typed the exact title of the video in the UA-cam searchbar and the video didn't show up in the results. What is going on there?
Channels with few subscribers are often buried by the algorithm. If you want to see more of my content, generally you should either like the video or subscribe...
As for the "everyone looks the same" I think I get what you mean. You just have to understand that back then it was a different style of acting and performances. It's not that they look the same, but think of it like this.
It can be easy to lump foreign things into one aesthetic, such as the "Middle Eastern" look, or the "Asian" look or the "African" look, when these cultures are varied and incredibly different...
It's a similar thing with "Old Hollywood". It's just your mind isn't accustomed to this style and aesthetic. The more you watch, learn, etc, the easier it becomes to differentiate and appreciate the subtleties.
I showed it to students who had the same problem, especially since all the men look the same, but it was fun for me to explain to them who each
of the look alike men are in the film. And i was excited that they loved the film; thank God for subtitles - the were English Kearners whose first language was not English.
Think ectoplasm.
Man, turn off the music..! The music itself is fine, but it's BLOCKING SPEECH. (You're supposed to know about film production and yet you're blocking speech?)
I find vertigo so overrated and unintentionally funny
I think the ending scene is unintentionally hilarious too, and Rear Window is superior in terms of Hitchcock films... But apart from that I think this film is still extremely good.
Greatest film I ever saw
@@FilmEye I don't think the ending is hilarious. When I saw the film for the first time it provoked me a strange sensation, but after a lot of viewings of this marvelous masterpiece, I think that Judy at that moment realises mentally that the shadow of the nun could be two options: the spirit of dead Madeleine or the best option for me, she was the witness of the crime and herself the real Madeleine throwed of the tower by Elster's hands and feared by that, she slid down.
I agree that Rear Window has one of the best scripts but camera artwork included too, other great masterpiece.
@@fergalhughes165 Great to recognize a name from Hitchcock Fans.
@@FilmEye "Unintentionally hilarious" ending? I'm baffled how you could react that way to a tragedy.... Are you new to watching any classic film made before Star Wars? To be fair, you at least mention Rear Window, from 1954, so that shows some amount of depth, understanding.
This has to be the most overrated movie I have EVER seen in my life .. what a waste of 2 hours
Hopefully someday you'll develop tastes beyond Paw Patrol.
I take it you haven't engaged in much dialogue with other film fans, or seen enough movies for that to happen yet...
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ha ha ha he or she deserves your comment !@@texasred2702
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Green is not a primary color.
It is in light theory