Spellbound (1945)

Spellbound is an American psychological thriller from 1945 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film is based on the book The House of Dr. Edwardes of John Palmerand is about psychoanalysis, then a popular phenomenon in the United States.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Constance Petersen is a psychoanalyst in a psychiatric facility in Vermont that is known to have no feelings or emotions. The Director of the hospital is doctor Murchison.He has recently returned from his absence and early retirement by exhaustion. He will be replaced by Dr. Anthony Edwardes, a much younger man. Constance on notice that something is not right to him. He has a phobia of seeing parallel lines against a white background and character changes drastically once he sees this. When she sees that his handwriting does not match that of the real Anthony, she comes to the conclusion that he is a cheater.
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 Production
 * 3.2 Receipt
 * 3.3 Analysis
 * 4 awards and nominations
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Confides, he admits that he killed doctor Edwardes and has taken its place. Constance has become him, and is convinced that he is innocent. She thinks he is suffering from memory loss and suffering from a guilt for something. That same night leaves the cheater the décor and goes to New York City. It has become known to the police that he is a cheater and is the main suspect in the disappearance of doctor Edwardes. Constance follows him to New York and are looking for him in a hotel. She tries to make clear to him that he is not guilty and is trying to use its experience as a psychoanalyst to find out the truth.

The police is now behind both the trickster as Constance to. They travel with a lot of trouble to Rochester, where they look up doctor Brulov Constance's mentor. He is an old man that logic above makes sense. For that reason it cost her a lot of trouble to convince him to offer shelter to a fugitive. Together they analyze a dream that he has, in which many psychoanalytic characteristics, such as eyes, curtains, scissors, playing cards, a man without a face, a man who falls from a building, a man who was hiding, and wings. They later come to the conclusion that he and Edwardes is skiing and that he died somewhere in this loop.

To get him to understand what exactly happened to Constance, persuades him with her skiing on the same place. He wants to not do this initially, because he is afraid that he will kill her. While skiing he gets some flashes from the past and remembers that he has not killed but Edwardes of a cliff has been dropped. He felt guilty for his death because he has accidentally killed his brother as a child. Constance thinks she now knows the full truth. But as the body of Edwardes is found, there appears to be a bullet in his back to sit. The police arrest the man, who now knows that his real name is John Ballantine, and holds him responsible for the murder of Edwardes.

Constance returns with a broken heart back to her work in the hospital. However, through the dream of John, she found out that he has not shot down, but that the Edwardes was someone else. Due to a number of illogical statements of doctor Murchison, realized that he was the murderer. She confronts him with the truth, after which also threatens to shoot down her Murchison. She tells him that he does not necessarily have to end up on the electric chair, unless he also shoots her down. She runs away, after which Murchison himself down shooting. Not much later he is released and reunited with John Constance. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film is based on the book The House of Dr. Edwardes and long was also adopted that as a working title of the film. Also The Interloper was temporarily used as the title of the movie. When Director Alfred Hitchcock had to give a final title, he came up with Hidden Impulse. Ruth Rickman, the Secretary of the studio, suggested him to use Spellbound .<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-notes_4-0" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]  In early 1943 producer David o. Selznick Hitchcock to make apsychological thriller, after which the Director convinced him the rights of the book The House of Dr. Edwardes to buy. After this was bought at a cost of $ 40,000, Hitchcock began in december that year with a rewrite of the story.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-notes_4-1" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Selznick hired Ben Hecht in to write the script. Hecht was familiar with psychoanalysis and psychiatric establishments visited to prepare. In the autumn of 1944 was his script ready, but Selznick was not happy with the result and gave him the command to process more romantic aspects.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-notes_4-2" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]  after many changes was the script sent to Joseph i. Breen . Breen was the Director of Motion Picture Association of America and protested violently against some words that were used to describe the character of Mary Carmichael, as sex menace, frustrations, libido and tomcat.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Selznick originally wanted Joseph Cotten, Dorothy McGuire and appoint Paul Lukas as the protagonists.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]  he left the idea to McGuire to choose terwege and tried to tie for the Greta Garbo role. This would make a comeback they come from her retirement and on the big screen. That idea didn't last long.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [7]  Ingrid Bergman was previously rejected for the lead role. She was not sad to. She wanted the role not because they didn't believe in the love story. She explained that an intellectual woman as Constance not so in love can be.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [8]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The male lead eventually went to Gregory Peck. Bergman was not initially happy with it, because she didn't want her romantic interest was younger than they. However, to say it took Pecks not long before the ice between the two was broken. According to Peck served Bergman as a mentor for him and she helped him when that was needed.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [9]  In an important scene they had together skiing. Because they both couldn't, a stuntman and-wife uses. However, it was imperative that they were on skis, because there also close ups were made. To solve that problem, there was snow counterfeited of maize flakes and they just pretend they skied.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [10]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For Rhonda Fleming was her first major film role. She described it as a story similar to Cinderella, because they on the streets was discovered when she was a student was and without any experience as an actress was awarded a screen test . They immediately got offered a movie contract and has had several weeks later chosen as a nymphomaniac patient of a psychiatric facility. Her lack of experience fell popular with Hitchcock, so that he could train her personally. Fleming told that Bergman her very well treated and that they could get along especially well with each other because they were both long in length.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [11] ===Receipt<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film was a great success and brought just $ 60,000 on the first week. This film broke the record of the highest yield in one week. The record holder was Gone with the Wind (1939).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fun_12-0" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [12]  It eventually brought nearly $ 8 million on, against a budget of $ 1.7 million.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fun_12-1" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [12]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">When the film was released in Netherlands, it was feared that the public could be negatively affected mental way. There was assistance of a psychiatrist for advice, that coming to the conclusion that this was not possible. Though the film was suitable for persons of 18 years and older '.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [13]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Spellbound had much influence on the film industry. It was the movie that introduced psychoanalysis. Movies like Shock (1946), Whirlpool (1949) and Caught (1949) are all largely based on the movie. The script was adapted to make it suitable for the radio and was in the 1948 Lux Radio Theater, tuned up with Joseph Cotten and starring Alida Valli .<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-pop_14-0" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [14]  the dream scene formed an inspiration to several filmmakers, including for Roman Polanski, which his inspiration there, processed in the horror films Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Composer Miklos Rozsa used the music from Spellbound to change it in classical music. This formed an inspiration to composers of horror films, including those of The Thing from Another World (1951) and The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951). The piece of Rozsa was also the result of Jerry Goldsmith to write music for movies.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-pop_14-1" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [14] ===Analysis<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Spellbound was just after the end of the Second World War released. Many veterans who returned to America, were constantly reminded of traumatic experiences on the battlefield. That is why psychoanalysis was very popular during this time. Spellbound is also described as a therapeutic film, because it is about someone using another trying to heal. Producer David o. Selznick took the psychoanalysis very seriously, because he is in the time the film was made his brother lost to alcoholism and also suffered a trauma to there.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-guilty_15-0" len="178" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [15]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Director Alfred Hitchcock was known as ' Visual Director ' and wanted all the traumatic reactions of Gregory Pecks character were clearly visible to the Viewer. He did this for example by the character reactions to get through images, such as dark lines on a white background.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-guilty_15-1" len="178" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [15]  his character was someone who suffered from amnesia due to a traumatic experience. This kind of people can remember certain events only partially and block specific moments. Symptoms of this are sleep problems, irritability and alienation from society. This was all featured in the film.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-guilty_15-2" len="178" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [15]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">One of the most famous scenes is one in which the character of Peck has a remarkable dream that later important in the case of the denouement. Hitchcock didn't want the standard technique using a blurred image to make it clear that there is a dream.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [16]  he hired surrealist Salvador Dalí to design this scene at a cost of $ 4,000. It was an important scene for Hitchcock and he wanted to achieve that ' with Visual sharpness and clarity it was transferred, sharper than the film itself '.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [17]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the climax of the film shoot the bad guy himself down. The viewer sees only his hand with the gun in it, he with an arc of 180 degrees turn around. Because this is physically impossible, a special hand designed.To lay emphasis on the time frames of the film, Hitchcock has two red colored. The were the only moments in color in the black-and-white film. ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==