Vertigo (film)

Vertigo is a 1958 by Director Alfred Hitchcock based on the novel D'entre les morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. The film is generally accepted as one of the best films in movie history, although the reviews from critics at the original edition were very moderately.

The importance of the film within the film history is reflected in the fact that a technical term in the cinematography points directly to Vertigo: one speaks about the vertigo shot.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The film begins in full action. A police officer and detective John "Scottie" Ferguson chasing a fleeing criminal. The pursuit takes place on the roofs of a row of houses inSan Francisco. John does a slip and deposit nearly dying on impact. He can still just grappling to a gutter. The pursuit cannot possibly continue and the policeman tries to save John. During this rescue action, the police officer into the depths. This is killed instantly and John survives, since then, however, presents with Vertigo (acrofobie) who joined him manifests as turn dizziness (English: vertigo) that he was forced to take early retirement feels.
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 Production
 * 3.2 Music
 * 3.3 Publication and reception
 * 4 awards and nominations
 * 5 external links

James Stewart and Kim Novak inVertigo.John is approached by Gavin Elster, an old school friend. Although John is no longer active as a detective, ask his help. Elster suspects that his wife, Madeleine, going crazy and maybe even possessed by a spirit from one of her ancestors. John goes on research but can be difficult to maintain aloofness and soon becomes hopelessly in love with the very attractive blonde. They begin a relationship and his love for her has clearly an obscene side. When Madeleine commits suicide, just before Johns eyes, by itself from a tower to collapse, the depth is just too much for John. Prevented by his fear of heights he was unable to save his beloved. For a while he is included in an old people's home and when he is released from it, continues his obsession for Madeleine continue to develop. He even starts a relationship with Judy Barton just because they similar to Madeleine. His obsession comes to a climax when he tries to transform into any cost Judy Madeleine. He buys her the exact same clothing as that of Madeleine and calls to her hair blond to make paints, if they but on Madeleine similar.

The denouement of the story shows that everything was orchestrated by Elster who pursued the perfect murder and also effectively failed. Victim was his wife, who was murdered and thrown from the Tower in order to stage a suicide. Madeleine Elster, who turns out to be not the real woman, played an important role in this ingenious and complicated set up plan. However, before the final scene leaves the viewer focus on the psychological consequences caused at John than on the actual murder plan. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == Hitchcock has 11 minutes after the start of the film a cameo as a man who, dressed in a gray suit, by the street runs. ==Background[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" 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);">] === Kim Novak and James Stewart<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The scenario of the film is an adaptation of the French novel D'entre les morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Hitchcock bought the rights to this novel for he had already tried to the film rights to another book of the two writers, Celle qui n'était plus, to buy, but this eventually went to Henri-Georges Clouzot.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="166" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  according to François Truffaut would D'entre les morts by Boileau and Narcejac written especially for Hitchcock,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-truffaut_4-0" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  but Narcejac has always denied this.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="166" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5]  however, they were interested in their work There Hitchcock, in 1954 Paramount Pictures wanted a summary of D'entre les morts, while the book when not yet in English was translated.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-aulier_6-0" len="173" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]
 * James Stewart -John "Scottie" Ferguson
 * Kim Novak -Judy Barton/Madeleine Elster
 * Barbara Bel Geddes -Midge Wood
 * Tom Helmore -Gavin Elster

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Hitchcock originally hired screenwriter Maxwell Anderson in to write the screenplay, but accepted his script, entitled Darkling I Listen, af. The final script was written by Samuel a. Taylor, directed by Hitchcock was hired because of his knowledge of San Francisco.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-aulier_6-1" len="173" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]  Tylor wanted if only writer mentioned on the end credits, but Alec Coppel, another scenario writer who was approached by Hitchcock, protested about this at the Screen Writers Guild there also a contribution to the script he had supplied. The Screen Writers Guild ruled that Coppels was also a contribution significant enough to mention in the credits as a writer legitimacy.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" len="166" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [7]

Kim Novak as Madeleine<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Hitchcock actually wanted actress Vera Miles, which was already under personal contract with him and had played in the series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the film The Wrong Man, the lead role, but she could not because of her pregnancy. Hitchcock wanted the recordings do not postpone and hired therefore Kim Novak as lead actress.Novak first had a number of other obligations at Columbia Pictures, and had a holiday here too well. By the time she was available for the role, was that because they had already given birth to Miles. Hitchcock, however, decided to give the role to Novak anyway. Columbia suggested as a condition for the loan of Novak that her opponent, Stewart, with her had to occur in the Bell, Book and Candle .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Shooting of the film took place from september to december 1957. The film features especially for a production of Hitchcock many recordings on location, including in the San Francisco Bay Area. ===Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" 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 music was composed by Bernard Herrmann, but not included. Due to a strike in the music industry in the United States, the music had to be included in Europe.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-The_Best_Music_in_Film_8-0" len="189" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [8]  it was among other things included in Londonand Vienna. The soundtrack includes the following numbers:

===Reception<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" 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 lang="en" len="351" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Vertigo went on 9 May 1958 at the Stage Door Theater (the current Ruby Skye nightclub).
 * 1) Vertigo Prelude and Rooftop (4: 38)
 * 2) Madeleine and Carlotta's Portrait (3: 11)
 * 3) The Beach (3: 28)
 * 4) Farewell and The Tower (6: 54)
 * 5) The Nightmare and Dawn (3: 30)
 * 6) Love Music (revised "Scene D'Amour") (5: 04)
 * 7) The Necklace and The Return and Finale (7: 06)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film was moderately received by critics at the premiere.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" len="166" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [9]  Actor James Stewart even took some distance from the film by openly stating that he would rather not had participated in such a bad film project. As is often the case with masterpieces there would be a number of years must elapse before the film was appreciated. It was especially the sexually perverted undertone of the story that gave offense to the public of that time and the film thus in a bad light suggested. Variety found that the story of the film slowly came for a psychological murder mystery.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [10]  The Los Angeles Times found the film in terms of film technique beautiful, but the story too long and too full of details.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [11]  a point where especially fans of Hitchcock's previous films about complained that Hitchcock in Vertigo was clearly deviated from its romantic thrillers, and that is already solved the mystery from the movie while the movie is still far from over.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" len="168" 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;">In an interview with François Truffaut Hitchcock said that was his favorite film Vertigo .<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [13]  he gave actor James Stewart to blame for the failure of the film, because he was already too old according to Hitchcock still realistic about to come as love interest for Kim Novak.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [14]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In later years, however, the responses to the film were more positive. In 1989, the film was recognized as culturally significant by the Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.In 2012 the movie reached the first position in the leading list of best films of all time, drawn up by the British film magazine Sight & Sound. The film also scores well on multiple lists of the American Film Institute:

==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" 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);">] ==
 * AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movies # 61
 * AFI's 100 Years ...100 Thrills # 18
 * AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores # 12
 * AFI's 100 Years ...100 Passions # 18
 * AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movies (10th anniversary) # 9
 * AFI's 10 Top 10 # 1 Mystery<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15]