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Apart from such changes as these, though, the film follows the novelвЂ™s plot quite faithfully. The opening scene, with Scottie and another cop chasing a perp on rooftops, Scottie almost falling and the other cop actually falling to his deathвЂ“thus establishing ScottieвЂ™s acrophobiaвЂ“was added to the beginning of the story whereas in the novel, the trauma causing the protagonistвЂ™s acrophobia is explained in a flashback. Marjorie вЂњMidgeвЂќ Wood (Bel Geddes) was invented for the film by scriptwriter Taylor she has no equivalent in the novel. The American Film Institute ranked Vertigo #9 in 2007 (up from #61 in 1998) in вЂњ AFIвЂ™s 100 YearsвЂ¦100 Movies.вЂќДЄ link to quotes from the film can be found here.ДЄpart from changing the setting of the novel from WWII France to late Fifties San Francisco (as well as, accordingly, changing the charactersвЂ™ French names to English ones), comparatively few changes were made in this Hitchcock adaptation from its source material (in contrast with the many changes made in Psycho, Rear Window, and especially The Birds).

While Vertigo originally received mixed reviews, itвЂ™s now considered one of HitchcockвЂ™s best films, as well as one of the best films ever made. ItвЂ™s the first film to use the dolly zoom, distorting perspective to create the disorientation of the vertiginous acrophobia of police detective John вЂњScottieвЂќ Ferguson (Stewart) hence, the in-camera effect is often called вЂњthe Vertigo effect.вЂќ The film was shot on location in the city of San Francisco, California, as well as Mission San Juan Bautista, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Cypress Point on 17-Mile Drive, and Paramount Studios. The film stars James Stewart, Kim Novak, and Barbara Bel Geddes, with Tom Helmore and Henry Jones. The screenplay was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor, based on the 1954 novel DвЂ™entre les morts, by Boileau-Narcejac. Inquire at the concession stand.Vertigo is a 1958 psychological thriller produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ADA-mandated Audio Descriptive (AD) and Closed Caption (CC) devices available for the visually and hearing-impaired.

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Cavallero has been delighting the audience with video commentary before each film in the series, and now we are pleased he will actually be with us for this last Hitchcock experience, guiding us masterfully through the film aspects that will pull us down and into Jimmy StewartвЂ™s unraveling world. Jon Cavallero, associate professor of Rhetoric, Film and Screen Studies at Bates College.

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It utilizes the full array of motion picture-making techniques of which Hitchcock was so masterful - cinematography, editing, acting, direction, set design, and, of course, a haunting musical score.ДЄs a special treat for this last in the classic film series, we will have some assistance in making our own conclusions about the revered вЂњfilm noirвЂќ with an in-person, pre-film talk by Dr. Starring Jimmy Stewart as the troubled police detective, вЂњScottieвЂќ Ferguson, and Kim Novak as Judy, the вЂњpossessedвЂќ wife he is hired to follow, вЂњVertigoвЂќ takes the audience on a tangled, dizzying journey of obsession, betrayal, and loss. Now critically acclaimed as not only one of HitchcockвЂ™s most outstanding films but considered by many critics as one of the best films ever made, it is hard to believe that when вЂњVertigoвЂќ was first released in 1958, its performance at the box office was disappointing, and critics widely panned it. вЂњVertigo,вЂќ our final offering in this yearвЂ™s вЂњBest of HitchcockвЂќ Classic Series, plays on Thursday, March 3 at 2 p.m.

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