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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 411594" data-attributes="member: 8">NORTH BY NORTHWEST (22-10-2024)[ATTACH=full]54627[/ATTACH]Hey guys, has anyone seen the latest film starring Cary Grant? It&#039;s very exciting and it looks so very real!From what I&#039;ve seen so far, this looks like Hitchcock&#039;s most blockbuster-ish offering: a pre-James Bond without colourful villains, or any colourful characters for that matter.Well, except for Cary Grant&#039;s Hollywood tan which I found quite distracting at times. It looks so much better in black &amp; white.Not every film needs breakout characters, and this story is all about the plot, but it&#039;s more fun and more discussable to have an opinion on characters and actors.I love mistaken identities (in this case a mistaken non-identity) but after the first hour I could no longer remember what &quot;George Kaplan&quot; meant to villain Vandamm.They had mentioned an undercover agent but somehow I could not predict it would be Eva Marie Saint.Their supposed &quot;bon voyage&quot; scene in the forest looks very lovely and romantic, but that&#039;s what bon voyage scenes are for, I guess.The film makes terrific use of its locations, indoors and outdoors, and I think Mount Rushmore is one of those locations that can only be used once&nbsp; in this kind of setting, or perhaps in any film ever made or to-be-made. For a film that runs over two hours I find the ending bizarrely abrupt, it&#039;s almost as if they literally ran out of celluloid (I didn&#039;t check if all the credits were properly included).All in all, a very entertaining and handsomely made film. The colours and artificiality in some scenes (the airport, for instance) made me think of LEGO, or something else that looks fascinatingly scaled down, or is it scaled up? Hitchcock re-ranked:The BirdsNotoriousRebeccaPsychoThe Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)RopeNorth By NorthwestSuspicionShadow Of A DoubtVertigoStrangers On A Train (I hate hate HATE it!)+ Witness For The Prosecution as the best Hitchcock film Hitchcock didn&#039;t make.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 411594, member: 8"] NORTH BY NORTHWEST (22-10-2024) [ATTACH type="full"]54627[/ATTACH] Hey guys, has anyone seen the latest film starring Cary Grant? It's very exciting and it looks so very real! From what I've seen so far, this looks like Hitchcock's most blockbuster-ish offering: a pre-James Bond without colourful villains, or any colourful characters for that matter. Well, except for Cary Grant's Hollywood tan which I found quite distracting at times. It looks so much better in black & white. Not every film needs breakout characters, and this story is all about the plot, but it's more fun and more discussable to have an opinion on characters and actors. I love mistaken identities (in this case a mistaken non-identity) but after the first hour I could no longer remember what "George Kaplan" meant to villain Vandamm. They had mentioned an undercover agent but somehow I could not predict it would be Eva Marie Saint. Their supposed "bon voyage" scene in the forest looks very lovely and romantic, but that's what bon voyage scenes are for, I guess. The film makes terrific use of its locations, indoors and outdoors, and I think Mount Rushmore is one of those locations that can only be used [I]once[/I] in this kind of setting, or perhaps in any film ever made or to-be-made. For a film that runs over two hours I find the ending bizarrely abrupt, it's almost as if they literally ran out of celluloid (I didn't check if all the credits were properly included). All in all, a very entertaining and handsomely made film. The colours and artificiality in some scenes (the airport, for instance) made me think of LEGO, or something else that looks fascinatingly scaled down, or is it scaled up? Hitchcock re-ranked: The Birds Notorious Rebecca Psycho The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) Rope North By Northwest Suspicion Shadow Of A Doubt Vertigo Strangers On A Train (I hate hate HATE it!) + [I]Witness For The Prosecution[/I] as the best Hitchcock film Hitchcock didn't make. [/QUOTE]

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