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| Vertigo (Collector's Edition) |
By Rose SlaterAlfred Hitchcock is the legendary director of films such as Rear Window and Rebecca and his classic thriller Vertigo features main protagonists Kim Novak and James Stewart.
This psychological thriller made in 1958 is based on the original novel by Narcejac and was adapted and written as a screenplay by Tayler and Coppel.
The film's location in California is a backdrop for many iconic images such as the Golden Gate Bridge and the mission San Juan Bautista and other classic scenes. It was mainly filmed in the bay area and there are many images from around San Francisco including Mission Dolores, Coit Tower and the Legion of Honor.
The plot of the film is compelling viewing and is ranked as one of the best films of all time. There are many twists and turns which will have you on the edge of your seat.
The central protagonist of the movie, Scottie, is a detective who witnesses a traumatic death of his colleague. The image haunts him and this is when his vertigo begins which has symptoms of aversion to heights. He takes early retirement and ends his days as a detective until an old college chum, Gavin, pleads for his help in a private case.
This is where the drama becomes intense. Gavin tells Scottie that his wife is infatuated with a dead woman, Carlotta Valdes. She spends a daily routine visiting the places that have some connection to Carlotta and Gavin fears that his wife is insane.
Scottie continues to follow Madeleine and sees her jump into the bay at Fort Point. He prevents her from taking her own life, they form a rapport and she tells him that she is afraid that she is going insane. She has a recurring dream that plagues her.
The setting for this dream is San Juan Bautista and they decide that if she goes there then she may face this nightmare head on and fight it. However, when they get there, Madeleine races up the stairs as if she has seen a ghost. Scottie can not follow because of the vertigo. He can only watch as she plunges to her death from the top.
After her death, he finds it hard to recover. He searches the places they used to visit and one day he meets a Madeleine doppelganger, a young woman named Judy. He is so desperately in love and missing Madeleine that he asks Judy to dress like her. The similarity between them is uncanny.
A climax is where he makes the connection that they are the same person when he sees Judy wearing Carlotta Valdes' necklace.
He plans the showdown at the place where Madeleine faked her death. The mission at San Juan Bautista is the climactic end scene and Scottie uncovers that the whole thing was a plot to murder Gavin's first wife. Madeleine was hired to do this.
They battle it out and a nun steps forward. Judy screams. She falls off the bell tower to her death below. Scottie's vertigo is no more.
This movie is suspenseful and all lovers of thrillers and mysteries will enjoy the nail biting plot that will keep you guessing until the end.
This psychological thriller made in 1958 is based on the original novel by Narcejac and was adapted and written as a screenplay by Tayler and Coppel.
The film's location in California is a backdrop for many iconic images such as the Golden Gate Bridge and the mission San Juan Bautista and other classic scenes. It was mainly filmed in the bay area and there are many images from around San Francisco including Mission Dolores, Coit Tower and the Legion of Honor.
The plot of the film is compelling viewing and is ranked as one of the best films of all time. There are many twists and turns which will have you on the edge of your seat.
The central protagonist of the movie, Scottie, is a detective who witnesses a traumatic death of his colleague. The image haunts him and this is when his vertigo begins which has symptoms of aversion to heights. He takes early retirement and ends his days as a detective until an old college chum, Gavin, pleads for his help in a private case.
This is where the drama becomes intense. Gavin tells Scottie that his wife is infatuated with a dead woman, Carlotta Valdes. She spends a daily routine visiting the places that have some connection to Carlotta and Gavin fears that his wife is insane.
Scottie continues to follow Madeleine and sees her jump into the bay at Fort Point. He prevents her from taking her own life, they form a rapport and she tells him that she is afraid that she is going insane. She has a recurring dream that plagues her.
The setting for this dream is San Juan Bautista and they decide that if she goes there then she may face this nightmare head on and fight it. However, when they get there, Madeleine races up the stairs as if she has seen a ghost. Scottie can not follow because of the vertigo. He can only watch as she plunges to her death from the top.
After her death, he finds it hard to recover. He searches the places they used to visit and one day he meets a Madeleine doppelganger, a young woman named Judy. He is so desperately in love and missing Madeleine that he asks Judy to dress like her. The similarity between them is uncanny.
A climax is where he makes the connection that they are the same person when he sees Judy wearing Carlotta Valdes' necklace.
He plans the showdown at the place where Madeleine faked her death. The mission at San Juan Bautista is the climactic end scene and Scottie uncovers that the whole thing was a plot to murder Gavin's first wife. Madeleine was hired to do this.
They battle it out and a nun steps forward. Judy screams. She falls off the bell tower to her death below. Scottie's vertigo is no more.
This movie is suspenseful and all lovers of thrillers and mysteries will enjoy the nail biting plot that will keep you guessing until the end.
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